HI all,
     New dossier at www.disinfo.com, called "Rotten Roots-The US, Nazis, and
the CIA." Lots of links to other articles at the URL below, as always, that
follow this essay at the site. Enjoy.
     Peace,
Preston

http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=folder&title=Rotten+Roots%3A+The+US%2C+Nazis%
2C+%26+The+CIA

Rotten Roots: The US, Nazis, & The CIA
"He's on our side, and that's all that matters," chuckled Allen Dulles, a US
Intelligence officer during the war who later headed the CIA.

"Besides, one need not invite a Gehlen to one’s club," wrote the late, great
conspiracy researcher Mae Brussell in 1983, quoting Dulles.

A mystery many Americans ponder now at the dawn of a new millennium is how an
agency such as the CIA, which purports to work for the furthering of Truth,
Justice and the American Way, could have gone so far astray. Or has it gone
astray at all?

On Wednesday, September 20, 2000, the CIA admitted for the first time that it
had connections to Reinhard Gehlen (1902-1979), Adolf Hitler's Eastern
Intelligence Chief during World War II.

This admission comes over fifty-five years after Gehlen first surrendered to
an American Counter Intelligence-Corps Team (May 28th, 1945). Just months
prior, in March, Gehlen and his henchmen transferred all of their documents
onto microfilm, and buried the cache in metal drums in the Austrian Alps.
Gehlen demanded an audience with American officials, and got it, arriving at
Washington National Airport (August 24th, 1945).

Gehlen quickly came to an agreement with his erstwhile captors: All his
agents, documents, and his prodigious connections would be at the service of
the Americans. In exchange, Gehlen would not be prosecuted for war crimes.
Gehlen capitalized upon Western Industrialists' fears of Communism and the
Soviet threat, deluding the Western powers, supposedly, into believing that
the Soviets were massing to attack, greatly outnumbering the US and British
forces after the crumbling fall of the Third Reich.

Setting up shop back in Central Germany in the Spessert Mountains, and
supported by the newly formed CIA, the Gehlen Org began shunting anti-Soviet
intelligence back to US spooks, until becoming incorporated openly into the
Bonn Government as the official intelligence organization
(Bundesnachrichtendiest) when West Germany gained its sovereignty in 1955.

This friendship and cooperation between US and Nazi officials has been well
documented by numerous respected authors, notably Alexander Cockburn's
Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (New York: Verso Press, 1998) and
Christopher Simpson's Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its
Effects on the Cold War (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988).

Through the author and researcher Carl Oglesby's efforts, whilst seeking
information from classified US Intelligence material, the CIA was forced to
finally admit in print that this connection was true. Citing the Nazi War
Crimes Disclosure Act (1998), the CIA filed a brief in Oglesby's current FOIA
appeal in US District Court, ironically citing a commitment to "conform to
the spirit of the disclosure Act" according to a release of the US National
Archives.

The military is taking part in drug raids, police can charge one's property
with a crime in forfeiture proceedings, and the US supports modern-day
narco-terrorist scumbag Indian hunters, such as Colombia's Carlos Castano.
Some researchers trace the hypocritical roots of the War Against Some Drugs,
specifically Marijuana Prohibition, right to the door of US and Nazi spooks
and industrialists.

As R. William Davis wrote in Shadow of the Swastika (July, 1996): "Marijuana
Prohibition was created in 1937 not to protect society 'from the evils of
marijuana,' as the Federal Government claimed, but as an act of deliberate
economic and industrial espionage against the re-emerging Industrial Hemp
Industry."

Davis details what he calls a "US/Nazi corporate conspiracy to bring a
fascist state to America, and eliminate competition in the industrial raw
materials market to force world-wide dependence on oil-based
petro-chemicals."

With a foundation built upon the Gehlen Org and other fascist criminals, the
CIA never went astray. It began its existence already rotten to the core.

Research by Preston Peet
ptpeet@...

Chinese police detain up to 1,000 Falun Gong protesters on Tiananmen Square

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Police beat and detained dozens of members of the
outlawed Falun Gong sect on Sunday as they staged protests on Beijing's
Tiananmen Square in conjunction with annual National Day observances.

CNN [ http://www.cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/10/01/falun.gong.arrests/index.html ]
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Deadly gun battles in Gaza

At least three more people are reported to have been killed in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip as fierce clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces
continued into a fourth day.

BBC [
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Leadership Doctrine —Turning Challenge Into Opportunity

Half a world from home, Private First Class (PFC) Jarred King stood outside the
Bosnian Serb headquarters in Sokolac, Bosnia-Herzegovina, waiting for his major,
who was inside meeting with a group of local faction leaders. A former Bosnian
Serb army commander had been arrested, and when the Serbs learned of the arrest
they were angry. Without warning, an agitated mob descended on King, demanding
he give up his weapon. Though surrounded, King refused. Instead, he calmly slung
his M-16 rifle, ignoring the taunts and threats of the crowd. After a tense
stand-off, the Bosnian Serbs released King and his major. When King returned to
his unit, the young soldier admitted he had been scared but said he had kept
faith in himself and his unit. He was confident that if something happened, help
would be on the way.
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Leadership in the Information Age

The US Army recognizes the revolution in military affairs (RMA) sparked by the
technological advances in data automation and information technology (IT). Force
XXI is a conscious and deliberate effort to evolve the Army’s organization,
doctrine and tactics to integrate advances in technology. Since all good leaders
adapt their leadership style to fit the situation, military leadership in the
coming century will have to evolve as well to accommodate the changing
situation.
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Leadership on Future Fields: Remembering the Human Factor in War

Doctrine, so excellent in many re-spects, suffers greatly from its neglect of
the human factor in war—something all leaders should still consider important.
For example, the 1993 US Army Field Manual (FM) 100-5, Operations, defines
friction in war as the accumulation of chance errors, unexpected difficulties
and confusion of battle that impede both sides.1 No gut-wrenching terror here,
no cowardice, no shirking and no agonized indecision. Very little, it seems,
hampers smooth operations that could not be fixed with better intelligence,
planning and communications. But Carl von Clausewitz, the concept’s originator,
added a fourth ingredient to friction—danger. "War is the realm of danger," he
wrote, and its presence inspires fear; fear, in turn, undermines the soldier’s
desire or ability to carry out the commander’s will, thereby multiplying the
sources of friction.2
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Maintaining Readiness

During World War II, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel demonstrated that the
best form of welfare for troops is first-class training. First-class training is
at the top of the quality of life (QOL) requirements list. We owe our soldiers
such training regardless of the type operation we conduct or are on call to
execute in support of war plans. Quality training is a prerequisite for
readiness—all else follows.
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Mentoring—A Critical Element in Leader Development

The US Army is recognized around the world for its exceptional leader
development programs. In fact, it has no equal. We have made great strides in
counseling our subordinates to help them improve their performance. But,
turbulence, budget and other policy constraints have created the need for a more
personal approach to taking care of our soldiers.
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MilitaryMedia Relations: One Officer's Perspective

One of Army Chief of Public Affairs Major General John G. Meyer's favorite
phrases is "The media are like alligators. . . . We don't have to like them, but
we do have to feed them." That is, we must ensure the media have heard and
understand the Army's position.
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Military Retention Intangibles: Esprit, Morale and Cohesion

The shift in the 1970s from a conscript military to an AllVolunteer Force helped
build one of history's most dominant militaries. Yet, despite battlefield
successes with minimal casualties in the 1990s, the US military is losing a
battle of attrition. The military can no longer retain the number of experienced
noncommissioned officers and junior officers it needs to maintain required end
strength.1
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Sundry Views of an American Invasion

On 19 September 1994, President Bill Clinton ordered the US military to invade
the impoverished Caribbean island country of Haiti. US military forces assailed
the country with the stated purpose of "upholding democracy" to create a secure
and stable environment for the return of exiled Haitian President Jean Bertrand
Aristide. Eventually, thousands of US forces, first under Joint Task Force (JTF)
180 from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, then JTF 190 from Fort Drum, New York,
along with special operations forces and US Marines, occupied Haiti for about
six months. On 31 March 1996, with Aristide secure in Port-au-Prince and
forthcoming Haitian elections all but assured, the American occupiers
relinquished the operation to a UN force commanded by US Major General Joseph W.
Kinzer.
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Subversion as Foreign Policy

For most Americans, Indonesia is an obscure foreign land on the other side of
the world having little to do with us; one that suddenly appeared in the news in
1997 as a hallmark of political turmoil and as part of the Asian economic
crisis. It now appears that the past generation’s economic gains will disappear.
Comments:

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The Soldier and Congress

Samuel Huntington published his seminal work in civil-military relations, The
Soldier and the State, well over 40 years ago.1 That book launched a debate
among scholars and soldiers and across academic disciplines that has only
intensified over time. The arguments are descriptive and normative, theoretical
and practical, but center on a single abstraction—the nature of the relationship
between soldiers and their civilian masters.2
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Russia's Northwest Strategic Direction

A unique set of security issues has emerged from Russia's northwest strategic
direction in the post-Cold War era.1 The conjunction of Russian transformation
and crisis has recast security issues in the Baltic and Nordic regions, reducing
the risk of military conflict but raising a host of issues associated with
Russia's Baltic relations, especially the status of the Russian minorities in
Estonia and Latvia and the dangerous legacy of a nuclearized Kola peninsula. The
Western response to these issues, particularly in the Nordic countries and
international institutions, has introduced a new subregional security system in
Europe.
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Reversing the Downward Spiral of Combat Readiness: Change the Way We Measure It

It's no surprise to anyone serving in the field or observing combined-arms
brigades perform at our maneuver combat training centers (CTCs) that combat
readiness—if measured as the ability of a unit to perform its mission-essential
tasks—continues to decline. Entry-level proficiency of our units at our "dirt"
CTCs—where the evidence is unmistakable—is substantially lower than it has been
in the past. For a host of reasons outlined recently by our senior leaders, our
Army has lost the ability to sustain the "Band of Excellence" espoused by our
training doctrine in US Army Field Manual (FM) 25-100, Training the Force.
That's the bad news.
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Peacetime Leadership: A Critical Element of Combat Power

US Army Field Manual (FM) 22-100,  Military Leadership, has served the US Army
well since its publication in July 1990. Its discussion of Leadership in
Principle, Leadership in Action and Leadership in Battle provide the foundation
for the "Be, Know and Do" required of every Army leader. Well written and easy
to read, this manual helps leaders, primarily at company level and below,
understand the expectations that both their seniors and subordinates have of
them. It is battle-focused and provides many vignettes of successful combat
leadership, mostly by junior US Army officers and noncommissioned officers
(NCOs).
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THE ISRAELI RESPONSE TO THE 1972 MUNICH OLYMPIC MASSACRE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF
INDEPENDENT COVERT ACTION TEAMS

Thesis: The purpose of this study is to examine the methodology of the covert
action teams authorized by Prime Minister Golda Meir to find and assassinate
those individuals responsible for the attack on the Israeli athletes at the
Munich Olympic games in September 1972. Specifically, the study addresses
whether the operational and tactical methods utilized in this counterterrorist
effort were successful relative to the original operational objectives.
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Secrecy and International Relations

This article analyzes the question of information control and how it influences
the conduct and the study of international relations. Three theories are
advanced as possible explanations for secrecy: The first, the External Threat
explanation, suggests that government secrecy is designed to protect sensitive
information from external enemies. The second explanation, the Bureaucratic
Politics explanation, views secrecy as a relatively unsystematic process that
results from the (collectively) irrational features in any government
bureaucracy. The third explanation, the Internal Threat approach, argues that
government officials use secrecy to mislead the populations of their own
countries. These three explanations are applied to a case study of US
information policy with regard to the Congo Crisis of 1960-61. The article
concludes that the Congo case tends to support the Internal Threat explanation
of secrecy.
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Do You Wanna Know a Secret?

The vast systems for protecting secrecy throughout the U.S. national security
agencies are among the government's most expensive and ineffective purchases. If
treated as weapon systems, many would be considered red-hot scandals. If viewed
as models for governmental operations, they would be reinvented.
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Secrecy and Accountability in U.S. Intelligence

Questions of secrecy and accountability have figured prominently in the most
important intelligence controversies of the last several years. While U.S.
intelligence agencies have done an astonishingly poor job of protecting the
nation's secrets from foreign adversaries, they have been more successful in
blocking access by American citizens to the most basic categories of
intelligence information.
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INFORMATION PEACKEEPING: The Purest Form of War

Information Peacekeeping is one of two neglected aspects of Information
Operations, a new concept that up to this point has focused almost exclusively
on Information Warfare, and avoided dealing with the substance of All-Source
Intelligence, or the proactive possibilities of Information Peacekeeping.
Information Peacekeeping is the active exploitation of information and
information technology so as to achieve national policy objectives. The three
elements of Information Peacekeeping, in order of priority, are open source
intelligence; information technology; and electronic security &
counterintelligence. Information Peacekeeping is the strategic deterrent as well
as the tactical force of first resort for the 21st Century. Virtual
Intelligence, a supporting concept, is the foundation for informed
policy-making, judicious acquisition management, effective contingency planning
and execution, and timely public consensus-building. By its nature, Information
Peacekeeping must rely almost exclusively on open sources and services available
from the private sector; this requires the crafting of a new doctrine of
national intelligence that places the critical classified contributions of the
traditional national intelligence communities within the context of a larger
global information community. Information Peacekeeping is the purest form of
war, but most traditional warriors will be reluctant to accept its most
fundamental premise: that intelligence is indeed a virtual substitute for
violence, for capital, for labor, for time, and for space. Information
Peacekeeping is in effect both a strategy for government operations and a
national security strategy with global reach; consequently it has profound
implications for how we train, equip, and organize our government and our
military.
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Nuclear Threats During the Gulf War

Although Iraq used both chemical weapons and ballistic missiles extensively in
the Iran-Iraq Gulf War, Iraq did not use its missile force for delivery of
chemical agents. Prior to the Gulf War, many allegations -- mostly by Israelis
-- were made that Iraq had mounted chemical warheads on its Scud upgrades,
although at that time US official sources reportedly doubted that Iraq had such
a capability.(2) However, at the first Baghdad International Exhibition for
Military Production in the spring of 1989, Iraq displayed domestically-produced
cluster bomb munitions, which would be quite useful for dissemination of either
aircraft- or missile-delivered chemical agent.(3) And following the conclusion
of the War, Iraq, reporting to the United Nations on its inventory of advanced
weapons, indicated a chemical weapons stockpile that included 75 tons of Sarin,
500 tons of Tabun, and 280 tons of mustard gas. Moreover, this declaration also
included 30 chemical weapon warheads for Scud and al-Hussein missiles.
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The Integration of Operations & Intelligence -- Getting Information to the
Warfighter

Getting combat information in a timely manner from the stovepipes of the
intelligence world to the operators that require it has been a problem for
years. This process is not one that will improve unless both the Operations and
Intelligence communities make a concerted effort to understand each other
better. In this paper I will use a combination of primary and secondary sources,
along with personal interviews, to establish a historic recap of both good and
bad examples of Ops/Intel integration. I will then examine the current
intelligence cycle and attempt to identify critical links between it and the
operations world. These links will be the key in creating a synergy between Ops
and Intel that is critical if the two disciplines are to be integrated
effectively. The goal of the cycle should be to ensure that the final
intelligence product accomplishes the objective it was initially intended for;
that is, get pertinent information to the warfighter in a timeframe and format
for him to exploit it. At this point it will become apparent that there are
certain roadblocks that must be overcome in order to accomplish the previously
stated goal. Identifying these roadblocks is only half of the problem. Offering
reasonable solutions is the other half. My goal in the final portion of this
paper is to do exactly that. I will offer simple cost-effective solutions aimed
at dismantling some of the Ops/Intel integration roadblocks. In this age of
shortened time-lines and information overload, the Ops/Intel team that works
best together will own the "information high ground." This is an objective that
is critical to success on the battlefield of tomorrow.
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Marine Corps Intelligence Doctrine: Does It Know The Information Age Has
Arrived?

The time is November 1990, the Iraqi Army is firmly entrenched in Kuwait and it
has become obvious that the coalition will have to eject them. In order to
capitalize on intelligence assets in theater, a joint Navy and Air Force
initiative established a Joint Intelligence Center in Riyadh. First the JIC
fused theater information and data bases to create a current tactical picture.
However, they built the electronic picture of the Iraqi Army using USAF systems.
USAF organizations received the electronic update transmissions with ease.
Nevertheless, as a JIC, the mission also required transmission to Navy
platforms. Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Central Command (COMUSNAVCENT)
established, and tested an architecture for this purpose. The JIC transmitted
the data according to the NAVCENT plan. Inexplicably, at first, the Navy found
no readable data registered in their computers. Upon detailed investigation the
Navy determined that the USAF system data base did not use a one character data
field that the Navy system did. Because of the one character difference, the
Navy computers were incapable of dealing with the unrectified data. This
typified US DOD computer interoperability or the total lack thereof.
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from Itar-Tass Oct.2nd

This news wasn't translated to English yet.
According to Itar-Tass Isa Munayev - a Chechen field commander, 38
yrs old was killed on Monday in Grozny - when preparing or during a
terrorist act.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

I believe Munayev was a military commander of Grozny having under his
command close to 300 fighters who were oprating "clandestinely" in
the city. M.L.

INDEPENDENT INFORMATION CENTRE
GLASNOST - CAUCASUS
DAILY NEWS SERVICE
OCTOBER 3, 2000

CHECHNYA

FIELD COMMANDER KILLED

Chechen Field Commander Isa Manayev  was reportedly killed yesteday by
federal
soldiers.  He has been accused by federal forces of planting explosives
in the
roads and of attacks on federal soldiers. He was noticed by police
officers
near their police vehicle.  When the officers asked him to show them his
documents Manayev suddenly pulled out a pistol. Before he could fire the
first
round, he was shot by three submachine guns.  In a search of his pockets
policemen found a small bomb, a radio tuned on police wave band, and
some
documents in various names. Before the war, sub-colonel Isa Manayev was
the
chief of the Zavodskoy Police Station. After Aslan Maskhadov was
elected,
Manayev became the Military Commendant of Chechnya.

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It's Fungi Time folks

Without gaining permission from the Taliban,
the Carli and Medillin cocaine cartels, and
certainly not from the Burmese military junta.
There is a growing movement behind the UN
/ US and UK scenes to quickly bring biological
warfare against both cocaine and heroin to
the fore.

Science :

Giant biological leaps in the  directions of Bogota,
Kabul and Rangoon are about to take on a new
form of undercover warfare. This is also a war
that is no longer in the hands of any singular
government, (pretty cool that huh?). But
incredulous as it may seem, has been passed
over to military intelligence and the "private sector".
A "John Wayne" of a man, David Sands, has
formed his own rather ghostly company AGBIOCOM.
Which, if governments who find it tough to pay the bills
for hospitalizations, private prisons and burials refuse
to endorse such a biologically aggressive foreign
policy, can take on the role of a subtle introduction
leading to a permanent end to the poppy fields of
such as SEAsia.

Like as if science fiction, once contacting with
"the fungus", these crops can develop a root
that kills both seeds and the junta's black gold.
So far, this method has only been in experimentation
But very recently, having obtained all the necessary
seed data via the US Ambassador to Afghanistan.
The use of this technique has been secretly
practiced, much to the chagrin of the Taliban, on
a few minor poppy fields in Afghanistan. And soon
(in secret) in Burma?



http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/audiovideo/programmes/panorama/newsid_95300
0/953722.stm

                             Will get you to

               Britain's Secret War On Drugs, Monday October 2 2000

               Your comments on tonight's programme will appear here
               from approximately 22.50 BST, and will be posted up all
               week.

                     The Pros ?

               I really appreciated your programme on the drugs war
               going on. For what it's worth, I believe this is an
               international problem and countries using it to solve
their
               national problems should be prepared for response from
               countries suffering from those policies. I thus agree with
               the American stance; if you are going to do this, be
               prepared to suffer the consequences.
               Cal Eskenasy
               Amstelveen - the Netherlands

               In my opinion, having watched the excellent programme,
               the use of Pleospora and Foxy, without the consent of the
               Taliban or the Colombian government is totally justified.
               The only reason for them objecting is their corrupt
               interests in the success of the drug exports.
               Mike McFadyen

--------------------------------
  Seems he forgot to mention what would happen if the
Burmese junta refused to allow the fungus on board?
--------------------------------

               Your journalist kept asking if the fungus could be
               guaranteed safe - is it tested to the same degree as the
               pesticides being sprayed on the food we eat? The answer
               is neither can be guaranteed safe - however ridding the
               streets of heroin is a better goal than higher yield crops
               and bigger profits!!
               Phil Straszynski
               London

                           The Doubters?

               You report in the program the possibility of the fungus
               mutating. In fact it is certain to mutate. These mutations
               may not cause any changes that are harmful, but the laws
               of evolution guarantee that its DNA will alter with each
               generation.
               Matthew Penfold
               Portsmouth

               Once again we are playing god. The problem is surely why
               people want to take drugs in the first place! Nature finds
a
               way to change whatever we do to it, so who knows where
               it will end?
               Mick Tickner
               Staines

              The CIA Truth?

               The American people have a responsibility to these drug
               producing people. Considering most of the income of the
               CIA comes in from drug trafficking, we find it absolutely
               disgusting that America should indulge in another act of
               rampant imperialism organised to subjugate the 'third
world'
               while acting like a moral puritan.
               Chris Vaines
               London

Follow the plea by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and the
appreciations of HH the Dalai Lama, the Shan
Democratic Union,  film maker  John  Pilger, the Free
Burma Coalition,  author Alan Clements,  MPs Dennis
Skinner, Tony Benn, Ann Clwyd, Maria Fyfe, Mike
Hancock,  Congress-woman  Maxine Waters,  Dr and
Welsh rugby star JPR Williams, Hendrix  bassist  Noel
Redding,  S African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim,  All
Burma Students Democratic Organisation,  All Burma
Students Democratic Front, Tasmanian Trades & Labour
Council,  SACP, COSATU,  Tim Gopsill, editor.
The.Journalist@..., and numerous others.

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http://www.mihra.org/2k/burma.htm
Union Action   http://www.mihra.org/2k/union.htm
Drugs   http://www.mihra.org/2k/drugs.htm
Media   http://www.mihra.org/2k/media.htm
Statements : http://www.mihra.org/2k/Loop.htm

Founded during UN50. Mihra's roots are in music and
anti-racism and  was first in line in calling for a sports
boycott of Burma for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
The report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar
issued on 14 March can be found on the website of
the UN Commission on Human Rights:  www.unhchr.ch
Mihra also advances protection of creators rights in
a market, currently 93.8% monopolized by the
recording   / publishing Grand Cartel.

Russian Secret Police Seize Illegal TV Station in Chechnya

MOSCOW, Oct 2, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Russian police officers
from the
Federal Security Service (FSB, formerly KGB) have seized a powerful
television
broadcasting station in Chechnya destined for top warlord Shamil
Basayev, ITAR-
TASS reported Sunday.

The sophisticated broadcasting equipment, which included two satellite
antennas
and other transmission devices, was hidden at a house in the village of
Mesker-Yurt, 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of the nominal capital
Grozny.

The house belonged to Gamid Sinbariev, chief press spokesman of the
so-called
"General Dudayev Army" named after the late Chechen rebel leader Dzhokar
Dudayev, the news agency cited FSB sources as saying.

Rebels were planning to hand over the two parabolic antennas and other
equipment to Basayev in the near future, the sources said.

A 152-millimeter artillery shell, which FSB agents said was about to be
converted into a mine was also found at the house belonging Sinbariev,
who is
believed to be living in Germany.

Federal troops and Chechen rebels marked the grim anniversary on Sunday
of the
entry of Russian ground forces into the breakaway republic on October 1,
1999.

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2000 -- "What's your computer password?" the
helpdesk person asked the young NCO.

"Just key in 'PASSWORD,'" the young NCO answered.

It's exchanges like this that give network administrators fits.

It's a cyberworld and protecting information is at the heart of
the trust people put on information gleaned from computers. You
wouldn't leave your wallet lying about or leave your car
unlocked, but people -- often smart people -- leave their
computers unsecured.

Air Force Master Sgt. Jeff Hoopes is the security manager for
the Defense Information Systems Center here. He has a number of
common sense precautions people should take to safeguard their
computers. While his suggestions are aimed at home users, they
can also be applied at the office.

Hoopes said people should avoid suspicious e-mail with
attachments from anyone. "A virus can often come from a trusted
source that was infected," he said. The "I love you" virus, for
example, spread by attaching to e-mail addresses in users'
personal address books.

Passwords are the first line of defense for computer users.
Hoopes said computer users should have a "strong" password that
does not contain any word found in a dictionary or used in a
normal conversation. He said reversing a word or name can still
be easily cracked. "A strong password should also contain a mix
of numbers, upper and lower-case letters and special characters
with a minimum of seven characters," he said. "Ktr#i9Q" is an
example of a strong password.

Don't tape your password up next to your machine, Hoopes said.
And avoid using the same password for every site.

He advised users to install anti-virus software and apply vendor
updates as they become available. Have your system scanned for
viruses regularly. He said users should apply security patches
to update their operating system and applications as needed. He
suggested pointing your browser toward http://updates.zdnet.com/
will check your system and recommend updates.

"Never install software from unknown sources or trust freeware
to protect your privacy," he said. The Symantec Corp. Web site
at www.symantec.com offers a free security analyzer to check
your system for "spyware," he said. Freeware often has built-in
spyware code that allows advertisers to track where you go on
the Internet. Some other code is far nosier, and possibly
malicious.

Hoopes said people should test their connections to the
Internet. He suggested users try the Web site
http://grc.com/default.htm, which has a "Shields Up" application
to check your personal computer. He said personal "firewalls" --
an electronic barricade -- also offer some protections and
suggested interested people go to http://www.zonelabs.com/ for
information.

He said people should use credit card information on the net
wisely. "Only use secure sites," he said. Web browsers indicate
secure sites with a lock icon and and "https://" preceding the
Internet address, he said.

He said people who are still concerned about using their credit
cards online might consider getting and using a credit card with
a minimal credit line. Also, some credit cards will also promise
"zero liability" for Internet fraud, he said.

He said everyone should minimize the personal information they
share online. "You should always use nicknames or 'handles' to
protect your identity on chat sites or bulletin boards," he
said.

Finally, he said people should use encryption or other tools
when transferring sensitive information over the Internet.

The current common encryption standard is called "128-bit SSL,"
for "secure sockets layer." The two major Web browsers,
Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, can both be
configured with 128-bit SSL or upgraded to it. The previous 40-
bit SSL standard found in older browser versions is no longer
considered safe in the face of code-cracking hackers.

Hoopes said people who have questions about their office
computer security should contact their network administrator or
helpdesk.

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Hi all,
     I've another new dossier up at disinfo.com, called "A Peruvian Spy Chief
Stumbles?" There are lots of links at the URL below, so please feel free to
visit the site to read more about this murderous drug-trafficking CIA-lackey.
     peace,
Preston

http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=folder&title=A+Peruvian+Spy+Chief+Stumbles%3F

A Peruvian Spy Chief Stumbles?
"As Peruvian General Cisneros once explained, 'It is necessary to kill 10
peasants to kill one guerrilla,'" quotes Dan Russell in his scathing book
Drug War: Covert Money, Power, and Policy (Kalyx.com, 2000), describing the
US War Against Some Drugs being conducted in Peru.

Now yet another powerful and repressive CIA-ally, a shining example of US
Drug Czar General Barry McCaffery's favorite type of fiend, has fled his
country.

At 11:45 PM, September 24th, 2000, Peruvian Intelligence Chief Vladimiros
Montesinos Torres, described by some as the "most reviled man in Peru," and
the power behind the 10-year reign of President Alberto Fujimori, fled to
Panama seeking asylum. Although the Panamanians were reluctant to allow in
such a slimeball as Vladimiros Montesinos, US Undersecretary of State Thomas
Pickering personally insisted that Panama allow Montesinos into the country,
the Miami Herald newspaper claimed (September 26th, 2000).

Montesinos was videotaped in May 2000, bribing a Peruvian opposition
politician with $15,000 to support Fujimori. Montesinos shouldn't have needed
to ask permission to enter Panama, since he holds an "Investor's visa,"
issued only to those who have atleast $160 000 deposited within a Panamanian
bank. The Miami Herald (September 26th, 2000) revealed that Montesinos also
owns the luxury condominium in Panama City where the Panamanian government
was initially reported to have "lodged" the crooked spook. Somehow Montesinos
has garnered his wealth without an official salary, or even a formal job,
with the Fujimori government.

On July 28th, 1990, Fujimori was elected with the help of the CIA-created
National Intelligence Service (SIN). Montesinos, a graduate of the infamous
School of the Americas (February 12th, 1965), working with SIN, presented
solutions to Fujimori to certain problems, earning "eternal" gratitude.
Montesinos became Fujimoris's right-hand man, the power behind the throne,
stomping human rights, and making millions off the drug trade while
ostensibly working with the US/CIA to stamp out drug production.

By 1991 Montesinos banished the DEA from Peru by forming a SIN anti-drug
unit, with CIA backing, thereby removing drug interdiction from DEA control
handing it to the CIA. The DEA had that year issued a report accusing
Montesinos of using his position to stack the military and government with
allies, with the express aim of protecting narcotics trafficking.

Fujimori and Montesinos staged a coup in 1992 to enable themselves to
temporarily suspend the Peruvian Constitution, and purge the armed forces and
government of enemies.

On October 2nd, 1996, Gen. McCaffrey met Montesinos, lauding his praises of
the killer publicly. Immediately afterwards, two US senators, Christopher
Dodd, and Patrick Leahey, wrote then-CIA Director John Deutch insisting the
CIA cut its ties to Montesinos, due to his trafficking, and human right
violations, including massacres and torture by the death squad Grupo Colina.

Despite minor squawks of protest from the US after an obviously fixed
election of Fujimori to his third term as President (May, 2000) things were
good for Montesinos. But in August, 2000, news of a vast arms-drugs ring
selling machineguns to FARC guerrillas in Colombia, first reported busted by
Montesinos' spooks, turned out to be an operation Montesinos himself was
involved in somehow. On September 14th, 2000, the video of him bribing the
opposition official was made public. Montesinos went into hiding, amid cries
for his arrest. On September 16th, 2000, Fujimori decreed new elections,
saying he will not run, and ordered SIN's dismantling. Days later, Fujimori
said he would not relinquish power until July 28th, 2001, raising fears of
military takeover, while Montesinos flew to Panama.

As Montesinos basks in luxurious "exile" in Panama, 17 million out of the 25
million Peruvians suffer in abject poverty, the US wages its War Against Some
Drugs. Another Latin American democracy stumbles.

Research by Preston Peet
ptpeet@...