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INTELLIGENCE NEWSLETTER
N°204 - 04/11/1992 |
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UNITED STATES
FRAUD-CATCHER CAUGHT DEFRAUDING
James Bailey, 66, a former high-ranking investigator of fraud in government, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to pay cash bribes in Chicago to get confidential Social Security information for resale to insurance, marketing and other commercial interests. (...). [Total : 44 mots].
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JORDAN
HASSAN IBN TALAL
With the deteriorating health of King Hussein following the removal of a kidney in late August 1992 in an American hospital, Crown Prince Hassan, 45, has been increasingly responsibile for leading the kingdom. (...). [Total : 185 mots].
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IRAN
BACKING HAMAS PALESTINIANS
Following a two-week visit to Teheran by a Hamas delegation, the Iranian regime has decided to fully back the Palestinian fundamentalist movement. (...). [Total : 478 mots].
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PHILIPPINES
CHINESE MAFIA BEHIND KIDNAPPINGS
According to East Asian Affairs (Indigo Publications), quoting business sector sources, two Chinese gangs - the Bamboo Gang controlled from Taipei and the Fourteen K Gang controlled from Hong Kong - are behind the wave of kidnappings taking place in Manila. (...). [Total : 59 mots].
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BELGIUM
Elsevier Seminars in Zaventem, Belgium (fax 32 2 7202945), is organizing the Seventh European Conference on Information Systems, Security, Control and Audit on 16-18 November 1992. (...). [Total : 26 mots].
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ISRAEL
BCCI & ISRAELI MONEY LAUNDERING
The American FBI suspects that a Tel Aviv-based Israeli money laundering ring which is processing as much as $200 million a year through U. (...). [Total : 553 mots].
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FRANCE
THE OSCHENKO AFFAIR (SEQUEL)
French authorities announced on 23 October the expulsion - before 1 November 1992 - of four Russian diplomats, following revelations made by Russian defector Viktor Oschenko when applying for asylum in Great Britain, and the charging of three French engineers (I. (...). [Total : 85 mots].
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UNITED KINGDOM
THE PATENT THAT GOT AWAY
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) ordinarily prohibits the publication of patents that have to do with intelligence matters. (...). [Total : 75 mots].
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UNITED KINGDOM
JOURNALISTS SUBJECTS OF TELEPHONE "METERING"
A theft on 19 July in a Scottish police station revealed the widespread traffic analysis of telephones used by 78 persons and organizations. (...). [Total : 119 mots].
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NETHERLANDS
BYE BYE NOVELL SECURITY
Last month Novell's popular PC networking software suffered a fatal attack by Dutch computer hackers who uncovered a structural security flaw. (...). [Total : 92 mots].
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UNITED STATES
INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER LOST-AND-FOUND
The American firm, IDX Technologies Inc. has just presented Computer Owner Protection (COP) software and the International Computer Recovery Center (ICRC) to offer sophisticated means to identify stolen or lost computers. (...). [Total : 53 mots].
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UNITED KINGDOM
THE "CATSCLAW" TIRE SHREDDER
The British Ministry of Defence and Scotland Yard have expressed "keen interest" in Catsclaw, a portable anti-vehicle barrier developed by Autoturn Engineering of Watford, Hertfordshire (fax 44 923 232 466), to control access and exit in high-security areas, to increase perimeter protection for sensitive establishments in times of alert or to set up road blocks to trap criminals or terrorists. (...). [Total : 164 mots].
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UNITED STATES
NEW GUNPOWDER FINGERPRINTING
The American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is ready to transfer to national forensic laboratories a new technique for identifying traces of gunpowder found at a crime scene, on the body of a victim, from the gun used, or from the hands of a suspect. (...). [Total : 159 mots].
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AUSTRALIA
SPYBASE SOFTWARE
Slezak Associates (57 Davenport Terrace, Wayville, South Australia 5034) has developed a one-diskette software system for creating what it calls your own "indexing system for law enforcement, intelligence operations and other research projects. (...). [Total : 112 mots].
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UNITED STATES
LOJACK ANTI-THEFT TRANSMITTER
One of the new technologies used to counter car theft that is more passive and discreet than the VAV system mentioned in our preceding issue (I. (...). [Total : 194 mots].
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NORTH KOREA
SOME GOOD AND SOME BAD INTELLIGENCE
Commander in Chief of U.S. forces in Korea, General Robert RisCassi, recently admitted that allied intelligence remains largely unable to penetrate North Korean society and military structures. (...). [Total : 68 mots].
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COLOMBIA
DRUG AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ISSUE WARNING
In the last 18 months, there have been complaints that about 13 near-collisions between Avianca passenger aircraft and U. (...). [Total : 82 mots].
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UNITED STATES
ANOTHER OR A FINAL BIO-CHEMICAL WARFARE CENTER?
The U.S. Army, supposedly to oversee chemical and biological defense, is "provisionally" establishing a Chemical and Biological Defense Agency (Provisional) at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, where most American bio-chemical weapons were developed. (...). [Total : 41 mots].
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UNITED STATES
BLACKENED OUT CIA "OPENNESS"
In spite of CIA apologies for mishandling the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and claims that the symposium it held in Washington on the event was an illustration of its new "openness", many of the 400 pages of documents the agency released for the conference still had large portions blackened out. (...). [Total : 50 mots].
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UNITED STATES
COCAINE KENNELS
U.S. authorities were previously amazed to find that Colombian drug chemists were able to transform cocaine into starch for clothes and re-extract the cocaine once the carrier crossed a border with starchy clothes (see "Starching With Cocaine", I. (...). [Total : 269 mots].
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UNITED KINGDOM
PAUL CONDON
Described by the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke as "forceful and dynamic", the current Chief Constable of Kent, Paul Condon, has been appointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. (...). [Total : 226 mots].
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ISRAEL
MOSHE ARENS
Moshe Arens, former Israeli defense minister, has just taken up a job as deputy chairman of Shaul Eisenberg's far flung business empire, the Israel Corporation. (...). [Total : 126 mots].
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FRANCE
Imexpo in Paris (fax 33 1 42 93 98 23) is organizing the Forum Milipol 92, Private Security - Malefaction in Companies and Organizations, in Monte Carlo on 16-18 November 1992. (...). [Total : 46 mots].
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UNITED STATES/UNITED KINGDOM
CONTROLLED SALES OF CHEMICALS FOR DRUGS
DEA official Gene Haislip this fall told the British Chemical Industry Association's "International Trade Controls" conference that U. (...). [Total : 86 mots].
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UNITED KINGDOM
IBC Technical Services Limited in Byfleet, Surry (fax 44 71 631 3214), is organizing a conference on PC Security and Viruses in London on 24 November 1992. (...). [Total : 52 mots].
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UNITED STATES
Fuld & Company Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts (fax 1 617 492 7108), is organizing a fall 1992 seminar in Boston on 1-2 December 1992. (...). [Total : 60 mots].
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FRANCE
DGSE AND DRM IN 1993
In a report just published on military equipment and defense personnel for the years 1992 to 1994, the chairman of the French parliament's defence committee, the socialist MP Jean-Michel Boucheron notes that the French intelligence community "suffers from specific problems of organization and management for which on-going reforms are only beginning to furnish needed remedies. (...). [Total : 506 mots].
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PORTUGAL
UNWANTED PUBLICITY FOR DINFO
The Servicos de Informacao Militar (SIM) military intelligence service, better known as DINFO, received unwanted publicity when Mozambique Renamo rebel leader, Afonso Dhlakama, asked British authorities permission to move his wife and two sons to London from Lisbon. (...). [Total : 57 mots].
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NETHERLANDS
CRI DISCOVERS CASH CROP DRUGS AT HOME
The Dutch CRI National Criminal Intelligence Service was surprised to seize illegally home-grown cannabis that had undergone successful selective cross-breeding. (...). [Total : 60 mots].
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NETHERLANDS
NEW INVESTIGATION OF THE IDB
The Attorney General has asked for a fresh investigation into possible fraud within the Inlichtingen Dienst Buitenland (IDB) foreign intelligence service. (...). [Total : 71 mots].
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NETHERLANDS
BUDGET RESTRICTION TO CLOSE THINK-TANK?
The government sponsored research institute, Clingendael, specialized in the study of conflict and security, is facing financial difficulties following a decision by the Department of Education to suspend its annual DFL 645,000 annual grant. (...). [Total : 48 mots].
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UNITED STATES
FIRST OPERATOR FORGETFULNESS?
Investigations into international fraud on COCOTS (Customer Owned, Coin-Operated Telephones) first focussed on "phantom extensions". (...). [Total : 91 mots].
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ISRAEL
AMAN ON THE WAY UP?
Under the previous government of Yitzak Shamir, Israeli Aman military intelligence already played a quiet but significant role in the Middle East peace talks (I. (...). [Total : 139 mots].
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PAKISTAN
INTELLIGENCE LEAKS TARGET MILITARY
In a country where it is illegal to slander the armed forces or individual military officers, Pakistan has recently seen astonishing revelations of secret information implicating the military (particularly Inter Services Intelligence - ISI) in creating the Islamic Democratic Alliance (IDA) to counter Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP), in the assassination of General Zia ul-Haq, in buying PPP politicians, and in interfering with the government's of Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif. (...). [Total : 79 mots].
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UNITED STATES
The Computer Security Institute (CSI, fax 1 415 905 2234) is organizing its international congress in Chicago on 17 November 1992. (...). [Total : 60 mots].
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PANAMA
NEW DATA CENTER ?
According to a recent article in El Siglo, Panama's Ceproda "Data Processing Center" - apparently different from the U. (...). [Total : 59 mots].
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UNITED STATES
INTELLIGENCE LOSING ITS EXPERIENCED PEOPLE
The Mid-West Chapter of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) held a seminar this summer with the participation of official representatives from the Air Force, Navy, Army, National Guard and the FBI. (...). [Total : 70 mots].
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UNITED STATES
POLICE PROBLEMS IN THE CAPITAL
Big-city police forces are losing their police chiefs due to overwhelming waves of drug violence and shrinking budgets. (...). [Total : 135 mots].
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UNITED STATES
MONITORING CELLULAR TELEPHONES
The FBI has been protesting against the widespread use of cellular telephones (cellphones) and the difficulty it experiences in monitoring them. (...). [Total : 153 mots].
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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
SAGRAM BHAGWANDEEN
Trinidad and Tobago's Senior Police Superintendent Sagram Bhagwandeen was suspended last week after three Scotland Yard officers probing drug dealing in the Caribbean nation's police department complained of police harassment. (...). [Total : 110 mots].
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UNITED KINGDOM
BLOWN ANTI-IRA OPS
The current IRA bombing campaign in London could probably have been stopped if it hadn't been for lack of police and intelligence coordination that resulted in two fiascoes which received little publicity. (...). [Total : 776 mots].
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SOUTH KOREA
THE NSP OFFERS "PERHAPS" TO REFORM ITSELF
As the National Security Planning (NSP) Agency, formerly the KCIA, claimed in a news report that it was "seeking a new role that probably would include reduction, even ending of the current practice of routine surveillance of opposition politicians", it arrested 62 people for allegedly spying for North Korea and setting up a communist party. (...). [Total : 84 mots].
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UNITED STATES
A SECRET INDEPENDENT COUNSEL ON THE LOOSE
With regard to discussions on the renewal of the independent counsel law, a list of all the investigations the counsels have conducted since 1978 was recently published. (...). [Total : 43 mots].
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