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08 January 2001
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STASI USED RADIOACTIVE DUST TO TRACK DISSIDENTS

The East German secret police, the STASI, covertly sprayed or dusted radioactivity on political dissidents in order to use radiation detectors to track them. Also, according to this article, the STASI may have covertly doused jailed dissidents with radiation in order to infect them with cancer. [Rick Moore]
http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999289

EDMOND POPE, A CANADIAN ANGLE?

Pope, the American businessman and retired US Navy intelligence officer who was convicted on dubious charges of espionage in Russia, will be writing a book about the affair. He spent some 8 months in the Lefortovo prison before being convicted, sentenced to 20 years and then granted clemency last month. This article suggests that there was a shadowy Canadian intelligence operation underway with British and American involvement to purchase several of the advanced Shkval (Squall) rocket torpedoes from a plant in Kyrgyzstan. Since Pope was also seeking information on the Shkval, the Russian FSB may have mistakenly believed he was part of that effort.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10166-2001Jan2.html

TIANANMEN SQUARE DECISIONMAKING

Extraordinary and secret documents smuggled out of China by an anonymous Party official and turned over to US academics provide a revealing look inside Chinese decision making. The 100's of documents, which are believed by American experts to be authentic, are being published this week in a book, Andrew Nathan (Ed), "The Tiananmen Papers : The Chinese Leadership'S Decision To Use Force Against Their Own People — In Their Own Words," Public Affairs Press, 2001. Excerpts are in the NY Times and in the Jan/Feb 2001 edition of Foreign Affairs journal. The documents provide word by word accounts of the meetings that led to the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Among other things, they reveal that the leadership was split and that the r power was wielded by a group of old, retired and semi retired politburo members who no longer held official positions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25001-2001Jan5.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/06/world/06CHIN.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/06/world/06TEXT.html
http://63.236.1.211/articles/tiananmen0102.html

DCI TENET AND FBI DIRECTOR FREEH WILL BE ASKED TO STAY

President-elect Bush wants FBI Director Louis Freeh to serve the last two years of his term and sought a brief extension for CIA Director George Tenet, Bush advisers said Thursday.
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGAH2F6GLHC.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20279-2001Jan4.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/29/national/29INTEL.html

GOP INSIDERS BATTLE OVER FOREIGN AFFAIRS APPOINTMENTS

According to Gertz & Scarborough, there is an ongoing tussle among GOP defense and foreign affairs experts over personnel appointments at DOD and State — between Republican conservatives and "anti conservatives," also Republicans. Part of this evidently relates to those who would take more hardline positions on CHINA and those who recommend continued "engagement" with China. That food fight may extend to the question of who would hold the key [career] China analyst posts within the CIA and elsewhere in the US intelligence community.
http://www.gertzfile.com/InsidetheRing.html

DCI TENET IN MIDDLE EAST

An aspect of the 1998 Wye River Accords between Israel and the Palestinians was a provision that the CIA, which had liaison links to both Israeli security forces and the PLO, would facilitate communication between those two. That has broken down in the strife of the last several weeks and DCI George Tenet may be in the Middle East to try to patch up those links.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2001/0106/breaking36.htm
http://www.excite.co.uk/news/story/UKOnlineReportWorld/IIMFFH80979_2001
-01-07_14-21-19_B329316

CLINTON CREATES COUNTERINTELLIGENCE BOARD

The directive, signed in the waning days of Mr. Clinton's administration, creates a National Counterintelligence Executive charged with bringing a forward looking, post-cold-war mentality to counterintelligence. The post is designed as the counterintelligence equivalent to the nation's drug czar and will replace the existing National Counterintelligence Center (NACIC).
http://www.nacic.gov/pubs/nc_trans.html

The CIA will retain that agency's CI Center. The key is that the leading counterintelligence official in the government would no longer be simply responding to an investigation of an individual spy case, but would rather be focused on broad efforts to determine what secrets might be most tantalizing to other countries
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/05/politics/05INTE.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21898-2001Jan5.html

POLLARD, PELTIER PARDONS STILL BEING CONSIDERED

(Wash Times, Jan 8) http://www.washtimes.com/

TRIAL IN NEW YORK OF FOUR OSAMA BIN LADEN ASSOCIATES

is just getting underway. The government's case will depend primarily on NSA's telephone intercepts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24889-2001Jan5.html

MORE ON ISRAELI ASSASSINATION POLICY

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29845-2001Jan7.html

BOOKS & OTHER SOURCES

TONIGHT: TV DOCUMENTARY ON NSA

The History Channel, Jan 8, at 8pm EST. Repeats at midnight and again at 4am Tuesday.

CONFERENCE NEXT YEAR ON THE FALL OF SINGAPORE

Call for papers regarding the events surrounding the defence and fall of Singapore in WWII. Dr. Brian P. Farrell Dept. of History, National University of Singapore,
hisbpf@nus.edu.sg

FUTURE SPACE BASED IMAGING TECHNOLOGY

Astonishing stuff — recommended!
http://www.nap.edu/html/tech_21st/iw4.htm#advanced
http://www.nap.edu/html/tech_21st/tfnf.htm
http://www.nap.edu/html/tech_21st/iwindex.htm#Contents

CHINESE ESPIONAGE "HANDBOOK"

We reported on this 1991 book a year ago in an AFIO WIN, 7Jan2000. At that time, we referenced an article in the Far East Economic Review (FEER), but the book itself was not available in English. Now it is. Basically, it's a Chinese intelligence how-to manual for collecting defense related science and technology information, especially from the US. Mostly, it deals with open source collection methods although the Chinese manual notes:
"It is also necessary to stress that there is still 20 percent or less of our intelligence that must come through the collection of information using special means, such as reconnaissance satellites, electronic eavesdropping, and the activities of special agents (purchasing or stealing), etc."

http://www.feer.com/9912_23/p14china.html
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/china/docs/sources.html#comment

VERNON LOEB'S JAN 3rd ON-LINE Q&A SESSION

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/00/nation/loeb010301.htm

UPCOMING WINTER/SPRING INTELLIGENCE EVENTS

For future reference, check this AFIO events page
http://www.afio.com/sections/event_schedule/index.html#Midwest

JAN 18 Jan - Washington, DC

Potomac Chapter, NMIA and Potomac Chapter, MCIA joint luncheon meeting, speaker BrigGen(sel) Michael E. Ennis, USMC, Director of Intelligence, USMC Hq. Bolling AFB EM Club. (Reserve NLT 16Jan to voicemail 703-921-1800 or http//www.intelweb.org/potomac).

JAN 20, St Charles, IL

The AFIO Midwest Chapter meeting at the Cork & Fork Restaurant, 6:30pm. Contact decaturvlp@aol.com or call (847)931-4184.

JAN 22 - Washington, DC

Start of Smithsonian Associates lecture series on "The Cold War: From the Espionage Perspective," Wash, DC. Series of eight weekly lectures 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
http://www.ResidentAssociates.org

JAN 27 - Washington, DC

Cold War Museum hosts "Spy Tour of Washington" 9am to 3:30pm, $45 per person. Seating limited, reservations required. Call the Cold War Museum: (703) 273-2381 or http://www.coldwar.org  (Repeats FEB 17, APR 28, MAY 12&26, & JUN 1)

FEB 11 - Chagrin Falls, OH

AFIO Northern Ohio Chapter welcomes incoming President Jack Hacherian at Wellington's, Alpha Drive (north of I-271 on north side of Wilson Mills Rd). Veronica Flint, 440-338-4720.

FEB 13-15 Feb - Rome, Italy

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 http://www.future-intel.it, fax. ++39 (0) 6 841-3487, tel. ++39 (0) 6 884-4732.

FEB 20-24 - Chicago, IL

ISA annual conference. The International Studies Association is the primary venue for the academic study of intelligence.
http://csf.colorado.edu/isa/chicago/program.html
http://csf.colorado.edu/isa/chicago/register.html
http://www.isanet.org

MAR 3, (Sat), Washington, DC

Potomac Chapter, NMIA breakfast meeting. Panel on USS Cole attack
Thur, 15 Mar - Potomac Chapter, NMIA luncheon meeting.

MAR 15, Washington, DC

DIA Alumni Association Spring luncheon meeting. http://www.dialumni.org/

APR 17, Washington, DC

Potomac Chapter, NMIA luncheon. http//www.intelweb.org/potomac

APR 18-19 Apr 01 - Langley, VA

AFCEA Spring Intelligence Symposium, [classified] (703-631-6250). http://www.afcea.org

APR 28 Apr - Madison, Connecticut

AFIO/NE Chapter at the Madison Beach Hotel, Madison, CT on Long Island Sound. Speaker will be former DEA undercover agent, Michael Levine, author of 1990 New York Times bestseller, Deep Cover: The Inside Story of DEA Infighting and Subterfuge. Details for both from: P.A. Adler, AFIO-NE@juno.com or call 860-669-7706

MAY 8-10 May - Washington, DC

OSS '01, Annual international Open Source Solutions intelligence conference, http://www.oss.net/OSS01 or 703-242-1700).

MAY 17, Washington, DC

Potomac Chapter, NMIA luncheon. http//www.intelweb.org/potomac

JUNE 21, Washington, DC

Potomac Chapter, NMIA luncheon. http//www.intelweb.org/potomac

JULY 21 - Northampton, MA

AFIO/NE at the Hotel Northampton. PA Adler, AFIO-NE@juno.com or call 860-669-7706

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