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HEADS UP!!!

AUGUST 6   (MONDAY NIGHT!)
TV PROGRAM based on best selling book, "Blind Man's Bluff"
about submarine espionage.  History Channel, 9pm EST

AUGUST 9
TV PROGRAM, "Cover Up," about the Israeli attack on the USS
Liberty sigint ship in 1967.  History channel, 8pm EST

AUGUST 9-10
US ARMY INTELLIGENCE SYMPOSIUM AT THE DIAC BLDG IN WASHINGTON,
DC,  Ray Bluhm (703) 841-4300 ext 229;
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GERMAN CONVICTED OF SPYING FOR US BY BELARUS COURT.
The Belarus Military Court sentenced a German citizen and
professor of an American military educational institution,
Christopher Letz, to seven years in prison for espionage,
Russian and Western news service reported on 21 July. Letz,
who worked for the Marshall Center in Germany, was arrested by
the FSB in September 2000 in Moscow and handed over to the
Belarus KGB.  "Kommersant-Daily" suggested that Belarusian
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka is using Letz to try to
blackmail the West, as he has hinted he might pardon Letz,
providing the West "stop interfering in the Belarus
elections."
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2001/07/230701.html

KATHERINE GRAHAM, INTELLIGENCE AND THE MEDIA.  The many well
deserved kudos appearing in newspapers, magazines, and
on radio and television following the death of Katherine
Graham, owner and publisher of the Washington Post for many
years, all emphasize her strong commitment to freedom of the
press and her winning fight to publish the so-called "Pentagon
Papers" despite government claims of secrecy.
There is another rarely quoted story, however, showing her
understanding of the need for secrecy in certain sensitive
intelligence matters, and of the damage that can accrue if
that secrecy is violated by careless publication.  In a speech
before the English Speaking Union at the Guildhall in London
in 1985, (and repeated as an op-ed in the Washington Post on
April 20 1986), while trying to emphasize the extent to which
the press is willing to withhold potentially damaging
information, she added:
"Tragically, however, we in the media have made mistakes. You
may
recall that in April 1983, some sixty people were killed in a
bomb attack on the U S Embassy in Beirut. At the time there
was coded radio traffic
between Syria, where the operation was run, and Iran, which
was supporting it.  Alas, one television network and a
newspaper columnist reported that the US government had
intercepted the traffic. Shortly thereafter the traffic
ceased.  This undermined efforts to capture the terrorist
leaders and eliminated a source of information about future
attacks. Five months later, apparently the same terrorists
struck again at the Marine Barracks in Beirut; 241 servicemen
were killed. "  [Mike Levin]

ALLEGED CHINA THREAT BIAS AND "TEAM B" REPORT.  Last week, the
Washington Times reported that a "Team B" of outside
competitive analysts led by retired Army General Tilelli was
submitting a classified report that said, in effect, that the
CIA's China shop had an "institutional predisposition" to what
critics call "panda hugging," that is, taking too soft a view
on China.  That prompted General Tilelli to issue a brief
statement to CIA employees saying the Washington Times was
wrong and had misrepresented his panel's findings.  While the
report itself is still classified, Gen Tilelli stated that his
panel found the CIA analysts and personnel were "dedicated,
professional, competent, selfless and objective."
Furthermore, the panel found their was "no politicization or
bias by the analysts in their reporting."
MEANWHILE, THE TIMES (BILL GERTZ) IS APPARENTLY standing by
it's story.  On July 27th the Times accused "CIA spinners" of
deceptive tactics in the matter (see URL below).
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010727-81870899.htm

SECRET EVIDENCE UNDER FIRE FROM CIVIL LIBERTARIANS.
The use of secret (intelligence derived) evidence as a
counterterrorism
tool is a violation of due process, say US civil libertarians.
Congress appears ready to weigh in on the matter.
http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200108209.shtml

LEGISLATION WOULD REDUCE POLYGRAPHS AT DOE.   Worried that the
Dept of Energy was being traumatized and possible gutted the
requirement to polygraph nearly everyone at the national labs,
legislation to would greatly reduce poly requirement.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2001/s073101.html

CIA ROLE IN PREVENTING US TERRORISM MAY CHANGE.  As the two
"bottom up reviews" of the IC go forward, there may be some
effort to change the strict dichotomy between foreign
intelligence (CIA's bag) and domestic crime (FBI's bailiwick).

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010731/80/bzy6h.html

TWELVE HOUR COMPUTER GLITCH ON SATELLITE.  According to Bill
Gertz, the NRO last contact with one of it's radar imaging
satellites last week.  The article also states that there are
two radar satellites in orbit as well as one or more E/O
satellites
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20010726-76644483.htm

MAJ GEN MICHAEL HAYDEN AND NSA.  In a Washington Post Magazine
cover story, Vernon Loeb outlines NSA's troubles, Gen Hayden's
fixes and other things about NSA.  Hayden main fix for NSA is
portrayed as an "internal coup" to wrest the control of the
agency from career bureaucrats and put it back into the
director's hands.  He did that with a total reorganization,
many early retirements (with possible reductions in force
(RIF's) to follow, and hiring outsiders, some of whom had
never worked in intelligence, at senior levels.  Also, Loeb
writes, the powers the be downtown and on the Hill are so
pleased with Hayden's at NSA, he may be extended there.
[Recommended!]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/postmagazine/A44781-2001Jul24.html

PRESIDENT BUSH HAS GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH DCI.  The CIA and
it's Director, George Tenet, have built a good relationship
with the President.  Tenet meets several times a week with
Bush and CIA briefers accompany the President on overseas
trips so he can get the "PDF," the President's Daily Brief,
while traveling.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62277-2001Jul27.html

AIR FORCE TO TEST HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING SATELLITE.  [Compton]
http://www.janes.com/aerospace/military/news/jdw/jdw010727_1_n.shtml

AMERICAN FULLBRIGHT SCHOLAR GOT ATTENTION OF FSB.  John Tobin,
scholar, "party animal," Army reserve intelligence tech, and
Russian linguist, has ended up in a Soviet prison and under
suspicion of having marijuana and maybe espionage.  From
searching his apartment after his arrest, the FSB found
Tobin's resume among his papers and computer disks. In it they
read that he was attached to the Army Reserve's 325th Military
Intelligence Battalion, based in Waterbury, Conn. He had
joined the reserves as a senior at Ridgefield High.  He did so
with an eye to college expenses, which were going to be a
little steep for his father, who runs a successful but small
house painting business.  After completing basic training at
Fort Jackson, S.C., Tobin, who had earned top scores on his
language aptitude tests, was sent to the elite Defense
Language Institute in Monterey, Calif. He spent a year there
studying Russian and moved on to an eight-week course in basic
interrogation at the Army's intelligence training facility in
Fort Huachuca, Ariz.  After that, he went on to pursue his
undergraduate degree at Middlebury.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/magazine/29TOBIN.html?searchpv=day01

COVERT ACTION HISTORY FOR INDONESIA.  In 1998 and 1999
accounts of CIA covert actions in Indonesia, Malaysia the
Philippines, and Greece were officially declassified and
included in two volumes of the State Dept's documentary
history of US foreign policy.  However, there was a change of
heart and the two volumes were embargoed.  However, GPO,
apparently by mistake, shipped copies of the first (Indonesia,
M, Ph) volume to various GPO bookstores; but the Greece volume
is still locked up in GPO warehouses.  The CIA's role in the
overthrow of Pres Sukarno in Indonesia remains controversial
partly because of a pornographic and counterfeit videotape
they made to discredit Sukarno and because in the aftermath of
the coup, a CIA list of officials in the PKI, the Indonesian
communist party, was used to hunt down and kill those
officials in a bloodbath that ultimately led to the killing of
100's of thousands of PKI members.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB52/

FEWER THAN 25 FAIL FBI POLYGRAPH EXAMS.  According to the
Washington Post (7/29, pA9), polygraphs have been administered
to about 500 senior FBI officials in the wake of the Robert
Hanssen case, and fewer than 25 failed to pass.  They will be
further investigated.  Polygraphs, it is known, have a fairly
high "false positive" return, and that is probably all that is
involved here.

ACCIDENTAL SPY.  It seems an American photo journalist who
spent many years in Latin America and shipped home thousands
of unpublished photos, had those photos looked at by,
apparently, the CIA.  Read the story.
http://ajr.newslink.org/ajrbigjul01.html

ROBERT HANSSEN INVOLVED IN DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE.
At the same time he was selling U.S. secrets to the Soviet
Union, Former FBI special agent Robert Philip Hanssen was a
key supervisor in a 1980s domestic spying program questioning
the loyalty of American citizens and monitoring their
activities.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-000061720jul29.story

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BOOKS & OTHER SOURCES

Douglas MacEachin, US INTELLIGENCE AND THE POLISH CRISIS,
1980-81, CIA/CSI, 2001.  New 14 chapter book on CSI web site.
http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/poland/index.htm
"Doug MacEachin has used his considerable skill as an
intelligence analyst and historian to detail the intriguing
story of the 1980-81 Polish crisis. The description of actual
events on the ground, the assessment of these events by
intelligence analysts and policymakers, and the US policy
process, provided an interesting commentary on both the
strengths and weaknesses of the process.  The book describes
the problem faced by intelligence analysts when they try to
forecast
decisions made by foreign actors before the actors themselves
have decided what those decisions will be. It also highlights
the danger of a current intelligence process that provides a
blizzard of information without context and absent a
systematic overview of events.  Perhaps the key lesson is the
consequence of analysts and policy makers alike staying with a
"going in" judgment and over time pushing new evidence to make
it consistent with that judgment."
http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/poland/index.htm

ALSO FROM CSI:  The fall 2000 45th anniversary issue of
"Studies in Intelligence" is now available on the website.  It
carries many important historical articles including one
published in 1955 by Sherman Kent.
http://www.odci.gov/csi/studies/fall00/index.html
MEANWHILE, THE WINTER-SPRING 2001 EDITION IS ON THE street in
hardcopy and should be posted on the website in the not too
distant future (hopefully).  I haven't had time to read it,
but the contents look very promising:  A 50 year look back at
" The Alger Hiss Case," Congress the CIA and Guatemala,"
"Israel's Quest for Satellite Intelligence," "Interviewing an
Intelligence Icon: Walter Pforzheimer," and 3 articles on
openness.  "Openness and the Future of the Clandestine
Service," "Openness and the CIA," and "Intelligence and the
Market State."  The last by Gregory Treverton seems to
replicate one thesis of his new book.

USS LIBERTY ARTICLE AVAILABLE ON-LINE AFTER ALL.  In the July
24 "Stuff," I wrote about a rebuttal of James Bamford's
account and conclusions concerning the 1967 attack on the USS
Liberty.  I said that rebuttal was not available on-line, but
I was wrong.
"USS LIBERTY.  The bloody 1967 Israeli attack on the American
SIGINT ship, the USS Liberty, gets more than 50 pages of
highly controversial coverage by Bamford, who fervently
concludes the attack was deliberate.  That conclusion is hotly

disputed by Michael Oren in the latest issue of THE NEW
REPUBLIC ("Unfriendly Fire," 23 July).  The Oren rebuttal,
is point by point and quite devastating to Bamford's thesis."
"Stuff" reader Jerry Ennis has informed me that the Oren
rejoinder in the New Republic, which cites some of Bamford's
sources as disavowing his interpretation, is available on-line
after all.  [And it will undoubtedly re-open the emotional
debate on this highly controversial issue.  --jdmac]
http://www.tnr.com/072301/oren072301_print.html
BAMFORD'S REPLY TO A "SECRECY NEWS" ACCOUNT OF HIS book has
drawn a reply from Bamford which also includes his a rebuttal
of the Oren article above.  [This is a controversial and
emotional issue which is not going away -- ever.    --jdmac]
http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/bamford.html

CHARLIE ALLEN, THE ASST DCI FOR COLLECTION and formerly the
NIO for Warning, gave a presentation in the Spring of 2000
before the Harvard Seminar on Intelligence, Command and
Control.  Mr Allen's presentation was entitled, "Intelligence:
Cult, Craft or Business."
One of the strongest points is the frequently heard idea that
the requirements for SMO (Support for Military Operations) is
taking up too much of our intelligence capacity, leaving
little available to support global level policy, and national
level US policymakers.
TO GET IT:  Go to website below.  Click on "Publications" on
the left, then scroll down to "Charles E Allen."  That will
bring up a "blurb" on his paper which you can get in full
(PDF) by clicking on "Intelligence: Cult, Craft, or Business?
http://www.pirp.harvard.edu/

LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIST WEN HO LEE HAS WRITTEN A BOOK.  Former
Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee has written an account of his
arrest and imprisonment (and subsequent release) on charges
that he mishandled classified info.  The book is now in
pre-publication review.
http://www.hyperionbooks.com/books/2001fall/mycountryversus.htm

MATTHEW AID & CEES WIEBES (Eds), "SECRETS OF SIGNALS
INTELLIGENCE DURING THE COLD WAR," Frank Cass, Sep 2001.
http://www.frankcass.com/


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LETTER TO STUFF

THE CHINA THREAT -- A TEAM / B TEAM CONTROVERSY.  In my 10
July "Stuff" I reported on an article by Washington Times
reporter, Bill Gertz,  that said that a new "B Team" report on
the Chinese threat was leaking and it says, in essence, that
the Administration is kowtowing to China while the CIA is
serving up distorted intelligence that facilitates the
kowtow.  In that July 10 Stuff, I invited readers to chime in
on the issue of whether or not this latest B Team, headed by
retired Army Gen
John Tilelli, was intentionally packed with hardliners.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010706-82706.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/09/opinion/09SAFI.html


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