SUMMARY VERSION INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 95 New Series, 22 March 1999 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 5 April 1999 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (email intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 95, 22 March 1999 FRONT PAGE MIDDLE EAST - ISRAELIS BOMB THEIR OWN IN LONDON p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES TECHNOLOGY THEFT REPORT WITH REAL FIGURES p.2 TECHNOLOGY & TECHNIQUES - Open Source Intelligence. p.3 ARMS, CHEM-BIO AGENTS, COMPUTERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT, Y2K PEOPLE USA - PAUL ROBESON p.4 USA/ISRAEL - Jonathan Jay Pollard. p.5 NORTHERN IRELAND - ROSEMARY NELSON p.6 SURINAM - MARCEL ZEEUW p.7 PEOPLE - Open Source Intelligence. p.8 USA, GREAT BRITAIN, TURKEY, ISRAEL, IRAN, AUSTRALIA AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 1 MAY 1999 p.9 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - ANTI-CHINA NUCLEAR FRENZY REPLACES MONICA HEADLINES p.10 USA - "ELECTRONIC PEARL HARBOR" COMES BACK p.11 NORTH AMERICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.12 CIA, FBI, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, TECH FORUM, TERRORISM, SECRET SERVICE, STATE DEPARTMENT, FDIC, POLICE, CANADA GREAT BRITAIN - CORRUPTION NOT TERRORISM N. 1 THREAT p.13 RACISM AND THE ARMED FORCES p.14 STATE REGULATED COMMERCIAL EAVESDROPPING p.15 NORTHERN IRELAND - EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION MOUNTS p.16 FRANCE - POLICE VERSUS INTELLIGENCE WAR HEATS UP p.17 GERMANY - 66TH MI'S BIG MOVE TO DARMSTADT p.18 WESTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. p.19 GREAT BRITAIN, NORTHERN IRELAND, FRANCE, BELGIUM, SPAIN, ITALY, GREECE, FINLAND, WESTERN EUROPE EASTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. p.20 CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, HUNGARY, SLOVAK, ROMANIA, RUSSIA GUATEMALA - PEACE & FOIA "BLOW BACK" FOR THE CIA p.21 LATIN AMERICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.22 MEXICO, CARIBBEAN, HAITI, CUBA, COLOMBIA, BRAZIL, LATIN AMERICA AFRICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.23 SOUTH AFRICA, ZIMBABWE, ANGOLA, CONGO, KENYA, MOROCCO, SUDAN, AFRICA EGYPT - ABU NIDAL LOOKS FOR PEACE NEXT DOOR p.24 MIDDLE EAST - Open Source Intelligence. p.25 LIBYA, ISRAEL, SYRIA, IRAQ, IRAN, QATAR ASIA - Open Source Intelligence. p.26 AFGHANISTAN, INDIA, CHINA, BURMA, THAILAND, VIETNAM, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND --------------------------------------------- FRONT PAGE Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 1 MIDDLE EAST ISRAELIS BOMB THEIR OWN IN LONDON On 15 March, British Appeal court judges held an in-camera hearing at the Royal Court of Justice in central London to decide if Gareth Pierce -- the lawyer representing Samar Alami and Jawad Botmeh, two Palestinians serving 20-year prison sentences in high-security penal institutions in the north of England for conspiracy to bomb the Israeli embassy in London in July 1994 -- should be allowed to see evidence which was withheld from the defense during the original trial at the Old Bailey in 1996. Both defendants claimed they were set up for arrest by a Palestinian called Reda Moghrabi, who had carried out the bombing and whom they believe was working for the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. During the trial, both Alami, a chemist and her co-defendant Botmeh, an electronics engineer, admitted trying to help Palestinian groups based in Lebanon, specifically in attempting to build miniature aircraft to carry bombs across the border into northern Israel. Alami admitted possessing explosives and two handguns for an unnamed Palestinian who feared assassination by Mossad, but despite 200 hours of interrogation insisted neither she nor Botmeh were involved in the embassy incident. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 2 TECHNOLOGY THEFT REPORT WITH REAL FIGURES The American Electronics Association (AEA) and the International Electronics Security Group (IESG) commissioned a two-year study on technology theft from RAND which released its report on Thursday, 18 March. According to the "Study On High Tech Theft", stealing computers and software is now a $5 billion a year business. The study estimates that direct losses resulting from theft from high tech manufacturers and distributors currently amount to some $250 million per year. Indirect costs, such as lost business, added security and insurance needs, raise the total to more than $1 billion. Finally, theft of high tech products from the industry's customers could cost another $4 billion, bringing the total estimated loss to over $5 billion annually. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 4 USA - PAUL ROBESON Paul Robeson, a world-renowned athlete, singer, actor and civil rights activist, may have been poisoned by the CIA to keep him out of Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion, according to his son, Paul Robeson, Jr.. Paul Robeson inexplicably tried to kill himself on the night of 26-27 March 1961 in a Moscow hotel room. He was rushed to Kremlin Hospital Number One and spent five weeks in the Barveekha sanatorium, where doctors treated him for schizophrenia, delusions and extreme anxiety. The true nature of Robeson's illness was kept secret by the Russians and by his family, who later passed it off as having been caused by a minor heart attack. But a Status of Health file, created and maintained by the FBI between April and June 1961, reveals US plans to prevent the world Communist movement from exploiting Robeson's death, which the FBI believed to be imminent despite the subject's previously excellent health. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 6 NORTHERN IRELAND - ROSEMARY NELSON Ten years after the still unsolved assassination of Belfast solicitor, Patrick Finucane, by Loyalist gunmen with operational links to British Military Intelligence, and less than a month after more than 1,000 international lawyers and solicitors signed a petition supporting a report calling for an independent judicial inquiry into the killing, one of those involved in the campaign, Rosemary Nelson, a Lurgan-based, human-rights lawyer, died from her injuries at Craigavon Area Hospital on 15 March, two hours after a sophisticated booby trap device exploded beneath her BMW car, less than fifty meters from the town's Tannaghmore Primary School, where her eight-year-old daughter is a pupil. Within hours, a Loyalist paramilitary group, the Red Hand Defenders, claimed responsibility for the incident. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 7 SURINAM - MARCEL ZEEUW One of the 16 military officers who planned and carried out the coup against the Dutch colonial administration in Paramaribo in 1980, Lieutenant Colonel Marcel Zeeuw, was arrested in The Hague earlier this month, four days after arriving to give evidence on behalf of the defence in the pre-trial hearings of the case against the former Surinamese military leader, Colonel Desi Bouterse, who has been formally charged with drug trafficking offenses -- specifically shipping 1,345 kilos of cocaine from Surinam to the Netherlands between December 1989 and May 1991. Zeeuw travelled to the Netherlands at the request of Bouterse's Dutch lawyer, Bram Moszkowicz, to testify before Justice Commissioner I. de Vries. He decided to make the trip despite the fact that in the Netherlands five witnesses (including a convicted cocaine dealer whose sentence has been reduced in exchange for testimony) claim Zeeuw is a key figure in the Surinamese cocaine cartel. Moreover, FBI and DEA sources suspect him of liaising with Colombian and Mexican crime syndicates. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 10 USA ANTI-CHINA NUCLEAR FRENZY REPLACES MONICA HEADLINES On Saturday, 6 March, the "New York Times" reported that China stole nuclear arms secrets from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, helping it develop the technology to miniaturize nuclear bombs, a key step toward fielding a modern nuclear arsenal. The technological advance was gained from the mid- 1980s theft of US nuclear secrets from Los Alamos in New Mexico, according to administration officials. Federal officials immediately declared they were investigating these reports of Chinese espionage in the US nuclear weapons program and had increased security at sensitive facilities to guard against theft in the future. The "Philadelphia Inquirer" headlined on 10 March, "China's spy web has wide reach" and described "the lengths Beijing will go to for sensitive information ... penetrating not only the United States' nuclear weapons labs but also many corporations whose technology China covets." ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 11 USA "ELECTRONIC PEARL HARBOR" COMES BACK Due to redundancies and robust design, the idea that US computer systems could be crippled by an "electronic Pearl Harbor" attack has been thoroughly discredited by independent experts (see "An Electronic Pearl Harbor? Not Likely", INT, n. 91 15). "Normal" power failures and maintenance accidents provide the best examples of the technological weaknesses of modern society. Nonetheless, the Pentagon rediscovered the "electronic Pearl Harbor" attack earlier this month. However, in the mirad alarmist press accounts that took the Pentagon at its word, there were are few statements of sanity. Officials recognized that the targets are more likely to be commercial than military, which begs the question of why was the Pentagon bringing this up. On Tuesday, 9 March, Deputy Defense Secretary, John Hamre, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that all the computer intrusions so far at the Pentagon have been against nonsensitive portions of the Pentagon computer system. He added, "To our knowledge, we have never been penetrated on our classified networks." ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 13 GREAT BRITAIN CORRUPTION NOT TERRORISM N. 1 THREAT The most serious threat facing London's Metropolitan Police comes from corrupt officers, many of whom have extensive experience in specialist units within the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of Scotland Yard, according to Chief Superintendent, David Wood, head of the Met's elite CIB3 anti-corruption squad. Chief Supt. Wood has accused senior detectives of sabotaging undercover operations and "callously putting their colleagues at risk" in return for payments of up to œ50,000. CIB3 has identified a number of ranking officers who have been recruited by British crimes bosses specifically to inform on undercover officers involved in covert operations. Once an investigation is compromised, the operation is immediately aborted and in many cases the officers involved are provided with police protection. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 14 GREAT BRITAIN RACISM AND THE ARMED FORCES "There's no home for racism in the Army", according to a senior Ministry of Defence spokesperson, in a statement published in London on 7 March, which confirmed that the MoD had cooperated with "civilian authorities" in a year-long investigation into organized neo-Nazi infiltration of the Army by Combat 18, an openly racist, confrontational group, with supporters and members from organizations such as the British National Party (founded in 1992 by British National Front leader, John Tyndall), Blood and Honour (a pan-European movement of several thousand skinheads), the British National Socialist Alliance (an umbrella organization founded in 1994), the Klu Klux Klan and fascist football thugs. Combat 18 (the 1 and the 8 refer to the first and the eight letter of the alphabet which are the initials of Adolf Hitler) has openly called on working class whites, "abandoned by the system", to wage a race war against "invading immigrants", as well as Jews, lesbians and gay men, and has published the names addresses and telephone numbers of those it regards as "enemies of the white race" on the Internet and in magazines such as "Red Watch", "The Order and Thorwould". Combat 18 was responsible for serious violence which forced the Irish authorities to abandon a "friendly" football international with England, in Dublin in February 1995, and the organization's European links were underlined during the trial of three Danish fascists in Copenhagen, in September 1997, accused of sending letter bombs to mixed-race couples in Britain. Thomas Nakaba, arrested by Danish police, following a tip off from Scotland Yard, told the court that one of the leaders of Combat 18 had travelled to Copenhagen in January 1997 with orders that explosive devices -- primed detonators packed into video cassettes -- should be sent to specific addresses in Britain, including high profile members of anti-fascist organizations. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 15 GREAT BRITAIN STATE REGULATED COMMERCIAL EAVESDROPPING A Downing Street policy unit, consisting of senior representatives from the Home Office, the Foreign Office, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and the intelligence services -- MI5, MI6 and GCHQ -- is working to complete the second draft of the "E-Commerce White Paper" which proposes to give British police and intelligence services the right to access encrypted computer data and hack into e-mail. The Home Secretary, Jack Straw, MP, who was labelled a "political subversive" in the early 1970s and was the focus of MI5 attention when he was president of the National Union of Students, believes the Internet should be regulated and more strictly policed by the security services. (In a recent BBC interview, Mr. Straw stated that he was "pretty happy" with the way MI5 was now being managed, confirmed that he had regular meetings with director general, Stephen Lander, and described the decision by the security service to open a file on him, intercept his mail and tap his telephone twenty-five years ago as "an accident for which MI5 is responsible".) The DTI has argued that e-commerce legislation based solely on law enforcement needs or alleged threats to national security from cyber terrorists will discourage British-based companies from using the Internet for secure business transactions and will undermine the DTI's inward investment strategy and aggressive PR campaign in the US which hypes Great Britain as the "technological heart of Europe". ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 16 NORTHERN IRELAND EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION MOUNTS In a five-year period, between 1989 and 1994, Loyalist gunmen killed 26 members of the Republican Movement, including Sinn Fein representatives and their families. They also killed at least 143 Catholics who were not directly involved in the conflict. It is hard to imagine that this campaign of murder could have been carried out by the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) without help from the security forces, including the RUC Special Branch, British Military Intelligence and the disbanded, locally-recruited Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) according to Bobby Philpott, a former Belfast-based Ulster Defence Association (UDA) commander. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 17 FRANCE POLICE VERSUS INTELLIGENCE WAR HEATS UP In January, when we wrote an article, "France - Hostilities Open in Internal Security War" (INT, n. 92 16), which we knew was right, but we didn't know it was "too right"; in short, "cutting too close to the bone". "Intelligence" dug into the question of traditionally conflictual relations between the Renseignement Generaux (RGs) political intelligence police and the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) internal security service, both under the authority of the Interior Ministry. We found that there was "an ongoing attempt in certain quarters of the RGs to resist 'assimilation by the DST'", despite the fact that several recent high-priority cases had stagnated or had been sabotaged through lack of cooperation. ...(cut)... Instead of strange media reports, it was strange manipulation operations. Several French intelligence "honorable correspondents" -- high-level private and governmental officials who are on friendly relations with the intelligence services -- were suddenly confronted by plainclothes police officers and aggressively questioned concerning their access to and use of classified information. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 18 GERMANY 66TH MI'S BIG MOVE TO DARMSTADT Early last December, the US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) and the US Army Europe (USAEUR) returned the 66th Military Intelligence Group's Augsburg base to Germany. The 66th MI and its 527 MI Battalion had completed their move to new headquarters in the Darmstadt suburb of Griesheim. 66th MI commanding officer, Col. Harold Bakken, who took up his post six months ago, and 527 MI Battalion chief, Lt. Col. Walter Fountain, have been working with the group's chief of staff, Charles Hayward, on this move which started in 1995. Hayward, who has been at his post for 13 years, doesn't seem to regret the move and the $18 million bill for renovation of the Griesheim complex, some buildings of which date from Germany's Nazi era. But the group's action officer, Marie Powell, claims the move was difficult, particularly because the group's 50 functional intelligence areas had to be seamlessly phased in at Griesheim while being phased out at Augsburg. INSCOM called it the most complex relocation ever. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 21 GUATEMALA PEACE & FOIA "BLOW BACK" FOR THE CIA The Peace Accords in Guatemala and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the US haven't been kind to the CIA and its Cold War Guatemala operations over the last few weeks. Established in 1994 as part of the Peace Process in Guatemala, the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission (CEH) completed its work in February and forwarded its report to the parties to the Peace Accords and to the Secretary General of the UN. Entitled, "Guatemala Memory of Silence" (http://hrdata.aaas.org/ceh/), the report makes disturbing reading, accusing the US-backed military of a host of human rights violations and systematic state terrorism against the Mayan Indian population. The report implicates the US, and the CIA in particular, in the creation of this killing machine that ravaged entire Mayan villages in the 1980s. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 95, 22 March 1999, p. 24 EGYPT ABU NIDAL LOOKS FOR PEACE NEXT DOOR In January, Western media claimed that former Palestinian terrorist boss, Abu Nidal, had moved to Iraq, possibly to put his networks at the disposal of Saddam Hussein (INT, n. 93 24). On Tuesday, 16 March, the London-based Arab newspaper, "Al- Hayat", quoted Abu Nidal's British biographer, Patrick Seale, as saying that Abu Nidal is under arrest in Egypt, in good health and cooperating with authorities, while some of the members of his Fatah-Revolutionary Council group have recently been permitted to enter the Palestinian Authority. Among those who have entered Palestinian territory with Israeli approval is Ali Al Fara who was involved in the 1982 assassination attempt against Israel's ambassador in London. The attack by Abu Nidal's group on Ambassador Argov triggered Israel's invasion of Lebanon, which aimed to repel Palestinian forces controlled by Yasser Arafat, who had nothing to do with the Abu Nidal group for years. The group had murdered several prominent PLO representatives and peace negotiators, and was considered by many specialists to be manipulated by the Israeli Mossad. 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