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. 3 USA: ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TECH NOT ENOUGH According to "The Lyke Report", which is specialized in currency and finance, the advanced technology used in the new "anti-counterfeit" $100 bill, issued on 25 March by the Treasury Department (INT, N. 33/5), isn't, in itself, sufficient to solve the massive fraud on U.S. bills. According to recently-published U.S. Secret Service statistics, there was an all-time record of $260 million in counterfeit dollars in circulation in 1995 (a 90 percent increase from 1994) outside of the United States. In the States, in 1995, a record $30.7 million in counterfeit made it into circulation while $72 million was seized in clandestine print shops before circulation. New high-tech anti-counterfeiting $50 bills will be out in a couple of months, followed later by the $20, $10 and $5 bills so that new paper currency will be issued every year for the rest of the century. There is no intention of using new technology on the old fashioned $1 bill. According to "The Lyke Report", Russia is the biggest foreign user of U.S. currency with $20 billion on hand, 80 percent of it in $100 bills. No wonder "plane loads" of new high-tech $100 bills were flown to Moscow and St. Petersburg when the bill came out. Major counterfeiting efforts are attributed to Syria, Iran and, more recently, North Korea. This impressive "foreign" problem has generated a radical solution; U.S. Senate bill S. 307, also to be introduced in the House of Representatives, calling for two distinct types of $100 bills: a domestic $100 bill with printing specifying its does "not constitute legal tender when presented outside the United States"; and a non-domestic $100 bill which is "legal tender ... when presented outside the United States". The two types of bills would have distinctive coloration and would be exchanged for other $100 bills only at institutions subject to U.S. currency transaction-reporting requirements (all "suspect" transactions and those of $10,000 or more must be described in detail). The newly issued high-tech $100 bill will apparently become the first non-domestic bill and a new, specifically domestic $100 bill would be designed and issued, if S. 307 is voted into law. Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 5 COMPUTERS - More Details on World's Fastest. Last October, we announced the Department of Energy's award of a $45 million contract to Intel Corp. to supply the world's fastest supercomputer to the three big research centers at Sandia, Livermore and Los Alamos (INT, 24/53). The declared objective of the unnamed computer is to simulate nuclear explosions which means it will be part of the hush-hush National Ignition Facility (NIF; INT, N. 21/47) located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California near Berkeley. Recently released information indicate that the supercomputer will be delivered by the end of this year to Sandia and will be directly involved in modeling the aging of nuclear warheads, part of the Department of Energy's "nuclear stewardship" program. Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 7 RECONVERSION - Americans Better than Russians. Competition is open for the most original reconversion of aging Cold War ICBM technology to non-military uses. The leading Russian candidate, mentioned in our preceding issue, is the use of a SS-18 Satan ICBM body from Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, as a bridge over a creek in the Kirov region (INT, N. 39/9). The American entry is Ed Peden's new "house" in Dover, Kansas, which is a reconverted Atlas E ICBM missile silo. The Atlas silos were the first and biggest with room for a full-time 20- man crew and a missile room large enough to hold two semitrucks. The Atlas was the only missile stored horizontally and raised to firing position through 40-ton sliding steel ceiling doors, now all part of Mr. Peden's "home". * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 27 USA: "OPERATIONS OTHER THAN WAR" MOVES ONTO THE STREETS According to "Secrecy & Government Bulletin", there is a major realignment going on between intelligence and law enforcement with a Joint Intelligence Community Law Enforcement (JICL) Working Group "meeting furiously for the last year". One of its "products" is a May 1995 report to the DCI (and head of the CIA) and the Attorney General. This initiative goes well beyond intelligence and law enforcement, and directly involves the Pentagon under the title "Operations Other Than War (OOTW)" which is becoming the new "buzz word" now that there's not enough money around to easily finance all the defense high-tech gadgets being developed. On 15 May, Col. William Meadows, head of the U.S. Army's Force XXI Land Warrior "cyber-trooper" project, said there may be "significant cost savings" if law enforcement, which typically spends little on advanced technology, chips in and buys some of the high-tech gear to try it out on the American public. According to Col. Meadows, "access to what the police learns from using this technology can save the Army around $1 million in unnecessary testing costs". Getting down to "brass tacks" and looking for an appropriate testing ground, the Land Warrior industry team visited Los Angeles, California, in early May where the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) equivalent of the "Green Berets", the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, came away from the meeting "very excited". According to Tom Hayden of Hughes, "the police said this technology is exactly what they have been waiting for". The police are particularly interested in thermal weapon sights and night vision goggles. However, U.S. law enforcement agencies have already been condemned for "invasion of privacy" for using Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR) aircraft technology to "scan" suburban homes for the thermal signature of marijuana "hot houses" (see "FLIR - Outlawed for Snooping Policemen", INT, N. 25/5). Indeed, on 4 October 1995, the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that police must obtain a warrant before "searching" a house with FLIR. The court ruled that Fourth Amendment protection of privacy against warrantless searches applied to modern technologies such as FLIR. Other Land Warrior technology may run into the same obstacle, particularly if the LAPD starts "testing" it on some of the "locals". * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 28 U.S.A. - Computer Tech "Mixes" with the Gangs. According to an official Washington source contacted by "Intelligence", the National Gang-Tracking Network, which President Bill Clinton announced on 13 May, will be using a system developed in Massachusetts as a model. That system uses "off-the-shelf", Lotus Notes, rather than expensive, specially-designed proprietary software used by California and some other states. This commercially-available program will allow law enforcement agencies to upload and download photos, reports and diagrams. The Clinton administration has $1 million on hand, which it will spend to link data bases, first region by region and, finally, nationally. According to a recent article in "Los Angeles Weekly", there is a civil rights issue involved since the Los Angeles County gang data base has 147,000 people in it and only 5,000 are white. Moreover, County data bases often contain searchable records on juveniles as young as 11, who have not been convicted or even arrested. Being listed in the data base can mean major legal difficulties. According to "Los Angeles Weekly", one young man was imprisoned for five months on a murder charge on the basis of mistaken identification from the gang tracking system. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 30 U.S.A. - Official Terrorism Statistics Out. The State Department's recently published annual report on terrorism, "Patterns of Global Terrorism 1995", notes a decrease in deaths from 314 to 165 but a deceptive jump in injuries. The official statistics counted all 5,500 persons injured by the Sarin nerve gas attack in March 1995 in the Tokyo metro, which alone accounted for more than 80 percent of all injuries. Attacks against U.S. interests went up (66 to 99), as did U.S. deaths (4 to 12). There was no change in the list of states sponsoring terrorism: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. Keeping economically crippled Cuba on the list looks more like a political "grudge" since all it does, according to the report, is harbor "several international terrorists". * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 31 U.S.A. - Rand's "Infowar" Game Report. One of the Pentagon's favorite think-tanks, the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, published a report earlier this year entitled, "Strategic Information Warfare - A New Face of War", which brought together 170 government, military and intelligence experts in eight teams to play an "infowar" game. The study used Cold War "The Day After ..." methodology and did not concentrate on how the computer attacks were launched, thus considerably limiting the impact of the study's conclusions. Analysts also noted that the resiliency of modern systems cannot be "modeled in" for simulation and has a direct impact on the results of an electronic attack. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 32 U.S.A. - Bombs Becoming "Kids' Stuff". According to recent Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' statistics, bombing incidents have gone up from 2,098 in 1990 to 3,199 in 1994, and property damage increased 35 times in the same period, reaching $600 million in 1994. The reason is the ready availability of materials and instructions on bomb making coming increasingly through the Internet. According to specialists, the average suburban bomb squad's number one preoccupation are smart, curious teenagers who have used Internet and want to experiment with homemade explosives. Pipe bombs seem to be a predilection with this crowd. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was "cherry bomb mortars" using powerful fireworks purchased in Mexico, or high school chemistry class experiments with "homework" gunpowder. * Intelligence, N. 40, 24 June 1996, p. 46 SWITZERLAND - Robert Steele "Rolls On". Open source intelligence "guru", Robert D. Steele, who recently helped organize, and participated in, the "Information Warfare Conference" in Brussels, before spending two days with Belgian officials behind closed doors (INT, N. 39/43), has continued his trip across Europe. He recently followed his official Belgian briefing on open source intelligence and "winning nations" with a similar non-public presentation to Swiss authorities in Basel. According to French sources, Mr. Steele is becoming much more than a "guru" and is more like an internationally-recognized ambassador for open source intelligence whose clients are government organizations and major industries, not the educated public or small companies he was originally speaking to. This seems also to be the orientation his "OS Pro (Open Source Professionals) network is taking. * 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 =================================================================