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March 2001 Intelligence News

Newer News: April 2001

• Pentagon Press Briefing: Excerpts on the Daniel M. King Espionage Case, March 29. "Is there some strange aspect of military law that allows someone to be held for such a long time, almost two years, without being charged with anything?"
• Cloak and Dagger: Espionage a Fact of Life in Washington, CBSNews.com, March 23. "The White House decision to expel nearly 50 Russians it claims are intelligence officers may make diplomatic waves, but the presence of 'spooks' in the nation's capital is par for the course."
• Russian Foreign Ministry Statement on U.S. Expulsion of Russian Diplomats, March 22. "Washington's decision to expel a group of Russian diplomats cannot but cause regret. There are absolutely no grounds for such a step."
• White House Press Briefing: Excerpts on Expulsion of Russian Diplomats, briefing by Ari Fleischer, March 22. "How does the President see Russia now? Is Russia becoming a threat to the U.S. again?"
• State Department on Expulsion of Russian Intelligence Officers, March 22. "This morning, the Department of State notified the Russian Embassy that four of its accredited diplomats have been declared persona non grata."
• President Bush's Remarks to CIA Employees, March 20. "I also wanted to visit early in my administration to tell you all how much I value your work."
• DCI Tenet Welcomes President Bush to the CIA, March 20.
• DCI Tenet Appoints New Executive Director, CIA press release, March 16. "The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), George J. Tenet, announced today the appointment of A.B. 'Buzzy' Krongard to serve as Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency."
• Appointment of David W. Szady as Counterintelligence "Czar", FBI press release, March 15. "I am pleased to announce that senior FBI Special Agent David W. Szady has been selected by the CI Board of Directors, with the concurrence of the Attorney General, the DCI, and the Secretary of Defense, to be the new CI Executive."
• Employment at CIA: Before You Apply, CIA notice, March 13. "To safeguard some of the nation's most sensitive information, CIA officers must be highly reliable and trustworthy."
• Attorney General Requests Review of Hanssen Matter, Department of Justice press release, March 12. "The review will examine the Department's performance in preventing, detecting and investigating Hanssen's espionage activities."
• 1964 Damage Estimate from Soviet Bugging of U.S. Embassy, declassified State Department memorandum, October 2, 1964. "No instance could be found in which Moscow was shown to have made a specific decision detrimental to U.S. interest on the basis of information derived from reading particular messages."
• The Spying Game Sometimes a Circle by Nancy Benac, Associated Press, March 6. "The list of classified information that FBI agent Robert Hanssen is accused of selling to the Russians is long on details about spies spying on spies.
• U.S. Thinks Agent Revealed Tunnel at Soviet Embassy by James Risen and Lowell Bergman, New York Times, March 4. "The United States government constructed a secret tunnel under the Soviet Union's embassy in Washington to eavesdrop, but federal investigators now believe the operation was betrayed by the F.B.I. agent who was arrested last month on charges of spying for Moscow, current and former United States intelligence and law enforcement officials say."
• First Bush National Security Directive Reorganizes the NSC by Dan Dupont, InsideDefense.com, March 2. "In his first national security directive, President Bush has abolished his predecessor's system of National Security Council working groups and replaced them with eleven committees that will oversee key policy areas for the new administration."
• China Views the "US Human Rights Record in 2000", Xinhua News Service (Beijing), February 27. "The US report on human rights around the world completely avoided and had nothing to say about the United States' own human rights situation. The following materials showed that serious human rights abuses exist in the United States...."