-Caveat Lector- Russia Reform Monitor No. 591, February 22, 1999 American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, D.C. White House Wanted to Free Russian Spy Ship after Laser Attack; Lt. Daly Accuses Navy Intelligence of Helping Cover Up Incident February 11 Lt. Jack Daly, the U.S. Navy officer who suffered permanent eye damage when shot by a laser from a Russian spy ship in American territorial waters in 1997, tells a congressional panel about the attack and the subsequent cover-up. The Clinton administration wanted to avoid holding Moscow accountable. The panel is chaired by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA). What follows is a summary of Lt. Daly's full testimony: http://www.afpc.org/issues/daly.htm Lt. Daly was stationed as an intelligence liaison officer with the Canadian Armed Forces on a program managed by the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence to monitor Russian and other spy ships that operated against American strategic ballistic missile submarines and aircraft carrier battle groups in the waters of Washington State and British Columbia. On April 4, 1997, Lt. Daly was ordered on a helicopter surveillance mission to track the Russian cargo vessel Kapitan Man. In American waters, the Kapitan Man was tracking the U.S.S. Ohio, a strategic ballistic missile submarine based at Bremerton, Washington. Lt. Daly and his Canadian pilot, Capt. Patrick Barnes, suffered permanent eye damage when the Kapitan Man fired a laser at -- "lazed" -- the helicopter. A U.S. inspection in 1993 found antisubmarine warfare (ASW) equipment on the Kapitan Man, and a subsequent U.S. inspection found hidden sonobuoys. The FESCO line is known to conduct work against the United States for Russia's GRU military intelligence, according to Lt. Daly. The State Department and the White House National Security Council (NSC) took charge of the case: "Documentation exists that reveals that Mr. Robert Bell of the NSC and then-Ambassador-designate [now current Ambassador] to Russia, James Collins, were involved in the decision making process on how this incident was to be handled." Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and President Clinton were both briefed and consulted, Lt. Daly says. The U.S. notified the Russian Embassy that evening of its intent to board the Kapitan Man, giving the Russian crew 24 hours' notice. "Additional reports indicate that initially the NSC and State Department wanted to allow the Kapitan Man to leave Tacoma, WA without being searched at all, but insistence by the Pentagon delayed the departure and forced a search." "The State Dept. directed . . . [that] the combined U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Naval intelligence team limit the actual time of the search to no more than two hours and further restricted it to 'common areas' of Kapitan Man only," according to Lt. Daly. The Customs Service and INS were not warned of this, "further limiting the search by minimizing the jurisdictional benefits of these two law enforcement organizations." [Editor's note: When the Washington Times broke the story in 1997, the State Department declined to say whether the Kapitan Man was a spy ship.] "As a result of this 'lazing,' both Captain Barnes and I suffered irreparable eye damage resulting in permanent retinal damage. . . . Captain Barnes has been permanently grounded as a result of this incident and has lost all flight qualifications. He will never fly again. The statement that the Pentagon released to the press on June 26th, 1997, that our injuries were healed, was erroneous. . . ." [Editor's note: This misleading statement was released by same Pentagon office that employed Monica Lewinsky and illegally leaked derogatory information from the private personnel file of presidential critic Linda Tripp.] Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) officials "opposed and misrepresented" important "factual findings, medical evidence of the world renowned experts in laser bio-effects from the U.S. Army Medical Research Detachment (USAMRD)" at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas, according to Lt. Daly. "ONI altered and ignored evidence, failed to consult experts within and outside the organization and then published false results of their 'investigation' [the report of which] was publicly released via the Internet and the press." --J. Michael Waller Copyright � 1999, American Foreign Policy Council. 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