Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN NEWSBRIEFS Excerpts from ... INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 43, New Series, 9 September 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 with full index) is US $315. PERU - Vladimiro Montesinos. Another close presidential friend, advisor and "Rasputin", but in Peru, is National Security Advisor Vladimiro Montesinos. But his days at the side of President Alberto Fujimori may be numbered following the recent testimony of drug lord Demetrio "Vaticano" Chavez Penaherrera. At his trial, Penaherrera claimed he made $50,000 monthly payoffs to Montesinos in 1991 in return for uninhibited use of a clandestine airstrip in Campanilla. Penaherrera also claims Montesinos would warn him when anti-drug trafficking operations were to take place in the Huallaga Valley. Pres. Fujimori is going to have to make some tough decisions if he wants his campaign to "clean up" the government to be taken seriously. --------------------------------------------- MEXICO - The "Mordita" Bites Back at Cops. The leading perceptors of the famous Mexican "mordita" (literally, "little bit" or payoff), the Federal Judicial Police (FJP) or internal security service, has been bitten back by Attorney General Antonio Lozano. In mid-August, Mr. Lozano fired 737 of the 4,400 officers for not having "the ethical profile" necessary for the job. The FJP is widely considered to be the most corrupt of the many Mexican security and intelligence agencies, and is supposed to be in the front line fighting against the flow of drugs to the U.S. --------------------------------------------- COLOMBIA - Latin Heroin Replaces Asian. On 3 September, DEA chief, Thomas Constantine, gave the official figures on the running battle between Asian and Colombian heroin seized in the U.S.: 1993, 15 percent Colombian; 1994, 32 percent Colombian; and 1995, 62 percent Colombian. According to Constantine, Colombian drug lords "are positioning themselves to be central players in the Western Hemisphere heroin market by the year 2000." This is coherent with their increasingly widely-applied strategy of paying middlemen and dealers in heroin to encourage use (see "New Techniques on Both Sides of Drug Battle"; INT, N. 38/2). They have also encouraged multiple drug use to "optimize" their distribution networks and make sure they are the only ones on the market that can supply both cocaine and he. Multiple drug use is also a guarantee against "hard times" when an all-out U.S. campaign can damage the distribution network of a particular drug. Then heroin users can go back to cocaine, or vice versa. --------------------------------------------- HAITI - Cooler Heads Get Down to Intelligence Exchange. Relations between Haiti and the U.S. have been heated since the recent presidential elections and Haiti's attempt to retrieve the secret archives of the FRAPH death squads which are sitting in storage at the CIA and DIA (INT, N. 33/58 & 39/52). But this summer, things seems to have cooled off some, and, on 13 August, President Rene Preval announced he was creating an intelligence panel to exchange information with foreign services. According to a specialist, both sides have realized that democracy is what they want in Haiti, but it is extremely fragile and can only be built with some "give and take" between the two major players, Port-au-Prince and Washington. --------------------------------------------- GUATEMALA - Intelligence Oversight Board Report on CIA. On 28 June, the U.S. Intelligence Oversight Board, chaired by Anthony S. Harrington, issued its extremely critical report on its "government-wide review concerning allegations regarding the 1990 death of U.S. citizens Michael DeVine, the 1992 disappearance of Guatemala guerrilla leader Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, and related matters." The public version of the report is "essentially the same as the classified version submitted to the President". It is well worth reading, even if you limit yourself to the Executive Summary. The report is available free on the world wide web at . --------------------------------------------- ARGENTINA - Progress on Anti-Jewish Bombings. The investigation into the bloody 17 March 1992 and 18 July 1994 bombings against Jewish centers in Buenos Aires has made some progress over the summer. In June, the press reported that a Swiss court was investigating the siphoning off and shipment to Argentina of Exogen high-explosives made by the Spanish company, Expal. A delivery of several tons of Exogen to Croatia, paid for by Syrian arms dealer, Monzer al-Kassar, was at the origin of the affair. Kassar also furnished arms used by the hijackers of the "Achille Lauro", but a trial in Spain cleared him of all charges of criminal activity. Kassar is notorious in Argentina for having obtained Argentine citizenship and a passport "in record time", according to press reports. In late July, the noose got tighter and three high- ranking Argentine police officers were arrested and charged as accomplices in the two bombings. Commissioner Juan Jose Ribelli and deputy commissioners Raul Ibarra and Anastasio Irineo Leal allegedly provided the van used in the July 1994 bombing. They set up the petty criminal, Carlos Telleldin, who has been in custody since late 1994. Another 11 police officers are likely to be charged soon. * Also in this issue... FRONTPAGE U.S.A. - POOR MANAGEMENT & INADEQUATE TECH AS "CYBERTERROR" p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES SECURITY RESOURCES ON MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN p.2 EAVESDROPPING ON GSM DIGITAL CELL PHONES p.3 COMPUTER CRIME COUNTERMEASURES, GUIDES AND "TOOL KITS" p.4 MAPS - Chicago Fights Crime with Maps. p.5 OLYMPICS - Almost IBM's "Waterloo". p.6 NAMES - CIABASE & NAMEBASE Updates. p.7 DATA BASES - Washington's Fall Harvest. p.8 EAVESDROPPING - Practical Primer. p.9 TERRORISM - List of Major Conventions. p.10 DRUGS - Enforcing the Enforcers. p.11 STEALTH - Tamara Hard to Sell Anywhere. p.12 SELF-DESTRUCT - More "Bombs" in Gaza. p.13 PEOPLE DANILO BLANDON - U.S.A./NICARAGUA p.14 JOSE MARIA SISON - NETHERLANDS/PHILIPPINES p.15 SADIQ SADAH - IRAQ/GREAT BRITAIN p.16 KHALID IBN MAHFOUZ - SAUDI ARABIA p.17 U.S.A. - Kevin Lee Poulsen. p.18 U.S.A. - Ed Cummings. p.19 U.S.A. - Peter Junger. p.20 GREAT BRITAIN - Richard Tilt. p.21 NORTHERN IRELAND - HUGH TORNEY. p.22 GERMANY - Bruno Breguet. p.23 GERMANY - Berge Balanian. p.24 SLOVAKIA - Oskar Fegyveres. p.25 POLAND/U.S.A. - Ryszard Kuklinski. p.26 BULGARIA - Mikhail Dobrev. p.27 RUSSIA/SWEDEN - Hans Peter Nordstrem. p.28 RUSSIA - Anatolii Kuznetsov. p.29 PERU - Vladimiro Montesinos. p.30 PALESTINE - Amin Abdel Salaam. p.31 AGENDA COMING EVENTS FROM NOW TO 31 OCTOBER 1996 p.32 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD U.S.A. - FIRING MISSILES AT CIVILIAN AIRLINERS p.33 No Smoke, No Drink, But Intelligence at Legion Fete. p.34 The CIA's "Niche" Recruiting Campaign. p.35 FBI Everywhere, Even in the "Backyard". p.36 Barron's FBI-KGB Story. p.37 NRO "Openly" Selling Its Wares. p.38 GREAT BRITAIN - GUN CONTROL OPTIONS COMING UP p.39 PUBLIC BALANCING OF THE TORY'S SECRET BOOKS p.40 NORTHERN IRELAND - LOYALIST POLITICAL & MILITARY UNITY SHATTERS p.41 FRANCE - NO SUMMER "TIME OUT" IN INTERNECINE WARFARE p.42 NETHERLANDS - Executive Order Changes Spies' Names. p.43 GERMANY - HAM-HANDED TACTICS GALVANIZES WORLD AUTONOMOUS LEFT p.44 PROSECUTORS STILL GOING AFTER MARKUS WOLF p.45 WESTERN EUROPE - Sheep Call in the COMSEC Wolf. p.46 POLAND - "Getting the Works" in Security & Intelligence. p.47 SLOVAKIA - JUSTICE VERY SLOWLY GRINDS DOWN MECIAR & LEXA p.48 BULGARIA - CIA Visit Followed by Results. p.49 RUSSIA - Plots Galore. p.50 MEXICO - The "Mordita" Bites Back at Cops. p.51 COLOMBIA - Latin Heroin Replaces Asian. p.52 HAITI - Cooler Heads Get Down to Intelligence Exchange. p.53 GUATEMALA - Intelligence Oversight Board Report on CIA. p.54 ARGENTINA - Progress on Anti-Jewish Bombings. p.55 PALESTINE - U.S. Intelligence Cooperation On Track. p.56 Eleventh Security Force Created. p.57 IRAQ - SADDAM WINS ANOTHER ONE BY LOSING p.58 SAUDI ARABIA - A "Hot" Western Intelligence Academy. p.59 CAMBODIA - Kidnapped Brit Military Expert Causes Concern. p.60 HONG KONG - A QUIET RETREAT AFTER INTELLIGENCE EVACUATION p.61 ================================================================= 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 e-mail: nyt@blythe.org =================================================================