Petty officer took hard drives, data In a case interlaced with theft, potential espionage and the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, a Navy submariner pleaded guilty yesterday to charges he improperly possessed defense secrets and stole and sold government-owned computer hard drives......( Union-Tribune, 7 Sep 02) Sailor possessed military secrets Navy submariner pleaded guilty to charges he improperly possessed defense secrets and stole government-owned computer hard drives, which he later sold on the Internet.....( AP, 7 Sep 02) Little Change in a System That Failed The Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have proven remarkably resilient in defense of their own turf.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) When Playing the Field, the Game Gets Rough THE conventional wisdom about what is troubling American intelligence, particularly human intelligence — the stuff spies do — is that the system is broken; that on Sept. 11 the Central Intelligence Agency just did not have enough language-qualified spy handlers on the ground around the world to do the job.....( New York Times op-ed by Milt Bearden, 8 Sep 02) Spy History 101: America's Intelligence Quotient MOST of America's best-known spies — from Nathan Hale to Francis Gary Powers and from the Rosenbergs to Aldrich H. Ames — are remembered because they got caught or because they spied against their country.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Getting the Intelligence Services a Vulnerable Nation Needs If anything changed after Sept. 11, it was America's sense of invulnerability. Suddenly, this became a nation under threat, a nation without security. What needs to be done, what can be done — short and long term — by the intelligence services to protect the United States against future attack?.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Eyes in the Sky, Ears to the Wall, and Still Wanting ....For more than 50 years, providing the country with early warning of a nuclear missile attack from Russia has been the first priority of the American intelligence community. The system has worked well, thanks largely to billions of dollars worth of technical intelligence.....( New York Times op-ed by James Bamford, 8 Sep 02) Learning to Spy With Allies What will Al Qaeda do next? One big problem in figuring it out has been that, in important ways, the terrorist network is more effectively globalized than the modern intelligence organizations that try to penetrate it....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Bin Laden's Guys Have Cloaks and Daggers, Too FOR all the resources American agents are devoting to watching the myriad tentacles of Al Qaeda, one of the things they have been forced to consider is that Al Qaeda may be watching them.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Pearl Harbor as Prologue Why does intelligence fail? Remember Pearl Harbor....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Trust No One: In New York, Everyone Is Suspect now thinks we ought to keep an eye out for suspicious behavior and bring it to the attention of the experts who keep files on suspiciousness.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Face It: Your Looks Are Revealing In the last year, intelligence agents have been showing more interest in the work of the California psychologist Paul Ekman than ever before.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) The Real Me: The Online Version It is no secret that the Internet offers a wealth of information. It's even known that much of what we used to call "intelligence" is freely available online. I decided to find out what I could learn about myself just by consulting Internet-based resources....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Book Contends Chief of A-Bomb Team Was Once a Communist Adding a startling chapter to the long historical debate over the secret laboratory that developed the atom bomb in World War II, a new book concludes that its leader, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, belonged to the American Communist Party in the late 1930's and early 40's.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) [Read review of book by CI Centre Professor Nigel West] Trial alleges Guatemalan guard's deadly role Myrna Mack knew the death squads were after her. The 39-year-old anthropologist asked neighbors to watch for intruders outside her home, began varying her travel habits and told a priest she feared for her life. They got her anyway.....( AP, 8 Sep 02) The US is expanding its Echelon spy network THE DEFENSE MINISTRY SAYS THAT BUILDING AN AMERICAN RADAR STATION IN LATVIA COULD ENDANGER THE SECURITY OF NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE. RUSSIAN STRATEGISTS ARE ALREADY REGRETTING SHUTTING DOWN THE RADIO INTELLIGENCE STATION AT LOURDES, CUBA, AND ARE ACCUSING THE US OF INCONSISTENCY AND DOUBLE STANDARDS.....( Russia Weekly, 8 Sep 02) http://www.cicentre.com/