Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 40 New Series, 24 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. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 56 MIDDLE EAST: NEW ICDE LAYS OUT ITS ANTI-U.S. STRATEGY Describing Saudi Arabia as "a U.S. aircraft carrier in the midst of the Muslim world" the British-based Islamic Council for the Defence of Europe (ICDE) claims that Riyadh is a key element in Washington's "anti-Islam strategy" because of its support for Islamic movements worldwide which makes them dependent on its petrodollars. Comparing the strategy to that of the CIA during the Cold War which manipulated revolutionary movements by giving them enough resources to survive but not to win, the ICDE claims Islamic movements, dependent on Saudi logistics, are "trapped in hopeless and endless conflicts, imposing pointless suffering and destruction on Muslim populations and ruining their countries". The ICDE claims that while European mujahidins have been murdered in Afghanistan and Bosnia by Saudi agents, Arab mujahidins have been absorbed into Riyadh-funded "sects" and turned into terrorists. The CIA's "world strategy" involves using terrorism with three main objectives, according to the ICDE. The first is to use the threat of terrorist destabilization against governments, including members of the European Union, who aspire to independent nuclear capability; secondly, to create "the myth of Islamic terrorism" to justify the repression of Islam and "the extermination of the Muslim populations of Bosnia, Palestine and Lebanon ... as potential terrorist reservoirs"; and, thirdly, to accommodate the integration of U.S. domestic, state-based surveillance agencies into the FBI and the CIA "for the constitution in the U.S.A. of a world surveillance centre". COMMENT -- The ICDE is one of the latest additions to Britain's rapidly-expanding Islamic political network, which includes the campus-based Hizb Ut-Tahrir, the Islamic political party Al-Muhajiroun (The Emigrants), led by Omar Bakri Muhammed, the Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights, headed by Saudi dissident Professor Muhammed al-Massari, the Muslim Parliament Movement, founded by the late Dr. Kalim Siddiqui, and Mashreq Media Services, which produces the English-language "Palestine Times" and the Arabic Filistine "Al-Muslima". * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 18 HAJI AYUB AFRIDI - PAKISTAN According to the Observatoire Geopolitique de la Drogue (OGD) in Paris, major Pakistani drug lord, Haji Ayub Afridi, who turned himself in to American authorities in December 1995, will probably soon be released. The Eastern District of New York grand jury has very little evidence against Afridi and the American DEA and CIA are not likely to furnish anything more. Afridi developed his activities during the war in Afghanistan against Soviet domination and probably in direct contact with Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) and the CIA. But, according to the OGD, it is not these "past services" which account for the current favor being shown Afridi. He has supposedly furnished the CIA with current, detailed information concerning the functioning of the military and civilian networks of corruption and trafficking in Pakistan. Similar information appeared in an American report published in 1992, "Sowing the Wind", which criticized former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for involvement in drug trafficking. Afridi's revelations may serve as an updated version of a similar report. This time Sharif could be seen in a "more positive light", given American apprehensions concerning the rising tide of anarchy under Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto who has already claimed there is a conspiracy to overthrow her government before the end of the year. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 20 U.S.A./ISRAEL - John M. Deutch. Although there were brief -- very brief indeed -- mentions in the Israeli press, the U.S. press seems to have entirely ignored that during his mid- October 1995 visit to Israel, chief of the CIA and American Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), John M. Deutch, paid a visit to his aunt who lives in Israel. She organized a "family dinner" in which many of Deutch's relatives, who live in Israel, participated. Both Deutch and his CIA deputy, Richard Cohen, are Jewish. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 24 PALESTINE - Yasser Arafat. With the election of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the wildest rumors are circulating, including one in Paris that Mossad has "brought up to date" its "contract" on the life of Palestinian Authority President, Yasser Arafat. Similarly, Pres. Arafat's principal economic adviser, former French government official, and Morocco-born Jew, Gabriel Banon, says he has received numerous death threats "from extremists in both camps" although he gets "more threats from the Jewish extremists". According to a specialist contacted by "Intelligence", Pres. Arafat has little to worry about from Mossad -- directly -- since Prime Minister Netanyahu is not going to rock the boat, because the Oslo II agreement is so favorable to Israel. The U.S. and European response to the election tends to confirm this point of view. However, Pres. Arafat, and even the Israeli prime minister, are exposed to threats from extremists who are not directly controlled by intelligence services. The real question is whether Mossad -- with its leader, Gen. Dani Yatom (INT, N. 33/61), just installed by former Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and a longtime aide to Labor politicians -- is going to operate under Prime Minister Netanyahu's control or whether Mossad is under director Yatom's control. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 25 SAUDI ARABIA/AFGHANISTAN - Osama bin Laden. Following the 10 May imposition of UN sanctions against Sudan, Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir said he asked Islamic extremists to leave the country and announced that he has curtailed activities of exiled Saudi businessman, Osama bin Laden, who has been accused by the Saudi government of fomenting unrest and financing Islamic groups. "Intelligence" has learned that Laden has left Sudan and arrived in Afghanistan two weeks ago. He is under the protection of the radical fundamentalist Taliban troops who, strangely enough, have been financed by the two adversaries, Laden and the Saudi government. With the Taliban's recent agreement with Iran (INT, N. 36/71 & 39/59), the region they control in Afghanistan may well turn into the next "home away from home" for disaffected Islamic terrorists, a development which is not going to reassure the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan (see p. 18 above). * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 48 RUSSIA/ISRAEL - Major Mossad Mishap. The recent replacement of the director of Mossad (INT, N. 33/61) had been accompanied by rumors of a major intelligence failure in Russia. Late last year, or early this year, a Mossad officer was caught "red handed" in Moscow paying a Russian agent for classified satellite imagery of Arab countries. Because of coming Israeli elections, no one in Israel wanted to discuss the failure, even behind closed doors. Russia acquiesced to the Israeli request not to publicize the affair, but Prime Minister Shimon Peres' political opponents seem to have gotten hold of the information and leaked it to the Israeli press. Moscow considered this a lack of gratitude and, in turn, published its side of the story. After "tolerating" representatives of the secret Jewish contact network, Nativ, at the Israeli embassy, the Russian FSB considered Israel had broken its "contract" by recruiting and paying a Russian official. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 54 SUDAN - Dealing with the Devil. According to "Africa Confidential" in London, the Islamic regime of Sudan has been dealing with the Devil, Israel. After failing with Hungary, Iran and Russia, Sudan turned to Israeli firms, such as Lapidoth, and is particularly interested in trucking crude oil from the coast to a future refinery in Khartoum. In the meantime, Ethiopia and the U.S. have discreetly been helping the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in the south. The U.S. has helped reorganize the Ethiopian armed forces and CIA director, John Deutch, made an April tour of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda with a team of 15 people. Eritrea is arming and giving military training to up to 700 Sudanese National Democratic Alliance soldiers. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 55 LIBYA - Pressure on Qaddafi Doesn't Work. U.S. accusations that Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi is building an underground chemical-biological weapons facility (INT, N. 32/68) has met with a rather convincing rebuttal. Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, sent a team of weapons experts to visit the site and they reported back that the tunnels were empty. U.S. intelligence maintains that Libya is "completing the boring and lining of the tunnel complex" which is potentially dangerous. Both views are correct: there's nothing and its very dangerous. Once an underground complex is bored out and lined, even though it is "empty", it can be very quickly equipped and whole factories reassembled inside it in a short time. American intelligence learned this too late when Washington finally decided to bomb North Vietnam and its factories. When the bombs started raining down, almost everything of importance was already underground. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 57 ISRAEL - Satellite Imagery a Double-Edged Sword. Israel is once again pressuring the U.S. to restrict satellite imagery of Israel and neighboring areas to grosser than three meter resolution. This is considered a rather galling request in Washington since three American firms are preparing to market one meter resolution imagery in the near future and Israel itself is working with a U.S. firm to develop a commercial imagery satellite with similar resolution. Moreover, the request follows only a few weeks after the U.S. promised to share missile attack early-warning intelligence with Israel. The Israeli request, probably prepared before the electoral victory of Benjamin Netanyahu, will now probably be used as an arm against the new right-wing Israeli government to make it respect the Oslo II Peace Agreement. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 58 ISRAEL - Don't Trust Jewish Scientists ... from Russia. The Shin Bet or Shabak internal security service is opposed to employing former Soviet or Russian Jewish scientists on classified projects. After extensive security and background checks, and usually a wait of several years, Shin Bet will let them work in "think tanks" outside highly classified areas. The Assimilation Ministry is fighting this attitude. Indeed, it's not so much a manifestation of rigorous security as it is an admission that Shin Bet can't tell the difference between a faithful scientist and a spy. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 59 SYRIA - Encirclement Paranoia. Following the signing of a military training and intelligence exchange agreement between Turkey and Israel, the Syrian regime is feeling "encircled". After a 6 May bomb supposedly intended for President Hafez Assad exploded in Damascus, 600 persons of Turkish origin were arrested. In April, Syria reinforced its military in the north, facing Turkey. But these gesticulations hide Syria's real fear that Israeli reconnaissance flights in Turkey along the border with Syria will be able to pinpoint Syrian ground- to-ground missile sites in the north. Moreover, the Adan air base, where Israeli pilots will be training in Turkey, is an American air base under NATO supervision. This means Israel has received NATO approval for its operations in Turkey and will surely benefit from "informal" exchanges on the base. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 60 PAKISTAN - Regional Policeman and Trouble-Maker. Pakistan is playing a double role in the region. Not only is Islamabad officially providing security and close protection, for example, to United Arab Emirates officials, but Karachi is supplying the U.A.E. opposition with both personnel and money. And the U.A.E., in return pays Islamabad for official protection and, in Karachi, pays opposition movements to weaken its own neighbors. The pattern is repeated throughout the region. Since 1985, Karachi has harbored the organizational and financial nexus of almost every opposition movement in the region. Little wonder it is an unstable and violent city. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 64 AUSTRALIA - Israeli Support "Down Under". Following the coverage of the case of "Monica" with the resettlement in Australia of her Syrian defector Mossad agent husband (INT, N. 38/28), and the impetuous declaration of intelligence cooperation with Israel, via the satellite ground station at Nurrungar, made on 27 May by Australian Defence Minister McLachlan, there is no further need to underline ASIS' close relations with Mossad (INT, N. 39/56). But somehow the ASIS found Mohammed Hassanein hiding in Australia and deported him to an unnamed European country, probably Greece, which lost 18 citizens gunned down in Cairo in April by a group of Islamic fundamentalists supposedly associated with Hassanein. The killers apparently thought they were shooting Israeli tourists who often frequented the same hotel, and Mossad probably knew who the terrorists were and where they were hiding. * Also in this Issue: TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 40, 24 June 1996 FRONTPAGE FRANCE - BONN'S BND TRIES TO HELP PUSH OUT DGSE CHIEF p.1 TECHNOLOGY "LOW PROFILE" TECH & TIGHT SURVEILLANCE AT EUROSATORY 96 p.2 U.S. ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TECH NOT ENOUGH p.3 COMPETITION ENTERS SPACE-BASED TRACKING TECHNOLOGY p.4 COMPUTERS - More Details on World's Fastest. p.5 INTERNET - Firewalls Guide Available. p.6 RECONVERSION - Americans Better than Russians. p.7 CAR TRAP - A Nonlethal "Explosive" Solution. p.8 INTERNET - Dutch Tool Kit. p.9 ARMAMENTS - SIPRI 1996 Yearbook Available. p.10 MAFIA - All on a CD-ROM. p.11 RUSSIAN TECH - Not in Decline. p.12 NUCLEAR MATERIALS - New Russian Technology. p.13 RADAR - Seeing Underground. p.14 PEOPLE DONALD HARVEY - U.S.A. p.15 JOHN KENNEDY - GREAT BRITAIN p.16 JAVIER CALDERON - SPAIN p.17 HAJI AYUB AFRIDI - PAKISTAN p.18 U.S.A./GERMANY - Alvin H. Bernstein. p.19 U.S.A./ISRAEL - John M. Deutch. p.20 BOSNIA - Mladen "Tuta" Naletilic. p.21 RUSSIA/NORWAY - Alexander Mikitin. p.22 VENEZUELA/SPAIN - Eugenio Barrutiabengoa. p.23 PALESTINE - Yasser Arafat. p.24 SAUDI ARABIA/AFGHANISTAN - Osama bin Laden. p.25 AGENDA COMING EVENTS FROM 26 JUNE TO 15 SEPTEMBER 1996 p.26 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD U.S.A. - "OPERATIONS OTHER THAN WAR" MOVES ONTO THE STREETS p.27 Computer Tech "Mixes" with the Gangs. p.28 French IHESI Visits Chicago. p.29 Official Terrorism Statistics Out. p.30 Rand's "Infowar" Game Report. p.31 Bombs Becoming "Kids' Stuff". p.32 CANADA - CSE ELECTRONIC SPIES GET OVERSIGHT p.33 GREAT BRITAIN - SECRET CHEMICAL WEAPONS SITES "DISCOVERED" p.34 A COLD WAR SPY MYSTERY EXPLAINED p.35 GURKAS INTO THE BREACH ONCE AGAIN p.36 NAVY WAITING AROUND FOR NUCLEAR STORAGE p.37 Selling Off Deeply Buried Secrets. p.38 NORTHERN IRELAND - RUC REPORT AND INLA FEUD p.39 FRANCE - PARIS, "DRY RUN" TESTING GROUND FOR BOMBERS p.40 Rebirth of the "Mesentente Cordiale". p.41 Anteing Up for Nuclear Stewardship. p.42 BELGIUM - SECOND ORGANIZED CRIME COMMISSION p.43 Justice Lays Out Intelligence Cooperation Map. p.44 GERMANY - BANKS FALL OUT WITH INVESTIGATORS p.45 SWITZERLAND - Robert Steele "Rolls On". p.46 SLOVAKIA - Heat's on for Meciar & Lexa. p.47 RUSSIA/ISRAEL - Major Mossad Mishap. p.48 RUSSIA - Italian and Russian Mafias Link Up. p.49 Starving Army and Defense Industry. p.50 CHECHNYA - The War after Dudayev. p.51 GUATEMALA - Pushing for Spy and Police Reforms. p.52 COLOMBIA - New Drug Wars. p.53 SUDAN - Dealing with the Devil. p.54 LIBYA - Pressure on Qaddafi Doesn't Work. p.55 MIDDLE EAST - NEW ICDE LAYS OUT ITS ANTI-U.S. STRATEGY p.56 ISRAEL - Satellite Imagery a Double-Edged Sword. p.57 Don't Trust Jewish Scientists ... from Russia. p.58 SYRIA - Encirclement Paranoia. p.59 PAKISTAN - Regional Policeman and Trouble-Maker. p.60 INDIA - "Beyond Line-of-Sight" Armed Forces. p.61 CHINA - Heavy Tactics against Adversaries. p.62 CHINA/U.S.A. - Blown Spy Operations. p.63 AUSTRALIA - Israeli Support "Down Under". p.64 ================================================================= 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 =================================================================