US China Insanity: CIA laughs on way to bank Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source - rmcgehee@igc.org China Insanity May 31, from AP: China took reporters on a tour of the Internet today to show that data about America's nuclear arsenal is freely available. Zhao Qizheng, said the power, weight, dimensions and other details of the seven types of U.S. nuclear weapons were openly published in the U.S. More data, on the most sophisticated U.S. warhead, the W-88, ``can easily be found on the Internet,'' ``They are no longer secrets, so there is nothing to steal.'' (Comment: CIA take Note.) The Congressional commission, headed by Rep. Christopher Cox, charged that Beijing stole ``classified'' information. Associated Press 5/31/99 May 31, from Reuters: - China challenged allegations it stole U.S. nuclear weapons secrets, saying warhead technology is readily available in libraries and on the Internet. ``They are no longer secrets, so there is nothing to steal,'' Zhao said in before logging on to the Internet to demonstrate the availability of nuclear technology. A report by a special congressional committee headed by Republican Christopher Cox said China stole secret information on U.S. nuclear technology, including seven types of warheads, in a spying campaign spanning 20 years. Zhao's denials were the most detailed attempt to date by Beijing to rebut last week's 872-page Cox Report. Reuters 5/31/99. Comment: In my time in the CIA one of the worst discoveries was a double agent or agent net. An immediate remedial step was to remove and destroy any such information. Now we find the CIA instead disseminates "intelligence" from known double agents as if it were true. In the case of USSR weaponry, the CIA knew its information came from double agents but disseminated it anyway because "it sounded reasonable." In the Cox case, the CIA did not destroy double agent information but gave it to the Cox Commission forming the basis of the Committee's 800+ page report on Chinese espionage. Members of the Congressional Intelligence oversight committees made fools of themselves decrying on TV talk shows this Chinese espionage/weaponry. How sad that the CIA report that formed the basis for Cox's complaints came from a double agent -- that report should have been labeled from a double agent or destroyed -- not given to Congress to form the basis of new U.S. policies. No amount of detail on CIA operational/intelligence failures results in investigations and change. Obvious problems are not investigated -- instead Congress howls for more money for CIA operations. The bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade based on faulty CIA data, produced an additional three billion dollars for the intelligence budget -- but such happens after each CIA failure. The optimal plan for the Agency is to continue to fail and to fail spectacularly resulting in increased swollen budgets and changes in U.S. policy. Will we survive this insane juggernaut? Ralph McGehee http://come.to/CIABASE ================================================================= 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 ================================================================= nytas-06.02.99-05:42:09-16621