HANSSEN WILL BE DIFFICULT TO PROSECUTE AND CONVICT

http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-200137224052.htm

ROBERT HANSSEN AT STATE DEPARTMENT

Among other things, this article points out that the FBI affadavits detail Hanssen's spying activities from 1985 to 1991 and 1999 to 2001. It's not clear if he was active 1991 to 1999, nor if and how he was reactivated..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4902-2001
Feb28.html#homepage2
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15598-2001Mar2.html

2nd HANSSEN COURT AFFIDAVIT WITH "FAREWELL MSG"

http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/hanssen_affidavit2.html

FBI THINKS HANSSEN MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ONLY MOLE

http://www.nypostonline.com/news/nationalnews/25228.htm

HACKER STEALS SOFTWARE SOURCE CODES

The codes, or part of them, for software used to control US military space vehicles, were stolen remotely via the internet on Christmas from the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. A copy has been discovered in the offices of an information technology company in Stockholm.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-crime-space-dc.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16751-2001Mar2.html

DUTCH FIRM MY BUY MAKER OF US SPY SATELLITE OPITICS

ASM Lithography Holding of the Netherlands has offered to buy SVG (Silicon Valley Group, Inc), a maker of hi tech optics for US spy satellites. (Wash Times, 7Mar01, pA4)

FBI ARRESTS ANTI-IRAN AGENTS IN LOS ANGELES

http://www.latimes.com/communities/news/los_angeles_metro/20010301/
t000018192.html

BUSH'S FIRST NAT'L SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE

This unclassified (but unreleased) NSPD-1 outlines the NSC system arrangements for the Bush Administration. "The new Directive preserves the NSC Principals Committee and the NSC Deputies Committee, which are the top-level interagency forums for deliberation on national security policy. But it abolishes President Clinton's system of Interagency Working Groups. To replace them, the Directive establishes eleven Policy Coordination Committees (PCCs) on topics including Proliferation, Counterproliferation, and Homeland Defense; Intelligence and Counterintelligence; Counter-Terrorism and National Preparedness; and Records Access and Information Security." [Steven Aftergood]
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-1.htm

DOD SECURITY CLEARANCE BACKLOG

Several years ago there were very large cutbacks of personnel at DSS and OPM who do security clearance background checks. A backlog existed before that and, not surprisingly, there is now a huge backlog of security clearance paperwork, which is all the worse with a new Administration, which is bringing hundreds of new officials into govt.
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010302/3108012s.htm

BOOKS & OTHER SOURCES

NACIC REPORT ON INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE

This latest report to Congress prepared by the National Counterintelligence Center names the worst commercial spying offenders in the US — China, Japan, Israel, France, Korea, Taiwan, and India.
http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/docs/fy00.htm
http://www.nacic.gov/

PLANNING THE UNTHINKABLE: HOW NEW POWERS WILL USE NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS

edited by Peter Lavoy, Scott Sagan & James Wirtz, Cornell U Press, 2000. "The proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons is now the single most serious security concern for governments around the world. .... [this collection reveals] the many frightening ways that emerging military powers and terrorist groups are planning the unthinkable by preparing to use chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons in future conflicts. About the editors: LAVOY is Director, Counterproliferation Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. SAGAN is Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford. WIRTZ is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School.

DIRTY TRICKS OR TRUMP CARDS: US COVERT ACTION AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

by Roy Godson, Transaction, January 2001 (ISBN 0-76658-0699-1) updated for paperback. Widely used in courses about intelligence at universities and professional schools, the new paperback edition has a substantial introduction by the author that looks at ways in which counterintelligence and covert action might be adapted to the new security environment, in particular the growing political-criminal nexus in many strategic regions. On the dust jacket former DCI Richard Helms comments that "Roy Godson provides much-needed balance, context and insights for understanding the clandestine arts." Recommended.  (AFIO, Jonkers)

LECTURE & BOOK SIGNING — LINDA McCARTHY

Ms McCarthy, a 24-year CIA veteran, will lecture on her book, "Spies, Pop Flies, and French Fries: Stories I Told My Favorite Visitors to the CIA Exhibit Center" (1999). Wednesday, March 21, 2001, 7:30 - 8:30 pm, Old Town Hall, 2nd Floor Fairfax, Virginia. (703) 993-8846

AREA 51, ETC.

This Polish web site offers ground level and overhead photos of Area 51 as well as UFO info and other things. Interesting, but web page is extremely slow loading (and I have DSL), and writing is all in Polish.
http://www.blackpage.nano.pl/zd51.htm

MASINT TECHNOLOGY

The web site below leads to National Institutes of Health "Guide for the Selection of Drug Detectors for Law Enforcement Applications." The unclassified guide covers everything from manual searches and trained dogs very high tech gas chromatography / surface ionization, field ion spectrometry, back-scatter x-rays, and more. Because these law enforcement devices use technology that is [probably] also going into new intelligence sensors, this guide provides an interesting peek at what is becoming possible.
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/183260.pdf

UPCOMING EVENTS

MAR 10, Saturday, Washington, DC

NMIA breakfast meeting, Spates Hall, Ft Myer NCO Club, 9am -11am. Speaker: Dr. David Lindgren, author of "Trust but Verify: Imagery Analysis in the Cold War."
http://www.intelweb.org/potomac

MAR 15, Thursday, Washington, DC

NMIA luncheon at Bolling EM Club, 10am to 1:30pm, panel and speakers on the USS Cole bombing and lessons for intelligence.
http://www.intelweb.org/potomac

MAR 21, Washington, DC

DIA Alumni Assoc (DIAA) luncheon meeting, Ft Myer O'Club, 1130 social, 1215 luncheon. Speaker: RADM Tom Brooks, USN-ret, "Life After DIA." Also Mark Ewing, DepDirector DIA, will give an update on the Agency.
http://www.dialumni.org/flyer.html

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