GPS BLACKOUT ON U.S. EAST COAST The FAA, Washington, D.C. The U.S. is staging a multinational military exercise that will black out GPS signals starting the week of Feb. 22. The Global positioning signals from U.S. satellites will be jammed up to 6 hours during night military operations from Jacksonville, Florida to Newark New Jersey. The FAA has notified commercial and private pilots of the outages. However, the agency did not say how long the GPS jamming will be in effect or what areas they will cover. CHINA 15 - U.S.A. - 1 The White House, Washington D.C. The Chinagate flap and the Cox report have put DoD and the State Dept. in command - for the moment. Hughes lost its $500 million license to sell Asia Pacific Mobile Telecommunications (APMT) two advanced satellites. The license denial by the Clinton administration comes after DoD and the State Dept. openly argued that the sale would "harm U.S. national security." APMT is half owned by the Chinese Army unit COSTIND, the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The APMT satellites were to be equipped with advanced 40 foot diameter antennas. The APMT Hughes satellites would have provided the PLA with accurate navigation and more secure communications in the Pacific region. The White House and the Commerce Department were both pushing for Hughes and the Chinese Army to win. Of course, public awareness of Clinton taking large donations from both Hughes and COSTIND (e.g. Costind Col. Lui) may have influenced the President to just say "no". TRACK ME - BOMB ME Silicon Valley, California Microchip Technologies Inc. has developed a R/F identification chip which costs 30 to 35 cents in quantities of 10,000. The new low cost RF chip emits a 154 bit code when illuminated with a 13.56 MHz signal. The chip is intended to locate packages, and airline baggage. However, the same R/F signaling features can be abused to secretly track U.S. citizens. The R/F chip could be included inside autos or placed in electronic items such cellular phones, and computers. One source noted the chip R/F generators can be made powerful enough to disable the electronic ignition in a car or ruin the computer in which it is installed. The intention is to provide law enforcement with the ability to remotely disable vehicles, computers or handguns made with advanced electronic safety mechanisms. One such gun, called the "smart gun", was demonstrated by the Federal Government. During the Gulf war, U.S. forces were able to locate Iraqi command posts because of a similar R/F emitter chip secretly deployed by the NSA. The so called "bomb-me" chip was installed in printers sold to Iraqi air defense units. The chip emitted a coded radio signal in the Gigahertz range whenever the printer was in use. During the war, USAF R/F intelligence aircraft were able to pin-point the faint signals from the "bomb-me" chips and pass on the printer locations to F-117A Stealth bombers. ISRAEL 1 - RUSSIA - 0 Zagreb, Croatia Croatia has selected Israel's ELBIT systems to upgrade their MiG-21 aircraft in an initial contract worth $80 million. The Israeli victory is a major export loss to Russia's prime defense contractors, Roosvoorouzhenie and Sokol. The upgrades to as many as 40 of the former Yugoslavian AF MiGs will be done by Israeli and Croatian engineers at ZTZ, Zagreb. FIN ================================================================ 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 Charles R. Smith SOFTWAR http://www.softwar.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pcyphered SIGNATURE: 515F1749DF176C16F615F80FD06A918A384B5B99CF77967D2B109645D006140F 91014467E0588DA5D924504D490FC66E81556FB1AF6CB6440487F68500FC121C A6A5BC4268D98155 ================================================================ SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER 02/24/99 *** to unsubscribe reply with "unsubscribe" as subject *** ================================================================
