From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Sat Apr 7, 2001 8:42pm Subject: Spying game is still played by the old rules Bush's China crisis Spying game is still played by the old rules http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,470293,00.html Nigel West explains how the Cold War mentality survived the collapse of communism Special report: China Special report: George Bush's America Sunday April 8, 2001 The Observer During the Cold War, 1985 became known as 'The Year Of The Spy' because of the peak in espionage activity: it included Aldrich Ames's offer to sell secrets to the Soviet Union and the exfiltration from Moscow of Oleg Gordievsky, MI6's long-term mole inside the KGB. This year looks set to match 1985, with the exposure in Washington DC of FBI counter-intelligence expert Robert Hanssen; the expulsion of dozens of Russian and American diplomats accused of spying, after the defection of two senior officers of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, in New York and Ottawa; and the seizure in China of a US Navy EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft. In addition, an American was convicted of espionage in Moscow and then freed, while a Russian ex-diplomat accused of working for the British was given a hefty prison sentence. Cold War rivalries have never properly evaporated: it takes longer than a decade for Russian, Chinese and US military mindsets to shake off the culture of superpower confrontation. There is a paradox in the new era of close co-operation in fighting organised crime, people smugglers, the drug cartels and the money-launderers. Some of the conventional intelligence targets may have changed, with a greater emphasis on terrorism, nuclear proliferation and economic intelligence, but the SVR continued to maintain clandestine contact with Hanssen long after its monolithic predecessor, the KGB, had been dismantled, and the US National Security Agency persists in operating electronic intelligence (elint) flights along China's coast. The loss of the EP-3 is reminiscent of the capture of another elint platform, the USS Pueblo, by North Korea in 1968. Clearly the espionage game has been largely unaffected by the geopolitical changes that have occurred since Boris Yeltsin suppressed the August 1992 coup mounted by the former KGB chairman, Vladimir Kryuchkov. Actually, as a sign of his rehabilitation after only the briefest term in prison, Kryuchkov's birthday party last December was attended by President Vladimir Putin, and the Kremlin is appointing former KGB stalwarts to important public positions. The Russians and the Chinese recognise that in any period of military cutback the need for intelligence becomes greater, with even a minor technological breakthrough, perhaps in the fields of laser weaponry or anti-ballistic missile systems, being of critical importance. Hence the need for the dramatic increase in technical and industrial espionage. Evidently the CIA was anxious to learn about a new, phenomenally high-speed Russian torpedo; the Chinese acquired details of a new American atomic weapon design from Los Alamos; and the SVR penetrated the heart of the FBI's citadel of counter-intelligence. Plus ça change. All sides deploy much the same tradecraft and are guided by a single certainty: that good intelligence can deter aggression, forestall surprises and also prevent bloodshed. . Secret society: why is the Government so frightened of the truth? An RSA debate in association with The Observer. Thursday, 12 April 2001 at 6.30pm, RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ. Doors open 6pm. Admission free, but to reserve tickets call 020 7451 6868. -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2883 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Sat Apr 7, 2001 8:46pm Subject: Spy laptop safety no longer mission impossible Spy laptop safety no longer mission impossible http://www.excite.co.uk/news/story/UKOnlineReportTopNews/IIMFFH54838_2001-04-08_00-48-00_B135808 08/04/01 01:48 By Sinead O'Hanlon LONDON (Reuters) - Spies and security service staff will be issued with high-tech James Bond style briefcases after a spate of embarrassing bungles in which agents have lost official secrets, the Ministry of Defence has said. A ministry spokesman told Reuters 15,000 thief-proof briefcases had been ordered at a cost of 1,000 pounds each after it emerged security service and armed forces staff had lost 204 laptops since 1997. "It got to the point where these things seemed to be disappearing every week and it was an embarrassment." Many of the briefcases will be fitted with gadgets more familiar to fans of British agent 007 or the "Mission Impossible" television series than the average civil servant. As well as being able to withstand high explosives, the cases will be fitted with a "self- destruct" mechanism to wipe the laptop's hard drive if a thief tries to open the case, the spokesman said. Only a fraction of the briefcase losses have been made public but the few that were have embarrassed British security services. In November an agent for MI5, the domestic intelligence service, left a briefcase full of secret documents on a train. In May a military laptop - believed to contain details of a warplane project with the United States - was stolen from a naval intelligence officer at a train station. The previous March there were reports that two agents - one from MI5 and the other from Britain's overseas security service MI6 - had lost laptops containing secret information. The MI5 laptop, said to contain confidential information on Northern Ireland, was also snatched at a train station. -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2884 From: Aimee Farr Date: Sat Apr 7, 2001 9:00pm Subject: IAAL Introduction My name is Aimee Farr, and "I Am A Lawyer," hereinafter referred to as "IAAL," and incorporated herein for all purposes. BIO/STATEMENT OF PRACTICE (using the "Fairy Tale" sanitization/redaction method): Once upon a time, "Cinderella Lawyer" was trapped in small law practice with her kind, but fuddy-duddy lawyer-father and his evil step-secretary. She was miserable! She was forced to do menial, boring legal work. "Oh, I am so miserable!" she cried. Then, in a "magical moment," her Fairy Lady Justice appeared, and waved her magic scales over Cinderella Lawyer, sprinkling law-dust of intelligence, data-protection, privacy law, and things-she-never-knew-existed. Extremely puzzled, she met two little mice named Gus and Jack, was given a pair of glass slippers, took a spin in a pumpkin, and danced with Prince Charming Clientele. I appreciate the courtesy extended to me to join this list, and I give the most weighty consideration to confidentiality concerns in your correspondence, offlist and on. Furthermore, I look forward to looking up new acronyms. [X] YES! Please send me my complimentary tinfoil hat. [FN1] [_] No. Please do not scare me at this time. [FN1] The archives indicate a high tolerance-level for profession-orientated humor. _SEE_ EXHIBIT A: From: "James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng" Date: Thu Apr 5, 2001 2:49pm Subject: Hell Bound Lawyer. *laughter* Respectfully submitted, ~Aimee Law Office of Aimee E. Farr 5400 Bosque, Suite 675 Waco, Texas 76710-4418 T: 254.751.0030 F: 254.751.0963 E: mailto:aimee.farr@p... Outlook/Lotus click-to Contacts: http://my.infotriever.com/aimeefarr 2885 From: =wampyr= Date: Sun Apr 8, 2001 8:45am Subject: U.S. Surveilance plane down Do any listmembers have any opinions or uncommon information reguarding the 24 servicemen being held in china? This standoff situation makes me sort of tense as I see china as one of the few actual threats globaly. == Those that travel long distances in isolation will defend themselves with strange arts. Shin shin, shin gan. The data contained herein is confidential. Unauthorised dissemination of the contents of this e-mail may be in breach of Criminal and Civil law and may lead to prosecution. _____________________________________________________________ Yourname@i...
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http://burn.inhell.com 2886 From: Craig Date: Mon Apr 9, 2001 9:21pm Subject: FYI hI.. Long time lurker - so this is my first post found this neat hardware.. http://www.optoelectronics.com/ds1000.htm 2887 From: Robert G. Ferrell Date: Tue Apr 10, 2001 7:36am Subject: Re: FYI >http://www.optoelectronics.com/ds1000.htm Hmmm. Might be fun to take one of those onboard next time you fly (plugged into your laptop), just to see what kind of digital RF profile it would generate. I would think the differences between at the gate (cell phones allowed), during takeoff/landing (no passenger electronics), and inflight (laptops but no personal cell phones) would be especially revealing. Cheers, RGF Robert G. Ferrell, CISSP Information Systems Security Officer National Business Center U. S. Dept. of the Interior Robert_G_Ferrell@n... ======================================== Who goeth without humor goeth unarmed. ======================================== 2888 From: Date: Tue Apr 10, 2001 9:00pm Subject: Jiang Pushes For Apology April 10 ­ Both President Bush and China's President Jiang had comments on the stalemate over the U.S. spy plane. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski reports. Bush urges patience, but demands release of crew again MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS April 10 ­ Chinese President Jiang Zemin said Tuesday that he trusts in the ability of China and the United States to end their impasse over the spy plane collision, but reiterated his standing demand for an apology. "Taking into the account the important role of the two countries, we have to find a solution," Jiang said at a news conference in Uruguay, his third stop on a six-nation Latin American tour. April 10 ­ President Bush is getting plenty of unsolicited advice on what to do if the Americans are not released soon, but the options come with lots of baggage. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports. AT ONLY his second news briefing since opening the trip last Thursday in Chile, Jiang said China's position was "sufficiently clear" as he stood by demands that the United States apologize for the downing of the Chinese jet April 1. The pilot is missing and feared dead. Jiang's response to a question about the stalemate was terse. When asked what the key to finding a way out was, he alluded to his repeated demands for a U.S. apology. "Our position on this issue is sufficiently clear," said Jiang, adding that he had already spoken about China's demands during his last news conference, Thursday in Santiago, Chile. In Washington, President Bush counseled patience in the standoff, saying "diplomacy sometimes takes a little longer than people would like" but also again demanding the U.S. crew's release. For the second straight day, Bush appeared to be preparing Americans for the possibility that the diplomatic standoff with China could drag on. Simultaneously, he again called on Beijing to release the crew and hinted at the consequences of a failure to do so. "The longer this goes, the more likely it is that it could ­ could ­ jeopardize relations," Bush said. "And we certainly don't want that to happen. Earlier in the day, China's Foreign Ministry shrugged off Bush's warning Monday that relations could be damaged by the stalemate over the U.S. spy plane and its crew, but it called a U.S. expression of sorrow over a Chinese fighter pilot's apparent death a "step in the right direction." INCREASED POLITICAL PRESSURE Bush's plea for patience came amid increased pressure from both ends of the political spectrum to bring the 24-member crew home without major capitulation to China. The president also was confronted by a politically tricky offer by the Rev. Jesse Jackson to visit China to try to win the crew's release. The president sidestepped a question about whether he would endorse a Jackson mission to China. U.S.-China face off•Latest news•WashPost: Detainees develop a routine•Newsweek: Special report•Newsweek: Crash in clouds•Crew of the U.S. plane•Opinions: Diplomacy tips•China's military: MSNBC special report•NBC: Was pilot top gun?•Interactive: China's military•What's your opinion? Sound off on our BBS "I appreciate the good will of a lot of Americans who are concerned about our folks on Hainan island," Bush said, shortly after being briefed on a fifth meeting between U.S. diplomats and the crew members. "This administration is doing everything it can ... to end the situation in an efficient way." Earlier, Secretary of State Colin Powell said he had phoned the leader of the Chicago-based Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and told him that while the administration appreciates his offer of help, it will continue to work through diplomatic channels. Jackson, however, indicated he still intends to go to China if given permission. "The point is to get a solution and not leave our soldiers there as trophies," said Jackson, who has previously helped free American prisoners in Syria, Iraq and Yugoslavia. Powell planned to go ahead Tuesday with a trip to Europe, including a stop in Paris, on his way to the Balkans. He will keep in close touch with Bush and other top advisers, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. U.S. PLANE ON AUTOPILOT? Should Congress move to block China's entry into the World Trade Organization? Yes. No. Vote to see results Even as the diplomatic efforts continued apace, Pentagon officials on Tuesday were leaking details of the April 1 collision between the U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet that amounted to the strongest challenge yet to Beijing's account. Senior Pentagon officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity quoted a State Department cable reporting the pilot said the plane was on autopilot at the time of the collision. Officials offered this new information as more proof for their argument that the U.S. spy plane was flying straight and steady, not deviating in speed, altitude or direction. China has said the U.S. plane swerved into the fighter jet. A Pentagon official speaking on condition of anonymity also said the crew has reported that the Chinese jet made two close passes ­ coming within a few feet of the U.S. plane ­ before the collision. The pilot of a second Chinese fighter who witnessed the accident has said the pilot of the Navy plane caused the accident by suddenly swerving into the path of the jets. •'Hardball' at 5 p.m. ET U.S.-China standoff with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. In Beijing Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi shrugged off Bush's warning that the standoff was jeopardizing U.S.-Chinese relations. "I hope the U.S. side will not further complicate the issue," he said at a news briefing, adding that China hoped the United States would adopt a "positive and cooperative attitude." Sun had positive words for Powell's statement over the weekend that Washington was "sorry" that the Chinese pilot apparently had been killed as a result of the collision. The collision led to the emergency landing of the American EP-3E on China's Hainan Island, where it and its crew remain as the two nations attempt to negotiate and end to the incident. "The expression of 'sorry' is a step in the right direction, but we don't think this issue is fully solved," Sun said. "We still urge the U.S. to take a positive attitude and take the stance of the Chinese side seriously." Chinese President Jiang spokesman said Monday that U.S. expressions of remorse have so far been "unacceptable." 'PRONOUNCEMENTS ... ARE UNACCEPTABLE' "Where is the responsibility? I think it's very clear," said Zhu Bangzao, a senior Chinese Foreign Ministry official who also acts as Jiang's spokesman, said when peppered with questions at a news briefing in Buenos Aires. "The pronouncements of the United States are unacceptable to the Chinese people." Talks aimed at resolving the impasse have centered on Beijing's demand for a U.S. apology for the accident. Bush administration officials have refused to issue a formal apology, saying the spy plane was on a routine reconnaissance flight in international airspace and suggesting the collision was the fault of the Chinese pilot, who remains missing after his plane went down at sea. FIFTH MEETING WITH CREW Advertisement Meanwhile, U.S. diplomats led by U.S. Brig. Gen. Neal Sealock met with crew members for the fifth time on Tuesday night, the 10th day of the crew's detention, on China's Hainan island. Sealock said the detained crew members remain in high spirits and were exercising and getting regular news reports and e-mails from home. Privately, U.S. officials say they are making progress in talks with China aimed at securing the crew's freedom and return of the spy plane, though they concede that the release of the American fliers is probably not imminent. That opinion is bolstered by the view of many observers in China, who say that no resolution will occur before the search for the missing pilot, Wang Wei, is officially declared to be over. SEARCH FOR PILOT INTENSIFIES All indications are that such a declaration is at least several days away. In recent days, China has stepped up its search for Wang and his F-8 fighter. State media said Tuesday that 4,000 Hainan residents combed beaches with flashlights ­ joining hundreds of military and fishing vessels and at least 70 planes in the search. A waiting game could prove troublesome for Bush, whose comments counseling patience apparently were aimed at conservatives who have stepped up their anti-China rhetoric and begun to question Bush's handling of the situation. Criticism of Bush's go-slow approach also has begun to surface outside his party. Printable version Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli of New Jersey asked Monday "whether it is appropriate to have both an ambassador and hostages in the same country." Polls show voters support Bush's leadership on China, but senior Republicans said the goodwill could erode if the standoff continues. U.S. OFFICIALS SEE EVENTUAL SOLUTION Despite the signs of impatience, U.S. officials continue to insist they are not overly concerned by hard-line public comments by the Chinese and indicate that they still expect an eventual solution to emerge from proposed language already on the table. "This is just a case of the Chinese trying to get more and us pushing back and saying this is the best we can do," one U.S. official told NBC's Andrea Mitchell. A senior U.S. administration official, briefed on the talks, said negotiations were slowly moving closer to a way to release the crew. Another said advances were minuscule Monday, after rapid progress late last week. Efforts to end the crisis appeared to hinge on a choice of words in a communiqué being drafted that would allow a face-saving way out for both Bush and Jiang. Negotiations were delicate, but officials said over the weekend that talks focused on three major points: Neither side would accept responsibility, the plane and the crew would be released and a standing joint commission on maritime safety would investigate the collision. NBC News' Kevin Tibbles in Haikou; Jim Maceda in Hong Kong; Andrea Mitchell, Jim Miklaszewski, Betsy Steuart, Robert Windrem and Campbell Brown in Washington; The Associated Press; and Reuters contributed to this report. HAVE A GREAT DAY !!! 2889 From: Date: Tue Apr 10, 2001 9:12pm Subject: Detainees Develop A Routine Detainees develop a routine U.S. crew staying in military guesthouse in red-light district A view of the command center at the People's Liberation Army South China Naval and Airforce base in Haikou on China's Hainan Island. By Philip P. Pan THE WASHINGTON POST HAIKOU, China, April 9 ­ The Nanhang No. 1 Guesthouse is operated by the Chinese navy here, just off a raucous street lined with beer gardens, brothels and discos. For much of the past nine days, it has also been home to 24 American crew members detained by the Chinese military when their surveillance plane made an emergency landing on Hainan Island. The complex stands in one of this provincial capital's many red-light districts. A light breeze carries laughter and music from a nearby beer garden through the hot, humid air. ACCORDING TO U.S. officials, the crew members can watch Chinese television and read the China Daily, a state-run English-language newspaper that has published attacks on them as well as on the United States. They pass the time with card games, paperback novels and crossword puzzle magazines provided by U.S. diplomats allowed to visit them. Chinese officials here have provided no information on the detained fliers or their quarters. But a sketchy picture of their confinement emerges from the U.S. diplomats. The detained Americans are staying two to a room, they say, except for the three female crew members, who share a room, and the commander, identified by a Pentagon official as Lt. Shane Osborn of Norfolk, Neb., who has his own quarters. TOGETHER AT MEALS Guards bring them together for meals, Chinese cuisine that some of the detainees have described as excellent. Others complained of indigestion and needed Pepto-Bismol. More Post coverage•Detainees Develop a Routine•Bush Emphasizes Toll on U.S.-China Relations•Taiwan Says Plane Shouldn't Affect Sales The crew pores through e-mail printouts from friends and relatives that the Chinese authorities have agreed to pass on. And every night, they look forward to news during a visit from Army Brig. Gen. Gratton O. "Neal" Sealock II, who heads a team of U.S. diplomats here working to ensure the crew's safety and comfort as talks to free them continue in Washington and Beijing. Nine days after the Navy plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet over the South China Sea, Sealock and a senior U.S. consular officer, Ted Gong, met for a fourth time tonight with crew members. After the 40-minute session, Sealock reported the crew was in "extremely high spirits" and staying in clean rooms in a "hotel environment, not anything close to anything below that." "That includes things like air conditioning. . . . They've been able to clean their uniforms and do all those sorts of things. They're being well taken care of," he said. NEARBY BEER GARDEN Western journalists have twice seen vehicles carrying Sealock and Gong entering and leaving the gate of the inn, which is operated by the Chinese navy's South Sea Fleet Air Force and sits adjacent to other military facilities. Beyond the gate stands what looks like a five-story hotel with curtains drawn at almost every window. The complex stands in one of this provincial capital's many red-light districts. A light breeze carries laughter and music from a nearby beer garden through the hot, humid air. Young women in tight clothing ask strangers to sit and chat; men without shirts lounge around in sidewalk restaurants. A neon sign above a nearby bar declares in English, "Cowboys, cowgirls, welcome." The compound appears lightly guarded, but residents said they have seen bursts of security activity in recent days, including large numbers of undercover police. The guesthouse used to accept reservations from the public, but operators there now hang up abruptly when callers inquire about rooms. Chinese officials took Sealock and Gong directly to the guesthouse tonight, a sign of progress in their push for improved access to the crew. Previously, the U.S. diplomats were required to attend a meeting at the offices of the Hainan provincial government to discuss ground rules for the visits. Advertisement The process has been frustrating. The diplomats are unclear why, but all four meetings have occurred at night. They have come to expect a late-night phone call in their hotel rooms. A Chinese functionary tells them to be ready in 15 minutes. Nothing happens for an hour. Then the phone rings again: Be downstairs in 10 minutes. Negotiations over ground rules take place in a conference room lined with gifts from various visiting delegations to Hainan, including one from California. Five Chinese officials usually attend, led by Fan Zhenshui, deputy director general of the Foreign Ministry's consular department. PAINSTAKING DETAILS The meetings usually include some posturing, with Chinese officials charging that the U.S. plane entered Chinese airspace illegally, for example. But it appears the Chinese officials at the table lack full decision-making power. They often ask for breaks, apparently to call higher-ups for guidance. Every detail must be negotiated. How much time will Sealock have with the crew? How many crew members will he be permitted to see? Will he be able to pass along the Snickers bars and M&Ms he purchased for them? The back-and-forth, all of which is slowly translated and transcribed, can take more than three hours and often stretches past midnight. Sealock usually offers the U.S. government's help with the Chinese investigation into the collision. He has also been pressing for "unfettered access" to the crew in the form of regular, twice-daily visits, but the Chinese have not responded. Still, the situation has gradually improved. During the first meeting with the crew, Chinese officials monitored the discussion, tried to stop Sealock from asking about the collision and refused to let him meet individually with crew members. But Sealock and Gong have been allowed to see crew members without supervision beginning with the second meeting, when they met with the entire crew and then with three crew members separately: the pilot, the youngest enlisted man and one of the women. In the third meeting, the Chinese allowed the envoys to see only eight crew members; no explanation has been made public. Tonight, they met with the entire crew again. The meetings usually take place in what appears to be a classroom. Dressed in their flight suits, the crew members listen as Sealock updates them on the negotiations, offers encouragement and passes on messages from President Bush and the latest sports scores. He and Gong inquire about their health and comfort and answer questions. Sealock, 52 – an Army general from a military family who serves as the U.S. Embassy's defense attache and has studied Chinese – is the crew's primary contact with the United States. For him, colleagues say, the job is as much about making sure the Chinese are treating the Americans well as it is about assuring them that Washington will not forget about them. Sealock dresses in his Army greens when he goes to meet the crew. When he returns, he delivers a brief statement to reporters and then goes upstairs to call Washington. Sitting on his bed in his hotel room, he calls the White House on his mobile phone and briefs Bush directly. "Makes you feel real proud," Sealock told the president after an hour-long session with the crew on Friday night. "They look good." During the day, Sealock stays out of sight, working in a hotel room that his team uses as a command center and consulting regularly with U.S. Ambassador Joseph W. Prueher in Beijing. The diplomats take occasional shopping trips to buy clothing, toiletries, snacks, cigarettes, reading materials and contact lens solution, all of which they pass on to Chinese officials for the crew. The Chinese officials refuse to let Sealock or Gong give anything to the crew members directly, insisting on inspecting everything first, including the e-mail from families. © 2001 The Washington Post Company HAVE A GREAT DAY !!! ---------- http://www.msnbc.com/news/557206.asp [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 2890 From: Phillip H. Waters Date: Tue Apr 10, 2001 0:32pm Subject: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a Spy Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Spy : A new high-tech stuffed bear developed by two German organizations, dubbed Telebuddy, looks like a trade show handout but could conceivably be used as a peeping teddy. As described in Technology Review, a publication of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Telebuddy houses a camera, a microphone, speakers, and robotics, "all linked via radio to a local computer connected to the Web." Someone back at the office can be the beneficiary of the virtual eyes and ears of Telebuddy. It's billed as a convenience--with no mention of espionage. From ASIS Online - www.securitymanagement.com 2891 From: Paolo Sfriso Date: Wed Apr 11, 2001 1:48am Subject: Tech info on rome bombing Dear Collegues. FYI the recent (04.30hrs April 10th, 2001) terrorist bombing in Rome carried out by a splinter group of the "Brigate Rosse" (Red Brigades) involved the following "technical innovations". 1) The bomb was actually set off by a cellphone triggered remote control. 2) Revendication was carried out by e-mail sent to a number of Italian newspapers. Both seem to be first-time tactics. Your Italian Connection Paul Sfriso Director GRUPPO S.I.T. Security, Investigations & Tecnology Quarto d'Altino, Venice ITALY phone +39 0422 828517 fax +39 0422 823224 24hr GSM cellphone +39 335 5257308 paulsfriso@t... www.grupposit.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 2892 From: Rob Muessel Date: Wed Apr 11, 2001 7:35am Subject: Re: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a Spy I think most TSCM guys will be able to find this nefarious threat. See the attached picture from their website. If they shrink it about 97% and make it look like a grown up's toy, I'll start to worry. In the meantime, be sure to ask your clients if anyone has been walking around with a giant light blue elmo on their backs in the sensitive areas. -- Rob Muessel, Director email: rmuessel@t... TSCM Technical Services Phone: 203-354-9040 11 Bayberry Lane Fax: 203-354-9041 Norwalk, CT 06851 USA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 2893 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Wed Apr 11, 2001 10:15am Subject: Gildan got gold mine of details: spy suit Gildan got gold mine of details: spy suit http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/pages/010410/5065694.html Fruit of the Loom alleges executive stole operating plans JAN RAVENSBERGEN The Gazette Gildan Activewear Inc. maintained a stony public silence yesterday in the face of explosive allegations that one of its top executives orchestrated an industrial-espionage coup last fall from Gildan's Montreal head office. The espionage effort is said to have handed the local T-shirt maker a gold mine of inside information detailing rival Fruit of the Loom Inc.'s business plans for 2001. "The stolen operating plans" alleged to have been obtained by top Gildan executive David Cherry from one of his former colleagues at Fruit of the Loom yielded the fast-growing Montreal garment maker with a bonanza of inside information, "a road map to Fruit of the Loom's production and sales strategies worldwide," Fruit of the Loom stated in a filing with a U.S. court. "This case is about industrial espionage at the highest corporate level and the lengths to which predatory competitors will go to obtain commercial advantage," Fruit of the Loom added. It argued for a temporary restraining order against Gildan that was granted last Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Joan Gottschall in Chicago. The judge ordered Gildan, Cherry and another freshly hired senior Gildan executive, John Martin, not to use any of the information alleged to have been obtained by Cherry. Fruit of the Loom hasn't yet specified dollar damages in the lawsuit. Gildan is a publicly traded company that has been on a fast growth track. In the face of the extraordinary nature of the allegations and the high level of detail provided in the court filings, it simply refused yesterday to talk. Greg Chamandy, the company's chairman and chief executive, was tied up in meetings all day with lawyers and others and wasn't available for even a brief interview with The Gazette, an assistant told the newspaper. Glenn Chamandy, Gildan's president and chief operating officer, also wasn't available. On Friday, Laurence Sellyn, Gildan's chief financial officer, had said that "it's really going to take a couple of days before I can intelligently comment" on the allegations. He was attending a meeting in Atlanta yesterday, and couldn't be reached. The company's top officers "are going to say something" about the allegations, Grace Pollock, an outside public-relations official from InvestComm Group Inc. representing Gildan, finally said late yesterday afternoon. When? "Soon," Pollock responded. Gildan shares have been dropping for the past six trading days, losing a further 50 cents yesterday to $22.25. They took a hit last week after Gildan shut a factory in Barbados. Jamaican police had found between 10 and 30 tonnes of marijuana in a container originating from that plant. While Gildan will respond to the allegations from financially wobbly Fruit of the Loom "very soon," Pollock said, "I can't say any more than that." The court filing states that Cherry obtained "sales data for specific customers by unit volume," with sales to such large Fruit of the Loom customers "broken down by quarter, performance to budget and previous annual performance." The effect would be to give Gildan insider knowledge of exactly what Fruit of the Loom was charging for every product line, with "historical actual sales data for 1996 through 1999 broken out by product category worldwide." "This customer information provides Gildan with immense marketing advantages," the court filing stated, given that "many of Fruit of the Loom's major customers are actual or potential Gildan customers." Information alleged to have been obtained by Cherry covers "sales strategies and data; sales production strategies and data; customer information; pricing strategies; product-development plans; and trade secrets" at Fruit of the Loom, which is currently under bankruptcy protection after running into big trouble moving production to Third World plants. Its annual revenues total close to $1.5 billion U.S. Gildan has said it's on track for revenue this year of about $600 million. Analyst Claude Proulx at BMO Nesbitt Burns cut his 12-month price target for the stock to $36 from $43.50 in a report issued yesterday morning. A request for a copy of his morning comment was rebuffed. "Our research is for our clients only," said Philippe Habeichi, a Proulx assistant. Only last Thursday, the analyst had pegged $43.50 as his target price for Gildan. Time line of Events Based on Allegations - April, 1998: David Cherry leaves job at Fruit of the Loom as vice-president (order fulfillment) and later moves to Gildan. - Nov. 27, 2000: Cherry, now Gildan's executive vice-president (planning and logistics) and a member of its executive-management committee, leaves an office voice-mail for former colleague Elizabeth Walton, then Fruit of the Loom's director (customer service). He requests a callback. When Walton does call back, "Cherry asked her to call him again from a pay phone using a Gildan 800 number." On that 800 call, "Cherry asked her to send him copies of Fruit of the Loom's Forecast Report and Sew Plan." Walton "already possessed a copy of the Sew Plan." She "then obtained a copy of the Forecast Report from Fruit of the Loom's computer system." "After she left work that day, Walton sent the Forecast Report and her copy of the Sew Plan via Federal Express to Cherry in Canada." - Nov. 28, 2000: "Cherry called Walton and thanked her for sending the Sew Plan and Forecast Report." - Late December, 2000: "A member of Gildan's senior management asked Harold Moore, then a Gildan plant manager in North Carolina, and a former Fruit of the Loom executive, to review a current Fruit of the Loom Sew Plan to interpret the report's style numbers." Moore knows this report is confidential and concludes "that a competitor could use the information in the report to damage Fruit of the Loom's business or gain a competitive advantage." - March, 2001: Gildan hires John Martin, another former senior Fruit of the Loom executive. - April 5, 2001: Judge Joan Gottschall of U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois issues temporary restraining order against Gildan. The Montreal firm "shall not use, distribute, and disclose in any way the information contained in any Fruit of the Loom Forecast Report and Sew Plan," she rules. - April 18, 2001: Hearing date scheduled on a request by Fruit of the Loom for a preliminary injunction. - April 23, 2001: Expiry date for Judge Gottschall's order. -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2894 From: Scott Malcolm Date: Wed Apr 11, 2001 0:08pm Subject: Re: Digest Number 562 > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:32:58 -0700 > From: "Phillip H. Waters" > Subject: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a Spy > > Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Spy : > > A new high-tech stuffed bear developed by two German organizations, dubbed Telebuddy, > looks like a trade show handout but could conceivably be used as a peeping teddy. Snip> Humor so beware! http://www.gcfl.net/archive/print/19991222.html Regards, Scott Malcolm Malcolm & Associates,Inc. Serving the State of Wisconsin http://www.execpc.com/~conf-pi Office 262 965 4426 / Fax 262 965 4629 2895 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Wed Apr 11, 2001 3:14pm Subject: Another Open Source Intelligence Analysis - What IT Is: The Evidence Behind Dean Kamen's Secret Invention [Moderators Note: Earlier this year I performed an independent case study of the "Ginger leak" which had occurred back in January. The purpose was to study how the leak developed and to research the various open-source loose ends which presented counter intelligence vulnerabilities. In a nutshell, the analysis demonstrated a poster child for "how not to keep a secret", and also permitted a great academic exercise on sifting though minute fragments of information to develop the bigger picture. The case study of the leak was also used to teach proper analysis. List members may want to check out the following as well: http://www.tscm.com/ginger/ -jma] http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=28265&pod_id=13 What IT Is: The Evidence Behind Dean Kamen's Secret Invention Adam Penenberg 4/11/2001 After Dean Kamen wheeled a luggage carrier piled with a couple of black duffel bags and some cardboard boxes into a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency, he told the guard to lock up behind him. It was December 2000 and Kamen-inventor, physicist and winner of the National Medal of Technology-had flown to San Francisco to meet some big-name investors. Among them were venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon; Credit Suisse First Boston's Michael Schmertzler; and Vern Loucks, the recently retired ceo of Baxter Healthcare. Kamen had also invited along veteran technology reporter Steve Kemper, who had been documenting the secret project for a book. This event, as portrayed in Kemper's subsequent book proposal, made for a compelling scene. And Kemper's proposal was carefully crafted-omitting many key details-to create maximum mystery, maximum buzz and a maximum book advance. (It gained him a very decent $250,000 from the Harvard Business School Press.) Now, after an extensive investigation that included combing through public filings and documents relating to the secret project, it's possible to paint a detailed picture of what the tech powerbrokers were so excited about that day. It appears that Kamen began to assemble two ''Ginger'' scooters with a screwdriver and some hex wrenches while the assembled cast awaited the arrival of the irascible Steve Jobs, another key adviser. Although Kemper's proposal didn't explicitly spell it out, the scooter-qua-scooter was actually not the most groundbreaking part of the presentation. If and when the scooter goes into general production, it's likely it will be powered by hydrogen instead of gasoline, which would give it a smooth, quiet, pollution-free ride. The only emission would be a few drops of water. Several patents and trademarks filed in the U.S. and in Europe also indicate that Kamen and the engineers at his company, DEKA Research and Development Corp. of Manchester, N.H., have created a scooter designed to mimic how upright human beings maintain their balance. Kamen has dubbed the effect ''dynamic stabilization,'' a term DEKA has trademarked. Within 10 minutes Kamen had both Gingers up and running. He turned one on and began to ride around the room. Bezos grabbed the other and as he tooled around, he couldn't help but laugh out loud. Kamen offered his scooter to Doerr, and he began to frolic with his Ginger. They were all having so much fun they barely noticed Jobs slip in to the ballroom. At the time the secrecy-obsessed Kamen had no clue that in less than a month, Ginger would become a kind of latter-day gearhead folk religion. The cause of most of his woes would be Kemper's book proposal, entitled ''IT'' (possibly for ''Individual Transport''), which was obtained by Inside.com. A veteran contributor to The Hartford Courant, Kemper had profiled Kamen for Smithsonian Magazine in 1994. And even though the text of the book proposal was deliberately elliptical and oblique, it was still revealing. ''From a corporate-security perspective, the leaking of Kemper's proposal was a nightmare for Dean Kamen,'' says James M. Atkinson, president and senior engineer of Granite Island Group in Gloucester, Mass., and an expert in electronic counterintelligence. ''If you were to chart the information in the proposal with patents, trademarks, domain registrations, building permits, factory blueprints, mortgage filings and other publicly available information, you could get a good idea what Kamen has been up to.'' Given the media frenzy set off by the publication of portions of the ''IT'' proposal on Jan. 9, [Inside] set out, with Atkinson's help, to piece together a more detailed picture of what Kamen was up to. GINGER MANIA Certainly Ginger had prompted some wild speculation. At the site theITquestion.com, Ginger fanatics speculated that ''IT'' was a ''personal hovercraft,'' a ''backpack helicopter'' or a Star Trek-like transporter, among other things. But 33 percent of its polled visitors had it at least half-right when they ventured that Ginger was a ''personal scooter.'' What most of them didn't know is that Kamen's invention proposes to use a new fuel source, hydrogen-and, possibly, a revolutionary new engine. Its approach to transportation could, if successful, yield entirely new types of vehicles. One clue: in September 1999, Kamen's DEKA created a new company called ACROS. According to a trademark filing, ACROS's goal was to create a product line that features ''motorized, self-propelled, wheeled personal mobility aids, namely wheelchairs, scooters, carts and chariots.'' In a note the inventor sent to Kemper, he claimed that the project had to remain secret because he was afraid that certain unnamed forces (presumably automobile and petroleum companies), ''could appropriate the technology by assigning hundreds of engineers to catch up to us.... We could be left gagging in their dust.'' The leak occurred when Rafe Sagalyn, founder of the Washington, D.C., literary agency that represents Kemper, did what any good agent does: try to sell the foreign and dramatic rights to the book. In January, he personally e-mailed the proposal, along with more than a year's worth of digital communiqu?s between Kemper and his Sagalyn agent, Dan Kois, to a Hollywood scout. Recognizing hot gossip, the scout forwarded it to friends and colleagues in publishing with the note ''check this out.'' UNLIKE ANY VEHICLE Interest was so keen in the days after the ''IT'' story broke that ''Kamen'' and ''Ginger'' were among the most-requested search terms on the Lycos search engine. Kamen declined to detail his plans and issued a statement decrying the ''unfortunate, unapproved leak of a book proposal.'' ''We have a promising project, but nothing of the earth-shattering nature that people are conjuring up,'' he wrote. Contacted for this story, Kamen's publicist said he was out of the country and unreachable. Yet if the patents DEKA has filed for its scooterlike vehicle reflect the final prototype as accurately as do Kamen's patents for his most famous invention, a stair-climbing wheelchair, then Ginger will be unlike any vehicle ever mass-produced. Instead of wheels situated one in front of the other-as with a traditional scooter-Kamen's contraption probably balances on two wheels that are parallel, each one attached to an independently operated axle. There is more evidence: According to the book proposal, Doug Field, a Ford Motor Company veteran, is the head of Ginger's design team. The project's ''ceo,'' Tim Adams, used to run Chrysler's South American and European operations. A glance at the jobs DEKA is trying to fill through its Web site indicates that the company is seeking several engineers with a background in automobiles, software development and consumer electronics. One job opening of note is for an electrical engineer who can ''design power converters, inverters and motor drives in the 500-5,000 watt range,'' more than enough power at the top of the range to drive a 200-pound man in a scooter, golf cart or even a larger Ginger ''chariot.'' Cross-referencing the book proposal with Kamen's recent pursuits, it looks like the scooter will run on hydrogen. This would fulfill John Doerr's vision: the big markets of the future (he's been reported assaying) will be ''clean water, transportation, clean power.'' Kamen is quoted in the proposal adding that Ginger ''will profoundly affect our environment'' and ''be an alternative to products that are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in cities.'' Kamen most likely plans to produce hydrogen from propane, a common, cost-effective method. (Another, more expensive way is to extract it from natural gas.) This may explain the huge propane tanks Kamen had installed at his home in Bedford, N.H.-where he keeps a second R&D lab-and at one of his company's buildings in Manchester, N.H. Kamen, 49, maintains an enviable public image as an altruistic Buckaroo Banzai of the 21st century. Countless articles have portrayed him as an eccentric, multimillionaire genius inventor whose name is listed on some 100 patents. His work with his foundation, first, which he uses as a basis for promoting science and technology to children, is impressive. Success has allowed him to play out boyhood fantasies. A recent profile on 60 Minutes II showed Kamen commuting to work in one of his helicopters, which he flies himself, blasting out the theme from Star Wars over a stereo. He also pilots his own private jet. The lifelong bachelor not only owns an 18,000-square-foot home in Bedford, but has his own private island off the Connecticut coast (which boasts its own currency). As with many Kamen inventions, Ginger has roots in earlier projects. DEKA's corporate Web site claims its ''development efforts focus upon the creation of technologies which will have a variety of applications. A single invention may become the core technology of numerous, often diverse, products.'' Of the almost 100 patents to Kamen's name, most are improvements on existing patents, filed through DEKA (as in DEan KAmen). DANCE PARTNERS? Ginger's inspiration can probably be traced to 1992, when Kamen began work on a mechanical miracle-on-wheels called the IBOT, a wheelchair that can traverse almost any terrain, and even climb stairs. The project was code-named ''Fred,'' as in Fred Astaire-and Johnson & Johnson fronted a $100 million grant to develop it. Throughout the 1990s Kamen filed patent applications, both here and abroad, with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), including ''Transportation Vehicles and Methods,'' ''Constant Pressure Seating System'' and ''Anti-Tipping Mechanism.'' Together, these patents make up IBOT. Approval of IBOT's marketing claims by the federal Food and Drug Administration, the final step before production can begin, is expected this year. Kemper, in an e-mail to his agent dated Sept. 19, 1999, reports that Kamen had started work on Ginger in early 1998. In ''IT'' the reporter claims that Kamen's investors had forced Kamen to create a company wholly separate from DEKA to develop Ginger. Public records show that nine days before Kemper's e-mail, DEKA registered the trademark ''ACROS.'' (Interestingly, another ''ACROS,'' a bicycle-component manufacturer specializing in high-quality forks and shocks, opened up shop in Renningen, Germany, in 1998 as well. Its trademark also identifies the company, in part, as a maker of ''bicycles, wheelchairs, scooters'' and other bike-related goods. The company didn't reply to requests about whether it has links to Kamen.) After IBOT, Kamen applied for a slew of new patents for his next project: Fred's smaller, sexier, more lithe dance partner, Ginger. In June 1999 DEKA filed with WIPO for a ''personal mobility vehicles and methods'' patent, which included a drawing (since widely distributed) of a woman balanced on an odd-looking vehicle with two wheels-like the rear wheels on a toy wagon-with perhaps a third, smaller wheel in the front to avoid tipping. Over the wheels is a platform with a long, slender fork that ends in T-shaped handlebars. Making use of Kamen's patented two-wheel balancing device, such a vehicle would handle effortlessly. In 1999 DEKA applied for a WIPO patent for a ''balancing vehicle with camber and toe-in,'' a rough equivalent to the scooter's presumed suspension system. Combine these with Kamen's ''dynamic stabilization'' and other IBOT patents, and you get a scooter. It's not clear exactly how fast such a scooter might go. But if vehicles running on hydrogen (as a new generation of fuel cells do) were to become as popular as Kamen and his investors believe they could be, whole cities would have to be redesigned. A hydrogen-supply infrastructure would have to be built, with facilities created to store large amounts of liquid hydrogen, as well as a national network of hydrogen filling stations, either built from the ground up or, more likely, as an overlay on existing gas stations. All the major oil and auto companies are at least looking at this. Texaco has taken a stake in a company called Energy Conversion Devices. Shell and bp Amoco are working together on a hydrogen project, as is Exxon Mobil. The big oil companies are ''selectively making acquisitions and making alliances, because they see this potential movement as both an opportunity and threat,'' says Sam Brothwell, an analyst at Merrill Lynch. But a worry for Kamen is that the move to a hydrogen economy could create a morass of regulatory concerns for ACROS. ''One of Kamen's biggest worries,'' Kemper wrote in ''IT,'' is that ''nervous regulators will impose rules that limit Ginger and stop it from changing the world.'' The conventional wisdom today is that it won't be until 2010 that pure-hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles will be common on the road. Next year, Ford, DaimlerChrysler and General Motors plan to market hybrid fuel-cell vehicles that change gas into hydrogen, dramatically cutting down on emissions. A scooter powered by a pure-hydrogen cell is the technological first step before hydrogen-powered cars. Kamen, it seems, has even bigger dreams than wheelchairs and scooters. As Bezos, who serves on the advisory board for Ginger along with Jobs, reportedly said to Kamen at the meeting with investors after the demo at the San Francisco Hyatt, ''That's why we're here, not to make $3 billion in a niche market.'' STIRLING OPPORTUNITY In January 1999, Kamen was listed as an inventor on a patent application for an improvement on a special type of engine called a ''cantilevered crankshaft Stirling cycle machine,'' and he has subsequently filed for a number of other improvements as well. Invented in 1816 by the Rev. Robert Stirling of Scotland, the original engine was a cost-effective alternative to the new steam engine. A Stirling is an ''external'' combustion engine that relies on the heating of a gas (such as helium) that expands and powers pistons. But Stirling engines have proved expensive to develop, especially in a size small enough to be of practical use. If Kamen has solved this problem with his engine, he could, as Kemper's proposal asserts, become richer than Bill Gates. ''The engine that Kamen patented is really a mobile power plant,'' says Brent Van Arsdale, the owner of American Stirling, a Wichita, Kan., company that makes rudimentary Stirlings for hobbyists. ''It would be a good power source for his IBOT wheelchair, or in any other type of vehicle he might want to design.'' Judging by the domain names ACROS has recently registered, Kamen has big plans for his Stirling engine. The first step would be to combine the engine with his scooters. On Nov. 30, 2000, ACROS registered stirlingelectric.com. Five weeks later Kamen also registered stirlingscooter.com, -.net and -.org, as well as mystirlingscooter.com. To achieve the $5 billion valuation his investors believe his company will be worth in five years, according to Kempner's proposal, Kamen would have to ramp up production quickly to get into the market. Unfortunately, Kamen has hit some potential snags on the way. One involves the massive, 100,000-square-foot factory he just broke ground on near his home in Bedford. ACROS purchased the property for $900,000 on Dec. 28, 2000. But Kamen still lacks a building permit. Neighbors have been up in arms over potential noise from the large factory air-conditioner units that are required by law, and the folks at a nearby retirement home are miffed about the racket Kamen's helicopter makes when it flies overhead, residents there say. According to the town planning inspector, the earliest Kamen could receive permission to build would be in May. But workers at the factory site say they don't expect the project to get started until August. Kamen planned to unveil Ginger next January, according to Kemper. The most logical place would be at the annual auto show held every January in Detroit. He might have a prototype of a scooter to show then, but he likely won't have enough on hand for widespread sale-or have in place the hydrogen infrastructure to power them. Kamen's biggest concern may turn out to be plain old competition. He isn't the only one developing fuel-cell-derived transportation. Ford is introducing a line of ''Think'' vehicles that includes a line of advanced electric scooters, bicycles and cars. Honda plans to introduce a ''zero-emission fuel cell'' vehicle in the near future. gm has unveiled the Opel Zafira, a prototype car powered by a fuel cell that gm claims is the most efficient fuel cell ever developed. Not to be outdone, DaimlerChrysler has also built a zero-emission fuel-cell prototype. CROWDED FIELD Other companies are experimenting with using fuel cells in scooters and then providing the vehicles with hydrogen when needed. In December, Manhattan Scientifics announced an agreement with Aprilia S.p.A., one of Europe's largest manufacturers of motor scooters and motorcycles, to create a fuel-cell-powered concept bicycle. GRoW International Corp. of North Branch, N.J., recently patented a technique to tap into the electric power grid in order to provide hydrogen to parked vehicles outfitted with fuel cells. More ominously for Kamen, several other inventors have received patents for Stirling engine upgrades. Like many entrepreneurs, Kamen may also have financial challenges. He not only mortgaged his home three times between 1997 and 1999, the last time for $4.5 million to cover Christmas bonuses for employees (according to Kemper's proposal), but Kamen's business is leveraged heavily, too. According to public records, all five of the properties he owns in Manchester, N.H., including the ones he runs DEKA out of, are mortgaged into the millions, debt which he has spread over three separate banks, with the terms of his agreements getting more and restrictive. Many of the tenants to whom Kamen rents space in his buildings, including his own company, DEKA, are now required to pay rent directly to the bank. If Kamen can't begin to manufacture ACROS scooters and Stirlings in mass quantities, if the delays keep mounting, he might not be able to beat his variously giant and well-heeled competitors to market. In exchange for $90 million in venture capital, Kamen had to give up 15 percent of his new company, implying a valuation of around $600 million. If he runs into another money crunch, he would have to dilute his ownership even more to attract new capital. Eventually, he could lose control. Instead of becoming the next Bill Gates or Henry Ford, Kamen might find himself ending up like another great American inventor, Preston Tucker, who in the 1940s built the Tucker, a car too far ahead of its time. The car was a commercial dud. On the other hand, its creator was immortalized in a Francis Ford Coppola film. Additional research by Chris Schultz. Adam L. Penenberg is the co-author of Spooked: Espionage in Corporate America (Perseus Books). -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2896 From: Date: Wed Apr 11, 2001 5:09pm Subject: China says it will free U.S. crew China says it will free U.S. crew Crew members of the U.S. plane detained in China, shown in a photo obtained by NBC News. April 11 ­ President Bush makes a statement on the expected release of 24 detained U.S. crew members in China. MSNBC April 11 ­ China said Wednesday it would free the crew of a U.S. spy plane after receiving a letter saying the United States was "very sorry" for the plane's unauthorized landing and the death of a Chinese pilot. A plane left Guam to retrieve the crew as U.S. and Chinese officials negotiated final details of the release, which was expected later in the day. How do you rate President Bush's handling of the dispute over the spy plane? Excellent. He kept the rhetoric cool and won the crew's release. Fair. He got the crew out, but China still has the plane. Poor. Beijing dragged this out far too long. Vote to see results THE CHINESE will not immediately return the EP-3E spy plane to the United States, according to the carefully negotiated letter that paved the way for the release of the 24 crew members. A Continental Airlines 737 left Guam shortly before 12:30 p.m. ET and was expected to arrive abput 6 p.m. ET. Officials said the crew was expected to leave Hainan Island late Wednesday and fly to Guam, where they have been allotted a four-hour stopover, including a photo opportunity with the local press. The exact timing of the crew members' release remained unclear, as Chinese officials said unspecified "procedures" would have to be completed before they would be turned over to U.S. officials. Members of the crew were using a cellular phone to speak with family members for the first time since the standoff began. Several parents said they had received very brief calls from their children saying they were doing well and would be home soon. The 21 men and three women have been in Chinese custody since April 1, when their plane collided in midair with a Chinese fighter jet over the South China Sea. The Chinese aircraft went down at sea, and the pilot is presumed dead. What's next for spy plane crewThe Chinese government has said that the 21 men and three women will be allowed to leave "promptly." Here's the expected timeline: •A commercial charter plane from Guam is expected to leave for Hainan Island at 12:15 p.m. ET, carrying specialists who will debrief the crew during the return flight and psychologists to counsel the crew members if needed.•The charter will return to Guam, where the crew will be transferred to a military transport for a flight to Hawaii.•In Hawaii, the crew will spend several days "decompressing." Debriefing about the accident, the landing and their incarceration will continue.•The crew will be transported to their home base at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Washington state for a "welcoming ceremony," probably later this week. A COMPLEX SEMANTIC COMPROMISE The letter that ended the dispute, which U.S. Ambassador Joseph Prueher delivered Wednesday afternoon to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, was a complex semantic compromise worked out during days of arduous negotiations. The letter twice stated that the United States was "very sorry" that a Chinese pilot apparently died as a result of the collision and that the U.S. aircraft entered Chinese airspace and landed without "verbal clearance." But it stopped short of the formal apology demanded by Beijing, which has insisted that the U.S. aircraft was responsible for the collision. China to free U.S. crew•Latest news•U.S. letter to China•Crew's families 'ecstatic'•Fineman: Bush aces first big foreign crisis test•Newsweek: Crash in clouds•Crew of the U.S. plane•MSNBC special report: China's military•Issues dividing China, U.S.•China's military power•What's your opinion? Join the discussionChinese officials and the state-run media characterized the letter as an apology, but U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said the wording was consistent with what Washington had said from the beginning: "There was nothing to apologize for," he said in Paris, where he was meeting with allies to discuss U.S. policy in the Balkans. "To apologize would have suggested that we had done something wrong and were accepting responsibility for having done something wrong." April 11 ­ NBC's Ned Colt reports from Beijing on the deal struck between China and the U.S. for the release of the 24-member U.S. spy plane crew. President Bush, in a statement at the White House, called the 11-day standoff "a difficult situation for both our countries." "I know the American people join me in expressing their sorrow for the loss of life of a Chinese pilot. Our prayers are with his wife and his child," Bush said. Later, Bush met with the family of crew member Steven Blocher, an aviation electrician's mate 3rd class. "I'm so appreciative of how this family and other families were so steadfast," Bush said as he posed for photos with Robert and Sandy Blocher during a visit to Concord, N.C., to promote his budget. China's foreign minister, Tang Jiaxuan, said the crew was being released on "humanitarian grounds" and expressed hope that the dispute would not damage relations between the two governments. "China puts great importance on its relations with the United States," Tang said. But many members of Congress warned that Beijing may still pay a price ­ on matters ranging from trade and China's Olympic bid to possible U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. Advertisement "Progress on this agenda depends on rebuilding the trust that was damaged over the last 11 days," Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota said. Congress could end up approving a number of nonbinding resolutions, including a pending one that would oppose China's bid to host the 2008 Olympics because of Beijing's human rights record. Calls have also mounted in Congress for Bush to approve high-tech arms sales to Taiwan. China considers Taiwan a renegade province and has opposed such sales. MEETING APRIL 18 The United States and China agreed to meet starting April 18 to discuss the mid-air collision. The two countries planned to discuss developing a plan to return to the United States the heavily damaged EP-3E plane, which is incapable of flying with its nose cone and propeller destroyed, U.S. officials said. The spy plane's crew MSNBC Interactive•The Americans at the center of the spy plane standoffWhile China has called an end to the U.S. reconnaissance flights over China, U.S. officials said there were no plans to stop the eavesdropping flights, which collect radar, radio and other electronic transmissions several times a month. China indicated that it was in no hurry to return the aircraft, which U.S. officials assume has been stripped of its sophisticated surveillance equipment. "We have to keep the airplane ... to make further investigation," said Shen Guofang, China's deputy ambassador to the United Nations. INTERPRETIVE PARSING Interpretive parsing of the letter began almost as soon as China announced it would free the crew. The Chinese used the word for "violate" when they announced the text of the letter domestically in the context of the U.S. plane's entry into China's airspace, but U.S. sources told NBC News that the administration had rejected the use of that term in an earlier draft of the letter. State Department officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, noted that the letter had been carefully crafted to express sorrow for landing on Chinese territory, but not for flying in international airspace. Some Chinese, however, were angry that the resolution fell short of the full apology China's leaders had demanded. "Sorry is not enough," 33-year-old Beijing delivery man Liu Yan told Reuters. "Our government has not been hard enough on the United States. I am very dissatisfied." The compromise language that cleared the way for the release of the crew was hammered out Tuesday. The letter also notes that while the U.S. plane violated Chinese sovereignty, it was crippled by the crash, was flying under a mayday signal and had to make an emergency landing. Pentagon officials said Chinese objected to the use of a military aircraft to retrieve the crew, so the U.S. dispatched the commercial charter from Guam. The plane was carrying specialists who will begin debriefing the crew on the return flight and psychologists for possible counseling, the officials said. After returning to Guam, the crew was expected to be transferred to a military plane for a flight to Hawaii's Hickam Air Force Base on the island of Oahu, where they are expected to arrive around midday Thursday, U.S. officials said. The crew will spend several days in Hawaii "decompressing" and being debriefed about the accident, the landing and their incarceration. WHIDBEY ISLAND CEREMONY The military does not plan to fly family members of the crew to Hawaii, but it will transport them to the home base at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Washington state for a "welcoming ceremony, probably later this week," officials said. Crew members with families in Japan, where the plane was based during its current tour of duty, would be flown directly there after being debriefed. Before news of the deal, U.S. diplomats led by Army Brig. Gen. Neal Sealock met with crew members for the fifth time Tuesday night, the 10th day of the crew's detention, on China's Hainan Island. Sealock said the detained crew members remained in high spirits and were exercising and getting regular news reports and e-mails from home. NBC's Kevin Tibbles on Hainan Island, Ned Colt in Beijing and Andrea Mitchell and Kerry Sanders in Washington; The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report. HAVE A GREAT DAY !!! ---------- http://www.msnbc.com/news/553032.asp [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 2897 From: Date: Thu Apr 12, 2001 3:41am Subject: Do You Know who's Watching You? Maclean's Online -- Cover Index Interesting articles HAVE A GREAT DAY !!! ---------- http://www.macleans.ca/xta-doc/2001/02/19/Cover/index.shtml [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 2898 From: Date: Thu Apr 12, 2001 4:18am Subject: SpectorSoft - Software for Recording PC and Internet Activity Surveillance threat. Interesting articles. HAVE A GREAT DAY !!! ---------- http://www.spectorsoft.com/whatsnew/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 2899 From: Date: Thu Apr 12, 2001 4:51am Subject: Humor ! maybe! 1.) Background Music for Sweeps; http://adrock3215.virtualave.net/mission.mid And 2.) For Those Really Tough Assignments!, http://adrock3215.virtualave.net/jbond.mid ;>) HAVE A GREAT DAY !!! 2900 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Apr 12, 2001 6:54am Subject: An Espionage Treaty An Espionage Treaty By Boris Pankin Thursday, Apr. 12, 2001. Page 8 The Moscow Times (Opinion) http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/04/12/006.html In a recent interview in Izvestia, Nikolai Stepanov, the former chief of foreign correspondents for the Novosti news agency, stated: "After perestroika and the putsch, the security organs left our agency. Why that happened, I don't know. This was not decided at the agency, but somewhere in higher political circles." Since I was a member of those "higher political circles" during the period between the August 1991 putsch in Moscow and the December 1991 putsch in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, serving as Soviet foreign minister, I may be able to shed some light on what happened during those blessed months. In November 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev signed - and Boris Yeltsin approved - an order reducing by one-third the number of military intelligence and KGB foreign intelligence agents working under the cover of Soviet embassies and other Soviet organizations abroad, including media outlets. Shortly thereafter, newspapers connected to the security organs began attributing this "scheme" to me, claiming that it was the result of previous conflicts "between the ambassador and the station chief." As a matter of fact, there were some conflicts of this sort - involving, for instance, Alexander Yakovlev in Canada and Rafik Nishanov in Jordan. Personally, my cup of patience overflowed when the KGB station chief in Stockholm made it clear that, in his opinion, the only significant reason for having embassies at all is so that they can serve as cover for intelligence agents. I encountered an even more striking situation shortly after I was named ambassador to Prague in 1990. At that time, our fraternal socialism had reached the point where some of our real diplomats pretended to be important by claiming to actually be intelligence agents. I wouldn't even deign to call most of these people "intelligence agents." Whole swarms of them were just following their own diplomats around, including even ambassadors. After I became minister, I was surprised by the domination of these "colleagues" in the area of personnel and came to the conclusion that it was imperative to get them out of my ministry as quickly as possible. I don't know whether he was being sincere or not, but surprisingly my efforts were completely endorsed by Leonid Shebarshin, who was then the head of this section of the KGB and who even served as acting KGB director for three days after the August 1991 putsch. He made an appointment to see me, at which he admitted that he too was suffering from this overstaffing. Apparently the Soviet fashion for grotesque nepotism had not bypassed even his department. After I was appointed ambassador to London at the end of 1991, I saw for myself that Gorbachev's order was being carried out even though Gorbachev himself was no longer president. However, I don't know what happened to this process after 1994, although there are a number of indications in mass media that it was reversed. Over the last few years I have wondered a bit about the fates and roles of those intelligence agents in the post-Soviet period. How have they fared since the thawing of the Cold War, the dawning of global openness, the collapse of the Berlin Wall and other visible and invisible barriers, and since world leaders began proclaiming a new era of strategic partnership? Everyone declares that spying on one another is bad form, but no one is ready to abandon this unseemly business. Obviously, no one is going to renounce spying unilaterally. And they are right not to. Just as was the case with nuclear weapons, moving away from espionage requires multilateral agreements and mutual concessions. Just as with nuclear weapons - where first atmospheric testing was banned and later underground testing and where a long process led to minimizing the threat from tactical nuclear weapons, the most insidious type - shutting down the spying game will require a step-by-step process. Perhaps the place to start would be a ban on recruiting foreign nationals. That is, all civilized governments will agree to stop trying to induce, blackmail or bribe people to spy for them - especially by using people who face nothing more than the threat of expulsion if they are discovered. One of these recruiters who worked as a diplomat in my embassy in Stockholm made it public later that his work was just like that of a collective farm chairman who would exaggerate his harvest figures: He would invite some naive citizen of the country where he worked to dinner and then write out a report to headquarters about how he had recruited a new agent. I think that the old saying that every cloud has a silver lining is true. The recent exchange of blows between Russia and the United States has shaken the entire world and served to demonstrate that there should be some international legal controls on such jousting. It is time to retrain our spies as scholars and analysts. After all, in the age of the Internet, that would be more practical. And a lot safer. Boris Pankin served as the Soviet foreign minister from August to December 1991. He contributed this comment to The Moscow Times. -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2901 From: David Alexander Date: Thu Apr 12, 2001 6:41am Subject: re: return of the spyplane I have some views on the debate about the return of the E3 spyplane to the USA. I don't think its' return is likely to be anytime soon, and there is almost nothing that the Americans can legitimately do about it. In 1975 a MIG-23 Foxbat was flown from Russia to Japan by a defector who claimed political asylum. Russia demanded the return of the aircraft, which was at the time one of the aircraft that NATO feared the most in the PVO Strany - the Soviet air defence forces. A high altitude high speed interceptor with modern weapon systems. The USA and the rest of NATO stripped the plane to its components, examined, documented what they found and then rebuilt it. I believe they even flew it. It turned out to be nowhere near as big a threat as NATO thought. If the USA can do it to others, then 'others' will have no compunction about doing it to the USA. There is no moral high ground here. That is not to say I condone it, or their government, this is purely me saying that the US govt. cannot claim to be whiter than white and the injured party. Privately I bet the Pentagon accept they won't see the aircraft back before China thinks they have wrung every last bit of information from it. As an indication of what is possible. In W.W.II the British received a piece of V1 wreckage from a test flight (courtesy of the resistance forces). It was a piece of wing about 12" long. From that one small section they deduced quite accurately the range, payload and accuracy of the V1. Imagine what can be done today from a few components. just my 2c. David Alexander M.INSTIS Global Client-Server, Communications & Infrastructure Manager Bookham Technology plc DDI: 01235 837823 Mobile: 0779 988 1284 David.Alexander@B... ======================================================================= This e-mail is intended for the person it is addressed to only. The information contained in it may be confidential and/or protected by law. 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There are plenty of ways to permanently damage equipment, or it's most sensitive parts, in a matter of seconds. Just a thought, Mike > -----Mensaje original----- > De: David Alexander [mailto:david.alexander@b...] > Enviado el: jueves, 12 de abril de 2001 13:42 > Para: 'TSCM submissions' > Asunto: [TSCM-L] re: return of the spyplane > > > I have some views on the debate about the return of the E3 spyplane to the > USA. > > I don't think its' return is likely to be anytime soon, and there > is almost > nothing that the Americans can legitimately do about it. > 2903 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Apr 12, 2001 8:31am Subject: RE: re: return of the spyplane Good Morning, As a rule all "special things" on theses birds are designed in such a way to allow them to be quickly removed and destroyed in a matter of minutes, if not seconds. The more highly classified/sensitive the item is the easier it is to remove, and the high the priority on the destruction list. They would have first zeroized the crypto, then destroyed any used or unused keys and key loaders (theses are the hottest things on board). Next, zeroize all instrument memory, wipe all tapes, and destroy all flight and/or tasking records. Once the "soft records" are cleared the trusty fire axes, percy the three pound sledge hammer, and heavy dykes (not the short haired kind) would come out and the physical hardware destroyed as much as possible (based on a destruction priorities table). Once the "software" was been wiped the hardware really doesn't need to be smashed. With todays technology the real magic is in the software, and the hardware is just a commodity. The real hardware treasure on the plane is actually the antenna in the belly pod, and the wide band receivers/controllers behind it (and there is little you can do to destroy it short of a belly landing) Now, keep in mind that the hardware may not have been touched at all, and that the crew may have only destroyed the "classified soft items", leaving the unclassified hardware mostly untouched. In reality most of the hardware on these planes is completely unclassified (despite what the media tells you), and is available to anybody willing to cough up cash for the hardware (hell you can buy a lot of it at Ham-fests and on E-Bay if you know what your doing). Incidents such as this is "just a cost of doing business" in the SIGINT realm of things. We spy... they spy... everybody spies... and sometimes someone gets pinched or outright caught. It's just good that we got our people back as they are the only thing that really matters, and the hell with the damn plane. Just my two-cents, -jma At 3:04 PM +0200 4/12/01, Miguel Puchol wrote: >What I cannot understand is why don't these 'spy' planes get equipped with >some kind of self-destruct mechanism for all the sensitive hardware (and >software). I even heard that the crew banged some equipment with a hammer, >to try and give as little as possible to the chinese... > >There are plenty of ways to permanently damage equipment, or it's most >sensitive parts, in a matter of seconds. > >Just a thought, > >Mike -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2904 From: Miguel Puchol Date: Thu Apr 12, 2001 1:59pm Subject: RE: re: return of the spyplane Well explained, well understood, thanks! I think that software defined equipment is more and more common, Motorola has just been awarded a contract to build more SDRs (software-defined radios, I believe this is the correct acronym), which basically is a bunch of DSPs and a uC put toghether, and a very complex software system, capable of being re-keyed or entirely re-programmed over the air. This should enable all NATO forces to be able to use common comms equipment, unlike the tons of incompatible gear floating around at present. So, it should be possible for the software to even wipe itself if hardware tampering was detected. Cheers, and happy Easter holidays (for those who get some!) Mike > -----Mensaje original----- > De: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng [mailto:jmatk@t...] > Enviado el: jueves, 12 de abril de 2001 15:32 > Para: TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com > Asunto: RE: [TSCM-L] re: return of the spyplane > > > Good Morning, > > As a rule all "special things" on theses birds are designed in such a > way to allow them to be quickly removed and destroyed in a matter of > minutes, if not seconds. The more highly classified/sensitive the > item is the easier it is to remove, and the high the priority on the > destruction list. > 2905 From: Date: Fri Apr 13, 2001 1:03am Subject: Do You Know Who's Watching You? HAVE A GREAT DAY !!! ---------- http://www.macleans.ca/xta-asp/storyview.asp?viewtype=browse&vpath=/2001/02/19/Cover/46739.shtml [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 2906 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Fri Apr 13, 2001 9:36am Subject: On a visit to the library On a visit to the library I happened to notice a man and a woman, both deaf, signing with intense gestures, apparently in a heated debate. The man said something, and the woman seemed upset. She started signing her reply very fast, to the point where the man couldn't understand a word; she also signed in big, wide gestures. Finally, looking strained, her companion took her hands, "silencing" her. The he signed, very small and slowly, "You don't have to shout, I'm not blind." -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2907 From: James Goldston Date: Fri Apr 13, 2001 11:00am Subject: Deaf dscipline on a visit to church Years ago, I was in the church parking lot and saw a father have to discipline his son. The dad took the son around the side of the church (though I could still easily see), they signed back and forth, then the dad pulled off his belt and whacked sonny on the butt a few times. The father was deaf and mute, the son was speaking and hearing. The child jumped up and down and made body language like he was being killed and screaming at the top his lungs. However, he uttered not a word. I was amazed. James Goldston 2908 From: Dawn Star Date: Fri Apr 13, 2001 10:31am Subject: Do You Know who's Watching You? "Now, when a person places a call, carriers record which cell, or transmitter area, the call is coming from." People think I am weird and old fashioned for still using pay phones, it is hard to break a 30 year habit! Roger 2909 From: Dawn Star Date: Fri Apr 13, 2001 0:57pm Subject: Book Anyone know about this book I found on Amazon.com? Technical Surveillance and Countermeasures (TS/CM) Equipment in Russia: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 by The Manufacturing Research Group Our Price: $1,400.00 Availability: This title usually ships within 4-6 weeks. Please note that titles occasionally go out of print or publishers run out of stock. We will notify you within 2-3 weeks if we have trouble obtaining this title. 2910 From: Dawn Star Date: Fri Apr 13, 2001 1:01pm Subject: Career: Debugging Consultant http://www.jobprofiles.com/alldebugger.htm 2911 From: A Grudko Date: Sat Apr 14, 2001 8:06am Subject: Re: Do You Know who's Watching You? ----- Original Message ----- >> ".... record which cell, or transmitter area, the call is coming from." > People think I am weird and old fashioned for still using pay phones, it is > hard to break a 30 year habit! And you can't beat a linesman's butt/testset for anonymity - in theory. There would be legal implications if you use someone else's line, but that's not going to stop the criminals and spies out there. I built one from an old rotary dial phone when I was 12, relocating the dial, dynamic mouthpiece, speakers and a toggle 'hookswitch' into an old Philips a.m/f.m radio that was long and slim. It actually worked! Andy Grudko. D.P.M., Grad I.S, (S.A.) 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