Since when has vote counting at the UNSC become a "dirty trick?"
I would expect US agencies are scooping up every thing they can
about voting intentions.  We have a right to expect nothing less.

Ted Cormaney



Peter Martin wrote:

> Re: Mr Steve Fulton's "Newsflash!" on NSA bugging the Security Council, I
> would like to submit the following cut from a report by Intel Research, 3
> March.
>
> To: [Recipients withheld]
> From: FRANK KOZU@Chief of Staff (Regional Target) CIV/NSA
> on 31/01/2003 0:16
> Subject: Reflections of Iraq debate/votes at UN - RT actions and potential
> for related contributions
> Importance: High
> TOP SECRET/COMINT/XL
> All,
> As you've likely heard by now, the Agency is mounting a surge particularly
> directed at the UN Security Council (UNSC) members (minus US and GBR of
> course) for insights as to how to membership is reacting to the on-going
> debate RE: Iraq, plans to vote on any related resolutions, what related
> policies/
> negotiating positions they may be considering, alliances/ dependencies, etc
> - the whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in
> obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises. In RT,
> that means a QRC surge effort to revive/ create efforts against UNSC members
> Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea, as well as extra focus on
> Pakistan UN matters.
> We've also asked ALL RT topi's to emphasise and make sure they pay attention
> to existing non-UNSC member UN-related and domestic comms for
> anything useful related to the UNSC deliberations/ debates/ votes. We have a
> lot of special UN-related diplomatic coverage (various UN delegations) from
> countries not sitting on the UNSC right now that could contribute related
> perspectives/ insights/ whatever. We recognise that we can't afford to
> ignore this
> possible source.
> We'd appreciate your support in getting the word to your analysts who might
> have similar, more in-direct access to valuable information from accesses in
> your product lines. I suspect that you'll be hearing more along these lines
> in formal channels - especially as this effort will probably peak (at least
> for this
> specific focus) in the middle of next week, following the SecState's
> presentation to the UNSC.
> Thanks for your help
>
> Commentary of DRUGE REPORT: ALLEGED 'TOP SECRET' TEXT OF NSA EMAIL...
> BUT WAIT: WOULD AMERICAN NSA EMPLOYEE SPELL FAVORABLE 'FAVOURABLE',
> RECOGNIZE 'RECOGNISE' AND EMPHASIZE 'EMPHASISE' IN BRITISH TONGUE?...
> WOULD NSA REALLY TIME STAMP EMAILS '31/01/2003 0:16' IN EUROPEAN FORMAT?...
> NAME IN ALLEGED EMAIL IS 'KOZU' AND OBSERVER STORY CLAIMS TO HAVE CONTACTED
> A 'KOZA'?...
>
> Peter B. Martin
> Montcuq, France