Path: netcom.com!netcomsv!decwrl!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!udel!news!news.world.net!speedway.net!nyxfer!nyt From: nyt@blythe.org (NY Transfer News) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: More on CIA's Internet Debut Keywords: pigs in the wire Message-ID: <XHFiac4w165w@blythe.org> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 93 20:35:32 EDT Reply-To: nyt@blythe.org (NY Transfer News) Distribution: world Organization: NY Transfer News Collective Lines: 93 /* Written 1:24 am Sep 27, 1993 by cwarren@peg.apc.org in igc:gen.bigbro */ /* ---------- "CIA, watching, watching, watching" ---------- */ Topic 189 CIA, INTERNET - TRUE! Response 2 of 3 agarton cafe.australia 9:00 am Sep 24, 1993 Internet From: <dlr@well.sf.ca.us> To: dlr@netcom.com Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 Found the following on the Well and thought it may be of interest. ***************************************************************** The following appears in the premier issue of "The Internet Letter." I'm not sure what exactly is meant in the third paragraph--it seems a bit garbled. Paul Wallner is actually the coordinator of the Intelligence Community's efforts on "open source" (unclassified information useful to intelligence analysts, etc.), and not just CIA's--technically he works for the Director of Central Intelligence in his role as IC coordinator. The Internet Letter is edited by Jayne Levin, and is apparently premiering at Inet'93. *************************************************************************** 004) CIA, U.S. GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES DEVELOP INTERNET LINK Fourteen U.S. government intelligence agencies, led by the Central Intelligence Agency, are developing plans that would allow them to share unclassified information via the Internet. "Everyone is using it [the Internet]," said Paul Wallner, CIA Intelligence Community Open Source coordinator, in an exclusive interview with The Internet Letter. "Why not take advantage of it ourselves and use it. "We're not looking at the Internet as a way to gather intelligence," Wallner said. "The Internet is not viewed as a source of information for us." The agencies that would use Internet to exchange "public" information are part of the National Foreign Intelligence program. They include the National Security Agency, CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency. The intelligence community will use the Internet to share information and ideas among themselves and the academic community, Wallner said. For example, if the CIA were asked about the nuclear waste problem in Russia, "a good way" to find out would be to talk to the scientific community on the Internet, he said. The system in place now is inadequate. While each agency has its own internal electronic communications network, two intelligence analysts working at different agencies but on the same project cannot send E-mail to one another. There also are no electronic links between the intelligence and academic communities. Communication is carried out mostly by telephone. Because of security concerns, the internal community network will not be connected directly to the Internet, Wallner said. The CIA plans to address the issue of security by creating "air gaps" between classified and unclassified information. An air gap would create a physical space between an agency's internal network and an Internet link. "That allows us to have another check on hackers and potential viruses," Wallner said. He characterized the tone of the discussion over security as "technical." There are three phases to the project, and the first phase is expected to start next spring. It involves establishing nine prototype Internet "nodes" that will connect to an Internet backbone. The CIA plans to seek engineering support from private industry to help design the network's overall architecture. Unclassified materials produced by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) may be available for anonymous FTP (file transfer protocol). No decision has been made on whether a Gopher or WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) server will be used, Wallner said. The government is grappling with whether public distribution of FBIS publications via the Internet would violate copyright law. Selected FBIS publications now are available in print and microfiche to government agencies and universities. FBIS publishes eight daily reports, one for each geographic region of the world. The information is gleaned from news accounts, commentaries and government statements from foreign broadcasts, and it is translated into English from more than 80 languages. --------------------- Big brother is here and watching :) + Join Us! Support The NY Transfer News Collective + + We deliver uncensored information to your mailbox! + + Modem:718-448-2358 Fax:718-448-3423 E-mail: nyt@blythe.org +