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EDITOR'S NOTES: It is with a heavy heart this week I report the death of a former commander and friend, Colonel Thomas Felts, killed by an IED in Baghdad on 14 November. Captain Tom Felts was my company commander when I served in the 712th Military Intelligence Battalion in Augsburg, Germany in the late 80's/early 90's. I remember him as a gung-ho soldier who many of us kidded had the ethos of an infantry officer instead of a military intelligence "weenie." We soldiers would grumble, as only soldiers can, about the need to practice patrolling and tactical radio communications when we were stationed at a strategic site safe within the borders of West Germany. Felts' predecessors had largely left us alone to do our strategic mission and whoop it up on our break days. True, the Soviet horde was just across the border to the east, but few really feared an invasion that late in the game. Tom Felts knew, though, that every soldier's first job was that of foot soldier and warrior, and the training that he promoted proved prophetic as members of my battalion were deployed to Desert Storm in 1990/91. The strategic soldiers were frontline troops without warning and I am sure many thanked Tom Felts as they sat in the war zone comforted by the tactical training they had received. I last saw Col. Felts in 1995 at Ft. Huachuca, Az., just after I was promoted to Warrant Officer. He congratulated me and we rehashed old times from Augsburg. I was actually surprised that he remembered me, after all, I was just one of 140 soldiers in his command. But that was the kind of commander Tom Felts was- every soldier was important. He proved this when he volunteered to go to Iraq, even though it wasn't required of him. He saw it as an opportunity to gain important experience to pass on to other soldiers and officers, and maybe help them complete their mission, or save their lives. Tom Felts was a quiet hero, and he will be missed.
Questions or suggested items can be directed to WINsEditor@afio.com -Ernie Hampson.
SECTION I - CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
POISONING SUSPECTED IN DEATH OF FORMER KGB OFFICER AND PUTIN CRITIC IN LONDON
MAN DETAINED ENTERING U.S. WITH LARGE SUM OF CASH AND COMPUTER WITH INFORMATION ABOUT POISON AND NUCLEAR DATA
SUSPENSION OF HOUSE STAFFER RESCINDED AFTER NO EVIDENCE FOUND THAT HE LEAKED NIE
IRANIAN PRESIDENT CALLS FOR SUMMIT WITH IRAQI AND SYRIAN LEADERS ON CRISIS IN IRAQ
ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER REMOVES THE HEADS OF ALL THREE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
SECTION II - CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE
SECTION III - CYBER INTELLIGENCE
DARPA SUPPORTS IBM'S AND CRAY'S RESEARCH INTO NEXT-GENERATION SUPERCOMPUTERS
SECTION IV - BOOKS, SOURCES AND ISSUES
SECTION I - CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
POISONING
SUSPECTED IN DEATH OF FORMER KGB OFFICER AND PUTIN CRITIC IN LONDON
Alexander Litvinenko, 43, a former KGB operative and outspoken critic of Russian
president Vladimir Putin, died on 23 November from an apparent poisoning.
Medical experts believe the poison used was a highly toxic radioactive substance
called polonium 210. Polonium is 260 million times more toxic than cyanide and,
therefore, only a speck would be required for a lethal does. Medical examiners
are conducting an autopsy of Litvinenko's highly contaminated corpse, but say
they may never find the source of the polonium. Just prior to his death,
Litvinenko recorded a statement that accused Putin of complicity in the
poisoning and called Putin "barbaric and ruthless." Putin has called
Litvinenko's death tragic, but denied any involvement. In an official statement,
Putin said there was no evidence yet that Litvinenko's death was the result of
violence, and called on British authorities not to make a political scandal of
the incident. Police are still handling the case as an unexplained death and not
a murder. The poisoning occurred on or about 1 November.
Litvinenko had worked for the Soviet-era KGB and then its successor the FSB. He
worked in counterterrorism and organized crime. After the Soviet Union
disintegrated, he said that he was ordered to recruit powerful businessmen that
could help spur the Russian economy, and also to hire assassins. "So if somebody
was the victim of a crime, like his daughter was raped, you would offer to let
them take revenge on the perpetrator," Litvinenko said. "This was how we
recruited killers."
Other scenarios for the poisoning
have been floated by the Russian media. The Russian government-controlled
newspaper "Russkaya Gazeta" printed that the Russian expatriate community may
have killed Litvinenko. The paper claimed that the Russian expats in London saw
the former KGB officer as "a pawn who made his choice and drank his poison . . .
when he betrayed those he worked for." The paper also said that Russian tycoon
Boris Berezovsky may have poisoned Litvinenko in order to discredit the Putin
government or settle some business dispute. The government-controlled television
station Channel One even theorized that Litvinenko may have poisoned himself.
[CL/WashPost
26Nov06/Stringer (AP)]
MAN DETAINED ENTERING U.S. WITH LARGE SUM OF CASH AND COMPUTER WITH INFORMATION ABOUT POISON AND NUCLEAR DATA A U.S. citizen of Ethiopian descent, Sisayehiticha Dinssa, 35, was detained at Detroit International Airport when drug-sniffing dogs alerted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. Dinssa, who was traveling from Nigeria by way of Amsterdam en route to Phoenix had in his possession $78,000 in cash and a laptop computer for which he had no power supply. Dinssa had claimed he was only carrying $18,000. Upon examination of the data stored on the computer, ICE officials found nuclear data described by two senior U.S. officials as, "beyond what someone would normally download from the Internet" as well as information on cyanide. The officials said it appeared Dinssa was conducting extensive research. Court records show that Dinssa said he was �interested in learning about cyanide and nuclear materials." It is still unclear if this is an innocuous incident, a narcotics trafficking-related case (the dogs detected the scent of drugs on the money) or possibly terrorist related. The FBI has been called in to examine the computer�s hard drive and determine the nature of the nuclear files. Dinssa will be held pending a judge�s review of the case. U.S. Attorney Leonid Feller said he considered Dinssa a probable flight risk and that he posed a potential �risk of harm to the community based on the material found in his computer.� [PJK/DetroitNews 15Nov06, Eagan/ABCNews 16Nov06, Thomas and Ryan]
SUSPENSION OF HOUSE STAFFER RESCINDED AFTER NO EVIDENCE FOUND THAT HE LEAKED NIE The chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), reinstated a mid-level Democratic staffer, Larry Hanauer, after Mr. Hanauer signed an affidavit and submitted to questioning. In the days before the last election, the Republican head of the HPSCI suspected Hanauer of leaking parts of the highly classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to the New York Times, which published an article based on the NIE entitled �Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat.� The article was considered by Republicans to have been timed just before the elections to embarrass the Bush administration and Republican congress members who supported the war. In reinstating Hanauer�s access to classified information, Hoekstra wrote to Democratic ranking member of the HPSCI Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) �that the affidavit and the results of the committee staff director's interview of Hanauer were enough for him to rescind the punishment.� The original allegations against Hanauer cam from Rep. Roy LaHood (R-IL) who determined that Hanauer�s request and receipt of the NIE just two days before the Times article was suspicious. Hoekstra had written to Harman �[I have] come to the conclusion that I cannot assume that this was a mere coincidence.� However, no evidence of wrongdoing by Hanauer was ever discovered. [CL/WashPost 21Nov06/Pincus]
IRANIAN PRESIDENT CALLS FOR SUMMIT WITH IRAQI AND SYRIAN LEADERS ON CRISIS IN IRAQ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad has taken a dramatic step by calling on the Iraqi and Syrian leaders to join him in Tehran for a summit on the violence in Iraq. The move is seen by some as Ahmadinejad�s attempt to define himself as a responsible regional player, as opposed to the West�s common portrayal of him as a rogue maverick. Should the unprecedented meeting occur, it should also help boost the image of Syrian leader Bashar al-Asaad, whose relations with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani have been poor until lately. A Syrian envoy, Foreign Minister Walid Moallem just ended a visit in Baghdad which was the first by a Syrian official since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. The countries are now discussing reestablishing diplomatic relations which were severed after Iraq�s 1982 attack on Iran that initiated the 8-year Iran-Iraq War. Syria supported Iran in the conflict. Khaled Salih, the spokesman of the Kurdish regional government in Irbil confirmed Ahmadinejad�s invitation and said that President Talabani would attend the meeting which was scheduled for 25/26 November. Iraq and Iran already share good relations since Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki�s Dawa party and largest Shia party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, were operated out of Iran during Saddam Hussein�s reign. Syria�s participation is seen as key in reducing violence in Iraq as most of the foreign fighters enter Iraq across the Syrian border. Major General William Caldwell, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said that they still see 75-100 foreign fighters enter Iraq from Syria each month. Syrian says that it has responded to U.S. requests to secure the border by stepping up its patrols, but says it cannot completely control its long, mostly desert border with Iraq. The U.S. says that it does not know if Syria is aiding fighters to enter Iraq, but also doesn�t know if Syria is really trying to dissuade the cross-border activity. Khasro Goran, Mosul's deputy governor, says Syria could reduce terrorism in Iraq by as much as 50% if it would only take aggressive action. He points to a Syrian-led crackdown of the Kurdish terrorist group PKK that resulted in the capture of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, and led to a mass exodus of PKK members from Syria. [CL/Guardian 21Nov06/Steele]
ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER REMOVES THE HEADS OF ALL THREE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi announced on 20 November that the heads of all three Italian intelligence services were being replaced. The move was not unexpected in the case of Nicol� Pollari, chief of the military intelligence service SISMI. Pollari has been accused of aiding the CIA in kidnapping Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, a Muslim cleric, in Milan almost four years ago. Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, was a suspected terrorist. Italian prosecutors have accused the CIA of abducting Nasr under its "extraordinary rendition" program with the complicity of the SISMI and transporting him to Egypt were he was imprisoned and tortured. Mr. Pollari has denied authorizing any action contrary to Italian law. The Prodi government claimed that it had not fired Pollari, but transferred him to a special position reporting directly to the Prime Minister. The new head of SISMI will be Bruno Branciforte, 59, a naval intelligence expert. More surprising were the changes at SISDE, the Italian domestic intelligence agency, where Mario Mori, 67, was replaced by Franco Gabrielli, 46, a man known for his breakup of a Red Brigades terrorist cell. Also replaced was the chief of an intelligence coordinating committee that reports to political authorities. The Italian administration said that all of the changes were just the "natural rotation" of political appointees. Pino Sgobio, a communist parliamentarian and member of Mr. Prodi�s ruling coalition, said he hoped that the new intelligence chiefs would work in a transparent manner �after the recent dark years of their predecessors�. [CL/FT 20Nov06/Barber]
SECTION II - CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE
THE
TRUTH ABOUT TRUTH SERUM Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder is credited as
having observed, "In vino veritas"- "in wine there is truth." And, in
truth, alcohol given intravenously was an early form of truth serum. The debate
isn't settled as to whether alcohol or any other drug can reliably induce a
subject to provide truthful answers. If there is a reliable truth serum, no one
in the know is publicizing it. The modern pursuit of truth drugs appears to stem
from a 1916 incident in which obstetrician Dr. Robert House noted that a woman
under the influence of scopolamine for pain during child birth was able to
recall in detail the location of a scale the doctor had requested, all while
anesthetized. House came to believe the drug could produce truthful answers in
anyone and went on to study the forensic application of it. Throughout the
1920's and 1930's scopolamine and other drugs were used by police in
interrogations- the product of which was even allowed by some judges in court
cases. Some of the more famous drugs pursued were the barbiturates Pentothal and
Amytal.
By the 1950's, though, the majority of the
scientific community concluded that no drug reliably produced truthful answers,
and testimony derived from drugged suspects was widely ruled inadmissible. The
courts' rulings and scientific consensus, however, did not stop the pursuit of
the perfect truth serum in the intelligence community. In 1953, the CIA launched
Project MK-ULTRA, which tested a number of drugs on subjects, sometimes without
their knowledge. Frank Olson, a U.S. Army scientist, was unknowingly dosed with
LSD as part of MK-ULTRA and suffered a mental breakdown. According to government
records [Wikipedia],
shortly after seeing a CIA-recommended psychiatrist in New York City, Olson
jumped from his 13th story hotel room to his death. The MK-ULTRA program ended
in the late 1960's and its abuses were revealed during congressional hearings in
1977.
There is no public evidence that the government's
pursuit of a truth serum continues. Retired U.S. Army Captain Gordon H. Barland
said that in 1967, when he left his service with the U.S. Army Combat
Development Command's intelligence agency he was asked to develop a list of
"materiel objectives" on which he included a drug to aid in interrogation.
Barland now works in the Department of Defense's polygraph program and says that
he has heard nothing of new research into truth drugs, and doubts that after
MK-ULTRA any such program would receive support. Tara O'Toole, director of the
Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said that
she hasn't heard of any research into truth drugs and said keeping such a
research agenda secret would be nearly impossible. "We haven't been able as a
government to create anthrax vaccine. The idea that we could develop a [truth]
drug de novo strikes me as outlandish," she said. "That would be a really major
research and development project that would be hard to hide."
In the post 9/11 U.S., however, the use of drugs on
terrorist suspects to uncover plots of future attacks has rekindled the debate.
Jason R. Odeshoo wrote in the Stanford Law Review in 2004 that there are no
laws, state or federal, against using a truth drug on a prisoner. He notes,
though, that the Constitution's protection against self-incrimination would make
any evidence obtained from a drugged suspect inadmissible in court. The use of a
truth serum for intelligence-gathering purposes probably would be legal,
although the Geneva Conventions forbid its use on POWs. However, if terrorist
detainees are not classified as POWs, truth serum probably could be used on
them. With all the controversy over the use of coercive or harsh interrogation
methods on terrorist detainees it is interesting to note that truth serum was
originally considered to be a non-violent alternative to coercive interrogation
methods. In the 1920's, shortly after House made his original observations about
scopolamine, police were often thought to use violent methods of extracting
confessions. "In this climate 'truth serum' was powerfully represented as
a sophisticated, scientific, and non-violent alternative to unsavory police
methods," wrote Alison Winter in a history of truth serum published in the
Bulletin of the History of Medicine in 2005. The search for truth serum may not
be dead, though.
Advances in neuroscience may lead the
way to a resurrection in the search for a truth serum. Recently, Michael Kosfeld
and Markus Heinrichs of the University of Zurich, experimented with the hormone
oxytocin on 130 college students to determine the drug's effect on trust. In the
experiment, some students received oxytocin while others were given a placebo.
The students were divided into "investors" and "trustees". The investors were
given a sum of money and told that they could transfer none, part or all of the
money to an unknown trustee for investment. Unbeknownst to the investors the
mere act of transferring the money tripled its value. The trustees could then
return a portion of the funds to the investor to recognize their trust or keep
it. The investors under the influence of oxytocin more often transferred money
to the trustees, and twice as many- 45% to 21%- transferred all their money. The
oxytocin had no effect, however, on the trustees returning money to the
investors, indicating that the drug may only act in situations of risk and
uncertainty. Paul J. Zak, a neuroscientist at Claremont Graduate University in
California who helped supervise the experiment briefed its results to military
representatives at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). One
military scientist asked at the end of the presentation, "How do I use this
stuff tomorrow?" [CL/WashPost
20Nov06/Brown]
SECTION III - CYBER INTELLIGENCE
DARPA SUPPORTS IBM'S AND CRAY'S RESEARCH INTO NEXT-GENERATION SUPERCOMPUTERS The Department of Defense awarded a $494 million contract under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to IBM and Cray to continue research into next generation supercomputers. This award marks phase three of DARPA's High Performance Computer Systems (HPCS) program. Sun Microsystems, which participated in phase two was eliminated from continuing with the program. IBM's tact is to not only focus on supercomputing hardware, but also to address advancing the state of supercomputing software. �This has less to do with acquiring a machine and everything to do with helping to build the technologies that will benefit the industry more broadly,� said Dave Turek, vice president of Deep Computing at IBM. Past research efforts have concentrated more on processing power while gaps developed in the overall technology portfolio. Turek expects to share the advances in technology with government laboratories and industry. The IBM system puts productivity and ease-of-use first, and will develop tools for programmers and administrators to ease software creation and systems management. The Cray architecture will support this goal by basing its system on adaptive supercomputing technology that allows the programmer to create software in the manner with which he/she is accustomed. The computer then transparently adapts to the software. The DARPA contract requires IBM and Cray to deliver prototype systems by 2010 capable of sustained processing speeds of 2 petaflops (FLOP= floating point operation), which is ten to twenty times faster than today's fastest supercomputers. One of DARPA's primary customers for this technology is the National Security Agency which requires faster computing to support cryptanalysis of more and more complex encryption schemes. [FCW 22Nov06/Rogin]
SECTION IV - BOOKS, SOURCES AND ISSUES
Books
Inside the Jihad: My Life With Al Qaeda: A Spy's Story by Omar Nasiri, Perseus Books Group, ISBN: 0465023886, $26.95 For five years the author claims to have worked as a spy inside al-Qaeda for the top European intelligence agencies. From 1994 to 2000, Nasiri (an alias) says he worked for France's DGSE and Britain's MI-5 and MI-6 to gather intelligence from inside the terror group. Nasiri was a young Moroccan living in Belgium when he was recruited. His mission took him between bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan and radical mosques in Paris and London. Nasiri condemns his former employers though as not understanding the threat. "It was almost laughable how little these so-called terrorism experts knew about their enemy. They didn't seem to get that these were serious people with a great deal of knowledge, not children playing games with toy weapons," he wrote in an extract published Sunday by the London Times. Former CIA al-Qaeda expert and head of the unit that hunted bin Laden Michael Scheuer called Nasiri's account "an extraordinarily complete story [of the emergence of al-Qaida as a global network]. I don't think there's anything to match it in terms of intelligence reporting." [PJK/UPI 20Nov06/Waterman]
SECTION V - CAREERS, NOTES, LETTERS,
QUERIES AND AUTHORS SEEKING ASSISTANCE, CORRECTIONS, OBITUARIES, COMING
EVENTS
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FORMER RF-4 PILOT SEEKING INFO ON COVERT FLIGHTS: I am seeking information regarding a project called DARK GENE or DARK GENIE which involved US and Iranian Pilots making low/mid/high altitude incursions into the Soviet Union from Iran. These flights were made during the time period 1965 to 1976 using RF-5's and RF-4C's of the Iranian Air Force. Replies to: Art Krenzel at phoenix98604@msn.com or phone him at 360-666-1883 or send your comments to him at 10505 NE 285th St, Battle Ground, WA 98604
Obituaries
Colonel Thomas H. Felts, 45, U.S. Army Military Intelligence, KIA in Iraq by IED He did not have to go on this mission. Col. Felts was a student at the Army's School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., home to his wife, Kim, and three daughters and son. He volunteered to go to Iraq, however, because he felt that someday he would be instructing other officers and wanted combat zone experience to prepare him as a future teacher. Felts was killed on 14 November in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near his vehicle. He had leave scheduled to visit his family over the Thanksgiving holiday. "Tom volunteered for that job even though he didn't have to," said Peter Schifferle, an instructor at the school and friend . "Although he was a colonel, he had never personally been in combat. He volunteered to leave his wife and children." Col. Felts sang in his church choir and played guitar. A dedicated family man, he communicated with his wife and children daily via webcam over the Internet. He was a native of Sandston, Va. and gradate of the University of Richmond, where he was commissioned through the Reserve Officer Training Corps. Felts served over 23 years in the Army with postings across the country including Texas and Colorado. W. John Hayden, a biology professor at the University of Richmond, recalled Felts as an inquisitive student who helped in the laboratory to research the spotted spurge plant. "He had a positive, can-do type of attitude," Hayden said. "It was, 'If that's what has to be done, we'll roll up our sleeves and do it.' " [WashPost 18Nov06/Glod]
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