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

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26 December 2000
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FBI INTERCEPTS WARNED OF BROTHER'S SHOOTDOWN IN 1996

According to evidence presented in the ongoing espionage trial of Cuban spies in Miami, the FBI had the alleged spies under surveillance for some time and were routinely intercepting communications between Havana and the Cuban intelligence operatives in Miami who had infiltrated "Brothers to the Rescue" and other Cuban-American organizations. While the intercepts did not say definitively there would be a shootdown on February 24th, the Cuban agents were warned not to fly in Brothers aircraft on Feb 24-27. Apparently, that information was not forwarded to the White House or otherwise distributed within the US intelligence or policy communities. Instead, it went into an FBI investigatory file and stayed there until it was released last week in the Miami courtroom. White House policymakers say they would probably have been treating both Cuba and the Brothers differently had they known of the FBI intercepts. [The story illustrates a long standing and continuing difference between the culture of law enforcement and that of intelligence. Law enforcement tends to keep its secret info locked up in a single investigatory file tied to one specific case that may, someday, go to trial. Intelligence, on the other hand, sees itself as an information service for the entire US government rather than one investigation, and distributes info widely to policymakers. ]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46092-2000Dec23.html

ALLEGED BIN LADEN ALLY LOSES FIGHT TO SUPPRESS EVIDENCE

Evidence taken from illegally tapped telephones may be used in the trial of a U.S. citizen, Wadih El-Hage, charged in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Africa, a federal judge in New York has ruled. This is an interesting case at the intersection of intelligence and law enforcement. [The phone tapping was by US intelligence in Kenya and without a warrant, which would be routine and legal (according to US law) if El-Hage was a foreigner. Presumably, US intelligence suspected him of being a terrorist but did not realize he was also an American citizen so they did not get a FISA warrant. — jdmac]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29409-2000Dec19.html
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2000_hr/HPSCI_04122000/index.htm

RICH HAVER HEADS INTELLIGENCE TRANSITION TEAM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24449-2000Dec18.html

GAY RIGHTS & WOMENS GROUPS OBJECT TO COATS AS SECDEF

Former Indiana Senator Dan Coats, expected nominee for Secretary of Defense, is strongly opposed by gay rights and womens groups. Coats is now a lawyer-lobbyist. Before the Senate, he spent 4 terms in the House. Prior to that, he was a district aide to then Congressman Dan Quayle, After college and prior to law school, Coats served 2 years in the Army, 1966-68. [Pres-elect Bush seems to have delayed a SecDef nomination, possibly because the aforementioned opposition. Paul Wolfowitz, Dean of John Hopkins (SAIS) and a former Pentagon and White House official, is also in the running. Dark horses include Donald Rice, a former SecAF; Donald Rumsfeld, a former SecDef; and Frederick Smith, founder of FedEx. — jdmac]
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28784-2000Dec19.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/23/politics/23DEFE.html
http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-20001222225545.htm

OTHER APPOINTMENT RUMORS:  Retiring Rep Tillie Fowler, (R-Fla) and former Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach possible for SecNavy. Rumint is that George Tenet may stay on as DCI; also Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld are being mentioned. Chappie James' son, MajGen Daniel James III, adjutant general of the Texas National Guard is a possible for SecAF.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/inring-2000122221435.htm

TERRORISTS PLANNED SPECTACULAR FOR LAST JANUARY

Islamic militants headed by Osama bin Laden appear to have planned a spectacular three-country attack last January that would have included multiple bombings in Jordan and the United States and the sinking of a US destroyer in Yemen, the Clinton administration's counterterrorism chief said last week. The attacks planned for last January either failed or were thwarted by arrests. [Probably because of good intelligence. — jdamc]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43852-2000Dec23.html

WEN HO LEE INVESTIGATORS FOCUSING ON TAIWAN

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42002-2000Dec22.html

CHINESE "ESPIONAGE HANDBOOK" TELLS HOW EASY WE ARE

http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-20001226232548.htm

NEITHER ISRAELI SPY JONATHON POLLARD NOR INDIAN ACTIVIST LEONARD PELTIER HAVE BEEN GRANTED CLEMENCY — YET

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43524-2000Dec22.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12649-2000Dec15.html

CHRISTMAS TREE AT CIA OFFICE OF TECHNICAL SERVICES

would thrill even fans of the fictional "Q" who produced pens that could fire bullets and cars that could swim for British agent James Bond.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40796,00.html

FAS REQUESTS CIA IG INVESTIGATION

The Federation of American Scientists has asked the CIA Inspector General to initiate an investigation of classification policy and practice at the Agency after CIA officials claimed that all historical intelligence budget information from the earliest days of the cold war through 1970 is properly classified today.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2000/12/ciaig.html

ISRAEL ACKNOWLEDGES "LIQUIDATION POLICY

Senior Israeli military officials have acknowledged a "liquidtions" policy, a tactic of hunting down and killing individual Palestinian militants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/22/world/22ISRA.html

WAS MARTIN BORMANN, HITLER'S DEPUTY, A SOVIET MOLE?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_nyquist/20001221_xcjny_critters_t.shtml

BRITISH SPY GEORGE BLAKE STILL WORKING IN MOSCOW
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20001219_2030.html

FSB SAYS THEY ARRESTED CIA SPY, A RUSSIAN, IN 1998

http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=231764§ion=default

AMERICAN "RAMBO'S" IN CAMBODIA ATTACK

http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20001219_2919.html

ESPIONAGE MUSEUM TO OPEN IN WASHINGTON IN 2 YEARS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34486-2000Dec20.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_151609.html?menu=news.latestheadlines

RUSSIAN CHECKIST'S DAY, DECEMBER 20

http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/spy211.shtml

OBITUARY: DOUGLAS BLAUFARB, 82, RETIRED CIA STATION CHIEF

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39377-2000Dec21.html

JOHN PIKE, INTELLIGENCE SCHOLAR AND WEB ARCHIVIST EXTRAORDINAIRE

John Pike, who built the FAS (IRP) web page which has for years been (in my opinion) the best intelligence website, recently left FAS to run his own website and organization. It is expected to be in operation soon.
http://www.fas.org/irp/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41034-2000Dec22.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/001219.htm

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS: TESTIMONY OF DR KENNETH ALIBEK

Former Deputy Director of the Soviet biological weapons program who defected to the US in 1992.
http://www.house.gov/hasc/testimony/106thcongress/99-10-20alibek.htm

THE DIA WEBSITE HAS BEEN MUCH UPGRADED

http://www.dia.mil/

INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES ON THE WEB

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/pages/001216/5022257.html

COMMUNISM AND ANTI-ANTI-COMMUNISM DEBATE ON H-DIPLO

Look for thread with posts by Schrecker, Haynes and/or Tanenhaus
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~diplo/

MORE ON THE NIC's "GLOBAL TRENDS 2015" REPORT

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,92539,00.html
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/globaltrends2015/index.html

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