Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit excerpts from ... INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 42 New Series, 26 August 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=20 subscription (23 issues with full index) is US $315. INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD ... USA: FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS CRITICIZE OLYMPIC SECURITY One hundred and twenty Dutch police officers are present in Atlanta as part of the 1,100-strong international voluntary support detachment to the Olympic police force. The Dutch constables are housed in Atlanta's West End, the most dangerous part of town, where they were exposed to stray bullets and stones thrown at them by a hostile population. Many of the 1,100 volunteers decided to return home by the end of their first week, according to a report by Arthur de Boer in the Dutch daily "Het Parool" late last month. The Dutch officers were seriously concerned about what they considered to be very irresponsible handling of security in Atlanta. Anonymous Dutch police officers were quoted in the newspaper article as saying that the athletes from countries like Israel, Iraq and Palestine "are playing with their lives. There is no guarantee whatsoever for their safety ... we would like to shout it from the roof tops, but it is bad enough as it is. Before you know it a war will break out." They gave some examples of the alarming situation such as an alarm over a reported bomb at one of the press centers that was simply dismissed as "false" although it was very real. "The bomb was found and taken outside Atlanta to be detonated. Nothing about such incidents may be brought out in the open because of an arrangement between Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) and NBC." The international volunteers claim to have "sent off the entire staff of the official ACOG security organization" at the Olympic Village, the Olympic Stadium and Athens. "Mutiny, yes, revolution. We told them to leave or we would close down the entire joint, so that nobody would get through. They are really totally incapable". This officer mentioned the example of an American staffer at the site of a reported bomb, asking for assistance over his walkie-talkie; the radio transmission could well have set off the supposed bomb. A Dutch officer intervened and dragged the official off. Observers say following repeated International Committee for the Olympic Games (IOC) complaints about the situation, the IOC and ACOG were no longer on speaking terms concerning security after the first few days. Koos Venema, spokesman for the foundation Security Team Participation, that coordinated the Dutch police detail in Atlanta, told reporters that "I would like to tell them all here: go to hell with this shit. The only reason that I haven't flown home yet is that, by doing so, I would put the burden on the shoulders of another police officer." Soon afterwards, the volunteers' housing in the West End was put under U.S. military guard around the clock. Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok, present in Atlanta, said the treatment of the Dutch police officers was "very sad", but refused further comment "for diplomatic reasons". Much of the foreign volunteers' criticism of Olympic security was vindicated when a bomb exploded on 27 July and this simmering conflict was quickly sealed over and covered up. COMMENT -- Atlanta had been doing its best and some time ago established a FBI-operated Olympic Intelligence Center (OIC) at the city's FBI headquarters to facilitate information gathering and retrieval (INT, N. 20/1). The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was sent to special training seminars (INT, N. 21/7). And the Olympic Games didn't lack high-tech security equipment such as their IBM-built "Incident Tracking System", based on Lotus Notes 4.0 and access control and crowd surveillance technology supplied by Sensormatic which provided SpeedDome crown surveillance video cameras, Sensor I.D. System accreditation badges with embedded, personalized radio frequency chips and, for highly restricted areas, Hand Geometry Readers. Eastman Kodak provided its digital ID photo Envoy Identification Management System (INT, N. 41/5). But most American security staffers at the Olympics only had a seven- week course, whereas the foreign police officers were often much better trained and more experienced. = Intelligence, N. 42, 26 August 1996, p. 28 U.S.A. - Confusion of Roles. Earlier this month, there was a running debate in the Justice Department with Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick pulling in the reins on the FBI which was overly eager to declare the destruction of TWA Flight 800 a "crime" and take over the investigation from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. The FBI has also gotten into a heated dispute with the State Department because it wants its foreign law enforcement and counter-terrorism specialists to be independent of local U.S. ambassadors who are amenable to host government pressure. The U.S. National Security Council (NSC), which is studying this problem, pulled off its own role change: by court decision it is no longer a government "agency" and therefore its documents are beyond the reach of the Freedom of Information Act. U.S.A. - Confusion of Roles. Earlier this month, there was a running debate in the Justice Department with Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick pulling in the reins on the FBI which was overly eager to declare the destruction of TWA Flight 800 a "crime" and take over the investigation from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. The FBI has also gotten into a heated dispute with the State Department because it wants its foreign law enforcement and counter-terrorism specialists to be independent of local U.S. ambassadors who are amenable to host government pressure. The U.S. National Security Council (NSC), which is studying this problem, pulled off its own role change: by court decision it is no longer a government "agency" and therefore its documents are beyond the reach of the Freedom of Information Act. = Intelligence, N. 42, 26 August 1996, p. 29 U.S.A. - CIA50 is Under Way with Pomp & Circumstance. In great secrecy, "on 26 January 1995, at the request of the Executive Director, the Director, Agency Information Staff, formed a steering committee to plan for CIA50," that is the 50th anniversary of the CIA on 18 September 1997. The steering committee of six has already met several times and produced a colorful six-page flyer saying "Submit Your Ideas for CIA50". Brainstorming steering committee sessions have already generated a variety of suggestions but the celebration's title has already been decided, "50 Years of Silent Service", as well as the "four basic themes": Collection and Operation, Processing, Analysis and Production, Support. "Be Part of the 50th Anniversary! Commemorate the Past. Celebrate the Present. Contemplate the Future." One can hope that legislative budget cuts or reforms aren't going to "spoil the party" before the Agency reaches 50. GREAT BRITAIN: COVERT EXERCISE HIGHLIGHTS LAX SECURITY Soldiers drawn from 22 SAS (Special Air Service) have carried out a series of clandestine attacks on a number of military bases in England, planting fake bombs, successfully executing orders to "kill" senior officers in at least six close-quarter "assassinations" and, in one instance, simulating a mortar attack from a commercial vehicle, in what the Ministry of Defence (MoD) described as a "rolling review" of anti-IRA security measures. At Shorncliffe Barracks in Kent, a covert unit planted a hold-all "bomb" next to the officers' mess, timed to explode when the building was being used by senior personnel. At Aldershot Barracks in Hampshire, headquarters of the Parachute Regiment's 5th Airborne Brigade (a key element in the Joint Rapid Deployment Force), perimeter security was breached and an "explosive" device was planted beneath a military vehicle in a restricted parking area. However, the most serious and embarrassing security failure appears to have taken place at Templer Barracks, at Ashford in Kent, headquarters of the Intelligence Corps (the unit responsible for pro-active covert military operations against the IRA in Northern Ireland) when a 2 kilo "bomb" was left beneath the car of a NCO living in married quarters. Other members of the secret SAS unit parked a transit van containing six dummy mortars next to the perimeter fence. The vehicle, with a cut- off roof similar to that often used by the IRA, was in position for 90 minutes before being discovered. While the MoD appeared to regard the exercise as a success in exposing security deficiencies, (possibly because they had not been discovered and exploited by the IRA), the London-based "Sunday Times" published the contents of an internal Army report which stated that security at military bases "should be based upon meeting the most likely and damaging threats in the cheapest and least offensive way". The document explains that "the erection of physical defences and the hardening of buildings" are obvious but "unreasonably expensive" methods to protect army bases in Britain, Northern Ireland and mainland Europe against IRA mortar attacks, and concludes "this does not mean mortars are not a danger; they are just too expensive to protect against." COMMENT -- The latest IRA mortar, discovered recently by the Irish Gardai during a series of raids in remote rural regions of the Irish Republic, is the "Mk-17". However, like its predecessors, it is not accurate and is regarded by military strategists as a weapon of inconvenience, the IRA's home-made equivalent of the Scud missile. The most successful mortar attack took place in Northern Ireland on 28 February 1985 against the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) fortified base at Edward Street, Newry, County Down, when nine RUC officers died after one of three missiles fired from a lorry hit a prefabricated canteen. In purely propaganda terms, the most audacious mortar attack was the one launched in the center of London four years ago against the residence of Prime Minister John Major. One missile landed in the rear garden of 10 Downing Street causing blast damage but no casualties. = GREAT BRITAIN - Desert Storm Torture Inquiry. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that the Special Investigations Branch (SIB) of the Royal Military Police has opened an inquiry into allegations by a former warrant officer, Jim Barrow, who served with the Royal Highland Fusiliers for 15 years, that soldiers from the regiment tortured Iraqi prisoners during the Gulf War in 1991. Two other soldiers have backed Mr Barrow's allegations, claiming that Iraqi POWs, held in Saudi Arabia, were attacked with bayonets, threatened with loaded revolvers, humiliated and starved by members of the Scottish regiment "frustrated" at not being part of the front-line slaughter. The allegations are supported by Labour MP, Tam Dalyell, who was told of the abusive treatment of prisoners when he visited Iraq five years ago. Earlier this month he presented an informal report to Defence Secretary Michael Portillo, who confirmed that SIB officers had travelled to Fallingbostel in Germany -- where the Fusiliers are currently stationed -- to question veterans of Desert Storm. Despite the fact that former camp commanders have denied the allegations, a MoD spokesman in Scotland admitted the claims were "detailed and serious" and are "very damaging" to the reputation of the regiment. = = FRANCE: DUNCE AND DUCE IN ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE Portraying Mossad as the "best" intelligence service, the KGB as the "toughest", the CIA as the "most technical" and MI6 as the "most invisible" is all part of the espionage game and "psy ops" to defend these services. The most current version concerns French economic espionage and its two versions: for "domestic" consumption, the message is that French businessmen and intelligence agents are weak in economic espionage and counterespionage and are more often "victims"; for "foreign" consumption, the French, with their good wine and hospitality, are redoubtable business spies. The latter surfaced recently in the "New York Times" for the occasion of the G7 meeting in Lyons. Sofitel was described as an ideal place for eavesdropping by the host and a Clinton administration official stated that in terms of economic espionage, "there's no one better than the French". Earlier this month, the CIA added its "two bits" in a report to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence by replacing Japan by France at the top of the list of economic spies, along with an old faithful, Israel. Indeed, the CIA now finds that Japan does "mostly legal" information gathering. This CIA assessment was dated 10 May and was probably part of preparations for the Lyons meeting. Besides portraying French business as a defenseless victim of American economic espionage and no good at stealing other's industrial secrets, France found a unique reply to U.S. accusations in the words of powerful former Interior Minister, Charles Pasqua, who caused a scandal by blowing CIA economic intelligence operations in Paris in February 1995. On 23 May, the French Senate published an answer to Mr. Pasqua's 21 March 1996 question asking what the French government was going to do against the U.S. bill proposing to enforce anti-economic spy measures outside the United States (bill introduced by Senator William Cohen). The French government replied that it "was following the affair with great attention" and promised a European response if the bill is passed into law. Maybe then Mr. Pasqua will be called back to the government to "put things in order". = FRANCE - Technical Knock Out for "Intelligence". According to Electricite de France (EDF), it was not "coincidence" or "bad luck" that resulted in electricity being cut to "Intelligence" electronic equipment between 0h30 and 9h00 the night after our preceding issue, N. 41, was finished at midnight. The building's central electric current cabinet had been forced open and only the line to "Intelligence" equipment was cut. Bad luck or coincidence does not seem to explain why the "Intelligence" telephone/answering machine/fax was disconnected a few days after we went on vacation following the above technical knock out. Only email got through, but "Intelligence" is once again off the mat and "open for business". * Also in this issue... FRONTPAGE MIDDLE EAST - TISC, J. AITKEN & BRITISH ARMS ON ALL SIDES p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES PHILATELIC TECHNIQUES INTELLIGENCE AGAINST UNABOMBER p.2 MOBILE PHONES STILL CAUSING GRIEF FOR TAPPERS p.3 RISK ANALYSTS, SECURITY CONSULTANTS & MILITARY TRAINERS p.4 NETSCAPE - Breaching or Patching Security with Navigator. p.5 AIRLINES - Consumers' Guide to Security. p.6 TERRORISM - Prediction Models Proposed. p.7 SPOOFING - Computer Aided Verbal Deception. p.8 MISSILES - Ariane 5 isn't Ariane 4. p.9 ELECTRO-OPTICS - A Modern Military Guide. p.10 CONTRACT RESEARCH - Market Study Confirms Increase. p.11 IMAGERY - European Stolen Property Data Bank. p.12 PEOPLE JANINE BROOKNER - U.S.A. p.13 AGENT "X" - GREAT BRITAIN p.14 "MARDI GRA" - GREAT BRITAIN p.15 PLATON OBUKHOV - RUSSIA p.16 U.S.A. - Anthony A. Betz. p.17 U.S.A. - Richard Jewell. p.18 U.S.A./EGYPT - Judith Goldenberg. p.19 FRANCE - Bob Denard. p.20 PERU - Carlos Dominguez. p.21 ISRAEL/U.S.A. - Jonathan Jay Pollard. p.22 ISRAEL - Avigdor Kahalani. p.23 ISRAEL - Ehud Yatom. p.24 SUDAN - Osama bin Laden. p.25 AGENDA COMING EVENTS FROM 9 SEPTEMBER TO 31 OCTOBER 1996 p.26 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD U.S.A. - FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS CRITICIZE OLYMPIC SECURITY p.27 Confusion of Roles. p.28 CIA50 is Under Way with Pomp & Circumstance. p.29 Chicago "Digging In" for Democratic Convention. p.30 GREAT BRITAIN - COVERT EXERCISE HIGHLIGHTS LAX SECURITY p.31 WWW.RACISM.PORNOGRAPHY.TORY PARTY p.32 Desert Storm Torture Inquiry. p.33 Rapid Deployment Force Operational. p.34 NORTHERN IRELAND - SECTARIAN PRESSURE GETS RESULTS p.35 IRELAND - PUBLIC NEUTRALITY VERSUS PRIVATE WEAPONRY p.36 FRANCE - DUNCE AND DUCE IN ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE p.37 Spot-1 By Knock Out Against Helios-1. p.38 Technical Knock Out for "Intelligence". p.39 GERMANY - PENTAGON SENDS IN MARSHALL CENTER=20 "CLEAN UP" TEAM p.40 SPAIN/BELGIUM - JUDICIAL RETALIATION & A EUROPEAN FAILURE p.41 SERBIA - "Unofficial" Traffic in Official Hands. p.42 BULGARIA - MULTIGROUP REINFORCES ITS BASTION p.43 RUSSIA - Everybody Publishing Secrets. p.44 ALGERIA - French/U.S. Fight over New Oil Finds. p.45 PALESTINIAN - Guards Raid Police. p.46 SOUTH KOREA - More Spy Planes. p.47 JAPAN - Intelligence on China. p.48 AUSTRALIA - Reinforced Intelligence Cooperation. p.49 NEW ZEALAND - ECHELON SYSTEM SIGINT NETWORK REVEALED p.50 ================================================================= 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 =================================================================