ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter - Issue 5

July 2001
Articles, newsreports and Items of interest : e2k_news@hotmail.com

News & items of interest

E2k's covert loop.[often copied, never bettered!!!!]

ENIGMA 2000 'Covert' Loop Antenna appears to have been a very popular project. We have received a number of messages praising the simple design and the apparently 'innovative' use of the back of a door to swing the loop. D of Kent contacted E2k to mention that the loop 'resonates' well and that he felt it was such a useful item he built a wooden stand for it, using a cross halving joint between the horizontal and vertical arms! The simplicity of the e2k loop being its coverage from 4.2 to 18MHz without having to change the loop to do so. E2k notes the door loop article written by Ed Chicken, in the May 2001 issue of the Radio Society of Great Britain journal 'RadCom'. This loop, which is square, has an amplifier attached and needs to have the loop changed for different freqs. Recommended to hang on the back of a door, it does not have to be peaked within any particular band once it is set-up. The beauty of the E2k covert loop is that you could just leave it where it hangs without worrying about the loss of expensive components, or just throw it in a bin where it would look the part! We are aware of the e2k loop having been built in the UK, Rep of Ireland, NI, NZ, HK, Israel, Brunei and Guyana to name but a few places.

Global hawk

Eddy of Australia writes this most interesting account:

We had the Global Hawk pilotless aircraft arrive at the Edinburgh Air Base land here on Tuesday night [24/04]. This is a pilotless aircraft, which flew here direct from the Edwards Air Base in California. The flight took about 22 hours to complete, it landed at Edinburgh at approximately 0845 pm local time. Total distance about 8000 miles. It was quite a sight to see, just a single white light in the distance that got progressively closer, and eventually landed after being visible for about 10 minutes. The landing was quite spectacular, there was very little engine noise, and the aircraft seemed to land in a very short distance. When it had landed, it was just possible to make out the silhouette of the strange looking aircraft. All the equipment used for controlling this aircraft was delivered here recently on two C5A Galaxy aircraft. Very little information has been revealed, regarding exactly what this equipment was, however, no doubt it is very sophisticated stuff. The public was kept well away from the scene, and virtually no information was given out by the RAAF, which I thought was rather poor. (Considering the Australian taxpayer contributed $20,000,00 toward the development of this aircraft). It is here in Australia, for flight tests, the Government are considering buying one for coastal surveillance, amongst other things.
[See FAS web page in 'Relevant Web Sites']. Thanks Eddy, nice report.

The Gaul, new survey promised.

Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, recently agreed to provide funding for another survey of the Hull trawler, MV Gaul. The search by remotely operated vehicles [ROV's] is expected to take place in 2002. A number of complaints from the relatives had been made as it is felt that not enough had been done to get the project underway.

Mr Prescott outlined the aims of the project as having four objectives:

Supplement the existing photographic evidence explaining the loss of the Gaul;
Search for any remains of the Gaul's crew and establish their identity using DNA profiling;
Search for evidence in connection with allegations that the Gaul could have been engaged in espionage activities;
Develop a means for entering and examining the interior of the vessel.

Mr Prescott went on to state that he had authorised the survey to remove any lingering doubts about the fate of the vessel. He went on to say that a tender for a contractor will now be placed.

It was noted by the source that whilst there has been no shortage of volunteers to make the 270M dive onto the wreck Mr Prescott continually states that he will not allow a manned dive to take place.

In addition to that an ROVcapable of making such a dive still has yet to be built. [He says].

The Gaul Families Association had been expecting this dive to be made in 2001 and comment is reported of the feeling that it is being used to curry votes in the forthcoming general election. The general feeling is that only a manned dive will ever find out what remains are on the ship.

[ENIGMA 2000 has received valid information that ROV's for 270 metres are extremely common. Many of the Brazilian and Gulf deepwater oil fields use ROV's for routine work and inspections at depths of over 2,000 metres.

ENIGMA 2000 thanks Simon Mason for the article from which this précis was made; the full article, using search facility, available on http://www.thisishull.co.uk/]

[Simon Mason has changed his site URL to: http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page30.html]

Peter of Saffron Walden remarked on the HF blackout on 15/04and documents the shorter ionospheric disturbance that occurred between 1345Z and 1430Z. Perusal of solar information shows that this disturbance did not reach the magnitude of the larger and longer disturbance around 29/04

British Protester at Menwith Hill in Court

Following our short report 'British Protester at Menwith Hill charged with racist abuse', the defendant, midwife Lindis Percy appeared Harrogate Court, with Anni Rainbow, where they were found not guilty of Obstruction of the Highway. The additional charge [Racist Abuse] was not heard. The District Judge, Peter Nuttall, ruled that every citizen has rights to peaceful protest. Ms Percy's protest was peaceful, she did not intend to be 'abusive and insulting' by holding the flag with the words 'STOP STAR WARS' emblazoned across it. The'Racially Motivated' charge was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service before the trial.

Ms Percy's defence solicitor referred to the prosecution of the 'flag' charge as being 'clearly political'.

Further detail can be found on the CAAB web site whose URL appears in 'Relevant Web Sites. It offers an interesting read.

Interestingly this action has brought some notice to the Governments intention to let the US place a part of its BMEWS on British soil. It has even made the 0400Z news on the BBC's World Service. This American 'National Missile Defense' has caused deep opposition within the Government. Whilst the US personnel in the UK remain silent on this matter it is plainly obvious that there will be no protection for the host nation. A minister was reported to have stated, "There is deep opposition within the Party. People think it's mad, and people think its dangerous."

He further stated, "You are going to get everybody from the Women's Institute to CND on your back if the thing is built." A local resident is written as asking, "How would the Americans feel if we put something in their national park?"

On London News Radio, 97.3MHz, on the 1300A [02/05] news it was reported that Anni Rainbow had once again been arrested whilst protesting. Ms Rainbow made a short statement.

However three weeks on from the first hearing and at Fakenham Magistrates Court on 18^thMay, evidence was heard from five American 'security police' on how they had been 'angered, upset, distressed, offended and hurt' by Ms Percy's use of the US flag. One witness described how the US flag had been desecrated because Ms Percy had stood on it.

Ms Percy was found guilty and fined £200 for the Public Order offence, £100 for obstructing the highway and ordered to pay £250 costs. The District Judge hearing the case ordered Ms Percy's previous convictions to be read out in court. Ms Percy asked for the opportunity to explain the variety of convictions and was refused permission to do so. Ms Percy, who then expressed a criticism of the decision of the court, was asked to withdraw the remark and then arrested for finding herself unable to do so. She later appeared in the District court and again asked to redeem the criticism and remarks. Stating that she was 'having great difficulties at doing what you ask' Lindis Percy was fined £250 for being in contempt of court. Ms Percy will be appealing against this decision.

The full report of this [and other] actions can be read on the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases website http://www.caab.org.uk

Bad Aibling to close.

The Bad Aibling US SIGINT site is to close on 30^thSeptember 2002. It apparently is no longer necessary, its duties being absorbed by new technology. According to a Sunday Times 10/06 article 'Americans expand top spy base in UK' those staffs are being transferred to RAF Menwith Hill where their task will be to intercept personal and military communications. The article further mentions that 'they will be responsible for cracking codes, interception of communications, including e-mail and other sensitive tasks'.

German Intelligence on trail of Stasi spies.

The Rosewood dossier was smuggled to a KGB operative from the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin days before reunification and fell into the clutches of the CIA.

The dossier contains the names and registration numbers of 450,000 West German spies, part time agents and others associated with the Stasi. The Stasi was so successful that it turned 1 in 3 of it's 17 million East German citizens into informers. There were many thousands more abroad.

The Rosewood contents will be used by intelligence agents along with the Stasi archive files stored at the Gauck Commission in Berlin to unravel many of the unsoved riddles of the Cold War.

A database called SIRA lists only agents codenames and material provided but the combining of that information with that in the Rosewood dossier gives potential for the identification and hunt for the Stasi operatives since the fall of the Berlin wall.

The dossier was held by the CIA for ten years who suspected that some of those named within were also agents of the CIA itself.

A common belief is that many former Stasi evaded discovery because Rosewood was missing, backed by the discovery of the West German spy, Rainer Rupp in 1993 who had leaked information on Nato.

SIRA, System for Information Research of the HVA, contained files on magnetic tape in encrypted form and was never ordered to be destroyed, possibly because it was thought that the code was uncrackable. The SIRA encryption was broken by a former telephone engineer working for the German Government Commission for the Stasi Archive. The information so far recovered lists the titles of intelligence reports submitted from around the world by the many Stasi agents. These reports also include those that British moles gave to their handlers at the London Embassy.

Protest: Campaigners pledge to turn base into 'new Greenham Common'

'We'll fight Bush's Star Wars plans'. Nuclear protesters plan to turn a patch of North Yorkshire into the next Greenham Common. Sylvia Boyes, of Keighley, and Annie Rainbow, of Otley, are among those involved in a campaign to stop American radar stations at Menwith Hill and Fylingdales from being used as part of President George W Bush's Star Wars missile defence programme.

The Government insists it has not yet received any plans for the stations to be used as part of the defence, but the protesters say they are determined to step up their campaign. Mrs Boyes, 57, part of the Trident Ploughshares anti-nuclear group, went with other protesters to Fylingdales recently, but could not get onto the site because it is based in a national park and has been out of bounds since the foot and mouth outbreak. She said: "The only response we get from Government is that it has not been made a formal issue as yet. "Our campaign will take lots of different forms, but foot and mouth isn't helping. As soon as that is over things will begin to happen. "While most people hope Britain will see sense I have a horrible feeling that with the way the military complex works it will be difficult to stop. "But Yorkshire CND has an ongoing campaign against the site and I have no doubt this will be stepped up as time goes on."

Ms Rainbow, co-ordinator of the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases, said: "We're running a workshop during the Keep Space for Peace conference, which is being hosted by Yorkshire CND in Leeds. "We're also preparing for our annual 'Independence from America Day' demonstration outside the Menwith Hill base on July 4 when hopefully people will come along and make their feelings known peacefully."The curvature of the Earth means that the radar stations at Menwith Hill and Fylingdales would be ideally suited to spot rockets from Russia, China and the Middle East early in flight adding to the belief they may be called into use by President Bush. Mrs Bowes sprung to prominence for her beliefs during a case at Manchester Crown Court in January when, along with co-defendent River, she was found guilty of conspiring to commit criminal damage against a Trident submarine.

[Courtesy of Bradford Telegraph & Argus Newspaper].

More Tetra concerns.

Further concerns over the use of Tetra have been highlighted by a review undertaken by DERA and NRPB. It seems that the Tetra terminals produce a pulse of energy at a rate of 17.6Hz

A previous report on mobile phones and health indicated that studies show the calcium loss from brain tissue was greatest at 16Hz, close to the 17.6Hz in Tetra. This report suggested that amplitude modulation around 16Hz should be avoided.

[Full report in Electronics World June 2001] Thanks 'R' for this report.

Eye spy!

In keeping with ENIGMA 2000's interest in all things intelligence we recently received a Press Release concerning the innovative magazine 'Eye Spy!' This magazine covers all aspects of intelligence and all allied matters; which from E2k's view is an informative read. We share that Press release of 13^thJune with you:

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
RENEGADE EX MI5 OFFICER DAVID SHAYLER TO JOIN EYE SPY!
THE WORLD'S ONLY ESPIONAGE MAGAZINE

The newly launched EYE SPY! magazine, which is exclusively dedicated to intelligence, espionage, terrorism, black projects and military matters, has announced that controversial ex-MI5 officer David Shayler, has joined the editorial team. Shayler is acting as a consultant as well as writing his own regular column appropriately titled "The Man Who Knew Too Much".

David Shayler, who is soon to take the stand in the biggest official secrets trial in Britain, is well known for his efforts in trying to ensure that the Intelligence Establishment should be held accountable for the human rights abuses he and many others have allegedly suffered.

There is a growing interest in the subject of espionage and EYE SPY! certainly feeds that interest. The magazine has access to numerous "in the know" individuals and has acquired interviews with former intelligence agents, as well as first hand reportage on some of the world¹s most serious issues concerning espionage and terrorism.

David Shayler comments on EYE SPY! "The magazine approaches the issue of intelligence with an open and mature mind and I have to say it is very thorough, with enormous amounts of the kind of research that is normally lacking in spy media."

EYE SPY! is now on sale priced at £2.99. It will be published eight times a year and feature a mixture of articles, interviews, news stories and reviews.

For more information, interview or press pack contact Georgina Bruni PR, London. Telephone: 020 7584 3939. E-mail: georgina@easynet.co.ukmobile 07956 581025

Editor: Mark Birdsall: Eye Spy Publishing Ltd Tel: 01756 770199 E-mail: mark.bd@totalise.co.uk

Website www.eyespymag.com

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