Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 39 New Series, 10 June 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) Copyright ADI 1996, reproduction in any form forbidden without explicit authorization from the ADI. A one year subscription (23 issues) is US $315. * ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE BRIEFS: Intelligence, N. 39, 10 June 1996 HACKING - French and American Targets. In the last three weeks, two leading nations' defense computer systems have "fessed up to" major computer security weaknesses. On 22 May, the GAO issued a report stating that in 1995 250,000 attempts were made to penetrate unclassified military computer networks and 65 percent, 162,500, were successful. Moreover, only four percent of the latter were detected and only one in 150 were detected and reported. To test network security, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) carried out 38,000 attacks but, with a 65 percent success rate, proved to be not better than "ordinary" hackers. On the last weekend of May, the Defense Ministry's computer at the Ecole Polytechnique was cut off from the Internet when illegal intrusion originating in Israel was discovered. It appears that no major damage was done and no arrests have been made, but many passwords were stolen. Nonetheless, hacking didn't appear to be one of the major threats in the recent survey by the Club de la Securite Informatique Francais (CLUSIF). Instead, French computer security specialists are worried about violence and pornography on the Internet, macro-viruses, economic warfare, attacks against automatic switchboards, and changing the date from 1999 to 2000. * ISRAEL - "Cindy" & Vanunu Petition In an unusual decision, on 4 June, the Israeli High Court granted permission for the publication of a petition from Mordechai Vanunu, the Moroccan-born technician who has served nine years (in solitary confinement) of an 18- year sentence for disclosing details of Israel's nuclear program to the "Sunday Times" (INT, N. 36/17). In his petition, Mr. Vanunu demanded the state order an investigation into his abduction from Rome in September 1986 and claimed that "Cindy", a key player in the honeytrap operation, was an American working for the CIA "who has since been murdered by the same people [Mossad] who were responsible for carrying out the kidnapping". Mr. Vanunu claims this is the real reason Israel is determined he serve his full sentence. Reports that "Cindy" was seen in Tel Aviv some years ago have never been confirmed and there is no official information to indicate her current location. Mr. Vanunu's petition was rejected by three judges who ruled it impossible to order an investigation into the affair because Mr. Vanunu has submitted no evidence to support his theory regarding the female agent. * ISRAEL - Shin Bet Gets Bad Press. Following the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by religious fanatic Yigal Amir, Shin Bet continues to get bad press for not pursuing leads indicating that Amir received the backing of one or several rabbis. Besides Amir himself, his brother, Haggai Amir, and a close friend, Margalit Har-Shefi, have both admitted that at least one rabbi gave his approval for the assassination. Specialists believe orders to avoid pushing further came from above. Shin Bet's handling of the Bus 300 affair, in which two captured Palestinian hijackers were ordered beaten to death, is the subject of a recent book by lawyer Yehi'el Gutmann entitled, "Shaking in the Shabak". Gutmann interviewed almost all officials involved in the affair and concludes that Bus 300 "was primarily an affair of Avraham Shalom", the head of Shin Bet (Shabak) at the time. More recently this year, corruption in Shin Bet, first made official by the 1987 commission of Chief Justice Moshe Landau, resurfaced with the resignation for embezzlement of the Shin Bet chief of the Samaria district and three of his associates. * ISRAEL - Security Contacts ... "Down Under". The recent "Monica" affair mentioned in our previous issue (INT, N. 38/28) showed that Israeli intelligence and Australian intelligence have a very close relationship. This was inadvertently confirmed on 27 May when Australian Defence Minister McLachlan proudly stated that the satellite ground station at Nurrungar in South Australia is an important link in getting the recently-approved U.S. early-warning ballistic missile launch intelligence to Israel in a timely manner. * ISRAEL - A Cancelled Intelligence Trip to Washington Colonel Ya'akov Amidror, the deputy commander of Aman military intelligence, who receives reports from the heads of Mossad and Shin Bet to prepare national intelligence evaluations, was to go to Washington in March to present his analysis of President Yasser Arafat's political situation and that of the Palestinian Authority. But at the highest political level it was finally decided to cancel the trip because it wasn't to Israel's political advantage. Essentially, Col. Amidror believes Pres. Arafat prefers to attempt an understanding with Hamas instead of fighting it, has shown little determination in combating terrorism and doesn't think he's obliged to help Israel fight terrorism. The difficult question is knowing if these are Col. Amidror's views or those of Aman. * TURKEY: PLAYING CENTRAL ASIA AGAINST WESTERN EUROPE According to a specialist contracted by "Intelligence", the essential problem for any Turkish government is to be able to satisfy the two seemingly opposite fundamental desires of the Turkish population: integration with Western Europe and Pan- Turk aspirations in Central Asia. This opposition is being exploited for all its worth by neighboring Iran and its current theocratic Islamic fundamentalist regime. But Turkey, which is a lay state with a non-Arabic population, has found a new ally in Israel. Although the two countries have collaborated in the past on security and intelligence matters, particularly in relation to the Kurds, the recent military agreement allowing Israel to fly military training missions in Turkish air space has clearly demarked Turkey from its regional neighbors. This has already resulted in an 18 May attack against President Suleyman Demirel and Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) threats to attack Israeli tourists in Alanya. Since then, Turkey has handed over to Israel four Palestinians bearing false British passports, just like Hezbollah bomber, Hussein Muhammad Mikdad, captured on 12 April in Jerusalem (INT, N. 38/54). Hezbollah was also targeted by Turkey in Sanliurfa in mid-January when police seized six large Iranian trucks filled with weapons destined for the Hezbollah in Lebanon. In April, 12 Afghans were killed and eight captured when they tried to enter Turkey illegally, and following the assassination of an Iranian dissident in Turkey, there were mutual expulsions of a total of 12 diplomats with Iran. In at least two cases, Turkey has played its Western European NATO role and marked points with Islamic neighbors. In late May, 200 Bosnian and Croatian military started training in Turkey, principally in operating M-60 tanks. As of 1992, Turkish military engineers have worked hard to build a major U.S.-NATO naval base in Ormara which was completed a few months ago. This cooperation may well have resulted in Pakistan's offer to cooperate with Israel in intelligence concerning Islamic terrorism. On the Israeli side, the Turkish chief of staff toured Israeli military installations in late February and in April, Shin Bet gave Turkey information indicating that the Iranian embassy in Turkey was providing counterfeit documents to Islamic Jihad activists. With security in the Middle East taken care of by cooperation with Israel, Turkey can turn to the Caucasus and Central Asia with a freer hand. Late last year, Turkey protested Russia's non-respect of the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) arms reduction calendar and promised to rearm if Russia didn't disarm. In November, the Clinton administration proposed to sell 120 Army Tactical Missiles (ATACMS) to Turkey, each one carrying a warhead with 950 bomblets. ATACMS have not been sold to any other country. In late May, Turkey warned Georgia that it would construct a military base if Russia built one near the border. In the meantime, Turkey's richest foundation, the Diyanet Vakfi religious foundation, is planning to open branches in Turkic-speaking regions of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Russian intelligence is standing by and in November Russia hosted a session of the Kurdish parliament-in-exile. This simmering conflict can be expected to heat up when Central Asian oil is ready for transportation to Western markets (INT, N. 25/76). * For subscription info, write to: intelligence-adi@wanadoo.fr or point your browser to: http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence/ Also in this Issue: N. 39 New Series, 10 June 1996 FRONTPAGE: FRANCE - ECONOMIC WARFARE IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE p.1 TECHNOLOGY & TECHNIQUES: TACTICAL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE WINNER & NEW TECHNOLOGY p.2 "SPIES AT WORK" WITH INTERESTING DISK TECHNOLOGY p.3 "GUNSHOT" LASER SEES THROUGH CLOUDS AND DUST p.4 BIOMETRICS - From Retinas to Irises. p.5 OFFSHORE - A Users Manual. p.6 HACKING - French and American Targets. p.7 COUNTERFEIT - Special Lighting. p.8 DUAL-USE TECHNOLOGY - Building Bridges with ... ICBMs. p.9 AIR DEFENCE - U.S./South Korean Tech Proves Itself. p.10 PEOPLE: THOMAS W. W. "PEPPER SPRAY" WARD - U.S.A. p.11 NICK POPE - GREAT BRITAIN p.12 PHILIPPE MOUREAUX - BELGIUM p.13 EUGENE ALEXANDER "PRIME EVIL" DE KOCK - SOUTH AFRICA p.14 U.S.A. - Fernando Mata. p.15 U.S.A. - Keith R. Hall. p.16 CANADA/RUSSIA - Arkadi Kazantsev. p.17 GREAT BRITAIN/U.S.A. - David McKeeve. p.18 RUSSIA - Aleksandr Korzhakov. p.19 MEXICO - Jorge Torres Mondragon. p.20 GUATEMALA/U.S.A. - Leslie Isben Rogge. p.21 COLOMBIA - Luis Maldonado. p.22 SOUTH AFRICA/GERMANY - Julius Mader. p.23 TURKEY - Abdullah Ocelan. p.24 ISRAEL - "Cindy". p.25 AGENDA: COMING EVENTS FROM 12 JUNE TO 31 AUGUST 1996 p.26 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD: U.S.A. - TOO LITTLE TOO LATE IN PUBLIC ENCRYPTION p.27 Missile Defense Chief Criticizes Intelligence. p.28 "Soft Scientists" Study Army Problems. p.29 Foreign Tech Spies "Get Smart" & Legal. p.30 Training in Talking and Shooting. p.31 "Feds" Quicker with Guns than Computers. p.32 GREAT BRITAIN - MI6, SERBIAN INTERESTS & THE TORY PARTY p.33 CS SPRAY AS STANDARD POLICE EQUIPMENT p.34 HONG KONG OPENS "HAIL & FAREWELL" NAVY BOOT SALE p.35 NCIS ANNUAL REPORT & A "CORPORATE BODY" FUTURE p.36 Reality Test for Undercover Cops. p.37 FRANCE - CUTTHROATS AMONG CUTTHROATS IN ALGERIAN CRISIS p.38 A Sub-contracted or "Dry Run" Bomb. p.39 Two Presidents in Pyjamas. p.40 "Publish or Perish" the Other Way Around. p.41 Lines Drawn at Securicom 96. p.42 BELGIUM - From Open Sources & Infowar to Closed Doors. p.43 GERMANY - OPEN HOUSE BUT LOW MORALE AT THE BND p.44 WAVES OF SPIES IN BOTH DIRECTIONS p.45 A New Military Base ... Abroad. p.46 WESTERN EUROPE - Europol "Rolls Along". p.47 POLAND - Oleksy Affair Comes Home to Roost. p.48 BOSNIA - Military "Lost and Found". p.49 ROMANIA - Communications Problem on Wiretaps. p.50 BULGARIA - TRON-MULTIGROUP NETWORK IN THE NEWS p.51 HAITI - Continued Security Problems & Stand-Off with U.S. p.52 PERU - Cleaning-up the Police as SL Comes Back. p.53 KENYA - Interpol Opens an Office. p.54 ISRAEL - Shin Bet Gets Bad Press. p.55 Security Contacts ... "Down Under". p.56 A Cancelled Intelligence Trip to Washington. p.57 TURKEY - PLAYING CENTRAL ASIA AGAINST WESTERN EUROPE p.58 IRAN - Military and Diplomatic Exercises. p.59 JAPAN - Anteing Up for Intelligence. p.60 ================================================================= 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 =================================================================