Busy week in counterintelligence.
Matthew X
profrv at nex.net.au
Mon Sep 9 06:21:09 PDT 2002
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)
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