AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #35-05 dated 12 September 2005

DDO RICHER SAID TO QUIT OVER CIA LEADERSHIP

WITNESS TO TESTIFY ON DESTROYED ABLE DANGER DATA

SECTION II – CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE

FRENCH CI FACES WORRYING NEW ISLAMIST TRENDS

MI5 BOSS WARNS LIBERTIES MAY HAVE TO BE ERODED

SECTION III - CYBER INTELLIGENCE

YAHOO DEFENDS INFORMING CHINESE ON E-MAIL USE

AIR FORCE BUYING UAVS FOR SIGINT WORK

BRITAIN WANTS EU MOBILE PHONE, E-MAIL RECORDS KEPT LONGER

SECTION IV -- BOOKS, SOURCES, AND ISSUES

Books

FOURTH GENERATION WARFARE

STATES SPONSORING TERRORISM

AN FBI AGENT�S RISE AND FALL

Issues

CONVICTIONS RARE FOR LEAKING IDENTITIES TO MEDIA

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

Careers

ARABIC ANALYST SEEKS NEW WORK

Notes

SYRIANA - BOB BAER-BASED MOVIE COMING THIS NOVEMBER

BRITAIN�S SPECIAL BRANCH TO BE MERGED

CHINA SOUGHT TO INTERCEPT US SATELLITE DATA

         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
           1 � 29 October � Prince William Forest Park, Triangle, VA � Remembering the Park�s History as an OSS Training Camp
         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

ADDO RICHER SAID TO QUIT OVER CIA LEADERSHIP � Associate Deputy Director of Operations Robert Richer has announced he is quitting the CIA and has told colleagues he is doing so because of lack of confidence in the agency�s leadership, the Washington Post reported.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801796.html
According to some current and former intelligence officers his resignation came over the debate on how to improve HUMINT and the direction of the agency, Other officials disagreed and said Richer's departure involved disputes over operational issues that they would not specify, and a clash of personalities between Richer, a former Marine, and Goss and his top aides.
Richer was one of CIA Director Goss's key personnel choices, He announced he was retiring on 2 September at a meeting of Directorate of Operations leaders, according to some of the officials.
Last year, Richer's predecessor resigned after clashing with Goss's aides. During the 2 September meeting, Richer said he and his then boss, the DDO, had been frustrated by Goss and his staff in their efforts to implement certain measures.
On 8 September Goss sent an unusual worldwide message to all CIA employees praising Richer for his nearly 35 years of service. According to the Post, that only fueled the belief among some former intelligence officials that Richer's resignation reflects ongoing problems at the agency.
Richer was promoted to ADDO from being chief of the Near East division. (Cameron LC, DKR)

WITNESS TO TESTIFY ON DESTROYED ABLE DANGER DATA � A DoD employee will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on 21 September that in 2000 civilian superiors ordered him to destroy a huge cache of data from the Able Danger unit on potential terrorists or he would lose his job or go to jail, Rep. Curt Weldon said, Congressional Quarterly reported on 8 September.
The witness, who Weldon did not name, is to testify he was ordered to destroy 2.5 terabytes of data related to Able Danger and al-Qa�ida. "What were their motives? I think we have to find out," Weldon said.
Five people who were connected to Able Danger have said the program identified Mohammed Atta, the ringleader of the 9/11 attacks, as a potential threat more than a year earlier. Weldon and some of these people have also said DoD did not share with the FBI what it learned about al-Qa�ida prior to 9/11 as a result of Able Danger.
DoD officials acknowledged at a 2 September briefing that they destroyed the data. They said it was done as a matter of routine to protect the identity of U.S. persons.
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, an MI officer who worked on the program, has said he briefed senior officials in DoD and the White House on ways to excise U.S. persons' names without losing the entire database. DoD, Shaffer said, must have obliterated the data for another reason that it is not disclosing. (DKR)

SECTION II – CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE

FRENCH CI FACES WORRYING NEW ISLAMIST TRENDS - French counterterrorism has been recognized as one of the most effective in Europe, but new trends in Islamist militant activities are troubling it, the Jamestown Foundation Terrorism Monitor wrote on 8 September.
www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369780
In a lengthy article, the Monitor cites as key elements in French counterterrorism strategy a privileged relationship between intelligence services and investigative magistrates, as well stiffened penalties for acts of terrorism. The offence designated �association� makes a pre-emptive judicial approach possible.
A country-wide security alert plan, known as Vigipirate, has been developed which, after the attacks on London last July, activated a large number of extra security measures throughout France and along its borders.
An explosion near the Indonesian Embassy in Paris on 8 October 2004 was the first terrorist act in France in eight years. Since then, in the first six months of 2005, the French Secret Service (DST) has made over 60 Islamist-related arrests, compared to seventy-six in all of 2004.
This reflects changes among international jihadi with, French counterterrorism experts say, several trends especially worrying. First, there is the growing importance of the fili�re Irakienne (Iraqi network) that recruits for the insurgency in Iraq.
Secondly, recruiters travel back and forth between various European cities. The Paris based Imam Ben Halim Abderraouf, connected to the extremist Jamaat al-Tabligh wal-Da�wa (Society for Propagation and the Call (of Islam)) apparently played a key role in recruiting young Dutch Muslims. Four of them recently traveled on fake Algerian passports by way of Paris and Damascus to the Syrian-Iraq border area to receive jihadi training.
Thirdly, French experts expect to find Iraq veterans back in France in due course to continue the jihad. A dozen young French nationals are believed to be in Iraq as combatants.
Fourthly, there is a new category of Islamic extremists, almost all of whom are offspring of immigrants. They seem to be younger, more frustrated, and more radicalized than the French jihadis of the 1990s. Last year five young French nationals were killed in Iraq, one while executing a suicide attack near Fallujah. Although no plots for suicide attacks in France have been discovered yet, the DST fears that cells are planning such a strike.
Finally, the Algerian-based Salafi Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) is involved in activities beyond Algeria. Intelligence shows that the purported GSPC leader Abdelmalek Droukdal is in touch with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and is planning combined international jihadi efforts.
French law enforcement is so organized that several agencies, and departments within the same agency, are involved in counterterrorism. In the National Police these are the DST, General Intelligence Service (RG) and the National Anti-terrorism Division (DNAT).
The Defense ministry�s External Intelligence Service (DGSE) also has a role in countering terrorism while the Gendarmerie and the Judicial Police in Paris maintain counterterrorist judicial and intelligence capabilities.
Several coordinating structures have been set up to cope with this situation. The Anti-terrorist Operational Coordination Unit (UCLAT) is the most important of these but lacks direct access to the information held by participating bodies.
Under another initiative, the DST, RG and DNAT are to share the same location and resources by 2006. An international initiative is creation of a joint Franco-Spanish anti-terrorism investigation team whose officers will have equal operational powers on each other�s territory. As the Terrorism Monitor observes, this is remarkable in contemporary European police cooperation.
Another initiative of unprecedented caliber is the reinforced Franco-US counterterrorism cooperation, named Alliance Base, which has been operative since 2002, though it only became public last July. (DKR)

MI5 BOSS WARNS LIBERTIES MAY HAVE TO BE ERODED - The Director General of MI5, the British Security Service, has warned civil liberties may have to be eroded as protection from terrorist attacks, the domestic British news agency, the Press Association, reported on 10 September.
news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1918012005
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller made the comment In a speech to a meeting in the Hague marking the 60th anniversary of AIVD, the Netherlands' General Intelligence and Security Service. The speech was delivered on 1 September and posted on the MI5 Website on 9 September.
The central dilemma was how to protect citizens within the rule of law, she said, when fragile intelligence did not amount to clear-cut evidence. It was often not enough to support criminal charges in the courts. "We also value civil liberties and wish to do nothing to damage these hard fought rights. But the world has changed and there needs to be a debate on whether some erosion of what we all value may be necessary to improve the chances of our citizens not being blown apart as they go about their daily lives."
Intelligence, she said, comes from human sources who risk their lives and whom we have a high moral duty to protect and from technologies whose effectiveness can be countered by skilled opponents. �That is why there can be no coercion to share intelligence and why its use in open courts needs to be carefully handled.�
There is a very strong interest in international co-operation but if we splash intelligence around carelessly we shall soon have none of it. �So I could never agree to a compulsory exchange of intelligence as that would risk compromising valuable sources of intelligence. There would soon be little to exchange.�
The attacks on London in July, she said, were a shock and MI5 and police were "disappointed we had not been able to prevent them." She said those working in intelligence were also aware of many more attacks that had been thwarted by good intelligence and police work. But "We are judged by what we do not know and did not prevent," she said.
Fifty-two passengers were killed when four suicide bombers attacked the London transport network on 7 July. There were another four attempted bombings on 21 July.
The full text of Dame Eliza's speech may be seen at www.mi5.gov.uk/output/Page387.html (DKR)

SECTION III – CYBER INTELLIGENCE

YAHOO DEFENDS INFORMING CHINESE ON E-MAIL USE - A co-founder and senior executive of Yahoo Inc. confirmed on 10 September that his company gave Chinese authorities information later used to convict a Chinese journalist now imprisoned on charges of leaking state secrets, the Washington Post reported.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001222.html  
The journalist, Shi Tao, was sentenced last spring to 10 years in prison for sending foreign-based Web sites a copy of a message from Chinese authorities that warned journalists about reporting on sensitive issues.
According to a report by the watchdog body, Reporters Without Frontiers, Yahoo gave state security authorities details about Shi's e-mail usage that ultimately allowed them to trace the message to a computer he used.
Speaking at an Internet conference in China, Yahoo's Jerry Yang, said, "To be doing business in China, or anywhere else in the world, we have to comply with local law."
"We already knew that Yahoo collaborates enthusiastically with the Chinese regime in questions of censorship, and now we know it is a Chinese police informant as well," Reporters Without Borders commented. "Yahoo appears to be willing to go to any lengths to gain shares of the Chinese market."
Yahoo is not alone in cooperating with the Communist regime. Internet monitors based in the United States and Europe have accused Google of preventing Internet users in China from accessing sites Chinese authorities deem sensitive, such as those carrying reports about Tibet, Taiwan and the banned religious sect Falun Gong. Cisco Systems has sold China much of the equipment authorities use to block access to such sites. Cisco maintains that China's use of the gear is beyond its purview. Three years ago, Yahoo drew fire for reportedly signing a pledge in which it agreed to abide by all Chinese censorship laws, an implicit promise to bar access to Web sites deemed off-limits. (DKR)

AIR FORCE BUYING UAVS FOR SIGINT WORK - USAF is buying five RQ-4 Global Hawk UAVs equipped for SIGINT work, Strategypage.com reported on 7 September. Until now, all RQ-4s have carried high resolution cameras as their primary sensors.
www.strategypage.com/fyeo/howtomakewar/default.asp?target=HTINTEL.HTM
Inspiration for this RQ-4 variant came from an effort to sell the RQ-4 to Germany, equipped mainly for sigint, and successful demonstrations of its capabilities.
According to Strategypage, it is becoming more difficult to get qualified people to fly manned sigint aircraft for hours at a time, especially in out-of-the-way places. With the RQ-4, the human crew can stay on the ground, usually back in the United States. (DKR)

BRITAIN WANTS EU MOBILE PHONE, E-MAIL RECORDS KEPT LONGER - EU states should keep mobile phone and e-mail records for longer to help fight terrorism and crime, British Home Secretary Charles Clarke has told members of the European Parliament, the BBC reported on 7 September.
news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4221364.stm
Without such measures, Clarke said, European states would be fighting terrorism "with both hands tied behind our backs."
He did not say how long companies should be required to keep records but said "the longer it is held, the better."
Clarke rejected complaints about intrusion into privacy, saying there must be effective protection against abuse. Laws preventing suspects being deported to places where they faced persecution might have to change, he also said.
EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini told the BBC in July that there should be EU-wide rules on retention of data, suggesting a period of six months for Internet data and about 12 months for phone calls. In some member states, he said, there are no data retention rules at all. (DKR)

SECTION IV -- BOOKS, SOURCES, AND ISSUES

Books

FOURTH GENERATION WARFARE - Thomas X. Hammes, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century (Zenith Press, 321 pp. $24.95)
Col. Thomas X. Hammes, USMC, senior Marine fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, National Defense University, has written a severe criticism of the DoD�s current understanding and conduct of war.
�As the only Goliath left in the world,� he writes, �we should be worried that the world�s Davids have found a sling and stone that work,� referring to what he calls 4GW � fourth generation warfare. DoD internal debate has largely ignored the difference between the outcomes of conventional and recent and present unconventional conflicts.
The first three generations of warfare, he postulates, were those of massed land armies, as in the Napoleonic era; next the trench warfare of World War I; and then the warfare of firepower and maneuver, exemplified by the German blitzkrieg in the second World War.
The fourth generation, which has emerged over the past seven decades, is a warfare directed at the minds of enemy decision makers to destroy the enemy�s political will. The United States has already lost three times in such warfare: Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia. The French lost in Vietnam and Algeria and the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
�Clearly,� he writes, �4GW [in Iraq] is a very different concept from the short, intense war the Administration planned for and celebrated by declaring the end of major combat on May 1, 2003.� (DKR)

STATES SPONSORING TERRORISM - Daniel Byman, Deadly Connections: States That Sponsor Terrorism (Cambridge University Press, 369 pp. $30)
Byman examines terrorist groups from the PLO to al-Qa�ida to the Tamil Tigers, showing the relationships between states and terrorist organizations, and discussing how to proceed against both terrorism and the countries that manipulate it.
As an example of the muddled situations that can arise, he cites the current alliance between the United States and Pakistan which allows Kashmiri insurgents strikes so that the Islamabad government can avoid appearing to capitulate to US pressure. Such situations make it impossible, Byman argues, to develop a single strategy against terrorism.
In Libya, he sees a country that over time was brought to give up its terrorist connections. (DKR)

AN FBI AGENT�S RISE AND FALL - Alston Purvis with Alex Tresinowski, The Vendetta: FBI Hero Melvin Purvis's War Against Crime, and J. Edgar Hoover's War Against Him (PublicAffairs, 320 pp. $26)
Purvis tells the story of his father, Melvin, once famous for his role in taking down John Dillinger but later lost in obscurity.
Purvis senior was promoted repeatedly by J. Edgar Hoover in a meteoric career, only for the paranoid Hoover to turn on him. Decades after Purvis left the bureau, its director blocked his erstwhile prot�g� from obtaining other positions. (DKR)

ISSUES

CONVICTIONS RARE FOR LEAKING IDENTITIES TO MEDIA - Convictions for leaking sensitive government information to the media are almost as rare as sightings of the ivory-billed woodpecker, according to the Washington Post on 7 September.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090601582.html
Government employees have gone to prison only twice for such misdeeds. Legal experts say prosecutors will have a hard time putting away anyone in the administration for violating the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act in the Plame affair.
Whoever discloses an identity must know that the person was a covert operative and must intentionally reveal the operative�s identity to someone not authorized to know it.
There is, however, another statute that federal officials have used to go after government leakers. Some legal experts say it is not out of the question that prosecutors in the Plame case could bring it out again.
Section 641, Title 18 of the US Code, that nominally deals with prohibitions on the embezzlement of public money, property or records for private use, could be used to go after a federal employee who, say, absconds with government laptops, the Post said.
Prosecutors used the statute to help build successful cases against Samuel L. Morison, a former Navy intelligence analyst who was sentenced to two years in prison in 1985 after being convicted of espionage and theft in leaking secret US spy satellite photographs to a British magazine, and Jonathan Randel, a former DEA intelligence research specialist who in 2003 was sentenced to a year in prison for selling restricted information.
The statute "is used by the government from time to time in lieu of not having a criminal prohibition on leaking classified information, generally," said William Banks, a national security law expert at Syracuse University. "It isn't a good fit, but it's the best available." (DKR)

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

Careers
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 ARABIC ANALYST SEEKS NEW WORK - A currently employed native speaker of Arabic, with fluency in several dialects and possessing TS/SCI w/ Polygraph, would like to work in McLean, preferably for the CIA. She has worked with the IC since 1994 and is familiar with the structures of its organizations. Please contact her at LMi4142@aol.com 

Notes

SYRIANA - BOB BAER-BASED MOVIE COMING THIS NOVEMBER (Nov. 23) Why go back to the movies: Because a serious movie about the oil industry can only grease the star of George Clooney, who gets to prove his acting chops. Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, the film stars Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Chris Cooper and Jeffrey Wright. Damon is the suit, an analyst for the oil companies, while Peet is his wife and Clooney is a CIA agent who bounces from the United States to the Middle East looking for a terrorist. The film is based on Robert Baer's 2002 book See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism. Behind the scenes: The Sexiest Man Alive gained 35 pounds to give his character a little bit of weight. "In retrospect, it probably wasn't a great idea for my health because all I did was eat and eat until the weight just piled on. It sounds like a great situation, but you really get sick of looking at all that food. I felt awful shoving all this food in my face, but it really helped me feel like this character," says Clooney. Plus factor: It's already being called "Traffic" set in the oil game. Minus factor: Is it worth the price of gas to drive to the multiplex to see a movie about oil? What will the price of gas be by November?
September 11, 2005 [CPearlman, Chicago Sun-Times, Big Picture News Inc.]

BRITAIN�S SPECIAL BRANCH TO BE MERGED - The world's oldest unit dedicated to tackling political violence, Scotland Yard�s Special Branch, is to disappear under a reform of London�s Metropolitan Police, the Daily Telegraph (London) reported on 9 September.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/09/nspecials09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/09/ixportal.html
Announcing the reforms on 7 September, Sir Ian Blair, the Met commissioner, said they marked the final stage of a process, begun in the early 1990s, in which MI5 assumed the lead role in fighting mainland terrorism, previously held by the Special Branch. The SB was established in 1883 to cope with Fenian Irish nationalist terrorism in mainland Britain.
With its own selection and promotion systems and a culture seen by some other police officers as high-brow and at times elitist, SB is to merge within three years or less with the Yard�s anti-terrorist branch as part of an expanded counterterrorism directorate with a staff of around 2,000.
Many intelligence-gathering functions are to continue within the new unit, which will liaise with special branches in other British regional police forces.
"Special Branch officers have phenomenal skills and a huge record of success,� Sir Ian said, �but our view is that having them in separate departments is not as helpful to the process as we would want." (Cameron LC, DKR)

CHINA SOUGHT TO INTERCEPT US SATELLITE DATA - China secretly tried to buy U.S. electronic equipment that would allow Beijing to intercept U.S. intelligence data transmitted by satellites, according to court papers in a spy case. The Washington Times reported on 12 September.
www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050911-113936-2137r.htm 
A declassified 1997 FBI report, said to have been found in the possession of suspected Chinese spy Katrina Leung before her arrest in 2003, said two Chinese nationals were being sought by Chinese authorities for stealing $140 million intended for "a high-tech transfer/purchase of a most-up-to-date satellite retrieval systems technology manufactured by a US firm."
The technology would enable China "to intercept the same intelligence being collected by the US," said the report from the FBI's Hong Kong office.
The report said the highest level of the Chinese government had ordered the operation and that disclosure of the attempted purchase would be far more detrimental to China than the loss of the money. (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.

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28 - 30 October 2005
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         An insider's look at its new Directorate of Intelligence, Counterterrorism Division and the "just announced" National Security Service
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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 https://www.myaoc.org/EWEB/dynamicpage.aspx?webcode=120505_MASINT