Books

JUDGE FINDS 9/11 COMMISSION, CONGRESS GUILTY

Issues

IC SEEN AS UNCERTAIN, DISORIENTED

COMMISSIONS SEEN AS DISMANTLING CIA

Notes

INQUIRY INTO SISMI OFFICER�S DEATH STALLED

GREEKS PROPOSE HOSTING COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER

LANGLEY RECIPE COMPROMISED

Researchers Seeking Assistance / Participants

TV PRODUCERS SEEK SPY TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS

Obituary

JAMES WESLEY FEATHERSTONE II

20 - 23 April 05 - Fort Knox, KY - The AFIO Midwest Chapter is holding its Spring meeting at Fort Knox

20 - 21 April 05 - Langley, VA - AFCEA Spring Intelligence Symposium

21 April 05 - Washington, DC - 2005 MOAA Career Fair - DC Convention Center

22 - 24 April 05 - Grapevine, TX - SFSAFBI South Central Regional Meeting

22-23 April 05 - New London, CT - AFIO NE Chapter meets at the Lighthouse Inn Resort

25 - 28 April 05 - Philadelphia, PA - 2005 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference

28 April 05 - Coral Gables, FL - AFIO Miami Chapter and Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies host book signing

28 April 05 - Washington, DC - Thaddeus Holt, author of The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War in Free Author Chat

29 April 05 - Tysons Corner, VA - Hon. Charles Robb, FBI Agent I.C. Smith, and former Deputy Undersecretary Army Thaddeus Holt - AFIO Luncheon, see above

2-4 May 05 - Falls Church, VA - NSI IMPACT 2005! 20th Annual Conference & Expo

12 May 05 - Washington, DC - Melissa Boyle Mahle, author of Denial and Deception: An Insider’s View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11

13 - 15 May - Richmond, CA � World Premiere of Play by AFIO Member

14 May 05 - Indian Harbour Beach, FL - AFIO Satellite Chapter hosts Dr. William Arrasmith, Department of Engineering Systems at Florida Institute of Technology

15 May 05 - Tysons Corner, VA - NMIA hosts XXXI Anniversary and Banquet

18 May - McLean, VA - SASA Spring 2005 Intelligence Symposium

19 May 05 - Washington, DC - The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement in America - Yesterday and Today

23-27 May - Alexandria, VA - IALEIA Annual Conference

23 May 05 - Washington, DC - Inside Britain’s Secret WWII World: The Diaries of Guy Liddell by Nigel West

23-27 May 05 - San Diego, CA - IOSS, National OPSEC Conference and Exhibition

25-26 May 05 - Washington, D.C. - GOVSEC, GovSec/US Law Enforcement/READY Expo & Conferences

9 June 05 - Washington, DC - Wild Rose: The Dangerous Mrs. Greenhow by Amy Blackman

11 June 05 - Boston, MA - THE THIRD ANNUAL "BOSTON AFIO GROUP" AT THE POPS - RED, WHITE, & BLUE

11 June 05 - Gainesville, FL - AFIO North Florida Chapter meeting

30 June 05 - Washington, DC - The Literary Spy: The Ultimate Source for Quotations on Espionage & Intelligence

22-23 July 05 - Northampton, MA - AFIO NE Chapter meets at the Hotel Northampton

6 August 05 - Melbourne, FL - AFIO Satellite Chapter hosts Mr Andy Byers, author of "The Perfect Spy"

13 August 05 - Lenox, MA - AFIO Members at Tanglewood

12-15 September 05 - Orlando, FL - ASIS, 51st Annual Seminar & Exhibits

7 Oct 05 - Tysons Corner, VA - NIP Annual Meeting & Symposium

27 - 30 October 05 - AFIO 30th Anniversary Symposium Celebration - Sheraton Premiere Hotel, McLean, Tyson's Corner, VA

8 - 13 November 05 - Hot Springs, VA - SpyRetreat 2005 Conference - Espionage: The Unknown Wars - held by CiCentre

SECTION I - CURRENT INTELLIGENCE

SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES NEGROPONTE NOMINATION � The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence approved on 14 April the nominations of John D. Negroponte as the nation's first Director of National Intelligence and Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden (USAF) as DDNI. The committee sent their names to the full Senate for a vote, the Washington Post reported.

��� www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54015-2005Apr14.html

�� The approval came hours after the committee heard Hayden argue for direct DNI control over DoD's NSA (which Hayden has headed for the past six years), NRO and NGA. He listed those agencies, together with the CIA DO, as the muscular national collection agencies that make up the fighting forces of the Directorate of National Intelligence over which the DNI needed to exert robust authority.

�� Reflecting his awareness that SecDef Rumsfeld has, in recent months, been consolidating DoD intelligence activities, Hayden commented that the three DoD agencies' relationships with Negroponte have to be direct. He also Indicated he understood Rumsfeld's concerns, by adding that the DNI would preserve the chain of command

��� On 1 March, Rumsfeld sent a memo to Hayden and the NRO and NGA directors, designating Defense Undersecretary Stephen A. Cambone as the contact point in dealing with the DNI. A senior official of one of those agencies recently described the memo as "a poke in the eye of the DNI."

(See SECDEF SEEN AS CHALLENGING DNI, WIN 15-05 dtd 11 April 2005)

�� Asked by Sen. Saxby Chambliss to comment on Chambliss' bill proposing creation of a DoD intelligence command, Hayden said, "The degree that Defense can package up the tactical intelligence activities of the military departments and present them in a unified, integrated, coherent way to the DNI . . would be a real virtue and something that would be very welcome."

�� Hayden told the committee he believed it would be his obligation "to throw your body onto the rails" to prevent policy makers from seeking to impose political judgments on the intelligence process or distort intelligence for political purposes, the New York Times reported.

�� www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/politics/15intel.html?pagewanted=all� 

�(DKR)

SENATORS NAME UNDERCOVER OFFICER - Two senators, Richard Lugar, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and John Kerry, named a CIA officer who currently holds an undercover assignment whose name was consequently widely published in the news media, the New York Times reported on 13 April.

� ��www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/international/13name.html?pagewanted=all

� The apparently inadvertent disclosure occurred during Senate hearings on the nomination of John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations. The committee questioned Bolton about an incident two years ago when, as an Undersecretary at State, he tried unsuccessfully to have the then NIO for Latin America transferred to another assignment.

�� At last week's hearing, Bolton referred to the officer as Mr. Smith but Lugar and Kerry called him by his real name, Fulton Armstrong. At the time of the incident with Bolton, the press published Armstrong's name. But when discussion of the incident was revived in connection with Bolton's U.N. nomination, the agency asked news organizations not to disclose Armstrong's name.

� Asked about the disclosure, Lugar answered, "No comment." Kerry said, "Senator Lugar had already mentioned it and it had already been in the press." (DKR)

STATE KILLS REPORT SHOWING INCREASED TERRORIST ATTACKS - The State Department has stopped publishing Patterns of Global Terrorism, based on information supplied by the National Counterterrorism Center, after NCTC figures showed more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered, the Miami Herald reported on 16 April.

www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/11409024.htm

��� Current and former officials said that several weeks ago Secretary Rice's office ordered the report eliminated because the 2004 statistics raised questions about the Bush administration's claims of progress in the war against terrorism.

��� ''Instead of dealing with the facts and dealing with them in an intelligent fashion, they try to hide their facts from the American public,'' charged Larry C. Johnson, a former CIA analyst and State Department terrorism expert who first disclosed the decision to eliminate the report in The Counterterrorism Blog, an online journal.

�� According to Johnson and intel officials, NCTC reported 625 significant terrorist attacks in 2004 compared with 175 incidents in 2003. The figure did not include attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq.

�� The officials requested anonymity because the information is classified and because, they said, they feared White House retribution. Johnson declined to say how he obtained the figures.

��� But, the Herald said, several U.S. officials defended State's decision, saying the NCTC methodology may have been faulty, such as the inclusion of incidents that may not have been terrorism. In the report issued last year, the number of terrorist incidents in 2003 was undercounted, forcing a revision of the report. (DKR)

CHERTOFF SAYS DHS MUST BE FULL PARTNER WITH IC - DHS must be full partners at the table in the IC, Secretary Michael Chertoff told the House Homeland Security Committee on 13 April, the Washington Post reported.

�� www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51283-2005Apr13.html

�� DHS fails at times to assemble and share intelligence adequately, Chertoff said, blaming lingering divisions among the many agencies merged two years ago to create the sprawling department, the New York Times reported.

�� www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14/politics/14security.html?pagewanted=all

�� Chertoff told the committee, "Intelligence is the driver of everything we do. We need to make sure that we are capturing all of that, we are pulling it together and we are fusing it at the top of our organization."

�� Chertoff's comments came against a background of criticism in Congress that DHS was spending too much effort on how to respond to an attack and not enough on preventing a catastrophic strike.

��� With its interaction with thousands of private security chiefs and local and state law enforcement officials, the department is a potential major source of intelligence leads, said Chertoff.

�� In written testimony, Chertoff said, "We need to fuse and exploit all the information that we learn across the country so that when a Border Patrol agent in Texas learns of a new alien smuggling method, that information is fed up to our intelligence analysts, incorporated where appropriate into our strategy to combat smuggling and disseminated across the department to others focused on the same problem."

�� Chertoff hinted he might propose creation of a department-wide director of intelligence. Frank Libutti, who recently resigned as DHS undersecretary in charge of intelligence, said in an interview that he had urged former Secretary Tom Ridge to make such a change. That person would be the center of gravity, the centerpiece for the department for all intelligence activities," Libutti said.

�� By pulling together more timely and critical intelligence, Chertoff said, DHS will win more respect from the FBI, CIA and DNI.

�� Chertoff told the committee he intended to unveil his recommendation for how he will reorganize the department by the end of May. (DKR)

SECTION II – CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE

COMMISSION CRITICIZES FBI, CIA MODERNIZATION PLANS - The Robb-Silberman commission has criticized modernization plans sent to President Bush by the FBI and the CIA, saying they reflected a business-as-usual approach to intelligence gathering, the Washington Post reported on 15 April.

� www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54800-2005Apr14.html

�� The commission wrote to Bush on 29 March, "We do not believe that either response is entirely adequate" after reviewing the FBI's proposal to integrate and upgrade its intelligence programs and CIA's plans to increase by 50 percent its corps of analysts and operations officers.

�� The commission found that the plans showed how important and how difficult the DNI's job will be.

���� Bush ordered the FBI and CIA last November to draw up plans after the 9/11 commission set out shortcomings it found and proposals for remedying them. Bush then asked the presidential Robb-Silberman commission to review the two agencies plans.

�� The FBI plan included creation of a new intelligence directorate to improve handling and coordination of efforts. The commission found the way the directorate would be established failed to create a truly specialized and integrated national security workforce.

���� The directorate would be an overlay on intelligence activities that are managed by other elements of the FBI, without control of operational resources, only passing requirements on to FBI field offices for execution. "The directorate's lack of authority prevents the FBI from vertically integrating foreign intelligence collection, analysis and operations," said the commission.

��� The CIA's plans for expanding personnel were too general to create accountability, the panel said. It criticized the hiring of a relatively small number of new analysts in the current fiscal year and said the balance of new personnel would be acquired in the long term without specifying what that meant.

�� Even more troubling, the panel said, was the slow increase in operations officers, with no guarantee that a goal set for fiscal year 2011 would be reached. In addition, the commission questioned the size of planned support teams at headquarters for new operations officers overseas, saying the CIA plan would still leave the agency with a thin overseas presence, especially when there is a need to surge in a particular area such as Iraq.

�� While recognizing that the agency has begun to experiment with new approaches, the commission reproved it for doing so timidly and called its experiments fragile and at risk. The panel told Bush the incomplete nature of both the FBI and CIA responses illustrated that changes will require strong leadership from the DNI and firm backing from above. (DKR)

CIA BLOCKED BOLTON ATTEMPT TO HAVE NIO REASSIGNED - An attempt in 2002 by John Bolton to remove the national intelligence officer for Latin America from his post prompted then DDCI McLaughlin to intervene against Bolton�s request, the New York Times reported on 16 April, citing current and former intelligence officials.

�� www.nytimes.com/2005/04/16/politics/16bolton.html?pagewanted=all

�� The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was reviewing McLaughlin's role as it considered Bolton's nomination to be ambassador to the United Nations.� Bolton has acknowledged that he had sought to have the intelligence officer, Fulton T. Armstrong, reassigned.

��� The incident is one of at least three the committee is looking at in which Bolton sought removal of intelligence officers or subordinates while he was an Undersecretary of State.

�� Bolton told the Senate his request in July 2003 for Armstrong's transfer, made during a visit to Stuart A. Cohen, then NIC acting chairman, was made because he had not been satisfied with Armstrong's performance in several intelligence matters.� At the time, Bolton's responsibilities included overseeing intelligence estimates on Cuba, though Armstrong did not report to him.

�� In an interview on 8 April with the Senate committee staff, according to a memorandum written by the Democratic staff, Cohen described Bolton's request as unusual, saying it was one of only two occasions he could recall in which senor Bush administration officials had traveled to Langley to complain about a subordinate. The other occasion was when Otto Reich, a Bolton ally, also sought Armstrong's removal. Three former and current intelligence officials confirmed Cohen's reservations about the request. Cohen is still with the agency and was not available to comment.

�� "Mr. Cohen listened to those concerns, took them seriously, fully investigated them and determined that they were without merit," according to the e Democratic staff. Cohen presented the issue on several occasions to McLaughlin and the latter said he was not going to remove Armstrong from his position.

� A former intel official said McLaughlin laid his body down to block Bolton's request.

� John C. Gannon, who preceded Cohen as NIC chairman, told the Times he believed Bolton's behavior had been inexcusable.

�� "If you don't like the results of analysis, then you don't accept it," said Gannon, who left government recently after serving as the Republican-appointed staff director of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. "But you don't try to remove the people whose view you disagree with."

��� Robert L. Hutchings, who succeeded Cohen as NIC head, said the effects of Bolton's objections to Armstrong lingered as late as last year, when the officer was not included in a briefing team assigned to discuss with other senior officials the result of a new intelligence estimate on Cuba to which Bolton had objected.

�� "There was a group of firebrands who we figured would not like the judgment," Hutchings said in a telephone interview, making clear he included Bolton in that group. "We anticipated that the findings would be unwelcome in some quarters, and we wanted to depersonalize this thing as much as we could, to make clear that it was the assessment of the intelligence community, and not a particular individual." Hutchings now teaches at Princeton.

� The committee is expected to vote on Bolton's nomination on 19 April. (DKR)

SECTION III -- CYBER INTELLIGENCE

DOD SEEKING TO SWEEP UP BLOGS WORLDWIDE - DoD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is trying to figure out how to vacuum up 180 million blogs around the world to check for coded messages in seemingly innocuous phrases, UPI reported on 15 April.

��� www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050415-043722-5547r.htm

� Blogs could facilitate coordination of simultaneous terrorist acts in different parts of the world. The DoD cyber Hoover would be a super google.com that already processes information with giant databases and super computers capable of several trillion operations per second, UPI said, adding that one trillion seconds ago was 29,000 years before Jesus Christ. (DKR)

NSA, HIRING 6,000 MORE EMPLOYEES, LEASES TEXAS PLANT - The NSA, that plans to have added 6,000 employees by 2008, has leased a former Sony computer chip plant in Texas to make room for them, the Baltimore Sun reported on 16 April.

��� www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-md.ho.ar.nsa16apr16,1,6828630.story

� Some Fort Meade staff will be affected by the San Antonio acquisition Texas, the NSA said on 15 April as a core group of analysts will be transferred from there to train new analysts in San Antonio. Employees will not be moved over their objections or laid off as a result, officials said.

�� NSA is planning to hold a career fair in San Antonio on 4 May.

�The San Antonio site consists of two connected buildings with office and research and development space totaling 470,000 square feet. (DKR)

LEXISNEXIS THEFTS MAY BE 10 TIMES GREATER THAN FIRST THOUGHT - Theft of personal information from LexisNexis databases may be ten times greater than thought last month when the losses were announced, the New York Times reported on 13 April.

��� www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/technology/13theft.html?pagewanted=all  (See ANOTHER DATABASE RAIDED, WIN 11-05 dtd 14 March 2005)

�� Reed Elsevier, owners of LexisNexist, said Social Security numbers, driver's license information and addressed for as many 310,000 people may have been stolen.

���� In 59 separate instances, unauthorized users may have fraudulently acquired such information through the Lexis Nexis unit Seisint that compiles information from government records and holds personal data about most U.S. citizens.

��� LexisNexis Group chief executive Kurt Sanford said thieves were using the log-in names assigned to former employees of Seisint customers or were correctly guessing uncomplicated ID and password combinations or accessing customers' systems through a virus. (DKR)

SECTION IV -- BOOKS, SOURCES, AND ISSUES

BOOKS

JUDGE FINDS 9/11 COMMISSION, CONGRESS GUILTY - Richard A. Posner, Preventing Surprise Attacks: Reforming Intelligence in the Wake of 9/11 (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 208 pp. $18.95)��

�� Posner, a federal appeals court judge in Chicago and law professor, finds the 9/11 Commission to have feet of clay and proceeds to demolish them.

� The panel, he believes, stampeded Congress into what he sees as a premature, ill-considered commitment to intelligence reform that will not be effective in protecting the country from surprise attacks.

� The commission suffered from a fundamental flaw in the way it was organized, he writes. This was to combine investigations of the 9/11 attacks with recommendations for preventing future attacks. It is the same mistake as combining intelligence and government policy. "The means believed available for solving a problem influence how the problem is understood and described," he notes.

�� The career imperative for Washington bureaucrats, he writes, "is based on the known reluctance of civil servants, even those not involved with classified materials, to share information with their superiors."

��� The bureaucracy strives to maintain what he calls the knowledge deficit of political appointees, new to their post. Thus by creating a DNI, and so adding one more rung to the ladder of command, less information will reach the top than before, Posner argues.

��� A shrewd and challenging appraisal of what effective reform requires. (DKR)

ISSUES

IC SEEN AS UNCERTAIN, DISORIENTED - A meeting of 100 or so members of the IC at Harvard two weeks ago displayed uncertainty in the community and the disorientation of intelligence professionals, the columnist David Ignatius wrote in the Washington Post on 15 April.

��� www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55028-2005Apr14.html

�� DNI Negroponte is walking into a world where people aren't sure which end is up, said Ignatius.

�� The IC people, together with a few academics and journalists, met to discuss ways to restructure intelligence for the 21st century. He quotes a senior intel official as summing up the situation when he said, "We're in a pretty deep hole. We are perceived as incompetent. How do we dig out of that hole?"

��� To which a former chairman of the Senate intelligence committee responded, "The intelligence community today is like the military after Vietnam. There was a lack of confidence back then among the public and within the military itself. It took 20 years to turn it around."�

��� Ignatius found a gallows humor among CIA officials. One official, when asked about the agency's corps, muttered that the questioner had left of the final 'e.'

�� The biggest mystery, according to Ignatius, was the new structure that Negroponte will oversee. Will it be the new center for analysis and, if so, what will become of the hundreds of people working in the agency's DI? Is the NCTC to be the focal point for anti-terrorism ops, superseding the agency's DO? "Nobody seems to know the answers to these big questions, which is worrisome, " said Ignatius.

� The legislation setting up the DNI structure was supposed to break down the walls that separate the CIA, FBI and DoD agencies, but the Pentagon and its congressional backers have blocked this by inserting language that protects DoD's prerogatives.

�� "Does Negroponte really have the budget and personnel authority to impose one intelligence policy on the 15 organizations under him, as he asserted this week? " asked Ignatius. Answering himself, he said nobody really knows and cited Negroponte's comment to the Senate intelligence committee last week that he can't yet draw a road map.

��� Ignatius wrote that what he most feared was that in the rush to reform intelligence, people will end up throwing money at the problems, creating larger intelligence agencies, more layers of overlapping authority, more hands to pass the buck with the result that "the dreadful mediocrity of the intelligence community -- which to me, sadly, is its most striking characteristic -- will get worse."

� His suggests to Negroponte that in intelligence reform, less is more: "We need fewer, smarter people who are empowered to take risks and make bold judgments. We don't need a proliferation of new, inexperienced intelligence officers overseas who will fill quotas by recruiting bogus agents who produce large volumes of low-quality intelligence. We need real spies, not 'measurable metrics.' "

�� After calling for analysts who have the brains and guts to tell policy makers the truth, as opposed to what they want to hear, Ignatius concludes, "And we need a president who will admit how badly his administration misread Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, rather than hiding behind the mistakes of the CIA." (DKR)

COMMISSIONS SEEN AS DISMANTLING CIA - Under the guise of reform, the Robb-Silberman and the 9/11 commissions are dismantling the CIA, in the view of Jack Devine, a former CIA associate deputy director of operations, writing in the Financial Times on 13 April.

�� Devine, now president of The Arkin Group, a New York intelligence consulting firm, says the Robb-Silberman commission's proposals for structural change do not seem to improve substantially the collection and analysis of national intelligence. "If we head down the path laid out in the commission's recommendations," he says, "the result will almost certainly be a bloated Washington bureaucracy, a demoralized and greatly weakened CIA, and little prospect of successfully combating terrorists and other national security threats."

� The report proposes creation of a super-chief of operations and a National Intelligence University as well as a National Counter Proliferation Center. This would strip the CIA of another key analytical responsibility, Devine considers. "These recommendations flow from politicians' reluctance to give the CIA the firepower it needs to get on with the job. If the dismantling of the CIA is not halted soon, the best people will walk away. Some already have."

�� In his opinion, "The fundamental shortcoming of the Robb-Silberman commission is its failure to address the underlying need to get spies in the right places. . . What the CIA and the greater intelligence community really need is not more bureaucracy but more and better spies."

�� There should be more stress on developing intelligence officers' political, cultural, and economic expertise, and their understanding of complex issues such as Islamic fundamentalism. To develop this expertise, says Devine, they will have to spend more time in the countries they are studying, on country desks or in transnational centers that focus on broader challenges.

�� "Expertise in geographical areas and individual issues, combined with on-the-ground experience, must become the centerpiece of clandestine intelligence collection."

��� "The CIA must shed much of the bureaucratic process imposed on its day-to-day work," he urges, "and instead boost the swashbuckling energy for which the agency first became known." (DKR)

NOTES

INQUIRY INTO SISMI OFFICER�S DEATH STALLED - A joint Italo-American inquiry is stalled following the refusal of U.S. officials to allow the Italians to inspect the bullet-riddled car in which Nicola Calipari, a senior Italian intel officer, died, AP reported, citing Italian press reports.

�� The respected Italian newspapers Corriere della Sera and La Stampa reported on 14 April that U.S. authorities' refused to allow Italian investigators to examine the car in which Calipari was traveling when he was shot at a U.S. checkpoint.

�� Italy accepts that the shooting outside Baghdad on 4 March was an accident, but rejects a U.S. claim that the car was speeding and refused to stop following warnings from the checkpoint.

�� Wounded in the incident was an Italian journalist, Giuliana Sgrena and another SISMI officer. Calipari had just negotiated Sgrena's release by Iraqi kidnappers. The party was driving to the airport to return to Italy.� (See U.S. BLOCKS ITALIAN INSPECTION OF CAR IN FATAL SHOOTING, WIN 13-05 dtd 28 March 2005)

�� The commission, ordered by Washington, is headed by a U.S. brigadier general and includes two Italians. It was expected to release its findings by mid-April. But Secretary Rice, after a meeting on 13 April with Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini, said the most important thing was to do the investigation right, not to do it fast. (DKR)

GREEKS PROPOSE HOSTING COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER - Greece's top security official, on a visit to Washington last week, offered to make Athens a major outpost of international cooperation in the war on terror and other transnational threats, the Washington Times reported.

��� www.washingtontimes.com/world/20050415-094807-2622r.htm

��� In an interview with the Times, Minister of Public Order George Voulgarakis proposed building a center that would institutionalize the lessons of international cooperation learned in protecting the Summer Olympics, held in Athens last year.

�� Organizing the games in a secure environment was a great challenge, he said, that resulted in an incident-free Olympics. "This planning gave us a network of cooperation with many countries which had expertise, and today we have a new security model that could be used to counter new challenges."

��� The proposed Athens facility would be called the Balkan and Mediterranean Center for Security Research and Training. It would train members of the security services of other nations in the region and would organize strategic and tactical exercises with the help of the United States and European countries.

� While in Washington Voulgarakis met White House homeland security adviser Frances Townsend, DCI Goss, DHS Secretary Chertoff, FBI Director Mueller, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and former Ambassador to Greece Nicholas Burns, AG General Gonzales, and former DCI Tenet who is of Greek descent. (DKR)

LANGLEY RECIPE COMPROMISED � On 13 April, the Washington Post divulged the name of the CIA Executive Chef and compromised the recipe for what it reported as a favorite dish served in the restricted dining rooms at Langley.

� www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46071-2005Apr12.html

�� The chef, Fred de Filippo, devised the controversial recipe for cooking veal with peaches and figs.

��� Well seasoned intel commentators told WINs that �peach� originally meant �Persian apple� while �fig� is widely employed in the saying �don�t give a fig,� indicating indifference, if not hostility. These experts, who refused to be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said the CIA might be sending a message to the rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

��� Other observers viewed the leaked recipe as a possible Bush administration gesture of solidarity with Europe and Turkey, known for their gastronomic proclivities, with whom the administration is seeking to improve relations, strained since the Iraq war.

��� As reported in the Times, the recipe for two servings of �Veal, CIA Style� (aka Saut�ed Veal Scaloppini With Peaches and Black Mission Figs) is:

�2 large fresh peaches, peeled, quartered and pitted (may substitute frozen sliced peaches, thawed, drained and patted completely dry)

10 tablespoons ruby port

2 tablespoons flour

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Four 3-ounce veal scaloppini, pounded very thin

About 2 tablespoons olive oil

1 clove garlic, finely chopped

1 small shallot, finely chopped

2 tablespoons finely chopped country ham (may substitute pancetta)

3 fresh sage leaves, left whole

6 to 10 tablespoons beef broth

3 fresh black mission figs, halved (optional)

4 tablespoons salted butter, cut into pieces, at room temperature

2 tablespoons crumbled Gorgonzola cheese (optional)

In a small bowl, combine the peaches and 2 tablespoons of the port. Set aside for 1 hour.

Place the flour on a shallow plate and season with salt and pepper to taste. Lightly dust each veal scaloppini with flour on each side.

In a medium skillet over medium-high heat, heat 1 tablespoon of oil. Add the veal and cook, turning once, until browned on each side. Transfer to a plate.

Carefully wipe out the skillet, return to medium to medium-high heat and heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil. Add the garlic, shallot, ham and sage leaves and cook, stirring occasionally, until the ham is crisped, about 2 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium-low, add the peaches and the port they marinated in, along with the remaining 8 tablespoons port and the broth to the skillet and cook, stirring frequently and scraping the bottom of the skillet for 2 minutes, until the sauce is reduced to about 3/4 cup. Add the veal, plus figs if using, and stir just until combined. Remove from the heat, add the butter, a few pieces at a time, and tilt the skillet until the butter is incorporated into the sauce.

Place 2 pieces of veal on each plate, and spoon the sauce and fruit over the top. If desired, top with cheese. (DKR)

SECTION V -- CAREERS, NOTES, LETTERS, QUERIES AND AUTHORS SEEKING ASSISTANCE, CORRECTIONS, OBITUARIES, COMING EVENTS

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OBITUARY

JAMES WESLEY FEATHERSTONE II - A former CIA analyst, he died 2 April of a heart attack at his home in Alexandria, VA. He was 90, the Washington Post reported.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51719-2005Apr13_3.html

�� Featherstone came to the Washington area in 1944 as a naval officer to study Russian at the Navy's language school. He became an interpreter and intelligence officer in Alaska and helped train Russian personnel for delivery of U.S. ships and supplies to Russia during World War II.

� After the war, he was assigned to the Pentagon, where he worked as a civilian employee in ONI�s Russian service before joining the agency in 1952. As well as reviewing and editing many of its intelligence publications, he briefed Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nixon on Chinese and Soviet affairs.

��� He was stationed in Singapore from 1966 to 1968 and in Saigon from 1971 to 1974 when he retired. He was awarded the Medal for Civilian Service.

�� Featherstone was born in Sisseton, SD, and graduated from high school in Staples, MN. He was clarinet soloist for the concert band and symphony orchestra while a student at the University of Minnesota. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he graduated from the university in 1936, then obtained a master's degree in English there. He taught in the university�s English department until he entered the Navy.

��� He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria where he sang in the choir and served on church committees. He had a lifelong interest in music and often played the recorder in small groups with family members.

��� His wife of 66 years, Eleanor Featherstone, died in 2003. Survivors include three children, James Wesley Featherstone III of Richmond, VA, Phyllis Jane Featherstone of Staten Island, NY, and Elizabeth Featherstone Hoff of Alexandria; a brother; 10 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. (DKR)