(p)
CHINESE SPY SATELLITE IN ORBIT.  Last September, China placed
a "civilian remote sensing satellite" in orbit.  Actually, it
is an imaging reconnaissance tool of Chinese military
intelligence.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010801-80450317.htm

NEW DOD SECURITY CLEARANCE POLICY.  In the future the
Department of Defense will withhold security clearances from
any Pentagon employee or contractor who has ever been
convicted of a
crime and sentenced to a year in jail; who illegally uses
controlled
substances; who is mentally incompetent; or who has been
dishonorably discharged from the military.  These provisions
were part of last years Defense authorization act.  They have
been criticized because they lack flexibility.  Also, since
the policy applies only to the Defense Dept, there will be
discrepancies between Depts and agencies. [Aftergood]
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2001/08/dss_smith.htm

PROMOTIONS AND REASSIGNMENTS IN THE IC
Retired LtGen Jim Clapper to be Director of NIMA
Joanne Isham to succeed Helgerson as DepDir of NIMA
John Helgerson to be Chairman of the NIC
Dennis Fitzgerald to be DepDir of the NRO
Donald Kerr to be the new CIA/DD/S&T
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30341-2001Aug3.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=147129

WEN HO LEE BOOK GENERATING SECURITY PROBLEMS.  Los Alamos
scientist Wen Ho Lee is writing a book, "My Country Versus Me:
The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was
Falsely Accused of Being a Spy," is described as an
autobiography and was written with Helen Zia, a journalist. It
will be published by Hyperion Books.  The problem is that as
Lee submits his book for security review, at least seven
uncleared people, including his editor and co-author are
thought to have seen it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/05/national/05LEE.html?todaysheadlines

ISRAEL'S ASSASSINATION POLICY DEPENDS ON HUMINT.  One
Palestinian security official said the Israelis pulled into
their intelligence net people who require permits of one kind
or another, like students or
merchants, and who could thus be pressured to provide
information.
Financial incentives and perhaps also rivalries within the
Palestinian camp also presumably play a role.  In any case,
Israel clearly has an abundance of intelligence sources. The
accuracy with which it iS able to put its hands on specific
individuals would do credit to a security agency working
within its own population, let alone one working secretly
within a hostile population.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20010807-7011880.htm

HUAC RECORDS UNSEALED.  Records of the red-baiting House
Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) for the period
1945-1975 (when the committee was abolished) have been made
public.  As scholars and journalists get into this archive
they will probably find still more interesting things about
the old CPUSA.  [Aftergood]
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2001/08/huac.html
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.html

US PAYING $34,576 FOR EP-3 COLLISION, AFTERMATH.  After
rejecting Beijing's demand for $1 million, the United States
is sending China $34,576 to pay for support of a crippled U.S.
Navy surveillance aircraft that collided with a Chinese
fighter jet in Apr

HANSSON DEBRIEFINGS INDICATE GRU AND KGB.  As the debriefings
provided for in Robert Hanssen's plea bargain get underway, it
seems that he spied for GRU in New York from 1979 to 1981 then
got crosswise with his wife and priest and so quit.  Four
years later, in Washington, he contacted the KGB.  Probably
the GRU and KGB did not know of each other's success, which
helped keep them from identifying Hanssen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/08/national/08AGEN.html

Three months ago, the CIA quietly reinstated a senior
counterintelligence officer who had spent 18 months under
investigation as a suspected Russian spy. There was no
ceremony, no fanfare, no formal apology as he returned from
professional exile. But in effect, the CIA was saying there
had been a terrible mistake.  A freakish web of coincidences
had led the investigators to think that the CIA employee was a
spy. Among other things, he lived down the street from Mr.
Hanssen, jogged in the same park, was about the same age, and
had even traveled with Mr. Hanssen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/11/national/11SPY.html?todaysheadlines

EXOTIC SENSORS GET MORE EXOTIC.  Neither of these sensors are,
apparently fielded by intelligence, yet.  Stand by.  This
eyeball sensor will be used to ID airline passengers by
scanning their irises.
http://www.iht.com/articles/28459.htm
MEANWHILE, THERE IS A NEW MEDICAL CAMERA IN A PILL. The US
government has approved a tiny camera-in-a-capsule that
patients
can swallow to give doctors a close-up view of their small
intestine.
http://www.iht.com/articles/28272.htm

MASINT: MORE THAN YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW.
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/masint.htm
http://www.mastassociation.org/n_papers.shtml
http://www.nmia.org/masint.htm

ASST SECDEF FOR COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS AND
INTELLIGENCE.  John Stenbit was sworn in as assistant
secretary of Defense (C3I).  Stenbit, who has sat on a number
of science and intelligence advisory boards, retired from TRW
in May
http://www.c3i.osd.mil

COULD JFK CONSPIRACY BE A KGB COVERT ACTION?  This article
argues that the KGB planted stories in left wing Italian and
Canadian newspapers that led Jim Garrison, conspiracy minded
New Orleans District Attorney to indict Clay Shaw for
Kennedy's assassination in plot that supposedly included the
CIA, Navy intelligence, etc.  Oliver Stone, among others,
swallowed the phony "bait."  The argument here is not that
Shaw or the CIA had anything to do with the assassination, or
that there was every any real evidence they did, but the
argument is that the KGB fanned the flames of the
investigation in that direction.
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010804/637203.html

US PROVIDES UN WITH FALSE ORBITAL DATA ON SATELLITES.  A UN
Convention requires member countries to provide the UN with
data on their satellites.  Apparently the US routinely
supplies false location data on its classified satellites
which, according to a Space Command spokesperson, is within
the letter of the Convention.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991128

MILITARY "WANNA-BEES."  Apparently there are a lot of folks
out there, many of whom never served in the military, claiming
to be heroes of the Navy Seals or Army special forces or other
elite units.  One recent notable example was Joseph Ellis, the
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, who said he had been a
platoon leader with the 101st Airborne in Vietnam, when he had
actually spent the war teaching military history at West
Point.  Why?  Go figure.  Now, however, a cottage industry of
fraud hunters is busy exposing these fakes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/10/national/10FAKE.html

CRIMINALIZING THE UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE OF CLASSIFIED
INFORMATION.  Last year, President Clinton vetoed the FY2001
Intelligence Authorization Act because of a provision that
would have criminalized the unauthorized disclosure of
properly classified information.  Espionage, provide info to a
foreign govt, is a crime but simple disclosure is not unless
intent to harm the US can be proved.  The veto came last year
after the Senate had voted unanimously for the Act and all the
security agencies -- CIA, FBI, FDA, JUSTICE, Etc -- had bought
off on the provision.  Why?  Because the Washington press
corps was against it, and they can be expected to fight it
tooth and nail again this year.  The Senate intelligence
committee report below argues for the law and also summarizes
some of the committee's other activities last year.
[Aftergood]
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2001_rpt/srep107-51.html

"SUPPRESSED" FRUS VOLUME PUBLISHED
On Wednesday, the State Department formally released the
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) volume on
Indonesia that had been withheld because of concern at the CIA
and the State Department that it could upset relations with
the Indonesian government.
The new release was utterly anticlimactic due to the fact that
an advance copy of the volume was published last month by the
National Security Archive.  [Aftergood]
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/xxvi/

NEW REPORT ON CIA IN-Q-TEL VENTURE.
http://www.bens.org/highlights_InQTel.html

APPEALS COURT REJECTS FOIA RELEASE OF IMAGERY.
A federal appeals court this week rejected a Freedom of
Information Act lawsuit seeking disclosure of intelligence
imagery and other records concerning human rights violations
committed by Bosnian Serb forces during the summer of 1995.
The court rejected almost all of the appellant's arguments.
The fact that some photos had been released did not mean that
all of them could be, the court ruled.  Just because the
Secretary of State had revealed the images to foreign
governments at the UN did not mean that they could be
disclosed to the general public.  Further, the government had
no obligation to prepare a releasable version of the
intelligence photos by degrading their resolution.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2001/08/sage.html
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/bosnia.htm





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BOOKS & OTHER SOURCES

GORDON CHANG, "THE COMING COLLAPSE OF CHINA, Random House,
July 31, 2001, 320pp.
This book seems to be playing the ongoing A/B Team debate
within the US govt over China.  Within 24 hours of the book's
publication, CIA issued a review that basically rebuts the
author's thesis.
According to the CIA review, "we cannot rule out the
possibility of systemic collapse. On balance, however, we
assess that the regime retains important strengths and assets
that at least reduce the chances of the kind of collapse Chang
posits." As far as China's Communist leaders are concerned,
the CIA concludes, "it is too early to write them off as
easily as Chang suggests."

"THE INTELLIGENCER, Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies."
I've just been proofreading the Summer issue of the
"Intelligencer," AFIO's flagship academic journal.  It's come
a long way.  Three or four years ago, it was a 4 page
newsletter published (maybe) 4 or 5 times a year.  Then it
became a 16 page newsletter.  Now it is a very respectable and
professional, 100 page, twice a year academic journal that I
HIGHLY RECOMMEND.  That transformation is part of the
transformation in the whole AFIO organization -- it's much
more vibrant and active than it was a few years ago.  (I must
confess I am one of AFIO's volunteer editors -- and thus not
without prejudice.)   Nevertheless, if you are missing AFIO's
"Intelligencer" I really think you are out of touch with
what's happening in the literature of intelligence.  It is a
by product of AFIO membership and more than worth the price of
admission, $40/year.  By the way, you needn't be a "former"
anymore to belong to AFIO.  Associate memberships are now open
to still serving intelligence officers as well as individuals
who have never been government employees.  Take a look!
http://www.afio.com/
http://www.afio.com/sections/membership/

MICHAEL HERMAN, "INTELLIGENCE SERVICES IN THE INFORMATION
AGE," forthcoming, Cass, Fall 2001.


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