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from:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/092399a.html
<A HREF="http://www.consortiumnews.com/092399a.html">The Consortium</A>
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September 23, 1999
Clinton’s ‘Info-War’ Underload
By Robert Parry
President Clinton's covert action to use high-tech "information warfare"
to undermine Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic proved less effective than
hoped because of poor on-the-ground intelligence, U.S. government
sources say.
The CIA planned to pinpoint bank accounts controlled by Milosevic and
other Serb leaders. Then, CIA hackers were to penetrate bank computers
and alter or delete data. The goals were to sow confusion, frustrate the
purchase of military equipment, and punish Serb leaders for "ethnic
cleansing" in Kosovo.
But the key first step was to identify the Serb government accounts in
international banks, a task that the sources said proved more difficult
than expected because of limited intelligence within the Serb
government.
In other words, high-tech info-war strategies were undercut by the lack
of lower-tech human intelligence inside Serbia, spies who could pass on
account numbers to the CIA, according to the sources.
One source added, however, that the end of NATO's bombing campaign in
Yugoslavia did not stop the covert action against Milosevic and his
government. This continued operation, therefore, still could achieve
some of the high-tech goals and presumably weaken Milosevic's political
position inside Serbia.
Using less exotic means, the Clinton administration's info-war
strategies did achieve other goals of disrupting Serbia's communications
and electronic infrastructure.
On May 2, for instance, NATO took out a Yugoslavian electrical grid by
dropping "soft" bombs of carbon filament on a power plant, shorting out
circuits and turning off electricity. Maj. Gen. Charles Wald noted that
such an electrical outage "disconnects and confuses computers."
These infrastructure attacks had the additional effect of adding to the
everyday frustrations of Serb citizens. NATO believed that those
annoyances dampened support for Milosevic's military campaign against
ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo. But most analysts believe
that Russian political pressure was the primary factor in convincing
Milosevic to accept NATO's peace terms in June.
[For details on U.S. info-war capabilities and Clinton's covert action
in Serbia, see iF Magazine, May-June 1999.]
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