>----------------------- >Yours in solidarity >Per Rasmussen >Denmark > >Familien Rasmussen >http://home0.inet.tele.dk/pera/ >Cuba SI! >http://w1.1559.telia.com/~u155900388/ >Viden er Magt! - Magten til folket! >http://w1.1559.telia.com/~u155900373/ > >ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN >News * Analysis * Research * Action >______________________________ > >- AFIB No. 275, November 19, 2000 - > >FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL! >FREE LEONARD PELTIER! >FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS & PRISONERS OF WAR! > >* * * > >Contents: Number 275, Part 2 > >01. SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN: Cheney's Oil Company in Shady Business >Deals with Iraq. >02. WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE [UK]: The Bush Campaign and the Rise of the >Political Underworld. >03. ANTI-FASCIST ACTION [London]: Scotland AFA - The Big Issue; BNP and the >Fuel Protests - Anti-Fascism Discredited; If Fascists Were Pacifists, Would >Their Politics be Acceptable? >04. DUBLIN ABORTION RIGHTS GROUP [Ireland]: Abortion Rights Group Rejects >Referendum Option. >05. ARM THE SPIRIT [Canada]: AFAPP Statement on Arrests in Paris of PCE(r) >Militants. >06. THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE [Washington, D.C.]: 16,000 Secret U.S. >Documents Declassified. CIA Forced to Release Hundreds of Records on Covert >Operations. >07. THE WASHINGTON POST: More Questions Surface about FBI Software. >08. THE TIMES-PICAYUNE [New Orleans]: Duke Bilked Backers, FBI Says. >09. SARASOTA HERALD-TRIBUNE [Florida]: Author Links Bush Family to Nazis. >10. ELECTION COMMENTARY: No Matter Who Wins, the President Will Be a >Bastard. > >* * * > >THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE >Gelman Library, Suite 701 >2130 H Street, N.W. >Washington, D.C. 20037 >Phone: 202 / 994-7000 >Fax: 202 / 994-7005 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Web: http://www.nsarchive.org >- Monday, 13 November 2000 - > >----- >____________________________________________________________________ > >16,000 SECRET U.S. DOCUMENTS DECLASSIFIED >CIA FORCED TO RELEASE HUNDREDS OF RECORDS ON COVERT OPERATIONS >____________________________________________________________________ > >PRESS RELEASE >For more information contact: >Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000 >http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20001113/ > >National Security Archive calls Release a Victory for Openness; Pushes for >further Declassification > >Washington D.C.: The National Security Archive today hailed the release of >more than 16,000 secret U.S. records on the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, >and Washington's role in the violent overthrow of the Allende government >and the advent of the military regime to power. The release, totaling over >50,000 pages of State Department, CIA, White House, Defense and Justice >Department records, represents the fourth and final "tranche" of the >Clinton Administration's special Chile Declassification Project. > >The declassification includes 700 controversial CIA documents that the >Directorate of Operations had refused to release--records of U.S. covert >operations between 1968 and 1975 to destabilize the democratically elected >government of Salvador Allende and, after the violent 1973 coup, to bolster >the military regime of Augusto Pinochet. The final release, originally >scheduled for September 14, was delayed two months while the White House >pressured the CIA to relinquish these documents. Some 800 other CIA >intelligence records were also declassified. > >Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst at the National Security Archive, the public >interest research center that led the campaign to declassify U.S. documents >on Chile, called the release a "victory for openness over the impunity of >secrecy." The documents, he said, "provide evidence for a verdict of >history on U.S. intervention in Chile, as well as for potential courtroom >verdicts against those who committed atrocities during the Pinochet >dictatorship." > >The National Security Archive credited Clinton's national security staff, >particularly William Leary who coordinated the declassification project, as >well as State Department officials with a strong commitment to using >declassified U.S. documents to advance the cause of human rights abroad and >the American public's right-to-know at home. > >The release includes dozens of records on the September 1976 assassination >of former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and his American associate, >Ronni Karpen Moffitt that had been previously withheld by the Justice >Department as possible evidence in an ongoing investigation of General >Pinochet's personal role in the most famous act of international terrorism >ever committed in Washington D.C. Intelligence records that could directly >implicate Pinochet remain classified. The majority of the 16,000 documents >come from State Department files covering the years 1970 to 1990. > >Among the key documents declassified that shed considerable light on the >history of U.S. involvement in Chile, and the repression of the Pinochet >regime are: > >* Detailed minutes of the "40 Committee" meetings--the high-level >interagency group chaired by national security advisor Henry >Kissinger--which oversaw U.S. efforts to undermine the election and >government of Socialist leader Salvador Allende. These meetings reveal >strategies of "drastic action" planned to "shock" Chileans into taking >action to block Allende. > >* Files on National Security Council and cabinet meetings chaired by >Richard Nixon recording the President's commitment to "do everything we can >to bring Allende down" after covert efforts to foment a coup to prevent his >inauguration failed. (Dozens of other White House, CIA and NSC records, >used by Frank Church's special committee reports on Chile in 1975, have >been declassified for the first time.) > >* CIA memoranda and cables on the assassination of Chilean General Rene >Schneider, including a heavily censored review of the agency's >susceptibility to charges of involvement in his murder by coup plotters in >October 1970. > >* A CIA intelligence report, dated September 1972, on Augusto Pinochet's >belief that Allende should be forced from office. > >* Heavily censored National Security Agency intercepts of conversations and >information on the September 11, 1973 coup. > >* U.S. government efforts to avoid pressuring the Pinochet regime on human >rights atrocities. > >* FBI and DIA records showing that U.S. intelligence had obtained the >Chilean address of U.S. citizen Frank Teruggi, who, like Charles Horman, >was detained by Pinochet's military after the coup at his home, taken to >the national stadium, and executed. > >* DINA requests for organizational support and training from the CIA. > >* CIA briefings to the State Department on Operation Condor and planned >assassinations abroad. > >* Documents that for the first time link General Pinochet to a pair of >Chilean intelligence agents later tied to the assassination of Orlando >Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in Washington, D.C. > >* Reports from CIA and other agencies on Manuel Contreras, his meetings >with U.S. officials, and his efforts to obstruct U.S. investigations into >the assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt. > >"With these documents the history of the U.S. role in Chile and the >Pinochet dictatorship can be rewritten," said Kornbluh, who directs the >Archive's Chile Documentation Project. He noted, however, that many CIA >records remained heavily blacked out. "CIA censors continue to dictate what >Chileans and Americans alike can know about this shameful history," he >said. National Security Archive officials pledged to pursue all legal means >to press the CIA to fully disclose still classified documentation. > >***** >____________________________________________________________________ > >MORE QUESTIONS SURFACE ABOUT FBI SOFTWARE >Wiretap Program Can Archive All Internet Communications >____________________________________________________________________ > >THE WASHINGTON POST >Nation and Politics >Saturday, November 18, 2000; Page A03 >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/printedition/nat/carnivore18.htm >By Dan Eggen; David A. Vise >Washington Post Staff Writers > >Tests show that the FBI's controversial Internet wiretap program, dubbed >Carnivore, can retrieve all communications passing through an Internet >provider, not just those connected to a criminal suspect, according to an >FBI memorandum released this week. > >The tests, conducted in April and May, found that the program "could >reliably capture and archive all unfiltered traffic to the internal hard >drive" of an FBI computer, according to the memo. > >FBI officials said yesterday that the tests were conducted only to >determine the breaking point of the software, and they reiterated their >pledge to restrict snooping within legal limits. > >But several prominent privacy advocates said the tests show the FBI has >been misleading the public about Carnivore's capabilities and raise new >concerns about potential abuses by government agents. > >"This has been a constantly moving goal post," said Wayne Madsen, senior >fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which obtained the >memo as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. "They keep saying it >only does one thing, and we keep finding out that it can do much more. . . >. You have to wonder why they're testing for something they say they're not >going to do." > >Carnivore is under fire from members of Congress, who have called for its >suspension, and from privacy groups and Internet providers worried it will >be used to track innocent people's e-mail and Internet use. > >A report on the program is due to be released next week by Attorney General >Janet Reno, who convened a panel of experts to review Carnivore. But the >report is unlikely to calm the storm, because critics complain the panel is >tilted toward law enforcement. > >Marcus Thomas, head of the FBI cybertechnology section, said the tests were >"good engineering practices" to measure how much data Carnivore could >handle. > >"Certainly there are modes in which it could be operated that would be >illegal, but there are checks and balances in place to make sure we don't >do that," Thomas said. "I don't think we've ever meant to mislead people. . >. . There's no indication that we would actually operate it in unfiltered >mode." > >Spokeswoman Jill Stillman said the tests were conducted only on internal >FBI computers and did not involve public Internet providers. > >In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September, FBI >Assistant Director Donald M. Kerr told lawmakers, "Carnivore is not >positioned to filter or access, in Big Brother mode, all subscriber traffic >throughout an ISP provider." > >But James X. Dempsey, senior staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and >Technology, said the tests show the FBI could easily do just that. "These >documents reinforce the argument that there needs to be a system of checks >and balances here, so there is someone other than the FBI controlling >this," he said. > >Copyright 2000 The Washington Post Company > >***** >____________________________________________________________________ > >DUKE BILKED BACKERS, FBI SAYS >Raid explained; no charges filed >____________________________________________________________________ > >THE TIMES-PICAYUNE >Front Page >Saturday, November 18, 2000 >http://www.nola.com/t-p/archives/index.ssf?/t-p/frontpage/343307918-1118nati >onal >01.html >By Michael Perlstein >Staff writer, The Times-Picayune > >Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke allegedly siphoned off more than >$200,000 in contributions to his white supremacist organizations to support >lavish casino gambling binges, according to documents justifying Thursday's >raid on Duke's home. > >One day after FBI, Postal Service and Internal Revenue Service agents >seized nearly two dozen boxes of evidence from Duke's Mandeville home, >details about an ongoing federal mail fraud investigation were revealed in >a search warrant affidavit signed by FBI agent Todd Cox. > >In the affidavit, Cox said he gathered information from several >confidential informants who said Duke used mass mailings to solicit money >for his organizations, made complex bank transactions to hide the sources >of the money, then spent large sums at casinos. Whenever the money supply >ran low, Duke would send contributors another fund-raising letter with a >phony plea about why he needed the money, Cox said. > >"Your affiant has probable cause to believe that David Duke was engaged in >a scheme and artifice to defraud using the United States Mail," Cox wrote. >"Duke received substantial sums from individuals in this manner. In truth, >the majority of the money was not used for Duke's cause, but rather for his >personal benefit including large sums of money used at gambling casinos in >Mississippi, Nevada and Louisiana." > >The investigation is focused on Duke's financial activities from 1994 to >1998, according to the court documents. In one 16-month period during that >time, Duke collected more than $230,000 in small checks from hundreds of >supporters, spending large portions on gambling, according to the >affidavit. > >In coverage of the 1991 gubernatorial runoff between Duke and former Gov. >Edwin Edwards, friends said craps was Duke's game and that he studied it >during the 1980s, even having a friend design a computer program to help >improve his playing. > >A 'high roller' > >The court papers filed Friday did not specify Duke's preferred games, but >the agent said he reviewed the records of several casinos, including pit >bosses' hand-written tallies on Duke's gambling habits. Cox wrote that >"several hundred thousand dollars was used for betting by Duke at several >casinos and that Duke was considered a 'high roller.' " > >The allegations were spelled out to obtain the search warrant, though Duke >has not been charged in the case. Federal authorities declined to comment >other than to say their investigation is continuing. > >Duke is in Moscow promoting a book and has not been notified about the >allegations and search of his home, Duke's personal assistant Roy Armstrong >said. Armstrong was at Duke's two-story brick home in Beau Rivage when a >team of agents from the FBI, IRS and U.S. Postal Inspectors office spent >more than seven hours Thursday collecting documents and carting them away. > >According to court records, the agents seized 22 boxes of evidence, >including tax records, computer disks, bank statements and 30 credit cards. >Agents also seized a gun they said had been reported stolen in Tangipahoa >Parish and 31 chips from casinos. > >Armstrong said the government's allegations are untrue and the portrayal of >Duke as a frequent gambler is a fabrication to discredit him. He said that >in the two years he has been Duke's chauffeur and bodyguard, he has never >seen his boss step inside a casino. > >"I don't think the 31 casino chips found in the house are going to be much _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
