We offer an HTML version of a 92-page draft EuroParl report on ECHELON, dated May 4, 2001: http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep.htm (246KB) This is derived from the leaked PDF original: http://fas.org/irp/program/process/europarl_draft.pdf (868KB) Before a session last night of four ex-Directors of Central Intelligence -- Woolsey, Deutch, Turner and Wester -- at the Council on Foreign Relations (web-cast), I asked James Woolsey about the EuroParl report, in which he is quoted. He said he had not seen it but had nothing to add. Instead he urged me to look into his new firm Invicta. On NSA going deaf, Woolsey and Deutch said that while NSA has some problems they will be overcome with sufficient funding, and urged that those resources be promptly provided. Deutch noted that when the telegraph was invented, French intelligence bemoaned its loss of easy access to letters, but promptly adjusted to the new technology -- indeed came to welcome its much easier access than paper letters. He said NSA will have no problem doing the same if properly financed. I had hoped to ask the ex-DCIs about privatization of intelligence and to note that several of them, like Deutch and Woosley, along with the likes of Kissinger and William Cohen, are involved in such lucrative activities. And is that reduction in governmental intelligence indicated by the burgeoning outsourcing of the IC products and the rising prowess of commercial and private spying. No luck getting the moderator's attention, only friendly questions were allowed. Nobody asked Deutch about his security lapses. To be sure, the CFR is not a forum to show hostility to the cozy intel cartel. The session is one of many nowadays where the successes of the IC are bruited and the need for more funds repeated by those reaping its private rewards by selling intel services and products. Zilch new was said.
