Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit From... INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 No. 32 New Series, 4 March 1996 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt (intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr; tel/fax 33 1 40 51 85 19; ADI, 16 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris, France) Copyright ADI 1996, reproduction in any form forbidden without explicit authorization from the ADI. A one year subscription (23 issues) is US $315. Intelligence, N. 32, 4 March 1996, p. 16 People: JOSE BASULTO LEON - CUBA/U.S.A. Right-wing anti-Castro Cuban refugee and Bay of Pigs veteran Jose Basulto Leon is probably happy to still be alive following the "splashing" of two Cessna 337 Skymasters, civil versions of the Vietnam-era military O-2A forward air control aircraft, shot down off the coast of Cuba by a Cuban MiG-29 and a MiG-23 on 24 February. There is every indication that the incident was an intelligence operation with the intended objective of eliminating Basulto, one of the founders and leaders of Hermanos al Rescate (Brothers to the Rescue), that had been plaguing Cuban authorities with increasingly provocation incursions into Cuban air space that had no humanitarian function and resulted recently in an FBI investigation of Basulto. Cuban authorities and Basulto were playing the same dangerous game. Basulto knows that a provocation during a U.S. Democratic presidency and presidential campaign can only result in aggressive American backing and blocking the slow process of mending Cuban-American relations that was underway. With President Boris Yeltsin in the process of "reestablishing ties" with Cuba, and clear Cuban threats that all provocations south of the 24th parallel -- which Brothers recognizes to have crossed this time and may times in the past -- would be met with force, Cuba felt it had covered its ante. Moreover, during an early February visit to Cuba, retired U.S. Admiral Eugene Carroll of the Center for Defense Information had been asked by Cuban authorities how the U.S. would react if Cuba shot down exile planes that violated Cuban airspace. Adm. Carroll told the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) about the Cuban's question. Obviously, everyone "let it happen," but the U.S. didn't know that Cuba had infiltrated the Brothers and probably knew that Basulto would be flying in one of the planes on 24 February. On 23 February, Cuban "defector" and former Cuban Air Force MiG pilot, Juan Pablo Roque, disappeared from his home in Miami to reappear on 26 February on Cuban television denouncing Basulto and his group as "counter-revolutionaries". After "defecting" to the U.S. four years ago, Roque had joined the Brothers and associated closely with Basulto and probably told Cuban intelligence that Basulto would be flying one of the planes on 24 February. Basulto is a veteran CIA operative whose curriculum vitae, documented in seven entries in NAMEBASE (INT, N. 23/34) and several paragraphs in CIABASE (INT, N. 21/4), includes close association with Felix Rodriguez, one of the CIA's leading Contra organizers. In August 1962 Basulto helped organize a raid on a de luxe Cuban hotel by the exile group Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE), but avoided arrest by the FBI a year later when the Bureau discovered a DRE dynamite cache in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. * Also in this Issue: No. 32, 4 March 1996 FRONTPAGE: GERMANY - MAJOR CORPORATE SECURITY CONFERENCE SPELLS OUT PROBLEMS p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNQUES: 21ST CENTURY MILITARY AVIATION TECHNOLOGY TAKES SHAPE p.2 PUBLIC DOMAIN CIA LITERATURE WITH REAL INFORMATION p.3 SECURITY, INSECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE ON THE INTERNET p.4 INTERNET - Best Intelligence Sites. p.5 DRONES - Hunter from Failure to Fraud. p.6 FRANCE - Better Information than a Who's Who. p.7 CARTOGRAPHY - French-American "Cuisine" in Bosnia. p.8 MOBILITY - Do-It-Yourself Algerian Desert "Battle wagons". p.9 SATELLITES - Strange Israeli Eavesdropper. p.10 BOMBS - Two Different Hamas Tactics. p.11 AIRCRAFT - Experiments in Lebanese Skies. p.12 PEOPLE: GORDON FOXLEY - GREAT BRITAIN p.13 KONRAD PORZNER - GERMANY p.14 BRUNO BREGUET - SWITZERLAND p.15 JOSE BASULTO LEON - CUBA/U.S.A. p.16 U.S.A. - Robert Stephan Lipka. p.17 U.S.A. - Theodore Alvin Hall. p.18 GREAT BRITAIN/PAKISTAN - Chowdhury Mueen Uddin. p.19 FRANCE - Michel Lacarriere. p.20 POLAND - Andrzej Kapkowski. p.21 ROMANIA - Ion Pitulescu. p.22 RUSSIA/GREAT BRITAIN - Nigel Shakespeare. p.23 RUSSIA - Aleksei Ilyushenko. p.24 PERU/U.S.A. - Lori Berenson. p.25 HONDURAS - Julio Cesar Chavez. p.26 IRAQ - Taher Abdel Kader Souleiman El Majid. p.27 AGENDA: IIR - Business Knowledge & Competence. p.28 ADBS - Training Seminars on Internet & Data Banks. p.29 ECON INTEL - Internet & Economic Intelligence. p.30 GULF OFFSET - Major Civil-Military Meeting. p.31 CMA'96 - Secret Precision Strike Meeting. p.32 COMDEF'96 - Defense Business Opportunities Meeting. p.33 VIRUS'96 - International Prevention Conference. p.34 IMACT'96 - NSI Defense Industry Conference. p.35 SPECIAL OPS - Industry Briefing. p.36 SMH'96 - Open CIA History Conference. p.37 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD: U.S.A. - HIGH SEASON FOR INTELLIGENCE REPORTS AND PROJECTS p.38 FBI "Hits the Streets". p.39 NSA "Decapitated". p.40 Pentagon Fraud Remains Service-Based. p.41 Paris Spy Flap "Unwinds". p.42 "From San Fran With Love". p.43 CANADA - Boeing & de Havilland Fraud Inquiry. p.44 GREAT BRITAIN - DR. MASARI ARGUES HIS CASE p.45 VOTED-DOWN SCOTT REPORT STILL ALIVE AND KICKING p.46 REINFORCED SIEGE TACTICS BACK IN FORCE p.47 Keeping Lockerbie Out of The Hague Court. p.48 "More than Average" Plane Crashes. p.49 "Killing Two Birds with One Stone" in Slovenia. p.50 NORTHERN IRELAND - IRA HELPS EXTEND THE LIFE OF 3 PARA p.51 IRELAND - UUP'S TRIMBLE "AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE" p.52 FRANCE - DRM WRITES NEW U.S. INTELLIGENCE POLICY "IN THE FIELD" p.53 Two-Track "Critical Dialog" with Iran. p.54 More Wiretaps in the Press. p.55 Police Protecting the Police from the Police. p.56 BELGIUM - Schengen Parliamentary Question. p.57 GERMANY - French Skeletons Out of the Closet & into Court. p.58 WESTERN EUROPE - Agreeing to Disagree on Drugs. p.59 SLOVKIA - President and Services Fight It Out. p.60 BOSNIA - No "Iranian Hordes" Found by IFOR. p.61 ALBANIA - Strange Series of Bomb Attacks. p.62 RUSSIA - Getting Back to Old Business. p.63 U.S. SEALS NOT WANTED NEAR BORDER. p.64 Lebed Chalks Up One against Grachev. p.65 GUATEMALA - CIA Archives Put the Blame on the White House. p.66 ARGENTINA - IBM Scandal Brings in the FBI. p.67 LIBYA - Gadhafi's New Evil Brew Factory. p.68 SYRIA - Iranian Visit to Radicals. p.69 QATAR - U.S.-French "Run In" on Dirty Tricks. p.70 KOREA - Keeping Track of Military Equipment. p.71 CHINA - Firing Some Old Guard Security Chiefs. p.72 * For subscription info, write to: intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr or point your browser to: http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence/ ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org =================================================================