August 2000 Intelligence News
- PLAN COLOMBIA, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 31 August 2000 -- Brazil summit views of Plan Columbia; Colombia not like Vietnam.
- MR. CLINTON VISITS COLOMBIA, Voice of America, 30 August 2000 -- The trip, lasting less than a day, was designed to show support for anti-drug efforts, and included meetings with embattled Colombian President Andres Pastrana.
- CLINTON-COLOMBIA WRAP, Voice of America, 30 August 2000 -- President Clinton has paid a brief visit to Colombia to underline U-S support for Colombian President Andres Pastrana and his government's battle against drug trafficking, a chronic insurgency and a deep recession.
- CLINTON-COLOMBIA PROBLEMS, Voice of America, 30 August 2000 -- The arrival of President Bill Clinton in Colombia Wednesday has stirred up both hopes and fears in the population.
- CLINTON-COLOMBIA, Voice of America, 30 August 2000 -- President Clinton is in Colombia for a one-day visit to stress U-S support for the government of Colombian President Andres Pastrana and its struggle against drug traffickers.
- FACT SHEET: Cooperation Between the United States and Colombia on Counter-Drug Programs , THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary, 30 August 2000
- FACT SHEET: Human Rights and U.S. Assistance for Plan Colombia, THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary, 30 August 2000
- U.S. Agency's Casa de Justicia program, THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary, 30 August 2000 -- PRESS BRIEFING BY A SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL ON THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO COLOMBIA
- PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT CLINTON, PRESIDENT PASTRANA OF COLOMBIA, HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT, AND SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN, THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary, 30 August 2000
- UN food agency appeals for support to help displaced in Colombia, UN News, 30 August 2000 -- The agency fears that the Colombian authorities could intensify their crackdown on the illicit drug trade, leading to a fresh outbreak of violence that could drive thousands of civilians from their homes.
- GREECE, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 29 August 2000 -- Signing of Protocol of Cooperation Against Terrorism in Greece
- BACKGROUND REPORT: COLOMBIA / U-S AID, Voice of America, 29 August 2000 -- President Clinton this week visits Colombia, just after he gave the go-ahead for a one-point-three billion dollar package of U-S military aid to Colombia, aimed at knocking out illegal drug production. Close to half the aid will go to the Colombian military, which human rights advocates say is deeply implicated in political killings and massacres.
- BACKGROUND REPORT: COLOMBIA / NEIGHBORS, Voice of America, 29 August 2000 -- Colombia's neighbors say they are becoming worried that a frontal attack on illicit drug production could rebound on them, pushing drug cultivation, violence, left-wing rebels and refugees over the borders into their countries.
- CLINTON-COLOMBIA, Voice of America, 29 August 2000 -- President Clinton flies Wednesday to the Colombian port city of Cartagena for a brief visit designed to show support for the elected government of President Andres Pastrana, which is under siege by drug traffickers and left-wing rebels.
- COLOMBIA, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 29 August 2000 -- Do you have any comment on the concerns voiced yesterday by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, in the Washington Office of Latin America, about the fact that the human rights of conditions have been waived - actually the conditions imposed by Congress, in connection with the military aid being sent to Colombia?
- REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN VIDEO ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF COLOMBIA, THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary, 29 August 2000
- COLOMBIA, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 28 August 2000 -- Peruvian government has captured weapons originally sold by Jordan years ago. US has asked Peruvian government for information on the investigation. US supports Plan Colombia. Congress has provided $1.3 billion for the effort.
- 'OPERATION JOURNEY' DISMANTLES COLOMBIAN ORGANIZATION THAT SHIPPED COCAINE TO 12 NATIONS, USIS Washington File, 26 August 2000 -- The Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Customs Service, and the Joint Interagency Task Force-East (JIATF-East) today announced the conclusion of "Operation Journey," a two-year, multi-national initiative against a Colombian drug transportation organization that used commercial vessels to haul multi-ton loads of cocaine to 12 countries, most of them in Europe and North America.
- OLYMPICS TERRORISM, Voice of America, 26 August 2000 -- New Zealand police have uncovered and foiled a possible terrorist plot to blow up a nuclear reactor in Sydney during next month's Olympic games.
- UN releases Secretary-General's letter on Lockerbie trial , UN News, 25 August 2000 -- The United Nations today released the letter that Secretary-General Kofi Annan had sent to Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi in February of last year explaining the terms of the Lockerbie trial.
- HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY LEGAL COUNSEL FOR UNITED NATIONS, UN Press Briefing, 25 August 2000 -- he Legal Counsel for the United Nations, Hans Corell, fielded questions from correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon on the release today of a letter from Secretary-General Kofi Annan addressed to Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi.
- Libyan Defence Team Requests Release of Secretary-General's 1999 Letter on Lockerbie Incident, UN Press Briefing, 25 August 2000 -- The Defence team for the two Libyan suspects in the trial over the bombing of the civilian airliner that went down over Lockerbie, Scotland, has requested the United Kingdom authorities to release the letter that the Secretary-General sent to Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi in February of last year explaining the terms of the trial.
- U-N LOCKERBIE LETTER, Voice of America, 25 August 2000 -- The letter, from United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, says the two suspects will not be used to "undermine the Libyan regime."
- COLOMBIA REBELS / CLINTON, Voice of America, 25 August 2000 -- Colombia's largest rebel group is denouncing the upcoming visit of President Clinton -- warning the trip is aimed at promoting the Colombian government's war against the guerrillas.
- PHILIPPINES / CYBER LAW, Voice of America, 24 August 2000 -- The so-called "Love Bug" computer
hacker - believed responsible for disabling millions
of the world's computers - walked free in the
Philippines, where government prosecutors said they couldn't
prosecute due to a lack of electronic commerce
legislation.
- CLINTON-COLOMBIA, Voice of America, 24 August 2000 -- The Clinton administration is insisting its plan for stepped-up security assistance to Colombia is
aimed at strengthening President Andres Pastrana's
anti-drug campaign and not to fight leftwing
insurgents there.
- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 24 August 2000 -- A number of organizations, some NGOs in Colombia,
others such as the ALM and the FARC are very much opposed to the
visit of President Clinton and especially the aid package that the
United States is participating in.
- PRESS BRIEFING BY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR SANDY BERGER, 24 August 2000 -- Discussed Clinton's upcoming trip to Colombia and the implementation of Plan Colombia.
- WEN HO LEE GRANTED BAIL, Voice of America, 24 August 2000 -- A U-S federal judge has agreed to free
scientist Wen Ho Lee on bail on Thursday as he awaits
trial on charges of mishandling nuclear secrets.
- LOCKERBIE TRIAL, Voice of America, 23 August 2000 -- The appearance of the key witness in the trial
of two Libyan suspects in the bombing of a Pan Am
airliner in 1988 has been delayed while the
U-S Central Intelligence Agency attempts to satisfy
the defense's request for documents.
- JOINT PRESS AVAILABILITY SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT AND
ALBANIAN PRIME MINISTER ILIR META, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman, 23 August 2000 -- Question on the waiver of human rights conditions that allowed Plan Colombia aid to be delivered to that country.
- CLINTON-COLOMBIA, Voice of America, 23 August 2000 -- President Clinton has cleared the way for the
early delivery of a one-point-three-billion dollar aid
package to help Colombian security forces combat drug
traffickers.
- CLINTON ON WAIVER TO PERMIT AID TO COLOMBIA TO BEGIN FLOWING, USIS Washington File, 23 August 2000 -- "I did it because I believe (Colombia's) President Pastrana is
committed to dealing with the human rights issues, about which we're
still very concerned."
- White House Memorandum on Colombia Assistance Waiver , THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary, 23 August 2000 -- Text of the Presidential memorandum waiving restrictions on aid to Colombia.
- Clinton Memorandum to Albright - Colombia Assistance Waiver, THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary, 23 August 2000 -- Text of President Clinton's August 22 memorandum to
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on his decision to waive restrictions on U.S. aid to Colombia.
- PLAN COLOMBIA CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman, 23 August 2000 -- On August 18, Acting Secretary of State Loy, on the instruction
of Secretary Albright, certified that the President of Colombia
has directed in writing that Colombian Armed Forces personnel who
are credibly alleged to have committed gross violations of human
rights will be brought to justice in Colombia's civilian courts...
- Reno's Comments on Carnivore, NEWS CONFERENCE WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET RENO, 23 August 2000 -- There has been a lot of discussion about this Carnivore project. ..
- Reno's Comments on Biowarfare Preparedness, NEWS CONFERENCE WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET RENO, 23 August 2000 -- Reno's comments on recommendations to spend $30 billion over the next 10 years in preparing medical services for such an eventuality.
- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 22 August 2000 -- Do you have any reaction to the
Peruvian government intercepting or having the proof of arms trafficking in
Colombia for the FARC guerrillas?
- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 22 August 2000 -- The Lockerbie trial. A couple of
weeks back, you said you were worried that the Libyans might try
to intimidate one ill star witness, or the prosecution's star
witness, Mr. Kiyaka. Are you confident that Mr. Kiyaka will
appear this week, and are you aware whether he was subject to any
Libyan pressure?
- LOCKERBIE TRIAL, Voice of America, 22 August 2000 -- The trial of two Libyan suspects for the 1988
bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie,
Scotland, has resumed in the Netherlands after a one-
month break.
- ISRAEL / BIN LADEN, Voice of America, 22 August 2000 -- Israeli and Palestinian security forces have
arrested Islamic extremists, some of whom may be linked
to Saudi terror suspect Osama bin Laden.
- LOCKERBIE TRIAL, Voice of America, 21 August 2000 -- The trial of two Libyan suspects charged with the
1988 bombing of Pan American Airways Flight 103 over
Scotland resumes Tuesday, after a one-month summer recess.
- Remarks as Delivered by Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen to the National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and The Ladies Auxiliary, source, 21 August 2000 -- Since no other country has the military capability of the United
States, some states may seek to challenge this country in indirect
ways "in the form of chemical or biological or even cyber (warfare)."
- US -ECUADOR-COLOMBIA RELATIONS, Voice of America, 19 August 2000 -- The United States has provided 20 million dollars in aid to Ecuador under "Plan Colombia".
- Brazil and Plan Colombia, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 18 August 2000 -- Last week, the Government of Brazil rejected the idea
of participation in the Plan Colombia, to help the United States
combat narco-traffickers there...
- Press Availability with
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright
and Bolivian Foreign Minister Javier Murillo, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman, 18 August 2000 -- Thank you and welcome to Bolivia, Mrs.
Albright. What is your opinion regarding the reaction of some Latin
American countries towards Plan Columbia and the position of the
United States in the Colombian conflict?
- Press Availability with
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright
And
Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Relations Heinz Moeller, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman, 18 August 2000 -- Is the U.S. committed
to increase economic aid and what compensation is foreseen for Ecuador
if displacements and other consequences of Plan Colombia affect it?
- Press Availability with
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright
and Bolivian Foreign Minister Javier Murillo, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman, 18 August 2000 -- Comments and questions about Bolivian anti-coca efforts and Plan Colombia
- FACT SHEET ON COUNTERNARCOTICS EFFORTS IN THE ANDEAN REGION, USIS Washington File, 18 August 2000
- Press Availability with Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright And Chilean Foreign Minister Soledad Alvear, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Office of the Spokesman, 17 August 2000 -- Colombia, Chile, and Plan Colombia.
- WEEKLY MEDIA BRIEFING WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET RENO, 17 August 2000 -- Discussion of the Carnivore electronic
intercept system.
- Sec. Albright/Argentine Foreign Minister News Conference, 16 August 2000 -- Discussion of Plan Colombia
- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, Philip Reeker, Department
of State, 8/14/2000 -- Restrictions placed on Usama bin Laden by the Taliban leadership
- DARPA's EMERALD Proves Worth in Cyberdefense, Jim Garamone,
American Forces Press Service, 8/14/2000 -- The Event Monitoring Enabling Responses to
Anomalous Live Disturbances. system's ability to detect computer hackers and other intruders surpasses current technology.
- EGYPT AIR INVESTIGATION, Voice of America, 11 August 2000 -- Nearly a year after the crash of an Egyptian airliner off the coast of Massachusetts, U-S air safety investigators say they still have not determined what caused the jet to plunge into the Atlantic, killing all 217 people on board.
- EGYPTAIR CRASH / REACT, Voice of America, 11 August 2000 -- U-S aviation officials have released 16- hundred pages of documents from the investigation into the crash last October of Egypt Air flight 990, in which 217 people were killed.
- KENYA / BOMB ANNIVERSARY, Voice of America, 07 August 2000 -- Kenya and Tanzania are marking the second anniversary of the twin U-S embassy bombings in their capitals.
- CLINTON-COLOMBIA, Voice of America, 04 August 2000 -- President Clinton will make a brief visit to Colombia August 30th to underscore U-S support for Colombian President Andres Pastrana's efforts to fight drug trafficking and end a long-running conflict with left-wing insurgents.
- Wen Ho Lee's release asked, Scripps Howard News Service, 04 August 2000 -- The Federation of American Scientists, founded by the first nuclear weapons scientists, has asked a federal judge to release former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Wen Ho Lee from jail.
- Background Press Briefing - Clinton Visit to Colombia, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 04 August 2000 -- Thanks very much, PJ. The President announced today that he will be traveling to Colombia on August 30th, to meet with President Pastrana. In his statement he said that he wants to underscore personally to Pastrana and to the Colombian people the commitment on the part of the United States to help Colombia in its efforts to seek the peace, to fight illicit drugs, to build the economy, and to deepen democracy.
- Fact Sheet - Presidential Decision Directive on the Colombia Initiative: Increased U.S. Assistance for Colombia, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 04 August 2000 -- Colombia is enduring difficult, mutually reinforcing social, economic and security challenges, with serious implications for U.S. national security and humanitarian interests. The President has directed, as a matter of national priority, an increased U.S. Government effort to support the creation or enhancement of Colombian host-nation capabilities essential to the successful implementation of Plan Colombia...
- Fact Sheet - Export Controls On Computers, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 03 August 2000 -- President Clinton today announced an update of U.S. export controls on computers that will promote our national security, enhance the effectiveness of our export control system, and ease unnecessary regulatory burdens on both government and industry.
- 1999, banner year for Pakistan's counter Narcotics efforts: Ms Sison, Associated Press of Pakistan, 02 August 2000 -- Ms Michele J. Sison, Charge d' Affairs, US Embassy Tuesday said the year (1999) was a "banner year" for Pakistan's counter Narcotics efforts in general and for the Anti Narcotics force ANF in particular. "
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