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Fico: Integration of SIS and Militar y Intelligence i s an Open T opic

Fi c o : I n t e g r a t i o n o f SIS a n d M i li t a r y I n t elli g e n c e is a n O p e n T o pic 296 words 23 May 2012 14:45 SITA Slovenska Tlacova Agentura SITA English (c) 2012 SITA - Slovenska Tlacova Agentura BRATISLAVA, May 23, (SITA) -- The civilian Slovak intelligence service SIS could in the future be integrated with military intelligence service, whose internal integration is planned from the beginning of next year. Prime Minister Robert Fico considers a complete merger of all intelligence services an open issue for now. "The first step we want to make is to merge the military intelligence services, then we will discuss the relationship of SIS with the merged Military Intelligence, so at this time talking about an intermediate step," Fico said after Wednesday's Cabinet meeting. The Defense Ministry has already prepared a draft amendment to the military intelligence services law, according to which on January 1, 2013, the Military Counterintelligence Service (VOS) will merge with the Military Intelligence Service (VSS) into one service called Military Intelligence. The draft is currently in interdepartmental review. "We are thereby keeping our promise from the government program statement," said Defense Minister Martin Glvac, who expects from the merger greater efficiency, rationalization, and better management of components of the service. The ministry plans to present documents to confirm that the planned move will bring more transparent economy and saved costs. Glvac not talking for now about a possible merger of Military Intelligence with SIS, but cooperation of these services. Ministries of Defense, Interior, and SIS have created a joint team to prepare a big draft "intelligence" bill. That has to bring more effective control of intelligence services in order to prevent leaks of classified material and to ensure improved credibility. "We want to introduce into this process greater control of the Parliamentary Defense and Security Committee," said the minister. More effective mechanisms should be enacted to check justification of the use of wiretapping. dp Document SITA000020120523e85n00003

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SPY DR EW EIGHT YEAR S BEH IND TH E BAR S

SPY DRE W EI G H T YE A RS BE HI N D T H E B A RS 165 words 23 May 2012 WPS: Defense & Security DEFSEC English (c) 2012 WPS Russian Media Monitoring Agency. All Rights Reserved. Lastovetskaya said, "We discovered that Gniteyev passed certain sensitive information to officers of a foreign intelligence service." According to unconfirmed reports, Gniteyev laid hands on some Bulava blueprints and sold them to a foreign intelligence service for $50,000. Bulava is a naval missile work on which has been under way since 1998. NPO Avtomatika specialists design some controls for the SLBM. NPO Avtomatika Director General Leonid Shalimov said, "As it turned out, Gniteyev somehow managed to lay his hands on the information he was not cleared for. How serious the damage is? I do not think that it is all that serious... The matter concerns the controls that do not require any major overhauling when some of their parameters become known to whoever is not supposed to know them." Gniteyev was tried for treason against the state and sentenced to eight years imprisonment. Rossiiskaya Gazeta (Moscow issue), May 21, 2012, p. 5 DEFENSE and SECURITY Nadezhda Gavrilova Document DEFSEC0020120523e85n00001

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U.S. invol ved i n navy s py probe; Infor mation shared by i ntelligenc e agencies s purr ed Trinity investigation, sourc es s ay

U .S. i n v ol v e d i n n a v y s p y p r o b e; Inf o r m a ti o n s h a r e d b y i n t ellig e n c e ag e n ci es s p u r r e d Tr i nit y in v estig ati o n, s o u rc es say STEVEN CHASE 523 words 23 May 2012 The Globe and Mail GLOB A1 English 2012 The Globe and Mail Inc. All Rights Reserved. OTTAWA -- American intelligence officials supplied vital information in the early days of the investigation that climaxed with the arrest of an accused spy inside Canada's top-secret naval signals centre, sources say. The involvement of the U.S. in building the case against Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Delisle adds a new detail to a story that Ottawa is anxious to keep under wraps. The Canadian government has been tight-lipped on how it learned that there was a leak of confidential secrets to a foreign power and the way it went about building a case against the sub-lieutenant. Canadian officials have privately identified Russia as the recipient of secrets, and the Russian ambassador to this country said last February that Moscow has an agreement with the Canadian government to keep quiet about any connection between his nation and the spy case. SLt. Delisle is in custody after being charged in January with passing state secrets to a foreign country. The sailor, who last worked at Trinity, a Halifax naval intelligence hub, faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted. SLt. Delisle, 41, has not yet entered a plea; his next court appearance is in June. The Globe and Mail reported in March that the fallout from the Delisle case has done significant damage to Ottawa's treasured intelligence-sharing relationships with key allies such as the U.S. It's also embarrassed the Department of National Defence, which is now looking to restore confidence in its ability to keep secrets. A source familiar with the matter said Canada helped build its investigation of SLt. Delisle through contact with its biggest ally: It's not just one nugget of information that I would describe as a tipoff. [Rather] It's an accumulation of information that leads to an investigation coming to a point where, okay, we have enough to go after this person. The extent of what the U.S told Canada is still unclear. Sometimes we're able to match or in some cases co-ordinate some of that intelligence and paint the picture that we need to make decisions, the source said. The source said Canada and the U.S. have a privileged relationship in sharing this type of information through security forces including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and the Communications Security Establishment Canada. It is reasonable to assume that we exchanged information and yes we are helpful to one another and this case was no exception, the source said. When the RCMP announced SLt. Delisle's arrest last January, it publicly thanked two other federal authorities: CSIS and the Canada Border Services Agency, both of which collaborate with their U.S. counterparts. In March, the Wall Street Journal cited sources alleging the naval officer leaked a volume of military communications data to Russia that was on par with what the U.S. government suffered through WikiLeaks, the organization that has irked governments around the world by making secret documents public. Document GLOB000020120523e85n0001y

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The truth is out ther e

T h e t r u t h is o u t t h er e Vikram Sood 964 words 21 May 2012 HT Columnists HTCOLM English Copyright 2012. HT Media Limited. All rights reserved. India, May 21 -- Was there an intelligence failure recently? The answer is, perhaps, yes. Is this the first time such an incident has happened? Certainly no. Could it happen again? Unfortunately, yes. So was there egg on their faces? The answer is no. This is because what happened was in the line of duty. Let us reverse the argument and say that the same information had been accurate and a major incident/catastrophe had been averted. There would have been no public reference to the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and the world would have moved on. In this case, there has been some embarrassment and, hopefully, there will be some course correction. So let us also move on. Is the R&AW or any other intelligence service infallible? The answer is no. Is the R&AW competent? The answer is yes. Does it need continuous reform and upgrading? Of course, yes. An intelligence officer has to deal with whoever gives him the best information, the best lead, and the best way to protect his country's interests. The man or woman providing this may be a true patriot, an idealist, a businessman, a military general, a mercenary who sells his information to the highest bidder, a criminal, an arms smuggler, a counterfeiter or anyone who wants to take revenge on the system. These emotions and motives are not steady or constant. Thus an impeccable source today may be a renegade tomorrow. A trusted source today may become a double agent tomorrow or a loyal intelligence operative will turn rogue. This is the constant dread of any intelligence officer because there is no defining moment when this will happen, till it is too late. Further, there is no such thing as complete and infallible intelligence. If it were, there would have been no 9/11 or 13/12 or 26/11. The point is that the best intelligence will not prevent wars but can help win them. This is something we must understand before we go ballistic about intelligence failures. Intelligence collection is not a single-source activity; there are multiple sources of intelligence. A single report may be, although not necessarily so, and especially in this Lashkar-e-Taiba case, based on a number of inputs from human intelligence, technical, electronic and communications intelligence. It may also have an input from cyber intelligence. There may be times when all have to be matched. There are other times when all will not match but the information is vital, potentially serious for the country if true but still not verified. Yet there is just not enough time to verify the authenticity of the intelligence given. So what does the intelligence agency do? It passes this on, with whatever caveat attached, because if the intelligence is withheld for confirmation and turns out to be accurate with devastating consequences, then this would be a graver failure. Thus, faced with such a situation, not only is an intelligence agency advised to report it, it is mandatory that it should and should continue to do so in the future. One only hopes that the country's intelligence services do not now go on the backfoot and become defensive about its reporting that surely was one of the purposes of this sting. Our problem also lies in intelligence coordination and downstream handling of intelligence generated elsewhere or by central agencies. Another aspect is that the R&AW does not report to the state authorities but through filters at the Centre where the report is processed and passed on for action. One does not know about the route of this report and the source but that this was a sting operation is accepted. Any mature nation would quietly work this back and see where it went wrong. No intelligence organisation in the world is blameless or has not had its share of errors of judgement. Indeed, there is no organisation in the world of any kind that has not made worse mistakes but in our country the principle of negativity is so strong, especially at present, that we are prepared to believe the worst about ourselves. No one has even bothered to wonder how the three names were publicised so quickly in Pakistan. We all exulted that it was our scoop about our incompetence. Had we understood the game, consulted those who were in the game and then believed them, before rushing to print then it is possible the intelligence game would have become more difficult. Instead we made it so simple for the opposition because of our preconceived negative perceptions. We still do not know if this was a smokescreen while the real infiltrators are elsewhere. For a country that has spent an awful lot of energy and time demonising R&AW as an omnipotent force to suddenly turn around to show it as incompetent, must arouse some curiosity.

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It would be useful, as it would give a better perspective, if some of us read 'The Ten Biggest American Intelligence Failures' by Uri Friedman (Foreign Policy, January 3, 2012). Friedman starts with Pearl Harbour and ends with Iraq and includes the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Indian nuclear test. These are real failures that made a difference to policy and marked the difference between success and failure of policy. What happened in our case was a blip, a day's work, par for the course and the agency must move on. Malevolent wrongdoing deserves censure, mistakes in the line of duty deserve consideration and rectification.Published by HT Syndication with permission from HT Columnists. Document HTCOLM0020120522e85l00001

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C SIS's r e p u t a t i o n o n t h e li n e : w a t c h d o g The Canadian Press 274 words 19 May 2012 The Hamilton Spectator HMSP First A10 English Copyright (c) 2012 The Hamilton Spectator. OTTAWA -- Canada's spy service continues to flout policy and make a serious number of reporting errors, says a federal watchdog. In her final report as inspector general of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Eva Plunkett says CSIS's reputation and effectiveness may suffer if the problems aren't addressed. The "reoccurring and high rate of noncompliance with policy, and the ever-increasing rate of errors in reporting identified in what is a relatively small review sample of CSIS activities is a concern to me and should be a serious concern of the service," Plunkett says in the annual report card. "Errors in intelligence reporting, as I have repeatedly stated over my tenure, are a serious matter and have the potential for far-reaching consequences." The Canadian Press obtained a declassified version of Plunkett's top secret November 2011 evaluation Friday under the Access to Information Act. Plunkett retired last December and the Tory government abolished her office, saying it would save money and eliminate duplication. As inspector general, she served as the public safety minister's eyes and ears on the intelligence service for eight years. She had a staff of eight and a budget of $1 million. In her report, Plunkett says her office performs the unique role of identifying issues and recommending corrective actions before they become public controversies that undermine trust. "This is not work done elsewhere in government on your behalf," says her report. Overall, Plunkett found CSIS had not strayed outside the law, contravened ministerial direction or exercised its powers "unreasonably or unnecessarily" in 2010-11. Document HMSP000020120519e85j0002x

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Loc ker bie bomber Abdel Bass et al-Megrahi dies in Li bya at the age of 59

L o c k er bi e b o m b e r A b d el B ass et al - M e g r a hi di es i n Li b y a at t h e ag e of 5 9 520 words 19 May 2012 Al Arabiya ALARAB English 2012 AlArabiya.net. Provided by Syndigate.info, an Albawaba.com company The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing that killed 270 people has died at the age of 59, his brother told Al Arabiya on Sunday. Abdel Basset al-Megrahis health had deteriorated quickly, his brother Abdulhakim said, adding that he died at home after a long battle with cancer. Megrahis death comes three years after he was released from a Scottish prison on humanitarian grounds in 2009, eight years into a life sentence. Megrahi is the only person convicted for the bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people. When he was released from prison and was allowed to return to Libya, doctors then predicted that he would die of prostate cancer within three months. His release infuriated victims families and their anger grew when he was given a heros reception in Libya and then lived long past the predictions of the doctors. Over the past three years, his family has on several occasions said that Megrahi is near death, in what was seen as an attempt to justify his release. The fact that he had survived much longer than the doctors had estimated had provoked indignation in Britain and the United States. On the second anniversary of the release of the former Libyan intelligence agent on August 20, 2009, the Scottish government insisted its decision to free him had been vindicated. But British Prime Minister David Cameron criticised the release as a "terrible mistake," and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said he would like to see him "back in jail behind bars." Most of those killed in the bombing of the Boeing 747 jet headed from London to New York were Americans. All 259 passengers and crew were killed, along with 11 people on the ground. Megrahi had always maintained his innocence. Since his return to Libya, Megrahi rarely appeared in public. Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafis fall last year spurred calls in the United States and Europe to return him to prison. Two New York senators asked the former rebels to hold Megrahi fully accountable for the bombing. At that time, Libyas rebel leaders, who were scrambling to replace Qaddafis regime with a government of their own, said they would not deport Megrahi or any other Libyan. They then softened their stance, saying that only the future elected government could deal with such issues. The Lockerbie saga began when a bomb packed into a suitcase exploded inside Pan Am Flight 103 as it flew over Scotland. Among the victims were many American college students flying home for Christmas. The bombing, which scattered flaming wreckage onto the small town of Lockerbie and killed 11 people on the ground, became one of the most vivid scenes of terrorism of that era, and helped ensure that Libya remained an international pariah state. Little is known about Megrahi. At his trial, he was described as the "airport security" chief for Libyan intelligence, and witnesses reported him negotiating deals to buy equipment for Libyas secret service and military. Document ALARAB0020120520e85j000b5

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Colombian i ntelligenc e offic ers say rebel gr oup taki ng ai m at ur ban areas

C o l o m b i a n i n t ellig e n c e o f fic ers sa y r e b el g r o u p t a k i n g ai m a t u r b a n ar e as 567 words 18 May 2012 08:23 BBC Monitoring Americas BBCMAP English (c) 2012 The British Broadcasting Corporation. All Rights Reserved. No material may be reproduced except with the express permission of The British Broadcasting Corporation. Text of report by privately-owned, right-of-centre, Colombian newspaper El Espectador website on 16 May [El Espectador Justice Section staff report: "Urban Centres: New FARC Objective"] About two months ago, a group of Armed Forces intelligence officers and experts in criminal investigation received information from some undercover agents in the FARC who alerted the authorities to the presence of militias and guerrillas in several cities. At first, the officers thought only one thing: that this was an attempt to sabotage the Sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena and so security measures were stepped up in that city. However, the only scandal registered in Cartagena was on account of the White House's Secret Service. Days later, however, the intelligence agencies received similar information about urban militia movements, but this time it was reported that the target was the main urban centres, with Bogota as a priority. "We learned that there were guerrillas who were experts in explosives, with a certain characteristic: they knew well how to get around in the country's capital and not arouse suspicion," one of the sources consulted by El Espectador said. The data collected by investigators since then seems increasingly more accurate. A senior official told this newspaper that this time the guerrillas are using expert militiamen trained exclusively in the field of intelligence and who would be working closely with explosives experts: "Unlike previous attacks in which they were satisfied with setting off a car bomb or occasional reconnoitering of the area, this time we are dealing with a new mode of subversion, which is intelligence. The undercover agents told us, for example, that they have people with stopwatches or some other means of measuring time and distance, and they know how long it takes a car to get to a red light," he said. What is most disturbing, according to the senior officials who spoke to El Espectador, is that the order for the FARC to once again make its presence felt in Bogota was given by Alfonso Cano himself, before he was killed in a military operation in November last year. According to the intelligence agencies, Cano wanted to restructure the urban cells in the country's main capital cities. "In whatever communication we intercepted from Cano, and in the computers and documents we found in different camps, we know that for him, unlike other members of the Secretariat, getting into the urban centres was a priority." The official also added, "And not just for recruiting people, but to affect strategic targets of the establishment." El Espectador has learned that effectively the authorities are evaluating whether emissaries of the Basque terrorist group ETA, when they were in the FARC camps, instructed the guerrillas in new techniques with explosives. The authorities do not yet dare state that this was done by the FARC, but most of the signs point to this illegal group and, what is worse, confidential information exists about possible new attacks. Nor do the authorities rule out alliances between members of criminal gangs and the FARC. As things stand, the Prosecutor General's Office is pursuing its investigation; 10 composite drawings have been done; and several videos exist showing the main suspects in the treacherous attack on former Minister Fernando Londono Hoyos. Source: El Espectador website, Bogota, in Spanish 16 May 12 afba9f7e Document BBCMAP0020120518e85i0002t

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C hi n es e fir m m a y b e s ec u rit y risk: r e p o r t BY KRISTY KIRKUP, PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU 310 words 18 May 2012 Kirkland Lake Northern News KRKLND Final B7 English 2012 Sun Media Corporation OTTAWA -Canadian security could be compromised as companies do business with a massive Chinese tech firm, warns an intelligence expert. Australia and the United States refuse to allow companies to deal with China's Huawei Technologies due to security concerns, but Canadian firms Bell and Telus have recently signed agreements with the tech giant. "(The government) have been ignoring some very, very important warnings," said Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former manager for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Juneau-Katsuya said Canada's allies may have second thoughts about sharing government information through our communications systems because of the deal with Huawei. "This way of doing business is counter-logical," he said. "It goes against the logic of our allies. "It goes against the logic of security, basic security ... we are talking about evidence that has been collected by our allies." The Conservative government has been working to warm relations with China for years but opposition parties say dealing with companies like Huawei is risky business. "Huawei will be allowed to buy up key telecommunications assets here in Canada despite the fact that the United States and Australia have blocked it from major telecom projects due to serious national security concerns," NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair said. "The United States and Australia are two of our closest allies. They still see the risk. Why did the prime minister choose to ignore their warnings?" Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended the government's stance Tuesday, stating Canada does not "take dictates on security from the United States." "The leader of the NDP is speaking of some contractual relationships between some Canadian companies and foreign companies," Harper said. "The particular concerns that he raised in fact have been addressed. Those concerns were examined and those concerns have been addressed in our mind." Document KRKLND0020120518e85i0000b

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Ir a n / I s r a e l : I n t e l li g e n c e C h i e f s Sla m Is r a e l i L e a d e r s f o r L yi n g a b o u t Ir a n 1,054 words 18 May 2012 Thai News Service THAINS English (c) 2012 Thai News Service Section: General News - The very public disagreements between the Israeli leadership and its intelligence services over the Iranian nuclear program indicate disarray at the top of the regime, writes Ismail Salami. Releasing a paper which contained a biblical quotation from Prophet Zachariah, former chief of the Israeli Shin Bet intelligence service Yuval Diskin said, "I will tell you things that might be harsh. I cannot trust Netanyahu and Barak at the wheel in confronting Iran. They are infected with messianic feelings over Iran," thereby dealing a heavy blow to the Israeli regime. A rift the size of a potential coup is taking shape between the Israeli government and the country's military and intelligence apparatus over Iran, a fact which threatens the ruling Israeli political apparatus on the one hand and exonerates Iran of groundless allegations on the other, Salami says in his article. Iran has become an obsession with past and present Israeli intelligence staff, to the extent that the very mention of its name is enough to cause them anger. However, the present fire started when Israel's chief of intelligence Benny Gantz said he did not believe that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons, after years of efforts made by Tel Aviv and its allies to convince the world otherwise. In an interview with the Israeli daily Haaretz, Gantz described Iran's leadership as "very rational," adding that this being so it was unlikely to be pursuing a nuclear weapons program. Also speaking at the Majdi Forum in Kfar Saba, a Tel Aviv suburb, at the end of April when the announcement was made, was Diskin, who said that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu were deluded in believing that they had a "messianic" mission and that they were lying about the effectiveness of a possible Israeli strike against Iran. "There's a false image being presented to public, and that's what bothers me. They [Netanyahu and Barak] are giving the impression that if Israel doesn't act, Iran will have nuclear weapons. This part of the sentence apparently has an element of truth. But in the second part of the sentence, they turn to the -- sorry for the expression -- the 'stupid public' or the layman public... and tell them if Israel acts, there won't be [an Iranian] nuclear program. And that's the incorrect part of the sentence," Diskin said. Iran is a taboo word in Israel, and anyone who speaks in defense of the Islamic Republic is considered an enemy of the country. For this reason, Diskin's comments were interpreted as stemming from "personal desperation" by Israeli commentators, some describing him as being the latest in a line of "moronic intelligence chiefs." Israeli transport minister Yisrael Katz called the remarks "crude and inappropriate," adding that it was "clear that the timing and style of his comments stemmed from personal rather than substantive motives." However, Israeli opposition leader Shaul Mofaz said that he at least took Diskin's criticisms of Netanyahu and Barak seriously, rejecting claims that they had been made as a result of personal or political considerations. Some Israeli military and intelligence officials also joined in support of Diskin in his criticism of Netanyahu. Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan expressed his support for Diskin by saying that he was a serious man who spoke his own "internal truth". Former Israel Defense Force (IDF) chief of staff lieutenant general Gabi Ashkenazi defended Diskin, saying, "I know Diskin, and he spoke what was in his heart out of genuine concern." In the meantime, Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert joined a chorus of voices warning against rushing into war with Iran by saying that "there is enough time to try different avenues of pressure to change the balance of power with Iran without the need for a direct military confrontation."

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Two different groups have emerged in Israel in the Diskin affair. The first includes those who have served in the country's intelligence agencies and are cognizant of the true nature of Iran's nuclear program and therefore either silently or loudly criticize their government for its bomb-Iran rhetoric. The second group includes those who follow the country's present leaders, including Netanyahu, who lie about the Iranian nuclear program and play an important role in misleading the international community on Iran. Meanwhile, a feeling of fear is eroding the Israeli regime from within and without. On the one hand, it has come under scrutiny from its own intelligence services, which have been exposing its lies about Iran. On the other hand, it is fearful that talks slated for 23 May in Baghdad between Iran and the P5+1 group of the world powers could ultimately end with a deal that would allow Tehran to continue its uranium-enrichment program. At all events, the Israeli regime is on a political razor's edge, and it is already caught between a rock and a hard place. In an attempt to try to sabotage the P5+1 talks, the Israeli government has sent its national security adviser, Yaakov Amidror, to Europe to hold talks with European Union officials. Amidror arrived in Brussels on 30 April and held talks with Helga Schmid, EU deputy secretary-general for political affairs, who is responsible for preparatory talks with Iran ahead of the Baghdad meeting. Amidror was also expected to travel to Berlin later, where he was to meet top German officials, among them Hans-Dieter Lucas, Germany's representative to the Iran talks. A top Israeli official has described Amidror's Europe tour as "extremely sensitive," saying his visits are aimed at obtaining more information about the content of the previous round of talks in the Turkish city of Istanbul and the P5+1's strategy in the Baghdad meeting. What is happening is not in the best interests of Israel. By way of countering the anti-regime remarks made by top military and intelligence staff in Israel, Netanyahu and Barak have embarked on toning up their war rhetoric against Iran, steadfast in their attempts at sowing the seeds of extremism, fear and hatred in order to give a cloak of legitimacy to a possible Israeli strike against the Islamic Republic. - FNA Document THAINS0020120517e85i00098

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Eight Years for Selling Secr ets on R ussia's Bulava ICBM

Ei g h t Y e a r s f o r Selli n g S e c r e t s o n R u s si a's B u l a v a IC B M Forecast International - International Miltary Markets 168 words 18 May 2012 Forecast International Defense Intelligence Newsletters FORCST English (c) 2012 Forecast International, Inc./DMS. NEWTOWN, Conn. - The employee of a Russian defense firm who has been accused of sharing state secrets on the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Alexander Gniteev was convicted of selling classified information to a foreign intelligence service and faced a closed-door trial at the Sverdlovsk Region Court. Gniteev was sentenced on May 18. Gniteev's employer still has not been named, but experts believe it could be the Yekaterinburg-based Avtomatika Science and Production Association, which has been developing the missile's control and guidance system. The missile itself was developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology. Because the case involved classified state secrets, details of the investigation have not been disclosed. However, law enforcement sources did say that the information concerned the missile's guidance and control systems. It is also being said that Gniteev may have sold actual blueprints of the design. Document FORCST0020120523e85i00008

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W I K IL E A K S IS BL A M E D A S IR A N E XE C U T ES ' M O S S A D SPY' BY DAVID GARDNER 337 words 17 May 2012 Daily Mail DAIM 25 English (c) 2012 Associated Newspapers. All rights reserved IRAN may have used a secret cable published by whistleblower website WikiLeaks to target and hang an alleged Israeli spy. The disturbing development emerged after the alleged spy, kickboxer Majid Jamali Fashi, was executed in Tehran on Tuesday for assassinating an Iranian nuclear scientist in 2010. Although WikiLeaks redacted the name of the intelligence source on a leaked US diplomatic cable, it published a description of him as [passage omitted referencing wikileaks], writing from Azerbaijan. According to a report yesterday, [passage omitted referencing wikileaks]. Experts said they believe the US Embassy document could have raised Iranian suspicions. The file detailed a US diplomat's debriefing of the source, who told how the Iranian regime put pressure on martial arts clubs to train members of the Revolutionary Guards and used them to put down the popular uprising three years ago. It did not refer to the Israelis or any plot to kill a nuclear scientist. But Fashi was arrested and charged days after the cable was published in December 2010. Tehran said the kickboxer confessed to murdering Massoud Ali-Mohammadi on behalf of Mossad, Israel's secret service, in January 2010 using a remote-control bomb put on the scientist's motorcycle. Birmingham University professor Scott Lucas, an authority on Iran, said yesterday that Tehran could have become suspicious about Fashi because of the cable, adding: 'Alternatively it could have been used as a pretext against him; to set him up as a person who could take the fall for the assassination.' Ali Ansari, head of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews, said: 'I have always considered the release of the WikiLeaks files, without consideration for those consciously or unconsciously named in them, to be grotesquely irresponsible.' WikiLeaks had no comment on the report yesterday. Israel has always denied any role in the scientist's killing. Document DAIM000020120516e85h0002k

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Sec urity Ser vices Ready to D efend Nation - Minis ter

Sec u rit y Ser vic es Re a d y t o D ef e n d N a ti o n - Mi nist er 464 words 12 May 2012 17:03 All Africa AFNWS English (c) 2012 AllAfrica, All Rights Reserved May 12, 2012 (The Herald/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The country's security and intelligence services are ready to defend it from external aggression, Minister of State Security in the President's Office Sydney Sekeramayi has said. Speaking at the inaugural graduation of 31 students from the Robert Gabriel Mugabe School of Intelligence in Harare yesterday, Minister Sekeramayi said the country's sovereignty was once again under threat from the former colonisers. The 31 graduates attained Diplomas in Intelligence and Security Studies. "Closer at home, all are aware that Zimbabwe is under siege. The West led by Britain and the United States are unrelentingly continuing to pursue illegal regime change," said Minister Sekeramayi. "I am glad to point out that our security and intelligence services are equally unrelenting in their endeavour to counter these forces in defence of our independence and national sovereignty." Minister Sekeramayi said for the intelligence service to effectively counter external threats, it required reliable and factual information. He said the State needed to receive information on threats earlier enough to launch appropriate counter actions. Minister Sekeramayi said the core business of intelligence services was to pursue information on threats, risks and vulnerabilities that exist or were expected to come into existence at some point. "This fact notwithstanding, the State expects the intelligence services to produce trustworthy and authoritative statements that describe and explain past, present and future realities at all times," he said. "In that context, the skills which these courses imparted to you broadened your appreciation of the dynamics underpinning intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination to the State." Minister Sekeramayi urged the graduates to remain resolute and serve the country with diligence. He told the graduands that attainment of diplomas was the beginning of a long journey in their lives. Minister Sekeramayi said the courses offered at RGMSI were tailored to mould best security officers able to articulate security and management issues. "It is heartening to note that the curriculum is tailor-made amongst other things, to equip students with relevant professional skills and attributes that can be applied to their special areas of practice," he said. Present at the graduation ceremony were Director General of the Central Intelligence Organisation Retired Major General Happyton Bonyongwe and other senior officers from the country's security and intelligence services. The course, which targets practitioners in the defence, security and intelligence sector has attracted a lot of interest in the region, with students from various countries applying. The RGMSI is an associate of Bindura University of Science Education and the graduation ceremony was for the first three intakes of the institute. The institute, which is a brainchild of Rtd Maj Gen Bonyongwe, also enrolled students for degree programmes who will graduate in August. Document AFNWS00020120513e85c0003z

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U n d e r w e ar b o m b pl o t l eaks 'a t h r e at t o UK s ec u r it y s er vic es' Ewen MacAskill Washington Ian Black Middle East Editor 678 words 12 May 2012 The Guardian GRDN 28 English Copyright 2012. The Guardian. All rights reserved. Detailed leaks of operational information about the foiled underwear bomb plot in Yemen are causing growing anger in the US intelligence community, with former agents blaming the Obama administration for undermining national security and compromising the British services, MI6 and MI5. The Guardian has learned from Saudi sources that the agent involved was not a Saudi national, as widely reported, but a Yemeni. He was born in Saudi Arabia, in Jeddah, and studied and worked in the UK, where he acquired a British passport. Mike Scheur, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit, said the leaking about the nuts and bolts of British involvement was despicable and would make a repeat of the operation difficult. "MI6 should be as angry as hell. This is something that the prime minister should raise with the president, if he has the balls. This is really tragic," Scheur said. He added: "Any information disclosed is too much information. This does seem to be a tawdry political thing." He noted that the leak came on the heels of other disclosures in the past 10 days, including a report that the CIA wanted to expand its drone attacks in the Yemen. Robert Grenier, former head of the CIA counterterrorism centre, in an article for al-Jazeera, said the spies of the US intelligence community "rather than quietly celebrating success are wistfully shaking their heads . . . As the director of national intelligence launches an investigation, he does so knowing that the real culprits - in the White House and on Capitol Hill - are beyond his reach." The name of the British passport holder has not yet been released but may come out through al-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula (AQAP). He is reported to have spent time at language school in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, and been recruited by al-Qaida as a suicide bomber. Mustafa Alani of the Gulf Research Centre in Dubai told CNN the bomber had been recruited by the Saudis to penetrate al-Qaida about a year ago, in part because the group would be attracted by the fact that his UK passport meant he could travel to the US without a visa. "Apparently he was able to convince al-Qaida that he is genuinely ready to carry out the mission," said Alani, who CNN said had been briefed by Saudi counterterrorism officials. Alani said his understanding was that AQAP intended the would-be suicide bomber to fly through a Gulf country to connect to a US-bound flight. The Saudi operation culminated with the agent and another Saudi informant - likely his handler - being whisked out of Yemen, Alani said. Yemen has been a key target country for the CIA and MI6, as the strength of AQAP has grown in recent years. But the lead on the ground has been taken by the Saudi intelligence service, the Mabahith, which is best placed to operate in the local environment and exploit links on either side of the border. Both the US and British intelligence communities are known to work closely with their Saudi counterparts and both have liaison officers in Riyadh and Sana'a. AQAP moved its operations to Yemen in 2007 after the defeat of al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia. The Nigerian "underpants bomber", Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit in 2009, was radicalised in Yemen while claiming to be there as a student. The Saudi deputy interior minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, has supported operations against AQAP. He survived an assassination attempt in Jeddah in September 2009 when a Saudi AQAP operative named Abdullah al-Asiri feigned repentance for his jihadi views in a meeting with the prince then blew himself up with a bomb concealed in his anus. Al-Asiri's brother Ibrahim is AQAP's chief bombmaker. Fugitive Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri is chief bombmaker for al-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula and brother of a suicide bomber Document GRDN000020120511e85c000a8

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Women i n intelligenc e s eek bal anc e i n life, val ue in wor k US s py agenc y can keep mum on Google ti es: c ourt

U S s p y ag e n c y ca n k e e p m u m o n G o o gl e ti es: co u r t 381 words 11 May 2012 21:46 Agence France Presse AFPR English Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2012 All reproduction and presentation rights reserved. The top-secret US National Security Agency is not required to reveal any deal it may have with Google to help protect against cyber attacks, an appeals court ruled Friday. The US Court of Appeals in Washington upheld a lower court decision that said the NSA need not confirm or deny any relationship with Google, because its governing statutes allow it keep such information secret. The ruling came in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from a public interest group, which said the public has a right to know about any spying on citizens. The appeals court agreed that the NSA can reject the request, and does not even have to confirm whether it has any arrangement with the Internet giant. "Any information pertaining to the relationship between Google and NSA would reveal protected information about NSA's implementation of its information assurance mission," Judge Janice Rogers Brown wrote in the appeals opinion. The non-profit Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a formal request to make public documents related to the dealings, and said much of the information had already been in news media. The request stemmed from a January 2010 cyber attack on Google that primarily targeted the Gmail email accounts of Chinese human rights activists. According to the Google blog, the Internet group's chief legal officer David Drummond stated that the firm was notifying other companies that may have been targeted and was also working with the relevant US authorities. The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reported that Google had contacted the NSA immediately following the attack. According to news reports, the NSA agreed to help Google analyze the attacks in a bid to better protect the California-based search company and its users from future intrusions. The reported alliance would seek to allow the spy agency to evaluate Google's hardware and software vulnerabilities, as well as estimate the sophistication of its adversary in order to help the firm understand whether it has the right defenses in place. Privacy advocates already critical of Google policies regarding saving user data and targeting ads to match online behavior patterns fear that an alliance with the spy network could put private information at risk. rl/oh Document AFPR000020120511e85b006eo

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S m a r t p h o n e s , t a b l e t s w ill b e t a r g e t e d b y c y b e r - s pi es, CSIS says Jim Bronskill The Canadian Press 475 words 11 May 2012 Waterloo Region Record TKWR First B6 English Copyright (c) 2012 Kitchener-Waterloo Record. OTTAWA -- Hand-held devices such as smartphones and tablets will be the next frontier for cyber-spies and other rogue players in the digital world, warns a newly declassified assessment from Canada's intelligence agency. Opportunities for malicious hackers are growing as computer systems move from the back rooms of corporations and government agencies into the palms and laptops of employees, says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service assessment. "New cyber attack tools and techniques will be developed in efforts to compromise Canadian public- and private-sector systems," says the report, perhaps the agency's most ominous forecast to date on the perils of cyberspace. "The cyber-related threat environment will evolve and become more complex, creating ever greater challenges for Canada within the context of national security." The 18-page CSIS report, Cyber Threats and Security: An Overview, was obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. Though heavily edited, the November 2011 assessment, originally classified top secret, is another sign of the intelligence service's growing interest in the dangers emerging from cyberspace. Cyber threats posed by unfriendly states, groups and individuals "affect Canada's national and economic security," says the report. "This has implications for its critical infrastructure, the operation of its public and private sectors, and its domestic and international interests." The computer systems that Canadians rely on every day to work and play also underpin key services including water treatment, and hydro and nuclear power plants, CSIS notes. While there may be a variety of technical measures and procedures to secure information systems, the "weak point" remains the human being because he or she generally uses the technology "without understanding it." "The questions that remain are: how to link security to the adoption of new technologies, how to incite users to be more secure in the use of technology." In the past, computer systems could be used only within the walls of an organization. In the internet era of portable devices, employees can conduct business anywhere and have the ability to move data from one tool to another, or even into the remote servers of "cloud computing." All this means people bent on infiltrating a network "no longer require direct access" to a targeted system, says CSIS. They can gain remote access using a variety of techniques to manipulate the system, create back doors, and steal, erase or alter information. "Furthermore, efforts will be made to compromise and exploit the capabilities of hand-held devices such as smartphones and tablets, as more and more individuals adopt them for business and personal use." The report cites a project that illustrated how a drone could be loaded with hardware and software that would allow the small aircraft to fly over and compromise wireless networks. Document TKWR000020120511e85b00002

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