from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Cryptome Controversy Continues Secret CIA Documents Published FBI now claims to be clueless. WASHINGTON –– A private Web site [http://cryptome.org/] has published a secret CIA overview of the U.S. intelligence community prepared for Japanese intelligence officials who visited the agency's headquarters in 1998. The briefing containing information on the CIA's budgets and personnel trends was posted by John Young, 64, a New York City architect whose Web site has displayed government documents on intelligence and encryption issues since 1996. Last month, Young published an unedited version of a secret history of the 1953 CIA-mastered coup in Iran that was originally published on The New York Times Web site with portions blacked out. Young said he received the 1998 CIA briefing by e-mail from an anonymous source in Japan. "We have a standing invitation for anyone who wants to have something published that governments don't want published," Young said Saturday in an interview, noting that he does not verify the authenticity of what he publishes. "We put it up and let people tell us if it's a spoof or if it's genuine." CIA spokesman Bill Harlow wouldn't comment on the documents, but an unnamed senior intelligence official quoted in The Washington Post's Sunday editions said official visitors from the Japanese agency were authorized to receive the secret briefing at CIA headquarters in June 1998. "Public disclosure of that information is troubling," the official said. "In terms of the information (in the briefing), it is not insignificant. We're always concerned when classified information is disclosed publicly." The CIA briefing materials, described as presented by Charles E. Allen, the assistant director of central intelligence for collection, say that the number of people working for the National Foreign Intelligence Program, encompassing all civilian and military foreign intelligence activity, fell by more than 20 percent – 20,559 employees – between 1991 and 1998. Allen's calling card, including his home telephone number, is part of the materials. Allen could not be reached immediately for comment. Young has also posted a file obtained from the same source that shows the names, birth dates and titles of hundreds of employees of Japan's equivalent of the FBI, the Public Security Investigation Agency. Young said he was contacted Thursday by two FBI agents from the New York field office who passed along a request from the Japanese Ministry of Justice that he remove the lists of agents from his site. Young said he refused the request and was told to expect direct contact from the Japanese government. FBI headquarters spokeswoman Julie Miller said she wasn't familiar with Young or his Web site. James Margolin, FBI spokesman for the New York office, was not immediately available for comment. Ichiro Shinjo, head of the General Affairs Department of Japan's Public Security Investigation Agency, was quoted by the Post as saying the Japanese government believes the source of the materials is an agency employee who resigned under pressure in December 1998. ––– On the Net: [John Young's Cryptome: http://cryptome.org] Central Intelligence Agency: http://www.cia.gov Federal Bureau of Investigation: http://www.fbi.gov Japan's Ministry of Justice: http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/preface.htm Japan's Public Security Investigation Agency: http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/PSIA/psia-01.htm Associated Press, July 22, 2000 Spy vs. Spy Russia Journalists Publish Spy Documents Russia people now bugged more than under the KGB. A GROUP of Moscow investigative journalists used the internet last week to publish a collection of "operational reports" compiled by security agents on various VIPs. These included transcripts of bugged telephone calls and detailed dossiers on some of Russia's most prominent ministers, businessmen and entertainers. The journalists, calling themselves the Freelance Bureau, said they had acquired 20,000 pages of material from sources in the FSB domestic intelligence agency - heir to the KGB - and the interior ministry. Most of the information, they added, had originated from private security firms working for Russia's most influential businessmen and often run by ex-KGB agents. "We wanted to show that there's no privacy any more - for anyone," said Alexei Chelnokov, one of the Freelance Bureau's founders. "Even in Soviet times, the KGB needed the prosecutor-general's permission to bug phones or tail someone. Now everyone does it, and no one can stop them." Mr Chelnokov said the information first appeared on the black market two years ago. He said it was being hawked for $50,000 (£33,000) by hard-up former employees of security firms, who lost their jobs after the 1998 financial crash when many businesses collapsed. Material published on the Freelance Bureau's website ranges from biographical dossiers on politicians, with their addresses, passport and telephone numbers, to detailed transcripts of phone conversations involving figures such as the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksy II, the tycoons Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Potanin, and the former privatisation chief Alfred Kokh. Alleged conversations between Mr Berezovsky and leading Chechen rebels have surfaced before in the Russian press. Mr Chelnokov said one of his aims was to prompt an investigation into the whole issue of illegal phone-tapping. "This is a crime and the people responsible should be prosecuted," he said. Natalya Veshnyakova, an official at the Russian prosecutor's office, declined to comment. "We don't have internet access here, so we can't read it," she said. One phone-tap target was Natalya Gevorkian, a leading journalist and writer. She was bugged speaking to Lena Erikkson, a friend who was editing the revealing autobiography of Alexander Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin's former bodyguard. During the conversation, Miss Erikkson says she had received threatening phone calls and feared that her flat was stuffed with listening devices. "I never really believed they tapped ordinary people's phones until I saw that file," said Miss Gevorkian, an expert on the KGB, who is now the Paris correspondent of the Russian newspaper Kommersant. She said she believed that most bugging was carried out by security firms employed by Russia's "oligarchs" - the powerful business elite - to spy on each other. These private agents often maintained close ties with former colleagues in the FSB. "The secret police have been privatised," she said. "These people used to be the servants of the Communist Party - now they just serve whoever pays them." Mr Chelnokov said FSB officers had been known to moonlight to supplement their meagre state salaries. "You can get them to tap someone's phone for about $150 [£100] a day, while the going rate for tailing someone is $500 [£333] a day." The authorities have cracked down on one leading private army - that belonging to Media-Most, Russia's biggest independent media empire. FSB men in ski masks raided the organisation in May, and later alleged that the company's bodyguards had been spying on its own journalists. Media-Most's founder, Vladimir Gusinsky, was subsequently jailed on fraud charges. The problem is not confined to private firms, however. Many observers say the state is still the main culprit. "I'm scared to use the phone, at work or at home," said Genrikh Padva, a prominent lawyer. "You can't have a confidential conversation on the phone any more." Mr Padva has noted a sharp rise in the number of cases in which prosecutors have bugged a suspect's phone before the official start of criminal proceedings - a move that is illegal under Russian law. Transcripts of the suspect's conversations are then used as evidence in court. One such transcript, he said, was of talks between a lawyer and his client. Campaigners for the right to privacy have also raised the alarm over moves by the FSB to install monitoring equipment at internet service providers, enabling agents to read all electronic correspondence, as part of the fight against terrorism and organised crime. The London Telegraph, July 22, 2000 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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