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INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122
N. 371 (n. 121 former series), 11 September 2000
Every Two to Three Weeks
Next Issue on 2 October 2000
Publishing since 1980
Editor
Olivier Schmidt
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TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 371 (n. 121 formerly), 11 September 2000
FRONT PAGE
RUSSIA - THE WESTERN RAMMING OF THE KURSK SCENARIO p.1
TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES
AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE COMPETING TECHNOLOGIES p.2
USAF - Subcontracting Out Intelligence. p.3
PHOTOCOPIES - Nixing the Spies. p.4
IMAGERY - A Cold War History. p.5
HUMAN RIGHTS - Spying for the Right Side. p.6
MICROSOFT - Hole in Outlook. p.7
SUBMARINE TECHNOLOGY MOVES ON p.8
CODES - Elliptic Curve Codes Cracked. p.9
DATA XING - Helmut Kohl Data Killer. p.10
COUNTERFEIT - German 100 Euro Notes Can Be Photocopied. p.11
BOOTS - Real Russian "Seven League" Boots. p.12
HERBICIDES - Chemical Warfare against Opium Poppies. p.13
PEOPLE
USA/IRELAND - JAMES "WHITEY" BULGER p.14
USA - Winston P. Wiley. p.15
USA - R. James Woolsey. p.16
GREAT BRITAIN - DAVID SHAYLER p.17
GREAT BRITAIN - JESTYN THIRKELL-WHITE p.18
PORTUGAL - CARLOS COELHO p.19
SWITZERLAND - Jacques Piteeloud. p.20
SWEDEN - Jan Danielsson. p.21
RUSSIA - Vyacheslav Trubnikov. p.22
CHINA - Ji Shengde. p.23
AGENDA
COMING EVENTS THROUGH 15 OCTOBER 2000 p.24
INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD
USA - CARNIVORE BITES THE FBI p.25
- FEW SURPRISES AS CASE AGAINST LEE FALLS APART p.26
- CIA's Chile Files. p.27
- Web Posting Secrets. p.28
- No Notes on Foreign Assassinations. p.29
- Like the CIA, the FBI has its "Chile case" too. p.30
- Illegal Surveillance by Phil Cops for Republicans. p.31
- Good and Bad Press for the Secret Service. p.32
- Pentagon DSS "Cyber-Suicides". p.33
- White House Active on Privacy ... Both Ways. p.34
- Dogfight at US Customs. p.35
- Intelligence Community Tapped on the Knuckles. p.36
- Two Recent Books. p.37
CANADA - CSIS Versus Postal Workers Union. p.38
GREAT BRITAIN - COURT DECISION UPHOLDS PRESS FREEDOM p.39
- OPERATION "RUSSIA" NETS "ROTTEN APPLES" p.40
- WITHOUT DEBATE, F-117S GO TO ENGLAND p.41
- NCIS Out to Scare Everybody. p.42
- Union Rights for Spies. p.43
- Blocked SAS Book. p.44
- Terrorist Attack ... Just Above the Belt. p.45
NORTHERN IRELAND - THE "SUSPECT" TASK OF JARKING p.46
- POLICE SECURE MILITARY
INTELLIGENCE FILES p.47
FRANCE - BRITISH INTELLIGENCE "DUST-UP" IN GREECE p.48
- Telecom Uses Its Expertise in Salvador. p.49
NETHERLANDS - BVD EMAIL INTERCEPTION MAKES THE NEWS p.50
- Lockerbie Trial Gets the CIA Involved. p.51
GERMANY - MAD GETTING MADDER AT EX-AGENT p.52
ITALY - THE CIA Didn't Do It, But Didn't Stop Bombers. p.53
WESTERN EUROPE-USA - BRITS IN OR OUT ON INTELLIGENCE p.54
EU - Europol Transparency ... Just Like the EU Council. p.55
CZECH REPUBLIC - New "FBI Branch". p.56
RUSSIA - Eavesdropping Transcripts Posted. p.57
- Pope to Get His Day in Court. p.58
DUTCH ANTILLES - SCALDING REPORT ON CORRUPT POLICE p.59
GUATEMALA - A CIA History. p.60
VENEZUELA - Cuba Spies Come In From the Cold. p.61
COLOMBIA - US Drug War "Go Home". p.62
PERU - Trying to Get Rid of Montesinos. p.63
ZIMBABWE - On Government's Death List. p.64
SOUTH AFRICA - Journalists Should Work As Spies. p.65
ISRAEL - Human Rights Watch Report. p.66
- Photos of Dimona Nuclear Bomb Center. p.67
PALESTINE - Israeli Army Loses to Hamas in Nablus. p.68
IRAQ - Germany Finds a Plant Instead of Building It. p.69
IRAN - Jews Were Working for Mossad. p.70
NORTH KOREA - Spy Manual. p.71
JAPAN - Police Move Into Eavesdropping. p.72
- Naval Special Forces Unit. p.73
AUSTRALIA - New DIO Scandal. p.74
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Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 1
RUSSIA
THE WESTERN RAMMING OF THE KURSK SCENARIO
The gaping hole in the bow of the Kursk (which no Western or
Eastern authorities want the public to see) is comparable to
the gaping hole in Western treatment and coverage of the
incident by governments and the press. Try these questions on
for size.
I. If the maneuvers of the Russian Northern Fleet and the trial
of a new armament system by the Kursk were so important, then
where is the satellite imagery of the incident? Why have
Western politicians and the Western media not brought up the
question and demanded access to this information?
II. If the Kursk was one of Russia's most modern, well-equipped
and best run ships, specifically designed with a special double
hull to resist Western torpedoes, then how could a relatively
small 100 kg. equivalent TNT explosion cause catastrophic
flooding and send the submarine to the bottom in two minutes?
III. If the Kursk was at periscope depth when the incident took
place, and possibly with the periscope active, then radio
contact was possible when the first explosion took place. Why
did the Kursk maintain radio silence, not call for help and not
tell what had happened?
Both the West and the East -- including Russian President
Vladimir Putin -- accept that there are three credible
scenarios for the incident. "Intelligence" agrees with this
assertion. The first scenario is that the Kursk was carrying
out a trial firing of a new rocket-propelled torpedo whose
engine blew up, caused flooding, sent the sub to bottom, thus
causing the warhead of one of the torpedoes to explode and
flood the entire ship. The second is that Peter The Great, the
Northern Fleet's flagship missile-launching cruiser, test-fired
an anti-submarine missile which hit and destroyed the Kursk.
The third is that a collision caused the first explosion and
sank the sub. Putting aside the three questions above, let's
take a fresh and critical look at each of these scenarios.
...(cut)...
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Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 9
CODES - Elliptic Curve Codes Cracked. Elliptic Curve
Cryptography (ECC) is the "next big thing" in codes and
intended to replace the standard RSA systems. Daniel de
Rauglaudre, INRIA, France, Robert Harley, Ireland, and
colleagues revealed this summer that a brute force
collaborative effort by 9,500 computers on the Internet had
found the 109-bit ECC key used to scramble a test message.
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Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 12
BOOTS - Real Russian "Seven League" Boots. Viktor Gordeyev and
a small team of designers at the State Aviation Technical
University, in Ufa, southern Urals, have developed
"Quickwalker" boots, which allow the wearer to leap over
obstacles two meters high, take four-meter strides and reach
speeds of up to 60 kilometers an hour. Each time the wearer
takes a step and puts weight on one foot, an engine, which is
mounted in the heel of the titanium and aluminum frame on that
boot, drives a hydraulic piston that propels the wearer
forward.
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Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 20
SWITZERLAND - Jacques Piteeloud. Following the Brunner Report,
Swiss intelligence has been taken out of the hands of the
military, reorganized and given new resources. In early June,
Jacques Pitteloud was nominated to the post of Intelligence
Coordinator, the first sign of the new reform. Pitteloud, 38, a
former member of Swiss military intelligence, is from the
Valais region and trained as a lawyer and a diplomat, quite a
mixture for a young man who is supposed to reorganize a
national intelligence service.
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Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 21
SWEDEN - Jan Danielsson. In mid-August, the former prosecutor
in the Palme assassination investigation, Jan Danielsson, was
appointed as new chief of the Swedish Sakerhetspolisen (Sapo;
INT, n. 350 16) internal security service. Danielsson, 60,
believes that the former Sapo heads have all done a good job
and claims he (like all earlier chiefs since 1970) will make
Sapo more transparent. Few specialists are "holding their
breaths".
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Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 31
USA - Illegal Surveillance by Phil Cops for Republicans.
Before this summer's Republican Convention in Philadelphia, the
press had noted that political activists were under the
mysterious gaze of men with cameras keeping tabs on protest
meetings. No one claimed responsibility and the local police
swore that they were not involved, which would have been
illegal. A police spokeswoman denied that officers watched
protest meetings as the Convention neared, but a car
registration gave them away. On 20 July, reversing its earlier
denial, the Philadelphia Police Department admitted that its
officers conducted surveillance at private meetings of
activists planning protests at the Republican Convention. The
plainclothes cameramen had been using unmarked cars belonging
to the cops. Not very intelligent.
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Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 40
GREAT BRITAIN
OPERATION "RUSSIA" NETS "ROTTEN APPLES"
One of the most serious cases of police corruption in Britain
ended last month when five Scotland Yard detectives, all
members of No.9 Regional Crime Squad (9RCS), based in East
Dulwich, south London, were sentenced to prison terms ranging
from three to twelve years for a series of offences including
conspiracy to supply drugs and perverting the course of
justice. A news blackout has been imposed on the case since
last February when the principles, Detective Constable Bob
Clark and Detective Sergeant Chris Drury, were convicted. The
news was released on 4 August when a subsidiary trial of three
"sub-lieutenants" of the corrupt 9RCS, known as the "Gallon A
Night Gang" by colleagues, were convicted by an Old Bailey
jury.
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Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 48
FRANCE
BRITISH INTELLIGENCE "DUST-UP" IN GREECE
Neither the British Foreign Office, the British Ministry of
Defence (MoD), nor Vickers Defence Systems, which manufactures
the 60-ton Challenger 2 battle tank, will comment on a 6 August
report in the "Sunday Times" that the French Direction Generale
de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE) has been involved in attempts
to sabotage a oe1.2 billion bid to supply the Greek army with
the British built tank. The newspaper claims that British
defense sources have identified French agents as the chief
suspects in a covert operation designed to boost the chances of
the French Leclerc tank, manufactured by the state-owned Giat
Industries.
...(cut)...
The incident could have been an "inside job" since there is
close French-Greek cooperation in military electronics. The
"Sunday Times" must not have read our November 1998 article,
"France - 'Boxing-In' Israel & 'Boxing-Out' The US" (INT, n.
338 13) where we explained that France's leading military
electronics firm, Thomson-CSF, had recently been chosen by the
Greek Defense Ministry to help coproduce an encrypted tactical
radio communications system based on the PR4G Thomson system.
The Greek army was to purchase more than 4,000 units. If there
was indeed "French jamming", it could well have been done by
certain members of the Greek military.
...(cut)...
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Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 49
FRANCE - Telecom Uses Its Expertise in Salvador. Soon-to-be-
privatized France Telecom has been accused of playing the spy
game in Salvador. France Telecom is a major shareholder in the
local Salvadorian operator, CTE-Telecom, which recently lost in
a trial for illegal eavesdropping. Under Operation B9, local
Salvadorian users' conversations were recorded, transcribed and
ended up on the desks of the Organismo de Inteligencia del
Estado (OIE) internal security service. The US FBI or the
Echelon system could perhaps have done this better, but the
French got the job. Some French specialists have spread the
rumor that the FBI didn't like losing business in its
"backyard", so it "leveled the playing field" -- as the
expression goes -- and brought the press in on the affair.
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Intelligence, N. 371 (former n.121), 11 September 2000, p. 55
EU - Europol Transparency ... Just Like the EU Council. On 6
July, Europol Director, Juergen Storbeck, following
recommendation by the European Ombudsman concerning the rules
for public access to documents, informed Jacob Soederman that
instructions have already been given to this effect to the
Europol staff. Europol agrees to adopt the same rules as the EU
Council. This has left many specialists wondering, given the
EU's reputation, whether this comes down to more, or less,
transparency,
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