Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 25 New Series, 6 November 1995 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 1995, reproduction in any form forbidden without explicit authorization from the ADI. A one year subscription (23 issues) is US $315. Irish News from "Intelligence," N. 25, 6 November 1995 NORTHERN IRELAND: HERE COMES THE PRESIDENT A night at the Europa Hotel in Belfast is on President Bill Clinton's agenda when he visits Northern Ireland later this month. The 12-story Europa was one of the media's favorite "watering holes" during the 25-year conflict. By the late 1970s, it had been bombed more than 27 times by the IRA and earned (in pre-Sarajevo days) a reputation as "the most bombed building in Europe since 1945". Pres. Clinton will also venture into the Republican heartland of West Belfast and visit the city walls surrounding the nationalist Bogside area of Derry where the British Parachute Regiment shot dead 14 civil- rights marchers on "Bloody Sunday", 30 January 1972. Apart from the peace process, which is what the visit is supposed to be about, the internal U.S political dimension of Pres. Clinton's "walkabout" has not been lost on the British government. The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has mentioned "possible security risks" in the center of Belfast but refused to say from whom or why, when contacted by "Intelligence". The U.S. ambassador to London, Admiral William Crowe, accompanied by senior Secret Service personnel, travelled to Belfast at the beginning of October for talks with NIO MI5 officials at Stormont, and senior RUC officers at Brooklyn Police Headquarters. According to Belfast sources, the American delegation seemed satisfied with security arrangements. Mr. Clinton's visit will be relayed "live" by CNN and other major U.S. networks, and the White House is aware that well-executed Republican wall murals will offer the media "photo opportunities" to reinforce Pres. Clinton's backing by the large "Irish vote" in next year's presidential elections. ============================================= Intelligence, N. 25, 6 November 1995, p. 61 NORTHERN IRELAND - Paras Coming Back Soon. The aggressive Parachute Regiment (INT, N. 19/45), whose 2nd Battalion only left Northern Ireland two months ago, is scheduled to return in 1996 for another six-month tour of duty. Although the Paras have never been used in "peacekeeping" in Bosnia, Parachute Regiment officer Lieutenant General Rupert Smith, 52, is currently commander of United Nations forces in Bosnia. Injured in 1978 by an IRA bomb, Gen. Smith is returning to Northern Ireland as British army commander (INT, N. 24/20) and will probably be there just before the return of the Paras. ============================================= Intelligence, N. 25, 6 November 1995, p. 62 IRELAND - Legal History in the Making. For the first time since the Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act became law in 1976, three judges of the Irish Republic's top security, non-jury Special Criminal Court -- Mr. Justice Morris, Judge Michael Reilly and Judge Peter Smithwick -- crossed the border on 25 October to hear evidence in the trial of Noel Magee, from County Donegal, who is charged with the attempted murder of William Glass, a former UDR soldier, at Beleek, County Fermanagh, on 4 February 1992, in a gun battle which left IRA member Joseph McManus dead. Although the offense was committed in the North, the accused opted for trial in the Irish Republic. While this is the first time judges have travelled North, in 1982, Mr. Justice Brian Jutton, crossed the border to hear evidence in the January 1981 IRA killing of former Unionist MP and Stormont Parliament Speaker, Sir Norman Stronge and his son, James Stronge, a RUC member. People: ALAN BUSBY - SCOTLAND/IRELAND The Irish Director of Public Prosecution, Eamonn Barnes, is studying the file from Strathclyde Police on Alan Busby, the self-styled leader of the Scottish National Liberation Army (SNLA), who has been living in Dublin since 1983 after fleeing prosecution in Scotland for spraying graffiti on a Ministry of Defence vehicle. After attempts to extradite him failed, Busby went "underground" and began a hoax letter-bomb campaign which included (among an estimated fifty targets) Tony Blair, leader of the Labour Party, and estate agents selling Scottish land and property to "outsiders". The SNLA has been of "nuisance value" only because the "army" uses marzipan instead of plastique, wired to batteries and timers in its well-designed "Jiffy" bag, non-explosive devices. Busby is referred to in Dublin as "MacUnabomber", who represents, according to Labour's Scottish Secretary, George Robertson, "the dark side of nationalism". Sources among Scottish nationalists told "Intelligence" that the Crown Office in Edinburgh is reluctant to "pursue the extradition" of Busby, aware that negative publicity in the Scottish media surrounding MacUnabomber would damage "the politics of Scottish independence" by focusing on the extremes. It is also alleged that MI5 has been using Busby to monitor contacts with militant Scottish and Flemish nationalists. The SNLA "supremo" is regularly monitored by Garda Special Branch in Dublin in "a routine surveillance task which hasn't changed much in 12 years". The Garda has informed Strathclyde Police and the Crown Office that their "fugitive" from justice can be lifted as soon as the extradition warrant "in good working order" is received. NORTHERN IRELAND - David Atkinson. According to local press reports, former British soldier and RUC member, David Atkinson, walked free out of the Belfast Crown Court on 12 October after pleading guilty to handling stolen goods. He was apparently congratulated in court for his "loyal and dedicated service", given a two-year suspended sentence and a œ1,000 fine for his role in the theft and resale of œ350,000 worth of stolen clothing to help finance the Loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) paramilitary group. GREAT BRITAIN - Rimington's Succession Line-up at MI5. The death in the June 1994 Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash of John Deverell, head of MI5 in Northern Ireland and the only "natural candidate" to replace soon-to-retire director Stella Rimington, has "opened up the field". Although MI5 is suffering from lack of mission definition in the post-Cold War (INT, N. 12/38, 17/38 & 23/43) and accountability problems (INT, N. 22/34 and p. 58 above), there are quite a few reported candidates for Ms. Rimington's job, including her right-hand man, Richard Dennis, Metropolitan Police commissioner William Taylor, deputy director of Scotland Yard, David Veness and, outside the mainland, head of the Northern Ireland RUC, Hugh Annesley. * Also in this Issue: N. 25, 6 November 1995 Frontpage: PAKISTAN - COUP ATTEMPT, DRUGS AND ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS p.1 Technology: SPECIAL EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY AT MILIPOL '95 p.2 INFORMATION WARFARE SPECIAL REPORT p.3 NONLETHAL TECH RESURFACES IN NEW MILITARY DOCTRINE p.4 FLIR - Outlawed for Snooping Policemen. p.5 LASERS - Illegal on the Ground, Not in the Air. p.6 STEALTH - An "Invisible" Follow-On to the C-130. p.7 CODES - French Decision on Publicly Legal Encryption. p.8 NETWORKS - French Air Force's Secure MOBIDIC System. p.9 AIRCRAFT CARRIERS - Eliminating the Waves. p.10 TORTURE - A Lost French Annex. p.11 CULTS - Internet Fights Back at Scientology. p.12 SPACE - Russian "Carbon Copy" Space Shuttle Scrapped. p.13 COMPUTERS - Russia On and Off the "Blacklist". p.14 STEALTH - India Enters the Field. p.15 "INTELLIGENCE" - Restructuring our Web Site. p.16 People: JEFFREY A. SLATON - U.S.A. p.17 ARNIE MATANKY - U.S.A. p.18 JOHN CAIRNCROSS - GREAT BRITAIN p.19 ALAN BUSBY - SCOTLAND/IRELAND p.20 U.S.A. - George Michael Baird. p.21 U.S.A. - James Hamilton. p.22 U.S.A. - Philip Agee. p.23 GREAT BRITAIN - Philip Harding. p.24 NORTHERN IRELAND - David Atkinson. p.25 FRANCE - Paul Barril. p.26 FRANCE - Jean-Bernard Condat. p.27 RUSSIA - Gennady Zyuganov. p.28 RUSSIA - Anatolii Kuntsevich. p.29 RUSSIA - Mikhail Bergman. p.30 MEXICO - Armando Pavon Reyes. p.31 COLOMBIA - Luis Bernardo Urbina. p.32 HONDURAS - Julio Fonseca. p.33 ALGERIA - Abdelkrim Deneche. p.34 PALESTINE - Fathi Shiqaqi. p.35 IRAQ - Saif Rashid Sindi. p.36 IRAQ - Khamis Khalaf Al Ajili. p.37 Agenda: INFOSEC - Semi-official Computer Crime Meeting. p.38 MILIPOL - World's Largest Security Show. p.39 INFOTECH - TTC Seminar. p.40 AFCEA ASIA-PACIFIC - Communications & Electronics. p.41 TEXT & IMAGE - French Scientific Meeting. p.42 GREYNET - Information Management Seminar. p.43 COMSEC - Mitre Internet Security Conference. p.44 SPECIAL OPS - ADPA '95 Symposium. p.45 FED/UNESCO - 21th Century War & Peace Conference. p.46 SECUBANK '96 - Preliminary Russian Meeting Announcement. p.47 Intelligence Around the World: USA - OVERHAUL ON ALL IMAGERY INTELLIGENCE TO CREATE NIO p.48 DIA MOVING FRONT AND CENTER COURT p.49 FBI WANTS 1,000 TIMES MORE WIRETAPS p.50 NTIA Privacy "Policy". p.51 CIA's KGB Handouts for the President. p.52 CIA Georgetown "Hobnobbing". p.53 "Black" C-130s Repossessed by Forest Service. p.54 GREAT BRITAIN - CHIEF INSPECTOR SUPPORTS MI5 COLLABORATION p.55 ARMED FORCES "PRUNING" AND EXPANDING p.56 ART THEFT COMES OF AGE p.57 Maximum Secrecy Acceptable. p.58 Rimington's Succession Line-up at MI5. p.59 Repub IRELAND - Legal History in the Making. p.62 North IRELAND - HERE COMES THE PRESIDENT p.60 Paras Coming Back Soon. p.61 FRANCE - THE "HEATS OFF" BUT THE POT STILL BOILS OVER p.63 "Rotten Apples" Selling Intelligence. p.64 "Data Protection" Helps Little & Hurts Science. p.65 Business as Usual or Working with the Enemy? p.66 NETHERLANDS - Dissolved IDB Back in the News. p.67 CID Informers "Falling over Each other". p.68 WESTERN EUROPE - Europol Convention Available. p.69 POLAND - Central European "Sting Operations" Coming Up. p.70 ESTONIA - Privilege of First "Democratic" Spy Scandal. p.71 SLOVAKIA - A Losing Battle with "Old Structures". p.72 BOSNIA - NATO In the Field with Russia & Sharing Nothing. p.73 ALBANIA - No More CIA UAVs. p.74 HUNGARY - 1956 CIA Tapes to Get an Airing. p.75 GEORGIA - KGB Accused of Killing CIA Officer. p.79 RUSSIA - ARM WRESTLING OVER CENTRAL ASIAN OIL p.76 Oops! Wrong Battlefield. p.77 Nuclear Smuggling Out, Biochem Smuggling In. p.78 CUBA - Illegal Visit by ... U.S. Veterans. p.80 HAITI - Cleaning Out the Stables ... and a Few Archives. p.81 SALVADOR - UN Report on "Irregular Groups" in the Police. p.82 ANGOLA - MPRI elbowing in on Executive Outcomes. p.83 TUNISIA - Fighting Fire with Fire. p.84 CHINA - Book on Intelligence Services. p.85 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 For more info, e-mail , or =================================================================