Coming Events 

         13 August 05 - Lenox, MA - AFIO Members at Tanglewood
         18 August 05 - Arlington, VA - CONFERENCE ON DEFENSE AGAINST INSIDER THREAT
         25 August 05 - Washington, DC - Her Majesty’s Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
         31 August - 2 September 05 - Raleigh, NC - Raleigh International Spy Conference
         10 September 05 - Orange Park, FL - AFIO North Florida Chapter Meeting
         11 September 05 - Madison, OH - AFIO Northern Ohio Chapter hosts picnic
         12-15 September 05 - Orlando, FL - ASIS, 51st Annual Seminar & Exhibits
         13 September 05 - Washington, DC - A Family Affair: The Tradecraft Secrets of the Walker Spy Ring
         13 September 05 - Virginia - Shenandoah Valley Golf Club, VA - NIF Golf Tournament
         15-18 September 05 - Great Lakes, IL - The AFIO Midwest Chapter will hold its 13th consecutive 2-day Fall Symposium
         15 September 05 - Washington, DC - The German Historical Institute is holding a symposium
         16 September 05 - New York, NY - AFIO - New York Metropolitan Chapter hosts evening event on "Corporate Espionage
         27-28 September - Washington, D.C. - Eisenhower National Security Series Conference
         29 September 05 - Colorado Springs, CO - AFIO Rocky Mountain Chapter hosts meeting
         16 September 05 - New York, NY - AFIO New York Metropolitan Chapter holds evening meeting
         29 September 05 -  Washington, DC - The KGB and the Battle for the Third World - Christopher Andrew Book Signing
         22 September 05 - Washington, DC - Why Stalin Did Not Trust Hitler - David Murphy Book Signing
         6 October 05 - Washington, DC - Exploring Q�s World: Where Fact and Fiction Collide
         7 October 05 - Tysons Corner, VA - NIP Annual Meeting & Symposium
         12-16 October 05 - Arlington, VA - 101-OSS Association and OSS Society Reunion
         14-15 October 05 - Fredericton, Canada - Terrorism in History - University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
         27-28 October 05 - Lincoln, NH - Naval Cryptologic Veterans Reunion

         28 - 30 October 05 - AFIO 30th Anniversary Symposium Celebration at FBI Headquarters and 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
         9 November 05; 6:30 pm - Washington, DC - Driving Force: Terrorist Motivation, Past and Present
         16 November 05; 7 � 10 pm - Washington, DC - International Spy Museum Dinner with Kremlin Spy Oleg Kalugin
         3 December 05 - Orange Park, FL - AFIO North Florida Chapter Meeting
         5-7 December 05 - Chantilly, VA � The MASINT Association 4th Annual MASINT Conference
         13-14 December 05 - Chantilly, VA - AFCEA Hosts their Fall Intelligence Symposium at the National Reconnaissance Office
         27-28 January 06 - Springfield, VA - Conference on "INTELLIGENCE AND ETHICS"
         17-20 February 06 - Arlington, VA - The Intelligence Summit™ 2006

SECTION I - CURRENT INTELLIGENCE

INDICTED ISRAEL LOBBYISTS BRAGGED ABOUT DOD SOURCE � Steven Rosen, a former official of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee indicted last week, boasted that Lawrence Franklin, an analyst specializing in Iran in the Office of the Secretary of Defense -- and a Rosen source -- was a real insider. Rosen promised to �do what I can" to help Franklin get an NSC job, the Washington Times reported court records as showing.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050807-102851-8805r.htm
    A Federal court in Alexandria, VA, indicted Rosen, Aipac�s former director of foreign policy issues, on 4 August for conspiracy to give national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it. Also indicted was Keith Weissman, former senior Iran analyst at AIPAC.
    Rosen, 63, and Weissman, 53, are scheduled for arraignment 16 August before U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandria. They are accused of passing information from classified documents, although not the documents themselves. AIPAC fired the two men in April.
    The indictment outlines an extensive FBI undercover investigation dating to 1999, when conversations between Rosen and Weissman with officials from foreign countries [understood to mean Israel. � Ed.] and others were monitored.
    It said the AIPAC officials illegally disclosed information from classified reports, including data on terrorist activities in Central Asia, the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, U.S. strategy options in the Middle East and al-Qa�ida terrorists.
    They also passed the information to reporters, who were encouraged to write stories. Rosen told a reporter about a classified draft internal policy document, saying, "I'm not supposed to know this," but suggesting that it was a "considerable story." In another instance, the indictment said, Rosen told a reporter that his information came from the "agency" and had been provided to him by "an American intelligence source." [Given Franklin�s career, it would the agency referred was DIA, not CIA. � Ed.]
    That intelligence source, the indictment said, was Franklin, arrested in May by the FBI on charges of illegally disclosing classified information.
Rosen first talked to Franklin in August 2002 after he called the Pentagon and asked for the name of someone expert on Iran. He was given Franklin's name and left a message which was returned. In February 2003, Franklin disclosed national defense information on a draft report concerning "a Middle Eastern country." [Presumably Iran. Ed.] Two days later, the indictment said, Rosen and Franklin discussed the latter�s prospects for an NSC job with Rosen saying that if he got the job, Franklin would be "by the elbow of the president." The indictment does not say what Mr. Rosen did, if anything, to help Mr. Franklin. (DKR)

BRIT INTEL CHIEFS SAY COUNTRY FACES INSURGENCY - British Intelligence chiefs have warned Prime Minister Blair that Britain faces a full-blown Islamist insurgency, sustained by thousands of young Muslim men with military training, The Independent on Sunday (London) reported on 7 August.
news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article304303.ece
    That the two attacks last month on London transport were not a sporadic terror campaign is being discussed at the highest levels in Whitehall. Fears of a third strike remained high, based on concrete evidence supplied by an intercepted text message and the interrogation of a terror suspect being held outside Britain, the paper said, citing US reports.
Attention is focusing on a pool of migrants from the Horn of Africa and Central Asia. MI5 is working to an estimate that more than 10,000 young men from these regions have had at least basic training in light weapons and military explosives. A well-connected source said there were more than 100,000 people in Britain from Somalia and its neighbors and Afghanistan and territories bordering that country and that, "Every one of them knows how to use an AK-47."
    "About 10 per cent can strip and reassemble such a weapon blindfolded, and probably a similar proportion have some knowledge of how to use military explosives. That adds up to tens of thousands of men."
    "There has been a debate on whether we are facing an insurgency or terrorism," said the source, "and the verdict is on the side of an insurgency."
    Blair has ordered a government-wide drive to neutralize opposition within the Muslim community to his proposed anti-terror measures. The crackdown on individuals, groups and websites considered to support terrorism has been attacked by Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group Blair said he intends to ban.
    The Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) originated in Central Asia and is active in Uzbekistan and neighboring countries. It is well-organized in Europe among Muslim communities. It seeks the recreation of a universal caliphate but claims to eschew violence. However, it is believed that a number of its followers have gone on to embrace the use of terror and insurrection -- DKR]

SECTION II – CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE

CIA VET GERECHT�S CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC IRAQI ANALYSIS - Former CIA officer Reuel Marc Gerecht, now a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, sees the Iraqis drafting their new constitution as likely to produce a document that has a decent chance of gaining the assent of the country's three major communities: the Sunni and Shiite Arabs and the Kurds.
    Writing in the WSJ. com Opinion Journal on 8 August, Gerecht says it appears they will meet the 15 August deadline for the constitution, but that we should not worry if they don�t complete it on time.
www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007075
    �It will certainly be dispiriting to many Iraqis and Americans --particularly in the Pentagon, where the counterinsurgency troop requirements for Iraq and Afghanistan haven't dovetailed well with Donald Rumsfeld's plans for a smaller �transformed� military,� he notes. �All of Washington wants the Iraqis to be more expeditious than our own Founding Fathers, who took years of trial and error to hammer out the mother of all modern constitutions.�
    The Iraqis, as Gerecht notes, are divided on critical matters of politics and faith, but still determined to resolve their differences through a binding written compromise. Federalism and the political role of Islam are critical issues, as they are throughout the Middle East, and no one in Washington should want Iraqi debates on such issues toned down or curtailed.
While American liberals overwhelmingly define Iraqi democracy's success by whether women's social rights are protected and advanced, it is the compromises, what the liberal see as imperfections, in Iraq's experiment that may have the most positive repercussions in the Middle East.
    But the elders of the Sunni Arab community may still choose to guide their flock over the cliff. �The historic Sunni Arab prerogative to rule over deviants (the Shiites) and non-Arabs (the Kurds) should never be underestimated.� Yet Islamist terrorism and the bloody revanchism of hardcore Ba�athi have probably helped to produce a real willingness to accept democratic government among a growing number of Arab Sunnis, especially among traditional clerics who fear the spread of the Saudi-born Wahhabi creed in Iraq.
    However, Sunni elders appear to have lost significant ground to younger men while Islamic militancy has been gaining ground in Iraq since at least the early 1990s, inevitably tearing at traditional mores and hierarchies. �What Saddam Hussein did not destroy, the Sunni insurgency and holy war could well bury -- unless Sunni elders continue their reluctant embrace of Iraq's elected Shiite-led government and the drafting of a new constitution.� The odds are still very good that most of Iraq's Sunni Arabs don't want civil war, he believes.
    �Historically ferocious advocates of a highly centralized state, Sunni Arabs, as they come to terms with their reduced prestige and power, are likely to embrace federalism, a non-negotiable principle for the Kurds, especially if the Shiites and Kurds design a system that divides the country's oil wealth equitably.�
    Under the leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the traditional Shi�i clergy has been forbearing in demanding the return of Shiite mosques given to Sunnis by Saddam. Gerecht draws the conclusion that, �As mosques have gone, so likely will go oil.�
    Growing participation of the Sunni Arabs may not grant Washington any surcease to suicide bombers as the Sunni elite is increasingly participating, in part because it has limited and diminishing influence over the young who fight alongside, and aid and abet, foreign jihadi. �But this cooperation should be enough to keep the Kurds and the Shiites from taking large-scale revenge on the once-dominant community. As long as revenge killings remain small-scale, the constitutional process will likely roll forward.�
    It is not yet clear what degree of federalism the Shi�i, in particular the traditional clergy led by Sistani, are willing to swallow to avoid the possibility of an irreparable break with the Kurds, who will not cede much of the independence they've gained in the last 10 years.
    Arabism, the intellectual engine behind Baghdad's recurring savagery towards the Kurds, is quiescent, if not dead, among Iraq's Shia, since Sunni pan-Arabism was used as a vehicle also to deny Shi�i their separate identity. Gerecht reminds us that the Iraqi Shi�i Arabs, especially their clergy, have usually been Iraqi nationalists. But the marriage of federalism to democracy is often hard for the Shi�i to appreciate as they can easily see it as a means to cheat them, once again, of the pre-eminence they should have had since the foundation of the Iraqi state in 1921.
    However, the Shiite community isn't monolithic. �Sitting atop so much oil, and impoverished by Sunni Baathist Baghdad for decades, federalism has greater appeal in the South.�
Substantial checks and balances exist within the Shia community on virtually every sensitive subject -- nationalism, federalism, oil-wealth distribution, anti-Americanism, relations with Iran, political Islam, and theocracy. These differences will only grow as the Iraqi Shi�i mature politically and economically. and are already likely sufficient to ensure that the political center will hold among the Shiites, the sine qua non for progress in Iraq. However, this center may be comfortable with a marriage of Islam and politics that many Americans fear and loathe.
    Islamic family law, that underpins the highly stable Muslim home, may make some comeback in law and the new constitution. But as long as women have the right to vote and the Iraqi Parliament remains the supreme chamber for political debate, then the inclusion of aspects of Sharia family law into the civil code may well reinforce democracy's chances. �Americans of a feminist disposition should realize that equal rights between the sexes is not a precondition for the growth of democracy. If this were so, Western democracy never would have developed.�
    The secularization of religious discussions in Iraq is already very far advanced. A comparison of the Iraqi clerical discussion of constitutional government at the time of Iran's 1905-1911 Constitutional Revolution with the debate today shows how successfully Western ideas, first and foremost democracy, have redefined or submerged older Islamic ideals hostile to representative government.
    �The democratic government Iraqis are trying to build will have much more real-world appeal and traction in today's Middle East than the very liberal democracy that many Americans in the occupation's Coalition Provisional Authority and in Washington wanted to build in 2003.�
    �If Mr. Rumsfeld thinks the current constitutional debates are too protracted and unhelpful, he should wait for the Sunni, Shiite, or Kurdish communities to veto a draft constitution,� Gerecht concludes. �The success or failure of the Iraqi democratic experiment will be evident in the coming months. The intersection of God, man, and the common weal are not easy things to figure out, and the Iraqis are doing far better than anyone really had the right to hope.�

SECTION III – CYBER INTELLIGENCE

AL-QA'IDA PIONEERS GUERRILLA USE OF CYBERSPACE - Nearly four years after losing its Afghan sanctuary, al-Qa'ida has become the first guerrilla movement in history to migrate from physical space to cyberspace, the Washington Post reported on 7 August.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501138.htm
    As the terrorist network scattered, a witness observed that every second al-Qa�ida member carried a laptop computer along with a Kalashnikov.
    Now, using countless Web sites, young code-writing jihadi, in secret hideouts and at neighborhood Internet cafes, seek to replicate the training, communication, planning and preaching facilities they lost in Afghanistan, the Post reports in a lengthy article.
    Al-Qa'ida suicide bombers and ambush units in Iraq routinely depend on the Web for training and tactical support, relying on the Internet's anonymity and flexibility to operate with near impunity. In Qatar, Egypt and Europe, cells affiliated with al-Qa'ida that recently carried out or seriously planned bombings have relied heavily on the Internet.
    Western intelligence service conclude that the global jihad movement, sometimes led by al-Qa'ida fugitives but increasingly made up of diverse groups and ad hoc cells, has become Web-directed. USG has proven ineffective at blocking or even hindering significantly this vast online presence, according to the Post.
    Al-Qa'ida and its offshoots are building an online library of training materials and chatrooms that provide instructions in how to mix ricin, how to make a bomb from commercial chemicals, how to pose as a fisherman and sneak through Syria into Iraq, how to shoot at a US soldier, and how to navigate by the stars in the desert. The material is posted in Arabic, Urdu, Pashto and the jihadi�s other native languages.
    The Saudi branch of al-Qa'ida launched an online magazine in 2004 that told potential recruits, "Oh Mujahid brother, in order to join the great training camps you don't have to travel to other lands. Alone, in your home or with a group of your brothers, you too can begin to execute the training program."
    "Biological Weapons," a 15-page Arabic language document posted two months ago, drew on US and Japanese biological weapons programs from the World War II era and showed how to inject carrier animals, like rats, with the pneumonic plague virus, how to extract microbes from infected blood and how to dry them so that they can be used with an aerosol delivery system.
    Al-Qa'ida's innovation on the Web "erodes the ability of our security services to hit them when they're most vulnerable, when they're moving," said Michael Scheuer. Now, he said, even when traveling, an al-Qa'ida operative no longer has to carry anything that's incriminating. Everything is posted on the Web or "can be sent ahead by encrypted Internet, and it gets lost in the billions of messages that are out there."
    The number of jihadi-related Web sites has metastasized since 9/11. Gabriel Weimann, a professor at the University of Haifa, found 12 sites eight years ago. Today, he tracks more than 4,500. Hundreds of them celebrate al-Qa'ida or its ideas, he said. Following the invasion of Iraq, the growth in jihadi Web meeting and training grounds has accelerated.
As former DDCI John McLaughlin sees it, al-Qa�ida today is primarily driven today by ideology and the Internet. (DKR)

USG COMPUTERS TOP TARGETS FOR CYBERATTACKS - Cyberattacks on computer systems escalated in the first half of 2005 and government agencies were targeted more than any other business sector, GovExec.com reported on 5 August.
www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=31928
    Attacks on the government, financial services, manufacturing and health care industries rose 50 percent since the beginning of the year, according to IBM's Global Business Security Index Report.
    There were more than 237 million security attacks worldwide, with 54 million directed at the USG. The manufacturing sector received about 36 million attacks, followed by the financial services industry with 34 million and health care with 17 million. (DKR)

SECTION IV -- BOOKS, SOURCES, AND ISSUES

Books

U-2 VET RECOUNTS HISTORY OF DRAGON LADY DOWN TO TODAY - Chris Pocock, 50 Years of the U-2: The Complete Illustrated History of the Dragon Lady (Atgien, PA, Schiffer Publishing Ltd.  www.schifferbooks.com  440 pp, over 450 back and white and color illustrations, $69.95)
    No-one involved in the top-secret project dreamed that this unique reconnaissance aircraft would still be flying today, a half century after its first appeared. Pocock, who flew the U-2, is regarded as the foremost authority on the subject.
    In his third book, he tells its long and complex story from the beginning down to the present. He covers the early days overflying the Soviet Union under CIA sponsorship, the Cuba Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War; then the epic missions over Communist China, flown by Nationalist pilots from Taiwan; how the craft was improved, enlarged and twice put back into production; and its key role in Desert Storm, over Bosnia and Kosovo, and most recently over Afghanistan and Iraq.
    His work includes five appendices giving aircraft and systems data, unit and aircraft histories, and a complete pilot list.
    To receive a signed and dedicated copy of his book, send a check for $75, payable to Chris, to: Chris Pocock, c/o Bob Ray, PO Box 318, Smartville, CA 95977. For more information contact Chris at +44 1895 259 317 or UKdragon@aol.com  (DKR)

THE CURIES, A REMARKABLE FAMILY OF SCIENTISTS - Denis Brian, The Curies: A Biography of the Most Controversial Family in Science (John Wiley & Sons, 427 pp. $30)
Brian, author of works on Einstein and Pulitzer, follows five generations beginning before Marie Sklodowska and Pierre Curie meet. He recounts their courtship and 11-year marriage with domestic notes and takes us into the converted garden shed, with its leaking roof, where their work on polonium and radium transformed physics and won them two Nobel prizes.
Marie kept up the scientific effort after Pierre's early death in a street accident. Her children, Irene and Eve, organized X-ray equipment distribution during World War I and trained women to work at the Radium Institute. Irene later married Frederic Joliot in a partnership similar to that of her parents'. Their joint Nobel came in 1935, a year after Marie's death. Eve, a journalist, wrote a best-selling biography of her mother and, during WWII, became a battlefield reporter. The fifth generation of this extraordinary family, Helene and Pierre Joliot-Curie, continued a highly public role as eminent scientists, but with Pierre lining up with the Communists to attack the US for using the atomic bomb. The scientific tradition is carried forward by the present sixth-generation since Sklodowska. (DKR)

Issues

PLAME AFFAIR NOT THE FIRST OF ITS KIND - In a national scandal in 1963, the first of its kind, a senior CIA officer was exposed in the US press by a "high official source." The officer lost his job and went into hiding, writes John H. Richardson, in the New York Times, recounting the fate of his father, who bore the same name.
www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/opinion/07richardson.html?th&emc=th
    Behind the leak was a policy dispute over whether the United States should support a coup against South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, as Richardson junior, author of "My Father the Spy: An Investigative Memoir," sees it.
    Averell Harriman and others in State wanted the coup, but the agency and the military opposed it. President Kennedy put off making a decision and sent a new ambassador with Republican credentials, Henry Cabot Lodge, to Saigon. On arrival, Lodge called for a drastic change in policy. But Richardson, who was station chief there, supported Diem and argued for patience, saying, "Our impression is that there are few points of no return in Asia."
    Some 20 years earlier, Richardson senior had joined the Strategic Services Unit, heading his first station in Vienna and later manipulating elections in Greece and the Philippines. He was so committed to the Cold War, his son writes, that he once asked to be demoted from a job that could have taken him to the top of the agency in order to return to the field.
Lodge tried to get Richardson fired, writing back-channel letters to Kennedy delivered by personal courier. DCI John McCone, however, vetoed the idea, warning Kennedy that Lodge was so eager for a coup that he might act unilaterally. Immediately, Secretary of State Dean Rusk sent Lodge instructions not to stimulate any coup plots. Lodge took the rebuff personally, writing bitter notes about the CIA in his private papers.
    At that point a reporter on the now defunct Washington Daily News reported that Richardson was the station chief in Saigon and had twice refused to carry out Lodge's explicit orders. "One high official here, a man who has spent much of his life in the service of democracy, likened the CIA's growth to a malignancy, and added he was not sure even the White House could control it," the News reported.
    The San Francisco Chronicle then accused Richardson of attempting to run American policy while the New York Times called him a kingmaker. The Washington Post said, "The real reason for CIA Chief John Richardson's recall from South Vietnam was the discovery that he had been reporting to President Diem's ruthless brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, what opponents were saying about the government."
    Richardson flew back to Washington and went into hiding. All over the world, headlines saying "CIA Chief Recalled" ran side by side with pictures of a Buddhist monk named burning himself to death.
    Less than a month later, rebel soldiers dragged President Diem and his brother out of church before shooting them in the back of their heads. The murder was almost certainly committed on the orders of a new US ally, a general known as Big Minh.
    Back in the United States, the CIA gave Richardson a medal and kicked him upstairs, but declassified agency documents show him nagging his supervisors for a new posting. "Matt says that deep down, Jocko really wants to go back overseas," says one. In another, "Jocko has talked with Dick Helms about a possible overseas assignment. Dick held out some hope but did not wish Matt to postpone his retirement."
    In a horrible way, Richardson junior writes, time proved his father right. "We never did pull off the magic trick of finding a foreign proxy who was both strong and obedient, and that meant that we owned what we had broken. Fifty-eight thousand dead Americans later, it seemed safe to conclude one thing: When 'high official sources' start exposing CIA officers to force their agenda, watch out." (DKR)

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

Careers
         [IMPORTANT: AFIO does not "vet" nor endorse these inquiries or offers. Reasonable-sounding inquiries and career offerings are published as a service to our members, and for researchers, educators, and subscribers. You are urged to exercise your usual caution and good judgment when responding or supplying any information.]

POSITIONS OPEN AT IPG - Due to new programs being awarded to IPG, it is currently recruiting for the following positions.
1. Chief Financial Officer, location Southern California. The successful candidate will report to the CEO and must be a US Citizen. Ten years experience with a public company is required. Preference for experience with a defense contractor with knowledge of USG acquisition regulations and compliance issues. Secret clearance is a plus but not necessary. Must be prepared to work on a host of issues for a small company, including personnel, compensation, benefits while overseeing the financial aspects of the position. MBA from a major University is required. Travel is a component of the position. IPG pays top salaries, profit sharing and benefits
2. Ex-Secret Service agent, preferably female, Spanish Speaking to recruit a 24 person security team to protect a high profile principal for an initial 18 month period. Substantial budget for top personnel and equipment. This is a overseas assignment. IPG pays top salaries and benefits.
3. Vulnerability analyzers, Spanish Speaking to conduct an assessment of a major refinery. This will include training recommendations, equipment upgrades and policies and procedures. This is a Southern California based position with frequent travel. IPG pays top salaries, benefits and profit sharing.
4. Military trainers, Spanish speaking to train combat skills. Overseas position, yearly contract with rotations of 6 weeks in country and 4 weeks off.
5. Contract administrator. Minimum 10 years experience with USG as a contracting officer with full knowledge of all USG contracting procedures. Must be able to administer multiple contracts. Language skills a plus, location Southern California.
6. Proposal writer, who will specialize in proposals for Counterterrorist Training, Driver Training, Surveillance Detection and other related programs. The individual must have previous experience in writing winning proposals to the US Government and understand and be conversant with Special Forces and Special Operations training doctrines.
IPG deals directly and in confidence with all candidates, please no management recruiters. Send resumes to Leonard M. Holzworth, President/CEO, International Program Group Inc. at lmholzworth@ipgworld.com  They will contact you by phone within two days of receipt.  Other methods of contact can be found at  www.ipgworld.com

VSAT SEEKS SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER - A dynamic and growing systems integration firm, VSAT specializes in satellite-based systems ranging from VSAT to Inmarsat to special purpose satellite communications systems. With a small number of employees and revenues of approximately $50-60M, it serves the federal government, prime contractors and commercial clients with particular focus on the IC and DoD markets.
The Company seeks to add a VSAT Manager � Senior Engineer at its operations headquarters in Dallas. The company seeks either a hands-on manager or a senior engineer with management skills. The candidate must be a strong technical leader who can apply creative solution to daily activities.
Requirements:  � C-band or Ku-band VSAT systems   � Hub, station and VSAT design and (field experience, a plus)   � DAMA networks, demand access and spread spectrum  � LAN/WAN communications experience, including routing protocols, hardware and TCP/IP networks  � Data communications networking experience (e.g. IP networks)  � Background in secure communications (especially IP), a plus  � Experience in link calculations/budgets; ability to obtain/evaluate space segment quotes  � Experience with required test equipment such as spectrum analyzers.  � Experience in writing technical proposals/documentation for client evaluation and system implementation  � Ability to obtain high-level security clearances. Preference to those who hold or have held security clearances  A competitive compensation package for the geographic location includes base, bonus, stock purchase/stock option plan and good benefits package.  Contact Alan Then, 972-735-0101

SATELLITE SYSTEMS FIRM SEEKS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVES - Federal Business Development Executive Company seeks two business development executives, one for its development and sales office in Washington, D.C. The other position could be for the Washington office or operations headquarters in Dallas.
The company deals in satellite-based systems ranging from VSAT to Inmarsat to special purpose satellite communications systems. With a small number of employees and revenues of approximately $50-60M, it serves the federal government, prime contractors and commercial clients with particular focus on the IC and DoD markets.
Essential functions:  � Develop and maintain strong business relationships with key decision makers in relevant agencies   � Identify, qualify and close business opportunities  � Position the company for bidding, including the following:  - Develop teaming relationships  - Assess competitors  - Develop win strategies concurrent with profit margin goals  - Lead program teams to develop winning proposals    Ability to obtain high-level security clearances. Preference to those who hold or have held security clearances   A competitive compensation package for the geographic location includes base, bonus, stock purchase/stock option plan and good benefits package.  Contact Sue Robinson, 972-735-0101

INFORMATION SECURITY CONSULTANT - Breakwater Security is seeking an Information Technology Security Consultant for a position in the Washington area. Incumbent will provide Certification and Accreditation (C&A) support to various Department of Defense (DoD) and civil agencies; develop and modify C&A documentation; assess program security compliance; support program briefs; coordinate and compile program security related documentation; and provide trusted liaison between IT managers and agency Inspector General (IG) representatives on compliance and enforcement issues.
Required Qualifications: -Experience with agency Inspector General (IG) compliance and enforcement issues -4 years of experience with information technology security -Experience with DoD Information technology security -Experience with DITSCAP and NIST based C&A -Experience with risk assessments or authored security engineering documentation -BA or BS degree in IT, CS, EE, Information Systems, relevant technical certifications or related experience. -Must possess or be eligible for a Secret security clearance.
Inquiries and applications should be directed to Cheryl Yeargin at (703) 459-6074, cyeargin@breakwatersecurity.com

FACILITY SECURITY OFFICER - Noesis, Inc   www.noesis-inc.com, a government contractor in the professional services arena, is seeking  a Facility Security Officer to manage security functions for the Company, to include: personnel security, physical security, visitor control,  automated information security,  and a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in accordance with NISPOM, OPM, DISCO, and other security related regulations and procedures. Successful candidate will possess a BS/BA degree or equivalent, required government security courses, and 5-8 years of security experience (including 2-4 as an FSO). TOP SECRET Security Clearance is required. Position location is Arlington VA, near the Ballston Metro station.  Inquiries and applications (principals only) should be directed to Leo Flynn, 703-741-0300, or send current resume and salary history to Leo at:  lflynn@noesis-inc.com

Authors/Researchers Seeking Your Help -

COUNTERTERRORISM SUCCESSES - COURT TV WANTS TO HEAR STORY OF EXCITING CASES  - �TAKEDOWN� is the new television show in development for COURT TV that wants to tell your stories! Each episode will trace the dramatic twists and turns of a real life case that was solved by intelligence officers or law enforcement agents like you. The show will include details of the case and, more importantly, how it was solved. We are primarily looking for cases dealing with Homeland Security and terrorism, but are happy to look at others as well. The cases can be domestic or international, but they must be closed. If you were involved in or know of a case you�d like to tell us about, please e-mail Jodi Flynn at jodi@sfpseattle.com. Include a description of the case, how and when it was solved, the final outcome, what your involvement was and how we can reach you.

DID YOU KNOW MONACO IN 1956-1982 AND/OR THE KELLY FAMILY? - I am currently writing a biography of Princess Grace of Monaco for St. Martin's Press in America and should like to hear from anyone who was based in Monaco -- or traveled to Monaco -- during the years 1956 - 1982.  Also, I should like to hear from anyone who has had any contact with Princess Grace's father, John 'Jack' Brendan Kelly or his son, John B. Kelly Jr.  I can be contacted at wendy@wendyleigh.co.uk or by telephone at +44 207 627 5142.  With many thanks for your help,  Wendy Leigh.

CAN THIS INSCRIPTION BE DECIPHERED? � In 1753, the Venetian master Giambattista Tiepolo finished a fresco depicting the continents of Europe, Africa, America and Asia at the Residenz in Wurzburg of that city�s Prince-Bishop. In the part of the frieze showing Asia, Tiepolo painted an obelisk and, in the foreground, a large stone block bearing an inscription. The characters used in the inscription have been said to look a little like Aramaic or Armenian, while being neither. The inscription has never been deciphered.  WINs editor DKR wonders if there are some curious souls among AFIO members who would like to try and find out what, if anything, the great Tiepolo was saying? To see the inscription go to http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/t/tiepolo/gianbatt/5wurzbur/index.html  and then scroll down and click on 'Apollo and the Continents (Asia, obelisk group).' The inscription is also reproduced in Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxandall, Tiepolo and the Pictorial Imagination, Yale University Press, Plate 169 opposite p. 162.  Replies to DKR at kinnane@msn.com

Notes

FIRED CIA OFFICER ASKS FBI TO INVESTIGATE - A fired CIA officer, who the New York Times reported had told superiors in 2001 that Iraq had abandoned part of its nuclear program, asked the FBI to investigate allegations that the spy agency dismissed him for refusing to falsify intelligence.
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    In an 11 July letter to Director Mueller, the former officer's attorney suggests agency officials may be guilty of criminal violations involving intelligence he produced on WMD in 2000 that contradicted an agency position. The lawyer, Roy Krieger, said his client initially asked the CIA IG to investigate whether the CIA had pressured him to alter the intelligence and retaliated when he refused. The IG rebuffed the request.
    The letter to Mueller reiterates charges in a lawsuit the former officer filed last December in Federal court in Washington. Identified as "Doe," the former officer, who worked as a Near Eastern specialist on counterproliferation issues, accuses the CIA of improper action on two separate pieces of intelligence. One was the weapons intelligence he says he was asked to change in 2000. The other was intelligence uncovered in 2001 concerning Iraq that the agency reportedly refused to share with other agencies. (DKR)

Obituaries

CHARLES BLACK, 86, a businessman, maritime expert and husband of AFIO Honorary Board Member, Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, died Thursday, 4 August 2005 of complications of myelodysplastic syndrome - a bone marrow disease. Black died at his home near San Francisco, with his wife of 55 years and other family members by his side.
    The couple met in 1950 in Honolulu, where Black had been working for a shipping company. They married that same year.
    Mrs. Black, a former U.S. ambassador to Ghana, said during recent interviews, "I fell in love with him at first sight. It sounds corny, but that's what happened. But I don't think he did with me."
    Mrs. Black, 77, was 22, when she and her husband met. After moving to California, Black started a fishing and hatchery company and worked as a consultant on maritime issues. He also served as a regent for Santa Clara University. Survivors include his wife; a son, Charles Jr.; a daughter, Lori; and another daughter, Susan, from Mrs. Black's first marriage to actor John Agar.  The Association extends our deep sympathy to the Black family.  [CEC / AP]

CHARLES JEWELL BAKER - A retired CIA operations officer who also was a bass vocalist with a number of Washington choirs, died of cancer 29 July at his home in McLean. He was 81.
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During 24 years with the agency, he served in Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Morocco. He retired in 1973 as branch chief of the North Africa desk at Langley.
Long interested in chamber choir music, he sang in the Choir of Men and Boys of the Washington National Cathedral for 32 years until 1993. He also was a member of the choir at St. Alban's Episcopal Church for the past 12 years and of the Choral Arts Society of Washington for the past 34 years, both under director Norman Scribner.
A native Washingtonian, he graduated from Roosevelt High School and George Washington University, where he also received a master's in business administration in 1966.
During World War II, he served in the Army Air Forces as a court reporter in the Judge Advocate General's criminal court in Italy.
He was a member of the American Philatelic Society, Society of Philatelic Americans and Delta Phi Epsilon. Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Nancy Giglio Baker; four children, Reid S. Baker, David J. Baker, Alexandra L. Shirley, and Margaret C. Reilly; a sister, Margaret Kemp; and seven grandchildren.

ARTEMIS LYCHOS WEISS - A retired CIA administrator, she died, aged 79, of esophageal cancer on 18 July at Georgetown University Hospital, the Washington Post reported.
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A native of Bloomsburg, PA, she graduated from Beaver College, now Arcadia University, in Jenkintown, PA, in 1947. She began her career as a staff member of radio station WEEX in Easton, PA., and then moved to Washington in 1950 upon accepting a position with the CIA. She held a number of senior positions in analytical and administrative areas until 1960.
An avid bridge player and an active member of the Chevy Chase Women's Club, where she participated in a number of activities, particularly the annual antiques show. She was also a member of Columbia Country Club and contributed to various civic and charitable activities. Survivors include her husband of 49 years, Arnold H. Weiss; two sons, Daniel L. Weiss and Andrew A. Weiss; and two granddaughters. (DKR)