INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 72 New Series, 15 December 1997 Every Three Weeks Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 72, 15 December 1997 FRONTPAGE ISRAEL - AMAN, U.S. & "PEACE" VERSUS NETANYAHU & MOSSAD p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES NEW CONTESTANT IN THREE-WAY "SPY-IN-THE-SKY" WAR p.2 NEW EMERGENCY TELECOM TECH & CONTROL IN BRITAIN p.3 BRITAIN'S COST-EFFICIENT MDTS/RAM POLICE SOFTWARE p.4 U.S. National Labs - Cutthroat High-Tech Competition. p.5 BIOMETRICS - Six Technology Market Review. p.6 MICRO-ELECTRONICS - One-Molecule Amplifier. p.7 ROBOTS - French DARDS Jeep "Drone". p.8 RADIO - New Flingenfuss Publications. p.9 POLICING - Emerging Democracies Report. p.10 PEOPLE U.S.A. - RALPH MCGEHEE p.11 POLAND -WLADYSLAW RYSZARD KUKLINSKI p.12 ISRAEL - YEHUDA GIL p.13 IRAQ - RIHAB TAHA p.14 U.S.A. - Peter Lee. p.15 Stanton Felton. p.16 James K. Kallstrom. p.17 SLOVENIA - Brane Lukac. p.18 KOSOVO - Boza Spasic. p.19 SLOVAKIA - Vladimir Meciar. p.20 RUSSIA - Grigoriy Pasko. p.21 KAZAKHSTAN - Zhenis Kairzhanovich Rysbayev. p.22 PERU - Mesmer Carles. p.23 ARGENTINA - Julio Cesar Ardita. p.24 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 1 FEBRUARY 1998 p.25 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD U.S.A. - LEADING THE G-8 ATTACK ON "CYBERCRIME" p.26 No Future for the CIA. p.27 CANADA - Racism Bad Business in Security. p.28 GREAT BRITAIN - BILL TO DEFINE FOREIGN TERRORISTS p.29 SANDHURST SCANDAL BAD FOR BUSINESS p.30 NORTHERN IRELAND - SMALL GROUPS POSE PEACE THREAT p.31 FRANCE - CYBER SPACE GETS ITS OWN "LEGION ETRANGERE" p.32 GERMANY - BND WESTERN GROUP OP FINALLY IN THE NEWS p.33 BELGIUM - WASHINGTON-KINSHASA-BRUSSELS CONNECTION SURFACES p.34 Schengen as Bad as The "Crazy Kingdom". p.35 CZECH REPUBLIC - New Home for Scientology. p.36 RUSSIA - TRUTHS & HALF-TRUTHS IN BLISS CASE p.37 CHECHNYA - KIDNAP BOON OR BUST p.38 SOUTH AFRICA - BLACK BRITISH ANTI-ANC PROPAGANDA p.39 SAUDI ARABIA - ROUTINE USE OF TORTURE p.40 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 72, 15 December 1997, p. 11 U.S.A. - RALPH MCGEHEE On 5 December, Jon Elliston, dossier editor of the online magazine, "Parascope" (at http://www.parascope.com/ articles/1197/mcgehee.htm), published a lengthy article on the problems and harassment of well-known CIA "dissident" Ralph McGehee by his former employer which once awarded him a medal for his 25 years of good work in intelligence. Entitled, "The Price of Dissent - Ralph McGehee and the CIA", the report notes that "loyalty is perhaps the most prized quality within the Agency. For those CIA officers who break ranks, there is a price to be paid." McGehee, 69, believes that some official or semi-official group -- perhaps current and former CIA officers -- is mounting a campaign to harass him for his dissent and has described several such incidents in detail. The CIA recruited McGehee in 1952 at age 23, shortly after he completed studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he was a star football player. "They wanted me to be a paramilitary officer," McGehee stated, but he was instead groomed as a covert operations officer and intelligence analyst for work in Asia in the CIA's anti-Communist crusade. McGehee took the crusade seriously and, in northern Thailand, worked with the Thai national police setting up a systematic village survey method involving open-ended interviews. In a short time, McGehee was able to prove that he had mapped out the clandestine structure of local and regional Communist organizations and associated "sympathetic" groups. The results were solid ... but horrific. "The CIA, prior to my operation, had been saying there were only about 2,500 [Communists] in the entire country," McGehee stated. But his estimates showed that there were that many Communist activists in just one province - - and Thailand had 72 provinces. McGehee also disproved the CIA's sacred knowledge that "the Communist Party consisted of only armed guerrillas who were going into the villages, terrorizing the people and stealing money, kidnapping people, the regular old story." In reality, McGehee found the insurgents had widespread civilian support manifested in the form of various popular groups, composed of farmers, young people, women, etc. The Agency's reaction soon came and in 1967 "I was jerked out and the program was shut down." As McGehee says, he realized that "it wasn't Thailand that was the problem, it was Vietnam," because his methods, applied to Vietnam, would have shown that the entire American effort was doomed from the very beginning. After retirement and five years' work, he published "Deadly Deceit" in 1983 describing his work and disillusionment with the CIA. Throughout the 1980s McGehee went on protest missions and the lecture circuit around the United States. He then decided to compile a computerized data base of all the publicly-available information on the CIA which the Agency did its best to keep him from obtaining. The compilation of intelligence information is called CIABASE and has often been reviewed in "Intelligence" (INT, n. 65 5). In recent years, he has maintained that his dissent has brought down the wrath of the national security establishment on him in the form of surveillance and harassment ranging from bugging his home to following his car to unleashing hostile security guards on him when he goes shopping in Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, and Louden counties near his home and CIA headquarters in Virginia. McGehee has protested to Herndon city officials where he lives, and written letters on to officials including former CIA director, John Deutch, and President Bill Clinton, but the situation doesn't seem to change. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 72, 15 December 1997, p. 23 PERU - Mesmer Carles. On 27 August, Peruvian President, Alberto Fujimori, signed an authorization for the transfer of former Army Intelligence Service (SIE) agent, Leonor La Rosa Bustamante, to Mexico for rehabilitation from her torture by other SIE agents. The government had not notified La Rosa and she had not signed any document agreeing to be sent to Mexico. It looked like forced exile disguised as humanitarian treatment (INT, n. 67 21). Now it looks like Pres. Fujimori has again gotten involved in an internal intelligence feud by pardoning agent, Mesmer Carles, who is in hiding for fear of assassination. Carles is accused of being a double agent by the SIE and the National Intelligence Service (SIN). On 28 November, he gave a video testimony against the SIE to opposition congressman Jorge del Castillo implicating army general Juan Rivero in the murder of union leader Pedro Huillca by the Colina Group headed by Santiago Marin. Like Leonor La Rosa, Mariela Barreto is also said to have been caught up in this "intelligence war". --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 72, 15 December 1997, p. 27 U.S.A. - No Future for the CIA. Somewhere between wishful thinking and coincidence one can find the sudden flurry of discussion concerning the future of the CIA and its eventual "replacement" or "reorganization" as another agency. Former director of the NSA, General William E. Odom, has just published a study entitled, "Modernizing Intelligence - Structure and Changes for the 21st Century", a study carried out for the National Institute for Public Policy. Gen. Odom clearly questions the CIA's future and states that it should be seriously restructured. Recently, CIA Director, George J. Tenet, gave a speech entitled "Do We Still Need the CIA?". His answer was, of course, Yes. At the same time, the NSA is going through serious "desk shuffling" and reorganizing its intelligence work around themes instead of classic geographic regions (see "U.S.A. - Moving Desks at NSA, DIA & State"; n. 67 28). French intelligence contacts have insinuated that their nemesis, the CIA, was going through a serious internal crisis that is going to be "resolved" by incorporating major sections of the CIA in NSA' "desk shuffling" over the next year. U.S. specialists consider this "wishful thinking" but ... over the next five to ten years "it's a definite possibility". A good "litmus test" is the French intelligence rumor that the CIA's internal crisis will be accentuated by forthcoming scandals concerning CIA Eastern European "Stay Behind" networks. Intelligence is often a waiting game. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 72, 15 December 1997, p. 32 FRANCE CYBER SPACE GETS ITS OWN "LEGION ETRANGERE" France's "Legion Etrangere" foreign legion is one of the world's best known "hard knocks" fighting units, much better known than French DGSE foreign intelligence's secret Service Action (SA) commando unit responsible for the execution of all officially-sanctioned armed covert operations. Therefore, it seems almost logical that a high-tech French "Foreign Legion" on the Internet would somehow be associated with the SA and the DGSE. This, according to what "Intelligence" has been told by French intelligence sources, is what has happened with the newly-restructured "Section 4" which became the "Service MIL" and is usually referred to as the "Service M". In October, two journalists, Andre Rougeot and Jean-Michel Verne, in their book, "L'Affaire Yann Piat" (Flammarion), tried to associate Service MIL with the assassination of right-wing politician, Yann Piat, in an attempt to implicated the DGSE. Their attempt was unsuccessful since they couldn't prove anything before a judge who decided to have the book withdrawn from sale. Every major modern country has been confronted with the same problem of where to administratively situate its "cyber commando unit". Like the French, the U.S. has also given overall offensive "infowar" responsibility to its special forces. According to French intelligence rumors, France's cyber space foreign legion is not only associated with the secret SA special forces, but also replaces outdated Cold War "leftovers". Not too long ago, France dug up its underground nuclear missiles on the Albion plateau in the Alps foothills and planned to put a helicopter training base there. The locals protested about the noise and dangerous air traffic that would cause, so the Defense Ministry came up with an alternate plan for that rather isolated and out-of-the-way area: headquartering Service M on the Albion plateau, apparently near the village of Saint Christol, thus appropriately replacing old Cold Warriors with new Cyber Warriors. The French do have a weakness for "grand gestures". According to our information, Service M is the "second branch" or "civilian" section of the Service Action which remains the "first and primary" branch or military section. Just like the Service Action, whose operations are seldom "defensive" in nature, Service M's operations will reportedly be largely offensive. Since training is the most important aspect in setting up a new service to operate on a new battlefield with new equipment, one can imagine that there have been "joint cyberspace maneuvers" involving Service M and its U.S. counterpart, unless these services are "training" by secretly attacking each other. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 72, 15 December 1997, p. 36 CZECH REPUBLIC - New Home for Scientology. We previously mentioned that German BfV internal security had been called in this summer to help fight the Scientology sect in Germany (see "BFV Busy Chasing Doubtful 'Subversives'"; INT, n. 62 33). Last month, we added that German BND foreign intelligence seemed to have been called in to spy on Scientology abroad (see "Fight with Scientology Reaches Abroad"; INT, n. 70 33). Scientology has already been condemned in France for fraud as a money-making enterprise. On 6 November, federal German judges refused to class Scientology as a religion, and, on 10 November, German authorities refused to allow a Scientology member to open an au-pair employment bureau for young girls. It was obvious that the sect would look for more hospitable climes, preferably not too far from its well-off Western European flock and with a fairly modern infrastructure. The sect has apparently found the same solution to these problems as Radio Free Europe: Prague. Moreover, the Czech capital offers the advantage of being right in the middle of its "expanding market" in Eastern Europe. And in Prague, German BND spies would best keep a "low profile" if they want to avoid a diplomatic incident. ---------------------------------------------