The value of intelligence agencies in the fight against terrorism was highlighted again with the printer cartridge bombs that were mailed in Yemen, postmarked for Chicago. Intelligence officers in a democracy face a constant dilemma when they weigh the options of using intelligence obtained from informants (sometimes through torture) and the need to save innocent lives. MI6 Director John Sawers last week explained this and other issues in his first press conference that might dispel some of the cynicism of anti-spying proponents out there.

Here in South Africa, the Parliamentary Committee redrafting the Protection of Information Bill will not finalise the bill this year, due to continuing differences about classification and other issues that has brought a new wave of grassroots level dissent in an effort to protect our democracy’s fundamental rights. The debate continues to be ferocious, but this is good in a society where there is cynicism toward both the intelligence services and the media.

If you want to read more on the deliberations of the Parliamentary Committee, go to http://www.pmg.org.za/minutes/684 or the civil society’s joing campaign against the bill, go http://www.r2k.org.za/index.php

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Reports from 30 Oct – 5 Nov 2010

Africa Page 2 Nigeria: MEND targets South Africa’s investments Tanzania: Intelligence agency’s defence over Slaa claims Europe Page 3 UK: the day the spies came in from the cold Germany may scrap military intelligence Bulgaria: Notary officers become intelligence agents Greek-Cypriot spies behind largest document theft in UN history, report claims Sarkozy accused of using security service to spy on journalists Georgia busts “Russian spy ring” Wikileaks vs. the FSB USA Page 9 Control of intelligence budget will shift Intel critic hired to shake things up Report: Ex-CIA spy plans guilty plea for payments Middle East Page 12 Spy agencies infiltrate al-Qaida Asia Page 15 Sri Lanka revamps intelligence program Japan: leaked terror investigation documents contained info on people helping police probes Taiwan: intelligence officer detained for leaking national secrets Mongolia’s spy chief: invited to No 10, detained in Wandsworth Manila: Stop releasing raw intelligence reports - PNP Upcoming events Page 19

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This is the first time in the history of TISS to respond to allegations levelled against the agency since the country’s independence 49 years ago.

Nigeria: MEND targets South Africa’s investments Emma Nnadozie, Vanguard News Oct 31, 2010

Security agencies may have shifted attention to all investments owned by South Africa in Nigeria following intelligence reports that the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, are targeting such investments with a view to registering their protest over the on-going trial of their leader, Henry Okah.

Intelligence reports monitored in Lagos, weekend, revealed that they are likely to target such investments in their efforts to forestall what they tagged South African interest in going ahead with the trial of Henry Okah, and their claims of recovering vital exhibits linking him to Nigeria’s 50th Independence day bomb blast.

Sources told Vanguard that already, both the State Security Service, SSS, the Police and other undercover agencies have intensified efforts at conducting a 24-hourly surveillance of such investments located in all parts of the country. It was gathered that they are paying special attention to those located at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Lagos and Port-Harcourt. The national, state and local security agencies are said to be deeply involved in this exercise.

Already, managers of such investments which comprise primarily, telecommunication outfits, have been put on alert while security has been beefed up in their respective organizations.

According to one of the sources, “The report we got was that some members of MEND have concluded plans to bomb such investments as a way of retaliating over what they perceive as South African facilitation of th e trial of their leader, Henry Okah, and we have placed such investments under strict security surveillance for now.

I assure you that any attempt by MEND or any other terrorist organization to wreak the type of havoc they did during our independence would be stoutly resisted and dealt with because, we are now more than ever prepared to face the challenges ahead. We are also well equipped for the task ahead.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/10/mend-targets-south-africas-investments-in-nigeria/

Tanzania: Intelligence agency's defence over Slaa claims The Citizen (Tanzania), 05 November 2010 (Ed: excerpted)

The Tanzania Intelligence and Security Services (TISS) yesterday distanced itself from claims by the Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) presidential candidate, Dr Willibrod Slaa, that the agency was being used to steal votes cast in favour of him.On Wednesday, Dr Slaa told a news conference in Dar es Salaam that TISS has doctored presidential election results being announced by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) with an intention of showing that he has failed to win the elections.

TISS Deputy Director Jackie Zoka told a press conference in Dar es Salaam yesterday that Dr Slaa’s statement was intended to create disharmony between the agency and wananchi (Ed: the populqation). He said TISS has been forced to react to the allegations because they were “serious

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and if not disproved people could take the claims by Dr Slaa seriously.” Mr Zoka called on Dr Slaa to produce evidence to prove his accusations and TISS would work on it.

This is the first time in the history of TISS to respond to allegations levelled against the agency since the country’s independence 49 years ago. Mr Zoka appealed to the people to brush aside Dr Slaa’s claims saying they were intended to create chaos among people.

“These allegations are very serious taking into account that they are made by a person who vying for the leadership of our nation,” said Mr Zoka adding: “If the allegations are left without any response there is likelihood that people could take them seriously, and it could also create an impression that a presidential winner to be announced by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) has been picked by the TISS instead of being elected by people.” He said the whole electoral process, including voting, counting and declaration of election results, was being done in a transparent manner, adding that it does not bring to senses how TISS could be

involved. He said the voting was done in polling centres, counting of votes witnessed by political parties’ agents, filling of forms by the agents and sending the preliminary results to tallying centres. Mr Zoka said the TISS was not involved whatsoever during this electoral chain of events. “How come TISS officials are involved in doctoring the results? These allegations are only intended to tarnish the good image of TISS,” said Zoka.

He said the fact that TISS was conducting its businesses covertly should not be a reason to tarnishing its image. He decried Dr Slaa for claiming that he received information from TISS officials, saying his claims were only aimed at breaching the prevailing peace in the country. Mr Zoka said TISS was friendly to all political parties and was ready to co-operate with any party that will require its services. But he did not indicate if TISS was going to take any actions against Dr Slaa’s accusations.

Chadema demanded the resignation of the TISS director, accusing him of failing to treat all Tanzanians fairly. The party also urged the international community and election observers to release their reports immediately.

http://thecitizen.co.tz/component/content/article/37-tanzania-top-news-story/5276-tz-intelligence-agencys-defence-over-slaa-claims.html

UK: The day the spies came in from the cold Duncan Hamilton, Scotlandsunday, 31 October 2010

LAST Thursday the head of MI6 broke more than a century of silence and became the first head of the secret services to make a public, and televised, speech.

In it, he specifically identified the threats to the UK, including those from al-Qaeda in Yemen. This weekend the news has been dominated by the grounding of planes heading for the US which were identified as carrying explosives originating in Yemen.

The deeply cynical amongst you, particularly fans of Spooks, will question the convenience of that timing. But let's take it at face value. This looks like exactly the kind of threat the MI6 chief was identifying. The intelligence came from an MI6 agent, was intercepted in Dubai, relied on the co-

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This was a welcome acceptance by the security services that they cannot exist in a vacuum. Public confidence and public support do matter, even to MI6.

operation of the Saudi Arabian government and was shared with the relevant authorities in the UK and US to prevent an attack. Job done.

But on closer analysis it also touches on some harder questions. In his speech, Sir John Sawers confronted directly the question of dealing with regimes which gathered information through torture. As the MI6 chief put it: "We also have a duty to do what we can to ensure that a partner service will respect human rights. That is not always straightforward. Yet if we hold back, and don't pass that intelligence, out of concern that a suspect terrorist may be badly treated, innocent lives may be lost that we could have saved. These are not abstract questions just for philosophy courses or searching editorials, they are real, constant operational dilemmas."

I don't know how the information about the latest terrorist threat emerged, but I think we can all safely assume that the words 'human rights' and 'Saudi Arabia' don't always sit easily together. This then was probably exactly one such 'operational dilemma' - so should MI6 have acted upon information working with a regime which uses torture in order to potentially save lives?

There is, of course, an easy and compelling argument against using such information - it is tainted, can't be trusted, emerged by the use of illegal means and often cannot be verified. All true, but the world in which intelligence gathering operates is a dirty one. What Sir John Sawyer was saying was crystal clear - "doing what we can" to promote and foster human rights around the world does not mean that we live in a clean world of pure motive and absolute morality. Much

intelligence emerges in troubling and dangerous scenarios. If it is a choice between knowing and not knowing about credible threats emanating from abroad, we cannot simply hide behind "I'm terribly sorry, that's a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights." It is uncomfortable, but probably right.

That doesn't mean we turn a blind eye; it simply means that the primary duty of the secret services to protect takes priority over handing out global tutorials on human rights.

But that is a far cry from how we, ourselves, behave. On that, as a democracy and a nation that upholds our western legal and social norms, there is no scope for trampling on human rights. The importance of that distinction - between a reluctant acceptance of the way the world is and the core commitment of our own society to maintain the principle and practice of observing human rights - is critical.

But let's go back a bit. Why was this speech being made at all? The secret services are meant to be, well, secret. This was a welcome acceptance by the security services that they cannot exist in a vacuum. Public confidence and public support do matter, even to MI6. We even had the head of MI6 looking down the camera and admitting that, "In today's open society, no government institution is given the benefit of the doubt all the time. There are new expectations of public - and legal - accountability that have developed." Of course, to some extent this engagement is forced - we have already had the Butler Review and await the findings of the Chilcott Inquiry. Moreover, there is a defence spending review ongoing which requires the security services to fight their corner along with everyone else. No one should naively assume this was a charm offensive without a purpose.

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That said, it was wholly refreshing to have the head of MI6 explain the process of decision-making and accountability in an organisation shrouded in secrecy for most. He identified the Intelligence Services Act 1994 as a governing legal framework, explained the checks and balances of the National Security Council, the necessary approval of the Foreign Secretary, the oversight of the Intelligence and Security Committee and the role of the judiciary. That information is not new but the desire to share it with a wider audience denotes an understanding that accountability and public confidence in the imperative of legality matter.

Plainly the secret services and the courts have fallen out in recent times - not least in relation to the publication of intelligence. On this, the tension was made clear by Sir John when he boldly stated that "at present we're unable to use secret material in court with confidence that the material will be protected". But that tension is not a bad thing. In fact, two arms of the state pulling in different directions keeps all of us, including the security services, on the straight and narrow. This speech sets a welcome precedent. The secret services have now invited us into their world and are accordingly open to comment and criticism. Only time will tell whether that was ultimately wise. http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/uk/Duncan-Hamilton-The-day-the.6606380.jp?articlepage=2

Germany May Scrap Military Intelligence, Handelsblatt Reports Bloomberg, November 01, 2010, Patrick Donahue

Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- German lawmakers are considering scrapping the country’s military-intelligence service as part of defense budget cuts, Handelsblatt said, citing a parliamentary proposal.

Combining the intelligence organization, known as MAD, with another espionage service could save the government 70 million euros, the newspaper cited the proposal as saying. MAD, which employs 1,300 people, could be merged with the larger BND foreign-intelligence service or the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s counterintelligence, it said.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-01/germany-may-scrap-military-intelligence-handelsblatt-reports.html and http://www.fortune500global.com/news/intelligence-on-the-hit-list/

Bulgaria: Notary Officers Become Intelligence Agents Standartnews, 21 October 2010

Bulgarian notary officers will soon become colleagues of the State Agency for National Security and intelligence agents. They will also get access to the national identity cards registry of the Interior ministry and will help prevent frauds. Deputy Minister of Interior Vaselin Vuchkov broke the news at a seminar of the Notary Chamber in the Borovets mountain resort. A site of the Notary Chamber will give access to the personal data of every Bulgarian citizen and all notary officers will have their own e-signature. Every log-in will automatically be registered in the archives so the information about any reference in the registry will be readily available. This will prevent possible frauds. http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2010-10-31&article=34581

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Greek-Cypriot spies behind largest document theft in UN history, report claims JOSEPH FITSANAKIS, October 26, 2010 intelNews

Agents of the Greek-Cypriot government were behind the largest document theft in the history of the United Nations, according to reports in the Cypriot and Turkish press. In 2009, Greek-Cypriot newspaper Fileleftheros published extracts of what the paper claimed was a treasure trove of 6,500 UN documents containing sensitive information on the organization’s negotiations with Turkish-Cypriot leaders. The negotiations concerned ongoing talks over a possible reunification of the island, which has been divided for decades between the Greek-majority southern part, and the predominantly Turkish northern part. According to the newspaper’s New York correspondent, the documents were leaked by a source inside the UN. But Cypriot and Turkish media now claim that an internal UN report has concluded that the documents were stolen by Greek-Cypriot intelligence agents, who subsequently leaked some of it to the Greek-Cypriot press. The operation was reportedly headed by a Cyprus Intelligence Service (CIS) agent who befriended Sonja Bachmann, senior aide to Alexander Downer, former Australian Foreign Minister, senior advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Mon, and the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Cyprus negotiations. The agent allegedly managed to acquire Bachmann’s email login information, which allowed a CIS team to access Downer’s personal email several times while he was away on UN business. The alleged operation may have been significant in terms of logistics, and may have involved at least one employee of the New York hotel where Bachmann was staying. The latter is said to have “vanished after the secret documents were published in the Greek Cypriot press”. According to the UN report, the leak of the documents was aimed at subverting the mediating role of the former Australian Foreign Minister, whom Nicosia sees as being too closely aligned with the Turkish-Cypriot side.

http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/02-380/

Sarkozy accused of using security service to spy on journalists Magazine editor claims President oversees 'dirty-tricks unit' to investigate reporters John Lichfield in Paris4 November 2010 (Ed: excerpted)

President Nicolas Sarkozy personally supervises a team of security agents which spies on troublesome French journalists, it was claimed yesterday.

The claim – dismissed by the Elysée Palace as "utterly ridiculous" – follows a high-profile law suit brought in September by France's most prestigious newspaper and a series of burglaries in recent weeks at the homes or offices of investigative reporters.

According to the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné, President Sarkozy regularly orders the boss of France's

internal security service to investigate and uncover the sources of any journalist who writes stories which embarrass the government. A team of agents within the Division Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI) – the French equivalent of MI5 and Special Branch – has been created to lead the investigations, the newspaper said.

Le Canard said that "since the start of the year" the President had "personally" intervened on several occasions with the head of the DCRI, Bernard Squarcini, a Sarkozy appointment and loyalist.

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Whenever the President saw an investigative article which "embarrassed him or his friends", he ordered the journalist to be placed "under surveillance", the newspaper said.

The Elysée Palace dismissed the claims as "utterly ridiculous". The leader of Mr Sarkozy's centre-right party, Xavier Bertrand, accused the newspaper of publishing a "great absurdity". The DCRI said that Mr Sarkozy had never given direct orders to Mr Squarcini on any subject.

However, sources within the DCRI confirmed to Le Monde that an "anti-leak" team did exist within the counter-intelligence agency to "protect national security". An opposition politician compared the "shameful" allegations to the Watergate affair in the US in the 1970s. Aurélie Filippetti of the Socialist Party accused President Sarkozy of being the "spiritual son of Richard Nixon".

Unusually for Canard, the article making the claims against the President was signed by the newspaper's editor, Claude Angeli. He told French radio yesterday that the story was based on information from within the DCRI. "We would not have written such a hard headline unless our sources were solid," he said. The article was headlined: "Sarko supervises spying on journalists."

The allegations follow the dramatic decision in September by Le Monde to bring a criminal action against "persons unknown" for the alleged illegal use of the counter-intelligence service to muzzle the press.

In the last few weeks, there has been a series of unexplained burglaries, and the theft of computers and other equipment, from the homes or offices of journalists who wrote investigative articles on the Bettencourt affair.

Marie-Pierre de la Gontrie, the secretary general for public liberties in the main opposition party, the Parti Socialiste, said yesterday: "The revelations in Canard Enchaîné are extremely serious. There must be an official investigation and the boss of the DCRI, Bernard Squarcini, must appear before the legal committee of the National Assembly."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sarkozy-accused-of-using-security-service-to-spy-on-journalists-2124599.html

Georgia busts 'Russian spy ring' Thirteen detained for allegedly providing secret information on military to Russian intelligence. Al Jazeera, 05 Nov 2010

Georgian authorities have arrested four Russian citizens and nine Georgians suspected of spying on the country's security forces' operations for Russia. Georgia's interior ministry said on Friday that the suspects, including a Russian intelligence employee and numerous Georgian military officers, had been providing confidential information on its armed forces to the Russian military's foreign intelligence service, known as the GRU.

"This is a huge deal in terms of Georgia securing its military intelligence and a big blow to the GRU," Shota Utiashvili, an interior ministry spokesman, told the AFP news agency. Utiashvili said the Georgian suspects, who included military officers, air force pilots and local businessmen, had passed information on "military orders, the state of readiness and points of deployment" to GRU agents.

He said they spied on Georgia's armed forces during the 2008 war between the neighbouring countries. Russian forces had invaded the country to repel a Georgian military attempt to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

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"These Georgian officers were passing on military secrets to the Russian citizens who were in liaison with the GRU, in some cases taking the information physically to Russia," he said.

Utiashvili also said a Georgian security agent was able to infiltrate the group and obtain "all the security codes and the names of the people involved in the operation".

According to the spokesman, the spy ring was centred on Georgia's Black Sea region of Adjara, a former Moscow-backed breakaway province that Tbilisi regained control of in 2004.

Media reports of the arrests, which occurred in October, surfaced last week but officials refused to comment on them until Friday. The announcement of the detainments coincides with an annual day in Russia celebrating its military intelligence service.

A spokesman for Russia's foreign ministry immediately denounced the arrests, describing them as "a political farce'.' "Let's wait, let's see, how convincing this political farce will be before giving our commentary,'' Grigory Karasin, a ministry spokesman, was quoted by the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti as saying.

Meanwhile, another foreign ministry official, who was not named, told the Interfax news agency that the arrests were an attempt to damage Russia's reputation ahead of a Nato summit in Lisbon on November 19-20. "We are deeply angered by the reports about the arrests of Russian citizens in Georgia and we are currently studying the situation," the source said. "This is a provocation showing another worsening of the anti-Russian psychosis of the Georgian leadership."

Al Jazeera's Neave Barker, reporting from Moscow, said relations between Russia and Georgia had been tense since the 2008 war. "Particularly regarding the attitudes on different sides of the border regarding the future status of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the breakaway regions of Georgia," he said. "Ever since the war, there has been a somewhat tense peace on that border. The fear is that any kind of escalation in diplomatic tensions potentially could spill over into violence."

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/11/2010115103622964410.html

Wikileaks vs. the FSB Tom Balmforth at 01/11/2010

A Russian secret services expert denied last week that WikiLeaks poses a threat to Russia after founder Julian Assange revealed that this country is next on its hit list – and simultaneously warned that the “right team” of people could simply shut down the whistleblower website forever.

Longstanding links between hacker cells and the FSB lend credence to this thinly-veiled secret services threat. Investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov has detailed how the Russian FSB “maintain a sophisticated alliance with unofficial hackers, such as those who carry out cyber attacks on the websites of enemies of the state”.

Assange told Izvestia that he has already amassed kompromat on the Russian government and businessmen, although he admitted it is “not as much as I’d like”. He said the website plans to publish 15,000 more documents on the war on Afghanistan, and then turn its full attention to Russia and China. According to an aide to Assange: “Russian readers will find out a lot of new things about their country.”

Given Russia’s notoriously malleable extremism legislation, which Wikimedia (not affiliated to WikiLeaks) recently fell foul of, it is hard to imagine that classified information on Russia from WikiLeaks could pass as anything short of “extreme”. Indeed, a Gazeta.Ru editorial recently pointed out precisely this contradiction in the claim that WikiLeaks poses “no threat to Russia.”

Assange does not deny collaboration with American sources – which will likely worry the Russian security establishment. “The fact that the majority of your sites post information only in Russian

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limits our capabilities,” he told Izvestia. “However, the Americans are helping us, they are giving us a lot of material on Russia”.

Any role played by American officials in publishing secret Russian documents – whether real of perceived – would certainly shake the still-unsure foundations of the Washington-Moscow reset. But at the same time, obtaining Russian secret documents through the Americans would undercut the credibility of that intelligence.

“Clearly there is overwhelming circumstantial evidence to show that the WikiLeaks about the US armed forces are genuine,” said Anatol Lieven, of Kings College London. But Russian secrets leaked and then passed to WikiLeaks through the United States would not have that same cache of being genuine. They could simply be seen through the old Cold War prism, which could obstruct serious public discussion. “And even if the material was genuine, I can easily see how the Russian government would be able to say ‘Look, come off it. It’s obvious the Americans have just cooked this up this stuff’,” said Lieven.

Soldatov has said that the problem for WikiLeaks would not be actually leaking information on Russia, but rather that leaking that information would not stimulate any public discussion in Russia’s muzzled media.

Lieven also added that discussion in the mass media of WikiLeaks dossiers on Russia was unrealistic, although it was more possible in the comparatively freer print media. “The problem has always been direct attacks on Vladimir Putin or Dmitry Medvedev, or those directly compromising state security. I’m sure if you started leaking stuff about the Russian armed forces similar to what’s been leaked about the American armed forces…something very nasty might happen to you,” said Lieven.

http://themoscownews.com/comments/20101101/188173813.html

Control of intelligence budget will shift Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, November 3, 2010 (Ed: excerpted) NEW ORLEANS - Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said Tuesday that he has won a "conceptual agreement" to remove the $53 billion national intelligence budget from Pentagon control and place it under his purview by 2013, as part of an effort to enhance his authority over the U.S. intelligence community.

"To me, it's a win-win," he told an audience at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation conference here. Clapper's deal with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates would take "$50 billion off the top line" of the Pentagon budget and give the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) "more authority and oversight" of the budget. The $27 billion military intelligence budget would remain under the Defense Department, Clapper said.

Critics of the current ODNI structure have argued that the office does not have sufficient control of spending. Officials said placing the national intelligence budget under Clapper's control would make it easier for him to ensure that funds are being spent in accordance with presidential and congressional priorities.

Clapper, in an interview after his remarks, said the move would not change anything "in the oversight" relationships with Congress but would give him administrative control over the national intelligence budget, which includes money for the CIA and the National Security Agency.

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"Historically, the national intelligence budget has been buried in the defense budget for security reasons," he said, referring to the practice of keeping secret the size of the intelligence budget.

Now that the intelligence budget top lines - both military and non-military - are public this year for the first time, that is no longer necessary, he said, adding that the details will still be classified.

The move would mean "we don't have to go through the [military] services to find someplace on the DOD tree to hang money in order to give it to an intelligence agency," Clapper said. The change would bring more internal "transparency" to the budget so he can more easily see where

money is, he said.

Mark M. Lowenthal, a former senior CIA official and former staff director of the House Intelligence Committee, said the move would increase Clapper's authority over the intelligence budget.

"If it's in the defense budget, he doesn't have total control over it," Lowenthal said, because defense officials can say, "Please find somewhere else to hide your money." Now that there is no need to hide the top-line number inside the defense budget, he said, the lines of authority can be clear. "The national intelligence budget belongs at the DNI, and there's no question about it."

Changes in the DNI Structure

Clapper told the audience he was consolidating the traditionally separate collection and analysis missions under one deputy, Robert Cardillo. Clapper said he is collapsing the roles of national intelligence officers and mission managers under "a single template" to eliminate duplication. There will be 14 or 20 intelligence managers who will be responsible for regional or subject areas, including a new national intelligence manager for cyber-security to "clarify" the intelligence community's role. "I do not believe that the intelligence community is responsible for cyber-security of all the country," Clapper said.

Lowenthal said Clapper is "trying to slim things down" at the ODNI. "There's a lot of unnecessary clutter," he said. The moves amount to "tweaks" of his office, said Clapper, who is known for restructuring agencies. "I don't do reorganizations anymore," he said. "I do tweaks."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2010110207136.html

Intel Critic Hired To Shake Things Up Colin Clark, November 2nd, 2010

In a clear effort to shake up the intelligence community, the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is bringing back the head of allied intelligence in Afghanistan, author of a highly critical report of allied intelligence efforts there, to handle relations with U.S. intelligence agencies, foreign partners and those who use intelligence. With characteristic understatement and humor, Clapper told an audience of several thousand intelligence officers and industry representatives at the Geoint conference here that he planned to bring back “a certain unnamed intelligence officer from Afghanistan” who wrote a critical report. “Hey buddy,” he said,” you can come back and fix it.” Clapper’s “buddy,” of

Maj Gen Michael Flynn

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course, is Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn, who wrote his highly critical report while at the Center for a New American Security.

In addition to these moves, Clapper said he met Monday with staff to discuss whether to “trim or move out some functions” from the ODNI to other executive agencies. He also said he will begin shrinking the enormous number of intelligence contractors but stressed he did not want to rush this and spoke of acting over a three-period.

And in an interesting signal to the intelligence companies, Clapper said he had been pitched several “solutions” to the problem of data fusion and data sharing. He said the problem isn’t one that can be solved by new widgets. “The problem isn’t technical; it’s policy,” he said, pointing to the intelligence failures that allowed the Christmas bomber to get as far as he did.

http://www.dodbuzz.com/2010/11/02/dni-hires-fox-to-watch-henhouse/

Read my earlier blurb on Flynn’s report at http://4knowledge-za.blogspot.com/2010/01/making-intelligence-relevant-in.html

Report: Ex-CIA spy plans guilty plea for payments AP, November 4, 2010

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage was expected to plead guilty to additional charges that he tried to collect money from old contacts in Russia while in prison, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Attorneys for Harold "Jim" Nicholson filed notice Wednesday that the 59-year-old native of Oregon will plead guilty to a federal indictment accusing him of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government and laundering money, The Oregonian newspaper said.

The government accused Nicholson of orchestrating a plot to use his son to sneak messages from a federal prison in Oregon to Russian intelligence officials and collect a "pension" for his illicit service to Russia in the 1990s.

If found guilty of collecting the proceeds, Jim Nicholson would become the first U.S. intelligence officer convicted twice of betraying his country. Nicknamed "Batman" early in his 16-year career with the CIA, Nicholson has been kept in a lockdown unit known to inmates as the "hole."

A guilty plea by the former spy would spare his 26-year-old son, Nathan Nicholson, from having to testify against his father at a trial that was set to begin Monday. Records show Jim Nicholson intends to plead guilty Monday before U.S. District Judge Anna Brown.

Nathan Nicholson pleaded guilty last year to his role in the plot. The government has said he traveled on three continents to collect payments from Russian officials still indebted to his father for his past espionage.

Federal prosecutors allege Jim Nicholson passed crumpled notes to Nathan during their visits at the medium-security prison at Sheridan instructing him to carry them to officials with the Russian Federation.

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Nathan Nicholson traveled to San Francisco, Mexico City, Lima, Peru, and Nicosia, Cyprus, collecting cash from Russian officials - $47,000 in all, according to court records. Prosecutors have suggested in court filings that Jim Nicholson sought money from the Russians to make the lives of his family easier during his imprisonment. Nicholson has kept close contact with his parents, who live in Eugene, and his three grown children, two of whom live in Oregon.

Nicholson's troubles began in 1994, when he was the CIA's deputy chief of station in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. He was involved in a messy divorce, hoped to get custody of his children and needed money. Authorities said he began selling U.S. secrets to Russian intelligence officials, trotting the globe to hand off documents. In exchange, the Russians paid him $300,000.

In 1995, Nicholson blew one of the CIA's routine polygraph exams. It showed he appeared to be deceptive on questions about his contacts with foreign intelligence officers.

The FBI and CIA quietly began to investigate Nicholson, who was sent back to the United States to teach spy tradecraft at the CIA's training center in northern Virginia. Eventually, his agency moved him to a desk job at headquarters in Langley, where investigators spied on him. They secretly captured videotape of Nicholson shooting photos of classified documents in his office. They arrested him Nov. 16, 1996, at Dulles International Airport, where authorities said he was carrying 10 rolls of film he intended to hand over to the Russians.

Nicholson faced charges that carried the death penalty. But he cut a deal, pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage in exchange for a sentence that was expected to keep him in prison until 2017. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110404284.html

Spy agencies infiltrate al-Qaida PAISLEY DODDS, AP, November 5, 2010

LONDON -- Months after he was released from Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahman was back in the company of terrorist leaders along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. But he was a double agent, providing Taliban and al-Qaida secrets to Pakistani intelligence, which then shared the tips with Western counterparts. The ruse cost him his life, according to a former Pakistani military intelligence official, Mahmood Shah. The Taliban began to suspect him, and after multiple interrogations executed him.

The case of Rahman, which Shah recounted to The Associated Press, falls in line with a key aspect of the fight against terror - Western intelligence agencies, with help from Islamic allies, are placing moles and informants inside al-Qaida and the Taliban. The program seems to be bearing fruit, even as many infiltrators like Rahman are discovered and killed.

It was a tip from an al-Qaida militant-turned-informant that led international authorities to find explosives hidden in printer cartridges from Yemen to the United States a week ago, Yemeni security officials say. Officials say the explosives could have caused a blast as deadly as the 1988 Lockerbie bombing in Scotland that killed 270 people.

Intelligence agencies such as MI6 and the CIA have hired more agents from diverse backgrounds since the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and others that followed. Many say the tactics have worked: Several plots, also including the 2006 trans-Atlantic airline plot, were thwarted because intelligence agents were able to use tips to track the would-be terrorists.

In recent years, U.S., European and Pakistani intelligence officials have said al-Qaida has been weakened by CIA drone strikes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and by governments planting

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agents within terror cells. Top leaders have been taken out of the picture or trust has been eroded enough that militants have begun to turn on one another.

In an unprecedented public speech last week, MI6 chief John Sawers revealed for the first time that the British spy agency had managed to "get inside" terror organizations. He would not elaborate.

"Layers of al-Qaida's security have been slowly worn down and it's much easier today to infiltrate these groups," says Noman Benotman, a former jihadist with links to al-Qaida in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan, and now is a security and terrorism analyst in London.

Saudi Arabia has had some of the most success with spies in the Arabian Peninsula, some of whom have been former Guantanamo detainees, Benotman says. Jail time at Guantanamo is a new asset on the resumes of many double agents, security officials say - an ultimate sign of credibility that often makes them revered and trusted among senior operatives.

The Saudis have a terror rehab program that has hosted about 120 of the nearly 800 men who have passed through Guantanamo since it opened nine years ago. Of them, about two dozen have taken up arms again, while a handful are thought to be working as spies for the Saudis in exchange for stipends paid to their families and tribes, loans and other monetary incentives, according to two European government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of their work.

Yemeni authorities have said a tip on last week's mail bomb plot came from a Saudi who returned from Guantanamo in 2007, spent time in the rehab program and fled to Yemen before handing himself in to Saudi authorities in late September. Yemeni security officials say he may have been a double agent, planted by Saudi Arabia. But European government officials say that while the Saudi may have provided broad outlines about the plot, it appears Saudi Arabia had additional sources.

Earlier in the year, another Saudi who had been held in Guantanamo and put into the terror rehab program also fled to Yemen to rejoin a terror group, only to surrender to Saudi authorities, the European government officials said. The officials said it appeared that he, too, could have been working in Yemen as a double agent.

Since al-Qaida stepped up efforts in the Arabian Peninsula between 2003 and 2006, Saudi Arabia has tried to aggressively infiltrate groups. Some former militants have agreed to work with the Saudis because of lucrative incentives and the kingdom's ties to Wahhabism, an extremely strict and conservative form of Islam born in the Arabian Peninsula. For former Guantanamo detainees, the Saudis - unlike the Americans or Pakistanis - are considered less complicit in the capture and arrest of many prisoners.

"Saudi Arabia is one of the only countries to have made local intelligence contacts in Yemen, spending about $300 million (185 million pounds) a year to support this security network," said Maajid Nawiz, a former militant with an Egyptian group who co-founded a Muslim counter-extremism think tank in Britain. "They've also been able to successfully infiltrate tribes in Marib in Yemen. The financial incentive to some of these tribes has been strong."

Saudi officials declined to comment on intelligence operations on Wednesday.

Omar Ashour, head of the Middle East program at the University of Exeter in England who has studied the rehabilitation program in Saudi Arabia, said many of the men who go through the Saudi program have maintained strong militant links.

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"These are very deep and strong relationships," Ashore said. "It may seem like some of the men would be considered traitors, but in actuality they gain back any trust they lost very quickly."

Once former militants complete the Saudi program, communications are monitored, Ashour said. Saudi officials even show up at family events like weddings to monitor social contacts, he said.

Although Saudi Arabia has had some success using former prisoners, the results have been less successful in places such as Pakistan where Rahman was executed for being a double agent.

A second Pakistani military official, who spoke on condition he not be identified because

information on informants is rarely made public, told the AP that more than 50 infiltrators and informants have been executed by the Taliban or al-Qaida over the past seven years.

Afghanistan has had slightly better results using informants.

A former Afghan official told AP that his country has sent dozens of Afghans across the border into Pakistan's tribal regions to infiltrate and return with intelligence. He asked not to be identified because he feared a backlash from the government, but said the program had been successful in providing intelligence for both the NATO-led forces and the Afghan government.

Moazzam Begg, a Briton who was held in Guantanamo for more than two years, said the CIA and the British spy agencies MI5 and MI6 made repeated attempts years ago to get him to become an informant. But he said he doubted many Guantanamo detainees would agree to turn for the CIA or Pakistani authorities because of the coalition forces' role in capturing and imprisoning them. He said the tribal regions on the border have been difficult for agents to penetrate because of intense military activity on the border - unlike Saudi Arabia. "People have become mistrustful of everyone," Begg said.

He said many Guantanamo detainees had struggled to return to normal lives after being held so long - some were finding it difficult to navigate new technology, let alone reach out to former friends. For some former prisoners in Saudi Arabia, the lure of starting over with jobs and stipends

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is attractive, he said. Analysts say other countries have also changed tactics or looked to former militant prisoners as informants.

Benotman said Algerians had destabilized terror groups by capturing top leaders and telling cell members they had been killed - all while keeping them as intelligence assets. One leader was thought to have been killed after his capture only to eventually reappear as a double-agent, said Benotman, who spent time in North Africa. Indonesia, too, has stepped up intelligence efforts since the 2002 Bali bombings. More than 600 Islamic militants have been netted, around 20 of whom are actively working with police.

Nasir Abbas, a former al-Qaida-linked militant who helped train the Bali bombers, became instrumental after his 2004 prison release in helping track down and arrest several of his former comrades. Col. Marwoto Suto, a spokesman for the Indonesian national police, said: "Our principle is to take advantage of former terrorists and hard-liners who have repented and are committed to helping authorities." "This is not a conventional war," said Benotman. "The only way to defeat al-Qaida is through better intelligence." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/05/AR2010110502347_3.html

SRI LANKA REVAMPS INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM Oct 27, 2010

The Sri Lankan government has created, through a new act of parliament, a hopefully improved National Intelligence Service. It is no secret that previous incarnations were widely regarded to be failures. Prior to 1984, intelligence was gathered by the country’s police service. After a perceived failure during riots in 1983, a new organization was formed with the specific goal of gathering information. It was first called the National Intelligence Service, and then renamed in 2006 to State Intelligence Service.

This newer version is to be established by the Ministry of Defense on an urgent basis. The government expects that the draft bill will be submitted soon. The bill states that the new service will be comprised of internal and external sections, both of which will report directly to the Ministry of Defense, and more importantly President Mahinda Rajapaksa; President Rajapaksa is also Sri Lanka’s Defense Minister. The bill hopes to enforce the idea of an efficient national security system which will protect the country’s peace and stability. http://dangordonspyclub.com/2010/10/27/sri-lanka-revamps-intelligence-program/

Japan: Leaked terror investigation documents contained info on people helping police probes Mainichi Japan, November 1, 2010 Tokyo police terrorism investigation documents that were leaked online contained information on people cooperating in police probes as well as information believed to have been provided by the FBI, it has emerged.

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Police have found 114 documents online. Some of them contained detailed personal information on people believed to be cooperating with terrorism investigations in Japan and overseas, including their names, addresses and family information. Some of the documents contained information on foreigners in Japan who are apparently under investigation, together with information believed to have been supplied by the FBI.

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is still investigating whether the documents were created by police, though officials say there is a high possibility that this was the case. Most of the documents were in PDF format. They are believed to have been created by the MPD's third foreign affairs division, which handles international terrorism investigations, as well as by the National Police Agency (NPA) and Aichi Prefectural Police, among other authors. Most of them were dated up until about January last year.

There were believed to be about 30 documents containing the names of people besides police workers. Altogether, the documents contained information on over 600 people in addition to their names.

Documents that were among the leaked data listed information on people cooperating with MPD investigations around Muslims and others said to have links with the international terrorist organization al-Qaida. Besides their names and address, there was information on these people's contact with suspects and the investigation information they obtained.

Much of the data was on people under investigation, and included their photographs and information on their daily lives. There was also information on people who frequented mosques in Japan.There was also information on terrorism-related training conducted by the FBI, and the method of conducting an initial investigation in the event of a major international terrorist incident, as well as bank account records of people from foreign embassies in Japan.

It is possible that the data could affect security at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Yokohama on Nov. 13 and 14. Police in Japan have been preparing to protect leaders of 21 countries and regions at the summit, including U.S. President Barack Obama, and police have been kept aware of the movements of Muslims in Japan, receiving information from foreign information providers about their movements overseas, and monitoring people suspected to have links with terrorist organizations.

Police officials believe that if the information becomes widely known, it could threaten the lives of people cooperating in police investigations, or damage the relationship of trust between international security organizations. "Confidentiality is a given for information handled by the MPD's third foreign affairs division," a former police officer familiar with international terrorism told the Mainichi. "Overseas security bodies will have to become cautious about providing information, and this may also affect the approach to APEC."

Another high-ranking police official expressed concern over the leak, saying, "I get the impression that the information went beyond the bounds of what has been handled by a single person." http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20101101p2a00m0na016000c.html

Taiwan: Intelligence officer detained for leaking national secrets Taipei, Nov. 2 (CNA)(Ed: excerpted)

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Military Intelligence Bureau, identified in local media reports as Lo Chi-cheng, is suspected of having forwarded classified information and data to unauthorized personnel in violation of national laws.

The Military High Court agreed to a request to keep Lo detained pending further investigation by military judicial authorities on the grounds that Lo might impair national security or collude with his accomplices to give false testimony if freed, a ministry news statement said. According to local newspaper reports, military prosecutors believe the detained intelligence officer collaborated with a China-based Taiwanese businessman, identified as Lo Pin, to collect military intelligence for China. The businessman has also been detained by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office, pending the progress of the investigation, the reports said.

Lo Chi-cheng allegedly first ran Lo Pin as an informant to help Taiwan collect Chinese military intelligence, but two years ago, Chinese authorities discovered Lo Pin's role. After Lo Pin admitted to serving as an informant for Lo Chi-cheng, Chinese officials asked him to persuade Lo Chi-cheng to be his informant instead, according to reports. Lo Chi-cheng agreed to the offer, and the two Lo's became double agents, working in concert to furnish China with Taiwan's military secrets, media reports said. Lo Pin reportedly returned to Taiwan once every two to four months to pay money to Lo Chi-cheng in exchange for a flash disk containing classified military information. The businessman also remitted funds to proxy bank accounts designated by the intelligence officer on several occasions, the investigation has found. A United Daily News (UDN) report said the Military Intelligence Bureau had been monitoring Lo Chi-cheng's actions for quite some time and laid the groundwork to collect evidence and witnesses. On Sunday, both Lo Chi-cheng and Lo Pin were arrested when they met in Taipei to exchange money and the flash disk, the report said. http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aIPL&ID=201011020010

Mongolia's spy chief: invited to Number 10, detained in Wandsworth Friday, 5 November 2010 (ed: excerpted) When Mongolia's spy chief stepped off an Aeroflot flight into Heathrow a few weeks ago, he expected a welcome befitting a foreign dignitary arriving for high-level talks with the British government on a new era of intelligence co-operation. After all, preparations for his visit had included an invitation to meet Downing Street's National Security Adviser.

But rather than being ushered through Heathrow's VIP lounge for talks in Whitehall's inner sanctum, the chief executive of Mongolia's National Security Council and the one-time head of its security service was met by Scotland Yard detectives armed with an international warrant for his arrest.

Bat Khurts, Mongolia's most senior intelligence officer, is currently languishing in a cell in London's Wandsworth prison while awaiting extradition proceedings. It is an extraordinary twist to a tale of alleged trans-border kidnap and skulduggery that began seven years ago in a McDonald's car park in a French port – and has led to a diplomatic row.

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Mongolian prison. Documents obtained by The Independent show that lawyers for Mr Khurts accuse Foreign Office officials of "misusing ordinary diplomatic courtesies" to facilitate the Mongolian father-of-three's arrest. Court papers allege that the Foreign Office contacted the UK Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) with full details of Mr Khurts' arrival date to enable his detention on an outstanding European arrest warrant six weeks ago.

Certainly, the reception received by the Mongolian intelligence chief bore little resemblance to what seems to have been originally envisaged by the Foreign Office when he was put forward in November last year as the best person to liaise with British officials about "establishing ties" between the security services in both countries.

Mongolia, traditionally regarded as a geo-political backwater, is increasingly seen by London and Washington as a strategic ally, not least because of its geographical position, sandwiched between Russia and China. The opportunity for a closer relationship with the Mongolian intelligence services was quickly grasped by British diplomats and the intelligence services.

Papers presented to the High Court this week in a failed attempt to secure bail allege that a senior FCO official suggested that Mr Khurts meet Sir Peter Ricketts, the National Security Adviser, during a meeting with the Mongolian Ambassador to London on 31 August – nearly three weeks before the senior spy arrived. It is also claimed that William Dickson, the British Ambassador in Ulan Bator, the Mongolian capital, offered to assist in arranging Whitehall meetings for Mr Khurts.

The documents state that a day after Mr Dickson's meeting in Ulan Bator on 6 September, the Foreign Office contacted a Soca agent to say that Mr Khurts was travelling to Britain and passed on details of his flight from Mongolia. The Independent understands that FCO officials in London only became aware of the arrest warrant against Mr Khurts after the initial agreement for his visit had been reached.

But the case has echoes of the arrest of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998. Lawyers for the spy chief, who was travelling on a diplomatic passport, claim his status means he is immune from prosecution and was the victim of double-dealing by the British government. A statement to the High Court on behalf of Mr Khurts said: "There has been an abuse of process of the court based on the premise that officials representing the UK in Mongolia and London misused the ordinary diplomatic courtesies shown to a high representative of a friend state to facilitate his arrest."

The reason for the current predicament of Mr Khurts, the son of a prominent Mongolian architect, dates back to the events that unfolded at 2.30pm on 14 May 2003 when Damiran Enkhbat, a refugee from Ulan Bator, arrived in the car park of a branch of McDonald's in the Normandy port of Le Havre. Enkhbat, 43, who was wanted in Mongolia for the assassination in 1998 of a government minister and had been living in Caen after applying for refugee status in France under a false name, thought he was meeting a female Mongolian dissident.

But, upon his arrival at the restaurant, witnesses saw him being jumped upon by four Mongolian men carrying electric batons who beat him and dragged him by his hair. German police believe he was then forced to drink a sedative before being bundled unconscious into a car. Over the next four days, the kidnap victim was driven across France to the Mongolian consulate in Brussels and on to Germany before being accompanied on to a Mongolian Airlines flight from Berlin to Ulan Bator. It is alleged by the German authorities that Mr Khurts was the driver of that car and a key member of a snatch squad. Prosecutors in Berlin issued a European arrest warrant for Mr Khurts in 2006, which was activated by his arrival at Heathrow.

He later told his lawyers that he was tortured by General Intelligence Agency interrogators who repeatedly cocked and fired a handgun pressed to his head to try to force him to confess to the murder of the minister (a claim he continued to deny until his death).

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Enkhbat was eventually released from prison in 2006 but died five days later. A member of his family said the injuries he suffered during his torture had played a "key role" in his death.

Lawyers for Mr Khurts dismissed claims that his links to the Mongolian secret service made him a flight risk. They have presented a letter from Mongolia's Deputy Prime Minister providing assurances that he would not abscond, along with an offer for the intelligence chief to wear an electronic tag and reside at the Mongolian embassy in Kensington if he is released on bail.

But, for the moment, the master spy, diplomatic emissary and alleged kidnapper must remain in HMP Wandsworth after Mr Justice McCombe sitting in the High Court ruled on Tuesday that there was a risk he would flee the country.

In a statement, the Foreign Office said: "Mr Khurts was arrested under a European arrest warrant issued by the German judicial authorities. His extradition is now before the courts and it would be inappropriate for us to offer further comment at this stage."

A spokesman for the Mongolian embassy declined to comment, saying the matter was "too delicate" to discuss. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/mongolias-spy-chief-invited-to-number-10-detained-in-wandsworth-2125678.html

Manila: Stop releasing raw intelligence reports – PNP INQUIRER.net, 5 November 2010 (ed: excerpted)

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine National Police on Friday appealed to i ndividuals and organizations to refrain from releasing to the public raw and unverified intelligence reports of terroristic attacks as these may cause the public to panic. "We appeal to any group to be cautious when releasing to the public any information of a terrorism attack so as not to cause panic to the public," Senior Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr., PNP spokesman, said in a news conference.

Cruz's appeal came after various intelligence reports surfaced of a planned terror attack in Metro Manila, including the city of San Juan and the region's mass transit system. The PNP immediately said these were "raw and unverified reports" that were being looked at, but insisted there were no imminent threats of any terror attack here.

Cruz said the unverified reports might also raise fears among foreign travellers visiting the country as the Christmas season nears. "This will affect tourism and ultimately affect our economy," he added. Cruz assured the public that police are on top of the situation. In Metro Manila, police have shifted their security preparations for the coming holidays. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20101105-301592/Stop-releasing-raw-intelligence-reports--PNP

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