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INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122
N. 476, 27 March 2006
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TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 476, 27 March 2006
FRONT PAGE
IRAQ - THIRD ANNIVERSARY "WORSE THAN 'NORMAL BAD NEWS'" p.1
TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES
TIMELINE FROM 10 MARCH TO 23 MARCH p.2
ARMOR, THE RPG AND THE ANTI-RPG p.3
DATA MINING DIGS ITS WAY OUT OF SIGHT p.4 RECENT BOOKS & REPORTS p.5
PEOPLE
USA - Doug Hoelscher. p.6
- Claude Allen. p.7
GREAT BRITAIN - MALCOLM KENDALL-SMITH p.8 GREAT BRITAIN/ISRAEL - DANIEL
BETHLEHEM p.9
AGENDA
COMING EVENTS THROUGH 31 MAY 2006 p.10
INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD
USA - HALLMARKS OF CHEATING, CRONYISM & BULLYING p.11
- TORTURE NEWS p.12
- FBI VIOLATIONS MAKE THE NEWS p.13
- MONEY TALKS AT THE PENTAGON & GET'S IT WRONG p.14
- "SNOOPGATE" AT CONGRESS, THE COURTS & THE FBI p.15
- CIA HIDES PUBLIC INFO & KNEW NO IRAQI WMD EXISTED p.16
- BUSH'S "PORT DEAL" FAR FROM OVER AND DONE p.17
- "PLAMEGATE" SLOWLY CREEKS FORWARD p.18
- US MEDIA IN THE MIRROR OF THE IRAQ "SUCCESS" p.19
- Lobbying Business As Usual. p.20
GREAT BRITAIN - SIR IAN'S ACCUMULATION OF ERRORS p.21
- THE "IAN BLAIR OUT" PROJECT p.22
- FACILITATING THE CIA p.23 WESTERN EUROPE - BRITAIN, FRANCE,
SPAIN & THE UN p.24 EASTERN EUROPE - Chechnya, Milosevic, Russia & Belarus.
p.25 LATIN AMERICA - Chavez, Bush, Venezuela & Mexico. p.26 ISRAEL/GREAT
BRITAIN - HELPING TO BUILD THE A-BOMB p.27 ISRAEL/PALESTINE - Olmert
Offensive & US Warning. p.28 IRAQ - BRIT MEMOS, US ALL WRONG FROM THE
BEGINNING p.29 IRAN - CLANDESTINE & PUBLIC POLICY UNDER WAY p.30
- GOING UNDERGROUND p.31
CHINA - HONG KONG'S NEW "GOP" SURVEILLANCE LEGISLATION p.32 ASIA -
Afghanistan, Philippines & North Korea. p.33
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Intelligence, N. 476, 27 March 2006, p. 1
IRAQ
THIRD ANNIVERSARY "WORSE THAN 'NORMAL BAD NEWS'"
Some many things are going wrong in Iraq under the US occupation that it's
difficult to organize available information and give an overview instead of
simply listing the topics of the "worst than normal bad news". The last
fortnight has witnessed the third anniversary of the Bush White House's
invasion of Iraq and generated a series of "record card"
reports and projections concerning the future of the Iraq war.
The wave of violence, which began with the bombing of the Golden Dome in
Samarra (see "Iraq - Golden Dome & US Credibility Destroyed", INT, n. 475
28), continues unabated and has even spread to the Kurds. The US military
and its recent actions has also become a major topic with reports of
massacres by US troops. The chronic problems of corruption and
mismanagement, by both Iraqi and US authorities, also continue to be a major
topic.
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Intelligence, N. 476, 27 March 2006, p. 2
TIMELINE FROM 10 MARCH TO 23 MARCH
Although all the Bush White House scandals continue, the Iraq war has
clearly dominated all other intelligence and security topics in the past
forthnight's press reports. What the media has been calling "Sectarian
Fighting" may be nothing more than a deliberate Baathist and/or Qaida tactic
to discredit the US and its local allies in Iraq (see Iraq - Golden Dome &
US Credibility Destroys in our previous issue; INT n. 475 28) who also
discredited themselves with Operation Swarmer and recent reports of US troop
"revenge killings" including elderly people, women and children.
On the home front, Bush White House faithfuls are trying to shorn up the
failing regime by making warrantless surveillance of the general public
(snoopgate) legal, watering down legislation to control lobbying and
blocking investigations of Katrina mismanagement and political corruption.
In our two preceding issue, we noted that: "Although the Bush White House is
plagued with numerous scandals and crises, the three current major ones are
Iran and its nuclear program, the 'domestic' NSA spying scandal, and the
series of reports on US torture/abuse and calls for the closure of
Guantanamo ... And on the home front, things aren't getting any better. The
Plame case continues and seems to be getting closer to Vice President
Cheney, the Abramoff corruption case seems to be getting closer to President
Bush, the Katrina incompetence case is tearing apart the administration, and
now the US port sales scandal pits the Bush White House against even
conservative Republicans." All these topics are now in the background as the
third anniversary of the Bush White House invasion of Iraq took place.
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AGENDA
Intelligence, N. 476, 27 March 2006, p. 10
COMING EVENTS THROUGH 31 MAY 2006
Call for proposals for the Data Surveillance and Privacy Protection CRCS
Workshop 2006 on 3 June 3 2006 at Harvard University's Center for Research
on Computation and Society, Cambridge, Massachusets,
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], eecs.harvard.edu/crcs/.
27 March, Amman, Jordan, SOFEX Conference, [log in to unmask]
27-28 March, Las Vegas, Nevada, TTC, Future Air Warfare Conference,
ttcus.com.
27-28 March, Tysons Corner, Virginia, DSCA Worldwide Conference on Security
Cooperation.
30-31 March, London, Saab, Air Weapons Integration, defenceiq.com/2628a.
31 March, deadline for papers for the 34th Research Conference on
Communication, Information, and Internet Policy - Telecommunications Policy
Research Conference, tprc.org/TPRC06/call06.htm.
31 March, deadline for presentations at the 11th European Symposium On
Research In Computer Security at Hamburg, Germany, on 18-20 September 2006,
esorics06.tu-harburg.de/ and softconf.com/starts/ESORICS06/submit.html.
2 April, deadline for proposals for the 6th European Dependable Computing
Conference on 18-20 October 2006 in Coimbra, Portugal,
edcc.dependability.org.
3-6 April, Colorado Springs, Colorado, National Space Symposium.
4-5 April, Hampton, Virginia, USJFCOM Symposium & Exhibit.
4-6 April, Washington, Sea-Air-Space 2006.
5-6 April, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Marine South 2006.
9-12 April, Nashville, Tennessee, AAAA 2006.
18-19 April, Arlington, Virginia, Precision Strike Annual Programs Review,
precisionstrike.org.
19-20 April, York, England, University of York, Third International
Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing,
cs.york.ac.uk/security/spc-2006.html.
20 April, Vienna, Austria, Vienna University of Technology, First
International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security,
ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ares2006/.
20 April, Fourth Workshop on Link Analysis, Counterterrorism and Security,
Web mining and text mining applied to security and counterterrorism,
cs.rit.edu/~amt/linkanalysis06/.
22-23 April, Montreal, Quebec, UC Irvine Institute for Software Research and
the National Science Foundation, CHI 2006 Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced
Personalization, isr.uci.edu/pep06/.
24-25 April, Boston, Massachusetts, 11th Search Engine Meeting,
infonortics.com/searchengines/.
24-28 April, Tarn, France, Cryptography and Information Security Workshop,
in French, laas.fr/crypto-sec/.
27-28 April, Arlington, Virginia, Cruise Missile & IED Defense Conference,
defensenews.com/conferences/CMD.
30 April-2 May, Hamburg, Germany, First International Conference on Legal,
Security and Privacy Issues in IT (LSPI) CompLex, kierkegaard.co.uk/.
1-5 May, Indianapolis, Indiana, Global Demilitarization Meeting.
2-5 May, Washington, Association for Computing Machinery, Computers,
Freedom, and Privacy Conference (CFP 2006), cfp2006.org/.
8-11 May, Montreal, Canada, RCMP, in partnership with the US Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA), International Drug Enforcement Conference
(IDEC XXIV) with Pierre Yves Bourduas
(President) and Karen P. Tandy (Co-President). This annual conference brings
together high-ranking drug law enforcement officials from over 70 countries
to share drug-related information and to develop a coordinated approach to
combat global drug issues, dea.gov/programs/idec.htm.
9-11 May, Phoenix, Arizona, American Helicopter Society (AHS), 62nd Annual
Meeting, vtol.org.
10 May, deadline for proposals for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
project, "Social Science Research on Terrorism"
which will inform national criminal justice policy and practice,
ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000744.pdf.
16-18 May, London, ITEC 2006.
16-21 May, Berlin, ILA Air Show.
21-24 May, Berkeley, California, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy,
with sessions on Signature Generation, Detection, Privacy, Formal Methods,
Analyzing and Enforcing Policy, Analyzing Code, Authentication, Attacks, and
Systems, ieee- security.org/TC/SP2006/oakland06.html.
24-25 May, London, RUSI Air Power Conference.
29 May-1 June, Melbourne, Australia, SimTect 2006.
31 May-2 June 2006, Rennes, France, Symposium on the Security of Information
and Communications Technologies (SSTIC 06), www.sstic.org.
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Intelligence, N. 476, 27 March 2006, p. 27
ISRAEL/GREAT BRITAIN
HELPING TO BUILD THE A-BOMB
Britain's complicity in Israel's clandestine nuclear program was far more
extensive than the secret shipment of 20 tons of heavy water in the late
1950s which helped start up the nuclear reactor at Dimona (INT, n. 464 21).
According to documents obtained by the BBC under the Freedom of Information
Act, the UK also made hundreds of shipments of materials, in the mid- 1960s,
which were used to develop Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal, including
plutonium, uranium, lithium, beryllium and tritium. The documents reveal
that in 1966 the Labour government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson agreed to
sell supply 10mg of plutonium to Israel, despite a warning by British
Military Intelligence that the amount -- well short of the 5kg required to
build an atomic bomb -- still had "significant military value" and would
enable Israel to carry out experimental work which would speed up its
nuclear weapons program.
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Intelligence, N. 476, 27 March 2006, p. 30
IRAN
CLANDESTINE & PUBLIC POLICY UNDER WAY
There is both a clandestine and a public side to the ongoing Iranian nuclear
development crisis. In our previous issue (INT, n. 475), we mentioned two
reports dealing with the clandestine US side: 0223 FT, US Marines Probe
Tensions among Iran's Minorities; 0302 Progress Report, Iran - New "Office
of Iranian Affairs" Outlined in State Department Cable. We also mentioned
that "domestic" Iranian problems could be related to this clandestine US
effort: 0227 ERRI, Bomb Blasts Hit Iran Oil Cities. This clandestine US
campaign has been confirmed by another recent report:
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