http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith/19991207_xcsof_chinas_sun.shtml ABC recently reported that China has been granted approval to purchase an IBM super-computer that could enhance its nuclear tipped missiles. According to ABC, the IBM RS-6000 SP super-computer is intended for China's Meteorological Administration, which is a branch of the government, for weather research. "It's a legitimate end-use," stated a Clinton administration official that, according to the ABC report asked not to be identified. "Weather forecasting in the United States uses very intensive computing." However, defense expert and director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, Gary Milhollin disagrees with the sunny forecast by the Clinton administration. According to Milhollin, computers sent to China are being used for war. "The (Clinton) administration is approving so many super-computers for export without knowing what they are being used for that we have to assume they are going to military units," stated Gary Milhollin, during an exclusive WorldNetDaily interview. "Super-computers multiply dramatically the nuclear weapons design capacity of any country acquiring them. The United States has always used its most powerful computers for weapons research," said Milhollin, who has testified before Congress several times. Milhollin noted the difficulty in verifying that the super-computers sold to China are being used for legitimate purposes and not being diverted into weapons research. "The programs you need for forecasting weather are quite similar to the programs you need for simulating bombs, the same hydrodynamics, clouds, movements of wind. So it's very hard to distinguish between weather forecasting applications and bomb design applications," he said during his recent appearance on ABC. Super-computer verification is a big problem with China. In 1998, U.S. inspectors were denied access to exported super-computers, and many computers exported to China have never been verified. Documents forced from the Clinton administration show that in 1998, U.S. Commerce officials tried and failed to negotiate inspections with their Chinese counter-parts. Instead, Chinese officials snubbed the American negotiators by playing diplomatic games. At one point, Chinese officials attempted to engage in an argument over "signed" versus "unsigned" copies of a 1983 Sino-U.S. trade agreement, and were "unwilling" to discuss any super-computer inspections. Commerce Dept. negotiators were then forced to move to another topic "rather than engage in a fruitless discussion of the US-side's 'understanding' of the 'intent' of the signed exchange of letters". According to 1998 testimony by the General Accounting Office (10/28/1999, GAO/T-NSIAD-00-53), "Of the 286 high performance computer exports where post-shipment verifications had not been completed, almost two-thirds (187) involve exports to China. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, the verifications have not been done because China's policy prior to June 1998 did not permit post-shipment verifications." "Commerce also stated that most uncompleted verifications were in China and that 103 of 200 outside of China were completed," states the General Accounting Office testimony. "Although the 1998 act requires post-shipment verifications on all high performance computers exported since November 18, 1997, whether licensed or not, Commerce believes that it is futile to seek to verify the use of high performance computers exported to China before the end-use visit arrangement or without end-use certificates." "The situation is pretty much the same today," said Milhollin during his recent interview. "Perhaps five or six of those missing super-computers have been checked and verified." However, unlike the super-computers inside China, some very powerful people at the highest levels inside the U.S. government closely inspect Milhollin's work. The January 1999 issue of the "Risk Report", a subscription index of data published by Milhollin's non-profit Wisconsin Project, was withheld from public release by the U.S. Commerce Department. According to a unsigned note from the U.S. Commerce lawyers who tried to withhold the data, "Risk Report is a 'book', used as such + available to reporter. It is, therefore, NOT subject to FOIA + should not be released." In 1999, Milhollin's "Risk" report was forced to be made public by Federal Judge Robert Payne along with over a thousand pages of highly classified materials concerning exports to the Chinese military. Why would the Clinton administration resort to legal acrobatics in order to keep Milhollin's "Risk" Report from the public view? One answer is provided by the data inside the report, the true identity of Chinese Army owned companies and academic organizations. For example, one Chinese weather institute that is likely to use the brand new American built IBM RS 9000 computer is the "Great Wall Metrology and Measurement Institute." According to the hidden issue of the Risk report, the Chinese "Great Wall Metrology and Measurement Institute" is actually a People's Liberation Army unit. The so-called Great Wall "weather" research institute is really the "First Metrology and Measurement Center of the Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND)." The Chinese Army "Great Wall" weather institute is charged with "research, manufacture and management of standards, equipment and methodologies of metrology and measurement for national defense." According to the hidden Risk report, the same Chinese Army unit "COSTIND" the "Great Wall" weather institute also operates the "Lop Nur Nuclear Weapon Test Site." The "Great Wall" weather institute is not the first benevolently named Chinese Army unit that has camouflaged itself as a civilian research academy. In 1996, the National Remote Sensing Center in Beijing, also known as the "Beijing Institute for Remote Sensing" sought an advanced U.S. made computerized radar for "flood relief missions." In 1996, Loral Defense-Systems, part of the Loral Corporation, pressed Ron Brown to sell the computerized radar to China to help in weather forecasting. Loral Defense-Systems President Jerald A. Lindfelt wrote a personal appeal to Commerce Secretary Brown with an attached letter from the Chinese institute. "Attached is a copy of a letter from the National Remote Sensing Center in Beijing that outlines a few of the problems we have encountered," states the letter from Loral Defense President Lindfelt to Ron Brown. "We've worked hard trying to resolve these problems with the Department of State, the Department of Commerce and the Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA), but someone in these organizations always manage to block our participation," wrote Lindfelt. "Could you help us by identifying someone in the Commerce Department high enough in the organization to help us resolve these issues and open this marketplace to our participation," Lindfelt asked Brown. In addition, the attached document from the Chinese Director of the Chinese "Remote Sensing" institute states, "According to your manufacturers because the function of the equipment can be classed as military and civilian the US State Department continues to block any moves to put the products in the control of the Commerce Department." Loral-Defense and the Chinese institute for "Remote Sensing" were both very anxious over the weather radar export. Yet, a declassified 1998 U.S. Defense Department report on the Chinese Army shows the Beijing Institute for "Remote Sensing" does not predict floods. "Citing the speed of light operation of high-energy laser weapons, Li Hui, Director of the Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing Equipment, a developer of optical precision and photoelectronic guidance systems for Surface-to-Air Missiles, has cited laser technology as the only effective means to counter cruise missiles," states the Defense Department report. "Li Hui has encouraged the acceleration of laser weapon development," notes the Defense report. "As a means to accelerate this inclusion, Li has stressed that the anti-cruise missile laser weapon utilizes Chinas most mature high-energy laser technology, the deuterium-fluoride chemical laser." The Chinese Army espionage has a dark cloud, over-shadowing the Clinton administration approval of a so-called weather research super-computer for export. According to Milhollin, the Chinese government plan is to use all its high-speed computers as tools of war. "We should not forget that China's policy is to network all of its scientific research computers," said Milhollin. "If you give super-computers to the Chinese Academy of Sciences you have to assume that nuclear bomb and missile researchers are going to use them." ================================================================ source documents - http://www.softwar.net/risk.html ================================================================ Pcyphered SIGNATURE: AF19A50D41444167B906E00E3672B161A37DE46D2E8EEA6B02CE90064C63463C 41B8C021D628853495C9A1B1BCB0DE6F674D4F5A345A09B0E57E8B932B21145F 3AC0EF74BC680510 ================================================================ SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER www.softwar.net 12/07/99 *** to unsubscribe reply with "unsubscribe" as subject *** ================================================================
