INTELLIGENCE "STUFF" by Col. John Macartney, USAF Ret., Ph.D.

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02 January 2001
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FBI UNABLE TO DECODE CUBAN INTELLIGENCE MESSAGES FOR OVER SIX MONTHS

Last week's "Stuff" carried an item to the effect that the FBI had intercepted Cuban intelligence transmissions in 1996 that warned of danger to the two "Brothers to the Rescue" aircraft subsequently shot down by Cuban jets. However, according to that account, the FBI sat on the information and did not pass it on to American policymakers, who didn't know about the intercepts until they were placed in evidence in an ongoing espionage trial. Now the FBI says, yes they intercepted the transmissions from Cuba to Cuban agents in Miami prior to the shootdown, but they were not able to decipher the messages until more than six months after the attack, according to a court filing. The FBI broke the code with the help of encryption programs on computer disks that its agents seized during clandestine searches of the defendants' apartments.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61092-2000Dec28.html

CUBAN SPY STRESSED OUT BY ESPIONAGE DUTIES

"The pay was low, the pressure high. His job cost him one marriage, prevented another, and sent him into bouts of depression. To cope, he turned to singing lessons. "Lorient," Guerrero's code name, struggled for money, filed meticulous intelligence reports and worked multiple jobs, all the while estranged from his son and deceiving his girlfriend."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,36000000000152057,00.html

TRIAL OF 4 BIN LADEN MILITANTS BEGINS TOMORROW IN NEW YORK

Although Osama bin Laden remains beyond the reach of US law enforcement in the mountains of Afghanistan, this week's trial represents the Justice Department's first courtroom attack on bin Laden's extremist infrastructure since the government identified the Saudi fugitive and his al Qaeda network as the nation's top terrorist threat after the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on Aug. 7, 1998.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2236-2000Dec30.html

WIL CHARTETTE, FORMER CHIEF OF CIA'S COUNTER- TERRORISM CENTER, SAYS USA RIPE FOR TERRORISM

Now retired, Chartertte is deeply involved in sky diving.
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGAVI5B8EHC.html
http://tampatrib.com/MGAH9SQ6EHC.html

BRITISH UAV SHOT DOWN BY SERBIA AND HANDED TO RUSSIA

The Phoenix drone was not itself sensitive, but it was carrying a highly classified thermal sensor system.
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/12/31/stifgnrus01002.html

THE "LINCOLN SIX," CIA OPERATIVES AND SECRET EVIDENCE

"On Guam, rife with rivalries and jealousies, the Lincoln Six were apparently accused by other opposition members of being Iraqi spies, Iranian double agents, liars, torturers or all of the above. The CIA passed those reports to the FBI, which decided in early 1997 that the six should be denied asylum. All of the evidence against them was stamped secret. While their wives and children were resettled in Lincoln, they were jailed for a year before an immigration judge ordered them to be deported on the basis of evidence that their lawyers were not allowed to see and witnesses their lawyers could not cross-examine. After former DCI Woolsey persuaded leading Senate Republicans to ask for a review of the case, the Justice Department declassified most of the secret evidence, admitting that it never should have been classified in the first place."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42055-2000Dec22.html

KGB DEFECTOR SUING BRITISH GOVT

A KGB officer who defected to the West, providing MI6 with valuable Russian secrets, is petitioning the Queen and taking the Government to court after being denied the life he claims he was promised. Viktor Makarov, a member of the KGB's Directorate 16 which deciphered and translated diplomatic communications, passed secret information to MI6 in the early Eighties. Makarov passed on information on how diplomatic messages were intercepted, but then the KGB found out. He was arrested for treason and sent to the notorious Perm-35 labor camp in the Ural Mountains. He was released by President Boris Yeltsin in 1992 and "extricated" via Latvia to London under the impression that he would be given the means to live "like an average citizen".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=VDJ338VK&atmo= HHHHHH8L&pg=/et/01/1/2/nkgb02.html

US NAVY P-3 RECONNAISSANCE BASE AT MANTA, ECUADOR

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/31/world/31ECUA.html

HOLGER PFALS, FORMER GERMAN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE CHIEF

is in hiding and faces international arrest warrant.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-39670,00.html

TEMPEST SPECIFICATIONS

"We live in a veritable ocean of electromagnetic radiation, produced by every gizmo we use at home and at work. They all produce faint signals; and believe it or not, our input to the devices, and their output, create modulations which can be 'read'."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15743.html
http://cryptome.org/nstissi-7000.htm

ANNISTON, ALABAMA COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER

Maybe this is a good idea, but one wonders if the CT budget is not funding "pork."
http://www.annistonstar.com/news/news_20001220_1499.html

ESPIONAGE FRONT COMPANIES TARGET CANADA

In the three-page briefing note, marked secret, an official with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's counter proliferation unit said Canada's aerospace, chemical, biological and information-technology industries are being targeted by foreign espionage agencies as a source of expertise and technology that may be used to manufacture chemical and biological weapons relatively cheaply.
http://www.globeandmail.ca/gam/National/20001228/USPYSN.html

AGING FRENCH GENERALS ADMIT TORTURING AND KILLING THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS DURING ALGERIAN WAR

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/31/world/31FRAN.html

BRITAIN DEVELOPS "RADIO-FREQUENCY WEAPON

If there is anything to this report of a non-lethal artillery shell that disables electronic circuits, it may be what amounts to a "non-lethal nuke." [Shissler]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003730744612558&rtmo=fs0qDN0s&atmo= gggggg3K&pg=/et/00/12/27/nshel27.html

BOOKS & OTHER SOURCES

VERNON LOEB ON-LINE

Loeb, the Washington Post's intelligence reporter will host an on-line Q&A session tomorrow at 1pm EST.
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/00/loeb010301.htm

"THE CHINA THREAT"

a new book by Bill Gertz, the Washington Times' intelligence reporter, is reviewed in today's Times.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/ed-column-2000123020463.htm

MEMOIRS OF DAME STELLA REMINGTON, FORMER DIRECTOR OF M.I.5.

This book, which has riled up British security agencies, has been going through pre-publication review for the past several months and is expected to be published soon. A spin off from this controversy is a possible revision of Britain's Official Secrets Act.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003633010248390&rtmo=0xsibbrq&atmo=rrrrrrvs &pg=/et/00/12/27/nstel27.html
http://www.the-journal.co.uk/cfm/newsstory.cfm?StoryId=221735
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,416570,00.html

NEW EDITION TEXTBOOK:

SILENT WARFARE: UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD OF INTELLIGENCE, 3rd Ed, by Abe Shulsky with Gary Shmitt, Brassey's, March 2001. This [Roy Godson sponsored] book was originally published in 1991 and was followed by a 2nd edition and then a Revised 2nd edition in 1993. An excellent work, it was the mainstay textbook for college courses on intelligence throughout the 1990's and will be out in a new edition in March. [Al Buckelew]

BULLETIN FROM CSI, THE CIA's CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE.

This summer 2000 bulletin contains several short but fascinating articles such as , "Did Truman Know about Venona?", by Michael Warner. [The evidence is mixed, according to Warner, Deputy CIA Historian. Information implicating Harry Dexter White as a Soviet spy was sent by the FBI to the White House in 1950, but may never have been passed to Truman by his intelligence adviser, RADM Sidney Souers. Apparently neither Adm Souers, who had been the first DCI in 1946, or the President, were ever briefed on the Venona project itself, the cryptologic breakthrough that produced the information on White.]
http://www.cia.gov/csi/bulletin/csi11.html#toc5

SPY FI ARCHIVES

Memorabilia from 40 years of Hollywood's James Bond and other espionage movies. [Compton]
http://www.cia.gov/spy_fi/index.html

UPCOMING OSS, Inc RELATED EVENTS

FEB 13-15, Rome
Conference on "The Future of Intelligence." Speakers include Professor Christopher Andrew from the UK, Dr. John Gannon from the US, General Leonid Sherbarshin from Russia, Madame Margaret Purdy from Canada, and a whole range of top experts in all aspects of classified national intelligence. Open to the public. Contact Dr. Sergio Germani at fax. ++39 (0) 6 841-3487, tel. ++39 (0) 6 884-4732.
http://www.future-intel.it
MAY 8-10, Washington, DC

Annual international Open Source Solutions intelligence conference, "Shrinking Earth, Shrinking Budgets, Exploding Challenges." For complete information visit
http://www.oss.net/OSS01

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