LAWRENCE FRANKLIN, EX-AIPAC OFFICIALS PLEAD NOT GUILTY

ARMY OFFICER CHARGES MILITARY BLOCKED INTEL SHARING WITH FBI

FORMER DCIS AT LANGLEY LUNCH COMMEMORATE END OF OFFICE

SECTION II – CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE

GOSS PONDERS IG'S REPORT BEFORE SENDING IT TO CONGRESS

SINO-RUSSIAN EXERCISES SEEN AS A POLITICAL SIGNAL TO US

SECTION III - CYBER INTELLIGENCE

CHINA JOINS RACE FOR SUPERCOMPUTER SPEED

SECTION IV -- BOOKS, SOURCES, AND ISSUES

Books

AFGHANISTAN�S MURDEROUS STORY

THE HOT SIDE OF THE COLD WAR

HOW THE DEMOCRATS HELPED THE SOUTH � AND LOST IT

Issues

CLINTON IGNORED WARNING ON UBL MOVE TO AFGHANISTAN

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

Careers

LOSS PREVENTION EXECUTIVE - SAN JOSE, CA

Notes

CHINA ARRESTS SUSPECTED US SPY FOR TAIWAN

US WEBSITE SAID TO NAME MI6 OPERATIVES

PLANS TO UPGRADE SCHOOL HOUSES WHERE NATHAN HALE TAUGHT

PREMIERE FOR DRAMA OF TWO CAPTIVE DIPLOMATS

Obituaries

WILLIAM EUGENE REYNOLDS

J. KEITH REID

         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
         1 September 05 - Washington, DC - DHS & Red Cross Host Emergency Preparedness Fair
         8 - 11 September 05 - Arlington, VA - The Marine Corps Intelligence Association 2005 Convention
         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 - San Francisco, CA - The AFIO Jim Quesada Chapter hosts former KGB Officer S Levchenko at Luncheon
         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
         17 September 05 - Kennebunk, NE - AFIO Maine Hosts "Iran - Getting it Wrong...Getting It Right."
         27-28 September - Washington, DC - Eisenhower National Security Series Conference
         29 September 05 - Colorado Springs, CO - AFIO Rocky Mountain Chapter hosts meeting
         29 September 05 - Washington, DC - JOINT MILITARY INTELLIGENCE COLLEGE AND DNI CONFERENCE
         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 - What Stalin Knew - The Enigma of Barbarossa - 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
         15 October 05 - Kennebunk, ME - The AFIO Maine Chapter presents "Protecting Our Borders"
         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
         7-9 May 06 - Bethesda, MD - 2nd Annual INTELCON Exhibition and Symposium

 

SECTION I - CURRENT INTELLIGENCE

LAWRENCE FRANKLIN, EX-AIPAC OFFICIALS PLEAD NOT GUILTY - DoD Iran analyst Lawrence Franklin, together with two former officials of the pro-Israeli lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, pleaded not guilty on 16 August to charges of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified national defense information, Reuters reported.
today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-16T182010Z_01_SCH666003_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-PENTAGON-DC.XML
Steven Rosen, 63, former Aipac foreign policy director, and its former senior Middle East analyst, Keith Weissman, pleaded not guilty to conspiring to communicate information provided by Franklin. Rosen also pleaded not guilty to helping Franklin, 58, pass on written classified information.
The three will be tried together beginning 3 January in a federal court in Alexandria, VA.
Rosen and Weissman, 53, are accused of disclosing the classified information to members of the news media, a senior fellow at a Washington think tank and at least three foreign government officials.
Franklin was previously indicted on similar charges but had to appear in court under a revised indictment. He repeated his plea of not guilty to five counts of conspiring to communicate classified information.
Franklin was an analyst on the Iran desk in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the time the government says he disclosed classified information. Aipac fired Rosen and Weissman in April after defending their conduct last year.
Franklin was also charged with giving classified information to an unidentified diplomat, as part of an effort to advance his personal foreign policy agenda, the indictment said. [The diplomat in question is believed to be Naor Gilon, then head of the political department at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Gilon has since returned to Israel. - Ed.]
According to the indictment, Franklin gave the diplomat classified information related to a Middle Eastern country's activities in Iraq. The indictment also charged that between August 2002 and June 2004, Franklin gave the diplomat classified information relating to a weapons test conducted by an unnamed Middle Eastern country. [The country is believed to have been Iran. - Ed.]
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis ordered all three defendants to surrender their passports and released them on bond but restricted their travel. (DKR)

ARMY OFFICER CHARGES MILITARY BLOCKED INTEL SHARING WITH FBI - An MI team repeatedly contacted the FBI in 2000 to warn about the existence of an American-based terrorist cell that included the ringleader of the 9/11 attacks, according to a reserve Army officer. Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, said he had decided to risk his career by discussing the information publicly, the New York Times reported on 17 August.
www.nytimes.com/2005/08/17/politics/17intel.html
Shaffer said military lawyers later blocked the team from sharing any of its information with the bureau. According to Shaffer, a small, highly classified intel program known as Able Danger had identified the ringleader, Mohammed Atta, and three other future hijackers by name by mid-2000, and tried to arrange a meeting that summer with agents of the bureau�s Washington field office to share the information.
Shaffer has been on paid administrative leave from the DIA since his security clearance was suspended in March 2004, the Washington Post reported on 19 August.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081801751.html
Shaffer's lawyer, Mark Zaid, said he was concerned the colonel was facing retaliation from DoD and that his security clearance was suspended because of a series of petty allegations involving $67 in personal charges on a military cellphone. Zaid said that despite the disciplinary action, Shaffer had been promoted this year from major.
Shaffer later said that both senior Congressional figures and DoD officials knew he was going public. House Speaker Hastert and Chairman Pete Hoekstra of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, he said, told him he was doing the right thing and that "I was given assurances we would not suffer any adverse consequences for bringing this to the attention of the public," UPI reported.
www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050822-120036-4988r.htm
Shaffer also said he was given what he interpreted as tacit approval by Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone and Lt. Gen. Norton Schwartz, the staff director for outgoing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard B. Myers.
Shaffer told the Times military lawyers obliged members of Able Danger to cancel three scheduled meetings with the FBI at the last minute. He later learned, he said, that lawyers associated with the Special Operations Command had canceled the FBI meetings because they feared controversy if Able Danger was portrayed as a military operation that had violated the privacy of civilians who were legally in the United States.
According to the Times, the account by Shaffer, a reservist working part time for DoD, agreed with much of the information that 9/11 Commission leaders Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton. In a statement issued two weeks ago, Kean and Hamilton said the commission had concluded the intelligence program did not turn out to be historically significant. The statement said that while the commission learned about Able Danger in 2003 and immediately requested Pentagon files about it, none of the documents turned over by DoD referred to Atta or any of the other hijackers.
Shaffer said his role in Able Danger was as liaison with DIA and that he was not an intelligence analyst. The Times interviewed Shaffer on 15 August in a meeting set up for it and Fox News by Rep. Curt Weldon, the Pennsylvania Republican who is vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a champion of data-mining programs like Able Danger.
Shaffer said he had decided to allow his name to be used in part because of his frustration with the statement issued by Kean and Hamilton. In a telephone interview with the Post, he said many of his allegations were not based on his memory but on the recollections of others. He named a Capt. Scott Phillpott USN, and a civilian official of the former Land Information Warfare Activity at Fort Belvoir, whom he declined to identify. They, he said, told him after 9/11 that Atta and other hijackers had been included on a chart more than a year earlier.
Because he was not intimately familiar with the names and photographs of suspected terrorists, he said he did not realize that hijackers were listed until it was alleged to him after the attacks. All of the charts that could support his claims have disappeared, he said. He recognized the charts, he said, from his work as liaison between the DIA and Able Danger. But, he said, he was relying on the word of Phillpott and the civilian employee, who pointed to one of the charts and said, "We had them."
According to Newsweek, DNI Negroponte is looking into whether 'legal myths' concerning surveillance has inhibited MI officers.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9023932/site/newsweek
The Silberman-Robb Commission urged an examination of whether government lawyers' misconceptions were restraining antiterror activities. A DNI spokeswoman said her office was working closely with DoD to learn more about this. (DKR)

FORMER DCIS AT LANGLEY LUNCH COMMEMORATE END OF OFFICE - Director Goss honored the abolished post of DCI by having eight former DCIs to a ceremony and luncheon at the agency's headquarters on 16 August, the Washington Post reported.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601390.html
It was the first time that all living former agency heads were entertained together at Langley, along with the widows of two deceased DCIs. Also attending were nearly 2,000 agency staff members.
The office of Director of Central Intelligence was abolished two months ago when Goss' became simply Director of the agency.
The former DCIs attending were former President Bush, James Schlesinger, Adm. Stansfield Turner (USN ret.), William Webster, Robert Gates, James Woolsey, John Deutch and George Tenet. Cynthia Helms, the widow of Richard Helms, and Barbara Colby, the widow of William Colby, were also present at the gathering in the agency's cafeteria.
The event began with an hour-long ceremony commemorating the service of the former DCIs. The CIA's chief historian delivered the keynote address, and the former directors and the widows received medallions.
Goss' spokeswoman, Jennifer Millerwise, said the CIA will begin awarding service medals annually, in honor of the former DCIs, to employees who "demonstrate outstanding leadership skills in the area of innovation."
DNI Negroponte was not present. Goss said he could not remember whether the DNI had been invited and Negroponte's office said he would not have been able to attend in any case as he was traveling. (Elizabeth B., DKR) to a ceremony and luncheon at the agency's headquarters on 16 August, the Washington Post reported.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601390.html
It was the first time that all living former agency heads were entertained together at Langley, along with the widows of two deceased DCIs. Also attending were nearly 2,000 agency staff members.
The office of Director of Central Intelligence was abolished two months ago when Goss' became simply Director of the agency.
The former DCIs attending were former President Bush, James Schlesinger, Adm. Stansfield Turner (USN ret.), William Webster, Robert Gates, James Woolsey, John Deutch and George Tenet. Cynthia Helms, the widow of Richard Helms, and Barbara Colby, the widow of William Colby, were also present at the gathering in the agency's cafeteria.
The event began with an hour-long ceremony commemorating the service of the former DCIs. The CIA's chief historian delivered the keynote address, and the former directors and the widows received medallions.
Goss' spokeswoman, Jennifer Millerwise, said the CIA will begin awarding service medals annually, in honor of the former DCIs, to employees who "demonstrate outstanding leadership skills in the area of innovation."
DNI Negroponte was not present. Goss said he could not remember whether the DNI had been invited and Negroponte's office said he would not have been able to attend in any case as he was traveling. (Elizabeth B., DKR)

SECTION II – CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE

GOSS PONDERS IG'S REPORT BEFORE SENDING IT TO CONGRESS - CIA IG John Helgerson's voluminous report on 9/11 has been completed but is awaiting dispatch to Congress while Director Goss decides how to respond to its findings, the Washington Post reported on 20 August.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/19/AR2005081901526.html
Citing administration and Congressional sources, the Post said the report was finished in June, after being written in response to a recommendation of the House-Senate 9l11 inquiry in December 2002. It was delivered to Goss last month. Under the joint committee mandate, Goss is to report to the House and Senate intelligence committees on the steps taken to assign responsibility for poor performance and to reward excellence.
One reason for the long delay in producing the report, according to present and former agency officials, has been the original requirement by the joint committee that Helgerson "determine whether and to what extent personnel at all levels should be held accountable for any omission, commission or failure to meet professional standards" in relation to the 9/11 attacks.
When Goss received a draft of the report last October, he sent it back because performance failures were attributed to individuals without giving them the chance to respond to those findings or have the matter adjudicated by an accountability panel. In past months, individuals were given opportunities to respond. As a result, some changes have been made in the report, officials said.
Goss, however, has yet to decide what if any steps he will take before he sends the report to the Congressional committees. He could create an internal panel to look at each case and submit recommendations to him.
Some present and former agency officials, according to the Post, have been upset that four years after the attacks, the CIA was still being criticized despite having been the loudest voice in government to warn Presidents Clinton and Bush of the terrorist threat. (DKR)

SINO-RUSSIAN EXERCISES SEEN AS A POLITICAL SIGNAL TO US - A joint Chinese and Russian eight-day military exercise, ending this week, was meant as a political signal to the United States, in addition to helping Moscow showcase its weapons for sale to China, the Washington Times reported intel and defense officials as saying.
www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050817-122515-2218r.htm 
"They want to see our bases in Central Asia and presence in Asia cut back," said one official about the exercises in the area of the Shandong Peninsula, located close to the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
The United States was not invited to observe the war games while officials from India, Iran, Pakistan and Mongolia were. The exercise, named Peace Mission 2005, involved about 10,000 Russian and Chinese troops who staged what were described as operations against terrorists in a simulated regional conflict.
Because China defines terrorism as including separatists, US intel officials think the exercises are directed at Taiwan, which Beijing views as a breakaway province, and the United States, which has vowed to protect Taiwan from mainland attack. Defense officials said the war games were designed to practice amphibious landings and anti-submarine warfare, not traditional counterterrorism operations.
[While the exercises were held: in China�s far east, Beijing is troubled by separatists who employ terrorism in the landlocked far western province of Xinjiang, populated by Turkic Uyghurs. Uyghur militants include elements with connections to the Islamist radicals of neighboring former Soviet Central Asian states. � Ed.]
The US IC is stepping up monitoring activities in the western Pacific, defense officials said. Numerous intelligence-gathering aircraft, ships and satellites are focusing on the Shandong Peninsula and the Yellow Sea, where the war games were held. The US Pacific Command will use EP-3 surveillance aircraft along China's coasts and two Navy surveillance ships that were dispatched to waters near the exercises. (DKR)

SECTION III – CYBER INTELLIGENCE

CHINA JOINS RACE FOR SUPERCOMPUTER SPEED - China has joined the United States and Japan in a global race to reach the next milestone in supercomputer performance, many times the speed of today's most powerful machines, the New York Times reported on 19 August.
www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/technology/19super.html?pagewanted=all
The new supercomputers, that will not be in use until the end of the decade at the earliest, are increasingly viewed as crucial investments for progress in science, advanced technologies and national security. No longer are the exclusive territory of nuclear weapons designers and code breakers, ultra fast computers increasingly used in everyday product design.
Driven by advances in parallel computing, with software making it possible to lash together arrays of tens or even hundreds of thousands of processor chips, the speed of future supercomputers is limited only by cost, adequate electricity and the ability to cool the systems.
China now has 19 supercomputers ranked among the 500 fastest machines. In recent weeks the Chinese and Japanese have been reported to be planning new investments in breaking the petaflop computing barrier. A petaflop is a measure of computing performance that describes the ability to perform 1,000 trillion mathematical operations a second, roughly eight times the speed of today's fastest computer.
The world's fastest computer is a machine installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory late last year that has reached more than 136 trillion operations a second, or 100,000 times the speed of a fast desktop personal computer. Built by IBM, plans are for Blue Gene/L to double its speed before the end of the year.
The United States, Cray, IBM and Sun Microsystems are working to achieve a petaflop by the end of the decade, supported by the DoD financed High Productivity Computer Systems program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The work began in 2003 in response to the emergence of a Japanese supercomputer, the Earth Simulator -- the world's fastest computer in 2002, displacing the United States for the first time.
The United States recaptured world leadership in November 2004. In the most recent ranking of the world's 500 fastest computers, released in June, the United States holds the top three positions. The Earth Simulator has fallen to fourth place, with about a quarter the computing speed of the new leader.
The fastest American machines are used primarily for military applications but many scientists and technology executives worry about losing out in markets like oil and gas exploration, automobile design and manufacturing unless they, too, have access to the fastest supercomputers. But not all supercomputer experts are convinced that having the world's fastest computer is essential to American competitiveness.
Last month in China, Lenovo Group, which acquired IBM's personal computer business last year, said it would join in a Chinese effort to build a petaflop machine by 2010 as part of a five-year government plan to advance the country's computer technology. Separately, two other Chinese companies, Dawning and Galactic Computing, have indicated they intend to develop petaflop-scale systems.
A French military program, led by Bull, has plans to reach a petaflop in 2013. (DKR)

SECTION IV -- BOOKS, SOURCES, AND ISSUES

Books

AFGHANISTAN�S MURDEROUS STORY - Kathy Gannon, "I" Is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror: 18 Years Inside Afghanistan (Public Affairs, 224 pp. $25)
Drawing upon her long experience as an AP correspondent in Afghanistan, Gannon offers a contemporary history of the country. She gives a compelling account of being the only Western journalist allowed into Kabul after 9/11.
In an overview of the Taliban regime, from its origins as a humble vigilante force assembled to stop post-Soviet corruption to its eventual overthrow in 2001, Gannon takes the United Nations to task for refusing to confront the Islamists on women's rights, thereby abetting its repressive edicts.
As for current mujahedin leaders, she underlines their records as mass murderers and their possible links to UBL. (DKR)

THE HOT SIDE OF THE COLD WAR - Robert Cowley, Ed., The Cold War: A Military History (Random House, 496 pp. $27.95)
Cowley, founding editor of Military History Quarterly, has brought together two dozen essays on a rivalry that avoided a major military confrontation between the West and the Soviet bloc but which was marked by many lesser armed conflicts.
Cowley's contributors include military historians John Guilmartin, Victor Davis Hanson and Williamson Murray who show how the Cold War's history was shaped by patterns of provocation and misunderstanding in the context of the Soviet Union's inability to achieve its primary strategic objective, the conquest of Western Europe, without initiating a nuclear exchange that would have destroyed it. (DKR)

HOW THE DEMOCRATS HELPED THE SOUTH � AND LOST IT -William E. Leuchtenberg, The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (Louisiana State University Press, 72 pp. $45)
Award-winning historian Leuchtenberg has written the history of the fraught relationship between the liberal Democrats and the South that resulted in two major changes in that region.
One was modernization and economic development that brought prosperity. The other, ironically, was the large-scale transfer of its voters� allegiance from the Democrats to the GOP.
Leuchtenberg draws on period sources in rendering his account of the attitudes and political struggles of Roosevelt, Truman and Johnson, judiciously assessing their achievements and failings. (DKR)

Issues

CLINTON IGNORED WARNING ON UBL�S MOVE TO AFGHANISTAN - State Department analysts warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Usama bin Ladin's move to Afghanistan from Sudan would give him an even more dangerous haven as he sought to expand radical Islam beyond the Middle East, but the government chose not to deter the move, the New York Times reported newly declassified documents as showing.
www.nytimes.com/2005/08/17/international/asia/17osama.html?th&emc=th
In a top-secret assessment, the analysts said that UBL's prolonged stay in Afghanistan, where hundreds of Arab mujahedin received terrorist training and key jihadi leaders congregated, could prove more dangerous to US interests than his three-year liaison with the Islamist authorities in Sudan. The declassified documents were obtained by the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch under FOIA.
According to the Times, State's assessment indicated its analysts suspected UBL was taking a more active role, including in the bombings in June 1996 that killed 19 US soldiers at Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Two years after State's warning, with UBL running training camps in Afghanistan, al-Qa'ida struck two US embassies in East Africa, leading to failed military attempts by the Clinton administration to capture or kill him in Afghanistan. Three years after that came 9/11, an operation overseen from Afghanistan, said the Times.
While some Sudanese officials have said they offered to turn UBL over to the United States before expelling him in 1996, Clinton administration diplomats have adamantly denied receiving such an offer,
State's Adam Ereli said, "the question was getting him out of Sudan. The priority was to deny him safe haven, period, and to disrupt his activities any way you could."
"There was a lot we didn't know, and the priority was to keep him on the run, keep him on guard, and try to maximize the opportunities to nail him." (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.]

Director of Loss Prevention & Security - Location: San Jose, CA; Salary: Open.  Summary: This is a newly created senior leadership role reporting to the President and CEO. The successful candidate will establish, direct and manage all aspects of a loss prevention & security program for our client�s facilities, retail outlets and designated sites where their assets may be at risk from internal and/or external theft or misappropriation.  Key Responsibilities: Serves as the business leader responsible for the development, implementation and management of program efforts to identify, develop, implement and maintain security loss prevention strategies across the organization to reduce risks, respond to incidents, and limit exposure to loss.  Coordinates and implements site security, operations and activities to ensure protection of executives, managers, employees, physical and information assets, while ensuring optimal use of personnel and equipment.   Develops and delivers service in response to criminal financial loss, crimes against persons, sabotage, threats, emergencies, illegal acts, and property or environmental crimes.  Researches and deploys state-of-the-art technology solutions and innovative security management techniques to safeguard the organization assets.  Directs the approach, deployment and execution of the most sensitive investigations.   Develops and manages the capital and expense budget for security operations.  Develops close relationships with local, state and federal law enforcement and private sector counterparts.  Briefs executive management on status of security issues.
Provides leadership direction to the management and professional staff within the organization unit. Replies to: Jay B. Crawford, CPP, Senior Consultant, Security Management Resources, Inc., 18950 US Highway 441, #118, Mount Dora, FL 32757, jay.crawford@smrgroup.org,  office- 352-385-0739, fax- 352-385-1746, Visit: http://www.smrgroup.org/

Notes

CHINA ARRESTS SUSPECTED US SPY FOR TAIWAN - China has arrested a Chinese-born US businessman on suspicion of spying for Taiwan, the New York Times reported on 19 August,
The businessman, Xie Chunren, of Somerset County, NJ, was arrested on 31 May in Sichuan Province, according to the US Embassy in Beijing on 18 August. "He is currently under residential surveillance under suspicion of espionage for Taiwan," an embassy spokeswoman said.
The use of residential surveillance in a state security-run "guesthouse" in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, is a way to avoid shorter time limits that apply to criminal detention, said Jerome A. Cohen, a specialist in Chinese law at New York University, who is advising Xie's family. The Foreign Ministry confirmed that Xie had been detained on suspicion of engaging in activities harmful to the security of the People's Republic of China."
Xie's son, Xie Yuanyang, said his father appeared to have been wrongfully caught up in an investigation into a former acquaintance, David Wei Dong, also called Dong Wei, a US citizen arrested in China in 2003 and accused of spying, but not yet brought to trial. The son said his father and Dong were not on good terms and had not seen each other since 2000.
Two weeks ago China charged Ching Cheong, a reporter based in Hong Kong, with spying for Taiwan. Lu Jianhua, a Beijing academic who has advised China's leaders, was also held, apparently because of his contacts with Ching.
Xie, 56, owns the NatureAll Company, a nutritional products supplier in Hillsborough, NJ, and sold vitamins, fish oil and nutrition pills to China, his son said. He migrated to the United States about 1989 and traveled to China frequently. (DKR)

US WEBSITE SAID TO POST NAMES OF MI6 OPERATIVES - On 21 August, an American website posted what it purported to be the names of 74 members of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), The Guardian (London) reported.
politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1553993,00.html
It was not clear what action the British would take to try to get the names taken off the website and prevent their further dissemination. the newspaper said. However, the British were likely to conduct a damage limitation exercise and warn individuals who had been identified. Eighteen of those named on the website have held the rank of ambassador. The website lists the names under a message thanking someone who it refers to simply as "A." (DKR)

PLANS TO UPGRADE SCHOOL HOUSES WHERE NATHAN HALE TAUGHT - Members of the Society of Sons of the American Revolution want to commemorate Nathan Hale's recent 250th birthday with upgrades to the schoolhouses where he taught in East Haddam and New London, CN, the Hartford Courant reported.
www.courant.com/news/local/sr/hc-edmhale0810.artaug10,0,3348234.story
Members of the society's Connecticut branch have donated $20,000 of the estimated $250,000 needed to upgrade the two landmarks and have created master plans for both sites. They have been aided by a $20,000 grant from the Connecticut Humanities Council.
Also planned are enhanced exhibits to illuminate Hale's life, explore the world in which he lived, and consider some of the circumstances that might have caused him to enlist and lose his life when revealed as a spy.
The 18-by-20 foot clapboard building in East Haddam housed students from 1750 to 1799. Hale taught there from October 1774 through March 1775. After leaving East Haddam, Hale taught for more than a year at the Union School in New London.
The British hanged the 21-year old Hale in 1776 after he was caught spying for the Continental Army. He was proclaimed the Connecticut State Hero in 1985.
Hale is commemorated by statues in New York's City Hall Park, erected in 1909; Yale University, of which he was a graduate; and at CIA headquarters at Langley. The last, put in place in 1973, is a replica of the 1914 Yale statue. (Matt C., Elizabeth B., DKR)

PREMIERE FOR DRAMA OF TWO CAPTIVE DIPLOMATS - Producer-director Liam Castellan of the Philadelphia Dramatists Center announces the professional world premiere of Paul Leeper's A Cuckold's Tale at the coming 2005 Philly Fringe.
Leeper, who has worked for the USG as a Special Agent and contracted advisor in North Africa, Central America and the Arabian Peninsula, has dramatized a tale of two captive diplomats awaiting execution, interrogation, or salvation. One of them, Hamilton Cokewald, starts the play with a bloody nose from his recent interrogation. The other, Eoghan Finn, waits for his own interrogation with apprehension. Cokewald has been promised that both men will die tomorrow, but how will they know when tomorrow is? As they wait for someone to come � whether interrogator, rescuer, or executioner � both men must deal with each other, their wives' infidelities, the possibility of afterlife, the possibility they're already dead, and Finn's full bladder.
Performances will run from 7 to 17 September at The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, 2111 Sansom St. Mention AFIO and you will get $5 off the regular ticket price of $15. To reserve, call the box office at 215-413-1318 or visit www.livearts-fringe.org/2005/templates/details.cfm?id=4739. (DKR)

Obituaries'

WILLIAM EUGENE REYNOLDS - A retired CIA senior intelligence officer and member of the Senior Intelligence Service in 1987, died, aged 73, of cardiac arrest on 2 August, the Washington Post reported.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081801864_3.html
He served 25 years with the agency as an operations, program and administration manager. After retiring, he worked for the CIA as an independent contractor in the Office of Signals Intelligence Operations and for the IG�s investigations staff until his death.
Born in St. Joseph, MO, he was a high school all-American in football, all-city in basketball and a track star. He played football at the University of Missouri until injuries ended his career. At college, he joined the ROTC and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He graduated in 1955.
From 1955 to 1962, he was an Air Force intelligence officer, stationed at Sculthorpe air base in England for the first three years. He left the Air Force with the rank of major. His honors include the CIA Exceptional Accomplishment Award in 1982 and the CIA Intelligence Medal of Merit in 1987.
He was a member of the Northwest Federal Credit Union board of directors from 1986 until his death.
Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Nancy Reynolds; four children, William Jeffrey Reynolds, Mark R. Reynolds, Kerri A. Mulvey and Todd M. Reynolds; a brother, Robert T. Reynolds; a stepmother, Dorothy Reynolds; and nine grandchildren. (DKR)

J. KEITH REID - A former CIA officer, he died 12 August of Parkinson's disease and kidney disease at Greenspring Village retirement home in Springfield, VA. He was 86, the Washington Post reported.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/20/AR2005082001058.html
Born in Marshall, VA, he attended Strayer University in Washington and served in the Army Air Force in World War II. He then worked briefly for the Veterans Administration before joining the CIA.
His family did not know the exact nature of his work, but he was assigned to Tokyo in the 1950s and to Rome from 1963 to 1966. He retired in 1975. In the late 1970s, he was a deputy sheriff of Arlington County in Virginia.
His wife of 55 years, Faye Crabill Reid, died in 1996. Survivors include two children, John J. Reid and Dr. Janice Morris; and two grandchildren. (DKR)

17 September 05 - Kennebunk, ME - The Maine Chapter of AFIO will present "Iran - Getting It Wrong, Getting It Right" with speaker Henry Precht, retired Foreign Service Officer. at 2 p.m. at the Kennebunk Free Library, Kennebunk, ME. A graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Mr. Precht joined the Foreign Service in 1961, serving mainly in the Middle East. During the Iranian Revolution and Hostage Crisis he was Officer in Charge of Iranian Affairs in the State Department. A recipient of numerous awards, Mr. Precht has also taught international affairs at Case Western Reserve University Copies of Mr. Precht's book, "A Diplomat's Progress" will be available for signing. Call Barbara Storer, (207) 985-2392 for further details.

27-28 September 05  - Washington, D.C. - Eisenhower National Security Series Conference - The Dwight D. Eisenhower National Security Conference is being held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Online registration is now available at www.eisenhowerseries.com.
         The theme : Shaping National Security - National Power in an International World. Speakers include: Secretary Rice (invited); Rep. Ike Skelton, Ranking Member, House Armed Services Committee; HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, Carlos Pascual, Coordinator, Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization, U.S. Department of State; and Hernando de Soto, president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru.
         There will be four panel discussions: Power and National Sovereignty, co-sponsored by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy; Nongovernmental and Humanitarian Organizations in the New Security Environment, co-sponsored by the Center for Humanitarian Cooperation; The Intelligence Challenge -- Understanding and Preventing Strategic Surprises, co-sponsored by The Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, University of Pittsburgh; and Understanding the Nexus of Proliferation and Terrorism, co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  Information and updates concerning speakers, panels, schedules and fees can be found at www.eisenhowerseries.com

29 September 05 - Washington, DC - The Joint Military Intelligence College invites you and members/associates to our annual conference on intelligence reform scheduled for 29 September 2005, at Bolling AFB, Washington DC. Please see attached flyer and agenda; registration can be done on-line. Request your assistance in forwarding this information throughout your organization. The Joint Military Intelligence College & The Office of the Director of National Intelligence present "Managing the Future During a Time of Change: A Conference on Intelligence Reform. Featured Keynote Speaker is Ambassador John Negroponte, DNI  Time: 0800-1800 at the Defense Intelligence Analysis Center, Tighe Auditorium. Registration deadline is 22 September. Seating is limited to the first 350 applicants. Register and pay online at http://www.FBCINC.COM/JMIC-DNI  for immediate confirmation, or download, print, complete and mail the registration form. Registration fee includes refreshments, luncheon at the Bolling Air Force Base Officer�s Club, and a post-conference reception.

14-15 October 05 - New Brunswick, CANADA - Terrorism in History - University of New Brunswick, Fredericton - The 25th Annual Conflict Studies Conference will be devoted to the Strategic Impact of Terrorism from Sarajevo 1914 to 9/11. Bruce Hoffman of the RAND Corporation will deliver the key not speech on Terrorism in History. Taking part in a panel on Terrorism and the World Wars will be Keith Wilson, University of Leeds; Brian Kri, University of Maryland; and Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. A second panel will discuss Terrorism and National Liberation - The First Wave, with Robert White, Indiana/Purdue University; David Charters, University of New Brunswick; and Kevin Dooley and Richard O'Meara, Rutgers University. The subject of a third panel will be Terrorism and National Liberation - The Second Wave, with Michael Gunter, Tennessee Technological University; Stuart Farson, Simon Fraser University; and James Miskel, Alidade Inc. The fourth panel will take up Endgames: Revolutionaries and Apocalyptics, with Michael Dartnell, University of New Brunswick, Saint John; and Gavin Cameron, University of Calgary.  Terrorism Trends, Responses, and Impacts is the subject of the fifth panel, with Mark Sedgwick, American University in Cairo; John Mueller, Ohio State University; Jeffrey Kaplan, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh; and Monsuru Kasali, National Open University of Nigeria. A summation will be presented by David Charters, UNB, on 9/11: Terrorism and the Future Historian. The conference will close with a banquet.  Conference fee: $150 CDN; $125 US. Banquet fee: (extra) $30 CDN $25 US. Fees can be paid by Mastercard, Visa, or American Express, by personal check, or money order payable to Centre for Conflict Studies. Accommodation: A block of rooms has been set aside at the Lord Beaverbrook Hotel. You may contact the hotel directly at: 506-455-3371, and ask for a room held for the Conflict Studies Conference.  To register or for further information contact: Centre for Conflict Studies, University of New Brunswick, PO Box 4400, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada. phone: 506-453-4587 fax: 506-447-3175 email: conflict@unb.ca

15 October 05 - Kennebunk, ME - The AFIO Maine Chapter presents "Protecting Our Borders" with a representative from U. S. Border Patrol. Royal Canadian Mounted Police also invited to present a view from both sides of the border. The event starts at 2 pm, Kennebunk Free Library, Kennebunk, ME. Further details available from Barbara Storer, (207) 985-2392.

**** 28 - 30 October 2005 - AFIO 30th Anniversary Symposium Celebration -

28 - 30 October 2005
         AFIO 30th Anniversary Symposium Celebration
         with a rare opportunity - our first day-long visit to the transformation-embracing  NEW Federal Bureau of Investigation
         An insider's look at its new Directorate of Intelligence, Counterterrorism Division and the "just announced" National Security Service
         and special programs at the  Sheraton Premiere Hotel,  Tyson's Corner, VA  

Two Steps:   Step One:  Make your room reservations now  at the Sheraton Premiere Hotel.  
         Step Two: Symposium Online Reservation form here    Agenda for AFIO Symposium will be forthcoming by U.S. mail to all current members of record. 
         PUT THIS DATE ON YOUR CALENDARS

5-7 December 05 - Chantilly, VA � The MASINT Association 4th Annual MASINT Conference � �Progress through Partnership� at the National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, VA. The conference is classified SI/TK, open to U.S, Canadian, British and Australian citizens. For information contact Phil Edson at 571-214-2415, masintassoc@earthlink.net  or the AOC at http://www.crows.org/EVENTS/2005/120505_MASINT/120505_MASINT.htm