INTelligence #379 Summary Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 379, 5 February 2001 Every Two to Three Weeks Next Issue on 26 February 2001 Publishing since 1980 Editor Olivier Schmidt TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 379, 5 February 2001 FRONT PAGE GREAT BRITAIN/RUSSIA - "REVENGE" OF THE "TEMPER TANTRUM" SPY p.1 TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES BOMBS - NCJRS Investigation Guide. p.2 UPGRADE OF IRISH FORCES FOR ERRP ... OR THE BORDER p.3 GUNS - Better than the AK-48 & the M-16. p.4 BANDAGES - New Israel Product. p.5 PEOPLE GREAT BRITAIN - SIR DAVID OMAND p.6 - JOHN REID p.7 - ALI DIZAEI p.8 NORTHERN IRELAND - KEN MAGINNIS p.9 AGENDA COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 MARCH 2001 p.10 INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD USA - SAND BAGGING THE RAGING TIDE OF SECURICRATS p.11 - THE CIA, TENET, "DOE", RICH, DEUTCH & OTHERS p.12 - FBI'S CI-21, FILES, INFRAGARD & NEWS p.13 - JOINT US-IRISH TREATY CLARIFIES EXTRADITION p.14 GREAT BRITAIN - SHAYLER & THE RETURN OF THE PII p.15 NORTHERN IRELAND - MI5's "INFLICTION" FIASCO p.16 IRELAND - THE FORGOTTEN MASSACRE p.17 FRANCE - CIA'S "LEVEL PLAYING FIELD" DIES IN PERU p.18 NETHERLANDS - LOCKERBIE DRAMA NOT OVER YET p.19 - IMMIGRATION CRIME FROM TOP TO BOTTOM p.20 WESTERN EUROPE - EUROPOL, CRIME & ECHELON p.21 SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Short Lives for Security Officials. p.22 ROMANIA - MUSICAL CHAIRS IN INTELLIGENCE p.23 RUSSIA - THE "OLD STRUCTURES" ROLL BACK IN p.24 CHECHNYA - "HARDWARE" REPLACED BY SPIES & "PSY OPS" p.25 CUBA - SOME MORE "STUPID" AGENTS GET CAUGHT p.26 COLOMBIA - THE GHOST OF VIETNAM AGENT ORANGE IS ALIVE p.27 ISRAEL - "BAD PRESS" FOR "LIQUIDATING" PALESTINIANS p.28 --------------------------------------------- FRONT PAGE Intelligence, N. 379, 5 February 2001, p. 1 GREAT BRITAIN/RUSSIA "REVENGE" OF THE "TEMPER TANTRUM" SPY The Appeal Court in London, a panel of three judges headed by Lord Phillips, ruled on 25 January that the "Sunday Times" did not need to seek permission to publish extracts from the book of ex-MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson, "The Big Breach - From Top Secret to Maximum Security". Because the book had been published in Moscow the previous day by the firm Narodny Variant (The Popular Option), it was "sufficiently in the public domain", which effectively undermined the Attorney General's appeal against serialization. ...(cut)... In short, MI6 has lost its reputation and been ridiculized, while the British Official Secrets Act has probably suffered damage beyond repair, all due to "capitalism" or, more correctly, "globalization" and the Internet. Below is a more or less chronological list (some date could be incorrect) of many of the web sites dealing with the Tomlinson case and "The Big Breach". Careful readers will note that the only systematically negative or alarmist articles are published by the "Sunday Telegraph", often by Joshua Rozenberg and Michael Smith. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 379, 5 February 2001, p. 11 USA SAND BAGGING THE RAGING TIDE OF SECURICRATS With no credible threat from Russia and China -- for the time being -- and a conservative Republican administration in Washington, specialists expected a "sand bagging against the raging tide of securicrats", but it's come sooner than most expected, probably because of the protracted election conflict ... which is not over yet and serves as a preliminary indication of "things to come". ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 379, 5 February 2001, p. 18 FRANCE CIA'S "LEVEL PLAYING FIELD" DIES IN PERU In November 1993, then CIA director, R. James Woolsey Jr., publicly declared that the post-Cold War role of American intelligence would include imposing a "level playing field" in competition for major international contracts. "Intelligence" mentioned that the proposition was laughed at, not only in the developing world, where "kickbacks" and "commissions" often sap national economies, but also in Western Europe and particularly in France where "commissions" paid to foreign officials are discreetly authorized to be deducted from company taxes (see "USA - 'Level Playing Field' Being Imposed Internationally", INT, 286 46). Nonetheless, the US soon managed to get the "level playing field" on the agenda of the OECD/G-7's Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF; INT, n. 269 11 & n. 272 32) and included in the FATF series of non-binding recommendations. ...(cut)... Now it looks like French DGSE foreign intelligence has decided "it's pay back time" for Woosley, the CIA, NSA and US business. CIA agent, drug trafficker, political manipulator and former Peruvian intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, who caused the fall of President Alberto Fujimori and is still in hiding (INT, n. 365 20, n. 371 63, n. 375 41 & n. 376 32), videotaped many of his corrupt transactions, including a 1998 meeting to pressure a judge into ruling in favor of a US company in an ownership dispute over Latin America's biggest gold mine. Peru's Supreme Court later ruled in favor of the US firm, Newmont Mining Corp, and its Peruvian partner, Buenaventura, in a legal dispute with a French state exploration firm over ownership of 25 percent of the Yanacocha mine. On 24 January, Peruvian courts released a video showing Montesinos telling Supreme Court judge, Jaime Beltran, that a vote in favor of Newmont Mining was needed due to US diplomatic pressure and Newmont spokesman, Doug Hock, confirmed that: "We made our case known to the State Department". On 25 January, Antoine Blanca, French ambassador to Peru, stated: "The fact that judge Beltran had to vote in favor of Newmont ... well ... it makes me smile bitterly". They must be rolling in the aisles at the DGSE while the CIA has probably shifted into high gear to keep the story out of the major media. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 379, 5 February 2001, p. 22 SERBIA/MONTENEGRO - Short Lives for Security Officials. Even with the replacement of Milosevic in Belgrade, it is still dangerous to be a senior security or intelligence figure in Serbia or Montenegro. On 8 January, Darko-Beli Raspopovic, described as Montenegran President Milo Djukanovic's intelligence and police chief, was shot dead in the center of Podgorica by a single man using a handgun with a silencer. Last May, President Djukanovic's security adviser, Goran Zugic, was shot and killed on a Podgorica street and the murder was never solved. On 25 January, the press announced that the new Serbian government had appointed former police official, Goran Petrovic to head the huge security apparatus following the resignation of his predecessor, Rade Markovic. Serbian Interior Minister, Dusan Mihajlovic, stated that Petrovic knows the problems of the security forces well and can be counted on to "democratize" them. Three days later, Petrovic's driver was wounded when a masked gunman opened the door of the official car and fired at him as he was waiting in the car for Petrovic who was holding talks in Belgrade with new Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and Mr. Mihajlovic. Djindjic said the attack was an attempt by organized crime to intimidate Serbia's new leaders. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 379, 5 February 2001, p. 24 RUSSIA THE "OLD STRUCTURES" ROLL BACK IN On 23 January, the Federalnaia Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB) federal security service announced that the Regional Operations Staff for Management of Anti-Terrorist Activities in the North Caucasus will be headed by Vice Admiral German Ugryumov, deputy director of the FSB and chief of the FSB department for constitutional order protection and combating terrorism, meaning that Russia's top anti-terrorist goes from directing national operations to personally directing operations in Chechnya. The decision is in accordance with President Vladimir Putin's 22 January decree "Concerning Measures for Combating Terrorism in the Territory of the North Caucasus" which created a new chain of command in Chechnya under Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the FSB, who replaced Defense Minister, Igor Sergeyev, as the man in charge. Patrushev was given until 15 May to produce results in the North Caucasus. Indeed, Lieutenant- General Valery Baranov, federal troops commander in the North Caucasus, was appointed Ugryumov's deputy and the staff will also include the deputy interior minister, deputy commander of the North Caucasus military district, deputy federal troops commander in charge of special operations, deputy presidential envoy to the Southern federal district, deputy head of the FSB department for constitutional order protection and combating terrorism, and head of the FSB department for Chechnya. In short, Russian FSB anti-terrorism means Chechnya and little else. Adm. Ugryumov's appointment was only "the frosting on the cake" as the "old structures" [former KGB] take over sensitive posts in Russia. ...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 379, 5 February 2001, p. 25 CHECHNYA "HARDWARE" REPLACED BY SPIES & "PSY OPS" As President Vladimir Putin turns the war in Chechnya to the FSB internal security service (see above), Russia admits that 5,000 rebels have left the area but air operations will increase along with mountain combat training exercises. But that's only the "hardware" aspect of the war. The "psy ops" count just as much or even more when evaluating the situation from the West. Indeed, a wave of "strange" stories has hit the press recently. ...(cut)... According to Felgenhauer, "It is clear that such an uprising can only happen if a large part of the civilian Chechen population takes up arms. It's also important that large segments of the pro-Moscow Chechen forces join in or at least stay neutral. At present the rebels can only plan this offensive. But if the Russian authorities continue their present mode of indiscriminate oppression, they'll make good rebels out of any Chechen." That may be why Putin sent in the FSB and substituted the "hardware" solution with "psy ops" and limited, well-targeted armed action. --------------------------------------------- Intelligence, N. 379, 5 February 2001, p. 28 ISRAEL "BAD PRESS" FOR "LIQUIDATING" PALESTINIANS Both the UN Commission on Human Rights Committee of Inquiry and the Sharm al-Sheikh (Mitchell) Fact-Finding Committee have reportedly been obstructed by Israeli authorities http://www.badil.org/Press/2001/press9-01.htm ...(cut)... The bad press continued with a 24 January Amnesty report http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/news.nsf/thisweek/12b7aff101c76b 88802569de006186d9?OpenDocument ...(cut)... On 29 January, Human Rights Watch stated "End 'Liquidations' of Palestinian Suspects" http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/israel/ ...(cut)... ================================================================= 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 ================================================================= nytcov-02.09.01-11:41:38-7791