--- Cian <cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Does anyone have access to Janes Defence Weekly, as
> the following sounds interesting:
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Cian
Yup...although the original pretty much says the same thing as the summary..and lots of 'unnamed sources', ect...I urge caution on this..here we are...KRD
Here is a picture of the graphic I , er "liberated" from the IntelligenceOnline site (hey, I paid $4.00 for this article..why not?) which documents who is who in the "spy ring affair"
http://buffaloactivist.net/img/424-isr_net-A.gif
14/03/02 SECURITY Israeli Spy Operation Confirmed http://www.intelligenceonline.com Intelligence Online is now in possession of new evidence that the "Israeli spy ring affair" was examined at the highest levels of the Bush administration, in the form of a letter from the Attorney General's office.
See our links : "The texas part of the israeli spy ring"
In addition, Intelligence Online has obtained an in-house document from the U.S. Coast Guard service which makes it clear the U.S. intelligence community is still worried about the affair.
The Task Force set up by the DEA issued an initial report in June of last year that listed the names of 125 Israeli nationals and described their activities in the U.S. One of the striking aspects of the document was its suggestion that the ring had infiltrated federal justice department buildings, and computer companies also of Israeli origin which operate in the U.S. and sell equipment to U.S. government departments.
Intelligence Online has a copy of a memorandum dated March 4, 2002 and signed by Robert Diegelman, assistant attorney general for administration. It was addressed to officials in charge of the justice department's information systems. For security reasons, it called on them to forbid information system access to all non-U.S. citizens and no longer use foreign-supplied computer and communication gear. It referred specifically to an initial warning entitled Department of Justice Order 2640.2D Information Technology Security and sent out on last July 12 which cautioned in vaguer terms against using information technology sold by foreign firms. The July 12 warning confirmed that the DEA's report, completed in June 2001, was being borne in mind at the highest level.
The role played by the DEA in the case takes on a wider dimension because of the fact that in September, 1997 it purchased $25 million worth of interception equipment from a number of Israeli companies which were named in the report. In assigning so many resources to the inquiry (all DEA offices were asked to contribute) the agency was clearly worried that its own systems might have been compromised. We've also obtained an internal document from the US Coast Guard, an Intelligence Bulletin dated Jan. 17, 2002. Reserved for security bosses in America's biggest companies, the bulletin regularly tracks all attempts to penetrate protected sites recorded by the US Coast Guard. The Jan. 17 issue described the case of a man and woman "of Middle East origin" taking pictures of a refinery. When questioned they said they were "art students" even though they were able to discuss technical details concerning refineries. The Intelligence Bulletin said it had recorded several other cases of suspicious activity in the past.
Intelligence Online's exclusive report on Feb. 28 concerning the existence of a 61-page report by a Task Force set up by the Justice Department concerning an Israeli intelligence ring unleashed a wave of denials. While the authenticity of the document wasn't questioned by any of the government departments concerned by the case (the Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration & Naturalisation Service, US Air Force, Environmental Protection Agency) several justice department spokespersons and particularly the FBI publicly stated there had been no case of Israeli espionage in the U.S. and even passed off the matter was "an urban myth."
Other "anonymous sources" told newsmen from the Washington Post that a single DEA employee at loggerheads with his superiors had written the report to wreak revenge. That was rather an odd claim in view of the large amount of classified information from several government departments contained in the report. Could it have been gleaned by a single employee of modest rank in trouble with his bosses? On March 9 a report by the Associated Press in Washington confirmed that the document had been the joint work of a Task Force put together after several DEA offices had warned of suspicious activity by "art students" of Israeli origin.
The same AP report confirmed that several of the Israelis had never enrolled in the art colleges they claimed to attend in Israel. On March 13, Intelligence Online learned from a justice department official that the DEA report had been handed over to the department's Joint Terrorism Task Force. The same day, at a DEA press conference, the agency's administrator, Asa Hutchinson, said simply that he had passed the document along to "other agencies" working on the matter.
===== Kevin Dean Buffalo, NY ICQ: 8616001 Buffalo Activist Network http://www.buffaloactivist.net
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