TOP SECRET = 24 YEARS Former National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence analyst David Sheldon Boone was sentenced to 24 years in prison for passing Top Secret data to the KGB for $60,000. Boone passed the secret data to the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991. Boone was caught in 1998 by FBI agents posing as KGB agents who asked him to resume passing secrets to the replacement for the KGB, the SVR (Russian External Intelligence agency). According to Federal prosecutor Thomas Connolly, Boone passed new information to the FBI undercover agents that "put the lives of American pilots in danger." NSA DIRECTOR QUITS EARLY NSA Director USAF Lt. General Kenneth Minihan has decided to retire and leave the National Security Agency. Minihan has been in the NSA top spot since Admiral McConnell left in 1996. Minihan's short term and sudden loss is fueling speculation that he fumbled the Chinagate investigation by the intelligence agency. His predecessor, Navy Adm. McConnell, stayed in the spot for nearly eight years before stepping aside. McConnell was NSA Director under both President Bush and President Clinton. USAF Lt. General Michael V. Hayden has been appointed to replace Minihan at the top spot in NSA. TOP SECRET HUBBELL FILES According to documents obtained from the Dept. of Justice, former Assistant Attorney General Webster Hubbell had documents the national security equal to the Top Secret materials passed by Boone. The Hubbell documents are so classified that the NSA, NSC and FBI all withheld materials on the grounds of "national security." EAST COAST GPS JAMMING ENDS U.S. and NATO exercises staged off the east coast ended on Friday. The NATO military training included GPS jamming by the USAF NKC-135 Big Crow aircraft. The NKC-135 jammed GPS signals as far as 350 miles away from the NATO exercise zone off the U.S. coast. FAA and Coast Guard officials warned airmen and sailors of the GPS jamming. GPS FOOD FIGHT The FAA and U.S. investors are furious over the NATO jamming of GPS. The jamming has all but sunk any global agreement to use GPS as part of a world-wide air traffic control system. Wall Street aerospace analyst Wolfgang Demisch told Aviation Week that the GPS jamming was a "deliberate disruption that is for sure going to send a message to the rest of the world." According to Demisch,"The current GPS system is unsuitable as the base for any serious commercial applications, in particular a next generation air traffic control system." NO CHRISTMAS BONUS AT HUGHES Hughes Aerospace executives are screaming over the denial of a satellite export to China. According to Hughes Electronics CEO Charles Noski, "We will have to resell that satellite." "If we can't," said Noski. "We may have to take a charge of up to $100 million against 1999 earnings - a move we don't take lightly." SVR KNEW BOUT CLINTON BEFORE MATT DRUDGE Russian intelligence agency head, Vyachesla Trubnikov told Moscow newspapers that the SVR knew of President Clinton's "sexual problems." According to Trubnikov, the Russians knew "long ago" that Bill Clinton was a sexual "predator." No word from Trubnikov if the SVR tried to take advantage of the Clinton sex problem. During the cold war, the KGB frequently used female agents trained in the art of espionage and sex. FIN ================================================================ 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 Charles R. Smith SOFTWAR http://www.softwar.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pcyphered SIGNATURE: 6B7BBBAFF15ADDA9DEFCC2CE7C98B482921523F26B29FEA4A5CFDDA522B9B578 8CEB91BF78E97278EE185CDA661FFCAF2DA74AB90532CE2FA0D99E5C8E2F59FC 541A1C3E71395684 ================================================================ SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER 02/28/99 *** to unsubscribe reply with "unsubscribe" as subject *** ================================================================
