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. Technology & Techniques: SECURITY, INSECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE ON THE INTERNET Only a few months ago, it seemed the whole Pentagon was upside down because of the implications of "Infowar" and the possibility that the United States' war-fighting ability had fatal weaknesses due to its increasing reliance on new information technologies, and the Internet in particular (INT, N. 23/34). On the other hand, we have previously mentioned that the U.S. intelligence community has its own secure electronic communications network, Intelink, that uses the Internet substructure and, in turn, was using the Internet as a "source of intelligence" (INT, N. 6/7 & 15/4). It should therefore come as no surprise that the Pentagon finally got around to producing a "study" of the question of Internet use: Charles Swett, analyst in the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (ASD-SOLIC), recently produced a 35-page report entitled "Strategic Assessment - The Internet". In the 4 March issue of "The Nation", David Corn clearly underlines Swett's orientation of considering the Internet useful for intelligence collection concerning left-wing and marginal groups, as well as for "psychological operations". For specialists, this is not news and Americans, left and right, are not that concerned since they can always use freely-available PGP public key encryption for their email. And now, even when traveling outside the U.S., American citizens, at least under U.S. law, have the right to use encryption, including PGP, effective 16 February 1996, following a rule amending the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) which "Intelligence" said was coming (INT, N. 29/3 & 27/4). For non-U.S. citizens, there are several Internet sites with PGP freely available (see Philip Zimmermann's "Response to Government Surrender", available free of charge at the "Intelligence" URL: http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence), but national legislation, such as in France, can make it illegal for anyone to use it for anything. Also, one should not think that "anonymous remailers" are going to solve Internet privacy problems. Remailers cannot be trusted more than banks with "anonymous" numbered bank accounts, which means you should know the remailer well before believing it furnishes protection. Certain remailers can actually be run by intelligence or law enforcement agencies, or exchange backup tapes with intelligence services. True remailers also have a technical problem with guaranteeing privacy since an intelligence service can "flood" a remailer just as a person under surveillance sends a message to the remailer. Some advanced remailer systems retard resending the message for a short, but arbitrary period of time (a few seconds, according to message traffic). However, if the system has been "flooded" and all the resent messages, but one, were originally sent by the intelligence service, the latter will easily identify the targeted message and find where it's going. The only effective counter-measure would be a remailer that generates its own arbitrary messages and sends them out with the original incoming messages being resent, but such systems are apparently not yet available. * INTERNET - Best Intelligence Sites. Two "colleagues" of "Intelligence", intelligence information sites on the Internet, were recently rated in the "Top 5% of the Web" by the prestigious Point Communications rating system. They are former CIA officer Ralph McGehee's CIABASE (INT, N. 29/6) which is available on the Web at http://www.webcom.com/%7Epinknoiz/covert/ciabase.html. CIABASE is a data base on open literature on the CIA and its operations. The other site is that run by Steven Aftergood, editor of "Secrecy & Government Bulletin" (INT, N. 19/38 & 23/35), as part of the URL site of the Federation of American Scientists: http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/sgp Other intelligence information and documentation is available at our own site at http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence [Note: another "Top 5%" award recently went to Daniel Brandt's NameBase site, at: http://www.namebase.org -- NY Transfer] * Agenda: ADBS - Training Seminars on Internet & Data Banks. ADBS (tel 33 1 43 72 25 25; fax 33 1 43 72 30 41) is organizing a training seminar in French on "Using the Internet" in Paris on 19-20 March and another, also in Paris, on "Data Banks on News and Current Events" on 27-29 March. * ECON INTEL - Internet & Economic Intelligence. The Ecole Superieure de Commerce (tel 33 59 92 64 64; email pierre.aliphat@esc-pau.fr) is organizing a seminar in French on "Internet and Economic Intelligence" in Pau on 29 March 1996. Philippe Clerc, responsible for economic competitiveness at the "prime minister's intelligence service", the SGDN, will make a presentation. * 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 =================================================================