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SECTION I - CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
APPARENT SUICIDE OF STAFF DIRECTOR OF HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE --
Police found the body of Millis, 47, Staff Director of the HPSCI, on Sunday 4 June in
a motel room in northern Virginia, dead from a gunshot wound -- an apparent
suicide. An investigation is continuing. Rep Porter Goss (R-Fla.), chairman of
the HPSCI, said in a statement that "this is tragic news that stunned us all"
and expressed "deep sympathy" to Millis' wife, Linda, and their children. CIA
Director George Tenet said "we in the intelligence community are shocked and
saddened by this tragic loss. We worked closely together with John for many
years. He was a tenacious advocate for a strong national intelligence
capability."
John Millis held a PhD in southwest Asian studies. He had been
a clandestine CIA officer earlier in his career and was a frequent public
speaker on intelligence matters. He was a strong supporter of AFIO and it's
objectives. He will be missed. Rest in peace John. (WashPost 6June2000) (Jonkers
)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4896-2000Jun6.html
PANEL
ADVOCATES EASING RESTRICTIONS ON CIA -- BUT CIA OBJECTS. The National Commission
on Terrorism formally recommended this week that the CIA loosen restrictions on
the recruitment of "unsavory" counterterrorist informants, expressing a
bipartisan consensus that layers of headquarters bureaucracy had created a "risk
averse" culture among CIA officers in the field. "One cannot prowl the back
streets of states where terrorist incidents occur and recruit only nice people
in order to inform on terrorist groups," former CIA director R. James Woolsey, a
commission member, told reporters as the 10-member panel released its final
report.
But CIA officials immediately disputed the commission's conclusion,
insisting that guidelines -- implemented five years ago by former CIA director
John M. Deutch in the wake of a political brouhaha over alleged human rights
abuses in Guatemala by CIA informants -- had not harmed counterterrorist
operations. Operations are said to be going forward with appropriate agents, but
with care taken to have headquarters approval so that CIA line personnel are
protected.
The case for the use of "polluted" informants and agents rather
than Choir boy types is plain enough, justified by the cause of pursuing US
policies and campaigns against terrorism, etc. Thus the report is no surprise
and on the face of it, valid. This is a case where both media-fanned political
human rights hysteria and bureaucratic CYA efforts impact on clandestine
operations. One trusts that common-sense prevails and our capability is not
damaged.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4134-2000Jun5.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Curbing-Terrorism.html
(Macartney & Jonkers)
BRITISH DEFENSE ATTACHÉ ASSASSINATED IN
GREECE. A British defense attaché was killed June 8 in an ambush shooting that
was attributed to the "November 17" group. The victim, Brigadier Stephen
Saunders, was shot in the head and chest as he drove to work. Two men on a
motorcycle fired at the car on a main avenue connecting the capital's northern
suburbs to the city center. The shooting occurred at almost the exact spot where
an American naval attaché was gunned down in 1983. "November 17," which has
claimed "credit" for this murder, is a 25 year old leftist and anti-American
group that seems to have a "Robin Hood" status in Greece which has heretofore
protected them from vigorous law enforcement -- that is precisely why the recent
US Commission on Terrorism recommended that Greece be listed as "non
cooperative" and have sanctions imposed.
Since 1975, when November 17
claimed credit for killing the CIA Station Chief in Athens, the group has been
blamed for 23 killings, 4 of them Americans. In this case, the group said the
British Brigadier was killed because of his role in last year's Kosovo air
operations.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23945-2000Jun8.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27114-2000Jun9.html
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/060900athens-diplomat-killing.html
(Macartney)
INTERNET INTERCEPT REGULATION
IN EUROPE -- Telecoms operators must allow law enforcement agencies to intercept
e-mail messages according to new legislation being prepared by the European
Commission. The proposals, prompted by a perceived increase in crime over the
Internet, will also look at the prevention of spam mail and anonymous and
unsolicited messages. The drive will broaden existing EU data privacy directives
to cover email, but is expected to suggest strict guidelines on exactly what
communications can be intercepted and why.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/22/ns-15855.html
(Levine Newsbits 06/08) (Jonkers)
US CYBERATTACK ANALYSIS PROGRAM -- The General Services Administration
on 8 June released the draft request for proposals on the Federal Intrusion
Detection Network (FIDNet), a program that will provide a single analysis and
response center for government-wide cyberattacks. The FIDNet program is intended
to create an environment that will enable civilian agencies to react
collectively to cyberattacks and security incidents rather than having each
agency trying to respond on its own.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0605/web-fidnet-06-08-00.asp
(Levine's Newsbits 0608) (Jonkers)
SECTION II - CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE
HOMOSEXUAL PRIDE MONTH AT CIA -- Gay Representative
Barney Frank (D-MA) addressed a "gay pride"celebration at CIA headquarters on
June 6th. Some 100 gay intelligence workers met in the CIA's awards suite,
members of ANGLE, the Agency Network of Gay and Lesbian Employees, which
received official recognition last year from the agency's Office of Equal
Employment Opportunity. The group also included a number of homosexual NSA
employees, members of the Alan Turing Chapter of Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual
Employees (GLOBE), which was formed at its Fort Meade headquarters last year.
A decade ago homosexuals were automatically denied US government security
clearances, but that policy began to change in 1991, and was changed absolutely
by a Clinton Executive Order in 1995 prohibiting the denial of security
clearances "solely on the basis of the sexual orientation of the employee." The
Clinton executive order rescinded an earlier directive, dating from the
Eisenhower administration, that classified homosexuality as a "sexual
perversion" which had made it automatic grounds for denying a clearance.
Both CIA and NSA have been low-key in covering these developments. Rep.
Porter Goss noted that he was ambivalent on the issue. Former DCI James Woolsey
commented that "the problem in earlier times was one of blackmail. If the
blackmail threat is removed, which ... was ratified by the Clinton order in the
summer of 1995, it seems to me gays and lesbians ought to able to be CIA
officers."
As the next act, ANGLE is considering joining homosexual State
Department employees in asking for the government to pay some overseas living
expenses for their domestic partners, as is done for spouses of heterosexuals.
(WashPost 9 June2000, p. 1) (Jonkers)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25298-2000Jun8.html
CIA SEEKS TO HIRE ETHNIC
AMERICAN CASE OFFICERS -- CIA, on the biggest hiring effort in years, is pushing
diversity -- partly to "look more like America," and also to hire case officers
who will blend in overseas. Officials say that a third of the new operations
officers hired in the past year have been women, while 11 percent have been
minorities as traditionally defined (blacks, Asians or Hispanics). Moreover, 20
percent of all new operations officers are native speakers of a foreign language
and 75 percent have advanced proficiency in foreign languages, many because they
were born or have lived abroad. Almost half have advanced degrees. "We are
currently hiring officers in the DO with specialized skills directly applicable
to combating terrorism worldwide," such as fluency in Russian, Arabic, Farsi and
Chinese, said James L. Pavitt, the agency's deputy director for
operations.
COMMENT: Not mentioned is what used to be a concern in regard to
hiring "ethnics." That is, might they be more loyal to their motherland than to
their new country? Probably not, but concerns about "racial profiling" make it
politically incorrect to ask or even consider such questions.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13495-2000May26.html
(Macartney)
NEW SENSORS IN THE BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM AND NARCOTICS -- New tech
sensors may soon be used to scan airline passengers for contraband. Researchers
believe that when terrorists and drug couriers touch explosives or drug-laden
packages, their hands pick up chemical residue. Traces of the residue could then
be transferred to travel documents such as passports, customs forms or boarding
passes. Depending on the type of chemical, residue can remain on hands from a
few days to a few weeks. The machines are sensitive enough to detect just a
fraction of a fingerprint containing traces of explosive or narcotic. http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/05/29/documentscanner0529_01.html?s=nav_bn_headlines
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/05/29/documentscanner0529_01.html?s=nav_bn_headlines
(Macartney)
INFORMATION AGE INSECURITY -
LAPTOP COMPUTERS -- Britain's Defense Minister Lewis Moonie told the House of
Commons this week that, since May, 1997, fifty-nine laptops have been stolen and
eight others cannot be accounted for by the staff members. Some of these laptop
computers contained classified or otherwise sensitive information, including at
least one holding highly secret data on the joint U.S./British stealth strike
fighter aircraft.
U.S. intelligence and corporate security officials have
also become increasingly alarmed over the growing incidence of theft of laptop
computers. In the DoD, a counterintelligence investigation is said to be
underway on this subject. Senior U.S. counterintelligence authorities are
convinced that there is a concerted effort by unidentified foreign intelligence
services to steal laptops belonging to high-level Western military and
intelligence officials. During recent hearings convened by U.S. lawmakers, the
FBI acknowledged that foreign intelligence agencies have made the theft of
laptops a priority. The officials said laptops belonging to U.S. and Western
foreign policy and intelligence officials are prime targets of foreign
intelligence services.
Michael J. Waguespack, director of the U.S. National
Counterintelligence Center (NACIC, http://www.nacic.gov), has previously noted that
"economic and industrial espionage" has involved "break-ins in which laptop
computers or disks were stolen ... the target was information rather than
equipment.... Some countries persuade hotel operators to provide intelligence
collectors with access to visitors' luggage or rooms. During these surreptitious
break-ins, known colloquially as 'bag ops,' unattended luggage is searched for
sensitive information, which is either copied or stolen."
According to the
Technology Theft Prevention Foundation, an average of one laptop per week is
stolen from hotels and the convention center in Santa Clara, Calif., a popular
location for technology industry conferences. "There are some organizations that
do industrial espionage that have bounties out on the notebook computers of
officers of specific corporations," John G. O'Leary, director of education for
the Computer Security Institute pointed out several years ago. "Those
organizations will pay tens of thousands of dollars for those notebooks, because
the
information on them may be worth millions of dollars."
(SOURCES (tm) -
Issue #209, 8 Jun 2000
http://www.dso.com/newsletter.html
(Jonkers)
SECTION III - BOOKS
INTELLIGENCE AND THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN: Britain, America and the
Politics of Secret Service, by Richard J. Aldrich, Cambridge University Press,
UK, 2000, ISBN 0 521 64186 1, 384 pp (in very small print), plus Notes, Index,
Bibliography. Professor Richard Aldridge, a former Fulbright Scholar at
Georgetown University and currently the Director of the Asia-Pacific Studies
Institute at the University of Nottingham, has produced a scholarly treatise on
the development of the British secret services and its relations with its
American intelligence counterparts in WWII. He posits that, after the battle of
Midway, the allies, as embodied at the highest levels by Churchill and
Roosevelt, were increasingly concerned with each other's future ambitions in
Asia, and that this influenced the conduct of intelligence cooperation. To
illustrate, this quote from Winston Churchill, addressed to Anthony Eden in
April 1945: "Foreign Secretary, What do you say? I am lukewarm and therefore
looking for guidance. On the whole I incline against another S.O.E - O.S.S duel,
on ground too favourable to that dirty Donovan." The latter, of course, was
General William J. Donovan, a sincere and valuable friend to Britain, so why
this reference? It was provoked by the clandestine rivalry over the future of
China, and in microcosm illustrates the complex wartime connections between the
politics of secret service and the politics of empire, explored at length in
this book. Readable (even if the print is small) and expertly done, for the
scholar and student of political science and history. (Jonkers)
SECTION IV -
MISCELLANEOUS
EBBN #6 Schedule Correction:
The NMIA Potomac Chapter Luncheon is scheduled for Tuesday 13 June, not on the
15th as announced. Updated information appeared on our website at www.afio.com.
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