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CONVICnm! Three protesters outside the Blcnheim �om1 in .hul" l'i'l6 .iust alter
c<H1vidioll on cha..ges oftresp"" at Ih" \",,;hopai satellik spy base. The judge did not
a/low preselltation of aefe"". argull,,'nts challenging the legality of GCSE activities.
Nicky Hager is the author of Secret Power, the subsequent exchange in which the GCSB weighed in
authoritative book that reveals more than you ever directly, a most unusual event - "The GCSB's foreign
dreamed o f asking about the Government intelligence function involves p roviding the
Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and its Government with information that is derived from the
highly secretive operations (see PR 10 for a review), analysis of foreign communications, not the
But despite massive research files and detailed communications of New Zealanders'"
documention, Nicky still cannot say whether or not the
GCSB spies on New Zealanders, Domestic spying is Ray Parker, the Director of the GCSB, even referred to
one of the stickiest problems you face in attempting to the latter Press statement in a letter to me dated 22
investigate the GCSB and its two spy stations, Waihopai August. The single substantial paragraph in the short
and Tangimoana, Waihopai intercepts international letter is as follows:
satellite communications; Tangimoana intercepts high
frequency radio communications, "The answers to both your questions aTe contained
in the statement published by the Christchurch
Waihopai is the station that concerns me most because Press under your letter to the Editor dated 23 July
it is capable of listening to and recording the 1996, I would only add that the legal status of the
international emails, faxes, telexes and even telephone Bureau is that of a non-statutory agency of the
calls that ordinary New Zealanders send and receive executive government of New Zealand, established
every hour of every day, That capability is not in doubt. under the prerogative," 5 [The royal prerogative is
But because the agency is so secretive, it is difficult to exercised in NZ by the executive government of
determine with any certainty whether Waihopai actually the day,]
intercepts domestic communications,
These exchanges of letters and comments underscore
What is a "domestic communication"? Overseas, the a number of important legal issues that surfaced in our
GCSB's sister organisations claim any communications defence preparations prior to trial on charges of trespass
that either originate or end outside the country at Waihopai in January 1996, I am not a lawyer, but I
concerned are "foreign" and the interception of these believe there is good reason to question the legal status
does not constitute domestic spying, The American of the GCSB, The legal issues involve not just
National Security Agency (Big Daddy in the UKUSA suspicions of domestic spying but the legal basis for
group - see below) won a court case allowing it to target the very existence of the GCSB and its operations,
conversations that had one leg outside the US although
it is prohibited from spying within the US,, In Canada, The relevant legal documents are the Trespass Act
Section 7 of the Official Secrets Act makes it legal - (1980), the Bill of Rights Act ( 1990), the Privacy Act
under warrant - for its spy agency to intercept ( 1993), the Crimes Act ( 1964), The Intelligence and
communications that either originate or end in Canada Security Agencies Acts ( 1996), the International
as long as only one party is in Canada,' Telecommunications Convention (Nairobi Convention,
1982), and the Security Intelligence Service Act ( 1969),
The GCSB denies that it engages in domestic spying,
In response to my letter to the editor ( 10 July 1996) There were six arrests at the January 1996 Waihopai
alleging domestic spying by the GCSB, the editor of action, all for simple trespass on government property,
the Christchurch Press stated: "The GCSB is subject Three of us were tried in Blenheim and presented our
to the provisions of section 2 16 of the Crimes Act, own defence in court, I decided to base my defence on
although it is not mentioned in the act, and this formed a clause in the Trespass Act involving "".trespass for
the basis of our comment that the organisation is his own protection",", Since there is no definition of
prevented by statute from spying domestically".' We the word protection in the act, or in the Acts
suspected thi� �ditorjal comment was saurced in the Interpretation Act, I attempted to develop my defency
GCSB itself; oUr suspicions were reinforced by 11 using a broad interpretation of that key word, I was
McGee goes on to say, "I suggest thatthe ordinary person It seems to me that's not a bad precedent to cite if
should be involved before the Government assumes the you protest at Waihopai, get arrested, and find
international obligation." The UKUSA agreement yourself trying to mount a defence in Blenheim
(dating from 1948) is a prime example of anti-democratic District Court. But then, I'm not a lawyer.
behaviour with potentially serious consequences for
References
1. Richelson, Jeffrey. Transcript for "The Hill", Dispatches TV 7. Letter from MrRay Parkerto the author, 14 November 1996.
documentary, 6 September 1993. 8. The Press, 30 October 1996, page 6.
2. The Globe and Mail (Canada), 15 November 1995. 9. See Hager's Secret Power and PR 3 (Feb. 1983, 1st series)
3. Letter to the editor, and reply, in The Press, 19 July 1996. for details of the UKUSA agreement.
4. GCSB reply to letter to the editor, in The Press, 9 August 1996. 10. "Law-making seen as not democratic", New Zealand Herald,
5. Letter from Mr Ray Parker to the author, 22 August 1996. 29 October 1996.
6. Edwards, John. 1995. Current privacy issues in 11. "UK former fraud chief backs SFO" by Ian Wishart, The
telecommunications. Unpublished paper for a conference. Press, 2 November 1996.
PHILIPPINES
former US Bases Still Contaminated By Toxic Wastes
PR 3 (December 1994) ran a report on the problems visit to the Philippines in late 1994, but nothing more
caused by toxic waste contamination of the former US has been heard of the subject from either government
military bases in the Philippines, principally the two since. The Filipino and American environmental groups
big ones at Subic Bay and Clark Air Force Base (the say that they have identified at least 14 known
Pentagon was forced to leave in 1992, after the historic contaminants at both Subic and Clark. For its part, the
1991 Philippines Senate vote not to renew the bases SBMA strongly denies suggestions that the water
treaty, ending nearly a century of American military supply of the Subic Bay Free Port has been seriously
presence). contaminated for three years. The stakes are high here
- the SBMA has attracted $US 1.3 billion worth of
The toxic wastes problem is still unresolved. A 1991 foreign investors, who would get decidedly squeamish
US Defense Department report and a 1992 US General if it is confirmed that the place is one big toxic waste
Accounting Office report both concluded that improper dump. President Ramos is touting Subic as a
waste storage and disposal turned Subic into a potential replacement for Hong Kong once that is repossessed
toxic hotspot. US Navy reports said Subic generated by Chiua in mid 1997 and he is intent on staging major
more than 500 tons of toxic waste per year in 1990 and international events there, such as the November 1996
1991, but disposed of less than 20%. In mid 1996, a Leaders Summit of the Asia Pacific Economic
coalition of the Philippine Task Force for Bases Cooperation forum (APEC).
Cleanup and the US Working Group for Philippine
Bases Cleanup charged the World Bank and the Subic As for the gigantic former airbase which was destroyed
Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) with negligence by the 1 9 9 1 Mt Pinatubo eruption, the Clark
for not releasing the results of an environmental Development Corporation has signed a memorandum
baseline survey on Subic Bay, conducted by the of agreement with the Malaysian based AsiaStar
American company Woodward Clyde and funded by Weston Environment Services (Awes) to conduct an
the World Bank. environmental site study, to determine if there is any
toxic waste dumped there. Awes has experience of
Presidents Clinton and Ramos briefly discussed the research, site assessment and actual cleanup at more
question of toxic waste cleanup during Clinton' s State than 100 former American bases worldwide. The US
515 BREAK IN
Ombudsman (Again) Back.s Ban On
Intelligence Agency Details; SIS Director Shy
PR 10 (September 1996) had a
lengthy lead story about the very
strange sequence of events arising
out of a bungled Security
Intelligence Service (SIS) break
in to the home of Christchurch
activist, Aziz Choudry, during the
July 1996 Trading With Our Lives
Alternative Forum on Free Trade
(he was the principal organiser).
This also involved police raids on
his home and that of David Small,
because o f their alleged
involvement in a hoax bomb
planted outside the Christchurch
City Council building. The bomb
was alleged to be in protest at the
city hosting the Annual Meeting
of the Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) forum
Trade Ministers. The whole
shambles became a major media
story which ran nationwide for
David Small and Aziz Choudray their questions remain unanswered
•
weeks.
There have been a couple of subsequent developments. Official Information Act, a very curious section indeed,
Aziz Choudry applied for the police file on the break one which neither confirms nor denies the existence of
in (which had been interrupted by David Small, who the information in question. Aziz appealed this to the
had called by to collect a TV and VCR needed for the Ombudsman, and received Anand Satyanand's
Forum). The cops had refused, citing Section 10 of the decision, in October 1996. He changed tack and pointed
After 42 years in the making, the text of a The 38 who have signed are the five nuclear weapons
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty passed through the powers, and Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium,
UN General Assembly on September 24, 1996 and was Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Finland,
signed by III governments in the first 11 days it was Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan,
opened for signature. The treaty requires the 44 nations Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania,
with nuclear facilities to sign and then ratify it through Slovakia, South Korea, South Africa, Spain, Sweden,
their national legislatures before it can come into force. Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zaire.
Thirty eight of the required forty-four are among those
who have already signed, leaving India, Algeria, The treaty requires a conference in three to four years
Bangladesh, Egypt, North Korea and Pakistan. for members to decide how to accelerate the ratification
Although India, one of the 44, has vowed never to sign process should India and others still refuse to join the
"this unequal treaty, not now, not later", it is still very pact. In the meantime, the treaty places a large taboo
much worth pushing for the ratification of the CTBT on testing and with all five declared nuclear weapons
through the New Zealand parliament. states imposing voluntary moratoriums on testing, the
NON-PROLIFERATIONTREATY CONFERENCE
- SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITY
In April of next year, the world's governments will powers agree to concentrate on the issues found in the
have a unique chance to concretely demonstrate their principles. The time has come to "pay the piper", as it
commitment to the spirit of the CTBT and to the stated were, and actively take up issues like: universality,
goals of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. disarmament, NWFZs (Nnclear Weapon Free Zones),
The first Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) of the security assurances, safeguards and peacefhl uses of
NPT's new, strengthened review process will take place nuclear energy. The spirit of the document was that
in New York and will be closely watched by citizens this would be a list of living, changeable items which
from all around the globe. An important document, would be updated and replaced as individual elements
Principles and Objectives for Non-Proliferation and were achieved (e.g. the CTBT). To achieve this laudable
Nuclear Disarmament, will have its trial run in a forum goal, strong, decisive action will need to be taken at
that has almost nniversal membership second only to the Preparatory Committee meeting.
the UN Charter. Both the principles and objectives and
the new review process documents are politically bound The principles and objectives must become the
to the legally-binding extension decision, which were yardstick by which future progress on nuclear non
tied together in a package format by the conference proliferation and disarmament is measured. If it fails
president at the review and extension conference last in that objective, then an important opportunity and
year. tool for future action will have been lost There exist
few, if any, similar opportunities for this type of
The pressure will be on the nuclear and other western coordinated international action. Activity is already
powers to address the specific list of topics outlined in beginning in governments and NGO circles around the
the principles and objectives document. In what world to ensure that the commitments made in 1995
amounted to an exchange for a vote to indefinitely are not forgotten.
extend the NPT, many conntries demanded that these
(All t.l:iree reports above come from WILPF. For more information, contact P.O. Box 8390 Christchurch. A brief
item on exposure to chemicals in the Gulf War also appears in CIA File later in this issue.)
The American magazine Covert Action Quarterly request of the CIA. The Winter 1988 issue of Covert
(formerly Covert Action Information Bulletin)haB been Action highlighted the activities of the US in the South
exposing the secret activities of the American Central Pacific, including the role of the US in the March 1987
Intelligence Agency and other intelligence groups since Fiji Coup. Other issues have included stories on the
1978. The magazine's mission is to expose the criminal CIA's war against environmental and peace groups.
activities of the CIA, which have been directed against As Ralph McGehee ( a former CIA officer whom the
foreign countries and governments as well as against Nuclear Free Peacemaking Association brought to New
the American people themselves. Covert Action reports Zealand in 1986) has said "the CIA is not an
have covered CIA assassinations of foreign leaders, the intelligence organisation at all, but a covert action ann
instigation of wars and coups against governments the of the Presidency, distorting and falsifying the facts
US wishes to get rid of, various techniques of whenever it suited its operational purposes." Covert
destabilisation used against foreign societies, and the Action affirms this contention.
planting of disinfonnation and propaganda in both the
US and foreign media. Much of New Zealand's foreign and defence policy
seems to have been based on CIA disinfonnation and
Many writers, editors and journalists are on the payroll fabricated intelligence designed to influence allies in
of the CIA (and the other intelligence agencies). In 1983 directions that support US policy. The "China threat",
and 1988 the magazine revealed that the Reader 's the "Soviet threat", the excuses for US attacks against
Digest carried false stories and propaganda at the Vietnam, the "bomber gap", the "missile gap": all have
been shown in various issues of Covert Action to be
fabrications. This influence on public views and policies
" U N B REAKABLE" COD E in many countries, including New Zealand, will
continue as long as most citizens and Members of
CRACKED Parliament are not aware of how their thinking and
The New Scientist reports that two Israeli perceptions are guided b y CIA disinformation
mathematicians have developed a code-breaking campaigns.
strategy that is capable of penetrating "virtually
all major encryption systems". [9 November 1996] In addition to overt disinformation stories planted in
The electronic spying agencies like the NSA and the media to influence public opinion, false intelligence
GCHQ will go into overdrive on the implications is distributed to influence government decisions.
of these revelations. Until now, says the New Because this is classified as "secret" there is no outside
Scientist, concern about vulnerability of and independent assessment of the validity of such
confidential data has focused on compnter intelligence. There is not even an awareness that such
techniques for finding prime number "keys" used faulty 'designer' information is working away at the
to encrypt the data. These methods have limited minds of officials and influencing the advice they give
applicability and can be defeated by using longer to government. The system seems designed to ensure
keys. The new technique requires only a desktop that the only officials allowed access to secret
computer and a microwave generator. It is said to intelligence are those that can be trusted not to question
work no matter how long the key is, and without its validity. Thus, the myths upon which New Zealand's
any knowledge of the encryption system used. The foreign and defence policy are based tend to be
strategy is based on exposing the encryption device venerated, protected and perpetuated like religious
to a series of bursts of electromagnetic radiation doctrines. This is in spiv� of overwhelming evidence
which progressively trigger random errors in the in Covert Action and other sources, that the myths are
circuitry storing the secret keys. By comparing untrue, and a threat to NZ interests and security.
messages as the system breaks down the operators
can work out the form of the original key. The A complete index of Covert Action Quarterly articles
method was based on studies which showed data follows. Copies of Covert Action are available from
on smart cards could be cracked by tracking errors the NZ Nuclear Free Peacemaking Association,
prompted by exposure to microwaves. Box18541, Christchurch.
No. 1 (July 1978) Philip Agee on CIA; Cuban exile trial; Consumer research in
No. 35 (Fall 1990) Special-Eastern Europe: Destabilization of USSR; CIA's
prospects, NED in Lithuania, Balkan Nazis, Free Congress Foun. Goes East; C.D.
Jamaica.*
Jackson; Cuba; Other Iran-Contra Cases; CIA and Banks; CLA and Indonesian Mas
No. 2 (Oct. 1978) How the CIA recruits diplomats; Researching undercover officers;
sacres.
Ten years as double agent in the CIA.*
No. 86 (Spring 1991) Special--Racism & Nat. Security. FBI vs. Arab-Americans &
No. :3 (Jan. 1979) CIA attacks CAlB; SecretAnny manual; Spying on hostcoun
Black Officials; Dhoruba bin-Wahad; MumiaAhu..Jamal; DestabiJizing Africa: Chad,
tries."
S. Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Zaire; Haiti; Panama; Gulf War' COINTELPRO
No. 4 (Apr.-May 1979) U.S. spies in Italian services; CIA in Spain; CIA recruiting for Uart�; Nat. Security "Humor."
Africa; Subversive academics in Africa; Angola.*
No. 37 (Summer 1991) Speeial--GulfWar; Media; "Clean War�; CIA's Iraq Radio;
No. 5 (Aug. 1979) UB. intelligence in Asia; CIA in Denmark; Sweden; Grenada; Evangelicals for Nuclear War; UN; Libya; Iran; Domestic costs; N. Korea Next?; Ille
AIFLD.* gal Arms Deals; Georgie Anne Geyer.
No. 6 (Oct. 1979) U.S. in Caribbean; Cuban exile terrorists; Philip Agee on CIA plans No. 38 (Fal!. 1991) Special-DoD, CIA recruitment ofU.S. & international students;
for Nicaragua; CIA's secret Perspectives for InteUigence.* Militarism campus guide; ArifDurrani.'s Iran·Contra case; S. African state terror;
No. 7 (Dec. 1979·Jan. 1980) Media destabilization in Jamaica; CIA uses cockroaches; Rev. Moon & Acaderrua; Targeting environmentalists; CIABase database.
Robert Moss; CIA propaganda budget; �edia operations; UNITA; Iran.* No. 39 (Winter" 1991·92) Special--The "Good� Agencies: NED, Peace Corps, USAID &
No. 8 (Mar.-Apr. 1980)Attacl<..$ on PhilipAgee; V.S. intelligence legislation; CArB AIDS inAfuca, Nat. Cancer Inst., Population Control; Casolaro; FBI & Supreme
statement to Congress; Zimbabwe; Northern Ireland. Court; Rooort Gates; USSR destabilization; BCCI.
No. 9 (June 1980) NSA in Norway; Glomar Explorer; Mind control; NSA. No. 40 (Spring 1992) Special-Indigenous Peoples: N. America, toxic dumps,
No. 10 (Aug Sept. 1980) Caribbean overview; Destabilization in Jamaica; Guyana;
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Leonard Peltier interview. Guatemala; East Timor Massacre; VB. in Pacific'' Cambo-
Grenada bombing; The Spike; ClA De£lp Cover Manual." dia; GATI, David Duk('.
No. n (Dec. 1980) Right'Wing terrorism; South Korea; KCLA; Portugal; Guyana; No. 41 (Summer 1992) Special-Next Enemies; LA Uprising; Geo. Bush & CIA;
Caribbean; AFlO; NSA intervinw. Bush Fam.ily; Eqbal Ahmad; UN: D.S. Tool; Nuclear Proliferation; Environmentalist
Attacked; V.S. Economic Decline; Dissent as Subversion,
No. 12 (Apr. 1981) U.8. in El Salvador & Guatemala; New Right; William Casey;
CLAin Mozambique; Mail surveillance.* No. 42 (Fall 1992) Philip Agee on Covert Ops; Peru; Fluoride; VP Bush & CIAlNSC''
Nicaragua; SO/LIe; Militarizing the Drug War; CIATargets Henry Gonzalez; Bush
No.. 13 (July-Aug. 1981) S. Africa documents; BOSS; Namibia; mercenaries; Globe
Inaugural Leak; Rov. Moon Buys University; Inside LA Police.
Aero; Angola; OL-'\ jn Mozambique; Central America; Klan in Caribbean; Max Hugel;
Mail surveillanc&. No_ 43 (Winter 1992·93) Chemical and Biological War: Zimbabwe, So. Africa and
anthrax, Gulf War Syndrome, Agent Orange; Yellow Rain & Wall Street Journal; &i
No. 14-15 (Oct. 1981) Index to Nos. 1-12; Review ofintelligence legislation; CAIB
entific racism; Plus: Yugoslavia destabilization; V.S. Religious Right; Somalia.
No. 44 (Spring 1993) Special-Public relations, buying infiuenC(l. Hill & Knowlton,
plans; Extended Naming Names.
No. 16 (Mar. 1982) Green Beret t.orture in El Salvador; Argentine death squads; CIA
media operations; Seychelles; Angola; Mozambique; Constantine Menges; Klan in Burson-Marsteller, Clinton Cabinet; Somalia: "hurrum.itarian" intervention; Rio
Caribbean; Nugan Hand. * Sununit Greenwash; BCCI.CIA; Clinton & Nat. Sec. Act; .Anti+Gay plans.
No. 17 (Summer 1982) CBWbistory; DoD nerve gas sales pitch; Cuban dengue epi No. 45 (Summer 1993) So. Mrica Right's Links; German N(l{)+NaziB; RN Haitians;
demic; Scott Bames and �yellow rain� lies; Mystery death in Bangkok; CIA assassi Interview: Fred Weir in Russia; Police 'Im-get Black Youth; ADL Spying; Pelican Bay
nations.'!' Prison; Ireland's Youth; Angola Profiwers.
No. 18 (Winter 1983) CIA & religion; �Secret" war in Nicaragua; Miskitos; Opus Dei; No_ 46 (Fall 1993) Economic intelligence; CIA's Hit List; Israel & Iran; NSA; School
Evangelicals in Guatemala; Summer Itwt. ofLinguistics; World Medical Relief; CIA o.f the Americas; Ex-adviser reveals El Salvador cover-up; Private prisons; Deltajua
& BOSS; S. Mrican torture; NSA; Vietnam defoliation.'" tice & Death Row; Savrumah River; French Bull; NSA's Clipper Chip; -CIA uses
bruill.
NQ. 19 (Spring-Summer 1983) CIA & media; History of disinfonnat.ion; "Plot"
against the Pope; Grenada airport-Reagan's big lie; Georgie Anne (}eyer. No. 47 (Winter 1993·94) 15th Anniversary: FBI YS. Ban; RU8llian October Coup;
Rocky li'lats Jury; NAF1'A Trila"teralists; Zinn on FBI; DeUinger on '9Os; Cold War
No. 2() (Win.ter 1984) Invasion of Grenada; War in Nicaragua; Ft. Huachuca buildup;
Quiz; Ginsberg on CIA; Mumia Ahu..Jamal; World BankJIMF; Evergreen Air UN/CIA
Israel and South Kotea connections in Central America; Mooniesj KAL Flight 007;
CIA aMassinations. PropriBtary.
No. 48 (Spring 1994) Cbiapas Uprising; CIA & NAFTA; D.S. Sells Out Haiti; Iran
No. 21 (Spring 1984) New York Times and the Salvadoran election; Time and
Newsweek distortions; Accuracy in Media; Nicaragua; CIA occult research Contra Report; LA-8; U.S. mercenaries in A:r,erbaijan; Council for Nat. Policy;
Guatemala's Drug Generals.
No. 22 (Fall 1984) Mercenaries & terrorism; Soldier of Fortune; CAlB investigates
No. �9 (Summer 1994) Muntesinos, Fujimori, and Peru; TurabilSudan; Operation
Special Forces camps; Jonathan Inst.; "Privatizing" war in Nicaragua; CIA terror
manual; U.S.··South Afric:>..n terror; Italian fascists. Gladio; UB. atom "tests on humans; Armenia and Azerbaijan; So. Africa's Left; Sal·
NI). 23 (Spring 1985) "Plot" to kill the Pope/"Bulgarian Connection"; St. Peter's Sq.
vador's Ejections.
phow manipUlation; CIA tie� to Thrkish and Italian noofascists; Paul Henu on No. 50 (fall 1994) Operation Condor; Clinton's Crime Bill; Carte's Liberty Lobby;
human rights; Claire Sterling. Monforts Mea.tpackers; Low Intensity Democracy; NEO & IntelligenCB Budget.
No. 24 (Summer 1985) State repression, FEMA, infiltrators, provocateurs; sanctuary No. 51 (Winter 1994-95) AI.D.ing U.S. Interests i.n Haiti; Canadian Intelligence
movement; American Indian Movemeot; Leonard Peltierj NABBCO strike; Arnaud de �ts N6Q-Nazis� Brookhaven Lab and Cancer; U.S. in Bulgaria; Repackaging Popu
Bo.rchgravfJ, Moon and Robert Moss; Tetra Tern. lation; Asylum Rights for Women; The CIA Budget; Paramilitary Vacations; Bud
No• .25 (Winter 1986) U.S., Nazis, and Vatican; IDaus Barbie; "Project Paperclip" & J.
McFarlane book review.
Peter Grace; James Angleton & Roger Pem-son; Nuremberg prosecutor interview; No. 52 (Spring 1995) Rwandan Genocide; Proposition 187; Rise ofMilitins; Noo
Specialized torture in Brazil; Knights of Malta; Greek civil wart'Eleni�; WACL. Nazi/Anti-Abortion Li.n.k.s; Groom Lake; Wall Street Pressures Mexico; Human Rad.i�
No. 26 (Summl!r 1986) Index to Nos. 13-25; U.S. state terrorism; Noam Chomsky;
ation Update; Corporations Fund Reaea.tch; NSA in Cyberspace; Internet Resources;
Vemon Walters; Libya bombing; contra agents.; Israel & South Africa; Dua.rte; media Warren Andetson located.
manipulation in Costa Rica; Jonathan. Pollard; Democracy in Nicaragua:" No. 53 (Summer 1995) GulfWar Syndrome Cover-Up; Militia and Military; Frank
Donner; Arab Bashing; Hiroshima: Cold War Bomb; Iraqi Embargo; Guatemala;
DeVooe Murder; Bhopal; FISA Court; Omnibus lmtiterrorism. Act; Kunstler 011
No. 27 (Spring 1987) Special-Religious Right: Christian underground; Christian
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Right & African f\merica.n.,'I.; New York Times and Pope Plot; Frank Carlucci; Moon s
law; SouthernAir Transport; Oliver North & Michael Ledoon.* Fourth Amendment Violation.
No. 28 (Spring 1987) Special-CIA and drugs: S.E. Asia, Afghanistan, Central Amer No. M (J:i'a1l 1995) Chomsky on corporate propaganda; &srna fonllD.; V.S. in Kurdis
ica; Iran-Contra documents; Nugan Hand; William Casey; MK-ULTRA in Canada; tan; obit for Sasakawa; Labor Now: NAFTAlayoffs, Prison Labor, AFL-CIO in Rus-
. sia, PrivatE: Seeurity Guards, Waiter Reuther.
Delta Force; AIDS theories & CBW."
No. 29 (Winter 1988) Special-·Pacific: Philippines counterinsurgency & Religious No. 56 (Winter 1995·96) Polit;e vs. Cithen Review; Corporate Assault on FDA; PR
Right; Fiji., N, Zealand; Belau, Vanuatu; Atom testing; Mediai.Nicaragua; CIA in Industry Wars on Activists; Colin Powell; UN at 50/Castro Speech; Economic lntelli*
Cub$.; Tibet; CiA. & &ader's Digest; AIDS." g<:!nce; Spain's GAL Sc.andal; East 'I'irnor--Britain Ar:ma Indonesia; Bosnia Forum
continued.
No. 30 (Su.mmer 1988) Spe(:ial�Middle East: lntifada, Abu Jihad's asSMSination;
Israeli anns sales & nuclear arsenal; Israel & Contraslin Africa; Libya disinforma No. 56 (Sprill€ 1996) Chomsky on �enduring truths"; High-Tech survci.llance; Milita*
tioni CIA's Williem Buckley; Mghan arms pipeline & contra lobby; CIA "role models.� rizing USlMexico border; Pepper Gas; Guy.ana mining disaster; Economics behind
No. 31 (W:nter 1989) Special-Domestic surveillance: 'I'hi) Unew" FBI; CIA on cam fall ofYl.lgoslavia.; Russian nationalism; USIKorea partnership and Kwangju; La
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pus; Off. of Pub. Diplomacy; Vigiloo1wrepression; Geronimo Pratt; Lerington Prison; Belle bombing.
Puerto Rico; State defense forces; World wlo War Coun.; Int. Freedom Foun.; New No. 57 (Summer 1996) Six-pack of lies, Racism in the ranks, White-collar crime,
York Times disinformation. Common law courts, INS detention, Buying the Russian elections, Chornaky on the
No. 32 (Summer 1989) Thnth Year Anniversary Issue: Best ofCAIB Naming Names; US and Haiti, US·Israeli cooperation, Anonymous remailers, Nukes in Space.
CIA at home, abroad, and in the media. Eleven�year perspecl.ive by Philip Agee, No. 58 (Fall 1996) Burmese Gulag; Estrogen Mimickers & Endocrine Disrupters;
No. 33 (Winter 1990) Bush is1:lue: CIA agents for Bush; Terrorism Task Force; 8 years Globalization of Crime and Capital; �Co=tm:-ThrromID"� documents; Black church
of covert action; NED in Nicarat,'1.m; El Salvador election & state terror; Bush & Nor burnings; AID and thfJ environmen.t; Br,y...hlu!.ven whi.a:tleblowers; AIDS Conspiracy
iega; Skull & Bones; Repuh. Party & fascists; FEM..<\. & NSC; Cuba & drugs disinfor· debunked.
mation; Chile.
CIA F I LE
C I A DEBACLE ABANDONS African American communities says much of the
AlliES TO DEATH interest comes from Blacks, even though only about
In a little-publicised disaster in Iraq the Washington 14% have computers.
spooks have once more abandoned a group they were
using to subvert a government they are hostile to, with D I D CUNTON WORK FOR THE CIA?
the result that dozens of their allies were tortured and NameBase Newsline, a newsletter which monitors the
killed. This scenario has been a repeated and sorry CIA and its personnel, features an article in its October
refrain in CIA history. In Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, and other December issue that suggests the newly-elected
places, the CIA has encouraged local dissidents in President was recruited by the CIA. The story says that
rebellion, then left them to their fate. The Kurds in Iraq Clinton was recruited while he was a Rhodes Scholar
must be getting reconciled to it - this certainly isn't the at Oxford, possibly by a friend named Richard Steams.
first time it has happened to them. When the Iraqi army Steams was an International Vice President of the
rolled into Erbil at the end of August, CIA officers National Student Association which for many years
retreated, leaving behind a large number ofpeople they received CIA funding. Clinton's efforts to avoid the
had backed against Saddam Hussein. Nearly a hundred draft may have been assisted by an understanding with
employees of a CIA funded radio station that broadcast the spooks. Some people believe Clinton's trips to
anti-Saddam propaganda were interrogated and Eastern Europe in 1969-70 were CIA-sponsored.
executed. Other rebels had to flee to the mountains. To NameBase refers to evidence from a recent biography
add to the ignominy, much of the disaster was due to of the Clinlons by Roger Morris, who worked for the
the failure of the intelligence agency to predict that National Security Council until the bombing of
Saddam would send his forces to take an active part in Cambodia in 1970 when he became a peace activist.
the Kurdish disputes. Commentators say that the CIA's Morris cites inside intelligence sources for his assertion
reputation in Iraq has been thoroughly demolished. Last and says Clinton's tolerance of CIA drug-running and
June an anti-government paramilitary organisation money-laundering in Arkansas during the 1980s
backed by the CIA had most ofits members in Baghdad supports this conclusion.
captured. Many were tortured and executed. [See Time
Magazine, 23 September 1996J I RAN BLAMED AGAIN
In August stories were released blaming Iran for the
C ENTRAL STUP I DITY AGENCY crash of TWA Flight 800 which killed 230 people off
The CIA was forced to close down its World Wide New York in July. Senior US intelligence officials were
Web site in September when a hacker broke in and given as the source for reports that the CIA was linking
altered the content of its home pages. The amended Iran to the disaster. In spite of intensive investigation
version accused the agency of lying, and replaced the efforts no confirmed reason for the crash has yet been
main heading with "Welcome to the Central Stupidity revealed. The event, however, has been useful as
Agency". The embarrassed spooks hastened to assure another means of establishiug Iran and terrorism in the
people that there was no access to any computers that public mind as enemies which justify the CIA empire.
held files containing security information. A group has
been set up to find ways to protect the site in future. EX-SPOOKS ALLEGE COVER-UP
[Press, 2 1 September 1996J Two former CIA analysts have written a book which
says the CIA and Pentagon are behind the smokescreen
CRACK AGENCY put up over veterans' exposure to chemical agents in
While spook-backers are saying that the CIA has used the GulfWar. They say documents point to as many as
traffickers, drug smugglers and criminals in its 60 incidents of possible releases of chemical agents
operations, but there is no "proof" that this was near US troops. Over a thousand documents relating to
sanctioned by the Langley headquarters. Black the Gulf War were released to the public last year but
Americans have taken up the story of the CIA since then more than half have been reclassified with
originating much of the crack problem in California the CIA claiming some· of them revealed its sources
with great interest. [See story, PR 10J According to and methods. In August of this year the New York Times
Time Magazine [30 September 1996] a web site dealing reported that a 1991 intelligence document had alerted
with this issue has been getting 100,000 entries each the White House, CIA and State Department to the fact
day. An authority on the way information spreads in that American troops may have been exposed to
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