INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 74 New Series, 26 January 1998 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence0 TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 74, 26 January 1998 FRONT PAGE USA/GREAT BRITAIN - SEITZ EVENS HIS SCORE WITH THE IRISH p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES EVERYBODY WANTS A CELLPHONE ... MONITORING SYSTEM p.2 HIGH-TECH BRITISH "RED BOX" & LOW-TECH "BLACK BOX" THEFT p.3 "HIGH INTELLIGENCE" TECHNOLOGY HITS CHINA p.4 POLICE - Measuring What Matters. p.5 INTERNET - Spam Goes Both Ways. p.6 AIRPORT SECURITY - Problems with Faces and X-Rays. p.7 CODES - GCHQ Claims Public Key Encryption. p.8 TOXINS - Internet as a Cure. p.9 PEOPLE USA - L. BRITT SNIDER p.10 GREAT BRITAIN/NORTHERN IRELAND - DEREK WILFORD p.11 GREAT BRITAIN/RUSSIA - GEORGE BLAKE p.12 PAKISTAN - ASIF ZARDARI p.13 USA - Louis J. Freeh. p.14 USA - Thomas J. Pickard. p.15 USA - A. B. Krongard. p.16 USA - Pamela J. Johnson. p.17 GREAT BRITAIN - Kevin Tebbit. p.18 GREAT BRITAIN - Richard "Agent T" Tomlinson. p.19 RUSSIA - Anatolii Savelev. p.20 CHILE - Eugenio Berrios. p.21 ZIMBABWE - Shadreck Chipanga. p.22 CHINA - Zhu Entao. p.23 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 1 MARCH 1998 p.24 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE'S EXOTIC LOCAL COLOR p.25 Questioning a CIA Web FAQ. p.26 "Colonial Wars" with Jane's Defence. p.27 No Problems at CAQ. p.28 GREAT BRITAIN - MILITARY FIGHT MI5 FOR INFOWAR RIGHTS p.29 AS THEY FALL OUT OF THE SKY p.30 "Intelligence" Gets a D-Notice. p.31 NORTHERN IRELAND - 14TH INT. COMPANY BLOWS ITS COVER p.32 LOYALIST DEATH SQUADS "SHADOW" PEACE PROCESS p.33 FRANCE - MUSICAL CHAIRS AT THE TOP p.34 COFACE Teaches World Risks. p.35 SIRPA "Loosens Up" and Downsizes. p.36 BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS - CTIF REPORT & CROSS-BORDER "LOCALS" p.37 ITALY - ONE NEW MINISTRY & THREE NEW "ABBREVIATIONS" p.38 WESTERN EUROPE - SECRET HISTORY OF BRITISH POST-WAR DEATH SQUAD p.39 BALKANS - KOSOVO NEXT TO GO p.40 RUSSIA - PHILBY'S LEGACY LIVES ON ... TODAY p.41 ISRAEL - An Open Door to Intelligence Closes. p.42 SAUDI ARABIA - PRINCE MOHAMAD'S WRIT AGAINST SAID AYAS p.43 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 74, 26 January 1998, p. 2 EVERYBODY WANTS A CELLPHONE ... MONITORING SYSTEM On 28 December, the Israli daily, "Hatzofe", announced that Palestinian Authority intelligence was monitoring Israel Defense Forces (IDF) cellphones. Supposedly, Jibril al-Rujub, head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service, during a US visit in October, purchased a sophisticated cellphone monitoring system. This was probably behind the recent warning to IDF officers in northern Israel to stop using cellphones. Indeed, a modern cellphone monitoring system could probably issue a detailed order of battle if most officers were carrying cellphones. Moreover, the officers could be physically targeted with the use such monitoring information. Palestinian sources confirmed that the $160,000 system did indeed exist and US authorities let Rujub buy it because he claimed he needed it to monitor his Palestinian opponents. The system is supposedly being used in Samaria. On 28 December, the "Sonntags Zeitung" in Zurich revealed that Swiss police have been tracking vast numbers of mobile telephone users with the help of the state telephone company, Swisscom, which confirmed its computers were recording billions of movements over more than the last six months. The company insisted that such information was only provided on court order. With 3,000 base stations across the country, it can track the location of cellphones to within a few hundred meters whenever they are switched on and not just when users are having conversations. "This is a very efficient investigation tool," according to Renato Walti, an investigating magistrate in Zurich who specializes in organized crime. According to "SonntagsZeitung", there was no legal basis for storing such information. Federal ombudsman for personal privacy, Odilo Guntern, said "I am unaware of any law that would allow the preventive collection of data for investigative purposes." A few days later, the Dutch official privacy protection office, the Registratiekamer, announced its opposition to a bill which would give Dutch authorities even more options to monitor private telephone and Internet communications, including browsing through traffic logs of all mobile and fixed telephones. The bill would also oblige phone companies to keep such records for at least six months. Back in the States, as of this month, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) holds cellular network operators responsible for providing the location of cellular base stations used for emergency calls by cellphone users. In 2001, US cellphone operators will have to provide the location within 125 meters. Civil libertarians want the information available to law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, only by court subpoena. Apparently, this is not a provision of the current law. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 74, 26 January 1998, p. 27 USA - "Colonial Wars" with Jane's Defence. We previously mentioned the problems encountered by our colleague, Ben N. Venzke, when he brought his email daily publication, Intelligence Watch Report (IWR) to Jane's Defence in Washington (INT, n, 60 9). His situation seemed to be very much like our with our previous publisher, Indigo Publications. Trouble first appeared because "Intelligence" had a joint subscription program with IWR until Jane's Defence bought IWR and cancelled the agreement. We went so far as to say that serious trouble was brewing at Jane's in Washington, and, on 23 October, Venzke resigned as editor of IWR "due to severe disagreements over how IWR should be run" (INT, n. 70 20). It's been "all downhill from there" at Jane's in Washington with apparently several senior members walking out due to "severe disagreements". Jane's, which dominanted the world of defense publishing, fell behind "Aviation Week" long ago, and, just a few years ago, lost its second place rank to "Defence News". With these recent developments, specialists are suggesting that Jane's is "done in" in defense publishing, at least for text-based material, and has bet all its money on imagery and multi-media defense publishing, including satellite imagery. It is true that Jane's is a world leader in "glossy pics" of military equipment, but even that comfortable position will not resist long against what seems to be Jane's current managerial practices. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 74, 26 January 1998, p. 31 GREAT BRITAIN - "Intelligence" Gets a D-Notice. It is true that British intelligence services figure prominently in our Special Report, "Environmental Movement and Covert Action", published in our preceding issue (INT, n. 73 1). Since we are not in Britain and directly subject to D-Notice prior review and censorship, it seems the British services used another stratagem to get access to our report before it was published. On 27 December, when "Intelligence" tried to access the three email accounts its has on an Internet server in Paris, none of the keywords were valid. This was verified by two of the server's technical staff. When the system operator returned from Christmas vacation on 2 January, the server's log was checked and no intrusions were found. The three "Intelligence" email accounts and passwords were once again checked and ... the passwords worked. No explanation was given by the server staff. Later, a French intelligence contact told "Intelligence" that French services, at the request of their British counterparts, had supposedly penetrated the server -- without leaving a trace, other than valid keywords which didn't work for 24 hours -- and obtained an "advance copy" of our Special Report that was forwarded to London. We didn't know the British services were that sensitive and that the "Entente Cordiale" was back. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 74, 26 January 1998, p. 34 FRANCE MUSICAL CHAIRS AT THE TOP There have been major changes at the top of all French intelligence services. Although most of the changes were expected, their rapid succession confirms that the Socialist government intends to reorganize intelligence and security before getting bogged down in other matters and leaving the services to their traditional momentum. Apparently a part of this strategy is the appointment in all intelligence and security services of a new "political commissar" called the "delegue de direction". For the DICILEC border police, it's Jean-Francois Gasnier; at the Renseignements Generaux (RGs) political intelligence police, it's Gerard Bonsergent; at the Police Judiciaire (PJ), it's Jerome Boutry; and at the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) internal security service, it's Philippe Cannet. We have already mentioned the appointment of Prefect Jean- Jacques Pascal as head of the DST last August (INT, n. 66 12). "Le Monde" and other media described Pascal as a professional intelligence specialist with clearly Socialist opinions. Although this is true, many French intelligence professionals consider Pascal a "Category A parachuted administrator [political appointee] with a 'white' [blank] career in intelligence". Police Nationale director of personnel from May 1984 to May 1986, and then head of the Renseignements Generaux (RGs) political intelligence police from June 1990 to February 1992, Jean-Jacques Pascal has "sailed through" an unremarkable career in remarkably troubled times and always under the wing of powerful Socialist interior minister, Pierre Joxe, currently head of the French Cours des Comptes audit court. At that time, we mentioned that such a political appointment caused the DST to "close in on itself" as career professionals watch to see "which way the wind blows" while the DST's traditional rival, French Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE) foreign intelligence, under the Defense Ministry, had "popped the corks on champaign bottles" celebrating the DST's major loss of political clout. This situation was expected to last until a new director of the DGSE can be found to replace Jacques Dewatre (INT, n. 59 34 & n. 60 29), but Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and President Jacques Chirac had trouble agreeing on a name. Over the last month they settled on Remy Pautrat, former intelligence advisor to the prime minister, former head of the DST, and former head of the SGDN or "prime minister's intelligence service" (INT, n. 34 21). Pautrat had been very seriously ill in 1996 and 1997 and "Intelligence" respected his wish at the time not to be the subject of media attention. Contacted recently by "Intelligence", Pautrat has confirmed he is in good health and good spirits. Indeed, his name as head of the DGSE is on the agenda of the weekly cabinet meeting. The only problem seems to be Jospin's demand that the president and the prime minister alone appoint the DGSE chief, not the president and the cabinet. At the Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM) General Bruno Elie has been replaced, as expected, by Vice Admiral Yves de Kersauson de Pennendreff, who was recently promoted in order to occupy the post. According to specialists, Adm. de Kersauson's service in France's "backyard" -- Africa -- has already introduced him to intelligence work. Indeed, most of France's heavy, and often clandestine, involvement in Africa passes by way of the French navy. France also has two specially-equipped intelligence ships -- one of which will soon be replaced -- whose "intelligence take" is managed by the DRM. Adm. de Kersauson also served in the defense attache offices in Washinton and London, and, in 1992, as advisor to General Jean Heinrich, the first DRM director. Certain journalists were told that General Philippe Rondot, Middle East intelligence specialist, has left his "detachment to the DST" to become intelligence advisor to Defense Minister, Alain Richard. This is apparently a camoflage for Gen. Rondot's real job as intelligence advisor to Jospin and Chirac. Gen. Rondot helped set up the DRM when Pierre Joxe was defense minister and personally knows almost all senior French intelligence service officials. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 74, 26 January 1998, p. 36 FRANCE - SIRPA "Loosens Up" and Downsizes. The French Defense Ministry's media and public relations office, the SIRPA has always been staffed by the military and followed military orders. Now SIRPA wants to change its image and prove it's "loosening up" by having dual leadership. This means a civilian will be appointed to help direct the SIRPA ... along with a senior officer. On the less public side, downsizing had left some SIRPA offices and publications with a staff of one person. So further downsizing was recommended, resulting in the suppression of all but one confidential or "internal" armed forces periodical. Casualties included "Lettre de la Defense", "Bulrens" (Bulletin de Renseignement), and "Lettre de la Securite et de la Defense". The sole survivor is "Objectif Defence - Lettre aux Commandants de Formations". From now on, it will have to "cover the field", treating logistics, training, intelligence, operations, personnel; in short, everything, and in only 24 pages every two months. We wish editor Francoise Lignac and her team good luck with this "mission impossible". ---------------------------------------------