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14-23 May 2010 Initiator: Johan Mostert Editor: Dalene Duvenage Contributions and enquiries dalene@4knowledge.co.za

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North America: Blair’s resignation may reflect inherent conflicts in job of intelligence chief Dispute over France a factor in intelligence rift The report that was the last straw…

Who will be the next DNI? Hoekstra: National security apparatus broken, dysfunctional, in disarray Holder tightens grip on intelligence agencies White House Names Deputy FBI Director as TSA chief US appoints first cyber warfare general Canada: Judge to decide if former soldier a spy Asia As US says “do more”, Pakistan highlights own limitations India: Police form 90 special squads to gather terror intelligence India: spying case: Madhuri rejected marriage to handler South/North Korea: US finds North Korea leader authorized attack on South Taiwan/China: Ex-Taiwanese civilian spies break long silence Clear spying charges, Seoul urged No release for hikers jailed as American spies, says Iran Europe EU summit on future European Intelligence Service Draft national security strategy provides for Bulgarian CIA Russia: FSB changes its approach to dealing with spies, Moscow experts say Two suspected Libyan secret agents arrested in Berlin Vladimir Putin laments Soviet Union ignoring his spy intelligence France: Comment: Was Clotilde Reiss a French spy in Iran?

Report: French interior minister sues former spy over book Comment: Does Germany need a National Security Council?

The 9th Conference of the Security Service of Ukraine & Federal Security Service of Russian federation delegations held in Odessa Italy expelled Moroccans on suspicion of Pope plot UK spy agency probed over bombs Australia Aus demands Israel withdraw embassy official over use of stolen passports Middle East Saudi King slams intelligence leak Israeli soldiers fall prey to Facebook spy Lebanese arrested for spying for Israel Africa

Nigeria/US: statement issued by National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer

From the editor This week is overshadowed by the forced resignation of the US’ Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The rest of the world has also seen some interesting intelligence developments.

The next few weeks will determine whether pres Obama will appoint a new Director for National Intelligence or perhaps order a new overhaul of the intelligence community in the US. A new DNI will most certainly be subjected to the same systemic fault lines and political bickering as Dennis Blair, who resigned with effect 28 May 2010, making a re-look at the dynamics of the intelligence community in the US necessary.

A new DNI will be the fourth intelligence coordinator since the DNI’s establishment in 2004 (recommended by the 9/11 Commission), but he has little authority over the 16 Agencies that constitute the security apparatus in the US. It will be interesting to see whether the Obama government will use this opportunity to only reshuffle the deck seats or be brave enough to seek the advice of intelligence professionals on how to structure and lead a punch-drunk community. However, it is doubtful that any major changes will be made in this election year.

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North America Uncertain future for the DNI Blair's resignation may reflect inherent conflicts in job of intelligence chief By Greg Miller and Washington Post, May 22, 2010

Walter

Pincus

The National Counterterrorism Center, established after the 2001 attacks to collate As the intelligence community was rebuilt information from across agencies and analyze after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, two threats, is under the same scrutiny. Two additions were seen as crucial to addressing narrowly averted terrorist attacks in the past systemic breakdowns: a new director to force five months have prompted criticism of the often-squabbling agencies to work together, center, part of the Office of the DNI. A Senate and a counterterrorism center to connect report released this week concluded that the threat data dots. center was still "not organized adequately to But developments this week fulfill its mission" six years after it was underscored the extent to which launched. those two institutions have The failings have caught the attention struggled to carry out their missions, of the Obama administration. One of and are increasingly seen as hobbled the first tasks given to the President's by their own structural flaws.

Intelligence Advisory Board when it The resignation of Dennis C. Blair as was assembled in December was to director of national intelligence seek ways to bridge the gap between Friday means the position will soon the expectations and authorities in the Admiral be turned over to a fourth occupant in intelligence director's job.

Dennis Blair little more than five years. Current and Blair's colleagues acknowledged that he former U.S. intelligence officials said the job struggled with the political aspects of the has come to be viewed as a thankless position. But they said he was particularly assignment -- lacking in authority, yet held to frustrated by what he considered account for each undetected terrorist plot. micromanagement from the White House "The DNI doesn't have any authority to make and a lack of adequate budget and hiring things happen," said Mark M. Lowenthal, a authority. former senior CIA official and the chief Early problems executive of the Intelligence & Security The leading candidate to replace Blair is Academy. "If you look at who we've had, James Clapper, a retired Air Force lieutenant we've been extremely lucky in the people general who has led two large intelligence who've accepted the job. Three of the agencies and currently serves as brightest people I've ever met. But they can't Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. make the job work. At a certain point, you Clapper is capable of bringing "a sense of have to ask yourself: Is it the job?" purpose, mission and identity" to the director The DNI oversees 16 intelligence agencies, position, said a former high-ranking U.S. including the CIA. But the director has only intelligence official who worked closely with partial budget authority over the sprawling him. But, the former official said, "without bureaucracy he leads. Thus, some intelligence some support from the president or experts say, whoever holds the job will lack structural change, you're not going to see a the influence envisioned when the office was much different outcome." created.

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Problems with the position have prompted a series of high-level candidates to turn it down. Among the first to do so was Robert M. Gates, now the secretary of defense. As a former CIA director, he opposed the legislation that established the DNI. U.S. officials acknowledged this week that they had approached former senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) about replacing Blair, but that Hagel made it clear he would decline.

Creating a powerful intelligence director was one of the main recommendations of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks. The commission's report called for the director position to be lodged inside the White House, but that provision was quickly dropped when Congress took up intelligence reform legislation.

Congress also struggled to define what the director should be empowered to do. The law provides the authority to "develop and determine" the national intelligence budget, but the director merely "participates" in setting the spending for military intelligence programs that are set by the defense secretary. Those agencies account for about a third of the more than $70 billion allocated annually to the intelligence community.

Blair and his predecessors struggled to straddle competing aspects of the job -serving as the overall manager of the diverse intelligence community while also serving as the president's principal intelligence adviser.

Blair emphasized the communitymanagement aspect, officials said, a choice that may have cost him the ability to foster closer ties with Obama and his closest aides.

Indeed, Blair lost several turf skirmishes to someone who was supposed to be his subordinate, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta.

Even before he came into the job, Blair was warned that it would likely be the case.

After accepting the position, Blair met with the outgoing director, Michael McConnell.

"They will recruit him," McConnell said of Panetta, according to a source who witnessed the exchange, meaning that Panetta's loyalties would soon be to the agency.

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"My view is that the only person who might have the horsepower with the White House to turn the DNI into an effective position would be Leon Panetta," said Sen. Christopher Bond (Mo.), the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence committee. "He just laughed when I told him that."

Asserting authority Blair's attempts to assert authority over CIA operations and certain overseas assignments rankled some within the intelligence community.

"The DNI exists to set policy. It was never intended to collect intelligence or run operations," said a U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of interagency sensitivities. "It's supposed to be a guiding strategic hand across agencies, not a top-down command authority."

Colleagues of Blair, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, said he chafed at such descriptions of the job. Blair had intended to serve out a four-year term in the position, officials said.

That he was pushed out has as much to do with his political alienation from Obama as it does the intelligence failures that cropped up during his tenure, they said.

By contrast, Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, is said to remain in good standing with the administration despite mounting criticism of his agency in recent months. The center was intended to fuse foreign and domestic intelligence on terrorist threats, and to supply policymakers with analysis and expertise on key terror-related issues.

But the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded that the center mishandled multiple clues that might have prevented a Nigerian man from smuggling a bomb aboard an aircraft bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. An attachment to the report said officials at the center seemed confused about its role. "Despite its statutory mission," the attachment said, "NCTC did not believe it was the sole agency in the [intelligence

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community] for piecing together all terrorism threats."

Defenders of the center said internal changes after the Detroit incident are bringing tangible if not publicly visible results. And they said the NCTC has been involved in thwarting several plots, including one to

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attack the New York subway system, and terrorist threats in Denmark and Germany. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052 104939_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST20100 52104917.

Dispute Over France a Factor in Intelligence Rift 22 May 2010, New York Times

two nations are trying to present a united front to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.

Officials said the dust-up was not the proximate cause of President Obama’s decision to remove Mr. Blair, who announced his resignation on Thursday, from the job as director of national intelligence, but was a contributing factor in the mutual distrust between the White House and members of Mr. Blair’s staff. The episode also illuminates the extent to which communications between the president’s aides and Mr. Blair had deteriorated during a period of particular alarm about terrorist threats to the United States... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/politics/22intel.html?ref=world An already strained relationship between the White House and the departing spymaster Dennis C. Blair erupted earlier this year over Mr. Blair’s efforts to cement close intelligence ties to France and broker a pledge between the nations not to spy on each other, American government officials said Friday.

The White House scuttled the plan, officials said, but not before President Nicolas Sarkozy of France had come to believe that a deal was in place. Officials said that Mr. Sarkozy was angered about the miscommunication, and that the episode had hurt ties between the United States and France at a time when the

The report that was the last straw….

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) report identifies fourteen specific points of failure--a series of human errors, technical problems, systemic obstacles, analytical misjudgements, and competing priorities-which resulted in Abdulmutallab being able to travel to the United States on December 25, 2009. Those points of failure are: I. The State Department did not revoke Abdulmutallab's U.S. Visa.

2. Abdulmutallab was not placed in the "Terrorist Screening Database" (TSDB), on the Selectee List, or on the No Fly List.

3. Reporting was not distributed to all appropriate CIA elements.

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4. A CIA Regional Division, at CIA Headquarters, did not search databases containing reports related to Abdulmutallab.

5. CIA did not disseminate key reporting until after the 12/25 attempted attack.

6. A CIA Counterterrorism Center (CTC) Office's limited name search failed to uncover the key reports on Abdulmutallab.

7. CIA CTC analysts failed to connect the reporting on Abdulmutallab.

8. FBI Counterterrorism analysts could not access all relevant reports.

9. NCTC's Directorate of intelligence failed to connect the reporting on Abdulmutallab.

10. NCTC's Watchlisting Office did not conduct additional research to find additional

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derogatory information to place 14. Intelligence analysts were primarily Abdulmutallab on a watchlist. focused on AI-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) threats to U.S. interests in Yemen, II. NSA did not pursue potential collection rather than on potential AQAP threats to the opportunities that could have provided U.S. Homeland.

Information on Abdulmutallab.

Based on the information provided, the 12. Analysts did not connect key reports Committee concludes that the Intelligence partly identifying Abdulmutallab and failed to Community failed to connect and ensure dissemination of all relevant appropriately analyze the information in its reporting. possession prior to December 25, 2009 that 13. NSA did not nominate Abdulmutallab for would have identified Abdulmutallab as a Watchlisting or the Terrorist Identities possible terrorist threat to the United States.

Datamart Environment (TIDE) based on information partly identifying him. http://intelligence.senate.gov/100518/1225report.pdf

Who will be the next Director of National Intelligence?

2010-05-21, Melissa Jane Kronfeld (Ed: excerpted)

GSN: Government Security News reached out to experts across the spectrum of the security arena -- from government, business and academia -- to come up with a list of possible candidates. Early press reports have stated that Obama has already begun interviewing individuals for the job, although who they might be has yet to be revealed.

Here is the list of potential candidates that GSN has been told might already be up for discussion in the White House.

John Brennan The current deputy national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism, John Brennan served as the interim director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) as was, at one time, considered to be the president’s pick for Director of the CIA, until he withdrew himself from consideration over his involvement with harsh interrogation techniques. A career spy -- he has spent most of his life with the CIA -- Brennan was station chief in the Middle East and later served as the Agency’s deputy executive director. Many of experts have told GSN that Brennan would be “non-confirmable.”

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Charles “Chuck” Hagel The former Republican senator from Nebraska and multimillionaire businessman, Chuck Hagel served on the Committee on Foreign Relations as well as the Select Committee on Intelligence during his tenure in office.

Despite his Republican roots, Hagel was critical of Bush throughout his presidency and often stood with the Democrats on many anti-war issues. He announced his retirement from politics in 2007 amidst heavy speculation that he would run for president in the 2008 election. Instead, he finished his term as senator and retired in January 2009 to teach at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Although he did not endorse either Barack Obama or John McCain in 2008, he was rumored, at one time, to be on Obama’s short list to become the next secretary of defense.

Richard Danzig President Bill Clinton’s former Secretary of the Navy and the current Chairman of the Center for a New American Security -- a national security think thank based in

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Washington, DC -- Richard Dazing acted as an advisor to candidate Obama during his presidential campaign. A New York native, who attended the prestigious Bronx High School of Science, and later Reed College, Yale and Oxford Universities, Danzig is a lawyer by training, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White. Danzig also taught law at Harvard and Stanford Univeristy.

John Hamre CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a foreign policy think tank based in Washington, DC, and chairman of the Defense Policy Board, John Hamre served as the Deputy Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton. Before working at DoD, Hamre worked on the Senate Armed Services Committee for a decade. A Republican, Hamre attended Harvard and John Hopkins, and later worked for the future Obama administration during the president’s transition into office.

James Clapper A retired Air Force lieutenant general, James Clapper currently serves as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence as well as the first Director of Defense Intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Clapper has also served as the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under President George W. Bush and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Bill Clinton. Numerous news reports have already pegged Clapper as the most likely candidate to be the next DNI. However, Two former top Defense Intelligence Agency officials say retired Air Force Gen. James R. Clapper, Jr., a leading candidate to be the next Director of National Intelligence, nearly wrecked the agency’s analysis wing when he ran the organization in the mid-1990s.

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Michael Vickers The current Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, Michael Vickers served in the army’s special forces as well as in the CIA’s paramilitary operations elite Special Activities Division.

Vickers played a key role in arming the Afghans against the Soviets in the 1980s and was even featured in the book-turned-movie, Charlie’s Wilson’s War, written by George Crile.

Jane Harman The second wealthiest member of Congress, Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat, is a New York native and, like the President, a graduate of Harvard Law School. Harman served as the special counsel to the Department of Defense under President Jimmy Carter. She played an integral role in the passage of the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 and has proven herself to be a strong supporter of the troops and the effort to defeat terrorism at home and overseas. She is a member of numerous committees including Homeland Security, and she currently chairs its Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment.

Leon Panetta The dark horse candidate, Leon Panetta -- the current Director the CIA – was identified in numerous press reports as the primary reason why Admiral Blair will retire on May 28. A former Democratic congressman from California, Panetta joined the Army in 1964 and later served as the White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton.

Panetta was selected by President Obama to head the CIA in 2009. Since that time, numerous press reports have painted a picture of Panetta as a man who has been constantly at odds with Blair over the DNI’s

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handling of the nation’s sensitive intelligence matters. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/20764/who_will_be_next_director_national_intelligence

Hoekstra: National Security Apparatus Broken, Dysfunctional, in Disarray Connie Hair, 20 May 2010

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), top Republican “Right now, the Obama administration’s on the House Intelligence Committee, issued national security apparatus is broken, a scathing rebuke of the politicization by the dysfunctional and in disarray,” Hoekstra said.

Obama administration of national security “Dennis Blair was the one person you could and intelligence agencies as evidenced count on for rationality among Holder, Thursday by the resignation of Director of Napolitano and Brennan—and he’s the one National Intelligence Dennis Blair. the president let go.”

“That a man who has willingly dedicated One of the main criticisms of the himself to the cause of our nation’s freedom administration’s mishandling of national would rather step down than continue to security and intelligence agencies -- apart serve as America’s top intelligence officer is a from placing the impetus on prosecuting field disturbing sign of the stranglehold the Obama operatives over defining and fighting radical White House has placed on America’s Islam -- has been their predisposition to cut intelligence agencies,” Hoekstra said in a intelligence agencies out of the national written statement. security loop. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37106

Holder Tightens Grip on Intelligence Agencies Jed Babbin Jed Babbin May 18 2010 (Ed: exerpted) Attorney General Eric Holder has tightened his grip on our intelligence agencies, requiring them to get Justice Department permission to release classified information to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, according to Senate sources.

Sen. Christopher Bond (R-Mo), Ranking AG Eric Republican on the Senate Select Holder Committee on Intelligence, and three Senate staffers working for other members have recently asked the Director of National Intelligence for information on the interrogation of the failed Times Square bomber, Faisal Shazad. (Some of questions may have been directed at other intelligence matters as well.)

All four were told the information will not be provided until the Justice Department approved the transaction.

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The National Security Act (50 USC Sec 413 and 413(a)) requires the Director of National Intelligence and all intelligence agencies to keep the House and Senate Intelligence Committees "fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities" other than covert operations and furnish those committees any information regarding the intelligence agencies' activities which the congressional committees request.

The Attorney General has no role in that process. But Eric Holder has - with the president's support -seized control of that and other intelligence agency functions.

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agencies as well -- that the White House morale - and lead interrogators to excessive didn't trust the spy agency to run terrorist caution - Panetta fought against the Holder interrogations. investigation and lost.

Holder broke the promise on investigating CIA The White House supported Holder then, and interrogators last August when he announced continues to do so now. By defeating Panetta the appointment of special prosecutor to in August and Blair now, Holder has conduct a preliminary inquiry into allegations established de facto control over the of CIA abuse of detainees during intelligence community. interrogation.

Holder is Obama's point man on the most According to an ABC News report, that controversial aspects of the president's antiannouncement came the morning after a terror agenda. He's responsible for the "profanity-laced screaming match" at the decision to "Mirandize" terrorists and trying White House involving Holder, CIA Director to move the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed Leon Panetta and a highly-placed White from Guantanamo Bay to Manhattan. By House staffer. Panetta was in the midst of a helping him stonewall Congress on critical months-long defense of the CIA against from matters of intelligence oversight, Obama is Speaker Pelosi's accusations that the spy expanding Holder's authority in a manner agency was lying to Congress about what and most likely to cause legislative retribution when it had briefed her on waterboarding of aimed directly at reining in the AG. terrorist detainees. Fearing that the investigation would further damage CIA http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/18/holder_tightens_grip_on_intelligence_agen cies_105623.html

White House Names Deputy FBI Director as TSA Chief May 17, 2010, Peter Baker and Carl Hulse

President Obama on Monday made his third try to fill the vacant chair atop one of the government’s primary security agencies, this time picking someone who may have an easier time passing the F.B.I. background check – the deputy director of the F.B.I. The president announced that he will nominate John S. Pistole, the number two official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to take over the Transportation Security Pistole Administration, which oversees airport passenger screening. With Mr. Obama’s first two choices withdrawing after revelations of past behavior, the T.S.A. has been without an Obama appointee heading it for 16 months since he took office.

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suspected Times Square attempted bomber.

The man being hunted by the authorities was able to buy a ticket to Dubai with cash at the last minute and board a plane at John F. Kennedy International Airport even though his name had been flagged by the F.B.I. Authorities discovered that he was on the plane and removed him from it just minutes before it was supposed to take off.

A graduate of Anderson University and the Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis, Mr. Pistole joined the F.B.I. in 1983 and served in the Minneapolis and New York divisions before joining the organized crime section in Washington. He later worked in Indianapolis and Boston and in 1999 helped lead the investigative effort following the crash of Egypt Air Flight 990 off the coast of Rhode Island.

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He helped lead a working group in 2001 to counterterrorism division where he held a address security issues raised by the arrest of series of jobs before taking on his current Robert Hanssen, an F.B.I. agent working as a assignment in 2004. spy for Moscow. In 2002, he moved to the http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/white-house-to-name-deputy-f-b-i-director-as-ts-a-chief/

US appoints first cyber warfare general 23 May, The Guardian

afternoon in a low-key ceremony at Fort The US military has appointed its first Meade, in Maryland. senior general to direct cyber warfare – despite fears that the move marks The creation of America's most senior another stage in the militarisation of cyber warrior comes just days after the cyberspace.

US air force disclosed that some 30,000 of its troops had been re-assigned from The newly promoted four-star general, technical support "to the frontlines of Keith Alexander, takes charge of the Gen Alexander cyber warfare".

Pentagon's ambitious and controversial new Cyber Command, designed to conduct The creation of Cyber Command is in virtual combat across the world's computer response to increasing anxiety over the networks. He was appointed on Friday vulnerability of the US's military and other networks to a cyber attack. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/us-appoints-cyber-warfare-general

Canada: Judge to decide if former Soviet soldier a spy May 19, 2010, Toronto Star (Ed: excerpted)

A Federal Court judge will be asked on Wednesday to define what exactly a spy is, in a case where a Ukrainian citizen’s residency bid was rejected because he served in the army of the former Soviet Union 25 years ago.

In 2008, a visa officer at the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw ruled Dmytro Afanasyev, 43, was inadmissible because he engaged in espionage while a soldier from 1985-87. “His assignment was to intercept and listen to English communications from East Germany coming from U.S. bases in West Germany, and identifying and debriefing various frequencies and telegraph codes,” according to an immigration department factum.

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grounds to believe engages” in those acts is ineligible for permanent residency in Canada.

But Gary Segal, a Toronto lawyer representing Afanasyev, said immigration officials have blown his client’s role in the army way out of proportion. “The gathering of military intelligence is what everybody in every army does,” Segal said. Afanasyev went into the compulsory service for two years in the mid’80s “and was never higher than a private. He never even made it to corporal,” Segal said.

The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act has no definition of spy, Segal said. “So it will be up to this judge to define.” That definition could have unintended consequences, turning someone who monitors U.S. ships crossing the Arctic into spies, he said.

It has been a decade since Afanasyev applied to become a permanent resident in Canada along with his wife and two children. Segal said he is a successful lawyer, businessman

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“I expect they want a broad definition of what constitutes espionage and who is a spy.�

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Asia As US Says 'Do More,' Pakistan Highlights Its Own Limitations May 22, 2010, by Abubaker Saddique (Ed: excerpted)

This week's visit by the US president's national-security adviser and the head of the Central Intelligence Agency to Pakistan was portrayed as a feel-good trip that highlighted the high level of cooperation between Washington and Islamabad.

But despite what may have been written about CIA chief Leon Panetta's and General James Jones's meetings with civilian and military leadership during their visit, analysts in Pakistan say all is not well between the two sides.

They note that as senior US officials visit Islamabad to make new demands -- mostly about increasing military or law enforcement efforts against myriad extremist groups in Pakistan's western border regions - Pakistani officials continue to respond by urging patience, asking for more money and weapons, and calling for a true understanding of their military, political, and economic limitations.

He says that the attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square has intensified US demands for an all-out offensive in North Waziristan, a district in the western Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the border with Afghanistan. He says the Pakistani military is wary of signing on to such an operation until it can be sure that it would work to its advantage and not backfire in the form of a huge backlash, possibly resulting in terrorist attacks.

"There has been a lack of understanding between the American administration and http://www.eurasianet.org/node/61124

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Pakistan Army in particular," Siddiqui says.

"The losses that [the] Pakistan Army has suffered in earlier operations in South Waziristan in FATA region and [the northwestern region] of Swat and the like [will prompt] questions in their minds about what exactly has been achieved. And how the purposes of Pakistan's territorial security has been advanced or ensured."

In Islamabad, security analyst Talat Masood says that the Obama administration is under a lot of domestic pressure to do something about the security threats emanating from Pakistan's tribal regions. This, he says, prompts frequent visits by senior US officials who use "their economic and military clout to influence political and military decisions [in Pakistan]."

Western officials, for their part, appear to be well aware of Islamabad's limitations, but would nevertheless like to see genuine commitment to the effort to root out extremist groups on Pakistani soil. While details of Panetta's and Jones's discussions in Islamabad are slim, experts suggest the portrayal of that message was the main objective of their visit.

Unnamed officials have told Pakistani media that the visiting US delegation also delivered a message from President Barack Obama that warned of serious consequences in the event that a future attack on US soil were to originate from Pakistan. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publically aired the same message earlier this month.

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India: Police form 90 special squads to gather terror intelligence DNA Friday, May 21, 2010

The 26/11 terror attack has taught them a will regularly collect intelligence information, lesson. For intelligence gathering, they need and we will try to nip threats in the bud. They to have their ears to the ground. Their own will also be performing other duties as and ears, not just those of the informers. when required,” Sivanandhan said.

The Mumbai police have, for the The special squads will also help the first time ever, decided to form police to rebuild their ties with local specialised squads — one for each informants and sources. Last year, the of the 90 police stations in the city. informers’ network, following a series A team of four — an officer of the of attacks on it, had almost turned its rank of a sub-inspector and three back on the police. Also, they were a constables — has been formed in disgruntled lot as the police every police station. Their main department did not pay them their duty will be gathering intelligence inputs. dues for sensitive tip-offs.

These “eyes and ears” units will compile Currently, the Mumbai police get its reports and submit them directly to Rajnish intelligence warnings from the crime branch Seth, joint commissioner of police (Law and and special branches. Beside the city police, Order). Seth in turn will brief the police state intelligence department and central commissioner, D Sivanandhan. agencies, including Intelligence Bureau (IB), are working at grass roots to collect inputs.

“The aim of setting up such squads is to strengthen intelligence gathering. These cops http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_police-form-90-special-squads-to-gather-terrorintelligence_1385654

India: Spying case: Madhuri rejected marriage to handler TNN, May 13, 2010,

NEW DELHI: Indian high commission staffer Madhuri Gupta may have spied for Pakistan but she turned down a marriage proposal from Pakistani intelligence operative Jamshed she was liaising with.

Gupta, who is in her 50s, is learnt to have told her interrogators here that Jamshed, a divorcee in his 30s, was keen on marrying her but she did not accept his proposal citing the age gap between them.

Transcripts of her interrogation show how Jamshed and his superior, Mudassar Rana of Pakistan's Intelligence Bureau (a batchmate of Pakistan's interior minister Rahman Malik), worked on her strong sense of grievance against the ministry of external affairs to compromise her. Asked what led her to betray her country, Gupta bluntly told her

interrogators that "they (Pakistanis) gave me recognition".

Gupta, who wanted to convert to Islam but was discouraged by her stubborn mother, was seething with anger against the MEA for being forced to go on leave without pay for close to two years, beginning 2002. The IFS-B officer had applied for two years' sabatical to complete her doctorate on Sufi Islam. Though she proceeded on leave even after her application was turned down, the resultant loss of salary required her to cut down on her lifestyle. The junior IFS functionary, who was fond of good things in life, never forgave her superiors for that.

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ineptitude of the foreign ministry that allowed her to go undetected for so long.

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South/North Korea U.S. finds North Korean leader authorized attack on South New York Times, 22 May 2010

intelligence agencies. "But there is very little WASHINGTON — A new American doubt, based on what we know about the intelligence analysis of a deadly torpedo current state of the North Korean leadership attack on a South Korean warship concludes and the military." that Kim Jong Il, the ailing leader of North Korea, must have authorized the torpedo So far, at least in public, both U.S. and South assault, according to senior American officials Korean leaders have been careful never to who cautioned that the assessment was link Kim to the attack. Officials said that was based on their sense of the political dynamics in part because of the absence of hard there rather than hard evidence. evidence but also largely because both countries were trying to avoid playing into The officials said they were increasingly Kim's hands by casting one of the worst convinced that Kim ordered the sinking of the attacks since the 1953 armistice as another ship, the Cheonan, to help secure the piece of lore about the Kim family taking on succession of his youngest son.

South Korea and the West.

"We can't say it is established fact," said one http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15143202? senior official who was involved in the highly nclick_check=1 classified assessment, based on information collected by many of the country's 16 Read the report here Read the reaction of the North Korean government here

Taiwan/China: Ex-Taiwanese civilian spies break long silence 19 May 2010 (ed: excerpted)

The recent avalanche of information about Taiwan's espionage activities and techniques to gather information is unprecedented.

The coming out of former spies has captured the popular imagination through many riveting revelations.

In mid-March, Zhou Shou-shun, 42, one of the youngest legislators of the ruling party KMT and a vocal champion on human rights issues, gave a news conference in which he introduced a number of surprise guests: former MIB civilian spies. With more than 50 journalists covering the event, Zhou was assured the story would generate headlines.

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The former civilian spies all bore a common grudge: The MIB had left them in the lurch by failing to have them repatriated and offered only paltry compensation for their ordeal once they had been released from prisons in China.

Zhou said: "I believe Taiwan must care for its people, especially those who have made such sacrifices in the service of their country. From a human rights perspective, Taiwan should ask China to repatriate those who have already served long prison sentences or who are now advanced in years."

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Several hundred spies, including many former 1980s and was eventually convicted of civilian agents, remain imprisoned in China, espionage in China. He was sentenced to life according to sources. imprisonment and spent more than 20 years deprived of his freedom.

Li Jun-ming, deputy secretary-general of the Service Center for People of Cross-Straits in These days, he works to secure the early Taiwan, served as an officer of the MIB in the release of Taiwanese agents in China. http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201005180329.html

Clear spying charges, Seoul urged May 19, 2010, SEOUL (ed: excerpted)

Four ethnic Korean residents of Japan Kim Jong Sa, 54, an ethnic Korean resident of convicted of spying in South Korea made an Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, whom the impassioned appeal Monday for their names panel has already certified as innocent, to be cleared, arguing they were wrongfully accompanied the three. They all served convicted after being tortured in the 1970s prison terms of between four to 16 years in and 1980s.

South Korea.

It was the first time that Korean residents of The commission, which has recommended Japan have visited the Truth and retrials for seven ethnic Korean residents of Reconciliation Commission in the South Japan, is scheduled to conclude its Korean capital seeking absolution. investigations next month, with some critics accusing President Lee Myung Bak's The four made the appeal shortly after the government of being reluctant to come to Seoul High Court ordered a retrial for Lee terms with the country's history.

Jong Soo, a 51-year-old ethnic Korean resident of Kyoto who spent years in prison At a meeting with the former prisoners, a for alleged spying in the 1980s. senior commission official said the panel confirmed that the treatment of the three It has become clear in South Korea that many was illegal, including their imprisonment spying cases were fabricated because the without warrants, and that the panel is autocratic military government at the time working hard to conclude reports on them by was trying to suppress popular calls for the time it wraps up its work. democratic reforms.

"The home country has not turned its eyes to At the commission, Lee Heon Chi, 57, of Kobe, the damage done to its brethren in Japan," Lee Dong Suk, 58, of the city of Osaka, and said Kim Jong Sa, calling for an extensive Kim Dong Hui, 56, also of Osaka, said their inquiry into the matter. cases were fabricated and they were forced to confess after being tortured. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100519b3.html

No release for hikers jailed as American spies, says Iran The Times, May 20, 2010

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visit could help to expedite the release of their children. Instead they are likely to become bargaining chips in the confrontation over Iran’s nuclear programme. On Tuesday the US reached agreement with Russia and China on a tough new package of UN sanctions against Iran.

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Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Iranians believed to be in US custody. In Fattal, 27, have been held in Evin prison in December Tehran released a list of 11 Tehran since July, when they were arrested Iranians it claims are being held in the US, after crossing the Iranian border from including a nuclear scientist, Shahram Amiri, northern Iraq. They have always insisted that who disappeared in Saudi Arabia last year they strayed across the border by accident during a pilgrimage to Mecca. Tehran has during a hiking trip in Iraq’s mountainous accused the CIA of kidnapping Mr Amiri.

Kurdish region. Iran has accused them of Others on the list include an Iranian Defence working for the CIA. Ministry official who disappeared in Turkey “Despite them being spies and entering Iran and an Iranian held in Canada and charged illegally, they were dealt with according to with trying to obtain nuclear technology. religious teachings and in a humanitarian Washington has not acknowledged that all 11 way,” Mr Moslehi was reported as saying by are in the US and rejected an exchange deal Iran’s ISNA news agency yesterday. He said for the hikers. the Iranian Government had shown Evin prison is used for political prisoners and compassion by granting visas to the three government opponents. The three Americans mothers so they could visit their children. have been kept in almost constant solitary President Ahmadinejad has suggested that confinement since their capture. the hikers could be released in exchange for http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7131336.ece

Europe EU Summit on Future European Intelligence Service ANSAmed 14 May 2010

it was also attended by the Co-ordinater of MADRID Heads of the EU s twenty-nine secret Europés Anti-Terrorist unit, Belgian Gilles de services, as well as those of Norway and of Kerchove.

Switzerland, have been meeting in Alcalà de Henares (Madrid) in a summit set up under The coming into effect of the Treaty of Lisbon the Spanish presidency of the Council of on December first last year, which foresees Europe, to step up cooperation and to discuss the creation of a European Foreign Action a future creation of a Europe-wide Service (Seae) and the adoption of a common intelligence service. defence policy, will lead to greater information-exchange between the The meeting was actually held on May 5, but intelligence services and the creation of a according to an article in today's edition of El common EU service to tackle threats to Pais, it was kept secret. In attendance were security in the form of cyber-attacks, illegal members of the Counter-Terrorist Group, immigration, drug smuggling and currency (CTG), made up of the interior intelligence speculators attacks on the euro. services of the 27 EU countries and of Norway and Switzerland.

The outcomes from the meeting are to be transferred to the High Representative for The CTG was set up following the attacks on Foreign Policy, and the EU's common the United States of September 11 2001. It defence, Catherine Ashton, over the coming meets twice a year in those countries holding days. the rotating EU presidency. For the first time, http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME03.XAM18123.html

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Draft National Security Strategy Provides for ‘Bulgarian CIA’

political situation abroad, which will be the job of the future CIA. (Novinite) — Bulgaria’s Defense Minister has proposed the merging of intelligence services The Defense Minister explained that the to create a mega-structure of the CIA type. future National Security Act will define the powers of the respective intelligence Minister Anyu Angelov announced Friday in institutions.

He insisted that the Parliament he insisted on the creation of a government’s National Security Council has to new structure uniting the military and the become a permanent “emergency situations” foreign intelligence. Currently, Bulgaria’s body because at present the Bulgarian military intelligence is controled by the authorities reacted to issues by setting up Defense Ministry, while the National individual crisis headquarters only after an Intelligence Service is answerable to the issue has already emerged.

President.

“We also need a center for strategic analysis According to Angelov, the new Bulgarian CIA at the National Security will be created in a Council, which be similar fashion to the preparing forecasts for State National Security actions. This unit will be Agency DANS, which is using foreign experts dubbed “the Bulgarian from the EU, NATO, and FBI”; DANS was set up international NGOs and in 2008 by merging will have a small three internal security secretariat,” explained and counterAngelov. intelligence institutions. Similarly to The National Security Council of the Bulgarian Bulgaria’s Security Council DANS, the new foreign Cabinet met on Friday to consider the draft will have a second meeting intelligence structure will national security strategy. Photo by BGNES regarding the draft National be under the control of the Security Strategy at the end Cabinet rather than the President – an issue of May; the strategy will be considered by the which has led to sparks between President government in June, and will then be tabled Parvanov and the Borisov government. to the Parliament for adoption.

The Bulgarian CIA might be created within 2 “The merging of intelligence and counteryears in accordance with the country’s new intelligence services is counter-productive,” draft National Security Strategy was said the Defense Minister when asked if considered Friday during a meeting of the DANS will be merged with the new megaSecurity Council of the government. Angelov structure. has pointed out that upon giving up the “I’ve heard all opinions presented during the control over the military intelligence, the meeting. There are constructive suggestions Defense Ministry will preserve a unit for army that we will include in the final draft of the reconnaissance in order to provide for the National Security Strategy,” stated Bulgarian security of the Bulgarian troops stationed Prime Minister Boyko Borisov after Friday’s abroad; this unit is not going to provide Security Council meeting. intelligence information for the military and http://www.inteldaily.com/2010/05/draft-national-security-strategy-provides-for-bulgarian-cia/ May 19, 2010

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Russia: FSB changes its approach to dealing with spies, Moscow experts say Vienna, May 17 (Ed: excerpted)

“It is possible,” the two experts say, With the imposition of a “surprisingly soft” “Sipachev’s soft sentence is the Kremlin’s sentence in the latest Russian espionage case, reaction to the loud scandals and criticism the FSB has not turned the corner toward a [surrounding the Danilov and Sutyagin case] more liberal approach but rather sent a by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council message that those charged with spying need of Europe, the Strasbourg Human Rights to cooperate with the organs in order to Court, and other international organizations receive a lighter sentence, according to two of which Russia is a participant.”

Moscow experts.

But it is more probable, the two argue, that In today’s “Yezhednevny zhurnal,” Andrey what has happened reflects two new trends Soldatov and Irina Borogan, editors of the in FSB practice. On the one hand, Soldatov Agentura.ru portal, say that it is important to and Borogan say, in an increasing number of recognize that the sentences handed cases, the FSB prefers to bring the lesser out in espionage cases in Russia have charges of revealing state secrets or little to do with the harm any particular even economic crimes than attracting spy does and more with the message the kind of attention, often negative, it the Kremlin wants delivered receives from making spy charges (www.ej.ru/?a=note&id=10108). directly.

When Igor Sutyagin and Valentin And on the other, they point out, the FSB Danilov were given long prison terms, appears to be increasingly interested in the two say, Moscow was seeking to gaining the cooperation of those it charges by send a message to the members of Russia’s offering or appearing to offer lesser scientific community that they should “forget sentences to those who cooperate with its about unsanctioned foreign contacts.” Now, investigation, something that appears to have with the Sipachev verdict, the FSB is sending been the case with Sipachev and his an additional one. attorneys.

Last week, a Russian court sentenced Thus, Soldatov and Borogan say, “the light Gennady Sipachev, an amateur cartographer sentence in Sipachev’s case is yet another from Yekaterinburg who was found guilty of signal that cooperating with the organs is not providing “secret maps to the Pentagon” to simply necessary but also useful. And in case four years of prison, a light punishment by anyone missed the point, news stories about recent standards but one that provides clear the case noted specifically that Sipachev had evidence that “the FSB is again changing its completely admitted his guilt and then tactics.” provided assistance to investigators.

Although the FSB through the cloak of secrecy But there is just one problem in this case: over the entire proceedings, the meaning of Sipachev, a civilian without access to secrets, the Sipachev case is clear, Soldatov and was sentenced to prison for revealing them, Borogan say. Charges against Sipachev were while “the individual who supplied the “formulated approximately as in the case of amateur collector with secret maps has not Sutyagin and Danilov,” but “in contrast to the landed in court,” a shortcoming that neither two scholars,” Sipachev was charged not with the Russian courts nor the FSB have yet espionage but only with violating state explained. secrecy rules. http://georgiandaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18649&Itemid=65

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Two suspected Libyan secret agents arrested in Berlin Fri, 14 May 2010, Europe World News

service, collecting information about exiled Berlin - Two Libyans have been arrested in opposition members in Germany and Berlin on suspicion of working as secret throughout Europe since August 2007 or agents, federal prosecutors said on Friday. before. The second man is thought to have The men, identified by their first names as 42assisted him. year-old Adel Ab and 46-year-old Adel Al, are The accused men were placed into pre-trial suspected of spying on members of the custody on Friday. The Federal Office of Libyan opposition in Germany, according to Criminal Investigation is looking further into prosecutors. the case.

The younger of the two men is said to have worked as an officer of the Libyan secret http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/323681,two-suspected-libyan-secret-agents-arrested-inberlin.html

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remember very well the moment at the end Vladimir Putin has admitted for the first time of the 1980s when our work and the work of that he spent his stint as a KGB spy in 1980s your foreign colleagues obtained through East Germany conducting industrial special means was not integrated into the espionage against the West, lamenting that economy of the Soviet Union," he told the the secrets he stole were ignored. scientists and academics.

Vladimir Putin was based in Dresden during Mr Putin, who worked as a KGB spy the 1980s. In his most in Dresden from 1985-1990, said he candid comments on the could not understand why Soviet subject to date, the Russian scientists did not use the prime minister said that at intelligence he and his colleagues least part of his job as a were "acquiring" from the West.

KGB agent in East Germany involved acquiring sensitive "We were working really hard on technological and industrial this area and again and again secrets from the West. getting what was needed but it was Photo: BLOOMBERG no use. We used to ask: 'Where is But he told a meeting of the it? Where is it being used in our economy?'

Russian Academy of Sciences that he grew Nowhere. It was not possible to harness it." increasingly frustrated as the know-how he passed back to the Soviet Union to help it Little is known about Mr Putin's time in East make good the yawning technological gap Germany in the 1980s except that another with the West went unused. part of his job was to recruit spies who had access and close links to West Germany.

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France: Comment: Was Clotilde Reiss a French Spy in Iran?

May 20, 2010 · Joseph Fitsanakis | intelnews.org in some way or another, perhaps even The case of Clotilde Reiss acquired new unwillingly, assist France’s DGSE. In fact, it momentum earlier this week, after a former would be difficult to imagine that DGSE French intelligence official claimed she had officers operating out of France’s embassy in collaborated with French secret services.

Tehran would not have tried to ‘debrief’ Reiss Pierre Siramy, who until late last year was a about the social and political conditions of senior official at DGSE, France’s external the Iranian student body at Isfahan intelligence agency, said on Sunday that Reiss University, where she worked. The reality is had worked “very well” for France. Reiss, a that these DGSE agents would rarely –if 25-year-old Farsi-speaking Frenchever– be able to experience these language assistant at the University conditions first hand, so Reiss’ input of Isfahan, was arrested in Iran last would undoubtedly have been valuable. year on accusations of being a The question is whether Clotilde Reiss ‘nuclear spy’. But last weekend her knew that the French ‘diplomats’, who ten-year prison sentence was wanted to know about conditions at suddenly commuted to a fine, and Isfahan Univeristy, were in fact DGSE she was able to return home to France, in an apparent secret deal with Clotilde Reiss officers. It is unlikely that she did. She was probably never recruited, as Pierre Siramy Paris, which included the release of two himself indirectly admitted, by noting that the Iranian operatives held in France. young teaching assistant “wasn’t a spy”, but The allegations of Pierre Siramy, who caused was simply an unpaid “contact of our considerable controversy in French representative in Tehran”, whom she intelligence circles this year, by publishing a provided with information on an “amicable” memoir of his experiences in the DGSE, basis. This description does not appear to sparked instant denials by French describe anything resembling a formal government officials and Ms. Reiss herself. intelligence affiliation.

She called the allegations “lies [by] former To be sure, Clotilde Reiss’ resume does DGSE members” and said she had “never feature some of the essential traits of an been in touch with the intelligence agencies”. effective intelligence officer. She is fluent in French minister for European affairs, Pierre Farsi and intimately familiar with Iranian Lellouche went so far as to threaten Siramy culture and society; furthermore, her mother with legal action for his “fanciful and is an academic specializing on Iran, while her ridiculous” allegations. father works for France’s Nuclear Energy Who is telling the truth? Was Clotilde Reiss a Agency (CEA). But this does not necessarily French spy in Iran? The answer depends on make her an intelligence operative, and a one’s definition of a spy. One does not have paid one at that. It is far more likely that her to be an intelligence insider to realize that the connection with DGSE, if it ever existed, was thought of deploying a female field unplanned, unpaid, and –most likely than intelligence officer in Iran, a society where not– trivial. The French agency confirmed as women’s social mobility and influence are much, by authorizing ‘anonymous sources’ to severely restricted, would be nonsensical, to comment that “Miss Reiss has never worked say the least. After 1979, most Western for us [...] in any capacity and was never intelligence agencies have hardly been able to assigned a code name or number”. use male officers, let alone young non-native Nevertheless, Tehran did manage to women, to recruit local agents on the ground exchange Reiss for two Iranian operatives in Iran’s various provinces. But this does not held in France. Not bad, considering the necessarily mean that Clotilde Reiss did not, Editor: Dalene Duvenage

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Report: French interior minister sues former spy over book Mon, 17 May 2010 Europe World News

professional secrets and revealing the names Paris - French Interior Minister Herve Morin of protected individuals. has filed a complaint against a former spy for allegedly divulging national If found guilty of only the first charge, secrets in a recent book, the web site Dufresse faces a maximum sentence of Le Point.fr reported Monday. seven years in prison and a fine of up to 100,000 euros (122,000 dollars).

In a complaint lodged last month, Morin accused the former deputy Under the pen name Pierre Siramy, director of the foreign spy service Dufresse recently published a book about DGSE, Maurice Dufresse, of violating his career as a spy, 25 ans dans les services national defence secrets, breaching secrets (25 Years in the Secret Service). http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/324058,report-french-interior-minister-sues-formerspy-over-book.html

Comment: Does Germany need a National Security Council?

18 May 2010 Maxim Worcester, Institut für Strategie- Politik- Sicherheits- und Wirtschaftsberatung (ISPSW)

Germany needs a National Security Council along the lines of the newly established model in the UK. Such a body should draw on all Ministries involved, reflecting the increased complexity and interconnectivity of the risk faced by the country. It needs to address thorny issues such as the future role of the Bundeswehr and should map the national interests against the risks the country faces and develop strategies to mitigate such risks. Such a body needs parliamentary oversight and needs to ensure English (PDF · 3 pages · 46 KB)

that proposed security measures do not in any way compromise civil liberties. Such a body would provide the Government with a much clearer sense of direction as it would address national security issues for what they are, not as a particular Ministry sees or perceives them. A German National Security Council would also help narrow the gap between rhetoric and action which has been the hallmark of the Governments National Security Policy since it was elected.

The 9th Conference of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Federal Security Service of Russian Federation delegations held in Odessa 21 May 2010, The SSU Press-Center

The 9th Conference of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Federal Security Service of Russian Federation delegations was held in Odessa on May 19, 2010. The delegations

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The parties discussed the current state of cooperation between the special services. It was stressed that during last five years a lot of problems to be solved by joint efforts accumulated. First of all these are fight against international terrorism, cyber crimes, international organized criminal groups which monopolized separate spheres of criminal business (drugs trafficking, illegal migration etc.)

Particular attention was paid to counterintelligence protection of the economy, especially to the security of atomic energy and industry facilities, protection of internal high-tech markets of Ukraine and Russia.

The participants of the Conference defined further activities to promote border cooperation in prevention of illegal Ukraine-Russia border crossing, liquidation of illegal migration and smuggling channels.

By the results of the negotiations, the final document was signed. It regulates the following steps of cooperation between the special services, in particular adjustment of information exchange and creation of expert groups.

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the Federal Security Service of Russian Federation O. Bortnikov also signed the Protocol to the Agreement on Cooperation and Interaction between the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Security of Russian Federation, regulating the stay of the Federal Security Service officers who ensure the security of the Black Sea Fleet of Russian Federation in the places of its temporary stationing on the territory of Ukraine.

The Protocol stipulates organization of information exchange, conducting of concerted measures to reveal, prevent and suppress illegal activities directed against the Black Sea Fleet of Russian Federation security and threatening the national security of Ukraine and Russian Federation.

The document provides that the information about the Federal Security Service of Russian Federation officers, ensuring the Black Sea Fleet of Russian Federation security on the territory of Ukraine, will be given and agreed with the Ukrainian side timely and fully.

The Protocol comes into force from the moment of signing and will be valid for 5 years.

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Italy expelled Moroccans on suspicion of Pope plot Fri May 14, 2010; Reuters

Two Moroccan students deported from Italy last month were suspected of plotting to assassinate Pope Benedict, an Interior Ministry source said on Friday.

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months before they were expelled on April 29.

"During their inquiry, investigators found evidence suggesting the two (suspects) were plotting an attack on the pope," said the source.

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being expelled under prevention of terrorism contact with militant groups over the laws.

Internet. It said Perugia had become a centre for travelling imams to preach radical Islam.

Six other foreign students, suspected of contacts with militant Islamic groups, are still Turkish citizen Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot under investigation. and seriously wounded Paul John Paul in 1981, was also enrolled as a language student News magazine Panorama, owned by Prime at Perugia university.

Minister Silvio Berlusconi's family, reported on Friday that local anti-terrorist police had Intelligence reports and arrests show militant tapped Hlal's phone and had raised the alarm Islamic groups linked to al Qaeda, especially when he said he wanted to acquire in North Africa, are active in Italy, mostly explosives. recruiting and financing for attacks planned elsewhere in Europe.

The magazine said police discovered a map of Turin at Errahmouni's house annotated with However, alarm was raised in October by a numbers and circles, ahead of a visit to the failed attack on an army barracks near Milan northern Italian city by Pope Benedict on May by a 35-year-old Libyan man. Mohammed 2 to venerate the Shroud of Turin, which Game, whose hand was blown off when he many Catholics believe was Jesus Christ's hurled a bomb, was believed to have had burial cloth. Panorama described Errahmouni accomplices, police said. as a computer expert who remained in http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-48500420100514?sp=true

UK spy agency probed over bombs 2010-05-21, SAPA

London - Inquests into the deaths of 56 people in London's July 2005 suicide bombings will probe alleged failings by police and MI5 intelligence before the attacks, a judge said on Friday.

A coroner also ruled that inquests into four suicide bombers will be held separately from those of the 52 victims, a relief to families who had protested plans to hold the inquests together.

The suicide bombers set off nearsimultaneous explosions on three London Underground trains and a double-decker bus on the morning of July 7 2005, in what has become known as 7/7, nearly four years after the 9/11 attacks.

Coroner Heather Hallett, giving details of arrangements for the inquests due to start in October, said they would probe what police and MI5 officers knew ahead of the shock attacks. "The scope of the inquest into the 52

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deaths will include the alleged intelligence failings and the immediate aftermath of the bombings," she said.

"To my mind it is not too remote to investigate what was known in the year or two before the alleged bombings.

Plots of this kind are not developed overnight," she added.

She also announced that the inquests will not be held with a jury, and that the hundreds of people injured in the attacks will not be designated "interested person" status, which has been granted to relatives of victims.

"I am sure however that the survivors, despite not being granted interested persons status, will play an important part in the process. I will do all I can to make sure their interests are properly taken into account," she said."Interested persons" have the right to cross-examine witnesses at inquests.

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Minister Tony Blair was meeting with Group plot. of Eight (G8) counterparts for a summit in Two weeks after July 7 there was an apparent Gleneagles, Scotland. It later emerged that attempt at a copycat simultaneous attack, but intelligence services had followed the the devices involved failed to go off. In the bombers' ringleader, Mohammad Sidique rush to find the plotters police mistakenly Khan, in early 2004 during an investigation shot and killed an innocent Brazilian man. into extremists planning a fertiliser bomb http://www.news24.com/World/News/UK-spy-agency-probed-over-bombs-20100521

Australia Australia demands Israel withdraw embassy official over use of stolen passports 5-23-10 AFP

government could tolerate the abuse of its passports.

"The government has asked that a member of the Israeli embassy in Canberra be withdrawn from Australia," Smith told parliament, without identifying the official.

"I have asked that the withdrawal be affected within a week." http://news.morningstar.com/newsnet/ViewNews.aspx?article=/DJ/201005232243DOWJONESDJO NLINE000316_univ.xml SYDNEY-Australia Monday demanded that Israel withdraw an embassy official from the country, saying the Jewish state was behind fake Australian passports linked to the killing of a Hamas operative.

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Australia remained a "firm friend" of Israel but that no

Middle East Saudi King slams intelligence leak Sat, 22 May 2010

amount of money transferred by Saudi The King of Saudi Arabia has strongly government officials to al-Qaeda in Iraq. criticized the country's intelligence officials Saudi officials are also reported to send for disclosing a secret document, explosives and weapons to the terrorist which shows Riyadh has links with groups. Meanwhile, Secretary General terrorist activities carried out by alof the Saudi National Security Council Qaeda in Iraq. According to a report Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz

by Iraq's Buratha news agency on is said to be the main guilty behind the Friday, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz case. The report came as earlier last ordered a special committee to investigate the intelligence leak and week, Saudi army officer Abdullah alSaudi King Abdullah inform him about those liable in the Qahtani was arrested in Iraq over charges case. Some 37 members of Saudi's of planning a terrorist attack during the intelligence service, accused of being behind upcoming FIFA World Cup in South Africa.The the leakage of the confidential document, Saudi national entered Iraq in 2004 and was were also reported to have been arrested. involved in militant operations carried out by The condemnation by the Saudi monarch al-Qaeda. comes as the Iraqi news agency disclosed the http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=127334&sectionid=351020205 Editor: Dalene Duvenage

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Israeli soldiers fall prey to Facebook spy 19/05/2010 Der Spiegel (ed: excerpted)

A number of Israeli soldiers reportedly fell In March, Israeli forces called off a raid into victim to a Facebook spy scam, the German the occupied Palestinian territories after a newspaper Der Spiegel wrote Tuesday. The soldier posted details on Facebook, Israel's soldiers seemingly befriend a young woman Army Radio reported. on the social networking site who may have The soldier was relieved of combat duty been a Hezbollah operative, the daily wrote. shortly after he described in a status update The article, quoting an Israeli news how his unit planned a "clean-up" site, said a Facebook profile arrest raid, including its time and belonging to Reut Zuckerman was place, Army Radio was quoted as used to lure soldiers to reveal sensitive reporting by the Israeli daily Haaretz. information over the course of the past year.

"On Wednesday we clean up Qatanah, and on Zuckerman, whose photograph showed an Thursday, god willing, we come home," the attractive woman lounging on a sofa, soldier reportedly wrote on his page, pretended to be in the army herself herself. referring to a village near Ramallah in the The soldiers allegedly started giving out occupied West Bank. He also named his unit, details of their friends' names, military jargon, the report said, but was turned in by friends secret codes and detailed descriptions of who saw the online posting. their bases, the daily wrote. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=285327

Lebanese arrested for spying for Israel 14 May 2010 Israel News Lebanon's security forces arrested a man 10 Investigators were surprised to hear from the days ago suspected of spying for Israel, detainee, who also served in the Lebanese Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar reported navy, that Israeli intelligence had also Friday. The man is suspected of requested identification details of passing reports to Israeli yachts owned by Lebanese politicians. intelligence services detailing About two months ago it was the exact location of Lebanese reported in Lebanon that the state's President Michel Suleiman. security forces had arrested a young According to the newspaper, man from Tripoli on suspicion that he the man, identified by his had maintained contact with the Israeli initials F.S. only, was also embassy in Turkey and with a young instructed to keep track of Iranian ships Lebanese woman who had escaped from entering Lebanese territorial waters as well as Israel after Israel left southern Lebanon in the a ship belonging to a businessman who year 2000. maintains links with Hezbollah. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3889554,00.html

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Africa Nigeria/US: Statement issued by National Security Council Spokesman Mike Hammer 21 May 2010

of building on advances in returning to and National Security Advisor General James L. strengthening democratic governments in Jones welcomed Nigeria National Security West Africa. Both reiterated that free, fair, Advisor General (Ret.) Aliyu Mohammed and credible elections are critical to Gusau, to the White House on May 20, 2010. strengthening democratic General Jones, joined by members of the institutions in the region as well as in President’s National Security Staff, and Nigeria.

General Aliyu Mohammed, who was accompanied by his delegation, Both also recognized the importance discussed a range of topics of mutual of addressing recent cycles of violence over the past year, most interest bilaterally, regionally, and significantly and recently in Jos. globally.

General Jones underscored the Nigerian National General Jones and General Aliyu discussed the importance of the U.S.-Nigerian Security Adviser Mohammed relationship, and commended Nigeria for Aliyu Mohammed importance of non-proliferation, and Gusau discussed the status of United its participation in international Nations’ efforts on this issue. peacekeeping and its smooth political The United States views Nigeria as a friend, transition. ally, and partner. Our regular and extensive General Jones and General Aliyu Mohammed dialogue with Nigeria illustrates the discussed issues of peace and security in the significance of our relationship.

Sahel and Gulf of Guinea, and the importance

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