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The upcoming Soccer World Cup here in SA has created more than enough press coverage on the possibility of a terrorist attack, with intelligence officers from the world descending on our country. Godspeed to all those working to ensure a safe event… The consequences of the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla this week will reverberate in the security and intelligence realm in the weeks to come… As was expected, Pres Obama of the US announced James Clapper as the new DNI on Saturday. In a further development in the US, there is more focus on the CIA’s drone war against terrorists. In Europe, spying activities of Russia and China concerns more countries, while North/South Korea espionage will raise tensions there further.

Dalene Duvenage On a lighter note… the pigeon spy…. AFP: Indian police are holding a pigeon under armed guard after it was caught on an alleged spying mission for arch rivals and neighbours Pakistan, media reported on 28 May 2010. The white-coloured bird was found by a local resident in India's Punjab state, which borders Pakistan, and taken to a police station 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the capital Amritsar. The pigeon had a ring around its foot and a Pakistani phone number and address stamped on its body in red ink. Police officer Ramdas Jagjit Singh Chahal told the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency that they suspected the pigeon may have landed on Indian soil from Pakistan with a message, although no trace of a note has been found. Officials have directed that no-one should be allowed to visit the pigeon, which police say may have been on a "special mission of spying". The bird has been medically examined and was being kept in an air-conditioned room under police guard. Senior officers have asked to be kept updated on the situation three times a day, PTI said. Chahal said local pigeon fanciers in the sensitive border area had told police that Pakistani pigeons were easily identifiable as they look different from Indian ones, according to the Indian Express newspaper.

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Reports from 24 May - 6 June 2010 Page Africa: 2. The size of the BP oil spill in SA context 2. Uganda: Army gets intelligence training school 2. Paper: Africa’s irregular security threats: challenges for US

engagement 3. African security-intelligence experts meet in Brazzaville 4. Zimbabwe: Gov spied on diamond monitor 5. SA: revised bill keeps harsh penalties for information

peddling Middle East 6. Mossad chief: Israel less important to US 6. Former Mossad agent ridicules Gaza ship raid 8. Yemen sentences Iranian spies to death America 8. Obama wants quick OK of choice for spy chief 9. National Security Advisor describes new strategy 10. UN criticism not likely to stop CIA drone attacks 11. US intelligence analyst arrested in Wikileaks video probe 13. State Dept loses round in CIA cover case 14. House approves GAO role in intelligence oversight Europe 14. Turkey appoints top spy as security threats shift 15. Turkey’s MIT’s new model: the CIA 15. UK: Ex-spy chief review 2012 security 16. Ukraine ends counterintelligence work on Russian FSB

officials-paper 16. French Secret Service fear Russian cathedral a spying front 17. Czech intelligence reports on China’s technological, Russian

spying attempts 18. Czech Rep: Russian spies “less active” 18. NATO’s spy academy 18. NATO and the spy from Estonia 19. Terrorists seeking nuclear materials: Russian official 19. CIA director lauds efforts of Bulgaria’s Borisov government 20. CIA director Leon Panetta visits Romania 20. Germany: BND spy jailed for passing secrets to gay Balkan

lover 21. Germany: Russia, China engaging in industrial espionage Asia 22. India: German national arrested in Punjab was on a spying

mission, claims police 22. Iran “breaks world record” for intelligence and security

related work 23. South Korea: Army general accused of spying for N Korea 23. North Korean female spy arrested Tradecraft 24. Al Qaida’s mother of all spy manuals 26. Must read: UN compilation of good practices on legal and

institutional frameworks & measures that ensure respect of human rights by Intel agencies while countering terrorism

SA Intelligencer Number 79 24 May – 6 June 2010

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Uganda: Army gets intelligence training school Tuesday, 1st June, 2010 By Hope Mafaranga

Muhoti barracks in Kabarole district has been turned into a national intelligence training school. The chief of defence forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, said the rehabilitation of the barracks is expected to be completed before the end of the year to enable officers start training.

He added that after the renovation, Muhoti will be the leading intelligence training school in East Africa. A total of sh1.2b has been spent in the first rehabilitation phase and

sh1b more will be spent in the second phase, according to Lt Col Besigye Bakunda, the deputy commander of the engineers brigade.

Additional structures at the complex include a hospital, a commandant residential house, offices, lecture rooms and staff quarters. Nyakairima explained that the army took long to renovate most of the army barracks because priority had been to provide peace and security rather than building barracks and improving the welfare of the soldiers.

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Paper: Africa’s Irregular Security Threats: Challenges for U.S. Engagement by Andre Le Sage, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University (Ed: excerpted)

Engaging African states as reliable partners to confront irregular security challenges will be a

complex process requiring a three-pronged strategy. First, there must be substantial,

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sustained, and continent-wide investment in capacity-building for intelligence, law enforcement, military, prosecutorial, judicial, and penal systems, not to mention their par-liamentary, media, and civil society counter-parts. Second, until such African capabilities come online and are properly utilized by political leaders, the United States and other foreign partners will need to deploy more of their own intelligence, law enforcement, and special operations personnel to Africa to address terrorist and criminal dynamics that pose a direct and immediate threat to U.S. strategic interests. Third, further efforts are required to harden the political will of African leaders to actually deploy their maturing security sector capabilities in an aggressive manner that abides by the rule of law.

Intelligence collection and analysis capabilities must be addressed as an additional challenge. First, by their very nature, the threats discussed above are dif-ficult targets for both African and interna-tional security services to understand and disrupt. Intelligence collection focused on national and regional threats needs to be increased across the board. Second, as in militaries and police forces, intelligence ser-vices must diversify. Today they are often staffed by ethnic groups associated with dom-inant tribes and clans while terrorist and criminal threats frequently emerge in areas peripheral to state interests and among eth-

nic groups that have been marginalized in national politics and civil service employment. In response, African intelligence services simply need to ensure that their pool of human resources is diversified in order to penetrate the illicit networks of other groups. Third, African governments should build new capabilities to leverage financial intelligence and open source reporting. In combination

with extended surveillance coverage across Africa’s maritime and air domains, the governments can then clamp down on transnational trafficking, commodity smuggling, and the illegal movement of persons, including both illegal immigration and terrorist foreign fighter flows.

National interagency coordination needs support by African governments. Domestic initiatives are required to eliminate stovepipes that hamper information-sharing and to initiate combined operations to con-front multisectoral threats that go beyond the remit of any single ministry. Some countries have created dedicated national counterter-rorism centers or “fusion centers” to collate intelligence and deconflict operational responses. Others have expanded participa-tion in their senior-level national security councils to better integrate police, gendar-merie, military, intelligence, and border secu-rity efforts. These efforts need continued international encouragement and support as governments attempt to overcome years of factionalism and bureaucratic rivalry within the continent’s security systems.

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African Security-Intelligence experts meet in Brazzaville PANA, Brazzaville, Congo, 2 June 2010 - The seventh conference of the Committee on Intelligence and Security Services in Africa (CISSA) began Tuesday in the Congolese capital, Brazzaville, with the theme "Working together for peace and security in Africa through active intelligence". According to the agenda, the meeting is seeking to establish guidelines for CISSA's

general policy, assign tasks and receive reports and recommendations from the Secretary General and deliberate on the issues that were submitted by the Security Council of the African Union. "The search for stability and sustainable development is nowadays a major constraint for our respective states. But this noble objective could be achieved only if the


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various institutions committed to the pursuit of peace and security in Africa work in synergy," Congolese Minister of the Interior and Decentralization, Raymond Zéphirin Mboulou, said at the opening session of the conference. Due to the number of challenges facing the continent in 2010, including the celebration of the 50th anniversary of independence in certain African countries, the World Cup in South Africa and many other events, CISSA experts said that collaboration was a prerequisite for successfully tackling potential threats in Africa. Created 26 April, 2004, in Abuja, Nigeria, at the initiative of 43 states, CISSA is a pan-

African body that reflects the will of the heads of state and government to promote cooperation to ensure a collective security in African countries.

It aims at coordinating strategies to facilitate the interaction between the intelligence services on common security threats, developing measures that enhance confidence between intelligence and security services; providing the AU Peace and Security Council with data and

information necessary for the adoption of instruments for an African policy and strategy to maintain peace as well as prevent conflicts.

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Zimbabwe: Gov Spied On Diamond Monitor 29 May 2010, Harare (Ed: excerpted) — The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) monitor, Abbey Chikane last week made sensational revelations about how state security agents managed to open his bag without his consent and photocopy some correspondencies, which were later publicised through the state media. Halfway through his visit which ended on Friday, Chikane came under fire from government officials through the state media where he was accused of working under instructions from the United States government.

The unnamed sources said on the basis of the emails, it would be difficult for Chikane to present findings that would favour Zimbabwe. Chikane told journalists in Harare on Wednesday that when he came into the country, "some naughty intelligent person" opened his bag and photocopied some printouts of his emails. Details of the emails went on to be published and broadcast in The Herald and ZTV, respectively. Senior

government officials, including President Robert Mugabe, have since spoken strongly against the KPCS, on the basis of those emails. "In this particular case, what happened is that I had copies of emails in my bag," said Chikane, shortly after meeting members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy. "The emails were photocopied by someone. They (the people who photocopied the emails) basically copied and pasted the content from different email messages. "These are messages from different countries -- Canada, the European Union, and even some African countries. . .

"But I think some naughty intelligent person decided to photocopy and make use of the emails," said Chikane. It could not be established who could have opened Chikane's bag, or whether he had found the bag's contents still intact afterwards. Chikane said there was no way he could be influenced by one country when the KPCS comprises 75 different countries.

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South Africa: Revised Bill Keeps Harsh Penalties for Information Peddling Wyndham Hartley, 2 June 2010

Cape Town — The controversial Protection of Information Bill has returned to Parliament with much of its draconian provisions intact and with clauses that will criminalise "information peddling".

The original version of the bill was withdrawn in 2008 after substantial criticism from civil society for being vague, unconstitutional and harsh. There were complaints that the bill would deal a blow to the freedom of the press and halt any form of investigative journalism.

The now infamous Browse Mole report, which claimed that members of the African National Congress supporting President Jacob Zuma were working with Angola and Libya in a plot to unseat then president Thabo Mbeki, has been labelled as the work of information peddlers intent on destabilising the country.

State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele yesterday, after a vigorous argument over whether or not he should brief Parliament in secret, allowed the State Security Agency to brief the ad hoc committee on the bill. While the briefing was in open committee Mr Cwele refused to supply MPs or the press with written copies of the submission.

The committee was told that information peddlers had originated in apartheid security structures such as the Civil Co-operation Bureau, Vlakplaas, the National Intelligence Service (covert collections) and former Rhodesian intelligence.

It was said that the Special Browse Mole report was a product of these people which had been believed by the now disbanded Scorpions. The intention of the report had

been to distort the "national threat picture", and it was a threat to national security and endangered SA's democracy.

Mr Cwele said the threat was real and "it is not our imagination".

Democratic Alliance MP David Maynier asked the minister why, if there was evidence of information peddlers in action, they were not simply arrested for related crimes such as

illegal surveillance and interception instead of creating a new crime category. He also asked how, if they could be identified, their work was able to distort the national intelligence estimate?

The bill proposes that espionage, which is to "unlawfully communicate,

deliver or make available state information classified as top secret, secret or confidential, which such a person knows or ought reasonably to have known or suspected will directly benefit another state", is punishable with imprisonment of not less than 15 years and not more than 25 years.

Hostile activity offences which involve the communication of top secret, secret or confidential information that will "directly or indirectly prejudice the state" are punishable with similar sentences.

Also punishable with lengthy jail terms will be the "harbouring or concealing" of persons involved in espionage, the interception of or interference with classified information and failure to register as an intelligence agent if from abroad.

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Mossad chief: Israel less important to US Ronen Medzini, Yetnews, 1 June 2010

Mossad chief Meir Dagan is concerned by the change in US positions and influence on Israel. "There are fewer Israeli assets in the US," he said in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on Tuesday. "Israel's importance was greater when there was conflict between the blocs, while this year there has been a decrease (in Israel's importance)."

Dagan gave an overview of the situation to MKs and noted, "If in the 90s the US was a 'global policeman,' a power that could solve conflicts, in the first decade of the millennium the US's power to solve conflicts is limited. The election of (US President Barack) Obama was a declaration that it was adopting a softer approach and did not want to use force to solve conflicts. It has been viewed as weakness and influences Israel's difficulty in diplomatic maneuvers."

According to Dagan, the US ability to create processes of change is limited. "It is possible to see that during the last few years there has been less cooperation in the political arena between Israel and the US," he said. "The current administration certainly thinks that Israel's handling of the Palestinian issue does not suit the present US approach, which says the solution to the conflict must be according to the Clinton vision, within the 67 borders."

Answering a question about the possibility of an imposed solution, raised by rightwing MKs,

Dagan said that such a solution has already arisen between Israel and the US, but then disappeared. "But we must take future steps into account, particularly after the mid-term Congress elections," he warned. "An imposed solution will be a last option and not the preferred option – but this option exists and is used as a whip to goad the two sides. Events such as (the lethal flotilla affair) are

likely to go out of control and the situation could deteriorate to extreme scenarios."

Dagan also referred to the Iranian nuclear threat. "Iran's willingness to agree to the Brazil and Turkey deal (to transfer uranium for enrichment) is like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, intended to divide the international community at the last minute, with

the aim of avoiding or postponing sanctions in the UN Security Council."

The Mossad chief noted that the Congress elections in July will influence the Iran decision.

"Iran is progressing with the latest centrifuges, but are encountering unexpected technological difficulties," he said. "They are not progressing as they would like, and this certainly influences the length of time required to achieve their aim." He added, "Achieving their aim of nuclear capabilities will prevent any future threat against the regime."

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Former Mossad agent ridicules Gaza ship raid Jeff Stein, Spyblog, Washington Post June 3, 2010 (Ed: excerpted)

The Israeli commando attack on a civilian flotilla was “so stupid it is stupefying,” says former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky. Ostrovsky spent six years in the Israeli navy, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander before Mossad recruited him in 1982. He quit

after four years and in the 1990s he wrote two highly critical, first-person books about the intelligence service.

Monday’s raid on a seaborne civilian aid mission to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which left nine dead and about 75 wounded,

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was carried out by the Israeli navy’s commando unit, “Shayetet 13,” Ostrovsky said. "It's a fantastic unit. ... It was not typical of Flotilla 13,” he said, using the English translation for Shayetet, which he called “one of the top units in the Israeli military.”

Members of the unit “have trained extensively for overtaking a ship," he said. "However, their training was directed at overtaking a hijacked ship.” Evidently the tactics weren't adjusted for this mission. "Mossad probably had more than one man on board" the ships, Ostrovsky said, secret agents who would have been giving Israeli mission planners an accurate picture of what was happening on the vessels.

“The mistakes were on every level,” said Ostrovsky, “from the order to forcefully board outside the territorial waters to the actual attack.” Responsibility for the raid, which has provoked widespread condemnation and a diplomatic uproar, should be laid at the feet of “the shoot-from-the-hip prime minister,” Ostrovsky said -- Binyamin Netanyahu, whom he blamed for two previous messy intelligence operations in Dubai and Jordan. Flotilla 13’s typically careful planning, he speculated, was supplanted by orders from Netanyahu or his ultra-conservative foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, to “do something now.”

Ostrovsky, who developed missile capabilities for Israeli gunboats, said there were several, far safer, alternatives to sending black-clad commandos rappelling onto the ship from frightfully noisy helicopters in the middle of the night. The commandos could have easily sneaked up to the ships and boats from behind in “wet submarines” (which look like open torpedoes) and disabled their propellers, he said.

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Jeff Stein, June 3, 2010, Washington Post (ed: excerpted)

A second Israeli special operations veteran has denounced his government’s handling of the boarding operation in international waters off Gaza.

Mike Eldar spent two decades in the Israeli navy, which included the command of an amphibious special missions unit, Shayetet 11, during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. He later wrote books about that and another elite unit, Shayetet 13, the same navy commandos sent to intercept the aid mission

Monday night. “I cannot explain it,” he said by phone from Israel. “The only explanation is stupidity, super egos.”

“Mossad should have certainly had agents aboard the ships,” he said, to advise the commandos on how to

proceed, “but if they did, then how can we explain this fiasco?” But Eldar, 64, rejected Ostrovsky’s view that the botched operation, which resulted in scores of civilian casualties and nine dead, including an American citizen of Turkish origin, was rushed to accommodate orders from Israel's civilian leadership.

“It was not a rush job,” said Eldar, who was also involved in the navy's clandestine “Ghost Winds” sabotage raids against Palestinian ships during his career. “They had at least two weeks to prepare, with lots of practice. It was not a hasty attack.” “They have other systems. I don’t know why they didn’t use them,” he said.

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Yemen sentences 'Iranian spies' to death May 25, 2010, UPI

SANAA, Yemen- A Yemeni court upheld a verdict Tuesday against two individuals accused of spying on Yemen for Iran, sentencing them to death.

Two members of an alleged Iranian spy cell were sentenced to death and a third was acquitted by a penal court. The two alleged spies were convicted of passing sensitive Yemeni information on the defense, security and economic conditions in the country to Iranians, the official Saba news agency reports.

The Yemeni government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh accused the Iranians of arming

the Shiite Houthi rebel group, which fought Saleh's forces to a standstill last year in the mountains of Saada province along the border with Saudi Arabia. Yemen is predominantly Sunni Muslim.

The rebellion began in 2004 but intensified sharply in August, when Saleh launched an all-out offensive dubbed Operation Scorched Earth against the Shiite tribesmen.

Tehran denied the charges. Iran state-run media last year quoted Abdel Karim al-Ariani, a Yemeni presidential adviser, as saying Tehran "plays no role" in the violence plaguing Yemen.

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Obama wants quick OK of choice for spy chief Sunday, June 6, 2010 , The New York Times

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama urged the Senate to quickly confirm his new pick for director of national intelligence, Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr.

Obama asked that the retired Air Force general's nomination not become hostage to Washington politics.

"He has a quality I prize among all my advisers - an ability to tell me what we need to know, as opposed to just what we want to hear," Obama said yesterday, standing next to Clapper in the Rose Garden to announce his selection.

"Mr. Obama," said Clapper, "understands the importance of working with our partners in Congress."

Clapper has a long history in Washington; he clashed with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and was pushed out of office as a result, only to return to the Pentagon as a top

lieutenant to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. He is a 69-year-old Vietnam War veteran who rose from the position of signal intelligence officer to undersecretary of defense for intelligence. Clapper's nomination as the next

director of national intelligence came just two weeks after Obama forced Adm. Dennis Blair out of the spymaster job. The selection is an attempt by the president to recalibrate an intelligence structure that has undergone revamping since the intelligence failures leading up to the Iraq war, yet by most accounts still lacks the cohesion

needed to deal with evolving terrorist threats.

If confirmed by the Senate, Clapper will be the fourth official since 2005 to oversee 16 intelligence agencies - a job that many intelligence officials have said is a bureaucratic nightmare.

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Criticism against Clapper CNN Wire Staff, June 5, 2010 (ed – excerpted)

Some political observers have indicated that Clapper's prospects for confirmation on Capitol Hill, however, are questionable.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic head of the Senate Intelligence Committe, recently said the "best thing for the U.S. intelligence community is to have someone with a civilian background in charge." The ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committe, Missouri Sen. Kit

Bond, said he has reservations about Clapper. "I believe he is too focused on the Defense Department issues and he has tried to block out efforts to give more authority to the DNI," Bond said.

Bond's counterpart on the House side, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Michigan, also said he believes Clapper is the wrong person, because he is "not forthcoming, open or transparent" with Congress.

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National Security Advisor Describes New Strategy Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service (Ed: excerpted)

WASHINGTON, May 28, 2010 – The new U.S. National Security Strategy is one of renewal and global leadership that advances U.S. interests by building the sources of American strength and influence and shaping a more peaceful and more prosperous world, President Barack Obama’s national security advisor said yesterday.

“This is a time of sweeping change,” James L. Jones Jr said. “Two decades since the end of the Cold War, the free flow of information, people and trade continues to accelerate at an unprecedented pace. Events far beyond our nation's shores now impact our safety, our security and prosperity, and that of our allies and friends alike, in ways that we could not have imagined just a few years ago.” This globalization of information and goods promises great benefits, Jones said, but it also can be used against the United States.

“This interconnection also comes with the perils of global challenges that do not respect borders: global networks of terrorists and criminals, threats in space and cyberspace, a degrading climate and technologies with increasing destructive power,” the retired

Marine Corps general said. “In addition, the international architecture of the 20th century, designed for another time, is buckling under the weight of these new threats. As a consequence, it has been difficult to forge the cooperative approaches necessary to prevent states from flouting

international norms and agreements.”

The United States must be strong economically to be a power internationally, Jones said, and part of the strategy recognizes the importance of economics and growth. “American innovation must be the foundation of American power,” he said, “because at

no time in human history has a nation of diminished economic vitality maintained its military and political primacy.”

Engaging with allies and friends is key to the strategy, Jones noted, adding that Obama has stressed that no one nation can solve the problems of the world. “We will pursue comprehensive engagement around the world,” Jones said. “We will strengthen old alliances, we will build new partnerships with emerging centers of influence in every region, and we will push for institutions that are

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more capable of responding to the challenges of our time.”

The strategy calls for a “whole-of-government” approach to security strategy. “Our diplomacy and development capabilities must be modernized, and our civilian expeditionary capacity strengthened, to support the full breadth of our priorities,” Jones said. “And our intelligence and homeland-security efforts must be integrated with our national-security priorities and those of our allies, our friends and our partners.”

The strategy has a number of detailed goals, Jones said. The first is to end the war in Iraq through a responsible transition to Iraqi government. “That is on track,” he said. Overall, he continued, the strategy seeks to

disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida and its extremist affiliates in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere in the world and to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction and secure vulnerable nuclear materials.

The U.S. government must come up with a strategy “to secure and protect against the full range of threats and hazards to our communities and to enhance our resilience as a nation,” Jones said. The greater Middle East remains a flashpoint, he added, and the United States will remain actively involved in finding the paths to peace in the region.

Jones also said the strategy also looks to protect and secure cyberspace while safeguarding privacy and civil liberties.

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UN criticism not likely to stop CIA drone strikes By LOLITA C. BALDOR and FRANK JORDANS (AP) 2 June 2010 (Ed: excerpted)

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government's covert program using unmanned drones to strike at terrorists inside Pakistan is not likely to stop or change, despite new criticism from a U.N. human rights expert.

U.S. officials insist the CIA program has been an effective tool to take out insurgents along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, particularly those hidden beyond the reach of the military. The stepped-up use of drones over the past year has shown no signs of slowing down and was credited earlier this week with the killing inside Pakistan of al-Qaida's third in command.

The program, which officials say has killed hundreds of insurgents in dozens of strikes over the past year, has been condemned by critics who say it may constitute illegal assassinations and violate international law. They argue that intelligence officers conducting the strikes could be at risk of prosecution for murder in foreign countries.

In a 29-page report released Wednesday, Philip Alston, the independent U.N. investigator on extrajudicial killings, called on countries to lay out rules and safeguards for carrying out the strikes, publish figures on civilian casualties and prove they have attempted to capture or incapacitate suspects without killing them.

"Unlike a state's armed forces, its intelligence agents do not generally operate within a framework which places appropriate emphasis upon ensuring compliance with international humanitarian law, rendering violations more likely

and causing a higher risk of prosecution both for war crimes and for violations of the laws of the state in which any killing occurs," wrote Alston, a New York University professor.

The report to the U.N. Human Rights Council puts unwanted scrutiny on the intelligence operations of the United States, Israel and Russia, who Alston says are all credibly reported to have used drones to kill alleged terrorists and insurgents. He said the drone


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strikes by intelligence agencies launched in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere are particularly fraught because of the secrecy surrounding them.

Other experts disagree. "Drone operations are essential," said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Saban Center. "The drones are part of a much broader effort to put pressure on al-Qaida through the war in Afghanistan. They're the cutting edge of the pressure, but they're not the only pressure."

Earlier this week, al-Qaida leaders confirmed that a drone strike in Pakistan had killed the terror group's No. 3 officer and top commander in Afghanistan, Mustafa al-Yazid.

"Without discussing or confirming any specific action or program, this agency's operations unfold within a framework of law and close government oversight," said CIA spokesman George Little. "The accountability's real, and it would be wrong for anyone to suggest otherwise."

In describing the decision-making process, the official said the strikes are launched only when a vetted target comes into clear view, and that — much like the military — intelligence officers take into account the principles of necessity, the need for a carefully weighed response and the obligation to minimize innocent civilian casualties.

This view has been challenged by human rights groups and independent observers, who say remotely operated drones risk

ingraining a video game mentality about war and can never be as accurate as eyewitness confirmation of targets from the ground.

"The point is that innocent people have been killed, this has been proved over and over again," said Louise Doswald-Beck, a professor of international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. "If you don't have enough personnel on the ground, the chances of your having false information is actually quite huge," she told The Associated Press.

Among the most sensitive recommendations in Alston's report is that governments should disclose "the measures in place to provide prompt, thorough, effective, independent and public investigations of alleged violations of law." Doing so would almost certainly blow open the lid on all manner of secret counterterror operations.

The report also warns that CIA personnel could be extradited to those countries where the targeted killing takes place and wouldn't have the same immunity from prosecution as regular soldiers. Alston claims more than 40 countries now have drone technology, with several seeking to equip them with lethal weapons.

Doswald-Beck said the next step could be the development of fully autonomous drones and battlefield robots programed to identify and kill enemy fighters — but without human controllers to ensure targets are legitimate. "If that's the case you've got a major problem," she said.

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U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe By Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter, Wired.com, June 6, 2010 (Ed: excerpted)

Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned.

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he’s being held in custody in Kuwait, and has not been formally charged.

Manning was turned in late last month by a former computer hacker with whom he spoke online. In the course of their chats, Manning took credit for leaking a headline-making video of a helicopter attack that Wikileaks posted online in April. The video showed a deadly 2007 U.S. helicopter air strike in Baghdad that claimed the lives of several innocent civilians.

He said he also leaked three other items to Wikileaks: a separate video showing the notorious 2009 Garani air strike in Afghanistan that Wikileaks has previously acknowledged is in its possession; a classified Army document evaluating Wikileaks as a security threat, which the site posted in March; and a previously unreported breach consisting of 260,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables that Manning described as exposing “almost criminal political back dealings.”

“Hillary Clinton, and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning, and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available, in searchable format, to the public,” Manning wrote. Manning’s arrest comes as Wikileaks has ratcheted up pressure against various governments over the years with embarrassing documents acquired through a global whistleblower network that is seemingly impervious to threats from adversaries. Its operations are hosted on servers in several countries, and it uses high-level encryption for its document submission process, providing secure anonymity for its sources and a safe haven from legal repercussions for itself. Since its launch in 2006, it has never outed a source through its own actions, either voluntarily or involuntarily.

Manning came to the attention of the FBI and Army investigators after he contacted former

hacker Adrian Lamo late last month over instant messenger and e-mail. Lamo had just been the subject of a Wired.com article. Very quickly in his exchange with the ex-hacker, Manning claimed to be the Wikileaks video leaker.

“If you had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months, what would you do?” Manning asked. From the chat logs provided by Lamo, and examined by Wired.com, it appears Manning sensed a kindred spirit in the ex-hacker. He discussed personal issues that got him into trouble with his superiors and left him socially isolated, and said he had been demoted and was headed for an early discharge from the Army.

When Manning told Lamo that he leaked a quarter-million classified embassy cables,

Lamo contacted the Army, and then met with Army CID investigators and the FBI at a Starbucks near his house in Carmichael, California, where he passed the agents a copy of the chat logs. At their second meeting with Lamo on May 27, FBI agents from the Oakland Field Office told the hacker that Manning had been arrested the day before in Iraq by Army CID investigators.

Lamo has contributed funds to Wikileaks in the past, and says he

agonized over the decision to expose Manning — he says he’s frequently contacted by hackers who want to talk about their adventures, and he’s never considered reporting anyone before. The supposed diplomatic cable leak, however, made him believe Manning’s actions were genuinely dangerous to U.S. national security.

“I wouldn’t have done this if lives weren’t in danger,” says Lamo, who discussed the details with Wired.com following Manning’s arrest. “He was in a war zone and basically trying to vacuum up as much classified information as he could, and just throwing it up into the air.”

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As described by Manning in his chats with Lamo, his purported leaking was made possible by lax security online and off. Manning had access to two classified networks from two separate secured laptops: SIPRNET, the Secret-level network used by the Department of Defense and the State Department, and the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System which serves both agencies at the Top Secret/SCI level.

The networks, he said, were both “air gapped” from unclassified networks, but the environment at the base made it easy to smuggle data out. “I would come in with

music on a CD-RW labeled with something like ‘Lady Gaga’, erase the music then write a compressed split file,” he wrote. “No one suspected a thing and, odds are, they never will.”

“[I] listened and lip-synced to Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history,” he added later. ”Weak servers, weak logging, weak physical security, weak counter-intelligence, inattentive signal analysis… a perfect storm.”

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State Dept. loses round in CIA cover case By Jeff Stein, June 4, 2010, Washington Post (Ed: excerpted)

A federal judge lent a hand Friday to a former CIA operative who is trying to force the State Department to defend her against an Italian conviction for kidnapping. Sabrina De Sousa was listed as a diplomat at the U.S. Consulate in Milan when a CIA counter terrorism team picked up Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, a radical Egyptian imam also known as Abu Omar, and whisked him off to Egypt for interrogation.

De Sousa participated in the scheme as a CIA employee, according to Italian prosecutors and a Milan court, which convicted her and 22 other Americans, all but one CIA operatives, on kidnapping charges last year. They were convicted in absentia and remain free, although they risk arrest on Europol warrants if they travel outside the U.S.

De Sousa had to defend herself at her own expense until she sued the Justice Department for support. She is now suing the State Department for diplomatic immunity. In his ruling Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo M. Urbina granted De Sousa’s motion to widen her complaint beyond the State Department to the Department of Justice, the

CIA and three former CIA officials. Urbina dismissed the State Department’s argument that DeSousa’s case was “futile.”

In late Dec. 2009, De Sousa filed papers saying three former CIA officials shared blame for her plight because of their sloppy security practices: Jeffrey Castelli, the spy agency's Rome station chief in 2003, Robert Seldon Lady, its Milan base

chief, and Susan Czaska, listed as a "consulate official" in Milan.

Castelli did not respond to a request for comment at the time. Lady and Czaska could not be located. All three have left the CIA.

Urbina’s decision “brings together all the alleged and actual elements of the government that were involved in this,” said one of her attorneys, Bradley P. Moss of the Washington law firm Mark Zaid P.C. “These are the people who destroyed her career.“

"The lawsuit is designed to force the State Department to provide the protection Sabrina was deprived of when it failed to invoke diplomatic immunity for her when she was charged (and later convicted) in the Abu Omar case," Zaid last December.

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House Approves GAO Role in Intelligence Oversight June 1st, 2010 by Steven Aftergood

The House of Representatives last week approved an amendment to the 2010 Defense Authorization Act that would require the Director of National Intelligence to cooperate with the Government Accountability Office in the performance of audits and investigations that are requested by the congressional intelligence committees.

The House voted 218-210 in favor of the measure, which was sponsored by Rep. Anna Eshoo and several colleagues.

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) spoke in opposition to the amendment, which he said

would risk a veto of the defense bill by the Obama White House, and could undermine the Director of National Intelligence. Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY) spoke in favor of the amendment, but he expressed concern that it permitted only the intelligence committees to task the GAO to perform oversight of an intelligence program or activity. He said that any committee with relevant jurisdiction should be able to do the same.

The May 27 floor debate and vote on the Eshoo amendment may be found here.

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Turkey appoints top spy as security threats shift Fri May 28, 2010, Reuters (Ed: excerpted)

ANKARA- Turkey has named a foreign policy expert with close knowledge of Iran as its new top spy, as the country linking Europe with the Middle East adapts its security priorities to deal with external threats.

Hakan Fidan's appointment this week as head of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) reflects a shift in focus from domestic issues such as Kurdish separatism to transnational threats such as al Qaeda and nuclear proliferation. Sources said Fidan, 42, who has worked as MIT deputy undersecretary and as a foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, has played a busy though little-publicized role in Ankara's mediation efforts between the West and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program, accompanying Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to Tehran during many of his visits.

Considered an expert on Central Asia and the Middle East, Fidan advocated in his doctoral

thesis the need to create two separate bodies to deal with domestic and foreign

intelligence.

"He is somebody Erdogan trusts to reorganize the MIT," Murat Yetkin, Ankara bureau chief for Radikal daily, told Reuters. Created in 1965, the MIT is in charge of gathering intelligence from internal and external sources. Speaking to

reporters earlier this week, Erdogan said he wanted it to "become more active in foreign intelligence."

Fidan is the fourth civilian to head the MIT, which until the 1990s was controlled by the armed forces. But observers say his appointment has been met with opposition from the military, which regards him as too close to the Islamist-leaning AK Party and sees his promotion as politically motivated.

The military, which considers itself as the guardian of the country's secular principles, has removed four governments since 1960, most of them for perceived Islamic

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tendencies. Erdogan's AK Party, which has its roots in political Islam, has clashed in the past

with the military, which has seen its influence pared back by EU-driven reforms.

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Turkey’s MIT’s new model: the CIA 28 May 2010, Sabah

With the appointment of Hakan Fidan as the new head of the National Intelligence Agency (MIT), the bureau will now increasingly concentrate on international intelligence.

Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency is gearing towards adapting an intelligence model followed by both the CIA and the FBI. Along with the recent appointment of Hakan FIdan as the new MIT Undersecretary, the agency is expected to place further importance on foreign intelligence. The central focus of intelligence will be concentrated on the regions of conflict surrounding Turkey, including the Middle East, the Caucuses and the Balkans. While commenting on Hakan Fidan's recent appointment, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan also pointed out the agency’s objective by stating; “The National Intelligence Agency’s primary duty is dealing with foreign

intelligence. Our new undersecretary will be continuing the bureau’s efforts to that effect.”

According to information obtained by SABAH, with Hakan Fidan's appointment as Undersecretary to MİT, further steps will now be taken on an ongoing project entitled “New Vision.” According to the personnel and technical infrastructure project, which has been ongoing for the past three years, MIT will focus on international intelligence. National intelligence will be gradually handed over to the police department and the gendarmerie. The National Intelligence Agency’s strategy over the past two years of learning the region’s languages will now be taken to a new level. Education will be focused on languages including Arabic, Serbian, Armenian, Georgian, Persian, Hebrew, Greek, Bulgarian, Russian, Albanian and Bosnian.

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UK: Ex-spy chief reviews 2012 security May 27 2010

Former spy chief Dame Pauline Neville-Jones is carrying out a review of security for the 2012 London Games, Sports and Olympic Minister Hugh Robertson has announced. The fact that Dame Pauline, a former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, has been asked to lead the Home Office security review shows "just how serious" an issue Olympics safety is for the Government, Mr Robertson said. He said: "The new Government regards this (the London 2012 Games) as a top priority. The Home Office has announced they will review

security planning - that is as much about procedure as build.

"The top priority of a new government is the security of its people. Nothing will be done

that will put security at risk. Nothing will be done that imperils the delivery of a safe and secure Olympic Games."

Dame Pauline is looking at safety plans for athletes and spectators and "the preparedness of this city to the deliver the most successful Games". No date has been set for when her findings will

be published. Between 1993 and 1994 Dame Pauline was chairman of the Joint Intelligence

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Committee which oversees the work of MI5 and MI6.

In January 2006 Prime Minister David Cameron, who was then the leader of the Opposition, appointed her to head the

Conservative Party's National and International Security Policy Group.

She became the shadow security minister and national security adviser in July 2007.

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Ukraine ends counterintelligence work on Russian FSB officials - paper KIEV, May 29, RIA Novosti.

Ukrainian counterintelligence services have stopped monitoring Russian Security Service (FSB) officials stationed in Ukraine, a Ukrainian weekly paper said on Saturday.

Relations between Russia and Ukraine have dramatically improved since President Viktor Yanukovych was elected in February on a platform to roll back the pro-Western policies of his predecessor, Viktor Yushchenko, and heal damaged ties with Moscow. "As a gesture of goodwill and to demonstrate new policies, the counterintelligence department

ended all work on Russian security services in Ukraine," Zerkalo Nedeli said. The Ukrainian security services have so far not made an official comment on this report.

A cooperation agreement was signed by the heads of the Ukrainian and Russian Security Services on May 19. The agreement includes a decision to return Russian security service officials to Crimea, where Russia has a naval base. The Russian security services were ordered to leave the territory at the end of 2009.

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French Secret Service Fear Russian Cathedral A Spying Front May 27th, 2010 morrisonworldnews.com

The French secret service has reportedly expressed alarm over plans for a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Paris, fearing it will be used by Moscow as a front for spies. The go-ahead for the onion-domed cathedral – the first to be built in the French capital in more than a century – by the Eiffel Tower was considered a brilliant diplomatic coup in Russia as at least two other countries were vying for the prized property by the Seine.

But it sparked deep reservations at the Quai d’Orsay, France’s foreign ministry, and the DCRI, its MI6 or CIA, because the building is a stone’s throw from a sensitive diplomatic compound. As well as housing France’s supreme magistrates’ council, the Palais de l’Alma – Napoleon III’s former stables –

contains the Elysée postal service and above all, the 16 private apartments of top presidential aides. Chief among these is Jean-David Levitte, President Nicolas Sarkozy’s top diplomatic adviser, who wields more power than the foreign minister, as well as his chief

of staff.

French counter-espionage was particularly concerned, according to Le Nouvel Observateur, the weekly magazine, as Vladimir Kozhin, the Russian in charge of trying to buy the

8,400 square metre (90,400 sq foot) plot, is a former KGB agent. Mr Kozhin is head of the hugely powerful Kremlin property department, which has 50,000 employees, an empire of hotels and manages all state property, including Russian churches overseas. French intelligence concerns were




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compounded by the fact that it had detected a significant rise in Russian spy activity since the election of President Sarkozy in 2007, reaching heights not seen since the mid-1980s. Mr Kozhin is a close associate of Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister and a former KGB officer, who was the property department’s number two in the 1990s. Mr Putin and President Dmitri Medvedev are said to have considered the construction of the Paris cathedral a key step in regaining control over the Russian Diaspora and legitimising their administration, as well as a spectacular display of Russian power in western Europe. Such was the importance of the acquisition that it was reportedly the first subject President Medvedev broached with his French counterpart in December at the

Copenhagen climate summit. According to several sources, after the conversation Mr Sarkozy immediately phoned his budget minister who a few days later summoned Mr Kozhin to his office. Ten days later when the various tenders for the plot were examined, Russia’s was top of the pile which included bids from Saudi Arabia and Canada – with an above-market offer of 70 million euros ($90 Million). The cathedral, which still needs final planning permission from Paris’ town hall, stands to be the first Russian monument built in Paris since the Alexander III bridge in 1896, and is due to be built within the next three years.

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Czech intelligence reports on China's technological, Russian spying attempts ČTK 2 June 2010 (Ed: heading changed)

Prague, June 1 (CTK) - The Czech military intelligence service (VZ) registered China's attempts at technological espionage in the Czech Republic's defence industry in 2009, the VZ says in its annual report released on its website.

Technological espionage can not only harm Czech security interests but also endanger the security of NATO. In addition, it threatens to harm the economic interests of the Czech defence industry, the report says. The VZ pointed to China's interest in advanced technologies designed for military purposes in its annual report for 2008 already.

The VZ report also highlights the Russian secret services' activities in the Czech Republic, where they tried to draw sensitive

information about the formerly planned installation of a U.S. missile defence radar base on Czech soil straight from the Czech military command. The VZ says it thwarted the Russian espionage attempt. The Russian diplomats who showed interest in the

information about the radar were expelled from the Czech Republic last year. A few Czech diplomats were expelled from Russia reciprocally.

The VZ says in its report that the Russian intelligence's activities in connection with the U.S. radar diminished in the second half of 2009 after the U.S.

administration of Barack Obama scrapped the radar project.

Moscow was strongly opposed to Washington's original plan to build the radar 90 km southwest of Prague and a silo with interceptor missiles in Poland as elements of its missile defence shield in Central Europe.

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Czech Rep: Russian Spies ‘Less Active’ 02 June 2010 (AP)

Czech intelligence officials said Russian agents have reduced their activities in the country since U.S. President Barack Obama abandoned Bush-era plans for missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic.

The Military Intelligence Agency said in its annual report Tuesday that the decline in

Russian activities was apparent in the second half of 2009. It did not give any details.

In September, Obama’s administration won Czech support for a new missile defense plan to replace Bush-era blueprints to base a missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland.

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NATO's spy academy 03/06/2010, France 24

The Human Intelligence Centre opened in Romania in March. The Romanian president says it was set up to counter new security threats against the North Atlantic Alliance, but the centre is also seen as a sign that Romania is cementing its position within NATO and the West. A team from France 24 was the first camera crew to gain access to the facility.

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NATO and the spy from Estonia Rachel Mendleson, May 20, 2010

When former Estonian senior defence official Herman Simm was convicted in 2009 of sharing NATO secrets with Russia, it wasn’t immediately known how much harm he’d done. But according to a classified NATO report, the consequences of his espionage, which spanned 12 years, were far-reaching indeed, earning Simm the dubious distinction of being the “most damaging [spy] in alliance history.”

The admission, however bold, shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. As head of the security department of Estonia’s Ministry of Defence until 2006, Simm, who was sentenced to 12½ years in jail after pleading guilty to being a Russian informant, had access to classified NATO and European Union information. According to the report, Simm “compromised

a wide range of NATO intelligence reports and analyses”; the thousands of documents he is believed to have leaked included details of alliance defence policies, outlining

“installation, maintenance, procurement and the use of cryptographic systems.”

The scandal exposes just how vulnerable NATO has become in the wake of its post-Cold War expansion to include states formerly behind the Iron Curtain. Before Estonia broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991, Simm was, secretly, a KGB colonel who had

earned 44 awards and three medals for his exemplary

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never abandoned his allegiance to Russia. In 1995, after being dismissed from his post as head of the national police amid charges of corruption, he says he was recruited by a Russian intelligence officer while on a trip to Tunisia. (He claims the officer threatened to expose his KGB past if he didn’t co-operate.)

He began working in Estonia’s defence ministry after his return.

For reasons that are still unknown, Western counterespionage officials put Simm under surveillance in 2008, which ultimately led to his arrest. But, by then, the damage, which is described as significant and indefinite, had been done.

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Terrorists seeking nuclear materials: Russian official Agence France-Presse, Moscow, June 03, 2010

Militants in the post-Soviet region are attempting to obtain nuclear materials for use in attacks, Russia's security services chief said on Wednesday. "We have information showing that terrorists are continuing attempts to gain access to nuclear materials (and) biological and chemical components," Alexander Bortnikov said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. "We are constantly paying attention to this problem," he said.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has worked with security forces of other

countries in the post-Soviet CIS region to prevent a number of attacks, Bortnikov said.

"A number of joint special operations allowed us to foil the plans of terrorists to carry out acts on the territories of CIS countries," he said. Security forces are investigating the case of a man who attempted to carry out 12 attacks in Moscow, he said.

"Last year, we managed to intercept a channel of supply to Moscow of 15 kilogrammes (33 pounds) of TNT and hexogen and detain an agent who planned to carry out 12 terrorist attacks in Moscow. He has been charged."

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CIA Director Lauds Efforts of Bulgaria's Borisov Govt May 27, 2010 (Ed: excerpted)

The United States will keep up its efforts in support of Bulgaria’s security, CIA Director Leon Panetta declared in Sofia. Panetta met with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov; he has arrived on a two-day visit to Bulgaria.

“I have assured the Prime Minister that we are going to do everything possible in order to continue our good

cooperation with regard to the efforts for coping with corruption and establishing greater security here in Bulgaria. I have given Prime Minister Borisov greetings from the US President Barack Obama, and have assured him of the strong support of the United States

for Bulgaria and the safety and security of the Bulgarian people,” the CIA head stated

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commented that he had discussed a number of specific topics with the Bulgarian leaders.

“The CIA Director provided a clear support for the government’s efforts against corruption and organized crime,” said Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov after the meeting.

“I think that the very fact that the CIA Director is in Bulgaria is a very positive testimonial to everything that our services have achieved together,” Tsvetanov said pointing out that the Cabinet has managed to execute short-term reform measures terms of delineating the responsibilities of the Interior Ministry and the State National Security

Agency DANS as well as adopting key amendments to the Penal Code. The Interior Minister emphasized what he described as increased trust on part of the CIA in Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov because “he guarantees a strong and firm political will.”

“In the last few months we have managed to regain the trust of all of Bulgaria’s Euro-Atlantic partners so that they can work alongside with their Bulgarian colleagues. The US Drugs Enforcement Administration is about to open an office in Bulgaria,” Tsvetanov said.

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CIA director Leon Panetta visits Romania May 26th, 2010

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - The Romanian president's office says Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta met top officials to discuss terrorism, counterespionage and internet crime.

Panetta has had talks with President Traian Basescu, the head of the Romanian Intelligence Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service chief.

There was no word about Panetta's visit on Wednesday prior to the brief statement from Basescu's office. No further details were available.

Romania has been accused of allowing the CIA to set up a secret prison where suspected terrorists were interrogated and possibly tortured. The Romanian government has vehemently denied any complicity.

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Germany: BND spy jailed for passing secrets to gay Balkan lover May 27th, 2010

A court in Munich on Wednesday jailed a former spy for the German BND intelligence service for more than two years for sharing top secret information with his boyfriend while working in Kosovo.

The ex-spook, identified as the 43-year-old Anton Robert K., was posted to Pristina in 2005 to set up a network of informants on behalf of the BND. Among them was a Macedonian man who grew up in Germany, Murat A. Approved by the BND security checks, the 29-year-old was hired as an interpreter and translator.

But the two became romantically involved and moved in together and K. began sharing state secrets and offering access to classified documents between 2007 and 2008, prosecutors said. Der Spiegel news magazine reported that K. divulged the secrets “in the bedroom” or by allowing his lover to access to his computer. But K. neglected to reveal their personal relationship to his superiors.

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After the BND informed prosecutors, the two were called back to Germany in March 2008 and arrested. On Wednesday, the higher regional Munich court found K. guilty of 21 fraud charges and sharing state secrets, sentencing him to two years and three months in jail.

His boyfriend A. received a suspended sentence of one year and two months for “reconnoitring state secrets,” which prosecutors alleged the Macedonian had given to other organised crime contacts,

though they were unable to prove this during the trial.

The couple was also charged with claiming fraudulent expenses of €14,700.

The defence claimed the couple was victim to a homophobic witch-hunt within the BND, which was embarrassed by the affair, not least because it gave the interpreter clearance.

The organisation has also reportedly been forced to sever contacts with more than a dozen informants in the Balkans due to the scandal.

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Germany: Russia, China engaging in industrial espionage Published: 22 May 10 DDP/The Local

Germany is full of Russian and Chinese spies working to get information about top business and technology developments, according to the country’s domestic intelligence service.

Studies show that the German economy loses around €50 billion a year as a consequence, Burkhard Even, head of the counterintelligence section of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, told the audience at a recent security forum in Bonn.

The spying is a mix of official, intelligence service agents, and unofficial business spooks, he said. Even estimated that of the 500 registered staff of the Russian embassy in Berlin, at least 150 were working as intelligence agents, disguised as diplomats or journalists. He said that more than four million Russians live in the country as a whole, leaving him unable to guess at how many agents might be hidden amongst them. Russian intelligence services have been instructed by the government to supply their industry with the most modern know-how to save money developing Russian products, one German official told the forum.

Russian firms doing deals with foreign companies have to contact intelligence services before making firm agreements, the forum heard, giving the government agencies control over investments and businesses deals.

Both Russian and Chinese intelligence services are particularly focusing on German companies experiencing financial difficulties, sending agents posing as businessmen to offer sweet deals to firms operating in high-tech areas. There are

around 80,000 Chinese people living in Germany, Even said, many of whom are commercial spies. China is also buying into, or taking over companies completely, in order to get access to new technological developments.

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million agents across the world collecting technical and business data to support their industries. Small and medium-sized companies in Germany are the worst protected against such efforts, particularly

when they come via the internet, said Even. But the weakest link is always the innocence of staff, he stressed, calling for companies who suspect a spy attack to contact his office.

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India: German national arrested in Punjab was on a spying mission, claims police Punjab Newsline NetworkTuesday, 01 June 2010

ROPAR: Thomas Kuehn, a resident of Hamburg in Germany arrested by Punjab police last Friday from near Bhakra Dam was on a spying mission to India. He was allegedly spying for Germany and Checkoslovakia. Police sources said Tuesday that Thomas Kuehn had confessed that he was on spying mission. The accused was also sentenced for one and half year on charges of spying in 1988-89 in Germany.

A 45-year-old German national was staying in a HIndu temple near Bhakra Dam. He was arrested without any passport , visa and other required documents near Punjab's Nangal town in Ropar district, police said. SSP Ropar L.K.Yadav said that police parties have been dispatched to Goa, Dharamshala and Nepal border to get further information about the visits of Thomas Kuehn to these places.

According to police after his arrest he continuously changed statements. Earlier he said he lost his passport and later he claimed that his Russian girlfriend had taken away his passport to Nepal. We are looking into all aspects of this matter. Kuehn has been booked under various sections of Foreigners' Act.

It was revealed during investigation that this was his second visit to India. "He came to India in 2004 and visited various places in Himachal Pradesh and in Jammu and Kashmir before returning. He again came to India in 2007 and, thereafter, he did not return to his home country," police said said. Police sources said that during the last 10 years Kuhen visited various countries in Europe, America and Africa.

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Iran 'Breaks World Record' For Intelligence and Security Related Work Thursday, May 27, 2010, RFE/RL (Ed: excerpted) Iran has been able to increase its authority in recent months sufficiently to "break the world record for intelligence- and security-related work," says a deputy interior minister for political affairs, Seyed Solat Mortazavi. Mortazavi told the hard-line Fars news agency that the Islamic Republic's intelligence services in recent months have managed to arrest people with links to Israeli and U.S. intelligence services -- marking a "turning

point" for Iran. Mortazavi appears to be referring to the arrests of more than 2,000 key reformist figures, journalists, and bloggers and rights activists in the postelection crackdown.

Here is the reaction of a Tehran-based rights activist who was among those arrested in recent months: “Obviously, in order to control millions of citizens opposed or dissatisfied with the government, the staff of

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Iran's intelligence apparatus have to work three shifts and break a world record." People, Mirdamadi said, are "everywhere

watched and monitored -- a tight security atmosphere reigns."

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South Korea: Army general accused of spying for N. Korea By Park Si-soo, 4 June 2010, Korea Times

The military and state intelligence agency are investigating a two-star army general on suspicion of leaking classified information to North Korea, the defense ministry said Friday.

The major general, identified only as Kim, had allegedly handed sensitive information to a former South Korean intelligence agent recruited by North Korea, according to prosecutors and investigators at the Defense Security Command (DSC). The information is related to Korean and American forces' military operations drawn up in preparation for the possible breakout of war, they said. The apprehension of the army general on an espionage charge came amid escalating inter-Korean tension caused by the sinking of a South Korean warship by a North Korean torpedo near the disputed sea border in March. Forty-six crewmembers were killed in the nation's most tragic naval incident since the 1950-53 Korean War.

It also came just days after the prosecution arrested a female North Korean for stealing

"confidential" information about the National Police Agency and various private firms using people she met through Internet chat rooms. She entered the country by disguising herself as a defector. The investigation of the general

opened after security authorities had two South Koreans in custody Thursday ㅡ a former executive of a local defense firm and a former secret agent surnamed Park ㅡ on charges of handing military secrets

to the communist North after receiving operational funds.

Park acquired military information through the general, relayed it to a North Korean agent in China, and received an unspecified amount of money. Investigators will try to determine if Kim and Park had accomplices. In April, two North Korean spies were caught attempting to enter the country, also claiming to be defectors. They were seeking to assassinate Hwang Jang-yup, the highest-ranking North Korean defector here.

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N.Korean female spy arrested May 23, 2010, AFP

SEOUL - SOUTH KOREAN authorities have arrested a North Korean female spy who posed as a refugee in order to obtain classified information on Seoul's subway system, a news report said on Sunday.

The information could be used for terrorist attacks, Seoul's Yonhap news agency said, citing the National Intelligence Service and Seoul prosecutors. The 36-year-old woman, known only by her family name Kim, entered

South Korea via China and Laos in September 2009, passing herself off as a North Korean defector, Yonhap said. Kim obtained the classified information, including a list of emergency contacts for Seoul subway staff, from a 52-year-old former subway employee named only as Oh and handed it over to Pyongyang, it said.

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documents, the report added. Kim had run a cosmetics store and travel agency in China's Hunan Province to secure personal data on South Korean tourists for a number of years before slipping into South Korea posing as a refugee, it said.

The National Intelligence Service declined to comment and officials at the Seoul

prosecutors' office handling the case were not immediately available.

Cross-border relations have worsened after a South Korean warship sank in what Seoul says was a North Korean torpedo attack near a tense sea border. The two Koreas are still technically at war since the 1950-1953 conflict ended in a fragile armistice.

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Al-Qaida's mother of all spy manuals The man in charge of coordinating Al-Qaida activities in Palestine has written the book on how to be a radical Islamic spy Zvi Bar'el, Haarez, 30 May 2010

"The spy shall not be concerned about any of his friends. If he knows about the existence of an important target at a certain place and time, and he relays information about this to his commanders who have decided to carry out an attack there - for example to blow up a hotel where the target is lodging - it is to be expected that the spy will be inclined to tell one of his journalist friends to avoid going there. In doing so, he will reveal that the operation is about to occur."

This instruction, actually, has a precedent in the life of the Prophet Mohammed. But Sami al-Matiri, who is known as Abdullah al-Hajj, cites it at length in his instruction manual for people working for Al-Qaida.

Matiri is a Kuwaiti citizen who began his career as a leftist in the movement known as Democratic Center; he later changed his spots and embraced radical Islam. He was convicted of the murder of an American citizen in Kuwait in 2002, and after spending a few years in prison was released and became a prominent Al-Qaida commander in the Arabian Peninsula. According to documents obtained by Haaretz, he is in charge of coordinating Al-Qaida activities in Palestine.

Matiri's instruction manual for intelligence agents is part of a series of documents he has written. These include pointers on explosives,

building an organization and recruiting agents. There are also explanations about Islam's enemies.

In his writings, Matiri comes across as someone who knows what he is talking about. He cites studies and conclusions from the experiences of other intelligence agencies, and he discusses methods used by Al-Qaida.

Thus, for example, in the chapter on codes, Matiri says the code word for Al-Qaida's retreat from Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2001 was an expression in colloquial Egyptian Arabic meaning "to assemble the public." This was a mistake, writes Matiri, because Western intelligence services have many people who know various languages and dialects, including Egyptian, Yemenite and Iraqi. In the event, the convoy from Kandahar was exposed and bombarded.

He also tells about a far more successful experience. Ramzi Binalshibh, who helped coordinate the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, and Mohamed Atta, who was responsible for the whole operation, had a close relationship. They understood each other by the merest hint. The two conversed in German via a chat program on the Internet; the conversation is quoted in full in the instruction manual.

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Mohamed Atta writes to his "Darling Jenny" (Binalshibh ) that the first semester will begin in three weeks, that there is no change and there are a number of encouraging ideas. "Two schools of higher education and academics, and the summer will no doubt be hot," he writes. "I want to discuss a number of details with you. There are 19 certificates for individual studies and four exams. Give my regards to the professor."

Here Matiri explains that Atta was sending general information about the modus operandi as it had been planned in advance. The language used prevented the plan from being discovered.

Later, another conversation took place between Atta and Binalshibh, in which more precise details were given.

Atta: "Somebody asked me a riddle I can't solve and I am contacting you so you can solve it for me."

Binalshibh: "Is this the time for riddles, Mohamed?"

Atta: "You are my friend and no one but you can solve it."

Binalshibh: "Okay, tell me the riddle."

Atta: "Two sticks and between them the police and the shape of a bagel from which a stick is hanging. What does it mean?"

Here the conversation ends and Matiri explains its meaning. The two sticks are the number 11, the police are the slash between them and the shape of a bagel from which a stick is hanging is the number 9. This yields 9/11, both the number for calling the police and the date set for the attacks. Only a deep understanding between the two men could have produced a coded conversation like this, to which every spy must aspire, says Matiri.

Matiri covers a variety of topics in the 42 pages of his instruction manual, among them advice on how the religious spy can get out of uncomfortable situations. He suggests that "Jewish meals" be ordered on airline flights - kosher meals that do not contain pork. They are marked with the letters U or K.

One of the most difficult issues is collecting the names and job descriptions of the enemy's intelligence officers. To overcome this problem, Matiri suggests that spies join human rights organizations and even establish such groups to gather testimonies from people who have been interrogated or tortured by enemy intelligence officers. They should be asked to give the names of these officers, so the spy can build up his file.

As an example of a successful operation, Matiri discusses the activities of a certain spy who gained the trust of the Arab Commission for Human Rights in Paris. He learned its ways and established a branch in a country where he hoped to gather intelligence.

Matiri says that after collecting the names of foreign intelligence officers or interrogators, one has to choose carefully the best officer from whom to extract information. It's important to choose low-ranking people or those with financial problems. "We prefer mainly blacks, Hispanics or members of other minorities because they are the ones who understand what discrimination means in America," he writes.

Matiri distinguishes between short-term and long-term spying, giving several examples from what he calls the activities of the Mossad, including Israeli operations in the 1950s in Egypt. He also discusses what he knows about operations by Islamic organizations.

Thus, for example, he writes about the Moscow theater siege in 2002, in which about 50 Chechen fighters held about 850 hostages. (Many of them were killed when Russian special forces broke into the building ). Before the siege, the Chechen commander had his people established a catering company; they even took the trouble of obtaining the franchise to open a cafeteria in the theater. They were thus able to bring in bombs and explosives and become familiar with its halls and corridors.

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"When one of us sets out for an espionage action in Israel, it is important that his first step be to create a background story under commercial or cultural cover among the Jewish diaspora in Morocco, Egypt or the United States. In that way he will be able to obtain 'roots' for the new persona However, creating a background is not enough. The good spy must know how to dress, speak and adapt himself to the environment in which he is operating," Matiri writes.

"A businessman is not going to live in a poor neighborhood and a student cannot own a luxurious villa and a fleet of cars. Student dormitories are more appropriate for him. In general, it is desirable that spies not live in

poor neighborhoods because the inhabitants usually sit outside on the sidewalks and see who is coming and going. They spot new people immediately. But in wealthy neighborhoods, the neighbors do not know one another, and this is what is needed in intelligence work."

Matiri also suggests establishing an academy at which people from radical organizations would study espionage work and learn how to use the intelligence operative's "tools." He cites the Mossad, where he says veteran spies teach young spies how to operate. In his opinion, this should be the working method for radical organizations.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/al-qaida-s-mother-of-all-spy-manuals-1.292956

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UN Human Rights Council: Compilation of good practices on legal and institutional frameworks and measures that ensure respect for human rights by intelligence agencies while countering terrorism, including on their oversight. 17 May 2010.

Some of these best practices: Practice 17. Members of intelligence services are legally obliged to refuse superior orders that would violate national law or international human rights law. Appropriate protection is provided to members of intelligence services who refuse orders in such situations

Practice 19. Intelligence services and their oversight institutions take steps to foster an institutional culture of professionalism based on respect for the rule of law and human rights. In particular, intelligence services are responsible for training their members on relevant provisions of national and international law, including international human rights law (editor: taken from South African Ministerial Review Commission on Intelligence, p. 233)

Practice 22. Intelligence-collection measures that impose significant limitations on human rights are authorized and overseen by at least one institution that is external to and independent of the intelligence services. This institution has the power to order the revision, suspension or termination of such collection measures. Intelligence-collection measures that impose significant limitations on human rights are subject to a multilevel process of authorization that includes approval within intelligence services, by the political executive and by an institution that is independent of the intelligence services and the executive.

Practice 30. Intelligence services are not permitted to operate their own detention facilities or to make use of any unacknowledged detention facilities operated by third parties.

Practice 31. Intelligence-sharing between intelligence agencies of the same State or with the authorities of a foreign State is based on national law that outlines clear parameters for intelligence exchange, including the conditions that must be met for information to be shared, the entities with which intelligence may be shared, and the safeguards that apply to exchanges of intelligence.

Practice 35. Intelligence services are explicitly prohibited from employing the assistance of foreign intelligence services in any way that results in the circumvention of national legal standards and institutional controls on their own activities. If States request foreign intelligence services to undertake activities on their behalf, they require these services to comply with the same legal standards that would apply if the activities were undertaken by their own intelligence services. http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/14session/A.HRC.14.46.pdf


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