This week is overshadowed by the forced resignation of the US’ Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The rest of the world has also seen some interesting intelligence developments. The next few weeks will determine whether pres Obama will appoint a new Director for National Intelligence or perhaps order a new overhaul of the intelligence community in the US. A new DNI will most certainly be subjected to the same systemic fault lines and political bickering as Dennis Blair, who resigned with effect 28 May 2010, making a re-look at the dynamics of the intelligence community in the US necessary. A new DNI will be the fourth intelligence coordinator since the DNI’s establishment in 2004 (recommended by the 9/11 Commission), but he has little authority over the 16 Agencies that constitute the security apparatus in the US. It will be interesting to see whether the Obama government will use this opportunity to only reshuffle the deck seats or be brave enough to seek the advice of intelligence professionals on how to structure and lead a punch-drunk community. However, it is doubtful that any major changes will be made in this election year. This publication uses open and free sources and is distributed worldwide to decision-makers, analysts, academia and scholars. Interested in creating situational awareness and build environmental scanning capacity in your organisation? 4Knowledge can provide customised OSINT reports on your intelligence priorities. Contact dalene@4knowledge.co.za for more information. Most of this week’s news was summarised due to space constraints. If you want to read the original article please click on the hyperlinks.

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Reports from 14-23 May 2010 Page North America: 1. Blair’s resignation may reflect inherent conflicts in job of

intelligence chief 4. Dispute over France a factor in intelligence rift 4. The report that was the last straw… 5. Who will be the next DNI? 7. Hoekstra: National security apparatus broken, dysfunctional, in

disarray 7. Holder tightens grip on intelligence agencies 8. White House Names Deputy FBI Director as TSA chief 9. US appoints first cyber warfare general 9. Canada: Judge to decide if former soldier a spy Asia 10. As US says “do more”, Pakistan highlights own limitations 11. India: Police form 90 special squads to gather terror

intelligence 11. India: spying case: Madhuri rejected marriage to handler 11. South/North Korea: US finds North Korea leader authorized

attack on South 12. Taiwan/China: Ex-Taiwanese civilian spies break long silence 13. Clear spying charges, Seoul urged 13. No release for hikers jailed as American spies, says Iran Europe 14. EU summit on future European Intelligence Service 15. Draft national security strategy provides for Bulgarian CIA 16. Russia: FSB changes its approach to dealing with spies,

Moscow experts say 17. Two suspected Libyan secret agents arrested in Berlin 17. Vladimir Putin laments Soviet Union ignoring his spy

intelligence 18. France: Comment: Was Clotilde Reiss a French spy in Iran? 19. Report: French interior minister sues former spy over book 19. Comment: Does Germany need a National Security Council? 19. The 9th Conference of the Security Service of Ukraine &

Federal Security Service of Russian federation delegations held in Odessa

20. Italy expelled Moroccans on suspicion of Pope plot 21. UK spy agency probed over bombs Australia 22. Aus demands Israel withdraw embassy official over use of

stolen passports Middle East 22. Saudi King slams intelligence leak 23. Israeli soldiers fall prey to Facebook spy 23. Lebanese arrested for spying for Israel Africa 24. Nigeria/US: statement issued by National Security Council

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Uncertain future for the DNI Blair's resignation may reflect inherent conflicts in job of intelligence chief By Greg Miller and Walter Pincus Washington Post, May 22, 2010

As the intelligence community was rebuilt after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, two additions were seen as crucial to addressing systemic breakdowns: a new director to force often-squabbling agencies to work together, and a counterterrorism center to connect threat data dots.

But developments this week underscored the extent to which those two institutions have struggled to carry out their missions, and are increasingly seen as hobbled by their own structural flaws.

The resignation of Dennis C. Blair as director of national intelligence Friday means the position will soon be turned over to a fourth occupant in little more than five years. Current and former U.S. intelligence officials said the job has come to be viewed as a thankless assignment -- lacking in authority, yet held to account for each undetected terrorist plot.

"The DNI doesn't have any authority to make things happen," said Mark M. Lowenthal, a former senior CIA official and the chief executive of the Intelligence & Security Academy. "If you look at who we've had, we've been extremely lucky in the people who've accepted the job. Three of the brightest people I've ever met. But they can't make the job work. At a certain point, you have to ask yourself: Is it the job?"

The DNI oversees 16 intelligence agencies, including the CIA. But the director has only partial budget authority over the sprawling bureaucracy he leads. Thus, some intelligence experts say, whoever holds the job will lack the influence envisioned when the office was created.

The National Counterterrorism Center, established after the 2001 attacks to collate information from across agencies and analyze threats, is under the same scrutiny. Two narrowly averted terrorist attacks in the past five months have prompted criticism of the center, part of the Office of the DNI. A Senate report released this week concluded that the center was still "not organized adequately to

fulfill its mission" six years after it was launched.

The failings have caught the attention of the Obama administration. One of the first tasks given to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board when it was assembled in December was to seek ways to bridge the gap between the expectations and authorities in the

intelligence director's job.

Blair's colleagues acknowledged that he struggled with the political aspects of the position. But they said he was particularly frustrated by what he considered micromanagement from the White House and a lack of adequate budget and hiring authority.

Early problems

The leading candidate to replace Blair is James Clapper, a retired Air Force lieutenant general who has led two large intelligence agencies and currently serves as Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.

Clapper is capable of bringing "a sense of purpose, mission and identity" to the director position, said a former high-ranking U.S. intelligence official who worked closely with him. But, the former official said, "without some support from the president or structural change, you're not going to see a much different outcome."

Admiral Dennis Blair

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Problems with the position have prompted a series of high-level candidates to turn it down. Among the first to do so was Robert M. Gates, now the secretary of defense. As a former CIA director, he opposed the legislation that established the DNI. U.S. officials acknowledged this week that they had approached former senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) about replacing Blair, but that Hagel made it clear he would decline.

Creating a powerful intelligence director was one of the main recommendations of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks. The commission's report called for the director position to be lodged inside the White House, but that provision was quickly dropped when Congress took up intelligence reform legislation.

Congress also struggled to define what the director should be empowered to do. The law provides the authority to "develop and determine" the national intelligence budget, but the director merely "participates" in setting the spending for military intelligence programs that are set by the defense secretary. Those agencies account for about a third of the more than $70 billion allocated annually to the intelligence community.

Blair and his predecessors struggled to straddle competing aspects of the job -- serving as the overall manager of the diverse intelligence community while also serving as the president's principal intelligence adviser. Blair emphasized the community-management aspect, officials said, a choice that may have cost him the ability to foster closer ties with Obama and his closest aides.

Indeed, Blair lost several turf skirmishes to someone who was supposed to be his subordinate, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta. Even before he came into the job, Blair was warned that it would likely be the case.

After accepting the position, Blair met with the outgoing director, Michael McConnell. "They will recruit him," McConnell said of Panetta, according to a source who witnessed the exchange, meaning that Panetta's loyalties would soon be to the agency.

"My view is that the only person who might have the horsepower with the White House to turn the DNI into an effective position would be Leon Panetta," said Sen. Christopher Bond (Mo.), the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence committee. "He just laughed when I told him that."

Asserting authority

Blair's attempts to assert authority over CIA operations and certain overseas assignments rankled some within the intelligence community.

"The DNI exists to set policy. It was never intended to collect intelligence or run operations," said a U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of interagency sensitivities. "It's supposed to be a guiding strategic hand across agencies, not a top-down command authority."

Colleagues of Blair, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, said he chafed at such descriptions of the job. Blair had intended to serve out a four-year term in the position, officials said. That he was pushed out has as much to do with his political alienation from Obama as it does the intelligence failures that cropped up during his tenure, they said.

By contrast, Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, is said to remain in good standing with the administration despite mounting criticism of his agency in recent months. The center was intended to fuse foreign and domestic intelligence on terrorist threats, and to supply policymakers with analysis and expertise on key terror-related issues.

But the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded that the center mishandled multiple clues that might have prevented a Nigerian man from smuggling a bomb aboard an aircraft bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. An attachment to the report said officials at the center seemed confused about its role. "Despite its statutory mission," the attachment said, "NCTC did not believe it was the sole agency in the [intelligence

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community] for piecing together all terrorism threats."

Defenders of the center said internal changes after the Detroit incident are bringing tangible if not publicly visible results. And they said the NCTC has been involved in thwarting several plots, including one to

attack the New York subway system, and terrorist threats in Denmark and Germany.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052104939_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2010052104917.

Dispute Over France a Factor in Intelligence Rift 22 May 2010, New York Times

An already strained relationship between the White House and the departing spymaster Dennis C. Blair erupted earlier this year over Mr. Blair’s efforts to cement close intelligence ties to France and broker a pledge between the nations not to spy on each other, American government officials said Friday. The White House scuttled the plan, officials said, but not before President Nicolas Sarkozy of France had come to believe that a deal was in place. Officials said that Mr. Sarkozy was angered about the miscommunication, and that the episode had hurt ties between the United States and France at a time when the

two nations are trying to present a united front to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.

Officials said the dust-up was not the proximate cause of President Obama’s decision to remove Mr. Blair, who announced his resignation on Thursday, from the job as director of national intelligence, but was a contributing factor in the mutual distrust between the White House and members of Mr. Blair’s staff. The episode also illuminates the extent to which communications between the president’s aides and Mr. Blair had deteriorated during a period of particular alarm about terrorist threats to the United States...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/politics/22intel.html?ref=world

The report that was the last straw…. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) report identifies fourteen specific points of failure--a series of human errors, technical problems, systemic obstacles, analytical misjudgements, and competing priorities-which resulted in Abdulmutallab being able to travel to the United States on December 25, 2009. Those points of failure are:

I. The State Department did not revoke Abdulmutallab's U.S. Visa.

2. Abdulmutallab was not placed in the "Terrorist Screening Database" (TSDB), on the Selectee List, or on the No Fly List.

3. Reporting was not distributed to all appropriate CIA elements.

4. A CIA Regional Division, at CIA Headquarters, did not search databases containing reports related to Abdulmutallab.

5. CIA did not disseminate key reporting until after the 12/25 attempted attack.

6. A CIA Counterterrorism Center (CTC) Office's limited name search failed to uncover the key reports on Abdulmutallab.

7. CIA CTC analysts failed to connect the reporting on Abdulmutallab.

8. FBI Counterterrorism analysts could not access all relevant reports.

9. NCTC's Directorate of intelligence failed to connect the reporting on Abdulmutallab.

10. NCTC's Watchlisting Office did not conduct additional research to find additional

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derogatory information to place Abdulmutallab on a watchlist.

II. NSA did not pursue potential collection opportunities that could have provided Information on Abdulmutallab.

12. Analysts did not connect key reports partly identifying Abdulmutallab and failed to ensure dissemination of all relevant reporting.

13. NSA did not nominate Abdulmutallab for Watchlisting or the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) based on information partly identifying him.

14. Intelligence analysts were primarily focused on AI-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) threats to U.S. interests in Yemen, rather than on potential AQAP threats to the U.S. Homeland.

Based on the information provided, the Committee concludes that the Intelligence Community failed to connect and appropriately analyze the information in its possession prior to December 25, 2009 that would have identified Abdulmutallab as a possible terrorist threat to the United States.

http://intelligence.senate.gov/100518/1225report.pdf

Who will be the next Director of National Intelligence? 2010-05-21, Melissa Jane Kronfeld (Ed: excerpted)

GSN: Government Security News reached out to experts across the spectrum of the security arena -- from government, business and academia -- to come up with a list of possible candidates. Early press reports have stated that Obama has already begun interviewing individuals for the job, although who they might be has yet to be revealed.

Here is the list of potential candidates that GSN has been told might already be up for discussion in the White House.

John Brennan

The current deputy national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism, John Brennan served as the interim director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)

as was, at one time, considered to be the president’s pick for Director of the CIA, until he withdrew himself from consideration over his involvement with harsh interrogation techniques. A career spy -- he has spent most of his life with the CIA -- Brennan was station chief in the Middle East and later served as the Agency’s deputy executive director. Many of experts have told GSN that Brennan would be “non-confirmable.”

Charles “Chuck” Hagel

The former Republican senator from Nebraska and multi-millionaire businessman, Chuck Hagel served on the Committee on Foreign Relations as well as the Select Committee on

Intelligence during his tenure in office. Despite his Republican roots, Hagel was critical of Bush throughout his presidency and often stood with the Democrats on many anti-war issues. He announced his retirement from politics in 2007 amidst heavy speculation that he would run for president in the 2008 election. Instead, he finished his term as senator and retired in January 2009 to teach at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Although he did not endorse either Barack Obama or John McCain in 2008, he was rumored, at one time, to be on Obama’s short list to become the next secretary of defense.

Richard Danzig

President Bill Clinton’s former Secretary of the Navy and the current Chairman of the Center for a New American Security -- a national security think thank based in

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Washington, DC -- Richard Dazing acted as an advisor to candidate Obama during his presidential campaign. A New York native, who attended the prestigious Bronx High School of Science, and later Reed College, Yale and Oxford Universities, Danzig is a lawyer by training, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White. Danzig also taught law at Harvard and Stanford Univeristy.

John Hamre

CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a foreign policy think tank based in Washington, DC, and chairman of the Defense Policy

Board, John Hamre served as the Deputy Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton. Before working at DoD, Hamre worked on the Senate Armed Services Committee for a decade. A Republican, Hamre attended Harvard and John Hopkins, and later worked for the future Obama administration during the president’s transition into office.

James Clapper

A retired Air Force lieutenant general, James Clapper currently serves as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence as well as the first Director of Defense

Intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Clapper has also served as the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under President George W. Bush and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Bill Clinton. Numerous news reports have already pegged Clapper as the most likely candidate to be the next DNI.

However, Two former top Defense Intelligence Agency officials say retired Air Force Gen. James R. Clapper, Jr., a leading candidate to be the next Director of National Intelligence, nearly wrecked the agency’s analysis wing when he ran the organization in the mid-1990s.

Michael Vickers

The current Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, Michael Vickers served in the army’s special forces as well as in the CIA’s paramilitary

operations elite Special Activities Division. Vickers played a key role in arming the Afghans against the Soviets in the 1980s and was even featured in the book-turned-movie, Charlie’s Wilson’s War, written by George Crile.

Jane Harman

The second wealthiest member of Congress, Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat, is a New York native and, like the President, a graduate of Harvard Law School. Harman

served as the special counsel to the Department of Defense under President Jimmy Carter. She played an integral role in the passage of the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 and has proven herself to be a strong supporter of the troops and the effort to defeat terrorism at home and overseas. She is a member of numerous committees including Homeland Security, and she currently chairs its Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment.

Leon Panetta

The dark horse candidate, Leon Panetta -- the current Director the CIA – was identified in numerous press reports as the primary reason why Admiral Blair will retire on

May 28. A former Democratic congressman from California, Panetta joined the Army in 1964 and later served as the White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton. Panetta was selected by President Obama to head the CIA in 2009. Since that time, numerous press reports have painted a picture of Panetta as a man who has been constantly at odds with Blair over the DNI’s

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handling of the nation’s sensitive intelligence matters.

http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/20764/who_will_be_next_director_national_intelligence

Hoekstra: National Security Apparatus Broken, Dysfunctional, in Disarray Connie Hair, 20 May 2010

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, issued a scathing rebuke of the politicization by the Obama administration of national security and intelligence agencies as evidenced Thursday by the resignation of Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair.

“That a man who has willingly dedicated himself to the cause of our nation’s freedom would rather step down than continue to serve as America’s top intelligence officer is a disturbing sign of the stranglehold the Obama White House has placed on America’s intelligence agencies,” Hoekstra said in a written statement.

“Right now, the Obama administration’s national security apparatus is broken, dysfunctional and in disarray,” Hoekstra said. “Dennis Blair was the one person you could count on for rationality among Holder, Napolitano and Brennan—and he’s the one the president let go.”

One of the main criticisms of the administration’s mishandling of national security and intelligence agencies -- apart from placing the impetus on prosecuting field operatives over defining and fighting radical Islam -- has been their predisposition to cut intelligence agencies out of the national security loop.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37106

Holder Tightens Grip on Intelligence Agencies Jed Babbin Jed Babbin May 18 2010 (Ed: exerpted)

Attorney General Eric Holder has tightened his grip on our intelligence agencies, requiring them to get Justice Department permission to release classified information to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, according to Senate sources.

Sen. Christopher Bond (R-Mo), Ranking Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and three Senate staffers working for other members have recently asked the Director of National Intelligence for information on the interrogation of the failed Times Square bomber, Faisal Shazad. (Some of questions may have been directed at other intelligence matters as well.)

All four were told the information will not be provided until the Justice Department approved the transaction.

The National Security Act (50 USC Sec 413 and 413(a)) requires the Director of National Intelligence and all intelligence agencies to keep the House and Senate Intelligence Committees "fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities" other than covert operations and furnish those committees any

information regarding the intelligence agencies' activities which the

congressional committees request.

The Attorney General has no role in that process. But Eric Holder has - with the president's support -seized control of that and other intelligence agency functions.

Soon after Holder was confirmed, he and the president moved the supervision of detainee interrogation out of the intelligence agencies and into the White House. That move told the CIA -- and probably foreign intelligence

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agencies as well -- that the White House didn't trust the spy agency to run terrorist interrogations.

Holder broke the promise on investigating CIA interrogators last August when he announced the appointment of special prosecutor to conduct a preliminary inquiry into allegations of CIA abuse of detainees during interrogation.

According to an ABC News report, that announcement came the morning after a "profanity-laced screaming match" at the White House involving Holder, CIA Director Leon Panetta and a highly-placed White House staffer. Panetta was in the midst of a months-long defense of the CIA against from Speaker Pelosi's accusations that the spy agency was lying to Congress about what and when it had briefed her on waterboarding of terrorist detainees. Fearing that the investigation would further damage CIA

morale - and lead interrogators to excessive caution - Panetta fought against the Holder investigation and lost.

The White House supported Holder then, and continues to do so now. By defeating Panetta in August and Blair now, Holder has established de facto control over the intelligence community.

Holder is Obama's point man on the most controversial aspects of the president's anti-terror agenda. He's responsible for the decision to "Mirandize" terrorists and trying to move the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed from Guantanamo Bay to Manhattan. By helping him stonewall Congress on critical matters of intelligence oversight, Obama is expanding Holder's authority in a manner most likely to cause legislative retribution aimed directly at reining in the AG.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/18/holder_tightens_grip_on_intelligence_agencies_105623.html

White House Names Deputy FBI Director as TSA Chief May 17, 2010, Peter Baker and Carl Hulse

President Obama on Monday made his third try to fill the vacant chair atop one of the government’s primary security agencies, this time picking someone who may have an easier time passing the F.B.I. background check – the deputy director of the F.B.I.

The president announced that he will nominate John S. Pistole, the number two official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to take over the Transportation Security Administration, which oversees airport passenger screening. With Mr. Obama’s first two choices withdrawing after revelations of past behavior, the T.S.A. has been without an Obama appointee heading it for 16 months since he took office.

The appointment comes at a sensitive moment for the T.S.A. as procedures come under review following the near escape of the

suspected Times Square attempted bomber. The man being hunted by the authorities was able to buy a ticket to Dubai with cash at the

last minute and board a plane at John F. Kennedy International Airport even though his name had been flagged by the F.B.I. Authorities discovered that he was on the plane and removed him from it just minutes before it was supposed to take off. A graduate of Anderson University and the Indiana University School of Law at

Indianapolis, Mr. Pistole joined the F.B.I. in 1983 and served in the Minneapolis and New York divisions before joining the organized crime section in Washington. He later worked in Indianapolis and Boston and in 1999 helped lead the investigative effort following the crash of Egypt Air Flight 990 off the coast of Rhode Island.

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He helped lead a working group in 2001 to address security issues raised by the arrest of Robert Hanssen, an F.B.I. agent working as a spy for Moscow. In 2002, he moved to the

counterterrorism division where he held a series of jobs before taking on his current assignment in 2004.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/white-house-to-name-deputy-f-b-i-director-as-t-s-a-chief/

US appoints first cyber warfare general 23 May, The Guardian

The US military has appointed its first senior general to direct cyber warfare – despite fears that the move marks another stage in the militarisation of cyberspace.

The newly promoted four-star general, Keith Alexander, takes charge of the Pentagon's ambitious and controversial new Cyber Command, designed to conduct virtual combat across the world's computer networks. He was appointed on Friday

afternoon in a low-key ceremony at Fort Meade, in Maryland.

The creation of America's most senior cyber warrior comes just days after the US air force disclosed that some 30,000 of its troops had been re-assigned from technical support "to the frontlines of

cyber warfare".

The creation of Cyber Command is in response to increasing anxiety over the vulnerability of the US's military and other networks to a cyber attack.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/us-appoints-cyber-warfare-general

Canada: Judge to decide if former Soviet soldier a spy May 19, 2010, Toronto Star (Ed: excerpted)

A Federal Court judge will be asked on Wednesday to define what exactly a spy is, in a case where a Ukrainian citizen’s residency bid was rejected because he served in the army of the former Soviet Union 25 years ago.

In 2008, a visa officer at the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw ruled Dmytro Afanasyev, 43, was inadmissible because he engaged in espionage while a soldier from 1985-87. “His assignment was to intercept and listen to English communications from East Germany coming from U.S. bases in West Germany, and identifying and debriefing various frequencies and telegraph codes,” according to an immigration department factum.

The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act states anyone “who engages in an act of espionage or subversion against a democratic government,” or is a “member of an organization that there are reasonable

grounds to believe engages” in those acts is ineligible for permanent residency in Canada.

But Gary Segal, a Toronto lawyer representing Afanasyev, said immigration officials have blown his client’s role in the army way out of proportion. “The gathering of military intelligence is what everybody in every army does,” Segal said. Afanasyev went into the compulsory service for two years in the mid-’80s “and was never higher than a private. He never even made it to corporal,” Segal said.

The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act has no definition of spy, Segal said. “So it will be up to this judge to define.” That definition could have unintended consequences, turning someone who monitors U.S. ships crossing the Arctic into spies, he said.

It has been a decade since Afanasyev applied to become a permanent resident in Canada along with his wife and two children. Segal said he is a successful lawyer, businessman

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and translator who speaks fluent English and is based in Kiev.

“I expect they want a broad definition of what constitutes espionage and who is a spy.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/811167--judge-to-decide-if-former-soviet-soldier-a-spy

As US Says 'Do More,' Pakistan Highlights Its Own Limitations May 22, 2010, by Abubaker Saddique (Ed: excerpted) This week's visit by the US president's national-security adviser and the head of the Central Intelligence Agency to Pakistan was portrayed as a feel-good trip that highlighted the high level of cooperation between Washington and Islamabad. But despite what may have been written about CIA chief Leon Panetta's and General James Jones's meetings with civilian and military leadership during their visit, analysts in Pakistan say all is not well between the two sides. They note that as senior US officials visit Islamabad to make new demands -- mostly about increasing military or law enforcement efforts against myriad extremist groups in Pakistan's western border regions -- Pakistani officials continue to respond by urging patience, asking for more money and weapons, and calling for a true understanding of their military, political, and economic limitations. He says that the attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square has intensified US demands for an all-out offensive in North Waziristan, a district in the western Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the border with Afghanistan. He says the Pakistani military is wary of signing on to such an operation until it can be sure that it would work to its advantage and not backfire in the form of a huge backlash, possibly resulting in terrorist attacks.

"There has been a lack of understanding between the American administration and

Pakistan Army in particular," Siddiqui says. "The losses that [the] Pakistan Army has suffered in earlier operations in South Waziristan in FATA region and [the northwestern region] of Swat and the like [will prompt] questions in their minds about what exactly has been achieved. And how the purposes of Pakistan's territorial security has been advanced or ensured." In Islamabad, security analyst Talat Masood says that the Obama administration is under a lot of domestic pressure to do something

about the security threats emanating from Pakistan's tribal regions. This, he says, prompts frequent visits by senior US officials who use "their economic and military clout to influence political and military decisions [in Pakistan]."

Western officials, for their part, appear to be well aware of Islamabad's limitations, but would nevertheless like to see genuine commitment to the effort to root out extremist groups on Pakistani soil. While details of Panetta's and Jones's discussions in Islamabad are slim, experts suggest the portrayal of that message was the main objective of their visit. Unnamed officials have told Pakistani media that the visiting US delegation also delivered a message from President Barack Obama that warned of serious consequences in the event that a future attack on US soil were to originate from Pakistan. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publically aired the same message earlier this month.

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/61124

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India: Police form 90 special squads to gather terror intelligence DNA Friday, May 21, 2010 The 26/11 terror attack has taught them a lesson. For intelligence gathering, they need to have their ears to the ground. Their own ears, not just those of the informers. The Mumbai police have, for the first time ever, decided to form specialised squads — one for each of the 90 police stations in the city. A team of four — an officer of the rank of a sub-inspector and three constables — has been formed in every police station. Their main duty will be gathering intelligence inputs. These “eyes and ears” units will compile reports and submit them directly to Rajnish Seth, joint commissioner of police (Law and Order). Seth in turn will brief the police commissioner, D Sivanandhan. “The aim of setting up such squads is to strengthen intelligence gathering. These cops

will regularly collect intelligence information, and we will try to nip threats in the bud. They will also be performing other duties as and when required,” Sivanandhan said.

The special squads will also help the police to rebuild their ties with local informants and sources. Last year, the informers’ network, following a series of attacks on it, had almost turned its back on the police. Also, they were a disgruntled lot as the police department did not pay them their

dues for sensitive tip-offs. Currently, the Mumbai police get its intelligence warnings from the crime branch and special branches. Beside the city police, state intelligence department and central agencies, including Intelligence Bureau (IB), are working at grass roots to collect inputs.

http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_police-form-90-special-squads-to-gather-terror-intelligence_1385654

India: Spying case: Madhuri rejected marriage to handler TNN, May 13, 2010,

NEW DELHI: Indian high commission staffer Madhuri Gupta may have spied for Pakistan but she turned down a marriage proposal from Pakistani intelligence operative Jamshed she was liaising with.

Gupta, who is in her 50s, is learnt to have told her interrogators here that Jamshed, a divorcee in his 30s, was keen on marrying her but she did not accept his proposal citing the age gap between them.

Transcripts of her interrogation show how Jamshed and his superior, Mudassar Rana of Pakistan's Intelligence Bureau (a batchmate of Pakistan's interior minister Rahman Malik), worked on her strong sense of grievance against the ministry of external affairs to compromise her. Asked what led her to betray her country, Gupta bluntly told her

interrogators that "they (Pakistanis) gave me recognition". Gupta, who wanted to convert to Islam but was discouraged by her stubborn mother, was seething with anger against the MEA for being forced to go on leave without pay for close to two years, beginning 2002. The IFS-B officer had applied for two years' sabatical to complete her doctorate on Sufi Islam. Though she proceeded on leave even after her application was turned down, the resultant loss of salary required her to cut down on her lifestyle. The junior IFS functionary, who was fond of good things in life, never forgave her superiors for that.

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intelligent of spies could not escape being detected. In her case, however, it was

ineptitude of the foreign ministry that allowed her to go undetected for so long.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Spying-case-Madhuri-rejected-marriage-to-handler/articleshow/5924130.cms

South/North Korea U.S. finds North Korean leader authorized attack on South New York Times, 22 May 2010

WASHINGTON — A new American intelligence analysis of a deadly torpedo attack on a South Korean warship concludes that Kim Jong Il, the ailing leader of North Korea, must have authorized the torpedo assault, according to senior American officials who cautioned that the assessment was based on their sense of the political dynamics there rather than hard evidence.

The officials said they were increasingly convinced that Kim ordered the sinking of the ship, the Cheonan, to help secure the succession of his youngest son.

"We can't say it is established fact," said one senior official who was involved in the highly classified assessment, based on information collected by many of the country's 16

intelligence agencies. "But there is very little doubt, based on what we know about the current state of the North Korean leadership and the military."

So far, at least in public, both U.S. and South Korean leaders have been careful never to link Kim to the attack. Officials said that was in part because of the absence of hard evidence but also largely because both countries were trying to avoid playing into Kim's hands by casting one of the worst attacks since the 1953 armistice as another piece of lore about the Kim family taking on South Korea and the West.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15143202?nclick_check=1

Read the report here

Read the reaction of the North Korean government here

Taiwan/China: Ex-Taiwanese civilian spies break long silence 19 May 2010 (ed: excerpted)

The recent avalanche of information about Taiwan's espionage activities and techniques to gather information is unprecedented.

The coming out of former spies has captured the popular imagination through many riveting revelations.

In mid-March, Zhou Shou-shun, 42, one of the youngest legislators of the ruling party KMT and a vocal champion on human rights issues, gave a news conference in which he introduced a number of surprise guests: former MIB civilian spies. With more than 50 journalists covering the event, Zhou was assured the story would generate headlines.

The former civilian spies all bore a common grudge: The MIB had left them in the lurch by failing to have them repatriated and offered only paltry compensation for their ordeal once they had been released from prisons in China.

Zhou said: "I believe Taiwan must care for its people, especially those who have made such sacrifices in the service of their country. From a human rights perspective, Taiwan should ask China to repatriate those who have already served long prison sentences or who are now advanced in years."

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Several hundred spies, including many former civilian agents, remain imprisoned in China, according to sources.

Li Jun-ming, deputy secretary-general of the Service Center for People of Cross-Straits in Taiwan, served as an officer of the MIB in the

1980s and was eventually convicted of espionage in China. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and spent more than 20 years deprived of his freedom.

These days, he works to secure the early release of Taiwanese agents in China.

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201005180329.html

Clear spying charges, Seoul urged May 19, 2010, SEOUL (ed: excerpted)

Four ethnic Korean residents of Japan convicted of spying in South Korea made an impassioned appeal Monday for their names to be cleared, arguing they were wrongfully convicted after being tortured in the 1970s and 1980s.

It was the first time that Korean residents of Japan have visited the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the South Korean capital seeking absolution.

The four made the appeal shortly after the Seoul High Court ordered a retrial for Lee Jong Soo, a 51-year-old ethnic Korean resident of Kyoto who spent years in prison for alleged spying in the 1980s.

It has become clear in South Korea that many spying cases were fabricated because the autocratic military government at the time was trying to suppress popular calls for democratic reforms.

At the commission, Lee Heon Chi, 57, of Kobe, Lee Dong Suk, 58, of the city of Osaka, and Kim Dong Hui, 56, also of Osaka, said their cases were fabricated and they were forced to confess after being tortured.

Kim Jong Sa, 54, an ethnic Korean resident of Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, whom the panel has already certified as innocent, accompanied the three. They all served prison terms of between four to 16 years in South Korea.

The commission, which has recommended retrials for seven ethnic Korean residents of Japan, is scheduled to conclude its investigations next month, with some critics accusing President Lee Myung Bak's government of being reluctant to come to terms with the country's history.

At a meeting with the former prisoners, a senior commission official said the panel confirmed that the treatment of the three was illegal, including their imprisonment without warrants, and that the panel is working hard to conclude reports on them by the time it wraps up its work.

"The home country has not turned its eyes to the damage done to its brethren in Japan," said Kim Jong Sa, calling for an extensive inquiry into the matter.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100519b3.html

No release for hikers jailed as American spies, says Iran The Times, May 20, 2010

Iran has again accused three American hikers imprisoned in Tehran of being spies, hours before their mothers arrived in the country to plead for their release after almost a year behind bars. The comments by Heydar Moslehi, Iran’s Intelligence Minister, appeared to dash any hope that the women’s

visit could help to expedite the release of their children. Instead they are likely to become bargaining chips in the confrontation over Iran’s nuclear programme. On Tuesday the US reached agreement with Russia and China on a tough new package of UN sanctions against Iran.

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Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, have been held in Evin prison in Tehran since July, when they were arrested after crossing the Iranian border from northern Iraq. They have always insisted that they strayed across the border by accident during a hiking trip in Iraq’s mountainous Kurdish region. Iran has accused them of working for the CIA.

“Despite them being spies and entering Iran illegally, they were dealt with according to religious teachings and in a humanitarian way,” Mr Moslehi was reported as saying by Iran’s ISNA news agency yesterday. He said the Iranian Government had shown compassion by granting visas to the three mothers so they could visit their children. President Ahmadinejad has suggested that the hikers could be released in exchange for

Iranians believed to be in US custody. In December Tehran released a list of 11 Iranians it claims are being held in the US, including a nuclear scientist, Shahram Amiri, who disappeared in Saudi Arabia last year during a pilgrimage to Mecca. Tehran has accused the CIA of kidnapping Mr Amiri.

Others on the list include an Iranian Defence Ministry official who disappeared in Turkey and an Iranian held in Canada and charged with trying to obtain nuclear technology. Washington has not acknowledged that all 11 are in the US and rejected an exchange deal for the hikers.

Evin prison is used for political prisoners and government opponents. The three Americans have been kept in almost constant solitary confinement since their capture.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7131336.ece

EU Summit on Future European Intelligence Service ANSAmed 14 May 2010

MADRID Heads of the EU s twenty-nine secret services, as well as those of Norway and of Switzerland, have been meeting in Alcalà de Henares (Madrid) in a summit set up under the Spanish presidency of the Council of Europe, to step up cooperation and to discuss a future creation of a Europe-wide intelligence service.

The meeting was actually held on May 5, but according to an article in today's edition of El Pais, it was kept secret. In attendance were members of the Counter-Terrorist Group, (CTG), made up of the interior intelligence services of the 27 EU countries and of Norway and Switzerland.

The CTG was set up following the attacks on the United States of September 11 2001. It meets twice a year in those countries holding the rotating EU presidency. For the first time,

it was also attended by the Co-ordinater of Europés Anti-Terrorist unit, Belgian Gilles de Kerchove.

The coming into effect of the Treaty of Lisbon on December first last year, which foresees the creation of a European Foreign Action Service (Seae) and the adoption of a common defence policy, will lead to greater information-exchange between the intelligence services and the creation of a common EU service to tackle threats to security in the form of cyber-attacks, illegal immigration, drug smuggling and currency speculators attacks on the euro.

The outcomes from the meeting are to be transferred to the High Representative for Foreign Policy, and the EU's common defence, Catherine Ashton, over the coming days.

http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME03.XAM18123.html

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Draft National Security Strategy Provides for ‘Bulgarian CIA’ May 19, 2010

(Novinite) — Bulgaria’s Defense Minister has proposed the merging of intelligence services to create a mega-structure of the CIA type.

Minister Anyu Angelov announced Friday in Parliament he insisted on the creation of a new structure uniting the military and the foreign intelligence. Currently, Bulgaria’s military intelligence is controled by the Defense Ministry, while the National Intelligence Service is answerable to the President.

According to Angelov, the new Bulgarian CIA will be created in a similar fashion to the State National Security Agency DANS, which is dubbed “the Bulgarian FBI”; DANS was set up in 2008 by merging three internal security and counter-intelligence institutions. Similarly to DANS, the new foreign intelligence structure will be under the control of the Cabinet rather than the President – an issue which has led to sparks between President Parvanov and the Borisov government.

The Bulgarian CIA might be created within 2 years in accordance with the country’s new draft National Security Strategy was considered Friday during a meeting of the Security Council of the government. Angelov has pointed out that upon giving up the control over the military intelligence, the Defense Ministry will preserve a unit for army reconnaissance in order to provide for the security of the Bulgarian troops stationed abroad; this unit is not going to provide intelligence information for the military and

political situation abroad, which will be the job of the future CIA.

The Defense Minister explained that the future National Security Act will define the powers of the respective intelligence institutions. He insisted that the government’s National Security Council has to become a permanent “emergency situations” body because at present the Bulgarian authorities reacted to issues by setting up individual crisis headquarters only after an issue has already emerged.

“We also need a center for strategic analysis at the National Security Council, which be preparing forecasts for actions. This unit will be using foreign experts from the EU, NATO, and international NGOs and will have a small secretariat,” explained Angelov.

Bulgaria’s Security Council will have a second meeting regarding the draft National Security Strategy at the end

of May; the strategy will be considered by the government in June, and will then be tabled to the Parliament for adoption.

“The merging of intelligence and counter-intelligence services is counter-productive,” said the Defense Minister when asked if DANS will be merged with the new mega-structure.

“I’ve heard all opinions presented during the meeting. There are constructive suggestions that we will include in the final draft of the National Security Strategy,” stated Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov after Friday’s Security Council meeting.

http://www.inteldaily.com/2010/05/draft-national-security-strategy-provides-for-bulgarian-cia/

The National Security Council of the Bulgarian Cabinet met on Friday to consider the draft national security strategy. Photo by BGNES

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Russia: FSB changes its approach to dealing with spies, Moscow experts say Vienna, May 17 (Ed: excerpted)

With the imposition of a “surprisingly soft” sentence in the latest Russian espionage case, the FSB has not turned the corner toward a more liberal approach but rather sent a message that those charged with spying need to cooperate with the organs in order to receive a lighter sentence, according to two Moscow experts.

In today’s “Yezhednevny zhurnal,” Andrey Soldatov and Irina Borogan, editors of the Agentura.ru portal, say that it is important to recognize that the sentences handed out in espionage cases in Russia have little to do with the harm any particular spy does and more with the message the Kremlin wants delivered (www.ej.ru/?a=note&id=10108).

When Igor Sutyagin and Valentin Danilov were given long prison terms, the two say, Moscow was seeking to send a message to the members of Russia’s scientific community that they should “forget about unsanctioned foreign contacts.” Now, with the Sipachev verdict, the FSB is sending an additional one.

Last week, a Russian court sentenced Gennady Sipachev, an amateur cartographer from Yekaterinburg who was found guilty of providing “secret maps to the Pentagon” to four years of prison, a light punishment by recent standards but one that provides clear evidence that “the FSB is again changing its tactics.”

Although the FSB through the cloak of secrecy over the entire proceedings, the meaning of the Sipachev case is clear, Soldatov and Borogan say. Charges against Sipachev were “formulated approximately as in the case of Sutyagin and Danilov,” but “in contrast to the two scholars,” Sipachev was charged not with espionage but only with violating state secrecy rules.

“It is possible,” the two experts say, “Sipachev’s soft sentence is the Kremlin’s reaction to the loud scandals and criticism [surrounding the Danilov and Sutyagin case] by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg Human Rights Court, and other international organizations of which Russia is a participant.”

But it is more probable, the two argue, that what has happened reflects two new trends in FSB practice. On the one hand, Soldatov and Borogan say, in an increasing number of

cases, the FSB prefers to bring the lesser charges of revealing state secrets or even economic crimes than attracting the kind of attention, often negative, it receives from making spy charges directly.

And on the other, they point out, the FSB appears to be increasingly interested in

gaining the cooperation of those it charges by offering or appearing to offer lesser sentences to those who cooperate with its investigation, something that appears to have been the case with Sipachev and his attorneys.

Thus, Soldatov and Borogan say, “the light sentence in Sipachev’s case is yet another signal that cooperating with the organs is not simply necessary but also useful. And in case anyone missed the point, news stories about the case noted specifically that Sipachev had completely admitted his guilt and then provided assistance to investigators.

But there is just one problem in this case: Sipachev, a civilian without access to secrets, was sentenced to prison for revealing them, while “the individual who supplied the amateur collector with secret maps has not landed in court,” a shortcoming that neither the Russian courts nor the FSB have yet explained.

http://georgiandaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18649&Itemid=65

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Two suspected Libyan secret agents arrested in Berlin Fri, 14 May 2010, Europe World News

Berlin - Two Libyans have been arrested in Berlin on suspicion of working as secret agents, federal prosecutors said on Friday.

The men, identified by their first names as 42-year-old Adel Ab and 46-year-old Adel Al, are suspected of spying on members of the Libyan opposition in Germany, according to prosecutors.

The younger of the two men is said to have worked as an officer of the Libyan secret

service, collecting information about exiled opposition members in Germany and throughout Europe since August 2007 or before. The second man is thought to have assisted him.

The accused men were placed into pre-trial custody on Friday. The Federal Office of Criminal Investigation is looking further into the case.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/323681,two-suspected-libyan-secret-agents-arrested-in-berlin.html

Vladimir Putin laments Soviet Union ignoring his spy intelligence 19 May 2010, Moscow

Vladimir Putin has admitted for the first time that he spent his stint as a KGB spy in 1980s East Germany conducting industrial espionage against the West, lamenting that the secrets he stole were ignored.

Vladimir Putin was based in Dresden during the 1980s. In his most candid comments on the subject to date, the Russian prime minister said that at least part of his job as a KGB agent in East Germany involved acquiring sensitive technological and industrial secrets from the West.

But he told a meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences that he grew increasingly frustrated as the know-how he passed back to the Soviet Union to help it make good the yawning technological gap with the West went unused.

"When I was serving in a different department (the KGB) in my past life I

remember very well the moment at the end of the 1980s when our work and the work of your foreign colleagues obtained through special means was not integrated into the economy of the Soviet Union," he told the scientists and academics.

Mr Putin, who worked as a KGB spy in Dresden from 1985-1990, said he could not understand why Soviet scientists did not use the intelligence he and his colleagues were "acquiring" from the West.

"We were working really hard on this area and again and again getting what was needed but it was

no use. We used to ask: 'Where is it? Where is it being used in our economy?' Nowhere. It was not possible to harness it."

Little is known about Mr Putin's time in East Germany in the 1980s except that another part of his job was to recruit spies who had access and close links to West Germany.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7741191/Vladimir-Putin-laments-Soviet-Union-ignoring-his-spy-intelligence.html

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France: Comment: Was Clotilde Reiss a French Spy in Iran? May 20, 2010 · Joseph Fitsanakis | intelnews.org The case of Clotilde Reiss acquired new momentum earlier this week, after a former French intelligence official claimed she had collaborated with French secret services. Pierre Siramy, who until late last year was a senior official at DGSE, France’s external intelligence agency, said on Sunday that Reiss had worked “very well” for France. Reiss, a 25-year-old Farsi-speaking French-language assistant at the University of Isfahan, was arrested in Iran last year on accusations of being a ‘nuclear spy’. But last weekend her ten-year prison sentence was suddenly commuted to a fine, and she was able to return home to France, in an apparent secret deal with Paris, which included the release of two Iranian operatives held in France.

The allegations of Pierre Siramy, who caused considerable controversy in French intelligence circles this year, by publishing a memoir of his experiences in the DGSE, sparked instant denials by French government officials and Ms. Reiss herself. She called the allegations “lies [by] former DGSE members” and said she had “never been in touch with the intelligence agencies”. French minister for European affairs, Pierre Lellouche went so far as to threaten Siramy with legal action for his “fanciful and ridiculous” allegations.

Who is telling the truth? Was Clotilde Reiss a French spy in Iran? The answer depends on one’s definition of a spy. One does not have to be an intelligence insider to realize that the thought of deploying a female field intelligence officer in Iran, a society where women’s social mobility and influence are severely restricted, would be nonsensical, to say the least. After 1979, most Western intelligence agencies have hardly been able to use male officers, let alone young non-native women, to recruit local agents on the ground in Iran’s various provinces. But this does not necessarily mean that Clotilde Reiss did not,

in some way or another, perhaps even unwillingly, assist France’s DGSE. In fact, it would be difficult to imagine that DGSE officers operating out of France’s embassy in Tehran would not have tried to ‘debrief’ Reiss about the social and political conditions of the Iranian student body at Isfahan University, where she worked. The reality is

that these DGSE agents would rarely –if ever– be able to experience these conditions first hand, so Reiss’ input would undoubtedly have been valuable.

The question is whether Clotilde Reiss knew that the French ‘diplomats’, who wanted to know about conditions at Isfahan Univeristy, were in fact DGSE

officers. It is unlikely that she did. She was probably never recruited, as Pierre Siramy

himself indirectly admitted, by noting that the young teaching assistant “wasn’t a spy”, but was simply an unpaid “contact of our representative in Tehran”, whom she provided with information on an “amicable” basis. This description does not appear to describe anything resembling a formal intelligence affiliation.

To be sure, Clotilde Reiss’ resume does feature some of the essential traits of an effective intelligence officer. She is fluent in Farsi and intimately familiar with Iranian culture and society; furthermore, her mother is an academic specializing on Iran, while her father works for France’s Nuclear Energy Agency (CEA). But this does not necessarily make her an intelligence operative, and a paid one at that. It is far more likely that her connection with DGSE, if it ever existed, was unplanned, unpaid, and –most likely than not– trivial. The French agency confirmed as much, by authorizing ‘anonymous sources’ to comment that “Miss Reiss has never worked for us [...] in any capacity and was never assigned a code name or number”.

Nevertheless, Tehran did manage to exchange Reiss for two Iranian operatives held in France. Not bad, considering the

Clotilde Reiss

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young woman wasn’t even an intelligence operative, if she, the French government, and

DGSE’s ‘anonymous sources’ are to be believed.

http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/02-322/

Report: French interior minister sues former spy over book Mon, 17 May 2010 Europe World News

Paris - French Interior Minister Herve Morin has filed a complaint against a former spy for allegedly divulging national secrets in a recent book, the web site Le Point.fr reported Monday.

In a complaint lodged last month, Morin accused the former deputy director of the foreign spy service DGSE, Maurice Dufresse, of violating national defence secrets, breaching

professional secrets and revealing the names of protected individuals.

If found guilty of only the first charge, Dufresse faces a maximum sentence of seven years in prison and a fine of up to 100,000 euros (122,000 dollars).

Under the pen name Pierre Siramy, Dufresse recently published a book about his career as a spy, 25 ans dans les services

secrets (25 Years in the Secret Service).

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/324058,report-french-interior-minister-sues-former-spy-over-book.html

Comment: Does Germany need a National Security Council? 18 May 2010 Maxim Worcester, Institut für Strategie- Politik- Sicherheits- und Wirtschaftsberatung (ISPSW)

Germany needs a National Security Council along the lines of the newly established model in the UK. Such a body should draw on all Ministries involved, reflecting the increased complexity and interconnectivity of the risk faced by the country. It needs to address thorny issues such as the future role of the Bundeswehr and should map the national interests against the risks the country faces and develop strategies to mitigate such risks. Such a body needs parliamentary oversight and needs to ensure

that proposed security measures do not in any way compromise civil liberties. Such a body would provide the Government with a much clearer sense of direction as it would address national security issues for what they are, not as a particular Ministry sees or perceives them. A German National Security Council would also help narrow the gap between rhetoric and action which has been the hallmark of the Governments National Security Policy since it was elected.

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The 9th Conference of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Federal Security Service of Russian Federation delegations held in Odessa 21 May 2010, The SSU Press-Center

The 9th Conference of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Federal Security Service of Russian Federation delegations was held in Odessa on May 19, 2010. The delegations

were headed by the Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi and the Director of the Federal Security Service of Russian Federation Oleksandr Bortnikov.

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The parties discussed the current state of cooperation between the special services. It was stressed that during last five years a lot of problems to be solved by joint efforts accumulated. First of all these are fight against international terrorism, cyber crimes, international organized criminal groups which monopolized separate spheres of criminal business (drugs trafficking, illegal migration etc.)

Particular attention was paid to counterintelligence protection of the economy, especially to the security of atomic energy and industry facilities, protection of internal high-tech markets of Ukraine and Russia.

The participants of the Conference defined further activities to promote border cooperation in prevention of illegal Ukraine-Russia border crossing, liquidation of illegal migration and smuggling channels.

By the results of the negotiations, the final document was signed. It regulates the following steps of cooperation between the special services, in particular adjustment of information exchange and creation of expert groups.

The Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine V. Khoroshkovskyi and the Director of

the Federal Security Service of Russian Federation O. Bortnikov also signed the Protocol to the Agreement on Cooperation and Interaction between the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Security of Russian Federation, regulating the stay of the Federal Security Service officers who ensure the security of the Black Sea Fleet of Russian

Federation in the places of its temporary stationing on the territory of Ukraine.

The Protocol stipulates organization of information exchange, conducting of concerted measures to reveal, prevent and

suppress illegal activities directed against the Black Sea Fleet of Russian Federation security and threatening the national security of Ukraine and Russian Federation.

The document provides that the information about the Federal Security Service of Russian Federation officers, ensuring the Black Sea Fleet of Russian Federation security on the territory of Ukraine, will be given and agreed with the Ukrainian side timely and fully.

The Protocol comes into force from the moment of signing and will be valid for 5 years.

http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/control/en/publish/article;jsessionid=40C82F3D8E29F38A70DC6B1A9C267106?art_id=99819&cat_id=35317

Italy expelled Moroccans on suspicion of Pope plot Fri May 14, 2010; Reuters

Two Moroccan students deported from Italy last month were suspected of plotting to assassinate Pope Benedict, an Interior Ministry source said on Friday.

Mohamed Hlal, 26, and Ahmed Errahmouni, 22, students at the University for Foreigners in the central Italian city of Perugia, had been under surveillance by anti-terrorist police for

months before they were expelled on April 29.

"During their inquiry, investigators found evidence suggesting the two (suspects) were plotting an attack on the pope," said the source.

An interior ministry statement issued at the time of their deportation said they were

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being expelled under prevention of terrorism laws.

Six other foreign students, suspected of contacts with militant Islamic groups, are still under investigation.

News magazine Panorama, owned by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's family, reported on Friday that local anti-terrorist police had tapped Hlal's phone and had raised the alarm when he said he wanted to acquire explosives.

The magazine said police discovered a map of Turin at Errahmouni's house annotated with numbers and circles, ahead of a visit to the northern Italian city by Pope Benedict on May 2 to venerate the Shroud of Turin, which many Catholics believe was Jesus Christ's burial cloth. Panorama described Errahmouni as a computer expert who remained in

contact with militant groups over the Internet. It said Perugia had become a centre for travelling imams to preach radical Islam.

Turkish citizen Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot and seriously wounded Paul John Paul in 1981, was also enrolled as a language student at Perugia university.

Intelligence reports and arrests show militant Islamic groups linked to al Qaeda, especially in North Africa, are active in Italy, mostly recruiting and financing for attacks planned elsewhere in Europe.

However, alarm was raised in October by a failed attack on an army barracks near Milan by a 35-year-old Libyan man. Mohammed Game, whose hand was blown off when he hurled a bomb, was believed to have had accomplices, police said.

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-48500420100514?sp=true

UK spy agency probed over bombs 2010-05-21, SAPA

London - Inquests into the deaths of 56 people in London's July 2005 suicide bombings will probe alleged failings by police and MI5 intelligence before the attacks, a judge said on Friday.

A coroner also ruled that inquests into four suicide bombers will be held separately from those of the 52 victims, a relief to families who had protested plans to hold the inquests together. The suicide bombers set off near- simultaneous explosions on three London Underground trains and a double-decker bus on the morning of July 7 2005, in what has become known as 7/7, nearly four years after the 9/11 attacks.

Coroner Heather Hallett, giving details of arrangements for the inquests due to start in October, said they would probe what police and MI5 officers knew ahead of the shock attacks. "The scope of the inquest into the 52

deaths will include the alleged intelligence failings and the immediate aftermath of the bombings," she said.

"To my mind it is not too remote to investigate what was known in the year or

two before the alleged bombings. Plots of this kind are not developed overnight," she added.

She also announced that the inquests will not be held with a jury, and that the hundreds of people injured in the attacks will not be designated

"interested person" status, which has been granted to relatives of victims.

"I am sure however that the survivors, despite not being granted interested persons status, will play an important part in the process. I will do all I can to make sure their interests are properly taken into account," she said."Interested persons" have the right to cross-examine witnesses at inquests. The 7/7 attacks struck during the rush hour on a Thursday morning, as British Prime

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Minister Tony Blair was meeting with Group of Eight (G8) counterparts for a summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. It later emerged that intelligence services had followed the bombers' ringleader, Mohammad Sidique Khan, in early 2004 during an investigation into extremists planning a fertiliser bomb

plot. Two weeks after July 7 there was an apparent attempt at a copycat simultaneous attack, but the devices involved failed to go off. In the rush to find the plotters police mistakenly shot and killed an innocent Brazilian man.

http://www.news24.com/World/News/UK-spy-agency-probed-over-bombs-20100521

Australia demands Israel withdraw embassy official over use of stolen passports 5-23-10 AFP

SYDNEY-Australia Monday demanded that Israel withdraw an embassy official from the country, saying the Jewish state was behind fake Australian passports linked to the killing of a Hamas operative.

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Australia remained a "firm friend" of Israel but that no

government could tolerate the abuse of its passports.

"The government has asked that a member of the Israeli embassy in Canberra be withdrawn from Australia," Smith told parliament, without identifying the official.

"I have asked that the withdrawal be affected within a week."

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Saudi King slams intelligence leak Sat, 22 May 2010 The King of Saudi Arabia has strongly criticized the country's intelligence officials for disclosing a secret document, which shows Riyadh has links with terrorist activities carried out by al-Qaeda in Iraq. According to a report by Iraq's Buratha news agency on Friday, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz ordered a special committee to

investigate the intelligence leak and inform him about those liable in the case. Some 37 members of Saudi's intelligence service, accused of being behind the leakage of the confidential document, were also reported to have been arrested. The condemnation by the Saudi monarch comes as the Iraqi news agency disclosed the

amount of money transferred by Saudi government officials to al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Saudi officials are also reported to send explosives and weapons to the terrorist groups. Meanwhile, Secretary General of the Saudi National Security Council Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz is said to be the main guilty behind the case. The report came as earlier last

week, Saudi army officer Abdullah al-Qahtani was arrested in Iraq over charges

of planning a terrorist attack during the upcoming FIFA World Cup in South Africa.The Saudi national entered Iraq in 2004 and was involved in militant operations carried out by al-Qaeda.

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Israeli soldiers fall prey to Facebook spy 19/05/2010 Der Spiegel (ed: excerpted)A number of Israeli soldiers reportedly fell victim to a Facebook spy scam, the German newspaper Der Spiegel wrote Tuesday. The soldiers seemingly befriend a young woman on the social networking site who may have been a Hezbollah operative, the daily wrote. The article, quoting an Israeli news site, said a Facebook profile belonging to Reut Zuckerman was used to lure soldiers to reveal sensitive information over the course of the past year. Zuckerman, whose photograph showed an attractive woman lounging on a sofa, pretended to be in the army herself herself. The soldiers allegedly started giving out details of their friends' names, military jargon, secret codes and detailed descriptions of their bases, the daily wrote.

In March, Israeli forces called off a raid into the occupied Palestinian territories after a soldier posted details on Facebook, Israel's Army Radio reported. The soldier was relieved of combat duty shortly after he described in a status update

how his unit planned a "clean-up" arrest raid, including its time and place, Army Radio was quoted as

reporting by the Israeli daily Haaretz. "On Wednesday we clean up Qatanah, and on Thursday, god willing, we come home," the soldier reportedly wrote on his page, referring to a village near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. He also named his unit, the report said, but was turned in by friends who saw the online posting.

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Lebanese arrested for spying for Israel 14 May 2010 Israel News

Lebanon's security forces arrested a man 10 days ago suspected of spying for Israel, Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar reported Friday. The man is suspected of passing reports to Israeli intelligence services detailing the exact location of Lebanese President Michel Suleiman. According to the newspaper, the man, identified by his initials F.S. only, was also instructed to keep track of Iranian ships entering Lebanese territorial waters as well as a ship belonging to a businessman who maintains links with Hezbollah.

Investigators were surprised to hear from the detainee, who also served in the Lebanese navy, that Israeli intelligence had also

requested identification details of yachts owned by Lebanese politicians.

About two months ago it was reported in Lebanon that the state's security forces had arrested a young man from Tripoli on suspicion that he had maintained contact with the Israeli

embassy in Turkey and with a young Lebanese woman who had escaped from Israel after Israel left southern Lebanon in the year 2000.

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Nigeria/US: Statement issued by National Security Council Spokesman Mike Hammer 21 May 2010

National Security Advisor General James L. Jones welcomed Nigeria National Security Advisor General (Ret.) Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, to the White House on May 20, 2010. General Jones, joined by members of the President’s National Security Staff, and General Aliyu Mohammed, who was accompanied by his delegation, discussed a range of topics of mutual

interest bilaterally, regionally, and globally.

General Jones underscored the importance of the U.S.-Nigerian relationship, and commended Nigeria for its participation in international peacekeeping and its smooth political transition.

General Jones and General Aliyu Mohammed discussed issues of peace and security in the Sahel and Gulf of Guinea, and the importance

of building on advances in returning to and strengthening democratic governments in West Africa. Both reiterated that free, fair, and credible elections are critical to

strengthening democratic institutions in the region as well as in Nigeria.

Both also recognized the importance of addressing recent cycles of violence over the past year, most significantly and recently in Jos. General Jones and General Aliyu Mohammed discussed the importance of non-proliferation, and discussed the status of United Nations’ efforts on this issue.

The United States views Nigeria as a friend, ally, and partner. Our regular and extensive dialogue with Nigeria illustrates the significance of our relationship.

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