INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 79 New Series, 4 May 1998 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 18 May 1998 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 79, 4 May 1998 FRONT PAGE WORLDWIDE - DRUG PROBLEMS & NEW 100% TAX SOLUTION p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES BOMBS & BLASTS GET A US RESEARCH CENTER p.2 BAD US AIR TRAFFIC TECH INSTALLED IN GREAT BRITAIN p.3 SAPHO SYNDROME SURFACES IN THE PACIFIC & GREAT BRITAIN p.4 LIE DETECTORS - Out by Court Decision. p.5 GPS - "Chief, Where Have All the Dials Gone?" p.6 TORTURE - Possible New Israeli Technique. p.7 TECHNOLOGY & TECHNIQUES - Briefs, Books & Media Reports. p.8 PEOPLE USA/IRELAND - WILL DWYER p.9 GREAT BRITAIN - ANTHONY POINTER p.10 BERMUDA/CANADA - JEAN-JACQUES LEMAY p.11 PERU - PEDRO DOMINGO "LUIS" QUINTEROS p.12 PEOPLE - Briefs and Media Reports. p.13 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 1 JUNE 1998 p.14 INTELLIGENCE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD USA - BIO/CHEM TERRORIST ATTACK CONFUSION p.15 INTERNET MORE SECURE, BUT NOT THE PENTAGON p.16 AFIO Goes "Corporate". p.17 Friday 13 Hits Washington. p.18 Not Making the Declassification Grade. p.19 "Star Wars" Can't Make the Grade Either. p.20 Briefs, Books and Media Reports. p.21 GREAT BRITAIN - PRAISE FOR THE COVERT COMMUNITY p.22 Police's Enigma Project Revived. p.23 World's Best Media Manipulators. p.24 NORTHERN IRELAND - TOP COP WARNS AGAINST POLICE REFORM p.25 THE MEDIA IS THE MESSAGE p.26 IRELAND - HIGH PROFILE FOR PEACE PROCESS p.27 FRANCE - "SECRET DEFENSE" STUDIED & LEGISLATED p.28 More US Trouble in African "Back Yard". p.29 "April In Paris" for Foreign Security Firms. p.30 BELGIUM - Real & Botched Operations Against Islamists. p.31 NETHERLANDS - BVD GETS WHAT IT WANTS ... COMING & GOING p.32 WESTERN EUROPE - EUROPOL & INTERPOL IMAGE PROBLEMS p.33 Briefs and Media Reports. p.34 EASTERN EUROPE - Briefs and Media Reports. p.35 LATIN AMERICA - Briefs and Media Reports. p.36 SURINAM - ARMS FOR DRUGS & TROUBLE IN THE HAGUE p.37 AFRICA - Briefs and Media Reports. p.38 MIDDLE EAST - Briefs and Media Reports. p.39 ASIA - Briefs and Media Reports. p.40 --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 79, 4 May 1998, p. 17 USA - AFIO Goes "Corporate". In the past, we have mentioned the financial woes of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and some of their decisions on how to handle such delicate problems (see "'Heads Up' at the AFIO", INT, n. 52 24, "'Military Coup' at AFIO", INT, n. 67 25, and "AFIO 'Rank and File' Backs Down 'Bosses'", INT, n. 63 22). Now they've got themselves into a scheme with retired US Senator, Malcom Wallop, a Republican from West Virginia, who is chairman of the Corporate Intelligence Conference of the Americas. Not only has the AFIO "endorsed" Wallop's conference, but it will take place "in conjunction" with the annual AFIO National Convention and Symposium in Miami, Florida, on 19-21 November. Wallop, in a recent direct mailing to AFIO members, proposed their participation in his meeting, "either as an exhibitor or a conference attendee". Wallop's shindig is not "street level" and reportedly "Forbes" Editor-in-Chief, Steve Forbes, "has agreed to give the opening keynote address." Since AFIO bosses will be discussing an eventual name change for the association in Miami, they could just invite Wallop in for a friendly takeover and become FIO, Inc. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 79, 4 May 1998, p. 28 FRANCE "SECRET DEFENSE" STUDIED & LEGISLATED France's secretive defense and intelligence establishment is slowly becoming the object of public debate and legislative scrutiny. Since the Socialist Party took over the government last year, there have been several widely-publicized court cases involving "secret defense" or classification for reasons of national security (see, in particular, "France - Eavesdropping in the Name of 'National Security'", INT, n. 58 28; and "France - A Justice-Intelligence Fight", INT, n. 58 30). On 17 December 1997, the Socialist government responded by sponsoring a bill calling for the creation of a "secret defense" consultative oversight parliamentary committee. It would be the first form of legislative oversight of security and intelligence matters in France, although the parliamentary National Defense Commission does look at and approve the defense budget, now with explicit figures for associated intelligence services (see "France - Intelligence 'Transparency' Slowly Sinking In"; INT, n. 75 17). In preparation for the debate on the creation of the "Commission du Secret de la Defense Nationale", the Senate's Service des Affaires Europeennes asked its Division des Etudes de Legislation Comparee to carry out an international comparative study of legislation concerning the relationship between secrecy and government -- classification and declassification of state secrets -- in Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, and, of course, the United States, even though the Service des Affaires "Europeennes" isn't supposed to be dealing with North America. Published in February, "Le Secret de la Defense Nationale Devant le Juge" (number LC 35, 21 pp.), a "Senate Working Document" of the Comparative Legislation Series, is a unique and singularly worthwhile study covering, in detail, the functioning of intelligence and secrecy-related institutions. Such information is usually reserved only for knowledgeable citizens of the country concerned, because the necessary documentation is only available in the language of the country and a certain "background" in the political and security institutions of the country is necessary. Study LC 35 furnishes most of this -- in French -- for the uninitiated reader. The study states that in all countries considered, except Italy, the judiciary decides whether or not a document should be declassified for use during a trial. In summary, British and American judges allow the government a relatively large dispensation from declassification, but they control its use. Spain recently recognized the judiciary's right to decide that justice prevails over national security interests and declassified state secrets. In Germany and Italy, laws are on the books which define means of resolving secrecy conflicts and ordering declassification of government documents. These statements are developed in the study's first chapter. Each of the following chapters concerns the system of secrecy in Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, and the US, respectively. Each chapter cites specific laws and, what is most interesting, specific cases that have served to establish precedence and clarify the concrete interpretation of laws. Of course, each of these case studies was extremely sensitive and hard-fought in the country concerned. On 4 April 1997, the Spanish Supreme Court decided that justice was best served by declassifying CESID intelligence service documents concerning the CESID's and the government's eventual involvement with the GAL anti-Basque death squads. For Italy, the Ustica affair -- the still unexplained shooting down of an Itavia DC-9 over the island of Ustica in June 1980 -- is cited with the hypothesis that the DC-9 was accidentally shot down by Italian, French or US military jets chasing a Libyan fighter. For Great Britain, the study cites the Iraqgate clandestine arms sales scandal, the ensuing Matrix Churchill and Ordtec trials, and the resulting Scott Report which modified the government's position in December 1996 so that Public Interest Immunity Certificates against declassification can only be used by ministers when "real and substantive damage" would result. The US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), "Executive Privilege" and, of course, Watergate are cited in the case of the US. COMMENT -- Compared with this study, the Assemblee Nationale report on the two proposed versions of the law creating the "secret defense" commission, is mostly "shop talk" about disagreements between the Assemblee and the Senate over such matters as whether the president of the commission be someone other than the president of the Commission Nationale de Controle des Interceptions de Securite (CNCIS) wiretap oversight committee. Both the Assemblee and the Senate agree on the essentials and that is that the commission is "consultative", meaning it cannot take the initiative to open an investigation and its decision is only an opinion or advice which is not legally binding. In short, state secrecy is still safe in Paris ... except from leaks. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 79, 4 May 1998, p. 35 EASTERN EUROPE - Briefs and Media Reports. - Hungary Crime rises in Budapest; Hungary intensifies fight against organized crime and taps mobile phones. - Latvia Primakov says Moscow won't back down; Russia refusing entry to Latvian drivers without license in Russian? - Slovakia Meciar signals readiness to legalize money laundering; Slovak local council defiantly holds NATO and presidential referendum; SDL calls on Meciar to resign over money laundering. - Balkans Did Serbian commandos enter Albania? Kosovars dispute Serbian version of clashes; OSCE disputes Serbian version of clashes; Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakhov said that Moscow was in possession of information that "there are camps for training terrorists in Albania"; Albanian units carry out exercise near Kosovo border; Foreign military role not ruled out in Kosovo; International Community calls for dialogue; Kosovo party says situation is serious; New violence reported in Kosovo; Reports of military buildups in Kosovo continue; Serb police kill eight people they call Albanian terrorists; US may "go it alone" on Kosovo; Serb troops said to be near Albanian border; Serb army involved in Kosovo; Serb army reportedly clashes with Albanian infiltrators. - Bulgaria World Security Organization is, in our opinion, a very strange set up. - Russia Azerbaijan prevents export of dual technology to Iran; CIS security chiefs conclude meeting; Is Russia helping India with missile development?; "New York Times" reports that Russia has been helping India for three years in building a sea-launched ballistic missile; Russia fails to intercept missile material bound for Iran; Police officers go on shooting spree in Buryatia; New study says risk of millions of Americans dying from an accidental nuclear attack by a Russian submarine is increasing; US admits list of Russian agencies under "extra scrutiny" because of suspected dealings with Iran; Is the trans-Caspian pipeline really necessary? - an ISS study. - Georgia Another attempt to kill Georgian President planned?; State Department Travel Information - avoid travel to Georgia. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 79, 4 May 1998, p. 37 SURINAM ARMS FOR DRUGS & TROUBLE IN THE HAGUE On 26 March, in Brasilia, Brazil, an unidentified man, who claimed to have worked for a Surinamese cocaine cartel allegedly headed by Advisor of State and former dictator, Desi Bouterse, turned himself in to the Dutch drug liaison officer in Brazil, Mr. A. Modderkolk. Before submitting to questioning by the Dutch police, the man gave an extensive interview to the "De Telegraaf" newspaper, explaining that he felt the public prosecutor's office would be more careful if journalists had taken note of his case. In the past, confidential information from informants concerning the Surinamese cartel had repeatedly been leaked to the press, and many believe Mr. Bouterse has a network of agents who give him access to Dutch law enforcement intelligence. The turncoat claims he became police witness because his former masters owe him a large sum of money. He says he has worked with members of the "Suri-cartel", including Mr. Bouterse's son, Dino, for about four years in an extensive operation to exchange stolen military weapons for cocaine with the Colombian FARC guerrilla movement. Over this period, hundreds of rifles and automatic weapons stolen from Suriname army barracks were flown to Colombia, and thousands of kilos of cocaine (at $2,700 per kilo) were delivered to air strips in the Surinamese jungle in return. The weapons were allegedly obtained from the army with the assistance of Melvin Linscheer, a former military commander who presently owns Mozart Security Services (MSS), a shady local security company. Insiders consider Mr. Linscheer to be the main security advisor of Surinamese President, Jules Wijdenbosch, and also the intelligence specialist behind the Suri-cartel. The informant claims a Brazilian, identified only as "Leonardo", approached him in 1994 to "do some jobs". Leonardo turned out to be a weapons procurer for the FARC. Dino Bouterse, who is stationed as a diplomat at the Surinamese embassy in Brasilia, is said to have been present In Surinam on several occasions when cocaine was flown in from Colombia via Brazil. According to the informant, the operations ended only a few months ago. COMMENT -- The information provided by the unknown informant is hard to verify, but it does corroberate what is already known about the Surinamese cocaine network and the role of Mr. Linscheer and the Bouterse family. A decision concerning progress in the case against Mr. Bouterse, and several other Surinamese citizens indicted by the Dutch public prosecutor, is expected soon. Two months ago, the leading figure in the public prosecutor's office, Attorney General and former head of BVD internal security, Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, was unexpectedly fired by Justice minister, Winnie Sorgdrager, over the handling of a disciplinary case against his colleague, Attorney General Steenhuis. Rumors are now circulating in The Hague that Mr. Docters, who had virtually turned the case against Mr. Bouterse into a personal crusade, was derailed because prosecuting Mr. Bouterse could bring shady dealings into the open which involve, among others, the present Foreign Affairs Minister, Hans van Mierlo. Mr. van Mierlo, a respected senior political figure, like Ms. Sorgdrager and Mr. Docters, is a member of the D66 Progressive Liberal Party. In the early 1980s, he was involved in "handling" the Surinamese problem, when dictator Bouterse killed over a dozen journalists, union officials and political opponents. Some insiders have always maintained that the Dutch government's handling of the embarrassing Surinamese problem has been either very naive or very cynical ... or both. ---------------------------------------------