SAMPLE SUMMARY VERSION INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 93 New Series 15 February 1999 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 8 March 1999 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 93, 15 FEBRUARY 1999 FRONT PAGE NORTHERN IRELAND - SECURITY FORCES FACILITATED DEATH SQUADS p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES SPECIAL SHIPS TO TRANSPORT PLUTONIUM FUEL TO JAPAN p.2 PEOPLE GREAT BRITAIN - DAVID GORE-BOOTH p.3 GREAT BRITAIN - ANTHONY MITCHELL p.4 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 21 MARCH 1999 p.5 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - TERRORISM INVADES AND OCCUPIES WASHINGTON p.6 Open Source Intelligence. p.7 GREAT BRITAIN/FRANCE - SILENCING ROUGE SPOOK SHAYLER p.8 GREAT BRITAIN - SEXUAL HARASSMENT HITS THE COPS p.9 GERAGHTY ARREST REVEALS SPY COMPUTERS p.10 FRANCE - DETAILED INTELLIGENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY p.11 WESTERN EUROPE - HIGH SEAS ANTI-DRUG FIASCO p.12 Open Source Intelligence. p.13 CZECH REPUBLIC - TROUBLE WITH THE BRITS OVER IRAQI SALEM p.14 SLOVAKIA - Cleaning the Meciar Stables. p.15 RUSSIA - Primakov Revives the "Old Structures". p.16 EASTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. p.17 MEXICO - "SONG AND DANCE" FOR US DRUG CERTIFICATION p.18 CHILE - AWAITING THE GENERAL'S RETURN p.19 LATIN AMERICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.20 SIERRA LEONE - SANDLINE REPORT PUBLISHED IN LONDON p.21 ZIMBABWE - Intelligence & Cops "Mix" with Media Officials. p.22 AFRICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.23 MIDDLE EAST - Open Source Intelligence. p.24 ASIA - Open Source Intelligence. p.25 --------------------------------------------- FRONT PAGE Intelligence, N. 93, 15 February 1999, p. 1 NORTHERN IRELAND SECURITY FORCES FACILITATED DEATH SQUADS A former member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), Sergeant John Weir, who was convicted for his part in the murder of a 39-year-old shopkeeper, William Strathearn, in April 1977, has called for a South African style truth and reconciliation commission to be established so members of the security forces and terrorist organizations "be allowed to admit their crimes in return for immunity from prosecution". In a written statement, published by the "Sunday Times" last month, Mr. Weir admitted that he had cooperated with Loyalist paramilitaries "on and off for many years" and was aware of other instances in which "RUC officers and members of the British Army collaborated with terrorists" but denied knowledge of a "widely organised conspiracy to facilitate collaboration, or any organisation known as the Inner Force within the RUC." Sgt Weir and RUC colleague, Constable William McCaughey, were arrested in 1980 and charged with killing Mr. Stratearn. They were accused of setting up the operation, and recruiting two Loyalist assassins -- Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) member, Robin Jackson (known as "the Jackal"), and Robert Kerr, whom they provided with weapons and drove to the scene of the crime. During interrogation at Castlereagh Barracks, east Belfast, both men admitted their part in the murder, and Weir claimed the "hit" was commissioned by senior RUC Special Branch officers who wrongly accused Stratearn of storing guns for the IRA. The trial of Weir and McCaughey was stage-managed by the RUC which withheld evidence to make it appear that the murder of the village grocer was "an isolated incident" and not part of a coordinated series of Nationalist killings sanctioned by a committee of twenty top Ulster businessmen and decided by senior RUC officers who selected the victims (for alleged IRA connections) and who put police resources at the disposal of Loyalist assassins to help them "perform more efficiently". (...cut...) --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 93, 15 February 1999, p. 4 GREAT BRITAIN - ANTHONY MITCHELL Described by Detective Constable Cliff Purvis, of the National Crime Squad (NCS), as "one of the major contributors to illegal firearms" in Britain, Anthony Mitchell, a former Special Constable with Sussex Police, will be sentenced at the Old Bailey, London, on 19 February after pleading guilty to five counts of illegal weapons possession and dealing, linked to the seizure of guns from crime scenes. Mitchell, a qualified engineer and a legitimate supplier of licensed weapons to registered gun clubs, developed a scheme for reactivating weapons used in crimes of violence which had been confiscated and disabled by Sussex Police. Mitchell received a "steady supply" of deactivated guns from shops and mail order firms, many of which he sold to "weapons enthusiasts and gun collectors". However, his speciality was the US 9mm MAC-10 submachine gun, capable of 1,200 rounds per minute (referred to in the illegal weapons trade as "Big Mac") which he reactivated by fitting a new barrel and breech block in his workshop on an industrial estate in Hove, east Brighton. (...cut...) --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 93, 15 February 1999, p. 9 GREAT BRITAIN SEXUAL HARASSMENT HITS THE COPS One of Britain's most senior police officers, the deputy chief constable of Surrey Police, Ian Beckett, has been suspended from duty after a female civilian member of staff accused him of sexual harassment and assault. Mr. Beckett was told of his suspension "with immediate effect" by Chief Constable Ian Blair, when he reported for duty on 8 January at Surrey Police headquarters in Guildford. The decision was take following a meeting of the local police authority, the Home Office and the national Police Complaints Authority (PCA) which had warned, in its annual report last June, about the increasing number of sexual harassment complaints. Mr. Blair later informed each member of the Surrey force and the 790 civilian staff by email of Mr Beckett's suspension, which is being regarded by the authorities as an "extremely serious matter". (...cut...) --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 93, 15 February 1999, p. 11 FRANCE DETAILED INTELLIGENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY It's fitting that just as the French Army is opening its secret archives to selected researchers that "Intelligence" also contribute to knowledge on French intelligence and security. However, what we have to offer it is not secret and not exactly "new". In 1996, we did a review of a small but good bibliography of publications entitled "The Israeli Secret Services" (INT, n. 48 46) compiled and published by ABC Clio Press. We noticed at the time that Clio Press in Oxford, England, had also published similar bibliographies on other intelligence services and requested a copy of "French Secret Services" by Martyn Cornick and Peter Morris, volume 6 of the International Organizations Series of selective critical annotated bibliographies (1993, 115 pp., isbn 1 85109 146 7). (...cut...) --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 93, 15 February 1999, p. 13 WESTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. (...cut...) BELGIUM. There are two official oversight committees in Belgium: one, the "Comite P", as in police, for law enforcement oversight; another, the "Comite R", as in "renseignement" (or intelligence, in English). Both have investigative powers and produce valuable annual reports. Given the major scandals that have rocked Belgian law enforcement and justice in the past few years, parliament has decided on a major reform which is under way. Comite P will be changed completely but retain its personnel and function. However, Comite R will be "reformed out of existence" with its personnel reduced to one single full- time person assisted by two half-time secretaries. It will also lose its investigative initiative and will have to ask targeted ministers for permission to investigate their ministries for wrongdoing. "Of course, be my guest and here are 15,000 pages of documents and please finish by this evening." (...cut...) SWITZERLAND. Who said the Swiss were old fashioned? They have just decided to spend "a dozen million" Swiss francs to build two satellite ground stations, one in Leuk and another on the Heimenschwand military base, to engage in "Information Warfare" (in English in the otherwise German official text). Leuk will have two 18 m. diameter satellite dishes and Heimenschwand will have seven 13 m. dishes. According to General Peter Regli, head of the Untergruppe Nachrichtendienst der Armee (UNA) military intelligence unit, the plan will take five years and, of course, targets the Cold War replacement triangle: terrorism, proliferation and organized crime. Although it officially will monitor communications in and out of Switzerland, with such an antenna array it could monitor almost anything in the sky. (...cut...) --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 93, 15 February 1999, p. 14 CZECH REPUBLIC TROUBLE WITH THE BRITS OVER IRAQI SALEM The defection to Britain of Jaber Salem, a senior Iraqi Mukhabarat officer based in Prague (INT, n. 92 7) has evolved into a bizarre row between the British and Czech intelligence services centering on the sexuality of the SIS (MI6) station chief in Prague, Christopher Hurran, 50. Although it is unclear when Jaber was recruited, he worked as an "agent-in-place" for the SIS. Certain Czech reports suggested he may also have approached the German BND besides the SIS. Some time in late December, he was brought "in from the cold" along with his family, using as cover an urgent trip to Austria to seek medical treatment for his daughter. (...cut...) --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 93, 15 February 1999, p. 15 SLOVAKIA - Cleaning the Meciar Stables. On Monday 25 January, Interior Minister, Ladislav Pittner, presented a "black paper" on the state of the Interior Ministry under former Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar and stated that the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) had influence over the Interior Ministry at the time and led to the postponement of investigations and the unfair dismissal of certain detectives. Pittner said the SIS was particularly influential within the investigative and the criminal police sections of the ministry. Although the report did not directly accuse the SIS of involvement in the abduction of Michal Kovac Jr., the son of former President, Michal Kovac, or in the murder of Robert Remias, a key witness in the case, Pittner did say that police will charge two unnamed opposition deputies in connection with the 1995 kidnapping of Michal Kovac Jr. (...cut...) --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 93, 15 February 1999, p. 22 ZIMBABWE - Intelligence & Cops "Mix" with Media Officials. On Friday 22 January, Anthony Jacob Gono, 36, a member of the Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment, half suspended, for assaulting six media personnel in Masvingo on Wednesday 20 January. Gono pleaded guilty to assaulting Zimbabwe information service provincial information officer, Samson Muduma, "Masvingo Mirror" advertising representatives, Tinavo Magaisa and Trust Mabaya, "Tribune" chief sub-editor, Muza Matikinye, advertising manager, Margaret Bure, and security official, Nathius Mpofu. (...cut...) --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 93, 15 February 1999, p. 24 MIDDLE EAST - Open Source Intelligence. (...cut...) IRAN. On Wednesday 27 January, the official news agency IRNA reported that more Intelligence Ministry agents have been arrested and charged with illegally producing and publishing political pamphlets attacking government officials. On Thursday 4 February, the opposition Iran Press Service (IPS) reported that multiple wiretaps on the residence of two murdered Iranian dissidents resulted in the arrests of Intelligence Ministry agents. Allegedly, two competing factions within the ministry tapped the telephones of Dariush Forouhar and his wife and recorded their grisly November 1998 murders. The IPS claims the recordings also contained evidence that the conspirators were planning to assassinate moderate President Mohammad Khatami. On Tuesday 9 February, President Khatami accepted the resignation of hardline Intelligence Minister, Qobanali Dorri Najafabadi. (...cut...) --------------------------------------------- INTELLIGENCE SUBSCRIPTION FORM Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Postal Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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