>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) >INTelligence #376-Excerpts > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >INTELLIGENCE -ISSN 1245-2122 >N. 376, 11 December 2000 Every Two to Three Weeks >Next Issue on 8 January 2001 Publishing since 1980 > Editor -Olivier Schmidt > >TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 376, 11 December 2000 -FRONT PAGE > > PALESTINE - ISRAEL ENTERS A WAR IT CAN'T WIN & KNOWS IT p.1 > TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES > >STRANGE DOINGS IN SPY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY p.2 >LIE DETECTOR "JUNK SCIENCE" p.3 >SCOTS PREFER CENTRAL TECH UNIT INSTEAD OF AN "FBI" p.4 >IRISH COPS & ROBBERS COMPUTER TECH PROBLEMS p.5 >SMOKE SCREENS - Low-tech Anti-"Smart" Bomb Defense. p.6 > >PEOPLE > >USA - STAPLETON ROY p.7 - John Eric Larson. p.8 >CANADA - "Mafiaboy". p.9 >CANADA/CHINA - Lai Changxing. p.10 >GREAT BRITAIN - PHILIP CAMPBELL SMITH p.11 >NORTHERN IRELAND -- ERIC ANDERSON p.12 >EGYPT/ISRAEL - Shereef Fawzi Mohammed Falali. p.13 > >AGENDA > >COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 FEBRUARY 2001 p.14 > >INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD > >USA - "SECURICRATS" STILL OUT TO "GET DEUTCH" p.15 > - CIA'S CHILE ARCHIVES, CHAT ROOM & NEXT CHIEF p.16 > - CARNIVORE EATING UP THE FBI & OTHER NEWS p.17 > - Vernon Loeb Reexamines Congressional NRO Report. p.18 > - DOE Security Mails Out Its Secrets. p.19 >GREAT BRITAIN - PLANS TO INTERCEPT ALL COMMUNICATIONS p.20 > - GAGGING ORDERS TO BE CHALLENGED p.21 > - MOD'S CHINOOK INVESTIGATION CRASHES TOO p.22 >NORTHERN IRELAND - ULSTER DEMILITARIZATION CONCERNS p.23 > - "WHISTLE-BLOWER" INVESTIGATION ENDS p.24 >FRANCE - SPIES, POLITICS & SCANDAL WITH CHIRAC & ROUSSIN p.25 >NETHERLANDS - ROLLING-UP THE "WHEELERS & DEALERS" p.26 >GERMANY - RECYCLING OLD EASTERN SPIES & FILES p.27 >BELORUS - Lukashenko Tighten the Noose Around His Neck. p.28 >RUSSIA - "Kursk" Continues to Resurface. p.29 >COLOMBIA - DEA Involved with Death Squads. p.30 >BRAZIL - ABIN REPLACES SIN & A WOMAN TAKES OVER p.31 >PERU - PRESS & CIA RING OUT THE OLD & RING IN THE NEW p.32 >SOUTH AFRICA - ALLEGED ARMS PROCUREMENT CORRUPTION INQUIRY p.33 >SIERRA LEONE - BRITS ALLEGEDLY ARMED BOTH SIDES p.34 >PAKISTAN - INQUIRY CALL INTO IRISH CONSUL REJECTED p.35 >INDONESIA - Changes Finally Come for Intelligence. p.36 >AUSTRALIA - Jenkins Suicide Report & the DFAT. p.37 > >--------------------------------------------- > >Intelligence, N. 376, 11 December 2000, p. 1 PALESTINE > > ISRAEL ENTERS A WAR IT CAN'T WIN & KNOWS IT > >Strangely enough, the new Intifada in Palestine and Israel has almost >all specialists agreeing: Israel's nuclear weapons and regional >military dominance are not going to keep it from losing the war it >has now let take place. Its Arab neighbors, instead of traditional >saber-rattling and preparations for war, are just going to sit back >and watch Israel exhaust itself in a guerrilla war it can't win and >quietly resupply the Palestinians with small arms and explosives they >need for armed conflict. It's a "Win Win" situation for Arab nations >and the United States is losing its credibility as it has to >keep Israel from starting a "hot war" ... as long as >Israel's neighbors don't get their armed forces directly >involved. Russia is, therefore, back on the Middle East scene as >a recognized authority and credible negotiator, a situation the US >had so far avoided. > >When we say "almost all specialists", that includes >Israeli intelligence specialists. Listen to former Shin Bet >director, Ami Ayalon, quoted by "Ma'ariv" on 5 December, speaking at >a conference in memory of Finance Ministry budget division Yom Kippur >War dead: "The Palestinians learned that Israel only understands >force ... The Palestinians believe that this is the only way they can >realize their political goals, the foremost of which is to found a >state ... The things a Palestinian has to endure, simply coming to >work in the morning, is a long and continuous nightmare that includes >humiliation bordering on despair ... But in the last seven years he >has discovered that there is another way. They learned this from >Hezbollah and from us." ...(cut)... In more ways than one, Sharon >is "the man of the situation", who splits the Israeli establishment >and the Palestinian movement. Half of the Israeli establishment sees >him as the only possible "savior", the Israeli Milosevic of a >"Greater Israel", while the other half fears exactly that, a leader >who will turn Israel into Milosevic's Serbia. The >Palestinian movement knows it will win ... if it can keep Sharon -- >who single-handedly restarted the Intifada in late September -- from >"rocking the boat" and causing a major regional war. This leaves the >Palestinian movement divided between those who, under no >circumstances, will deal with a "Sharon Israel" and those who would. >But Israel is not Serbia and Sharon is not Milosevic since the latter >had at least some friends abroad ... including Russia. Sharon does >not. > >--------------------------------------------- > >Intelligence, N. 376, 11 December 2000, p. 6 > > SMOKE SCREENS - Low-tech Anti-"Smart" Bomb Defense. The British >Ministry of Defence's (MoD) Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) >is expected to demonstrate to potential Middle East customers the >latest device against hostile laser-guided bombs (LGB) at the IDEX >meeting to be held in Abu Dhabi next March. It is based on the "low- >tech" World War 1 smoke screen and an analysis of the failure of >NATO's LGB assault in Kosovo and Serbia where low clouds, fog and >mist often obscured strategic targets. The DERA's Large Area Smoke >Screen (LASS) is a lightweight smoke generator, linked to a laser >warning system which can detect a laser designator aimed at a >strategic target, and can obscure the area without using >artillery shells. The LASS -- designed and produced by >Somerwest Technical Services in Britain under licence to the DERA -- >uses gas turbine exhaust into which a vegetable oil-based fluid >is injected to produce a continuous volume of thick smoke. The device >can simultaneously distribute black smoke to confuse visual spectrum >and infra-red sensors and white smoke to disrupt thermal image system >surveillance. Linked to radar, the system could provide effective >protection against missiles using electro-optical sensors for >terminal guidance, according to DERA business group manager, Paul >Winstanley. Four to six LASS units, each producing smoke using 50 >liters of fuel per hour, could cover a military airfield in five to >20 seconds, according to the DERA, which expects the "simple but >effective user-friendly system" (unlike conventional systems which >use phosphates and other hazardous substances) to generate wide- > spread interest among Arab states. > >--------------------------------------------- > >Intelligence, N. 376, 11 December 2000, p. 15 > > USA > >"SECURICRATS" STILL OUT TO "GET DEUTCH" > > ...(cut)... COMMENT -- With the continuing attack on Deutch, >there seem to be two basic aspects conveniently forgotten by the >US security establishment and the press. First, "the shift in >the political climate that has taken place" mentioned above >by Aftergood is a nice way of saying "highly partisan >politics" characterized by conservative Republican vendetta against >the Clinton administration. And the Deutch "case" has been used >in this context as one more "weak-on-security" battering ram >(see "USA - Deutch-CIA Case Turns into Partisan Minefield", INT, >n. 362 20; "USA - Partisan Politics behind Deutch 'Double Standard'", >INT, n. 372 14). Second, just like the failed impeachment procedure >against President Clinton which run up one of the highest legal bills >even paid by US taxpayers, Washington "securicrats" and their >conservative politician colleagues have put a lot of money into a >long investigation where no damage has been reported. The Pentagon >inspector general report does not provide a damage assessment, >but condemns "Dr. Deutch's practice of using computers in this manner >[which] was extremely risky". The money spent on unproductive or even >disastrous security investigations would receive much wider public >approval if it were spent on "catching spies" instead of hounding and >reprimanding some of the United States' top officials. In short, >"cost efficiency" has still not swept out the Cold War mentality of >the US security establishment. > >--------------------------------------------- > >Intelligence, N. 376, 11 December 2000, p. 22 > > GREAT BRITAIN > >MOD'S CHINOOK INVESTIGATION CRASHES TOO > > The British government has ruled out a new inquiry into the crash of >an RAF Chinook Mark 2 helicopter into the Mull of Kintyre, south-west >Scotland, on 2 June 1994, despite harsh criticism of accident >investigative practices in an all-party parliamentary Public Accounts >Committee (PAC) report, published on 30 November. It has been >described as "one of the most damning attacks on the integrity of a >Whitehall department", in this case the Ministry of Defence (MoD), >which MPs accuse of "unwarrantable arrogance" and using "shocking >aircraft test procedures". ...(cut)... ---------------------------- >----------------- > >Intelligence, N. 376, 11 December 2000, p. 25 > > FRANCE > >SPIES, POLITICS & SCANDAL WITH CHIRAC & ROUSSIN > > On 4 December, a mounting corruption scandal put new pressure on >President Jacques Chirac to declare whether he knew about kickbacks >that allegedly benefitted political parties on the Left and the >Right. Even members of his own RPR conservative party have joined the >call for Chirac to address the nation about suspicions that he knew >of such a scheme. Socialist lawmaker, Arnaud Montebourg, went further >and demanded that Chirac be formally designated as a suspect. But >that is politics and mostly "business as usual". The truly >interesting person in the center of the scandal is Michel Roussin, >Chirac's former chief of staff and also chief of staff for four years >to Alexandre de Marenches, the head of French foreign >intelligence when it was known as the SDECE. ...(cut)... ---------- >----------------------------------- > >Intelligence, N. 376, 11 December 2000, p. 27 > > GERMANY > >RECYCLING OLD EASTERN SPIES & FILES > > An interesting situation exists in Germany where former >Eastern European intelligence professionals are being recycled as >NATO- approved agents and Stasi archives, stolen and/or purchased >by the CIA during Operation Rosewood, come back to life. In >the Kleber Casern in Kaiserslautern, a group of 100 counter- > espionage recruits recently went through ten-days' training during >the Unified Blade 2000 exercise under the direction of Lt. Col. Carl >Burrell of the Allied Command Europe Counterintelligence Activity. >Participants included officials from Poland, Hungary and the Czech >Republic. One of the ground rules was that no nation in the exercise >could collect intelligence on any other participating nation. No one >was kick out but ... one nation or person was "warned". >...(cut)... --------------------------------------------- > >Intelligence, N. 376, 11 December 2000, p. 34 > > SIERRA LEONE > >BRITS ALLEGEDLY ARMED BOTH SIDES > > Tim Spicer, the former chief executive of the British >mercenary company, Sandline International, which broke a UN arms >embargo when it shipped 30 tons of weapons to Sierra Leone in 1998, >has dismissed as "absolute rubbish" allegations made by a >former South African military intelligence officer, Johan van >Zyl, that the security firm for which van Zyl worked, Lifeguard, >had supplied weapons, (including rocket-propelled grenades, >mortar bombs, and mines) to Sierra Leone rebel >organizations. Lifeguard, which was contracted by the British mining >company, Branch Energy, to provide protection for its diamond >mining operations in the West African country, is a sister company >of Sandline. If Mr. van Zyl's allegations are correct, it means that >two British-registered companies in the "security business", which >shared a suite of offices on the fashionable King's Road in Chelsea, >west London, armed both sides in the Sierra Leone civil war. Sandline >claims it had full support from the British government to help the >ousted regime stage a counter-coup against the RUF/AFRC rebel >alliance, while van Zyl, who was killed in November 1999 in a traffic >accident on the main Johanesburg-Pretoria road, told friends that >the rebels had been armed by Lifeguard, in July 1997, as part of >a deal which would allow Branch Energy to continue mining >without being attacked. ...(cut)... > > >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >=================================================== >nytcov-12.19.00-03:58:37-8719 " JC > > ********* > >X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 19 19:59:36 2000 >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 04:04:02 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: INTellgence #376-Agenda >To: undisclosed-recipients:; > >INTellgence #376-Agenda > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >AGENDA > >Intelligence, N. 376, 11 December 2000, p. 14 > COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 FEBRUARY 2001 > > >In the interest of efficiency, "Intelligence" lists all coming >events in each issue as a single article in the section >"Agenda". Additional information concerning these events, >including contact information, is available at 33 (0)1 40 51 85 >19 (tel/fax) or [EMAIL PROTECTED] .org (email). Past Agendas are >available free at our web site: <http: // www. blythe .org/ >Intelligence>. Events are listed only once according to date, >and are not repeated in subsequent issues. To post a paid >advertisement describing an event in greater detail, interested >organizers should contact "Intelligence" for additional >information. Such additional material is posted here and also >sent directly to more than one thousand Internet subscribers >and members of our free distribution list. > >At present, papers are due from the "E-Work Location in a >Digital Global Economy" conference ><http: // www. emergence.nu/events/octprog.html>. > >11 December, Paris, "The Future of Europe", by IRIS ><http: // www. iris-france .org>. > >11-15 December, New Orleans, Louisiana, 16th Annual Computer >Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) ><http: // www. acsac .org>. > >11-12 December, Washington, Public Workshop - The Mobile >Wireless Web, Data Services and Beyond, US Federal Trade >Commission (FTC) <http: // www. ftc .gov/opa/2000/11/wireless.htm>. > >12 December, MacDill AFB (Tampa, Florida), AFIO Florida's >Suncoast Chapter Holiday Event, a luncheon with speaker, >retired US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Fred L. Edwards, >Jr., intelligence officer in Vietnam during 1966-67 and author >of "The Bridges of Vietnam - From the Journals of a Marine >Intelligence Officer" <aldermannj@aol .com>. > >14 December, Paris, Association pour la Mesure des Sciences et >des Techniques (ADEST) seminars by Saida Bedar, "Information >Dominance as a Problem", and General Jean Guyaux, "The Lessons >of Military Intelligence Applied to Economic Intelligence" ><http: // www. upmf-grenoble.fr/adest/>. > >14 December, Bolling AFB (Washington DC), Chinese Spying, by >the National Military Intelligence Association (NMIA) Potomac >Chapter, luncheon with guest speaker Dr. Paul D. Moore, former >Chief Analyst for China (1978-1998) of FBI Counterintelligence, >on Chinese intelligence methods ><http: // www. intelweb .org/potomac>. > >14-15 December, Helsinki, People, Cities and the New >Information Economy ><http: // www. institute.helsinki.fi/infoeconomy/>. > >15 December, contributions due for the 11th annual Internet >Society conference, INET 2001 - A Net Odyssey ><http: // www. isoc .org/inet2001/cfc.shtml>. > >18 December, Paris, European Defense - The State of Affairs >under the French Presidency, by IRIS <http: // www. iris- >france .org>. > >5 January, candidacies due for associate and full professor job >opening at the United States European Command, George C. >Marshall European Center, College of International and Security >Studies, Garmisch, Germany. A doctoral degree with five to ten >years experience or appropriate operational experience in a >senior policy making position is required and fluency in German >and/or Russian is highly desirable: Civilian Personnel Advisory >Center, Kelley Kaserne, Geb 3315 Zi 127, Attn: Maria Brigham, >Pleiningerstr 200, 70567 Stuttgart, Germany. > >17 January, Camp Pendleton, California, Marine West 2001 ><http: // www. MarineCorpsExpos .com>. > >18 January, Bolling AFB (Washington DC), NMIA Potomac Chapter >luncheon meeting, speaker Brig. Gen. (sel) Michael E. Ennis, >Director of Intelligence, <http: // www. intelweb .org/potomac>. > >20-21 January, Jax, Florida, Clandestine Maritime Surveillance >course <http: // specialopstraining .com/mar_surv_ss_course.htm>. > >20 January, St. Charles, Illinois, AFIO Midwest Chapter dinner >meeting <decaturvlp@aol .com>. > >22 January, Washington, Smithsonian Associates first of eight >weekly lectures on "The Cold War - From the Espionage >Perspective" by Herbert Romerstein, Oleg Kalugin, Eugene >Poteat, Ivian C. Smith, John Sullivan, W. Raymond Wannall, John >Martin, and Allan Weinstein ><http: // www. afio .com/sections/event_schedule/Smithsonian.html>. > >22-24 January, Boca Raton, Florida, "2001 Competitive >Intelligence" meeting. > >28-30 January, Monterey, California, 2001 Tactical Wheeled >Vehicles, NDIA. > >29 January-2 February, Key Counterintelligence Events Course by >the CI Centre provides an understanding of offensive >counterintelligence and knowledge of these techniques, >methodologies, cases and events. The CI Centre >counterintelligence reader will be provided along with books: >"The Thread of the Silkworm", "Operation SOLO" and "The Spy Who >Saved the World" (tel 1 703 642 7455). > >31 January, papers are due for SIIT2001, the 2001 IEEE >Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information >Technology <http: // www. siit2001 .org> which will take place on >3-5 October 2001 in Boulder, Colorado. > >4-7 February, Washington, ROA 2001 Mid-Winter Meeting and >Military Exposition <http: // www. roa .org/midwinter/mid- >index.html >. > >7-9 February, San Diego, California, Network and Distributed >System Security Symposium (NDSS '01), by the Internet Society ><http: // www. isoc .org/ndss01/>. > >11-13 February, Anaheim, California, 2001 Heli-Expo - >International Helicopter Exposition, by the Helicopter >Association. > >12-14 February, Tysons Corner, Virginia, 2001 Munitions >Executive Summit & IOC APBI, by NDIA. > >14-15 February, Washington, Defense Reform 2001, by the >American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) and >"Defense News". > > >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ============== >nytcov-12.19.00-04:00:37-8890 " JC > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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