Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit excerpts from... INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 46 New Series, 21 October 1996 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 post ADI, 16 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris, France) Intelligence, N. 46, 21 October 1996 U.S.A./ISRAEL - Mousa Abu Marzook. On 9 October, a U.S. federal judge refused to stop the extradition to Israel of a Hamas political leader and financial coordinator, Mouse Abu Marzook. Because he can appeal this decision, and also because Washington can "drag its feet" to pressure the right-wing Israeli government to respect the Oslo II peace agreement, he will not be extradited immediately. Nonetheless, on 10 October, Hamas warned that Abu Marzook's extradition would "ignite a new round of bloody confrontation". --------------------------------------------- HAITI - Emmanuel Constant. Former head of the Front Revolutionnaire pour l'Avancement du Peuple Haitien (FRAPH) death squads, and paid CIA informant, Emmanuel Constant (INT, N. 27/24 & 67), is once again in the news with the publication of a declassified CIA document. Entitled "Haiti's Far Right - Taking the Offensive ...", dated 28 October 1993, it states Constant and other named FRAPH leaders planned and carried out the 14 October 1993 assassination of Justice Minister Guy Malary. U.S. press reports, quoting unnamed intelligence sources, claim the report was based on information from an "unreliable informant", but, with the CIA and the DIA still holding captive 160,000 pages of seized FRAPH archives, this seems to be an extremely convenient excuse to avoid looking into the affair and for letting Constant continue to live freely in New York. --------------------------------------------- GUATEMALA - Samy Noe Vasquez Benavente. A private investigator has accused Col. Samy Noe Vasquez Benavente of ordering the 5 September drive-by shooting of labor leader Victor Hugo Duran Guerra. Vasquez denied the charges, but his previous denials haven't "panned out". He was commander of the military zone of Alta Verapaz province where 11 returned refugees were massacred last year (see "'Spontaneous' Massacre by Army Patrol", INT, N. 24/72), and this year he was implicated in a smuggling racket headed by organized crime boss, Alfredo Moreno Molina. Despite recent governmental efforts to "clean the stables" (INT, N. 31/62), in the last few weeks there have been several kidnappings and murders of indigenous leaders, labor organizers, and political opposition members. --------------------------------------------- U.S.A. - CIA Promises a "True" History. One of the major critics of the State Department's official "Foreign Relations of the United States" series is that it just didn't tell the truth. Its extremely anodyne description of the overthrow of Guatemala's democratically-elected Arbenz government in 1954 hardly even touches on the CIA's role of running the whole operation from beginning to end. So it was an enjoyable change this summer to see the series release "Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, 1945-1950" at the U.S. National Archives. During the 24 July ceremony, Brian Latell, director of the CIA's Centre for the Study of Intelligence, promised "to begin releasing records of Agency covert operations in Guatemala in the early 1950s, and soon after we hope to begin releasing records from the Bay of Pigs." Latell stated that the CIA has taken "steps to improve the quality, scope and timeliness of CIA's support to State in its production of 'Foreign Relations'." If the CIA wants to "play its cards well", it could turn out some bestsellers to help supplement its tight budget. --------------------------------------------- VENEZUELA - DEA and Mossad Doing Joint Training. According to U.S. press reports, the U.S. DEA and the Israeli Mossad are both in Venezuela training Venezuelan combat troops for possible action soon. The purported confrontation would be with forces, associated with Colombian cocaine cartels, trying to overthrow the government. According to U.S. Special Operations sources, a similar confrontation is possible in Colombia itself and U.S. contingency operations have been put into action. --------------------------------------------- ECUADOR - Mossad There Too. According to press reports in Jerusalem, former Ecuadorean police officer, Hugo Svania, recently published a book claiming that Israeli Mossad officials taught local police modern torture techniques which leave no physical trace. One would be the severe body shaking method which sometimes results in death. Svania named one of the Israeli trainers as being Ran Gazet, surely a pseudonym. --------------------------------------------- ISRAEL - Military "Chafing at the Bit". While the right-wing government obstructs the peace process and implies that high military officials got their stars for political reasons, the military has let it be known publicly that the government is not listening at all to its advice. At the same time, there is record opposition by today's youth to doing military service, and parents of youths killed during military training are demanding more information concerning the circumstances of their childrens' death and the possible responsibility of military officials. On 16 October, leading strategic analyst, Prof. Zeev Maoz, warned of the heightened possibility of a military coup due to a build-up of these tensions. --------------------------------------------- PALESTINE - A Few Private Arms Shows. On 15 September in Ramallah, Palestinian Authority police and security officials got a private arms and equipment show organized by South Africa through the Palestinian-Israeli Joint Liaison Committee which has to approve all such sales. The Israelis got a similar, but larger, version of the same show in Tel Aviv earlier in the month. --------------------------------------------- PALESTINE - Crowd Control by Israeli Snipers. According to the list of Palestinian deaths published by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center, most of the 68 Palestinians killed, and hundreds wounded, last month in clashes with Israeli forces were shot in the head or chest. Most of the dead were killed by a single shot. If these figures prove to be correct, this would mean that in the tumultuous context of last month's clashes, Israeli military snipers were clearly and calmly choosing individuals to kill, and not at all practicing "crowd control". Of course, eliminating crowd "leaders" is a form of "crowd control", but 68 one-shot deaths means that the definition of "leader" was rather "liberal", if it existed at all. --------------------------------------------- SOUTH KOREA - KAL 007 as Major U.S. Psy Ops Victory. Last month, former U.S. Information Agency official Alvin A. Snyder stated that the U.S. censored recordings of Soviet pilots to make the world think the Soviet Union shot down the civilian KAL Flight 007 on purpose. It was a major Reagan administration propaganda victory, but it wasn't true. Soviet aviation thought the aircraft, which refused to obey Soviet aviation demands, was military. Now that that U.S. thesis has been debunked, there remains "the big one". If KAL Flight 007's experienced pilots refused to acknowledge Soviet fighter signals, refused to change course, and, after being mortally wounded by Soviet missiles, maintained radio silence as the Boeing 747 glided for several minutes toward its destruction, then Flight 007 was on a secret intelligence mission that the pilots pursued to their own death and that of all their passengers. Someday, another Mr. Snyder in the U.S. intelligence community will speak up. Meanwhile, the press will continue to follow TWA 800. * Also in this issue: TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 46, 21 October 1996 FRONTPAGE: GREAT BRITAIN - PSY OPS COME HOME TO ROOST p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES "FINGERSCANNING" TECH ADVANCES AND OBSTACLES p.2 STUDIES OF THE MOVE FROM LAW & ORDER TO SECURITY p.3 HIGH-TECH COMINGS & GOINGs ON THE INTERNET p.4 MISSILES - Two Independent Anti-Missile Studies. p.5 DNA - Solicitation for Better Technology. p.6 UAV - "Outrider" Survives Army-Navy Fight. p.7 SOFTWARE - Europol's "Investigative Tools". p.8 CODES - Austria Asks for Help Again. p.9 MINES - Detecting Low-Metal Versions. p.10 BUNKER BUSTERS - Visiting Saddam on the Right Floor. p.11 PEOPLE U.S.A./GREAT BRITAIN - THEODORE ALVIN HALL p.12 GREAT BRITAIN - DAVID BICKFORD p.13 AGENT "T" p.14 GERMANY/U.S.A. - ANDREAS STRASSMEIR p.15 U.S.A./ISRAEL - Mousa Abu Marzook. p.16 GREAT BRITAIN/LIBYA - Andrew Gifford. p.17 ITALY - Franco Frattini. p.18 POLAND - Antoni Zielinski. p.19 BOSNIA - Hasan Cengic. p.20 Nedzad Ugljen. p.21 ALBANIA - Safet Zhulali. p.22 RUSSIA/U.S.A. - Valentin M. Berezhkov. p.23 HAITI - Emmanuel Constant. p.24 GUATEMALA - Samy Noe Vasquez Benavente. p.25 AGENDA COMING EVENTS FROM NOW TO 30 NOVEMBER 1996 p.26 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD U.S.A. - NIMA ON TIME, ON TARGET & ON BUDGET p.27 CIA Promises a "True" History. p.28 DECA Wins Against FBI "DECA". p.29 TRACing DEA, FBI and ATF Drug Ops. p.30 Two Year "Relaxation" for 56-bit Keys. p.31 GREAT BRITAIN - MARK URBAN'S "UK EYES ALPHA" p.32 MI5 "Goes Official" at NCIS. p.33 Elite Soldiers Can't Write. p.34 NORTHERN IRELAND - ASSASSINS ON THE LOOSE p.35 IRELAND - MR. GILLIGAN'S MONEY-LADENED LUGGAGE p.36 FRANCE - HELIOS-2 THREATENED BY HORUS' REAPPEARANCE p.37 "Intelligence" Goes to Parliament. p.38 "Over Active" Customs Drug Traffickers. p.39 "Jewish Files" Gets a Home. p.40 GERMANY - A BOOK OF COLD WAR INTELLIGENCE TALES p.41 WESTERN EUROPE - BRITS WANT STRICTER ASYLUM & EXTRADITION LAWS p.42 Wackenhut Moves In. p.43 HUNGARY - Calling Each Other Names. p.44 SLOVAKIA - Dismissed Again for "Lack of Evidence". p.45 BOSNIA - Mujahedin Replaced by Mil. Pro. Inc. p.46 ALBANIA - Terror Runs in the Family. p.47 RUSSIAN/GREAT BRITAIN - FISHING FOR SECRETS IN THE NORTH p.48 RUSSIA - THE PARTY'S OVER & BACK TO BUSINESS p.49 VENEZUELA - DEA and Mossad Doing Joint Training. p.50 ECUADOR - Mossad There Too. p.51 ISRAEL - Old Spies Looking for Business. p.52 Military "Chafing at the Bit". p.53 PALESTINE - A Few Private Arms Shows. p.54 Crowd Control by Israeli Snipers. p.55 AFGHANISTAN - Cleaning Out the "Old Guard". p.56 INDIA - The One that Got Away from the G-Men. p.57 SOUTH KOREA - KAL 007 as Major U.S. Psy Ops Victory. p.58 * Copyright ADI 1996, reproduction in any form forbidden without explicit authorization from the ADI. 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