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> From: Kris Millegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [CTRL] OEN 4/12/99
> Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 8:42 AM
>snip
> from:
> http://www.aci.net/kalliste/
> <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin
Grabbe</A>
> CIA
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> Ex-CIA Director Mishandled Secret Information, Newsweek Says
>
> DOJ, CIA Probe Security Breaches
>
>
> NEW YORK, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Former CIA director John Deutch has
> been investigated for repeatedly mishandling classified information,
> Newsweek reports in the current issue. According to Justice sources,
> Deutch routinely took work home, removing highly sensitive intelligence
> materials from CIA headquarters and accessing them on his unsecured
> personal computer -- even though he had a secure CIA computer at home.
>
> The Justice Department and the CIA began investigating Deutch after he
> stepped down as CIA chief in December 1996, after agency technicians
> went to his home to remove secure computer equipment that allowed him to
> view highly classified material he would no longer be authorized to see,
> reports Washington Correspondent Daniel Klaidman in the April 19, 1999
> issue (on newsstands Monday, April 12). To their astonishment, the
> technicians discovered 31 secret files on his personal computer. The
> documents included intelligence on the 1996 terrorist attack on Khobar
> Towers in Saudi Arabia, reports on Iraq -- even a memo Deutch had
> written to President Clinton. Investigators say the computer was
> potentially vulnerable to hackers.
>
> The Justice Department, which investigated the case for more than a
> year, decided not to press criminal charges, and has referred the matter
> back to the CIA. Officials close to the case say that the CIA's
> inspector general is preparing a ``scathing'' report about Deutch's
> alleged security breaches, and the agency is considering whether to
> revoke his security clearances. Deutch declined to comment and his
> lawyers did not return phone calls. While some officials attribute the
> carelessness to arrogance, others liken it to absent- mindedness. One
> source close to the investigation says, ``It's one thing to be sloppy.
> This was reckless.'' Ironically, the inquiry languished until last
> month, when Energy Secretary Bill Richardson tapped Deutch to sort out
> allegations that China had penetrated the nation's top secret nuclear
> labs, Klaidman reports. A few days after the appointment, Deutch
> withdrew from the job, citing ``other commitments.''
>
> But the CIA itself has come under suspicion in the China spying case. In
> a related story, Klaidman and Investigative Correspondent Mark Hosenball
> report that law enforcement and intelligence agencies are trying to put
> aside turf squabbles and work together on the stolen technology issue.
> They are planning to assemble a task force -- code-named ``Golden
> Tiger'' -- to crack down on the growing number of such unsolved cases.
> Investigators are still trying to determine if Beijing illegally
> obtained U.S. satellite technology from Hughes Aerospace and Loral Space
> & Communications, two American manufacturers that sold commercial
> satellites to Beijing. Newsweek has learned that investigators want to
> know if CIA case officers who routinely debriefed Hughes corporation e
> xecutives about their dealings with China withheld knowledge regarding
> information transfers about the satellites to protect the spy agency's
> rapport with the company.
>
> PR Newswire, April 11, 1999
Why the heck does Deutch STILL have clearance?
Hilary
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