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He dwells in reality, and lets all illusions go. ===== Der Fuhrer Invades Yugoslavia RAF Points Finger at U.S. Intelligence 11-week bombing did almost no damage to Serb forces Serious failings in intelligence, training, weapons and other hardware lay behind NATO's disappointing performance in Kosovo, according to extracts from a British Royal Air Force study seen by the London Sunday Telegraph. Intelligence reports about Serbian troop and equipment locations took up to three days to reach front-line attack squadrons, by which time the Serbs had changed position. Many pilots found themselves "bombing old tank tracks" or civilians as a result, the document says. U.S. intelligence "bureaucracy" is blamed. Secure communications were sometimes inadequate, meaning vital information could not be passed to RAF attack units for fear of the Serbs hearing it. NATO believes the Serbs may even have intercepted some transmissions. Several RAF Harrier pilots had never practiced dropping live laser-guided bombs before the Kosovo crisis, the paper says. They dropped their first bombs only in combat. Some of the weapons developed "unexpected and extremely difficult" characteristics in flight, making it harder than anticipated to drop them accurately. There are also fears that none of the NATO air forces -- apart from the United States -- has all-weather precision weapons of the type deemed necessary to avoid undue civilian casualties. RAF laser-guided bombs, although precise, cannot cope well with bad weather and smoke. The draft paper, compiled by a senior RAF commodore closely involved in the bombing campaign, is a contribution to a British Ministry of Defense study into the lessons of Kosovo. Commanders have been asked to submit final papers by September. The exercise has been given greater urgency by evidence that the 11-week NATO bombing campaign did almost no damage to Serbian forces in Kosovo. Even the widely quoted Serbian figure of just 13 tanks destroyed by NATO may be an overestimate, ministry insiders admitted. The true figure is believed to be closer to seven. Political factors, such as the slow start to the air campaign, the reluctance to permit low-level flying, and some governments' wish to approve all targets at ministerial level, are blamed indirectly in the paper, but the document appears reluctant to criticize politicians directly. One senior RAF officer at the Defense Ministry said: "NATO did all right on the strategic level (targets such as command centers, bridges and telecommunications buildings) but exceptionally badly on the tactical level (such as tanks and groups of soldiers). "We were fighting under very serious political constraints about low flying and collateral damage, but much of the infrastructure and equipment we had to work with didn't do us any favors." Some of the precision weapons that the RAF lacked are already on order. The Sunday Telegraph has learned that the RAF is highly likely to be allowed the American JDAM missile, the most sophisticated precision-guided weapon available, but previously rejected by Britain on grounds of cost. Other problems will be more complicated to resolve. The delays that made intelligence on Serbian forces "days behind" real events are blamed on the Americans, whose spy satellites, drones and aircraft mostly supplied the raw material. "Everything had to be exhaustively processed and analyzed through this bureaucratic American intelligence machine, and it took far too long," said one RAF officer. "By the time target information came down to us the targets were often no longer there." The aerodynamic characteristics of some newer weapons will also need to be studied closely, the paper says. The most sensitive question will be the issue of political interference -- which Ian Duncan-Smith, the Conservatives' defense spokesman, blamed for many of the failures of the bombing campaign in Serbia and Kosovo. "From this report it is clear that the military seem to have been fighting with one hand tied behind their back because of restrictions by politicians and bureaucrats," he said. The Washington Times, July 26, 1999 Spy vs. Spy FBI Suspected Philby was "Third Man" for 12 Years But the pissants couldn't find any evidence FBI spycatchers identified Kim Philby as the most likely "Third Man" in the Cambridge spy ring within days of the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, but still had no hard evidence against him 12 years later when he too fled to Moscow. In more than 3,200 pages of top secret files newly declassified, J Edgar Hoover's frustration with Britain's failure to detect the traitors shines through. In one assessment of the activities of Britain's masterspies, one of Hoover's deputies wrote: "From what we know now of their activities prior to their being assigned to this country, it is clear that a routine investigation would have made them ineligible for government employment according to our standards." Burgess and Maclean disappeared from Southampton on May 25, 1951. Maclean was under surveillance by MI5, but it still took three days for anyone to notice he was missing. After an embarrassing transatlantic phone call, almost certainly communicated to the FBI by Philby himself, hundreds of agents across America were put on the trail. The files show that Philby was under the strongest suspicion immediately. Nonetheless, the FBI was no more successful in pinning evidence on him than MI5 and could not undermine the faith of the British establishment in him. Although recalled to London immediately, Philby survived an MI5 interrogation. He resigned from the Foreign Office but resisted all attempts to identify him as the "Third Man" who tipped off Burgess and Maclean. Then, in 1963, he fled to Moscow after it became clear that a KGB defector was about to unmask him. The files show that the initial 13-month FBI investigation revealed only that Burgess was a louche, foul-mouthed gay with a penchant for seducing hitchhikers and Maclean liked to dress in women's clothes. America's interest was intense because all three men served in high positions in the British embassy in Washington with access to many of America's greatest secrets. Philby was still MI6 liaison man for both the FBI and CIA in Washington when the two old Etonian spies went east. Maclean served in Washington from 1944 to 1948, rising to head of chancery, and knew everything about nuclear weapons developed by America, Britain and Canada. A terse note from Hoover to J P McGranery, the attorney-general, four years after Maclean's disappearance pointed out that "he had a non-escort visitors badge [that] permitted him to go anywhere in the Atomic Energy Headquarters". The FBI questioned dozens of "known pertinent contacts" of the two men in both Washington and New York. Several interviews were done with a young American hitchhiker named Turck, whom Burgess had picked up as he drove from the capital to Charleston, South Carolina. Burgess, who had been drinking, was pulled over by a state trooper in Virginia for doing 90mph, but claimed diplomatic immunity. He was stopped for speeding again 50 miles down the road. Burgess then got Turck to drive, urged him to break the speed limit and the pair were stopped for a third time. This time the immunity defence did not work. It was as a result of complaints from the governor of Virginia over the driving offences that the British ambassador sent Burgess home on May 1, 1951. Soon after arriving, Burgess gave Maclean a warning from Philby that American intercepts of Soviet signals had revealed his treachery. The London Telegraph, July 26, 1999 Interspecies Communication What If You Gave a Million Monkeys a Million Laptops? First, they would demand minimum wage A FEMALE chimpanzee has constructed a sentence using the voice of a male scientist in a new demonstration of the language skills of apes. Panbanisha, a 14-year-old bonobo pigmy chimpanzee, her one-year-old son Nyota, and a 19-year-old male bonobo, Kanzi, are equipped with a laptop computer and a voice synthesiser programmed with the speech of Bill Fields, a 49-year-old research associate at the Language Research Centre at Georgia State University, a 60-acre laboratory near Atlanta. The ability of two chimpanzees to construct "sentences" will provide ammunition for advocates of ape intelligence in an increasingly bitter dispute. Some sceptics argue that animal language experiments are motivated by ideological reasons linked with the animal rights movement. And Dr Noam Chomsky, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist who put forward the theory that language is innate and unique to people, once said that attempting to teach linguistic skills to animals is like trying to teach humans to flap their arms and fly. For three decades Prof Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and her husband, Prof Duane Rumbaugh, have been trying to do the impossible with apes at the research centre. But yesterday, Dr Savage-Rumbaugh said that when a human observer takes the speech made by the bonobos using the voice synthesiser, along with ape sounds and gestures, they put together surprisingly complex messages. "We are seeing some sentences put together for the first time that are very different from the kind of things that they have been able to do before," she said. Her work has been recognised with the award of a three-year grant from the US National Institute of Health to study the ability of apes to communicate vocally, using a special keyboard, and by drawings. Prof Savage-Rumbaugh and her colleagues have modified a keyboard, of the kind used to teach severely retarded children to communicate, for the experiment. The keyboard has 400 keys, each with a symbol. Kanzi and Panbanisha use a vocabulary of about 250 words and can understand between 2,000 and 3,000. Great things are expected of Panbanisha's baby Nyota, who is more advanced than his mother was at the same age. "The new keyboard now has more words on it," said Prof Savage-Rumbaugh. "It has words like 'and' and 'the' and 'it', grammatical function words that we did not initially think they could use in their conversation. We now have those words available and they are starting to use them a little bit. We still have a tremendous amount of work to do to document their abilities scientifically." Prof Savage-Rumbaugh described how in the past week she was teaching Kanzi some of the symbols on the keyboard and linking them with words that he knew, such as "me". After several attempts, "he looked at me in an exasperated way and said: 'I write, give grape.' " Kanzi is known to understand the English for "I" and "write" but "I did not know he knew the written version and how to point to them. It was very surprising that he could make such a long construction. Kanzi is perfectly capable of talking about what he wants to happen tomorrow," she said. "He is capable of answering questions about what happened yesterday. He is capable of talking about where he wants people to hide, or games he wants to play." In the Twenties, experiments by Robert Yerkes established that chimpanzees could not learn speech. The various reasons given for this ranged from their lack of intelligence to a vocal tract different from the human version. In the mid-Sixties an infant chimpanzee named Washoe was taught sign language. But on closer examination, scientists found strong evidence that Washoe and the provocatively named Nim Chimpsky probably learnt to please their teachers by contorting their hands into all kinds of configurations. And the human trainers, searching for examples of communication, thought they saw words, a charge of overinterpretation that is often made by critics. In a widely quoted paper in the journal Science, "Can an Ape Create a Sentence?" even Nim Chimpsky's trainer, Dr Herbert Terrace, a Columbia University psychologist, reluctantly concluded that the answer was no. Critics also point out that many of the utterances of apes are demands for immediate rewards such as food. Labelling a button with a symbol or calling it a word does not necessarily make it language when an ape pushes it: they may not have learnt anything more sophisticated than how to press the right button in order to get the hairless apes on the other side of the console to dole out bananas and other food. Prof Savage-Rumbaugh says that the food fixation of her apes says more about their environment than their abilities. To encourage them to be more human, she provides her charges with many luxuries, such as television. "Of the movies we buy, they really like films about human beings trying to relate to some kind of ape-like creatures," she said. "So they like Tarzan, Iceman, Quest for Fire and the Clint Eastwood movies with the orang-utan." She believes that there is a huge capacity on the part of apes and probably other animals that is being ignored. "By ignoring it, we are separating ourselves from the natural world we've evolved from. The bonobos are a real bridge to that world." 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