from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Spy vs. Spy Letter from Hironari Noda The latest post to John Young's Cryptome. 23 July 2000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Confidential Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:03:03 JST Dear Mr.Young, I am very grateful to receive helpful tips from you. >From unknown reason, now it takes quite a long time to access your site. It also seems to be impossible for me to download the files. I am just an ordinary computer-user and unable to find solutions. Mr. [Duncan] Campbell gave us an excellent presentation using many colorful slides. He is very friendly and joined the party held at "Izakaya" ( Japanese "sake" bar). I think that the Japanese media will be astonished if the Washington Post or the AP deal with this matter. At present, as I mentioned, only two major newspapers, Nikkei and Yomiuri reported the leaked name lists. Other newspapers may follow the topic. There is a strange tendency in the Japanese media that they will not follow news untill foreign authoritative media report it. In my opinion, this matter might lead to a diplomatic problem. One of the reasons is that legal basis is not so clear about the liasion contact between PSIA and CIA. PSIA is based on "Subversive Activities Prevention Law" and this law does not clearly mention whether PSIA can send its members overseas. In this case, the partner is CIA and there is a natural question from civil people why PSIA have to have contacts with CIA ( In fact, PSIA passes to CIA sensitive data about Japanese national elections. PSIA routinely investigate and predict the result of elections----this is also beyond the legal basis.) The opposition party will have a lot of chance to attack the government. In addition, there is a rule in Japan that every foreign issues must finally be attributed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this point of view, I am very much interested in the process that the MOJ request FBI to urge Cryptome to delete the files. I imagine, the MOFA must be irritated because the MOJ probably have direct contact with FBI. As a result, the situation becomes more complicated and the problem has developed out of range of the problem about PSIA lists. Now it has wider significance ( that is because U.S major media followed the topic ). It sounds a little bit exaggerated but I would say that not only the relation between CIA and PSIA but also the alliance between U.S. and Japan might be endangered. CIA knows that I have spoken about the training course and its relation with PSIA. However, untill now, CIA and PSIA has ignored me probably because what I say or write is not so prevalent in Japan. Now that this becomes a major topic, they may change their strategy and take severe legal action. It is also true of the National Police Agency. ( Please don't be afraid. That is what I am hoping for.) Actually I have already broken the National Public Servant Law which prohibits officials and former officials from leaking the secret obtained from their job. Why am I not arrested yet? That is because once the problem is brought into courts, they themselves have to submit evidence about the secrets and thus worsen the situation also for them. The provisions is virtually not effective. The secrets includes PSIA's unlawful acitivities such as illegal accounts , civil rights invasion, and so on. ( As I wrote, I was arrested last year but from reasons above mentioned, they prosecuted me for threatening a former co-worker not directly for breaking the National Public Servant Law. Their hidden intention is clear. I was arrested by Kanagawa Police after I pubished two books criticizing PSIA. At the same time, PSIA was in delicate situation, trying to pass the renewed "Subversive Activities Prevention Law. ) I am not opposed to publicizing this E-mail account. ( Attached Chinese charcter "”1/4“c—Yˆê˜Y?g is one of my Japanese pseudonyms. Sorry for using a lot of pen names and e-mail accounts. I wrote a book using the name of "”1/4“c" but related persons know "handa" is "noda".) Surely I wll inform you of what is happening around me but if something critical takes place, I think it difficult for me to contact you. About telephone, I am not a fluent English speaker and it is especially difficult for me to exchange messages using telephone. Both of us will be embarrassed, I imagine. The last part of this message is my PGP public key ( mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] will expire from August.) I am not a FBI special agent and so you can freely use any part of this message if you think it worth publicizing it on Cryptome. Best regards, Hironari Noda, Ishi-sou B-tou 203 gou,1-29-3,wakamiya,nakano-ku,tokyo,165-0033, Japan 03-5373-5698 ( On the name lists, I wrote my name as "Takao Noda". It is another way of prounauncing the Chinese characters "Œh?¶". Even a Japanese cannot read this as "hironari". I did this in order to disguise as if someone besides me had leaked the documents.) -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.2 for non-commercial use mQGiBDhSj+YRBADxakfXrFQem5hG/dcLl6VohsRkuZn+E/EL1hj0iwx3+6q4zv49 aTBsdr3PHrPEIYxxlY5N9H3OJtjaQ7kR/6RuRSH/4O3Ifq8Cxu3y40MoOY9a46K9 gUj4xi/236V0HygSgDYa1iLwXXozCOOcLUUa+PO3DCdKNXC+MSK31tdhZQCg/0G1 BuhG8zg6siFLOzqOM/A+2VUEAIjn0TT/zymiDrHS3komZ39cwDGIyD5PEhDBTLUT 4hBUJvtd9wvuijtSf+z6c+92s/dSJQbHXYy+eUdTVgx1naua8Ki5a1cjBtWfYLwr bV5TJFmTOKnTRUDu+oFpDNj/EezUxaNS7XUiMcLiL5NJc+vJDB50yu+2dftnO5tV fLWoA/4+Fw4TH+EFxe8EZY3qMWKr9fzkzYwdiW98cZvXt6FqqvfXDAnuIWtaJI2q lvEn5QQBcAiO80NASg1CtZlc8bkYW5KomoMY0xPufN/8yf/w/lW/B/+pF9gijrwp tRrqAb1Vd1AMZYyFQGq6DCWq377uHXaJ5z8/p7Tnf35Skyy+8bQjSC5OT0RBIDxs am9rZXJAbWFhLnNwYWNldG93bi5uZS5qcD6JAE4EEBECAA4FAjhSj+YECwMCAQIZ AQAKCRCcNsor9d50A4LMAJ4lp7Sos4RNdI+/ArWiSRsFBH69xQCgtv27p7dLgTaU SvtDkv+xbrUCI3S5BA0EOFKP5hAQAPkYoH5aBmF6Q5CV3AVsh4bsYezNRR8O2OCj ecbJ3HoLrOQ/40aUtjBKU9d8AhZIgLUV5SmZqZ8HdNP/46HFliBOmGW42A3uEF2r thccUdhQyiJXQym+lehWKzh4XAvb+ExN1eOqRsz7zhfoKp0UYeOEqU/Rg4Soebbv j6dDRgjGzB13VyQ4SuLE8OiOE2eXTpITYfbb6yUOF/32mPfIfHmwch04dfv2wXPE gxEmK0Ngw+Po1gr9oSgmC66prrNlD6IAUwGgfNaroxIe+g8qzh90hE/K8xfzpEDp 19J3tkItAjbBJstoXp18mAkKjX4t7eRdefXUkk+bGI78KqdLfDL2Qle3CH8IF3Ki utapQvMF6PlTETlPtvFuuUs4INoBp1ajFOmPQFXz0AfGy0OplK33TGSGSfgMg71l 6RfUodNQ+PVZX9x2Uk89PY3bzpnhV5JZzf24rnRPxfx2vIPFRzBhznzJZv8V+bv9 kV7HAarTW56NoKVyOtQa8L9GAFgr5fSI/VhOSdvNILSd5JEHNmszbDgNRR0PfIiz HHxbLY7288kjwEPwpVsYjY67VYy4XTjTNP18F1dDox0YbN4zISy1Kv884bEpQBgR jXyEpwpy1obEAxnIByl6ypUM2Zafq9AKUJsCRtMIPWakXUGfnHy9iUsiGSa6q6Je w1XrPdYXAAICD/0XD6ZOiYCkRFqI+9qJrvOzpY9KtsTPeaBzGEX1xQ3lFNk3ANSx W340jcIsHWNRWOL5hFkw39tNSCcN8+RfP+3n8trl8uBHk3BgfwVf6qKd5+wALDEI CHGTeZtj2SkEtAAgLDxVrsjyDYzREj5qNwQVFbPAyXhm87jbC2uTA2A0vV0wti4u s3ghzyzVdPOvzUOFdeV1keBV5QpAE2em818RqGcmGh50RB1ByxuKPfQORknaXk2p IGVg4iFVmi6BEqkjz4Vc83WPMzg7Ck7bz3U3QvO0NoNNFro6TdRijqx9k2/s2J9i A7/4g4GkoNqqk2PCPj36Y4JlKYCZqlDB4q2DAH5oqbmV9vrpaXBBlMV+yJghkViA uTUSOTaZ3ntogVEDTonIFEU9/gtUENJ83hz4BBlxchTQmKxav4PbbByt9/ctKAdK pX8gW+hb/Rlkd4745pUVJpy5hv1D4u3M01wRg0SJQMuoxChZ3zy4oyIuov1iPeys 8Vf6ViLeZnkQ1xWIEb9bm6MWfLfgt+Vmzl0rP1wFDtU9GdcMaw4GX61ALPoKJonS bDvVZxEhEJsxIcrhfKjaHXE5p/g1yxDC32QbGuY9HlGm/m9vB8eNwMfV1d9TENZg FzeyO+2ZVKND7kiMszK8D1yBiZT3TgXKm8hdjQwAt/p5BlEXTktOojoB04kARgQY EQIABgUCOFKP5gAKCRCcNsor9d50A5F6AJ9i3saqwPK7OLZkHK+SETbMFe8CHgCd H6x3m8W4yfMWMbjnz+oTBxG9HJE= =x+F9 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- cryptome.org, July 23, 2000 Spy vs. Spy Russia Journalists Publish Spy Documents Russia people now bugged more than under the KGB. A GROUP of Moscow investigative journalists used the internet last week to publish a collection of "operational reports" compiled by security agents on various VIPs. These included transcripts of bugged telephone calls and detailed dossiers on some of Russia's most prominent ministers, businessmen and entertainers. The journalists, calling themselves the Freelance Bureau, said they had acquired 20,000 pages of material from sources in the FSB domestic intelligence agency - heir to the KGB - and the interior ministry. Most of the information, they added, had originated from private security firms working for Russia's most influential businessmen and often run by ex-KGB agents. "We wanted to show that there's no privacy any more - for anyone," said Alexei Chelnokov, one of the Freelance Bureau's founders. "Even in Soviet times, the KGB needed the prosecutor-general's permission to bug phones or tail someone. Now everyone does it, and no one can stop them." Mr Chelnokov said the information first appeared on the black market two years ago. He said it was being hawked for $50,000 (£33,000) by hard-up former employees of security firms, who lost their jobs after the 1998 financial crash when many businesses collapsed. Material published on the Freelance Bureau's website ranges from biographical dossiers on politicians, with their addresses, passport and telephone numbers, to detailed transcripts of phone conversations involving figures such as the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksy II, the tycoons Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Potanin, and the former privatisation chief Alfred Kokh. Alleged conversations between Mr Berezovsky and leading Chechen rebels have surfaced before in the Russian press. Mr Chelnokov said one of his aims was to prompt an investigation into the whole issue of illegal phone-tapping. "This is a crime and the people responsible should be prosecuted," he said. Natalya Veshnyakova, an official at the Russian prosecutor's office, declined to comment. "We don't have internet access here, so we can't read it," she said. One phone-tap target was Natalya Gevorkian, a leading journalist and writer. She was bugged speaking to Lena Erikkson, a friend who was editing the revealing autobiography of Alexander Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin's former bodyguard. During the conversation, Miss Erikkson says she had received threatening phone calls and feared that her flat was stuffed with listening devices. "I never really believed they tapped ordinary people's phones until I saw that file," said Miss Gevorkian, an expert on the KGB, who is now the Paris correspondent of the Russian newspaper Kommersant. She said she believed that most bugging was carried out by security firms employed by Russia's "oligarchs" - the powerful business elite - to spy on each other. These private agents often maintained close ties with former colleagues in the FSB. "The secret police have been privatised," she said. "These people used to be the servants of the Communist Party - now they just serve whoever pays them." Mr Chelnokov said FSB officers had been known to moonlight to supplement their meagre state salaries. "You can get them to tap someone's phone for about $150 [£100] a day, while the going rate for tailing someone is $500 [£333] a day." The authorities have cracked down on one leading private army - that belonging to Media-Most, Russia's biggest independent media empire. FSB men in ski masks raided the organisation in May, and later alleged that the company's bodyguards had been spying on its own journalists. Media-Most's founder, Vladimir Gusinsky, was subsequently jailed on fraud charges. The problem is not confined to private firms, however. Many observers say the state is still the main culprit. "I'm scared to use the phone, at work or at home," said Genrikh Padva, a prominent lawyer. "You can't have a confidential conversation on the phone any more." Mr Padva has noted a sharp rise in the number of cases in which prosecutors have bugged a suspect's phone before the official start of criminal proceedings - a move that is illegal under Russian law. Transcripts of the suspect's conversations are then used as evidence in court. One such transcript, he said, was of talks between a lawyer and his client. Campaigners for the right to privacy have also raised the alarm over moves by the FSB to install monitoring equipment at internet service providers, enabling agents to read all electronic correspondence, as part of the fight against terrorism and organised crime. The London Telegraph, July 22, 2000 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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