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A number of listeners sent me info that they heard or found in the local newspapers, internet or tv. When available, I have included the original sources.
Fidel Castro visited China in February, where he received a warm welcome from the Chinese Communist Party's top leaders, reports the Australian Age. While China has replaced the Soviet Union as Cuba's top trading partner, Castro provides China with its most significant electronic spy base near the United States. Professor Desmond Ball of the Australian National University says Chinese personnel have been operating two intelligence signal stations in Cuba since early 1999, after an agreement reached in February 1998. The large complex at Bejucal, just south of Havana, is equipped with 10 satellite communications antennas and is mainly concerned with intercepting telephone communications in the U.S. A "cyber warfare" unit is also based at Bejucal. The second station is located north-east of Santiago de Cuba, reportedly dedicated to intercepting satellite-based U.S. military communications. "China is actively and extensively engaged in the whole realm of signals intelligence, electronic warfare and cyber warfare activities," Professor Ball said, adding that the Beijing regime maintains "by far the most extensive signals intelligence capabilities of all the countries in Asia." The Chinese military also maintains a fleet of specialized ships and aircraft for mobile interception operations. Equipment comes from Russia and Israel, as well as domestic laboratories.
China has been conducting cyber warfare exercises since 1997. Computer viruses have been used to disrupt military communications and public broadcasts, with targets including Japan, India, South Korea and Taiwan.
The military effort is augmented by individual hackers in China, whose feats have included crashing the White House web site.
(Source: American Foreign Policy Council)
The state equips itself to spy on its citizens more effectively. In her January 31 issue, the weekly "New Horizons" states that the Senegalese security services have received intercept equipment for cell phones and other communications devices. The equipment has a value of 100 million CFA Francs and was supplied by their friends, the French intelligence agency DGSE.
| 100 millions CFA Francs = 1 million French Francs i.e. roughly 152 000 euro. |
19 February 2003.
South Korea's top spy says there are no new signs that North Korea has restarted a dormant atomic reactor in Yongbyon, despite reports that it was preparing to do so.
Source: http://www.7am.com/cgi-bin/wires02.cgi?1000_2003021905.htm
Monday, February 17, 2003.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Real patriots don't hack. Uncle Sam says only he can do that.
The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center warned Wednesday that growing tensions between the United States and Iraq could lead to an increase in global computer hacking activities on both sides.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/02/13/patriot.hackers.ap/index.html
Note:
It was published in Metro-Paris ed- that G.W.B. would have recently signed a confidential presidential directive stating that America's response to cyber-terrorism could not only take place from law courts.
Related:
National Infrastructure Protection Center external link
http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/advisories/2003/03-002.htm
Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos faces 57 charges, including connections with drug-trafficking, bribing, tortures and political assassinations. In what has been called by the local media as the "Trial of the Century", the ex spy and presidential advisor Vladimiro Montesinos, appeared in court on Tuesday. The public trial against him comes after courts sentenced Montesinos to nine years in jail last July for abuse of power.
Source: http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/19/43466.html
They were on board the plane that made an emergency landing in the Southern jungles of the country. A huge military operation has been launched by the Colombian and army and US officials to rescue three CIA agents presumably captured by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -FARC-. The local media estimates in 2.500 the personnel taking part in the actions underway, but no positive results have been reported until now
Source: http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/18/43429.html
Former KGB agent talks about peculiarities of Soviet and American special services. Hiring agents for adversary's special services has always been the prime goal for intelligence services of various countries all over the world. What makes the agents of most secret special services of the world betray their duty and serve for their enemies? What makes secret agents act like that, although their reliability was tested over and over again? Former employee of the Foreign Counterintelligence Administration of USSR's KGB, retired colonel Viktor Cherkashin, gave an interview on the matter to PRAVDA.Ru. Viktor Cherkashin was implicated in hiring a very valuable agent for KGB's foreign intelligence department, Aldrich Ames.
Source: http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/17/43425.html
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