Date: December 3, 2005 2:13:40 PM PST
Subject: [ctrl] Intel Stew
December 3, 2005 -- EXCLUSIVE -- Intelligence "cooking" and retaliation also plagues
IMINT (Imagery intelligence) community but with a healthy dose of contract fraud.
WMR has already reported on tainted intelligence being created on the orders of the
Bush administration in the SIGINT (signals intelligence) and HUMINT (human
intelligence) communities. Largely ignored has been the effect of this policy in the
IMINT (imagery intelligence) community. IMINT analysts carefully scan spy satellite
and air reconnaissance photos taken of foreign airfields, weapons labs, shipyards,
government office complexes, and other strategic and tactical sites.
MZM, the company involved in paying bribes to former California GOP Representative
Randy "Duke" Cunningham, was also part of the cooking of intelligence on Iraq years
prior to the US invasion, according to a former weapons expert at the National
Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) in Charlottesville, Virginia. MZM was sold by
owner Mitchell Wade to Veritas Capital and is now known as Athena Innovative
Solutions, Inc.
According to a former IMINT and weapons analyst, who worked since 1988 for various
intelligence agencies looking closely at Iraq, NGIC, which is comprised of US Army
Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) intelligence analysts and personnel
detailed from the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), had an all-too-
cozy relationship with MZM. The firm's single source, non-competitive contract with
NGIC paved the way for the cooking of some of the intelligence used to justify the
invasion of Iraq.
After NGIC's deputy director, Bill Rich, Sr., retired, he was quickly hired by MZM,
which had replaced Battelle as the prime contractor for NGIC. Soon after taking the
job with MZM, Rich's son, who had no prior intelligence experience, was also hired
by MZM, according to the former analyst. In addition, NGIC's retired Sergeant Major
was also hired by the firm, according to the same source. The links between MZM and
Cunningham were so close, members of Wade's family also reportedly steered money to
Duke Cunningham's campaign coffers.
Since the MZM-Cunningham scandal broke, the firm has been cut off from all work at
NGIC. However, according to NGIC sources that has not affected Rich, who continues
to work for a new NGIC contractor, Sparta, Inc., which, like MZM, is conveniently
located in the University of Virginia Research Park, across the street from NGIC.
The weapons analyst said that NGIC purposely altered figures on the number of
Russian helicopters in order to justify the Crusade gun system, which, the the time,
was being built by United Defense, which, in turn, was owned by The Carlyle Group.
After the analyst objected to the inflation by NGIC management of the numbers of
working helicopters in Russia, he found himself subject to a security clearance
investigation by US Investigations Services (USIS), a firm in which the Carlyle
Group has a major financial stake, USIS's Iraq operations were under investigation
by US Army Col. Ted Westhusing last June. During that investigation, Westhusing was
reported to have shot himself in the head while in a trailer near Baghdad.
In a manner reminiscent of how the National Security Agency (NSA) treats
whistleblowers, the NGIC analyst was forced to see the center's sole psychologist,
someone who was on good terms with Deputy Director Bill Rich. The psychologist
determined that the analyst suffered from a psychiatric problem even though his own
HMO contradicted that evaluation. In June 2001, the analyst had his security
clearance revoked and was terminated in 2002.
In August 2001, the analyst arranged to have some of his NGIC paperwork sent to him
at home by NGIC security. However, when a clasped and taped enveloped arrived at his
home, there were clear indications that sometime during the passage of the documents
through four levels of NGIC management, including NGIC security, something was
inserted into the files: a SECRET NOFORN WINTEL document [NOFORN is "no foreign
dissemination" and WINTEL is "Warning - Intelligence Sources and Methods Revealed'].
The analyst dutifully informed the FBI and the Army Criminal Investigation Division
(CID) at Fort Monroe, Virginia about the incident. However, the analyst was never
asked to sign his statement about the incident. This is eerily similar to the
planting of two boxes of classified documents in the home of former NSA analyst
Kenneth Ford, who is currently on trial after being charged with the possession of
classified material.
NGIC -- The Intelligence Cooking Kitchen
The intelligence cooking on Russian military aviation was so bad, according to the
analyst, that NGIC plagiarized a September 1984 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
document and tried to post it in an intelligence report on INTELINK, the
intelligence community-wide internal "Internet" for classified information. The only
problem was that in "cutting and pasting" 1984 Russian helicopter threat information
to justify the Crusader project, the term "Soviet Union" was left in the Fall 1999
intelligence report. The Soviet Union ceased to exist nine years earlier.
The NGIC analyst also was well aware as early as 2000 that the aluminum tubes
discovered in Iraq and were later claimed by the Bush administration to be for
nuclear centrifuges for an Iraqi nuclear weapons program were nothing more than
artillery replacement barrels for the Italian "Medusa 81" artillery rocket that had
been produced in Egypt. The analyst has personally briefed Dick Cheney, while he was
Secretary of Defense, during Desert Shield in 1990 about the anti-aircraft gun
barrels. The analyst was on loan to the Pentagon's National Military Joint
Intelligence Center (NMJIC) from the Intelligence Threat Analysis Center (ITAC) at
the Washington Navy Yard during Desert Storm and maintains that Cheney, who he
described as a "prick," knew what the aluminum tubes in 1990 and knew about them
when he lied about their being part of Iraq's nuclear reconstitution program. Also
present at the same 1990 intelligence briefing for Cheney was Pete Williams, the
then-Pentagon press spokesman and currently an NBC TV news reporter.
NGIC altered the aluminum tube intelligence by ordering two individuals -- an
artillery and cannon expert, respectively, to write a bogus intelligence report. The
analyst who complained about this said that determination should have been made by
NGIC's Tehnical Chemical Nuclear (TCN) branch, and not by the two individuals in
question. However, the TCN experts realized that the tubes in question had nothing
to do with a nuclear weapons program.
Moreover, the aluminum tubes used to justify the attack had actually been captured
by US forces in Iraq during Desert Storm in 1991 and were conveniently used later to
"prove" the existence of a nuclear program over a decade later.
In essence, NGIC tainted raw and refined intelligence received from its three
primary providers -- INSCOM headquarters at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia; the Defense
Intelligence Agency's (DIA) HUMINT collection databases (including translated
intelligence) and NGA.
NGIC analysts and MZM contractors at the center also began altering intelligence
databases containing threat data on various weapons systems, including helicopter
production in Russia, Iraq, China, France, and Poland. When objections were raised
to such tampering, the reply from NGIC/contractor management was "Congress is just a
bunch of liberals and fags . . . we will tell them what they need to know." The
analyst said that MZM, through bribery deals with Cunningham (who served on the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) and GOP Representatives Katherine
Harris (FL) and Virgil Goode (VA), successfully influenced Congress by successfully
tampering with intelligence coming from NGIC. MZM was also involved in providing
unspecified "intelligence services" for the Bush White House and purchasing
furniture for the White House.
Goode, who sits on the House Armed Services subcommittee for Military Construction,
received money from MZM and shortly afterwards, the firm opened an office, complete
with Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs), in Goode's hometown of
Martinsville, Virginia. However, an NGIC source said that all Goode received from
MZM was $40,000, which compared to what they paid Cunningham, showed that Goode
"sold his ass cheap."
December 3, 2005 -- Sources within the US imagery intelligence (IMINT) community
have confirmed that all source intelligence, including overhead satellite imagery,
shows that the Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli Mafia has trafficked in "fissionable
nuclear material." This material found its way into the AQ Khan nuclear
proliferation network, which supplied nuclear weapons production programs in
Pakistan, North Korea, Libya, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, according to the intelligence
sources.
IMINT points to Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli Mafia connection to A Q Khan and other
nuke prolieration networks
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So what's given to those free of delusion
bears great fruit.
Fields are spoiled by weeds; people by longing.
So what's given to those free of longing
bears great fruit.
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