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Interesting. Will the future Iraqi comms be so good if sold by Motorola?

Article de l'Observer :
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905936,00.html
Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war

Martin Bright, Ed Vulliamy in New York and Peter Beaumont
Sunday March 2, 2003
The Observer

The United States is conducting a secret 'dirty tricks' campaign
against UN Security Council delegations in New York as part of its
battle to win votes in favour of war against Iraq.

Details of the aggressive surveillance operation, which involves
interception of the home and office telephones and the emails of UN
delegates in New York, are revealed in a document leaked to The
Observer.

The disclosures were made in a memorandum written by a top official at
the National Security Agency - the US body which intercepts
communications around the world - and circulated to both senior agents
in his organisation and to a friendly foreign intelligence agency
asking for its input.

The memo describes orders to staff at the agency, whose work is
clouded in secrecy, to step up its surveillance operations
'particularly directed at... UN Security Council Members (minus US and
GBR, of course)' to provide up-to-the-minute intelligence for Bush
officials on the voting intentions of UN members regarding the issue
of Iraq.

The leaked memorandum makes clear that the target of the heightened
surveillance efforts are the delegations from Angola, Cameroon, Chile,
Mexico, Guinea and Pakistan at the UN headquarters in New York - the
so-called 'Middle Six' delegations whose votes are being fought over
by the pro-war party, led by the US and Britain, and the party arguing
for more time for UN inspections, led by France, China and Russia.

The memo is directed at senior NSA officials and advises them that the
agency is 'mounting a surge' aimed at gleaning information not only on
how delegations on the Security Council will vote on any second
resolution on Iraq, but also 'policies', 'negotiating positions',
'alliances' and 'dependencies' - the 'whole gamut of information that
could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to
US goals or to head off surprises'.

Dated 31 January 2003, the memo was circulated four days after the
UN's chief weapons inspector Hans Blix produced his interim report on
Iraqi compliance with UN resolution 1441.

It was sent by Frank Koza, chief of staff in the 'Regional Targets'
section of the NSA, which spies on countries that are viewed as
strategically important for United States interests.

Koza specifies that the information will be used for the US's 'QRC' -
Quick Response Capability - 'against' the key delegations.

Suggesting the levels of surveillance of both the office and home
phones of UN delegation members, Koza also asks regional managers to
make sure that their staff also 'pay attention to existing non-UN
Security Council Member UN-related and domestic comms [office and home
telephones] for anything useful related to Security Council
deliberations'.

Koza also addresses himself to the foreign agency, saying: 'We'd
appreciate your support in getting the word to your analysts who might
have similar more indirect access to valuable information from
accesses in your product lines [ie, intelligence sources].' Koza makes
clear it is an informal request at this juncture, but adds: 'I suspect
that you'll be hearing more along these lines in formal channels.'

Disclosure of the US operation comes in the week that Blix will make
what many expect to be his final report to the Security Council.

It also comes amid increasingly threatening noises from the US towards
undecided countries on the Security Council who have been warned of
the unpleasant economic consequences of standing up to the US.

Sources in Washington familiar with the operation said last week that
there had been a division among Bush administration officials over
whether to pursue such a high-intensity surveillance campaign with
some warning of the serious consequences of discovery.

The existence of the surveillance operation, understood to have been
requested by President Bush's National Security Adviser, Condoleezza
Rice, is deeply embarrassing to the Americans in the middle of their
efforts to win over the undecided delegations.

The language and content of the memo were judged to be authentic by
three former intelligence operatives shown it by The Observer. We were
also able to establish that Frank Koza does work for the NSA and could
confirm his senior post in the Regional Targets section of the
organisation.

The NSA main switchboard put The Observer through to extension 6727 at
the agency which was answered by an assistant, who confirmed it was
Koza's office. However, when The Observer asked to talk to Koza about
the surveillance of diplomatic missions at the United Nations, it was
then told 'You have reached the wrong number'.

On protesting that the assistant had just said this was Koza's
extension, the assistant repeated that it was an erroneous extension,
and hung up.

While many diplomats at the UN assume they are being bugged, the memo
reveals for the first time the scope and scale of US communications
intercepts targeted against the New York-based missions.

The disclosure comes at a time when diplomats from the countries have
been complaining about the outright 'hostility' of US tactics in
recent days to persuade then to fall in line, including threats to
economic and aid packages.

The operation appears to have been spotted by rival organisations in
Europe. 'The Americans are being very purposeful about this,' said a
source at a European intelligence agency when asked about the US
surveillance efforts.

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Le fameux message de Frank Koza, de la NSA
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905954,00.html

To: [Recipients withheld]
From: FRANK KOZA@Chief of Staff (Regional Target) CIV/NSA
on 31/01/2003 0:16
Subject: Reflections of Iraq debate/votes at UN - RT actions and potential for related contributions
Importance: High
TOP SECRET/COMINT/XL

All,

As you've likely heard by now, the Agency is mounting a surge particularly directed at the UN Security Council (UNSC) members (minus US and GBR of course) for insights as to how to membership is reacting to the on-going debate RE: Iraq, plans to vote on any related resolutions, what related policies/ negotiating positions they may be considering, alliances/ dependencies, etc - the whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises. In RT, that means a QRC surge effort to revive/ create efforts against UNSC members Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea, as well as extra focus on Pakistan UN matters.

We've also asked ALL RT topi's to emphasise and make sure they pay attention to existing non-UNSC member UN-related and domestic comms for anything useful related to the UNSC deliberations/ debates/ votes. We have a lot of special UN-related diplomatic coverage (various UN delegations) from countries not sitting on the UNSC right now that could contribute related perspectives/ insights/ whatever. We recognise that we can't afford to ignore this possible source.

We'd appreciate your support in getting the word to your analysts who might have similar, more in-direct access to valuable information from accesses in your product lines. I suspect that you'll be hearing more along these lines in formal channels - especially as this effort will probably peak (at least for this specific focus) in the middle of next week, following the SecState's presentation to the UNSC.

Thanks for your help

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