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INTelligence #99 - Summary Version
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
SUMMARY VERSION
INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122
N. 99, New Series, 31 May 1999
Every Two to Three Weeks
Next Issue on 21 June 1999
Publishing since 1980
Editor
Olivier Schmidt
TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 99, 31 May 1999
FRONT PAGE
USA - CHINA SPYING CASE "GOES OFF THE DEEP END" p.1
TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES
EYE-DENTIFICATION BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY p.2
COMPUTER VIRUSES FROM MELISSA TO CHERNOBYL p.3
BRITISH MILLENNIUM BUG UPDATE p.4
TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES - Open Source Intelligence. p.5
CODES, COMPUTERS, DRUGS, ECHELON, INFORMATION, INTERNET &
POLITICS, NASA, SCANNERS, TECHNOLOGY, TERRORISM.
PEOPLE
USA/AUSTRALIA - JEAN-PHILLIPPE WISPELAERE p.6
GREAT BRITAIN - JONATHAN AITKEN p.7
PEOPLE - Open Source Intelligence. p.8
USA, GREAT BRITAIN, RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA.
AGENDA
COMING EVENTS THROUGH 31 JULY 1999 p.9
INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD
USA - INTERNET ASSAULT MOVES FORWARD p.10
USA - Open Source Intelligence. p.11
LEAKS, CIA, FBI, CUSTOMS, INS, NSA, PENTAGON, CODES.
GREAT BRITAIN - NAMEBASE DEFLATES MI6-TOMLINSON "HOOPLA" p.12
- "BACKBONE" TAPPING FOR IRELAND p.13
- DOWNGRADING FOI PROMISES p.14
NORTHERN IRELAND - SPIES, LIES & WEAK LEADERS VS. PEACE p.15
- KINCORA BACK INTO THE HEADLINES p.16
- FAIR DIGS UP THE NAIRAC "CAN OF WORMS" p.17
FRANCE - INTELLIGENCE "KEEPS THE POT BOILING" p.18
WESTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. p.19
GREAT BRITAIN, NORTHERN IRELAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY,
GREECE, EU.
EASTERN EUROPE - Open Source Intelligence. p.20
SLOVAKIA, ESTONIA, ROMANIA, BALKANS, RUSSIA.
LATIN AMERICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.21
MEXICO, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, COLOMBIA,
CHILE, LATIN AMERICA.
AFRICA - Open Source Intelligence. p.22
SOUTH AFRICA, ANGOLA, ZIMBABWE, NIGERIA, ALGERIA.
LIBYA - ORDERS FROM THE COLONEL p.23
MIDDLE EAST - Open Source Intelligence. p.24
EGYPT, ISRAEL, PALESTINE, JORDAN, IRAQ, IRAN.
AUSTRALIA - The DSD "Blows" UKUSA Cover. p.25
ASIA - Open Source Intelligence. p.26
PAKISTAN, JAPAN, TAIWAN.
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Intelligence, N. 99, 31 May 1999, p. 1
USA
CHINA SPYING CASE "GOES OFF THE DEEP END"
On 5 May, the Senate Energy Committee was told that as early as
1996, managers at Los Alamos National Laboratory wanted to
examine the computer of Wen Ho Lee, a scientist suspected of
espionage, but were warned away by Justice Department lawyers
who feared the search would taint information for use in court.
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM), pointed recently to at least four
"missed opportunities" by federal authorities to halt actions
of Wen Ho Lee. When Lee's office computer was searched last
month, it was found that more than 1,000 secret files of
computer codes on nuclear weapons had been deleted after being
improperly transferred from a highly secure computer system.
Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.) said that such bumbling between
government agencies included the loss of Lee's security
clearance review file at the Department of Energy (DOE)
headquarters in the late 1980s.
...(cut)...
Now the press is listening to experts who downplay China's
spying and claims that the loss of US nuclear secrets to China
represents, at worst, a marginal threat to national security.
China has yet to field a weapon a decade after it allegedly
stole design information from US nuclear weapons labs, and some
of the information Beijing's spies collected is now
declassified. Even conservative former secretary of state,
Henry Kissinger, publicly cautioned against overreacting and
told senators that with stolen US nuclear secrets it would take
China 15 years to develop the capacity to manufacture weapons.
Many specialists believe that even if China does have the
information and knowledge, it is incapable of manufacturing
such arms without going through a long, costly and slow
development period at a time when China clearly has other
things on its mind and priorities elsewhere.
...(cut)...
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Intelligence, N. 99, 31 May 1999, p. 7
GREAT BRITAIN - JONATHAN AITKEN
Jonathan Aitken, the discredited Conservative Cabinet minister,
who lost his libel action against the "Guardian" newspaper in
1997, has declared himself bankrupt. The former minister for
defence procurement owes an estimated 2 million in legal costs
as a result of his action. According to a statement released by
the "Guardian" after Aitken's bankruptcy announcement: "Aitken
promised to pay 80% of the costs. So far he has not paid a
penny. He is living on 11,000 a month and is the owner of a
house worth 1.75 million". However, it appears that many of
Aitken's assets have been moved either into offshore accounts
(such as the 500,000 from the sale of his house in Kent) or
are claimed to be assets owned by his estranged wife, Lolicia.
Earlier this year, according to the "Guardian", Aitken declared
himself insolvent with debts of 8 million. Following
investigation by the newspaper and their co-defendants at
"Granada Television", he was forced to withdraw his "statement
of affairs" as being inaccurate. Next month, Aitken is due to
return to criminal court for sentencing following his guilty
plea to charges of perjury and perverting the course of
justice.
...(cut)...
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Intelligence, N. 99, 31 May 1999, p. 12
GREAT BRITAIN
NAMEBASE DEFLATES MI6-TOMLINSON "HOOPLA"
With 48 entries, the case of dissident MI6 officer, Richard
Tomlinson, and the Internet publication of a list of 116
alleged MI6 officer names tops this fortnight's media reports
on intelligence topics. In intelligence, "anyone who's
someone", including "Intelligence", now has a copy of that list
and, for the time being, no deaths have resulted from its
distribution. The most sane reaction was that of NameBase
<http://www.pir.org> which has been specialized in documenting
intelligence-related names for over a decade.
...(cut)...
NameBase argues that of these 16 names, eight are of special
interest since seven were exposed in 1989, and another in 1990,
but "all 8 were given -- and accepted -- additional foreign
assignments subsequent to their initial exposure. They weren't
worried at all. No one particularly cared, and they knew it!"
They are:
ASQUITH, RAYMOND B.B.
Kiev 1992
BARRETT, RICHARD MARTIN DONNE
Amman 1997
BOWEN, RUPERT
Windhoek 1990, Tirana 1992
CORDERY, ANDREW
Oslo 1995
DEARLOVE, RICHARD BILLING
Washington 1991
LANGMAN, NICHOLAS
Paris 1994
REGAN, MICHAEL JOHN
Bangkok 1995
WOODS, IAN ALEXANDER
Warsaw 1995
...(cut)...
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Intelligence, N. 99, 31 May 1999, p. 15
NORTHERN IRELAND
SPIES, LIES & WEAK LEADERS VS. PEACE
One of the problems facing the Northern Ireland peace process
is one of weak leadership on the part of David Trimble, MP,
leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), who appears to be
the willing political hostage of at least eight members, out of
the 27-strong Northern Ireland Assembly UUP contingent, who
cannot accept taking part in a power-sharing executive with
Sinn Fein before the IRA begins decommissioning some of its
weaponry. Following his election as UUP leader, almost four
years ago, "Intelligence" described him as "an obstacle to
peace" based on his prejudiced political history. This now
appears to be the assessment of the British and Irish
governments, the moderate SDLP and Sinn Fein, following the
imposition of a 30 June deadline for political devolution after
Mr. Trimble, once again, reneged on an agreement reached during
talks in Downing Street in mid-May which has "strained
relations" between the UUP leader and the British Prime
Minister, Tony Blair.
...(cut)...
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Intelligence, N. 99, 31 May 1999, p. 18
FRANCE
INTELLIGENCE "KEEPS THE POT BOILING"
We previously mentioned the ongoing fratricide conflict between
the DST internal security service and the RG political
intelligence police (see "France - Hostilities Open in Internal
Security War", INT, n. 92 16, & "France - Police Versus
Intelligence War Heats Up", INT, n. 95 17). What we didn't know
then was that the official magazine, "Police Nationale",
actually got into the fight by stating, "We are wondering about
the necessity of maintaining two internal security services"
(n. 221, April 1999). But those problems seem to have been
temporarily put aside while French intelligence concentrates on
the security aspects of the war in the Balkans.
This involves two major operations: keeping pro-Serb French
military sympathies in line with NATO police (and out of the
press), and slowly nourishing latent anti-Americanism in
France. Both are proceeding on schedule. Rumors in the
intelligence community have it that Judge Jean-Paul Valat,
specialized in national security cases (INT, n. 91 18), has
been looking into how we at "Intelligence" work and any
eventual association with well-know US open source intelligence
"guru" (and former CIA officer and US Marine), Robert Steele.
Most specialists would not put "Intelligence" and Steele "in
the same bag", although "Intelligence" editor, Olivier Schmidt,
is an American -- and French -- citizen and was invited by
Steel to speak at the second Open Source Solutions conference
in Washington in November 1993. Nonetheless, "Intelligence"
sources have been questioned about an association with Steele.
...(cut)...
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Intelligence, N. 99, 31 May 1999, p. 23
LIBYA
ORDERS FROM THE COLONEL
The British Treasury solicitor, Roland Philips, has banned the
"Sunday Times" from publishing details of a tightly coordinated
and classified three-year joint US/UK investigation involving
MI6, MI5, the CIA and the FBI, and the SIGINT/ELINT
organizations GCHQ and NSA, which concluded that the Libyan
leader, Colonel Gaddafi, personally ordered his brother-in-law,
Abdullah Senoussi, head of the foreign intelligence service
(ESO) to destroy a US airline in retaliation for the USAF
bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in April 1986 in which 60
people, including Col. Gadaffi's 18-month-old daughter, died.
The unilateral raids, ordered by Ronald Reagan and carried out
by British-based F-111s, also damaged the French, Austrian and
Finnish embassies in the Libyan capital, as well as several
civilian residential districts.
...(cut)...
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Intelligence, N. 99, 31 May 1999, p. 25
AUSTRALIA - The DSD "Blows" UKUSA Cover. On 23 May, on Channel
9 TV, Australia became the first country to admit participation
in a global electronic surveillance system that intercepts the
private and commercial international communications of citizens
and companies from its own and other countries. The disclosure
is made by Martin Brady, director of the Defence Signals
Directorate (DSD) in Canberra, who acknowledged the existence
of the UKUSA agreement in a letter to Channel 9 stating that
the DSD "does cooperate with counterpart signals intelligence
organisations overseas under the UKUSA relationship". The
DSD's main contribution is a base at Kojarena, near Geraldton
in Western Australia, built in the early 1990s, where four
satellite tracking dishes intercept Indian and Pacific Ocean
communications satellites.
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