On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:19:16 -0700 Macdonald Stainsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I doubt it comes as much surprise to anyone if I mention that one of the
>main inspirations for setting up the Rad-Green list is the "new activism"
>that has come out of Seattle, Washington DC etc. and the attempts to cross
>the class/green activism divide.
>
>Evidently, I was far from the only one inspired by being on that particular
>barricade. So was the enemy.
>*********
>Report on Federal Anti-Activist Intelligence Network
>
> By Frank Morales
>
>On May 4, 2000, the Intelligence Newsletter, based in Paris, France,
>published a report which stated that "sources close to the Washington
>DC Metropolitan Police have given Intelligence Newsletter details
>about intelligence units that gather information on
>anti-globalization militants in the US and elsewhere". (1) In
>addition, the same sources said that during the April 17 Break the
>World Bank DC protests, "reserve units from the US Army Intelligence
>and Security Command helped Washington police keep an eye on
>demonstrations staged at the World Bank/IMF meetings." In addition,
>the French intelligence service report notes that "the Pentagon sent
>around 700 men from the Intelligence and Security Command at Fort
>Belvoir to assist the Washington police on April 17, including
>specialists in human and signals intelligence. One unit was even
>strategically located on the fourth floor balcony in a building at
>1919 Pennsylvania Avenue with a birds-eye view of most demonstrators."
>
>According to the report, information on the protest movements is
>collected and stored by six Regional Information Sharing System
>(RISS) centers funded by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice
>Assistance. Ostensibly these intelligence centers are set up to
>counter organized crime, drugs and terrorism but it takes no great
>stretch to comprehend how civil disobedience, once defined as a
>terrorist threat and/or criminal conspiracy would, or has become a
>target. According to the Intelligence Newsletter report, "the RISS
>also act against any political activist group deemed to be a threat
>and over the last year has found itself focusing on
>anti-globalization groups." In addition, the report notes that in
>order "to justify their interest in anti-globalization groups from a
>legal standpoint, the authorities lump them into a category of
>terrorist organizations. Among those considered as such at present
>are Global Justice (the group that organized the April 17
>demonstration), Earth First, Greenpeace, American Indian Movement,
>Zapatista National Liberation Front and Act-Up." Although this story
>has yet to be verified, given the existence of RISS and the paranoid
>proclivities of the US national security state and its civil
>disturbance planning apparatus, we should assume the report is
>accurate.
>
>According to RISS program documents (2), the agency is set up to
>"share intelligence and coordinate efforts against criminal networks
>that operate in many locations across jurisdictional lines." The
>program "serves more than 5,300 member law enforcement agencies"
>across the country including the FBI, DEA, IRS, Secret Service,
>Customs and the BATF. It is overseen by the Bureau of Justice
>Assistance, State and Local Assistance Division, 810 Seventh Street,
>NW, Washington, DC (202-305-2923). Its immediateoverseer is the
>Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR), PO Box 12729,
>Tallahassee, Florida, (850-385-0600). The IIR also sponsors the State
>and Local Anti-Terrorism Training program (SLATT) which provides, via
>its "extremist research experts", "training and information to state
>and local law enforcement personnel in the areas of domestic
>anti-terrorism and extremist criminal activity." (3) The FBI's
>National Security Division Training Unit is a partner with IIR in
>providing SLATT training nationally.
>
>According to a 1999 Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) report on
>RISS, the six federally funded Regional Information Sharing System
>centers are financed "to support law enforcement efforts to combat
>multi-jurisdictional criminal conspiracies and activities." (4) The
>six centers, the Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized Crime Law
>Enforcement Network, Newtown, PA, the Mid-States Organized Crime
>Information Center, Springfield, MO, the New England State Police
>Information Network, Franklin, MA, the Rocky Mountain Information
>Network, Phoenix, AR, the Regional Organized Crime Information
>Center, Nashville, TN, and the Western States Information Network,
>Sacramento, CA, are set up in such a way that "each center's staff
>possess sufficient flexibility to tailor the individual center's
>priorities and operations to the particular- perhaps unique - needs
>of the region." According to the BJA report, the centers "maintain
>pools of specialized investigative equipment for loan to
>participating member agencies", including "photographic,
>communications (and) surveillance" equipment. In addition, "all six
>RISS Intelligence Centers have confidential funds available to member
>agencies for the purchase of investigative information, contraband,
>stolen property, and other items of an evidentiary nature. The net
>amount of confidential funds provided by the centers to member
>agencies totaled $265,526 for 1998."
>
>According to the Intelligence Newsletter report cited earlier, it's
>the Mid-Atlantic Network, based in Newtown, Pennsylvania, whose
>region includes New York and the District of Columbia, that is
>particularly efficient in activist spy work. According to the report,
>that center "distributes intelligence on the groups to other police
>departments via RISSNET, enabling investigators to find links between
>the movements and look into their finances, telephone calls and
>membership lists." According to Mid-Atlantic Network documents, it
>was "initiated by the US Congress in 1974 to aid law enforcement
>agencies in targeting, identifying, and removing multi-jurisdictional
>criminal elements." The Network offers a "secure database containing
>information concerning known or suspected criminals, businesses,
>organizations and their related identifying information", along with
>"training in the seizure of computers." (5)
>
>As mentioned earlier, the Intelligence Newsletter report claims that
>hundreds of Army intelligence operatives were present during the DC
>anti-World Bank demo. Again, with a premonition of tens of thousands
>of protesters, it is quite likely that the report is accurate. After
>all, one can rest assured that the Department of Defense Civil
>Disturbance Plan, code-named Garden Plot, is especially fixated on
>defending the seat of government (corporate) power in America. (6)
>That DC was flooded with intelligence operatives and assorted
>government spies is, lamentably, quite likely. The US Army
>Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), cited in the French
>report, is a "a major army command", which "conducts dominant
>intelligence, security and information operations for military
>commanders and national decision makers." (7) Based at Fort Belvoir,
>Flagler Road, Virginia, (the Nolan Building) since 1989, INSCOM
>recently redesignated a number of units including "the Continental
>United States Military Intelligence Group that supported the National
>Security Agency and a number of field stations."
>
>According to military documents, during the course of the 90's,
>"INSCOM was drawn into contingency operations other than war all over
>the globe" These "contingency operations" or domestic military
>operations other than war, are law enforcement "support missions" in
>civil disturbance suppression. Quite possibly they are run out of the
>"Emergency Operations Center" at Fort Belvoir. These operations have
>been enhanced with the recent creation of the "National Ground
>Intelligence Center." Further, according to INSCOM, "the mission of
>the Special Security Group that had disseminated Sensitive
>Compartmented Information since World War II was drastically
>realigned. The unit was redesignated and resubordinated to the 902nd
>Military Intelligence Group." Some of this "sensitive" information is
>contained in so-called top secret SAP programs. In this regard,
>INSCOM is in the business of "providing counterintelligence support
>to the Army's growing number of Special Access Programs -- highly
>sensitive projects which required exceptional security measures."
>Actually, the gathering of intelligence during the DC protest
>involves an even higher source, given that "in 1993 the Secretary of
>Defense ordered service human intelligence assets consolidated under
>Defense Intelligence Agency control", at which time "INSCOM turned
>over most of its human intelligence operations"
>Intelligence Newsletter, No.381, "Watching Anti-WTO Crowd", May 4, 2000,
>www.intelligenceonline.com/
>
>Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) Program, www.iir.com/riss/
>
>State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Program, www.iir.com/slatt/
>
>Bureau of Justice assistance, The RISS Program, 1998,
>www.iir.com/Publications/RISSProgram1998.pdf
>
>Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network,
>www.iir.com/riss/magloclen/index.htm
>
>Frank Morales, "US Military Civil Disturbance Planning: The War at Home",
>CovertAction Quarterly #69, Spring/Summer 2000, www.covertaction.org/
>
>US Army Intelligence and Security Command, www.vulcan.belvoir.army.mil/
>
>
>
>
>
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>Macdonald Stainsby.
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