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12 July 2010 Initiator: Johan Mostert Editor: Dalene Duvenage Contributions and enquiries dalene@4knowledge.co.za
Reports from 7 June – 12 July 2010 US: Page 2 The spies who came back from the cold Spy swap: who’s who? Tradecraft: lessons to be learnt? Former top Russian spy Sergei Tretyakov dies at 53 Canada Page 7 Spy chief warns of more threats to national security MP’s also targets of foreign influence, spy chief says Border agency7 fences off intelligence directorate files from public scrutiny Israel Page 10 Why is the Dagan era ending? Top Secret IDF base exposed on Facebook Europe Page 12 Italy: Berlusconi: will the Gagger be gagged? UK: David Cameron moves to allay US fears on intelligence sharing UK: Former intelligence chief Stella Rimington warns of threat to Britain from Russian spies UK: too few ethnic minority officers hired by GCHQ EU parliament ratifies data sharing agreement with US South America Page 16 European Union targeted by Colombian intelligence, documents show Ecuador: No proof yet of Colombian spying Asia Page 18 CIA and Pakistan locked in counter-intelligence struggle Philippines: Top security officials named Japan: New Naicho chief: Japan’s changing face of intelligence
From the editor The Soccer World Cup here in SA was a great success and is testimony to the hard work and commitment of all our people, especially those in the security sector. It has united our nation and continent, and showed the world what a beautiful country we have. The Intelligencer will now resume again with its biweekly wrap-up of developments in the world of intelligence. The most prevalent in the news was the arrest and switch of the 10 Russian spies in the US – the media was full of spy jargon, tales of sexpionage and of course the occasional conspiracy theory. We might never learn the real facts, but we share with you those articles that have not made it to the front pages of the media, but from which we as intelligence professionals can learn lessons. In other news, the Head of the Canadian Intelligence Service has come under the spotlight for revealing that some ministers and politicians might be “agents of influence” for China. Mossad Chief Dagan’s contract is not, while Japan and the Philippines get new spy chiefs. Dalene Duvenage
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Africa Page 20 Nigeria: Jonathan stresses need for accurate intelligence gathering Ghana: Efforts to check money laundering Need-to-read Page 21 US: Intelligence reform after Five years US: CIA forerunner’s sabotage manual UN report: transnational organized crime threat assessment Financing of terrorism: Risk for Australia Upcoming events
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United States of America The spies who came back to the cold 11 Jul 2010, John Follett in Moscow (Ed: excerpted)
It was the spy swap that never was. It might have been the biggest agent exchange between Russia and the United States since the end of the Cold War, but in Russia it was a carefully stage-managed non-event. In different circumstances, 14 spies involved in a cloak-and-dagger handover on the sizzling tarmac of Vienna airport would have transfixed a nation obsessed with spies. But this was different. Russia, no matter how it tried to spin it, was the loser. There was therefore no patriotic chest-beating and no public hand-wringing. That was how the Kremlin, acutely embarrassed by the whole debacle, wanted it. Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister and a former KGB spy himself, did not utter a word about the deal. He had previously complained to former US President Bill Clinton about the “crazy” spy arrests but, as the deal played out, he remained silent. Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian President – and one of the few people in the Kremlin not to have a background in the intelligence services – also kept mum. It was left instead to state TV, where most Russians get their news, to work its neoSoviet magic. Following its usual maxim of “if we didn’t report it, it didn’t happen”, it barely mentioned the furore. When it did, it had a carefully calibrated twofold message for ordinary Russians. Message one was that the 10 alleged Russian agents were probably innocents and had not been charged with espionage. And message two was that the whole scandal was orchestrated by American hawks intent on sabotaging better relations between Russia and the United States. State propaganda, it was proved once again, is a powerful medium. A survey carried out by
the respected Levada polling agency found that 53% of Russians thought the whole affair had indeed been concocted by US intelligence agencies as a “provocation” to damage USRussia relations. Only 10% of those polled thought the FBI had actually caught real Russian spies, while 37% said they just didn’t know what to think. A Russian government plane touched down at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Friday evening. Its shadowy passengers exited unseen, and a convoy of Jeeps, cars and minibuses then sped off in an unknown direction. One thing is sure, though: this was a crushing blow to Russian pride. The Kremlin will never publicly admit it but the capture and public humiliation of the Russian agents, who were revealed to have stolen no secrets worth stealing, is a bitter blow to Russia’s selfesteem. Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians have been told ad nauseam that their intelligence services – the aforementioned SVR as well as the FSB domestic security service – are the best of the best and should be a source of pride. According to the Kremlin’s preferred storyline, it is former KGB men such as Putin who saved Russia from the criminal chaos of the 1990s and restored its greatness by ruling with a firm spymaster’s hand. It is all a far cry from the embarrassing reality of the 10 agents and their apparently shambolic attempts at spying for the motherland. Liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta said the farce had shown that the king had no clothes. “A giant crack in the facade has opened up,” it wrote. “The myth has been damaged.” Gleb Pavlovsky, a well-known Kremlin spindoctor, was even more damning in his assessment. “In opting for the exchange, Russia acknowledged that they were spies –
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which, of course, sharply reduces the criteria for who can actually become a spy and is antiadvertising,” he said. Gennady Gudkov, an MP who sits on the Russian parliament’s national security committee, is also struggling to see an upside. “It is the most vivid theatrical spectacle of absurdity,” he fumed. “We are exchanging our agents, who didn’t carry out any espionage, for confirmed American agents who have already been convicted and admitted their guilt. My first conclusion is that our intelligence service has completely forgotten how to function. “We have struck a blow to the image of our own spies. The last vestiges of the image which our legendary special services once enjoyed has also collapsed.” But embarrassment was not the Kremlin’s only reason for pretending the scandal never happened. A leaked foreign policy paper recently revealed that it is desperate for better relations with the West, particularly the United States. Indeed, just three days before the spy scandal broke, President Medvedev had been in the US acting like he was President Barack Obama’s long- lost friend. The reason for Russia’s sudden embrace of America is not, of course, because it has suddenly decided that it really liked its old Cold War foe all along. It is about money and technology. The Kremlin is urgently trying to modernise the creaking Soviet-era economy and diversify away from its crushing dependence on oil and gas. To do that, it has decided it needs to develop its own high-tech industries. But there is a problem: it has neither the money nor the expertise to do so. Its grand plan to build its own Silicon Valley just outside Moscow needs foreign investment and foreign brainpower in spades. After spending years warning its population about foreign spies and saboteurs, the Kremlin is now actively courting foreign scientists,
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academics and professionals in an effort to give its oil-driven economy a future after the oil is all gone. By luck or design, Russia’s realisation that it needs America has coincided with a new approach to foreign affairs pushed by President Obama. This means pragmatic cooperation where possible and agreeing to politely disagree otherwise. When it came to Russia, the White House called the policy “the reset” – and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton even presented Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, with a cardboard reset button, complete with the Russian word for “reset” spelled wrongly. It looked tacky but it was a sea change from the approach taken by former President W Bush, on whose watch relations with Russia had slumped to their worst level since the Cold War. The Obama White House was different. It decided it needed Moscow on side in several key policy areas if it was to successfully implement its ambitious global agenda. So when the FBI told him about the Russian spy bust, officials say Obama took the long view. The United States’ wider geopolitical interests were, he concluded, far more important than locking up a bunch of hapless Russian spies – especially if, as happened, the United States could free people in exchange who had done some real and productive spying for Washington. The spy scandal, then – as one US official put it – is nothing more than a bump in the road on the way to a better relationship with Russia. And the Russians desperately want that to be true. The spy-swap deal showed, said the Russian Foreign Ministry, that the reset in US-Russia relations would continue. It was a gauche but telling attempt at spinning a public-relations debacle into a foreign policy triumph. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/world -news/the-spies-who-came-back-to-the-cold1.1040591
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Spy swap: who's who? Guardian.co.uk, Friday 9 July 2010
Ten Russian spies were deported from the US in exchange for four agents.
Those released by Russia: Alexander Zaporozhsky, a former colonel in the Russian foreign intelligence service, sentenced in 2003 to 18 years in prison for espionage on behalf of the US. Zaporozhsky quit the service in 1997 and settled in the US; Russia enticed him back and arrested him in 2001. He was convicted on charges of passing secret information about Russian agents working under cover in the US and about American sources working for Russian intelligence. A US global intelligence company, Stratfor, said that Zaporozhsky was rumoured to have passed information leading to the capture of Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, both extremely valuable double agents in the US intelligence services. Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in the Russian military intelligence, was found guilty of passing state secrets to Britain and sentenced to 13 years in Sergei Skripal
prison in 2006. He was
accused of revealing the names of several dozen Russian agents working in Europe. Igor Sutyagin, a military analyst with the USA and Canada Institute, a respected Moscowbased thinktank, was sentenced to 15 years Sutyagin in 2004 on charges of passing information on nuclear submarines and other weapons to a British company that Russia claimed was a CIA cover. Sutyagin has insisted on his innocence, saying the information he provided was available from open sources. Gennady Vasilenko, a former KGB officer employed as a security officer by Russia's NTV television was arrested in 2005. In 2006 he was sentenced to three years in prison on murky charges of illegal weapons possession and resistance to authorities. Reasons for his involvement in the swap weren't immediately clear.
Russian agents released by America Anna Chapman, 28, is the daughter of a Russian diplomat. She is the most recognisable of the agents after her former husband sold photographs to the press Anna Chapman. Photo: AP showcasing her social life and travels. Her attorney, Robert Baum, said she had visited the US on and off since 2005 before settling there. Previously, she had lived for seven years in the UK after marrying an Englishman. Chapman is her married name; she's now divorced. Her maiden name is Kushchenko. Prosecutors say Editor: Dalene Duvenage
Chapman used a specially configured laptop computer to transmit messages to another computer of an unnamed Russian official. She was arrested at a New York police department precinct after turning in a fake passport an undercover FBI agent had given her. She pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country. Tracey Foley, 47, lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is married to Donald Howard Heathfield. The couple has two sons, Tim Foley, 20, a student in Washington, DC, and Alex Foley, 16. Foley was an estate agent who showed houses in the Boston area. She worked on a contract basis for the firm Redfin. She pleaded guilty to conspiring to act
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as an unregistered agent of a foreign country. Her real name is Elena Vavilova. Donald Heathfield, 49, lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is married to Tracey Lee Ann Foley. He graduated from Harvard's John F Kennedy School of Government with a masters in public administration in 2000. Heathfield worked as a sales consultant at Global Partners Inc, a Cambridge-based international management consulting firm. He also had his own consulting company, Future Map Strategic Advisory Services LLC. Prosecutors said Heathfield met an employee of the US government in 2004 to discuss nuclear weapons research. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country. His real name is Andrey Bezrukov. Juan Lazaro, 66, told people for decades that he was born in Uruguay and was a Peruvian citizen, but he is actually Russian and his real name is Mikhail Vasemkov. He studied at the New School for Social Research, now called The New School, a university in Manhattan. He taught a class on Latin American and Caribbean politics at Baruch College, also in Manhattan, for a short time in 2008. An agent for Russia for years, Lazaro brought his wife, Vicky Pelaez, into the conspiracy by having her pass letters to the Russian intelligence service on his behalf. The couple's home in Yonkers, New York, was also paid for by Russian intelligence. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country. Vicky Pelaez, 55, married to Juan Lazaro, was born in Peru. She worked in New York City as a columnist for one of the United States' bestknown Spanish-language Vicky Pelaez newspapers, El Diario La Photo: AP Prensa. She came to the US after being briefly kidnapped by a leftist guerrilla group in Peru in 1984. Pelaez lived under her real name and was an American citizen, but now plans to return to Peru after Editor: Dalene Duvenage
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a brief stay in Russia, according to her attorney. The couple have a teenage son. Pelaez also has a 38-year-old son from a previous marriage. She pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country. Richard Murphy, with his wife, Cynthia, are the parents of two daughters. The family, who lived in a suburban neighbourhood in Montclair, New Jersey, had been in the US since the 1990s. Neighbours say Richard, 43, mostly stayed home with the children, caring for them and the home, while his wife had a well-paid job in New York City. Born Vladimir Guryev, he pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country. Cynthia Murphy, married to Richard Murphy, lived in a suburban neighbourhood in Montclair with their daughters. Concealing her true name Lydia Guryev, the 39-year-old worked for Morea Financial Services, a lower Manhattan-based accounting firm that offered tax advice, earning $135,000 a year, and had recently earned her MBA. Prosecutors said one of her assignments had been to network with Columbia University students. She pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country. Mikhail Semenko of Arlington, Virginia, worked at the Travel All Russia travel agency in Arlington leading up to his arrest. Semenko attended Amur State University on Mikhail Semenko Russia's border with Photo: Odnoklassniki China, where he was enrolled in a Chinese studies programme. It was there he met Slava Shirokov, owner of the travel agency that eventually employed him. After arriving in the US, he received a graduate degree from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Shirokov said Semenko liked to attend functions at the Russian embassy and talked about landing a job in international relations. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered
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agent of a foreign country. Semenko is his real name. Patricia Mills, 36, is the assumed name for Natalia Pereverzeva, living in the US with Mikhail Kutzik (see below), who used the name Michael Zottoli. Like Kutzik, she held a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Washington, obtained in 2006. Neighbours describe the two as a smiling, attractive couple raising a young son and toddler in an Arlington, Virgina, high-rise apartment. They moved to northern Virginia last year from Seattle. Prosecutors have said they are making arrangements to send the children home to Russia. She pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country.
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Michael Zottoli, 41, is the assumed name for Mikhail Kutzik, who was living as part of a married couple with Natalia Pereverzeva, purporting to be Patricia Mills. In Seattle, he worked at Premier Global Services, Inc, a telecommunications firm, from 2007 to 2009. Zottoli earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Washington in 2006. He and Mills moved to northern Virginia last year. After his arrest, he and his purported wife admitted that Zottoli and Mills were assumed names and provided their real names, which had not been known at the time of their arrest. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country. The couple have two young children.
And the one who got away Released on $33,000 (£21,000) bail a day later, he promptly disappeared and is now a fugitive. Canadian authorities said he was travelling as a 54-year-old tourist on a Canadian passport that stole the identity of a boy who died at five years of age. He has been charged with conspiring to act as a warrant as he tried Christopher Metsos foreign agent and conspiracy to commit Photo: Cyprus Police/EPA to board a flight for money laundering. Authorities have not Budapest, Hungary. released any other identity for him. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/09/spy-swap-whos-who-russia Christopher Metsos is the suspected paymaster for the US spy ring. He was arrested on 29 June in Cyprus on an Interpol
Tradecraft: lessons to be learnt? Read the indictment documents to learn what the 10 Russians spies have done and how they were tracked by the FBI for 10 years… http://www.scribd.com/doc/33676529/Criminal-Complaint-2
Former top Russian spy Sergei Tretyakov dies at 53 BRETT ZONGKER (AP) – 9 July 2010 (Ed: excerpted)
WASHINGTON — A former top Russian spy who defected to the U.S. after running espionage operations from the United Nations, Sergei Tretyakov, has died in Florida, his wife and a friend said Friday. He was 53. News of his death last month came the same day the United States and Russia completed their largest swap of spies since the Cold War. Tretyakov, who defected in 2000 and later Editor: Dalene Duvenage
claimed his agents helped the Russian government steal nearly $500 million from the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq, died June 13. WTOP Radio in Washington first reported his death Friday. "Sergei was called 'the most important spy for the U.S. since the collapse of the Soviet Union' by an FBI official in my book," Earley wrote. "Unfortunately, because much of what
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he said is still being used by U.S. shared with the U.S. authorities?" Earnest counterintelligence officers, it will be years said. before the true extent of his contribution can Tretyakov defected to the United States with be made public — if ever." his wife and daughter. In a 2008 interview A private funeral was held three days after promoting Earley's book, Tretyakov said his Tretyakov's death, in keeping with Russian agents helped the Russian government skim Orthodox tradition, and more than 200 hundreds of millions of dollars from the oilpeople attended a service in the days after, for-food program before the fall of Saddam Earley wrote. Hussein in 2003. He told The Associated Press he oversaw an Tretyakov was born Oct. 5, 1956, in operation that helped Hussein's Moscow. He joined the KGB and rose regime manipulate the price of oil quickly to become the second-insold under the program, and command of its U.N. office in New Russia skimmed profits. York between 1995 and 2000. His defection in 2000 was very Tretyakov called his defection "the significant, said Peter Earnest, major failure of Russian intelligence in Tretyakov director of the International Spy the United States" and warned that Museum in Washington, who spent more Russia, despite the end of the Cold War, than 30 years in the CIA. harbored bad intentions toward the U.S. Russia's spies in the United States would have Tretyakov said he found it immoral to come under Tretyakov's purview, Earnest continue helping the Russian government. "I said. don't see any light at the end of the tunnel. For up to a decade following his defection, I'm not very emotional. I'm not a Boy Scout," the FBI kept watch over 10 Russian agents as Tretyakov said. "And finally in my life, when I they tried to blend into American suburbia. defected, I did something good in my life. They were arrested last week and swapped Because I want to help United States." Friday in Vienna for four people convicted in http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti Russia of spying for the U.S. and Britain. cle/ALeqM5hnKY1X2FWlKY5ogKK_hsIU0HUnS "That does bring into mind the question: Is QD9GRLAQ80 that the sort of information he might have
Canada Spy chief warns of more threats to national security CTV.ca News Staff Fri. Jul. 9 2010
Canada's spy chief believes Toronto could be a haven for terrorists trying to build weapons of mass destruction, CTV has learned. In exclusive audio obtained by CTV News, Canadian Security Intelligence Service Director Richard Fadden reveals agents are keeping an eye on the city because those looking to make bombs can get the necessary materials there. "I regret to say that a large amount of that effort goes on in the Toronto area," Fadden
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said in the recording, made by the Royal Canadian Military Institute. The tapes are typically available only to members of the institute. "Toronto has more (of) the scientific, industrial, technological base than many other parts of Canada. There are a lot of people who are very, very active in this area to try and acquire technology," in defiance of international law, he said.
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Fadden's candor regarding matters of He did not name the politicians nor the national security has gotten him countries exerting control, though he into trouble recently, forcing him insinuated China may be involved. to defend his actions before a In the recordings, he broadens his parliamentary committee this accusations to include politicians at week. the federal level. Experts say Fadden's disclosures "Even more worrisome, and this is a could land him in even more hot new trend in Canada, are the growing water. number of instances, where attempts "It raises questions about why are being made to influence – Richard Fadden CSIS is going public on its own with surreptitiously, in secret, covertly – Photo: CSIS this kind of information before the municipal, provincial and federal government has been properly politicians," he said. informed," says Wesley Wark, a national On Monday, Fadden promised the security and intelligence expert at the parliamentary committee he would expand University of Toronto. on the allegations in a report, to be Fadden set off a national scandal last month completed within a month. when he publicly stated that a number of the The Liberal opposition is pushing to have the country's municipal and provincial politicians process sped up. are believed to be under the influence of foreign governments. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100709/fadden-tapes100709/20100709?hub=Canada
Canada: MPs also targets of foreign influence, spy chief says The Star: 9 July 2010: Richard J. Brennan
OTTAWA—Federal politicians are also among those being targeted by aggressive foreign agents trying to influence Canadian decision makers, Canada’s chief spy Richard Fadden says. A review of a now controversial speech the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service gave to Toronto’s Royal Canadian Military Institute shows Fadden included MPs, along with provincial and municipal politicians who could be vulnerable. Fadden told the audience of the “growing number of instances where attempts are being made to influence surreptitiously, in secret, covertly, municipal, provincial and federal politicians.” It had been the question-and-answer period at the end of his presentation that garnered the most interest when he named China as being an espionage aggressor and accused provincial cabinet ministers in two unnamed Editor: Dalene Duvenage
provinces and “several” municipal politicians in British Columbia of being “under the general influence of a foreign government.” “They have no idea, it’s just a long-standing relationship, you develop friends … it’s what I do in reverse,” Fadden told the crowd, largely composed of military and police, March 24. This off-the-cuff remark has sparked demands for his resignation from critics, who accused Fadden of unfairly tarring all politicians with his accusations. Fadden has refused to step down or name the politicians, but said he will be presenting a report within weeks to the government that will name names. Liberal MPs Mark Holland and NDP MP Don Davies said Friday that Fadden can’t be allowed to get away with the so-called driveby smearing. “I don’t think you can just leave hanging out there allegations that cast aspersions on literally hundreds of elected officials,” said
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Holland, adding it is difficult to understand The top spy had to explain himself before a why Prime Minister Stephen Harper is specially called parliamentary committee this refusing to move against Fadden. week. “I’m afraid the director's committee appearance Monday is all that we are able to A poll by Angus Reid found that 67 per cent of state on the issue of foreign interference,” a Canadians who responded agreed the names CSIS spokesperson said Friday. should be made public. The CSIS director said in his candid questionIn the reports that followed the airing of the and-answer session at the military institute contents of his speech and further comments that China specifically is funding a series of Fadden made to the CBC, the focus was on his Confucius Institutes in campuses across reference to the provincial cabinet ministers Canada. and B.C. politicians, but in fact, Fadden included in his assessment federal politicians. He told the crowd these clandestine operations are managed by the Chinese “It’s amazing how a number of these embassy or consulates. “They have organized countries start when people are just demonstrations against the Canadian beginning to express an interest in politics government with respect to some of our against the possibility that they will some day policies concerning China. They have become ministers or members of the organized demonstrations to deal with what legislatures or Parliament and will be able to are called the five poisons, Taiwan, Falun influence policy because of their longGong and others,” he said. standing association with these countries,” Fadden said. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/834235--mps-also-targets-of-foreign-influence-spychief-says
Canada: Border agency fences off intelligence directorate files from public scrutiny 7 July 2010, Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press Online Edition
OTTAWA - Canada's border agency is quietly walling off an entire division from public scrutiny against the wishes of the federal information watchdog. The Harper government revealed an amendment to the national information law Wednesday that allows the Canada Border Services Agency to rebuff all requests about its intelligence and targeting operations directorate. The directorate helps the agency zero in on threats from people or goods linked to terrorism, organized crime, firearms smuggling, illicit drugs and potentially unsafe products. In effect, the move exempts the directorate from the Access to Information Act, the law that allows anyone who pays $5 to request
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government files. The border agency now has blanket permission to shield the directorate's files from the public because the change designates the section an "investigative body" for the purposes of the access law. A notice in the Canada Gazette, the federal government's official newspaper, says authorities needed the move because security partners — including the RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service — were "hesitant to share personal information with them." "Without the legal assurance that CBSA can adequately protect from disclosure sensitive information, such as information related to (an) ongoing investigation, other federal departments may refuse to share information needed by CBSA." The notice also points out the intelligence and targeting operations directorate
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previously had the special status when it was No one outside government was consulted part of the customs and excise section of the due to the "administrative nature" of the National Revenue Department. The section changes, the notice says. was folded into the newly created border Neither the border services agency nor the services agency in December 2003. Justice Department had immediate comment. There is no indication why the government The office of the federal information waited more than six years to make the commissioner, an ombudsman for users of change that would give the new entity the Access to Information Act, objected to exempt status. designating the intelligence directorate an The Gazette notice says the Justice investigative body under the law. Department, the department responsible for The notice says the office indicated its changes to the access law, consulted both the position "is to support the fewest possible" border agency and its parent department, additions to the list of investigative bodies Public Safety, both of which supported the sanctioned by the act. proposal. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/border-agency-fences-off-intelligencedirectorate-files-from-public-scrutiny-97974079.html
Israel Why is the Dagan era ending? By YAAKOV KATZ 3 July 2010 (Ed: Excerpted)
prisoners, notably including Hamas founder It was announced this week that Meir Dagan Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. would be stepping down at the end of the year. And the race to succeed him has already After Yatom came Efraim Halevy, the Mossad begun. He was installed into the top veteran who had salvaged the intelligence post by prime minister Ariel Israeli-Jordanian relationship after Sharon, who had worked with him in the Mashaal fiasco. Some credit the 1970s running a unit of elite Halevy with rehabilitating and commandos called Sayeret Rimon restoring proper practices to the whose soldiers disguised themselves as battered organization; but one Palestinians and raided the Gaza Strip critical former Mossad operative in search of PLO fighters. sniped that Halevy preferred talks Meir Dagan with Arab diplomats at cocktail After his appointment in 2002, he parties in Europe over dangerous and risky immediately set out to revolutionize an operations in the Middle East. “Under Halevy, organization that had been rocked by the the motto was ‘don’t get in trouble,’” said botched assassination of Hamas’s Damascusthis source. If so, that attitude completely based chief Khaled Mashaal in Amman in changed under Dagan, who brought a new 1997, under the tenure of Mossad chief and sense of daring. former Labor MK Danny Yatom. Two Mossad agents were caught in the botched operation. He was given one key task by Sharon – to do In exchange for their release, and to salvage everything possible to thwart Iran’s pursuit of ties with a furious Jordan, Israel was forced to a nuclear weapon. To do that, Sharon provide the antidote to save Mashaal’s life reportedly told Dagan that he needed to and to release hundreds of Palestinian recreate the Mossad as a spy service “with a knife between its teeth.” Indeed, Dagan’s Editor: Dalene Duvenage
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Mossad is credited with orchestrating a string of assassinations around the world: In February 2008, a car bomb killed Imad Mughniyeh, Hizbullah’s military commander in Damascus. Later that year, Gen. Muhammad Suleiman, Syrian President Bashar Assad’s liaison to Hamas and Hizbullah and the head of the country’s covert nuclear program, was shot dead by a sniper at his vacation home in the port city of Tartus. In January, the Mossad reportedly struck again, killing Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas arch terrorist, in Dubai. According to foreign reports, the Mossad was also behind the discovery of Iran’s uranium enrichment center in Natanz, as well as the discovery of Syria’s nuclear reactor, which was destroyed by the IAF in 2007. Under Dagan’s tenure, relations with the CIA also peaked due to the Mossad’s success in once again providing critical intelligence and proving itself to be a major player. “There is unprecedented cooperation between the agencies today,” one top Israeli security official said recently. The decision to consistently extend Dagan’s term was a vote of confidence in the Mossad and an appreciation of his achievements. Furthermore, one top defense official added, by extending his term, Israel was sending a message to the world regarding the severity with which it views the Iranian nuclear threat. The annual extension meant that Israel was keeping Dagan in place in case tough sanctions were not imposed and Israel might feel it had no choice but to attack Iranian nuclear installations. If that is true, then the latest round of sanctions – albeit not as tough as Israel hoped – could be what paved the way to the announcement of Dagan’s retirement. While Dagan’s opinions on a military strike against Iran are not publicly known, some sources claim that he believes there is still time to stop it from obtaining the bomb by non-military means. Last year, he stirred Editor: Dalene Duvenage
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controversy when, in an appearance at the Knesset, he was quoted as saying that Iran would not obtain the bomb until 2014, pushing back earlier assessments by a number of years. At the time, officials explained that Dagan was referring to the stage when Iran will have the ability to fire a missile tipped with a nuclear warhead into Israel. Iran could very well develop a testable nuclear device before then, they said. This week’s news of his imminent departure hasn’t only set off a race to succeed him. It also raises serious questions regarding the long-term strategic thinking of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, since it means that, starting in October, all of the country’s security chiefs will step down within six months. These include Chief of General Staff Lt.Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief Yuval Diskin and Dagan. One possible candidate to replace Dagan is T., who served in the past as his deputy, stepped down and recently returned to the agency. Other candidates are believed to be the head of Tzomet, the Mossad branch that directs its worldwide network of agents, and the head of the Tevel branch, which is responsible for ties with foreign intelligence agencies. Diskin and Yadlin are candidates, too. Predictions within the defense establishment are that Netanyahu will choose a successor to Dagan after Barak chooses a successor to Ashkenazi, who is to finish up his four-year term in February. This is because one of the generals vying for the top IDF post, if unsuccessful, could be given the Mossad directorship as a consolation prize. WHAT IS unknown is how big a role the recent fiasco surrounding the Mabhouh assassination in Dubai, attributed to the Mossad, played in the decision not to extend Dagan’s term. A number of friendly states were angered by the use of their passports in
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obtaining a German passport reportedly used in the operation, according to the foreign press. http://www.jpost.com/Features/FrontLines/A rticle.aspx?id=180192
Top secret IDF base exposed on Facebook MEDIA LINE, 8 July 2010 (Ed: excerpted)
status updates Hizbullah learned a bit about Israeli soldiers who served at one of the the soldiers, where they lived and were able country’s most secretive bases have set up a to connect the dots. In theory, they could group on the social networking site Facebook, eventually kidnap that person.” in what has been called a serious security “It’s a significant problem for the Israeli breach. The page allows veterans of the base Defense Forces because they have cellphones to upload photos and videos of their shared and any of them can take a photo experiences, and has attracted 265 or make a film and upload it to the members. Internet,” they said. “Soldiers A reporter for the daily Yedioth themselves don’t really know what Aharonot was accepted to the group can cause harm. For example, a without his identity being cross soldier might think that a simple checked against a list of soldiers photo of a room inside a base is connected with the base. He copied harmless, but there is a poster on a number of the posts on the group’s the wall with a map or operational details.” wall. “We cannot censor every picture or video Speaking on the condition of anonymity for that a soldier uploads,” they concluded. “So fear of retribution, an Israeli soldier the only solution is education and intimately involved in the army’s cyber awareness.” operations said the group is one example of Soldiers from Sayeret 13, the unit that was many serious security breaches by Israeli involved in the Israeli assault on the Gazasoldiers in online social networks. bound flotilla, were recently ordered to close “Beyond national security, it is also a safety their Facebook accounts. Israeli military issue,” the source continued. “In the past intelligence officers faced a similar fate earlier Hizbullah operatives would set up a profile this year after a Hizbullah operative was pretending to be an Israeli woman and ask to found to have befriended them under a false be friends with soldiers or join soldiers’ identity. groups on Facebook. Over time through the http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?ID=180838
Europe Italy: Berlusconi: Will the Gagger be Gagged? Valentina Pasquali for openDemocracy.net (Ed: excerpted)
On July 29th, Italy’s lower house of Parliament will debate and vote on a bill that, if approved, may strike a crippling blow to the independent powers of the judiciary and to the media. The bill, drafted by Berlusconi’s closest allies in Parliament and dubbed by
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critics “the gagging law”, aims to curb the use of wiretaps by law enforcement agencies, and would impose daunting restrictions on journalists reporting on crime. If passed, the bill would significantly raise the standards required to start a wiretap.
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Investigators would need to provide “serious attempts at probing the illicit activities of evidence” of ongoing criminal activities for criminal organizations have originated in the authorization to be warranted. The bill wiretaps, sometime serendipitously. Pietro would limit to 75 days the length of time a Grasso, Italy’s widely respected National antiwiretap can run (18 months currently). At the Mafia Prosecutor warned that this bill would end of the 75 days, investigators would need cripple the fight against the Mafia, making it to reapply for a new authorization every particularly difficult to investigate moneythree days. laundering schemes. The bill’s proponents argue that in the prosecution of self-evident In short, the bill would significantly hinder the mafia-related crimes, authorities would be effectiveness of wiretapping, while also granted much wider leeway. The truth is that putting an end to the kind of extensive, it is often by following the lead of seemingly sometime aggressive coverage that the Italian marginal frauds, from tax evasion to minor press can provide today on the country’s episodes of corruption, that most high-profile criminal cases. authorities have made their most By all measures, Italy is the most important discoveries about the wiretapped country in Europe. operations of criminal organizations. According to figures released by the It is widely known that Prime Minister Italian Ministry of Justice, 124,326 Berlusconi himself has not been phone lines were wiretapped in 2008. In immune from wiretapping-related scandals. 2004, the German-based Max Planck Institute Last year, Berlusconi was the subject of calculated that 76 out of every 100,000 multiple wiretaps, whose transcripts, leaked Italians had their conversations eavesdropped to the press, revealed the Prime Minister’s into, well ahead of the Dutch (62) and of the rather lively sex-life. Swedes (33). Some fear that this, really, is the heart of the By the same token, Italy is no ordinary issue. Italy’s overuse of wiretapping and democracy given the levels of government tradition of leaks to the press may need to be corruption and the pervasiveness of criminal better regulated, but the suspicion lingers organizations, the Sicilian Mafia only being that this exceedingly rigid bill is only the most the most popular. Against this backdrop, recent in a long series of ad-personam laws wiretaps have often proven to be an passed by Berlusconi’s government for the invaluable tool in the hands of investigators. benefit of the [embattled prime minister. Overall, some of Italy’s most successful http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?ots591=4888caa0-b3db-146198b9-e20e7b9c13d4&lng=en&id=118661
UK: David Cameron moves to allay US fears on intelligence sharing Richard Norton-Taylor, guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 6 July 2010 (Ed: excerpted)
Pressure from the US and suggestions that it could no longer share secret intelligence with Britain – the heart of the special relationship – led the government to move to block any prospect of the courts revealing any information about CIA activities again. David Cameron told the Commons that the government will next year "publish a green paper which will set out our initial proposals Editor: Dalene Duvenage
for how intelligence is treated in the full range of judicial proceedings, including addressing the concerns of our allies". The government is seeking legislation that would in future prevent judges releasing information passed to MI5 by the CIA, as they did in the Binyam Mohamed case.
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A high court judge had given MI5 and MI6 Cameron's unprecedented announcement until this Friday to provide a list of 250,000 was triggered by two separate but related documents relevant to the case. Hence court cases. Cameron's call for mediation, on the grounds The first was the decision by the high court to of cost as well as to protect MI5 and MI6 reveal a summary of CIA evidence about the information from disclosure in the courts. The treatment of Mohamed, a British resident former detainees – Mohamed, Bisher al-Rawi, who says he was tortured in Pakistan, Jamil el-Banna, Richard Belmar, Omar Morocco, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay, Deghayes and Martin Mubanga – deny any and that MI5 knew. involvement in terrorism and allege That case, which went on for 18 that MI5 and MI6 aided and months with Lord Justice Thomas abetted each man's unlawful and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones urging imprisonment and extraordinary disclosure against strong rendition. They made it clear that government resistance, came to a though they wanted some kind of head earlier this year when the compensation, they also wished to judges revealed that CIA-based see an inquiry into what MI5 and intelligence showed that MI5 knew MI6 knew about their treatment – that Mohamed had been subjected to treatment "at the Prime Minister Cameron in particular, what the CIA told them. very least cruel, inhuman, and degrading". In future, if the green paper leads to legislation imposing a blanket ban on the David Miliband, then foreign secretary, disclosure of British or foreign intelligence in warned that the US might refuse to share court, the sort of allegations raised and intelligence with Britain in future if English evidence that came to light in the Mohamed courts revealed CIA information. Dennis Blair, case will never again emerge. US director of national intelligence, condemned the court decision, saying it was The legal charity Reprieve, which represented "not helpful, and we deeply regret it". In the Mohamed, said : "There is going to be a green second case, six UK citizens and residents, paper as to how intelligence, especially including Mohamed, who were detained at foreign intelligence, will be treated in court. Guantánamo Bay, with, they say, MI5 and There is already ample opportunity – much MI6 connivance, are seeking compensation increased recently – for evidence to be heard through the courts for abuse and wrongful in secret. There is no need to expand this imprisonment. dangerous practice. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/06/david-cameron-us-intelligence-sharing
Former intelligence chief Stella Rimington warns of threat to Britain from Russian spies Robert Mendick, Telegraph, 03 Jul 2010
Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, believes Russia still possesses 'a very large and wellresourced intelligence community' Dame Stella said she believed Russia still possesses "a very large and well-resourced intelligence Rimington community" which remains a Photo: Martin Pope Editor: Dalene Duvenage
threat to British economic and security interests. "The successor organisations to the KGB are every bit as active as their predecessor," she said, "Are the Russians up to the same sort of thing in Britain? You bet they are, if they think they can get away with it."
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She said the threat posed by Russia risked simultaneously deal with the danger of terror putting a "considerable strain" on Britain's attacks by Islamic extremists. security services which also have to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/7870464/Former-intelligencechief-Stella-Rimington-warns-of-threat-to-Britain-from-Russian-spies.html
UK: Too few ethnic minority officers hired by GCHQ 11 July 2010 (Ed: excerpted)
Britain's secret eavesdropping centre, GCHQ, has been criticised for failing to recruit enough ethnic minority staff to help fight terrorism. An official report, leaked to the Sunday Times, also said black and Asian intelligence officers had complained of discrimination at the complex in Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire. A GCHQ spokesman told the BBC policies and practices were now being improved. Much of GCHQ's work involves monitoring calls and emails from terror suspects. But the report, authorised by the head of the civil service, Sir Gus O'Donnell, says a lack of officers with specialist knowledge of languages like Urdu and Arabic is hampering efforts to spot codes and cultural nuances in intercepted conversations. "It is critical to have a diverse staff group who are able to profile and recognise certain behaviour patterns and communications," the document says. The report recommends better engagement with ethnic minority communities in order to boost recruitment and improve the image of the organisation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/10589031.stm
"This is critical to good national security intelligence," it adds. The security officers ask questions which are culturally inappropriate, insensitive and offensive The report says GCHQ has tried to improve its equality and diversity, but "the culture of the organisation has not been receptive to this" and it "is seen as a people issue which only applies to some people". It points out that there are no black or Asian senior managers. Mr Marshall said that in response to it, GCHQ was "making a number of improvements to our policies and practices", including employing a dedicated diversity officer and focusing recruitment on specific universities with large ethnic minority populations. "GCHQ is regularly recognised as a good employer but we aspire to be the best," he said. "We recognise that recruiting a diverse range of people, treating them in a nondiscriminatory way and supporting them to achieve their full potential is key to that aspiration."
EU parliament ratifies data sharing agreement with US Daily Herald, 08 July 2010 Brussels: The European Parliament gave the final approval on Thursday to a deal with the United States that grants terrorism investigators access to sensitive information about Europeans' bank transfers. The vote ratifying the deal followed weeks of intense negotiations between Washington and the European Union to improve privacy safeguards, after lawmakers vetoed the
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previous version in February on concerns over data security. Without the information, investigators say, their ability to track people suspected of terrorist activities is limited. U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed the ratification, saying the revised deal was in line with his administration's efforts to protect fundamental rights while combating terrorism. "The threat of terrorism faced by the United States and the European Union continues and, with this agreement, all of our citizens will be safer," he said in a statement. Obama's administration has sought to rebuild ties with European allies on issues such as data sharing, after the previous administration of George Bush took a more "go it alone" approach. During negotiations over the data sharing deal, the EU has won assurances from the United States that EU representatives will be able to vet requests for bank information and
oversee how it is used by counter-terrorism investigators. The five-year agreement will go into effect in August, giving investigators access to information collected by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), which records most global money transfers. U.S. investigators have tracked cash linked to terrorism suspects since the Sept. 11 attacks, but their access to data has heightened European concerns over potential privacy abuse. European and U.S. officials have said the data collected has helped investigations into numerous attacks in Europe, such as the 2004 bombings in Madrid and those in London in 2005. It also played a role in a Norwegian investigation that led to arrests of three men on Thursday suspected of planning attacks and having links to al Qaeda, a U.S. official said. http://www.thedailyherald.com/us/3-news/5616-eu-parliament-ratifies-data-sharing-agreementwith-us.html
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subcommittee, and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights”. These bodies routinely join international human rights organizations in criticized the abysmal civil liberties record of the government of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. This record caused the United States Congress, which is usually Colombia’s staunchest international supporter, to vote to terminate all US monetary assistance to the DAS intelligence agency. International pressure over DAS’ involvement in civil liberties abuses forced the Uribe government to announce in 2009 that it planned to disband the scandal-prone intelligence agency. However, the relevant legislation has been stalled by political infighting in the
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behind the Commission’s discreet response is country’s legislature. The latest disclosures the aim of the Spanish government, which about Operation EUROPE prompted a group currently presides over the European Union, of European Parliamentarians to demand to implement a long-awaited free trade action from Brussels in response to the agreement between the EU and Colombia. revelations. Interestingly, the response by the Civil libertarians pin their hopes on the European Commission has been remarkably upcoming Belgian EU presidency, because muted. Belgium has “citizens that have been proven One European Member of Parliament told the to have suffered phone tapping by the DAS”. Brussels-based EU Observer newspaper that http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/01-501/
Ecuador: No proof yet of Colombian spying 08 July 2010, Cameron Sumpter
Ecuadorean Security Minister Miguel Carvajal said Thursday that allegations that Colombian security agency DAS spied on Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and other officials is "so far just a newspaper story." "We can not say for a fact that it has happened," Carvajal said, referring to the story broken by El Universo newspaper, in which a former (unnamed) DAS employee alleged that the security agency wiretapped Correa's phone from an operation run out of Quito. Carvajal said although it was common practice for journalists to protect their sources, in such cases involving national security it was important "to deliver all the information needed to know exactly the source is for the prosecutor to do research and determine whether or not there was espionage." Ecuador's prosecutor general asked the newspaper to reveal the source last week, and Carvajal is also insisting that El Universo provides the information required for investigations. El Universo refuted claims that the DAS official at the centre of the story was a disgruntled employee, who had been fired, as stated by Colombian president Alvaro Uribe and DAS director Felipe Muñoz. According to El Universo's Tuesday article, the original report that implicated DAS, published Editor: Dalene Duvenage
on June 28, was based on testimony given to a Colombian court in May of 2009 by nine DAS agents who formed part of “Operation Salmon,” the alleged espionage ring in Ecuador responsible for intercepting communications of high government officials, businessmen, journalists, military officials, and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa. The newspaper went on to explain that the anonymous source who helped them break the allegations of espionage against Correa is one of the nine DAS agents who testified in the May 2009 court hearing. Last week, Uribe vehemently denied that DAS had spied on Correa. Uribe, speaking live on Colombian TV and radio, said that "DAS has never carried out any of the denounced allegations against the president of Ecuador, Dr. Rafael Correa." According to Uribe, these allegations form part of an ongoing campaign to harm Colombia's international relations. "This case joins the many others in which illintentioned people, probably close to DAS, have used information that doesn't correspond to reality in order to affect the good name of the [Colombian] government, and in this case, affect its international relations," Uribe said.
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The surveillance operation was allegedly diplomatic relations between the neighboring launched after the Colombian army countries to fracture. According to the conducted a raid on a FARC camp on informant, DAS's surveillance points in Quito Ecuadorean territory in 2008, causing may still exist http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/10703-carvajal-das-wiretapping-just-anewspaper-story.html
Asia CIA and Pakistan locked in counter-intelligence struggle
The CIA and the ISI both recruit agents to spy on militants and al-Qaeda and often end up employing the same people uncertain of their true loyalties By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, AP , WASHINGTON, Jul 09, 2010 (ed Excerpted)
A Pakistani man approached CIA officers in Islamabad last year, offering to give up secrets of his country’s closely guarded nuclear program. To prove he was a trustworthy source, he claimed he had spent nuclear fuel rods. But the CIA had its doubts. Before long, the suspicious officers had concluded that Pakistan’s spy agency, the InterServices Intelligence (ISI), was trying to run a double agent against them. CIA officers alerted their Pakistani counterparts. Pakistan promised to look into the matter and, with neither side acknowledging the man was a double agent, the affair came to a polite, quiet end. The incident, recounted by former US officials, underscores the schizophrenic relationship with one of the US’ most crucial counterterrorism allies. Publicly, officials credit Pakistani collaboration with helping kill and capture numerous al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. Privately, that relationship is often marked by mistrust as the two countries wage an aggressive spy battle against each other. The CIA has repeatedly tried to penetrate the ISI and learn more about Pakistan’s nuclear program; and the ISI has mounted its own operations to gather intelligence on the CIA’s counterterrorism activities in the tribal lands and figure out what the CIA knows about the
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nuclear program. Bumping up against the ISI is a way of life for the CIA in Pakistan, the agency’s command center for recruiting spies in the country’s lawless tribal regions. Officers there also coordinate Predator drone airstrikes, the CIA’s most successful and lethal counterterrorism program. The armed, unmanned planes take off from a base inside Pakistani Baluchistan known as “Rhine.” That means incidents such as the one involving nuclear fuel rods must be resolved delicately and privately. An ISI official denied that the agency runs double agents to collect information about the CIA’s activities. He said the two agencies have a good working relationship and such allegations were meant to create friction between them. However, the CIA became so concerned by a rash of cases involving suspected double agents last year, it re-examined the spies it had on the payroll in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. The internal investigation revealed about a dozen double agents, stretching back several years. Most of them were being run by Pakistan. Other cases were deemed suspicious. The CIA determined the efforts were part of an official offensive counterintelligence program being run by the ISI’s spy chief, General Ahmed Shuja Pasha. CIA Director Leon Panetta talked with Pasha about the ISI’s relationship with militants last year, reiterating the same talking points his predecessor, General Michael Hayden, had
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delivered before him. Panetta told Pasha he The spate of Pakistani double agents has needed to take on militant groups, including raised alarm bells in some corners of the those such as Hekmatyar and Haqqani, a agency, while others merely say it’s the cost former US intelligence official said. of doing business in Pakistan. They say double agents are as old as humanity and point to However, the US can only demand so much the old spy adage: “There are friendly nations from an intelligence service it can’t live but no friendly intelligence services.” without. Recruiting agents to track down and Nowhere is the tension greater than in the kill terrorists and militants is a top priority for tribal areas, the lawless regions that have the CIA and one of the clandestine service’s become the front line in what Panetta greatest challenges. The drones can’t hit their described on Sunday as “the most aggressive targets without help finding them. Such operations in the history of the CIA.” The area efforts would be impossible without has become what’s known in spy parlance as Pakistan’s blessing, and the US pays about a wilderness of mirrors, where nothing is US$3 billion a year in military and economic what it appears. The CIA recruits people to aid to keep the country stable and spy on al-Qaeda and militant groups. So does cooperative. the ISI. “We need the ISI and they definitely know it,” Often, they recruit the same people. That said C. Christine Fair, an assistant professor at means the CIA must constantly consider Georgetown University’s Center for Peace where a spy’s allegiance lies: With the US? and Security Studies. “They are really helping With Pakistan? With the enemy? Pakistan us in several critical areas and directly rarely — if at all — has used its double agents undermining us in others.” Pakistan has its to feed the CIA bad information, the former own worries about the US. During former US US officials said. Rather, the agents were just president George W. Bush’s first term, gathering intelligence on US operations, Pakistan became enraged after it shared seeing how the CIA responded and how intelligence with the US, only to learn the CIA information flowed. Former CIA officials say station chief passed that information to the youth and inexperience among a new British. generation of US officers may have The incident caused a serious row, one that contributed to the difficulties of operating in threatened the CIA’s relationship with the ISI the tribal regions, where the US is spending a and deepened the levels of distrust between massive amount of money to cultivate the two sides. Pakistan almost threw the CIA sources. station chief out of the country. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2010/07/09/2003477450
Philippines: Top security officials named TWO FORMER military officials who have served under the previous administration have been appointed as security chiefs, Malacañang said yesterday. Retired Brig. Gen. Cesar P. Garcia, Jr., who was former director-general of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA), has been appointed National Security Adviser. Mr. Garcia served at NICA for most of
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the Arroyo administration’s term, or from 2001-2008. Tapped to head NICA, meanwhile, was retired Army Maj. Gen. Trifonio P. Salazar who was former program manager of support services and environmental management at the Subic-Clark-Tarlac ExpresswayProject Management Office. Also appointed was Eric Gosiengfiao as NICA deputy directorgeneral. He was former assistant director-
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agency, Cabinet Research Office, or known as Director of Cabinet Intelligence, Hideshi the "Naicho", since appointed by ex Prime Mitani is replaced by Shinichi Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2006. Uematsu. In former assignments Contrary to uses in the intelligence Shinichi Uematsu was in charge of circles, while being replaced, Mitanifinance of Osaka prefectural police san will stay at the Kantei in charge headquarters and a specialist of of the North Korean abductions of Japanese Government procurements. Japanese citizens by North Korea secret Hideshi Mitani, a North Korea counterservices agents from the mid-70s' to the 80s'. intelligence specialist, was the chief of the Japanese prime minister's intelligence http://asiangazette.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-naicho-chief-japan-changings-face.html
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Nigeria: Jonathan stresses need for accurate intelligence gathering TRIBUNE 05 Jul 2010: Ishola Michael and Johnson Babajide (Ed; excerpted)
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has stressed the need for accurate and relevant intelligence information gathering, which he said is the pivot of the development of any nation, just as he condemned trading such information for the selfish interest of a few, at the detriment of national integration and development. President Jonathan, who spoke at the commissioning of the SSS Senior Staff Development Centre (SSDC) in Bauchi, on Saturday, said that the importance of intelligence could not be overemphasized because it is needed for adequate security and planning in any nation, Nigeria inclusive. He explained that this was why the Federal Government “is doing everything possible in the training of intelligence personnel on regular basis.� Represented by the vice president, Mohammed Namadi Sambo, the president maintained that no amount spent Editor: Dalene Duvenage
on intelligence gathering was a waste as the collected intelligence information would be useful, if not immediately, in the nearest future advising, therefore, that any information collated should not be discarded in a hurry. Meanwhile, security personnel across the country have converged on Galilee College in Israel for a twelve-day training as to enable them cope with latest technological tools and methods. According to a letter sent to security personnel across the country, a copy of which was made available to Sunday Tribune, those expected to participate in the course include: special advisers on security, chief security officers, aide de camp to chief executives, senior security personnel and senior officials of the emergency management agency. The training, which holds at Galilee College Israel, according to the letter, will enable senior
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Ghana: Efforts To Check Money Laundering 7th July 2010: Emmanuel Bonney (Ed: excerpted)
The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, says Ghana must work hard to design an anti-money laundering (AML) and terrorism financing regime to prevent the abuse of the country’s financial systems. He said the country must strengthen its AML regime through the enactment of laws, as well as the establishment and consolidation of robust compliance systems that involved relevant institutions dedicated to the implementation and enforcement of AML measures. He said with a national strategy in place, the country could easily determine the activities and measures needed for the development of a robust AML regime. He said the integrity of a country’s financial sector was measured by its AML and combating of terrorism financing regime set up in compliance with international standards. In April last year, he said, Ghana’s AML and combating of financing terrorism regime was evaluated by the Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), the ECOWAS regional body responsible for the development of the AML and terrorism financing regime.
He said the evaluation had shown that the country was not adequately prepared to deal with money laundering, adding that the major deficiencies in the report included the nonexistence of a financial intelligence centre and ineffective application of powers by appropriate bodies to investigate, detect and seize the proceeds of crime. The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, said money laundering and the financing of terrorism affected the country’s reputation and undermined its social values. Interior Minister, Mr Martin Amidu, said as a member of the international community, Ghana had an obligation to ensure compliance with international laws on AML and combating financial terrorism. “We have fulfilled some of these obligations by enacting the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2008 (Act 749); the Anti-Money Laundering Regulations, 2008 (LI 1925), the AntiTerrorism Act, 2008 (Act 764), among others. “In spite of all these, we still need to develop a national strategy for the countering of money laundering and financing terrorism,” he said. http://www.graphicghana.com/news/page.p hp?news=8240
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Intelligence Reform After Five Years: The Role of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Richard A. Best Jr, June 22. 2010 Read Report here
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UN Report: The Globalization of Crime - A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment Published June 2010
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime released this report in June 2010; the UN states that the report, the first of its kind by the UN, "analyses a range of key transnational crime threats, including human trafficking, migrant smuggling, the illicit heroin and cocaine trades, cybercrime, maritime piracy and trafficking in environmental resources, firearms and counterfeit goods. The report also examines a number of cases where transnational organized crime and instability amplify each other to create vicious circles in which countries or even subregions may become locked. Thus, the report offers a striking view of the global dimensions of organized crime today." http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/tocta/TOCTA_Report_2010_low_res.pdf
Financing of terrorism: Risks for Australia Russell G Smith, Rob McCusker & Julie Walters, May 2010
To date, Australia has been relatively quarantined from large-scale, organised terrorist activities such as those which have emerged in central and southeast Asia, Europe and the United States. Nonetheless, as a well-resourced country, Australia is at risk of being a location from which funds for terrorist activities may be drawn—even if the activities themselves are based predominantly in other countries. This paper presents information on the environments in which the financing of terrorism have taken place in recent years and the trajectory of financing of terrorism risk which is likely to emerge for Australia and globally in the years ahead. Consideration is given to how financing of terrorism occurs, not only through the use of illegally obtained funds, but also through financing derived from legitimate sources, such as charitable donations, which are diverted for use in terrorist activities. It is concluded that although evidence of financing of terrorism is limited in Australia, risks are present that need to be addressed, not only through effective gathering and the use of financial intelligence, but also through the prosecution and punishment of offenders and the education of those individuals and communities most at risk of becoming involved in illegal activities, both intentionally and inadvertently. http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/E/4/9/%7BE4952BEA-9B60-4126-8D7110C0D393CD9E%7Dtandi394.pdf
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12 July 2010
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