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------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 10:16:22 -0400 To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: CIA's "cyberwar" against Milosevic; Echelon snooping Reply-to: declan@well.com And some articles on Echelon spying (nothing especially revolutionary, all of this is a natural extension of what we knew from the "Puzzle Palace" published in 1983): http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990523/news/news3.html http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/990522/2630510.html -Declan
>From: "James Lucier" <james.lucier@worldnet.att.net> >To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com> >Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 16:39:34 -0400 > >NEW YORK, May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Senior intelligence officials tell Newsweek >that last week President Clinton issued a "finding," a highly classified >document authorizing the CIA to begin secret efforts to train Kosovar rebels >in sabotage -- age-old tricks like cutting telephone lines and blowing up >buildings -- and to conduct a cyberwar against Slobodan Milosevic. (Photo: >http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990522/HSSA016 ) According to sources >who have read the finding, in addition to training the rebels, the CIA has >been instructed to conduct a cyberwar against Milosevic, using government >hackers to tap into foreign banks, and, in the words of one U.S. official, >"diddle with Milosevic's bank accounts," Washington Correspondent Gregory >Vistica reports in the May 31 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, May >24). The White House declined to comment on the finding, and Newsweek does >not have access to the entire document. But, Vistica reports, some >intelligence officials with knowledge of its contents worry that the finding >was put together too hastily, and that the potential consequences haven't >been fully thought out. "If they pull it off, it will be great," says one >government cyberwar expert. "If they screw it up, they are going to be in a >world of trouble." >
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