SUMMARY VERSION INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 87 New Series, 26 October 1998 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 16 November1998 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence; tel/fax 33 1 40 51 85 19) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 87, 26 October 1998 FRONT PAGE USA/ISRAEL - MOSSAD & SHIN BET "BOXED-IN" BY "ALLIES" p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AT "INTELLIGENCE" p.2 DRUGS - Community-Based Surveillance Manual. p.3 SPACE - Serious Worries about Debris. p.4 MIND CONTROL - Military Technical Reports. p.5 FORENSICS - Scientific Welch Stabbing Data Base. p.6 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES - Open Source Intelligence. p.7 PEOPLE USA - DAVID SHELDON BOONE p.8 GREAT BRITAIN - JONATHAN AITKEN p.9 USA - Theresa Marie Squillacote. p.10 PEOPLE - Open Source Intelligence. p.11 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 1 DECEMBER 1998 p.12 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD NORTH AMERICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.13 GREAT BRITAIN - NEW POLICE CLOSED-CIRCUIT TV SYSTEM p.14 IRELAND - MYSTERY OBJECTS BAFFLE POLICE p.15 FRANCE - CIA-NEW YORK TIMES' IRAQI VX GAS "BLOWN AWAY" p.16 BELGIUM - Two Major Reports on Intelligence. p.17 NETHERLANDS - ISRAELI NERVE GAS FLIGHT INQUIRY p.18 GERMANY - POST-ELECTION "FALL OUT" IN INTELLIGENCE p.19 WESTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. p.20 CHECHNYA - BOOMING KIDNAPPING BUSINESS p.21 EASTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. p.22 LATIN AMERICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.23 AFRICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.24 MIDDLE EAST - MISSILES & ANTI-MISSILES MULTIPLY p.25 MIDDLE EAST - Open Source Intelligence. p.26 ASIA - Open Source Intelligence. p.27 --------------------------------------------- "Intelligence" subscribers can request, free of charge, further development of any information contained in this issue. All other requests will be treated on a paid consultancy basis. FRONT PAGE Intelligence, N. 87, 26 October 1998, p. 1 USA/ISRAEL MOSSAD & SHIN BET "BOXED-IN" BY "ALLIES" This summer, new Mossad boss, Efraim Halevy, 64, did "overtime duty" in Western Europe trying to find out what the recent secret security and intelligence agreement between France and Egypt involved (INT, n. 85 22). He apparently didn't find out much, even though he forcefully asked British MI6 and German BND. Then, just as Israel was sitting down at the Wye Mills negotiations table in the US with Yasser Arafat, Syria and Turkey (supposedly an Israeli ally) "made peace" between their military establishments. During the negotiations, Israeli intelligence and the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with its new far-right-wing Foreign Minister, Ariel Sharon, were finally "cornered and boxed-in" by "allies" when they discovered on Wednesday evening, 21 October, that the CIA had agreed to secret security cooperation with Palestinian intelligence. This rude awakening is what caused the Israeli delegation to start packing its bags to leave. Given the framework of the Oslo peace agreement, the Israelis could not rant about illegal and secret involvement in their country's "internal affairs" since CIA-Palestinian cooperation was approved by the peace agreement ... but under the auspices of Israeli Shin Bet internal security. The serious danger that direct CIA-Palestinian cooperation represents for Israel is that it will reveal the depths of Shin Bet manipulation of Palestinian movements and extremists to the political advantage of Israeli right-wing policies. It will also open a "forbidden window" on extensive corruption in Shin Bet and other defense and security services, giving both the Palestinians and the US new, powerful leverage on any Israeli government. The CIA's involvement in the post-Oslo conflict between Palestine and Israel has been noted on several occasions in "Intelligence" and was no longer knowledge reserved for specialists. Indeed, Israeli radio and a Palestinian security official said months ago that CIA director, George Tenet, had secretly met with Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, in the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip on 17 June; (end of extract) --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 87, 26 October 1998, p. 2 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AT "INTELLIGENCE" Over the last four years, "Intelligence" has tried a variety of measures to protect its intellectual property from unfair use. This has included printing paper copies on deep red paper, making it difficult or expensive to photocopy and redistribute (see "More Low-Tech Copyright Protection at 'Intelligence'", INT, n. 63 3). This measure is still being used in the form of red paper front and back covers for each hardcopy, and has only been marginally effective. As for preventing email copying, solutions are expensive and cumbersome, as we have already mentioned (see cryptolope, INT, n. 68 2). We are proud that "Intelligence" has a strong impact and is widely distributed: Iit only took Kodak 24 hours to contact us after we had published an article mentioning the firm. Unfortunately, Kodak is not a subscriber. The French Defense Ministry has only one hardcopy subscription to "Intelligence", but we have received numerous comments and requests from several different branches of the Defense Ministry. 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Secondly, to prevent the illegal use of our full-length articles, we are reducing their number and length, while continuing to include available information in the form of briefs. As our opening statement mentions, "'Intelligence' subscribers can request, free of charge, further development of any information contained in this issue. All other requests will be treated on a paid consultancy basis." This holds for all sections of "Intelligence", including Technology, People and Agenda. This also means we are available, on a paid basis, to produce client-specified articles or analyses based on information reviewed in "Intelligence". In this manner, we hope to meet an increasing demand from professional services currently not subscribers. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 87, 26 October 1998, p. 5 MIND CONTROL - Military Technical Reports. A list of 106 entries of "Selected Military Technical Reports on LSD" which have been recently declassified was circulated this month on the Internet and is available at "Intelligence". The reports can also be ordered officially from a US government technical information service. They include: AD-912694, "Medical Viewpoints on ABC-Weapons, Part III Chemical Weapons," Anders Sundwall, Ola Hertzberg, Gosta Logard, 02 Jul 1973, 65 pages, Army Foreign Science and Technology Center; AD-909391, "Clinical and Military Medical Aspects of Psychopoisons," W. Bousseljot, 20 March 1973, 15 pages, Army Foreign Science and Technology Center; AD-594950, Technical Paper on LSD-25", B.C. Barrass, D.B. Coult, Jan 1971, 29 pages, Porton Down Chemical Defence Establishment; AD-519043, "Drug Screening Procedures," R.K. Shaw, E.K. Williams, Jr., Nov 1971, 25 pages, Defence Research Establishment-Suffield Ralston-Alberta C. The two latter entries are respectively British and Canadian. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 87, 26 October 1998, p. 13 NORTH AMERICA - Open Source Intelligence. - Intelligence Budget Two billion dollars for a wide variety of intelligence programs was reportedly pushed by House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, and added to the intelligence budget. It contains a vastly-expanded definition of terrorism which includes domestic crimes having no relationship to terrorism according to many critics. Much of the intelligence budget will reportedly go to signal intelligence satellites but apparently spy satellites, in general, will nonetheless take a spending cut in budget. There is reportedly an important budget increase for recruiting new personnel and human intelligence sources, said to be the largest such campaign since the CIA was founded. (11 reports) - CIA World Factbook. On its web site, the CIA has declared that the United Kingdom won its independence in 1801, a quarter of a century after the USA declared independence from Great Britain. The Russians also picked up the mistake and got some media mileage out of it. (2 reports) - NSA Documents on CIA Web site show NSA forecast bloody Tet Offensive in Vietnam in 1968. Harold Ford, a CIA historian, used previously classified intelligence documents to write the study on the Vietnam War. He received permission from NSA to refer to its still-classified history of NSA operations in Vietnam. The CIA said Ford's Vietnam policy study, "CIA and the Vietnam Policy Makers - Three Episodes 1962-1968," was released as part of its Center for the Studies of Intelligence" effort at openness. - Declassification Automatic declassification halted defense bill which calls on President Bill Clinton to protect nuclear secrets in old files. Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists specialist in government secrecy, denounced this as "rhetoric bordering on hypocrisy." (3 reports) - FBI Wiretaps Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulators proposed that cellular telephone companies change their systems so that police and the FBI can trace, with court approval, a criminal suspect talking on a cell phone. At the same time, a report showed that the hunt for terrorists brought about record rise in US wiretaps and the FBI claims there is a marked increase in the number of weapons of mass destruction threats. The FBI's now approved wish list includes measures that would allow it to conduct roving wiretaps without court authority, force telephone and Internet companies to divulge information about their customers, and seize personal property in both criminal and civil matters. The House and Senate inserted these provisions in the intelligence budget bill, provoking sharp criticism from civil libertarians and a conservative member of congress. (8 reports) - FBI DNA Data Base On 13 October, the FBI began using a national computer system that allows state law enforcement officials to exchange DNA evidence concerning unsolved cases. (3 reports) - FBI Black FBI agents renew their group bias complaint. At the same time a new pamphlet on the FBI's COINTELPRO program has just been published. "COINTELPRO Revisited - Spying and Disruption" claims there is increasing government harassment and disruption of activists. The pamphlet is intended "to help current and future activists learn from the history of COINTELPRO, so that our movements can better withstand such attack." The first section gives a brief overview of what is known about what the FBI did in the 1960s, and offers general guidelines for effective response. The main body of the pamphlet describes the specific methods previously used to undermine domestic dissent and suggests steps to be taken to limit or deflect their impact. The final chapter explores ways to mobilize broad public protest against such operations. - GAO "Department of Energy - DOE Needs to Improve Controls Over Foreign Visitors to Its Weapons Laboratories" claims that counter-intelligence experts believe that the laboratories are targets of foreign espionage efforts, which is quite true. But the security of the visitor's program is under yearly review by Congress so the purpose of this report seems rather partisan. Indeed, its finds that the Democratic White House administration often mishandles secret information and has lax security. The Clinton administration has disputed the findings. - Pentagon Hacking Starting this month, a new Pentagon investigative unit, the Defense Information Infrastructure Intrusion Investigations Team (DI4T), will train 80 agents across the country to track down those who commit computer crimes against Pentagon agencies. The team works for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), the law- enforcement arm of the Pentagons Inspector General. They were created just in time to avoid the ridicule generated by the most recent major claim of a hack attack against the Pentagon. It turns out reports of crackers penetrating military Web sites and altering soldiers' medical files were completely false. It was a Pentagon "Red Team" of computer experts carrying out a realistic enough "simulated attack" to get massive media coverage. If the DI4T didn't catch the "Red Team", perhaps someone should ask why and if the DI4T has any relation to the "Red Team". (4 reports) - National Guard The US Army has chosen the ten communities that will serve as home bases for specially trained and equipped National Guard Rapid Assessment and Initial Response Teams which are to intervene during any major terrorist attack. The National Guard has also been given a major role in counter- narcotics operations. (4 reports) - Targeting "Aviation Week & Space Technology" reported in early October what was seen as the most intrusive White House meddling in attack planning since Vietnam. Pentagon officials were reportedly incensed that the White House insists on selecting many of the targets for NATO air-strikes against Serbia. The "New Yorker" magazine reported that the White House ignored US Attorney General, Janet Reno, when she questioned whether evidence linking Islamic extremist, Osama bin Laden, to the bombings of two US embassies in Africa was strong enough to justify retaliatory attacks. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the FBI chief reportedly were bypassed in the raid planning. But according to a new issue of "Aviation Week", all is well again between the White House and the Pentagon -- and there never was a problem. - CANADA Military documents, marked "secret" and "Canadian eyes only", contain assessments of the threat posed during last year's APEC summit by a host of terrorist groups -- as well as the Anglican Church and the singing protest group, the "Raging Grannies". Among the hundreds of documents made public by the RCMP Public Complaints Commission probing the treatment of protesters at last November's summit is a volume containing defence department threat assessment reports drawn from RCMP intelligence. But one official critic claimed Solicitor General, Andy Scott, should quit the cabinet for openly discussing delicate matters involving RCMP's actions at last year's APEC summit. (4 reports) Canadian Industry Minister, John Manley, recently announced a new privacy bill which will require companies holding personal information to follow privacy rules and the introduction of a new Canadian encryption policy which eschews restrictions on domestic use and relaxes export controls. Both represent major setbacks for US government policies in this area. (5 reports) --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 87, 26 October 1998, p. 16 FRANCE CIA-NEW YORK TIMES' IRAQI VX GAS "BLOWN AWAY" International intelligence and security specialists were awaiting "fireworks" at the 23 October United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) confrontation in New York between analytical results of US Army Aberdeen Proving Grounds, in Maryland, those of a French laboratory in Bouchet, Essonne, near Paris, and those of a the Swiss AC Labor center in Spez. For what now clearly appear to be political reasons, the US Army "jumped the gun" in February by getting the UNSCOM to publish, in its fifth activity report, "proof" that Iraq "weaponized" the extremely lethal VX nerve gas. Iraq has admitted to weaponizing Sarin but denied doing so with VX, and the US wanted to prove Iraq was lying. The US Army's results were used for political leverage to maintain strict sanctions against Iraq, which several European nations, with France in the forefront, would like to have relaxed, at least partially. This political confrontation apparently reached "strategic" proportions and the CIA was called in to help bolster the US case and to "get France". The result was a 7 October "New York Times" article clearly accusing France of obtaining evidence of VX gas after analyzing the Iraq weapons fragments: "Weapons experts told the 'Times' that the French findings would confirm the American tests." The "Times", "the journal of record", also stated that: "Diplomats said the French were delaying the release of final tests because they didn't want to undermine Iraq's push at the United Nations this week to lift the sanctions". Strangely enough, the US and the "Times" had nothing to say about the AC Labor Swiss lab which had come up with the same results as the French and was refusing to say anything about the results which were intended only for use by UNSCOM experts at the 23 October meeting. COMMENT -- Although one can "finesse" the analytical results, the 23 October UNSCOM meeting did not state that clear evidence of VX gas weaponization had been found, which contradicts the Aberdeen Proving Grounds' conclusions. Secondly, the "New York Times" was clearly wrong on all counts: No French evidence of VX, and no French stalling. This means the "Times", as when it decided not to reveal that the CIA was going to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, is "following its marching orders" and not basing its work on facts. Not only has this discredited the newspaper among European readers, it has also increased distance between the US and the EU on Middle East policy, and particularly between the US and France on what to do in Iraq. French specialists, and most EU specialists, continue to believe that US intelligence and the US media are "captives" of Iraq and Iran "scare stories" generated by right-wing Israeli officials and propagated by Mossad. Our Front Page article in this issue gives clear evidence that this attitude is not shared by all Israeli specialists. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 87, 26 October 1998, p. 20 WESTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. - Great Britain Up to 1,000 jobs are to be created in connection with the œ300 million construction of a new Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. MI5 will be working with Scotland Yard's CIB2 and CIB3 units on the current major investigation of police corruption. Following the officially required divulgation of freemason membership, many police officers and local government officials figure have reportedly resigned from their lodges. Police want the right to snoop on the Internet and reportedly planned illegal information collection at secret meetings. Police officials went so far as to propose ways ISPs could give police better access to various electronic communications, including email and bulletin boards. Estate agents are going to be obliged to combat money-laundering, just like bankers are. A senior official at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been accused of passing on a top-secret list of police informers to the criminal underworld. Detectives from the National Crime Squad have searched CPS headquarters in London as part of a major investigation into alleged corruption. - Ireland A former British Telecom (BT) operator, Paul Edwards, 33, used his computer code to hack into the accounts of Royal Ulster Constabulary Chief Constable, Ronnie Flanagan, and top Crown lawyer, John Creaney, to collect details of more than 200 calls they made in May and June 1996. A pilot project for the first national computerized police network will link 200 Garda stations throughout the Irish Republic next month. - France The 21 October extradition hearing in Paris of former MI5 agent, David Shayler, opened and then was ajourned because Great Britain introduced new accusations against the defendant. The next hearing will take place in mid-November. Due to the serious military down-sizing to take place in the near future, the Chiefs of Staff have taken the exceptional measure -- in France -- of organizing a public Convention to discuss the problem. In a commemorative publication, the French Gendarmerie recently published a detailed description of the recently-created Agence Nationale des Frequences (ANF) electronic surveillance service (INT, n. 75 17). To prepare for possible air attacks against Serbia, American U-2s are once again stationed in France, but the press doesn't seem to want to talk about it. - Netherlands A few years go the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) was established by academics and (former and still active) members of the Netherlands intelligence community to work together to promote research into the history of Dutch intelligence. The NISA will host an afternoon conference dealing with "Sigint and the Netherlands during the Cold War". Further information is available at "Intelligence ". - Switzerland The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the world's leading private business group, announced recently in Switzerland that it was setting up a special unit to help companies around the globe combat cybercrime. Swiss police recently came across a Kurd PKK training camp. - Italy A subtle shift in NATO police operations has been noticed in Bosnia where several hundred members of Italy's Carabinieri are now taking up responsibilities. The Carabinieri have also been sent to Naples to combat gang violence, following a car bombing and a bazooka attack. - Spain Judge asks Britain to hold former Chilean dictator for questioning. Former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet arrested for murder of Spanish citizens. Pinochet arrested in London. Spain levels 94 counts against Pinochet. Spain's "Superjudge", Baltasar Garzon, broadened his arrest warrant for Chile's former dictator, Augusto Pinochet. Spanish newspapers call for Pinochet's extradition. (7 reports) - EU The birth of Europol on 8 October. More Interpol- Europol cooperation proposed. Europol advertises for several jobs. Row over secrecy holds up Europol's work. It concerns the role of a committee to handle complaints from European citizens about Europol's activities. Bonn wants all the group's meetings to be open to the public unless there is a specific reason for holding a closed session, while the French insist that, as a rule, hearings should be held in secret. (15 reports) EU National Fraud Center says "companies doing business with the European Union may encounter fraud and business slowdowns after 25 October EU Privacy Directive commences". This is particularly true for US companies. --------------------------------------------- INTELLIGENCE SUBSCRIPTION FORM Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Postal Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Web . . . . . . . . . . . . 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