WIN #42-04 dtd 15 November 2004
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SECTION I -- CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
Defense Intentions on Improving Intelligence
Mike of Hubris Fame Departs the Agency
SECTION II -- CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE
CIA At Biggest Deployment Ever In U.S.A.
Indonesian Intel Boss Admits To Spying on Aussies
SECTION III -- CYBER INTELLIGENCE
Military to Have Their Own Secure Internet
Terrorists Could Use Cyber Crime Tools to Attack U.S.A.
Maldives Ruler Shuts Down Internet
SECTION IV -- BOOKS, SOURCES, AND ISSUES
Books
Issues
CIA Vets Challenge Gitmo Intel Value
SECTION V -- CAREERS, NOTES, LETTERS/QUERIES, CORRECTIONS, COMING EVENTS, OBITUARIES
Coming Events
19 November - Alexandria, VA - CT-CI Academy - Surviving Today’s Economic Espionage Challenges
19 November - Arlington, VA - OSIS Veterans Meet
6 - 7 December - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - SCIP Hosts Master of CI Series
29 January - Washington, DC - International Spy Museum - KidSpy School: Spy Gadgetry Workshop
8 - 10 February - Crystal City, VA - New Intel Conference Debuts
6 - 9 April -- Chicago, IL - SCIP Annual Conference
15-16 April - Saratoga Springs, NY - Cryptologic Veterans Reunion
Obituary
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SECTION I -- CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
DDCI AND DDO QUIT CIA - Deputy Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin and Deputy Director of Operations Stephen Kappes resigned from their posts on 12 November.
McLaughlin, a 32-year agency veteran. said he resignation was a purely personal decision, the Washington Times reported.
(http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20041112-113809-5662r.htm)
McLaughlin served as acting DCI in the interval between the departure of DCI George Tenet in July and Porter Goss assuming the post in September.
Commenting on McLauglin's resignation, Goss said, "John is steeped in the American intelligence community, which in its care, rigor and collegiality will forever bear his stamp."
"On a personal note, I want to thank John for the kindness he has shown me in my opening weeks as director of central intelligence," Goss said. "I am certain that John has a lot of good magic left in him, which he will use for the benefit of all. He closes this chapter of his service with the admiration of American intelligence officers everywhere."
McLaughlin is known to colleagues as Merlin for performing magic tricks, among them turning a $1 bill into other denominations.
The DDCI’s resignation followed a series of confrontations over the past week between senior operations officials and Goss's new chief of staff, Patrick Murray, the Washington Post cited current and former CIA officials as saying. According to the Post, McLaughlin quit after warning Goss that Murray, a former Hill staffer, was treating senior officials disrespectfully and risked provoking widespread resignations. Kappes tendered his resignation after a confrontation with Murray.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46580-2004Nov12.html)
Other senior clandestine service officers are threatening to leave, the Post was told. If this occurs, a former officer said, the middle-level people who move up may eventually work out, but meanwhile the level of experience and competence will go down.
"It's the worst roiling I've ever heard of," a former senior official said. "There's confusion throughout the ranks and an extraordinary loss of morale and incentive."
According to the Post, tension has accompanied Goss's arrival at Langley in particular because of four former staffers of the House intel committee he brought with him. They are considered to have an abrasive manner and have been highly critical of the DO.
In a confrontation on 5 November, Murray raised the issue of leaks with the associate deputy director of counterintelligence, a highly respected officer whose name is being withheld because she is undercover. Murray told her that if anything in the newly appointed executive director's personnel file appeared in the news, she would be held responsible, according to one agency official and two former colleagues with knowledge of the conversation.
The executive director, whose appointment was announced on 5 November, has been identified only as Dusty as he is undercover.
(See Goss Picks CIA Executive Director, Again WIN #41-04 dtd 8 November
2004) Goss's first choice for the job, Michael V. Kostiw, withdrew last month when the press reported he had resigned from the agency over 20 years ago after being arrested for shoplifting. Goss then appointed him a special assistant.
The associate deputy director of counterintelligence told Michael Sulick, associate deputy director of operations, about Murray's warning. Sulick told Kappes and a meeting with Goss was arranged. After Goss left the meeting, Sulick had words with Murray who then demanded that Kappes fire Sulick. Kappes refused and informed Goss that he would resign. Goss and other White House officials appealed to Kappes to delay his decision until 15 November.
According to the Post on 14 November, four former DDO’s tried in the past month to offer Goss advice about changing the clandestine service without setting off a rebellion, but Goss declined to speak to any of them. The four were Thomas Twetten, Jack Downing, Richard F. Stoltz and the recently retired James Pavitt. They wanted to save Goss from going through what DCIs Stansfield Turner and John Deutch experienced when they tried to make personnel changes quickly, a former senior official said.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48254-2004Nov13.html)
Turner wanted to clean house after the Watergate scandal and agency "dirty tricks" exposed during the Church Commission hearings. Deutch sought to change the inbred culture of the DO staff after the Iran-contra scandal, the Post said.
Possible successors for Kappes, the daily reported, were the director of the counterterrorism center and the station chief in London. Both are undercover and could not be identified by name. A third possible candidate was Richard Lawless Jr., a former CIA operations officer who is deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific affairs. Lawless left the CIA after running afoul of senior DO officers while carrying out secret missions for DCI William Casey. Lawless was described as having long-term ties to President Bush's brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
The view of the clandestine service held by Goss' congressional aides was contained in a House intelligence committee report in June. It alleged the DO suffered misallocation and redirection of resources, poor prioritization of objectives, micromanagement of field operations and a continued political aversion to operational risk.
The report was drafted primarily by Jay Jakub, whom Goss has appointed to the newly created position of special assistant for operations and analysis.
Goss plans to dilute the authority of the DO by removing the director as the central figure in appointing country station chiefs overseas and regional division chiefs at headquarters, the Post reported. (DKR)
DEFENSE INTENTIONS ON IMPROVING INTELLIGENCE - A major push to expand and improve military intelligence has been instituted by the Defense Department to gain a clearer picture of Iraq's complex of local "insurgents" and foreign terrorists. The Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Lt. Gen. William Boykin, recently told an Army forum, "We're going to spend a lot more time in the future finding an enemy - determining who he's connected to, how he's trained, how he's financed, how he's supported - than we are maneuvering in the battle space." The General also opined, "The fact is, we [took] Baghdad in weeks, but we're going to be fighting an intelligence war there for a very long time."
In recognition of the need to improve US intelligence performance in Iraq and Afghanistan, a 2003 Army survey found "the cold-war structures and techniques we had were not particularly well suited to the missions," according to one Army intelligence official. As one example, he said the survey found that 400,000 patrols by US troops had generated only 6,000 reports to the brigade level.
To bolster its intelligence organization and deployed units to meet the long-term challenge posed by terrorists and insurgents, the DOD plans to create a series of new interconnected "Joint Intelligence Operations Centers," giving regional commanders more control over intelligence collection. And the Army plans by 2007 to increase the number of MI troops by 9,000. In the meantime, more MI individuals are being assigned to each Army brigade. The Army is also rewriting its doctrine on human intelligence, including interrogation. The officials interviewed for the article on the envisioned improvements indicated a keen awareness of the real world problems of intelligence collection in a populace passively supportive of insurgents or intimidated by them. Moreover, they noted that tensions exist between the priorities of ground commanders in waging combat operations and protecting their forces, and the need to conduct patient, discreet but often risky operations merely to gain intelligence on the enemy. It is to be hoped that such measures to improve intelligence performance in the field can move ahead expeditiously despite the long-running, politics-and-turf-riven, Washington-level-only reorganization struggle currently enmeshing serving politicians, former politicians, would-be-politicians, bereaved survivors, self-anointed academic experts, and even a few intelligence types who will have to make sense of the "improved organization." results
(D Harvey / Christian Science Monitor 5 Nov '04, Ann Scott Tyson)
MIKE OF HUBRIS FAME DEPARTS THE AGENCY - The man who, depending on your viewpoint, achieved fame or notoriety as 'Anonymous' has quit the CIA after 22 years with the agency, the Christian Science Monitor reported on 12 November. A former head of the Usama bin Ladin unit, Mike Scheuer was attached to the Counterterrorist Center at the time of his departure.
(http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1112/p02s02-usfp.html)
As 'Anonymous,' Scheuer wrote Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, an account critical of the Bush administration's Iraq policy and its conduct of the war on terror. The book became a best seller this summer. As the Monitor pointed out Scheuer's conduct has been "a little like yelling an obscenity at a wedding. In the etiquette of Washington, it has always been an unwritten rule that members of the CIA don't publicly criticize the people they work for - namely the U.S. government."
Scheuer said he left the agency after what he called cordial talks with his superiors. He said he came to the conclusion that there has not been adequate national debate over the nature of the threat posed by UBL and the nature and dimensions of the intelligence reform needed to address that threat. He hoped to produce a more substantive debate, he told the Monitor.
Scheuer continued to vent his criticism of the administration after publication of his book. According to the Monitor, government officials and outside experts say that relations between the CIA and the administration have never before been so contentious. And never, they say, has the agency so publicly crossed the line to involve itself in policy debate.
The agency cleared Scheuer's book for classified information and potential mentions of sources and methods, but was unable to prevent its publication. The CIA also permitted Scheuer to grant media interviews, but when he apparently went beyond what it thought he would say, it squelched his speaking engagements.
In an interview with the Washington Post a few days before he resigned, Scheuer said that more than 50 percent of those working on terrorism and against UBL are assigned to the job temporarily, for 30 to 90 days at a time. Some of the most experienced officers have been assigned to Iraq, or sent to the FBI or the DHS terrorist threat information center. As a result, he said, the CIA has diluted the pool that supports people overseas and because of that, in the long term, "we're less safe than we should be."
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35237-2004Nov8.html)
Scheuer said he believed the agency silenced him after CIA officials grasped he was blaming the agency, not the administration, for mishandling terrorism. "As long as the book was being used to bash the president, they gave me carte blanche to talk to the media," he said. "But this is a story about the failure of the bureaucracy to support policymakers."
In Imperial Hubris, Scheuer wrote that the war in Iraq was an avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked war against a foe who posed no immediate threat but whose defeat offered economic advantages.
Robert Baer, a retired CIA operative who has written books critical of the administration, told the Monitor he thinks Scheuer went beyond the acceptable. "The CIA should not be in a hostile position to the president," Baer said. "And the ‘Imperial Hubris’ book had to look that way to the White House."
In an article published in the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Scheuer includes excerpts from a letter he sent to the Senate Intelligence Committee in early September that lists 10 instances since 1996 in which, he claims, the decisions of senior intelligence community bureaucrats have been at the core of the failure against UBL.
"I've presented this information to two Investigator General studies before 9/11 and to two IG studies inside our building after 9/11," Scheuer told the Monitor. "I've testified before the 9/11 commission and the Shelby-Goss commissions. So I've exhausted all the internal mechanisms available to an agency officer ... but I think to the average American, this is important."
It was unknown how the CIA would deal with the criticisms, the Monitor concluded. (DKR)
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SECTION II -- CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE
CIA AT BIGGEST DEPLOYMENT EVER IN USA - The CIA has assigned dozens of case officers and analysts to work with FBI agents throughout the USA in the most extensive deployment of intelligence officers on domestic soil in the spy agency's history, according to USA Today on 8 November.
Officials at both agencies said CIA officers have been paired with FBI agents in the bureau's offices to assist terror-related investigations. This was the CIA's broadest association with federal law enforcement since it was created in 1947.
Intel and FBI officials say that CIA officers are not involved in criminal investigations. Rather, USA Today reported, CIA officers are providing the FBI with instant access to international databases to determine whether domestic terror suspects might have contacts with terror organizations abroad.
Officials in both agencies, who asked not to be identified because of their agencies' policies, indicated that in nearly every case they work with the nation's network of 100 Joint Terrorism Task Forces. The task forces draw upon members from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
CIA officers and FBI agents worked together prior to 9/11 on intelligence-related investigations, most often under limited exchange agreements between both agencies' headquarters and in key FBI counterterrorism offices, such as New York. "This kind of relationship has been encouraged for years," Michael O'Neil, a former CIA general counsel, said. "If we're going to accept that terrorism can touch the U.S., then you've got to have the best exchange of information among police services." (DKR)
INDONESIAN INTEL BOSS ADMITS TO SPYING ON AUSSIES - Indonesian spies targeted key Australian military and political figures and bugged the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia's intelligence chief said on 14 November, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Hendro Priyono, the outgoing chief of the Badan Intelijen Negara agency, said all embassies in Jakarta were bugged, adding that Indonesia had found much evidence that its embassies were also tapped.
During the Timor crisis, the targets were both military and civilian, Priyono said. Priyono said he had never succeeded in recruiting Australians to betray their country. "Almost but not quite," he told a Sunday TV program on the Australian Nine Network.
Alan Behm, who headed international policy for the defense force during the Timor crisis, said he was not surprised at the revelations. "They certainly would have wanted to monitor what sort of forces Australia was deploying to East Timor, and what the capabilities were."
Warren Reed, a former officer of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, said the Indonesians got deep inside it and he believed spies were still accessing top-secret information.
Priyono claimed the spying had stopped as the two countries had joined forces to fight terrorism. But former Indonesian presidents Abdurrahman Wahid and Megawati Sukarnoputri told the program there was resentment at the growing Australian security presence in Indonesia. Wahid charged that Australia "meddles in our affairs." Sukarnoputri said there had never been an easy relationship between the two countries.
Prime Minister John Howard refused to say whether he knew about the bugging. "I neither confirm nor deny stories about those sorts of security things," Howard told the Nine Network. (DKR)
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SECTION III -- CYBER INTELLIGENCE
MILITARY TO HAVE THEIR OWN SECURE INTERNET - The Pentagon has begun building its own secure Internet, called the Global Information Grid, the New York Times reported on 13 November.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/13/technology/13warnet.html?oref=login&th)
Peter Teets, Under Secretary of the Air Force, told Congress GIG would enable marines in a Humvee, in a faraway land, in the middle of a rainstorm, to open up their laptops, request imagery from a spy satellite and get it downloaded within seconds.
The Defense Information Security Agency is building the net in conjunction with a consortium of military contractors and information-technology developers set up on 28 September. The group
includes: Boeing, Cisco Systems, Factiva, General Dynamics, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, I.B.M., Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Oracle, Raytheon, and Sun Microsystems.
Conceived six years ago, the first GIG connections were laid six weeks ago. It may take two decades and, Pentagon documents suggest, cost $200 billion or more for hardware and software in the next decade or so.
Advocates say networked computers will be the most powerful weapon in the American arsenal. Fusing weapons, secret intelligence and soldiers in a global network would change the military in the way the Internet has changed business and culture.
Some in the Pentagon, however, think net-centric warfare may only be an expensive fad. They point to the street fighting going on in Iraq and say firepower and armor mean more than fiber optic cables and wireless connections.
The biggest obstacle to GIG may be the military bureaucracy. The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines are used to building their own weapons and have their own traditions. The envisaged network would cut through these ways. (DKR)
TERRORISTS COULD USE CYBER CRIME TOOLS TO ATTACK U.S.A. - Hacking and identity theft tools now mainly used by eastern European organized crime could be used by terrorists to attack the United States, according to FBI Deputy Assistant Director Steve Martinez, Reuters reported on 10 November.
(http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=6777527§ion=news)
"Tools and methods used by these increasingly skilled hackers could be employed to cripple our economy and attack our critical infrastructure as part of a terrorist plot," Martinez told a conference in Miami on Internet security. People should assume that terrorist bodies would seek to hire hackers to raise money, aid command and control, spread propaganda, recruit members and attack at little risk.
Martinez, acting head of the bureau's Cyber Division, said the FBI had not seen traditional organized crime in the United States migrate to the Internet while eastern European gangs had embraced cyber crime with enthusiasm. (Lawrence S., DKR)
MALDIVES RULER SHUTS DOWN INTERNET - Late this summer, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives, completely cut off Internet access and text messaging by cell phone so as to quell a two-day pro-democracy uprising, Foreign Policy reports in its November/December issue.
(http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story2727.php)
Gayoom has ruled the Maldives since 1978, and his cabinet said the decision reflected patience, wisdom, and leadership. Free-speech advocates called the move irresponsible and unprecedented. There was one exception to Gayoom’s Internet ban: his personal Web site remained up and running, with regular updates during the 48-hour affair.
Foreign Policy invited readers to report to caughtinthenet@ceip.org incidents in which a government, corporation, or any organization was involved in a unique technological abuse. (DKR)
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SECTION IV -- BOOKS, SOURCES, AND ISSUES
Books
PROFIT BEFORE SAFETY - Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Holt/Times, 320 pp. $25)
Dwyer and Flynn, who write for the New York Times, have drawn on thousands of phone messages, e-mails and interviews with eyewitnesses for their account of 9/11 as experienced by those inside the World Trade Center.
What they relate is gut-wrenching and infuriating; not only because of the horrors endured by the victims and the pathos of their last messages to loved ones, but also because the authors convincingly demonstrate that in building the WTC, profit was put before safety. Fire stairs were eliminated from the towers’ design as a wasteful use of valuable space. This contributed to the death of those without access to such stairs. Dwyer and Flynn draw parallels with similar indifference to safety aboard the Titantic some 90 years earlier.
New York first-responder agencies are also taken to task for the widespread failures in their communications systems. (DKR)
Issues
CIA VETS CHALLENGE GITMO INTEL VALUE - Conservative and liberal former intel officers have challenged the value of intelligence provided by Islamist detainees held at Guantanamo.
Contrary to assertions by military officials that information obtained from the 550 detainees at the naval base has been of great value, Philip Giraldi, a former CIA official who was involved with interrogations in the Near East, said that "the thing to remember is that information is amazingly perishable," the Washington Times reported on 14 November.
(http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20041114-125413-4233r.htm)
"When they are talking about holding people three years after the fact and still getting information from them, I just don't believe that," said Giraldi, a former MI case officer, adding, "The men at Gitmo probably know little or nothing about the current practices in al-Qa'ida." Giraldi contributes a regular column on intel matters to The American Conservative magazine.
Brig. Gen Jay Hood (USA), commander of the Guatanamo prison, sees things differently. "Detainees under our charge right now have provided us tremendous insight and intelligence regarding how terrorist organizations recruit, fund, train and plan, and how they have the ability to compartmentalize information, operations and projects," he told newsmen last week. “Intelligence obtained from the prisoners has been of extraordinary value to the United States as we take on terrorist organizations as enemies of our country."
Hood spoke against a background of legal battles over detainees' rights as well as charges that the information obtained from them is at best dated.
"The longer you keep these people, the less valuable they become," said Melvin A. Goodwin, a former CIA senior analyst. "They get socialized, they figure out what kind of answers interrogators want and they provide them,” he said. Goodwin heads the National Security Program at the Center for International Policy, an advocacy group for international cooperation, demilitarization and human rights.
Hood acknowledged that the intelligence obtained was far more on the strategic side than the specific-action side. But, he continued, hundreds of individual requests for information associated with the detainees are received each week from agencies across the USG.
Lt. Col. Robert L. Maginnis (USA ret.) told the Times the detainees could be valuable in piecing together information about the relationship between terrorist organizations and certain Middle East governments. Giraldi disagreed. "Strategic intelligence is information that enables you to connect the dots in a broad-brush way," he said. "The problem is that even strategic information becomes less and less useful with the passage of time."
A more realistic motive for continuing to interrogate detainees is their usefulness in training and testing interrogators on live subjects, Giraldi said.
Administration plans to try many detainees in special war crimes tribunals were dealt a blow on 8 November when a federal judge ruled that President Bush overstepped his authority in classifying the detainees as eligible for the tribunals. The administration said it would appeal the judgment.
Goodwin alleged there was borderline torture of some Gitmo detainees. The Pentagon has acknowledged some abuses, including an incident in which a woman interrogator removed her uniform top, stripped down to her T-shirt and ran her fingers through the detainee's hair and sat on his lap.
In London, the Sunday Telegraph reported five British former terrorism suspects freed this year from Gitmo are currently subject to round-the-clock police surveillance. A senior British official said the men are under suspicion and the activities of more than one was worrying police. (DKR)
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SECTION V -- CAREERS, NOTES, LETTERS/QUERIES, CORRECTIONS, COMING EVENTS
Coming Events
19 November - Alexandria, VA - CT-CI Academy - Surviving Today’s Economic Espionage Challenges - Expert counterespionage investigator Connie Allen presents a new, dynamic look at the very real intelligence threat against companies--from foreign intelligence services, foreign and domestic competitors as well as the most prevalent threat of the trusted insider. Don't think you don't have to know about counterintelligence if you're not in the government--the real battlefields are your dollars and US economic strength. Dr. Paul Moore will talk about China's engagement in economic espionage against the US as well as the challenge of Chinese visitors to companies. For more information, please visit the CT-CI Academy’s website
at: http://ctstudies.com/ct-ci-academy/Open_Course_OCT_NOV_DEC_04.htm
19 November - Arlington, VA - OSIS Veterans Meet - Veterans of the former Navy Ocean Surveillance Information System (OSIS) will meet informally at the Army-Navy Country Club, Arlington, VA, on 19 November, from 6:00 PM. Open bar and heavy hors d'oeuvres. POC: J.R. Reddig, email: JayAre303@aol.com
6 - 7 December - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - SCIP Hosts Master of CI Series - At the Radisson Bahia Mar Beach Resort in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. With a location like this -- an important CI series, how can you say no? For more tantalizing info and registration, visit http://www.scip.org
29 January - Washington, DC - International Spy Museum - KidSpy School: Spy Gadgetry Workshop - From cameras that shoot through a buttonhole to a secret listening device in the heel of a shoe – spies have always used the coolest tools in town. Here’s a chance for KidSpies to use both brains and bravery to invent a new spy gadget for the secret agents of tomorrow. All aspiring spy scientists, inventors, and adventurers are welcome at the SPY Invention Lab where top-secret ideas are encouraged, prototypes concocted, and theories tested. Will your new tool of the trade fulfill future undercover missions? We’ll find out – and guard your secret. For more information, please visit the International Spy Museum’s website at: http://www.spymuseum.org/calendar
8 - 10 February - Arlington, VA - National Intelligence Conference and Exposition (INTELCON) debuts at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City. INTELCON'S goal to bring together intel professionals and members of Congress in an informal setting on neutral ground to provide educational enhancement and discuss common issues. Veteran intelligence specialist John Loftus is directing the INTELCON Program. Based upon the theme of “Widening the Intelligence Community,” the Conference offers five two-day Program Tracks – Federal Civilian, DOD/Military, State and Local Law Enforcement, Business, and Private Sector. There will be eight, full-day Professional Enhancement Seminars, Luncheon and keynote addresses. There will also be a vendor exposition with companies and products relevant to intelligence interests. Its organizer is Federal Business Council of Annapolis Junction, Maryland. For more information, please visit: http://www.intelcon.us, or contact: David Powell, Federal Business Council, 10810 Guilford Road, P.O. Box 685, Annapolis Junction, Maryland 20710 Tel. (301) 206-2940, Fax: (301) 206-2950, david@fbcdb.com
6 - 9 April 05 - Chicago, IL - SCIP Annual Conference - At the Hyatt Regency Chicago, an event not to miss. A great organization under new leadership. Info at: http://www.scip.org/chicago. SCIP is at 1700 Diagonal Rd Ste 600, Alexandria, VA 22314; (703) 739-0696.
15-16 April - Saratoga Springs, NY - Cryptologic Veterans Reunion - The reunion is being organized by the New England Chapter, Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association. Contact Bob Marois, Tel: (518) 237-0015; E-mail: marois@acp.edu; Website: http://www.ncva-ne.org/
Obituary
Dorwin M. Wilson -- A retired CIA officer, he died of a stroke on 24 October at Inova Alexandria Hospital. He was 76, the Washington Post reported on 13 November.
Wilson was born in Kansas City, Mo., and grew up in Fort Wayne, Ind. He served in an Army band unit from 1946 to 1948. In 1952 he graduated from Northwestern University and spent several years with Chrysler Export in Detroit before joining the CIA in 1957.
After tours in Kenya, Zambia and South Africa, he became chief of the Africa Division and then the Latin America Division. He and his wife served their last tour with the U.S. mission in Geneva.
Upon retirement in 1993, he received the CIA's highest award, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal.
Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Martha C. Wilson of McLean, and a son, Creighton H. Wilson of Bel Air, Md. (DKR)
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