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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 23:09:31 +0100 (MET) From: Olivier Schmidt

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INTELLIGENCE ONLINE - BIGGER, BETTER AND CHEAPER

FREE COPY ON REQUEST

The founding editor of Intelligence Newsletter, Olivier Schmidt (oschmidt@francenet.fr; tel/fax 33 1 40.51.85.19) and his entire team of international correspondents specialized in information on security and intelligence have created the online electronic fortnightly Intelligence (INT).

Intelligence will continue the same high-quality reporting on world intelligence trends, services and operations that have been the team's trademark since 1980 when it first started publishing a periodical journal. Each issue (nearly 100 K./30 pp.) includes a "Frontpage" story, "Technology," "People," and "Agenda" sections, as well as more than ten in-depth articles and over two dozen "Briefs" in the section "Intelligence Around the World." Intelligence (INT) will be both cheaper and bigger than the team's previous paper version, Intelligence Newsletter, and, of course, is immediately available to email subscribers all over the world. It can also be sent as a hardcopy version on paper.

Curret subscription prices are US $315 per year (23 issues including a complete annual index) payable in U.S. dollars or in French Francs to the ADI (16 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris, France). A special combined subscriptoin for both the eamil and hardcopy versions is available for US $400.

Below you will find the Table of Contents and an article or two from a recent issue of INT. A free copy of INT will be sent by email or mail on request. INT also has a joint subscription offer of $450 for both INT and the daily email Intelligence Watch Report in Boston.

We hope to meet you online soon via Intelligence.

Olivier Schmidt oschmidt@francenet.fr tel/fax 33 1 40.51.85.19 web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence ADI, 16 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris, France

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INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 45 New Series, 7 October 1996 Publishing since 1980

Editor Olivier Schmidt (email oschmidt@francenet.fr; web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence; tel/fax 33 1 40 51 85 19; post ADI, 16 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris, France) Copyright ADI 1996, reproduction in any form forbidden without explicit authorization from the ADI. A one year subscription (23 issues with full index) is US $315.

COMING EXCLUSIVES IN INTELLIGENCE

DETAILED INDEXES OF INTELLIGENCE SINCE 1980 REPORT ON AFGHANISTAN'S INTELLIGENCE SERVICES

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TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 45, 7 October 1996

FRONTPAGE

U.S.A./GREAT BRITAIN - "JOINED AT THE HIP" INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION p.1

TECHNOLOG AND TECHNIQUES

SECURITY LAPSES AND OTHER PROBLEMS ON THE INTERNET p.2 TROUBLE WITH GQ360 ULTRA HIGH ALTITUDE PARACHUTE p.3 PEPPER SPRAY AND CS-CN TEAR GAS CONFUSION p.4 PARCEL BOMBS - New U.S. Postal Service Rules. p.5 GANGS - "Reasonable" and "Conservative" Statistics. p.6 BOMB SNIFFERS - Congressional "Consumers' Report". p.7 TELEPHONE SCAMS - New Paying Number Tactics. p.8 RECONVERSION - Ecological "Bombs Away". p.9 SOUND - A Virtual "Quack Box". p.10 PRIVACY - Beyond Lexis P-Trak Trouble. p.11 IMAGERY - Cheap Digital Maps for War Games. p.12 ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE - French and English Manuals. p.13 SELF-DESTRUCT TAPS - Israeli Devices Analyzed. p.14 DEBIT CARDS - Japan Pays North Korea Via Poor Security. p.15

PEOPLE

U.S.A. - FREDERIC WHITEHURST p.16 ROBERT CHAEGON KIM p.17 GREAT BRITAIN/INDIA - PETER BLEACH p.18 BULGARIA - ANDREY LUKANOV p.19 U.S.A. - Kevin D. Mitnick. p.20 Clark Hager. p.21 Henry Billingsley. p.22 John W. DeCamp. p.23 GREAT BRITAIN - Officer "T". p.24 Fitzroy Maclean. p.25 Diarmuid O'Neil. p.26 RUSSIA - Alexander Nikitin. p.27 MEXICO/U.S.A. - Celestino Castillo. p.28 CUBA/U.S.A. - Carlos Fleites. p.29 COLOMBIA/U.S.A. - Farouk Yanine Diaz. p.30 COLOMBIA/GREAT BRITAIN - Philip Halden. p.31 ARGENTINA/U.S.A. - Jose Siderman. p.32 ISRAEL - David Ivry. p.33 Mordechai Vanunu. p.34

AGENDA

COMING EVENTS FROM NOW TO 15 NOVEMBER 1996 p.35

INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD

U.S.A. - GULF WAR SYNDROME GETS A MILITARY EXPLANATION p.36 FBI NCIC 2000 ALIVE AND KICKING p.37

U.S.A./ISRAEL - Election Time Roll Call & Collection. p.38

GREAT BRITAIN - BETTER CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE WITH VICTIMOLOGY p.39 PSA MEETING FINDS FAULTS WITH EVERYBODY p.40 SECRECY LIFTED ON DOUNREAY NUCLEAR ACCIDENT p.41 Civvies Train Military Copter Pilots. p.42

NORTHERN IRELAND - THE FALSE PEACE FALLS APART p.43

FRANCE - SECURE NATIONAL E-CASH SERVICE GOES ONLINE p.44

BELGIUM - AGUSTA BACK ON THE AGENDA p.45 ANOTHER MAJOR SCANDAL INVOLVING HIGH OFFICIALS p.46

GERMANY - HOME-GROWN SATELLITE AND SIGINT CONFLICTS p.47

SWITZERLAND - Archives Find Nazi Agents in Red Cross. p.48

NORWAY - THE "OSLO/ANC" CONNECTION REVEALED p.49

SWEDEN - E.U. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ON TRIAL p.50

CENTRAL EUROPE - "BRASS TACKS" SECURITY ANALYSIS p.51

UGANDA - DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS SHARED WITH THE BRITS p.52

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Intelligence, N. 45, 7 October 1996, p. 37

U.S.A.

FBI NCIC 2000 ALIVE AND KICKING

Internet "FBI-watchers" quickly noticed the recent withdrawal from the Bureau's web page of all mention of the monthly newsletter on the NCIC 200 computerization and modernization program of the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), and jumped to the conclusion that NCIC 2000 "is being scrapped". "Intelligence" asked the FBI which quite simply replied that, since the newsletter was supposed to be A monthly and the last issue was dated May 1996, it was withdrawn from the web page. Not only did this get some action on the Internet, it also got some action at headquarters where a "dedicated staff" of one person has been specifically given the task of putting the NCIC 2000 newsletter out on time every month. As for NCIC 2000, according to the FBI, it is "on track", "moving ahead at full speed" and encountering "no known problems".

COMMENT -- In April 1995, we announced that the FBI began modernizing the NCIC in 1992 and Harris Corp. got to work, in March 1993, on NCIC 2000 (INT, N. 13/8), selecting Printrack International Inc.'s Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) and a Combined DNA Indexing System (CODIS), which has already been installed with AFIS in some 30 locations in 17 states. Supposedly NCIC 2000 will also include the capacity to identify a criminal's cholesterol level from the fingerprints he or she leaves. However, this June, we noted that a GAO report on "entry time problems" at the NCIC computer database of wanted criminals found that the FBI, and other federal agencies, entered fugitives long after arrest warrants were issued and sometimes even after they had been arrested (INT, N. 39/32). These problems seem to have more to do with field office procedures than trouble at headquarters with NCIC.

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Intelligence, N. 45, 7 October 1996, p. 38

U.S.A./ISRAEL - Election Time Roll Call & Collection. According to press reports, supposedly based on analysis of Federal Election Commission (FEC) figures, pro-Israeli political action committee contributions have already reached more than $3.8 million as of 30 June while the committees themselves have apparently reported $5.5 million in contributions. The FEC figures don't include presidential campaign contributions or money given directly to campaigns. But anti-Israeli political action is also heating up with the opening of the "'USS Liberty' Essay Contest" in preparation for the 7-9 June 1997 30th anniversary reunion of "USS Liberty" survivors. The ship was an electronic surveillance vessel in international waters off the coast of Israel during the 1967 Six Day War which Israeli aircraft attacked for two hours, killing 34 U.S. servicemen and wounding 171 others. The ship was so badly damaged that it had to be scrapped. Israel still makes the untenable claim that it thought the "USS Liberty" was an Egyptian horse carrier, "El Quseir", and the U.S. Congress, careful not to offend moneyed pro-Israeli campaign contributors, has never investigated the incident. U.S. law requires investigation of grave violations of international law, but the "USS Liberty" affair still remains today the only major maritime incident in U.S. history not investigated by Congress.

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Intelligence, N. 45, 7 October 1996, p. 47

GERMANY

HOME-GROWN SATELLITE AND SIGINT CONFLICTS

The German defense ministry faces opposition to its signal intelligence (Sigint) and surveillance satellite (Imint) plans from two very different "domestic" quarters. After much prodding from French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is pressuring his defense minister, Volker Ruehe, to support two spy satellite projects with France: the Helios 2 optical surveillance satellite and the Horus radar imaging surveillance satellite. So far, Mr. Ruehe has resisted the Chancellor's pressing invitation. Indeed, the German defense minister has informed his French counterpart, Charles Millon, that he has already allocated the only available funds for Eurofighter 2000. The German defense minister's assessment is that his forces do not need to know about supposedly "strategic" movements in the Chad sand dunes. The French, however, are keeping the pressure up and Chancellor Kohl and President Chirac hope to reach a final decision during their planned meeting in December.

The German air force faces opposition from a very different "domestic" quarter. Its plans to install a Sigint listening post to monitor high frequency (HF) communications in Eastern Europe faces strong opposition from local politicians in Berlin. The installation, in Fernmeldesektor D (communications sector D), which would be constructed in Gatow, would require the logging of 3,000 trees in a 300 m diameter circle, with a protective circle 1,600 m in diameter, and special permits for the use of any electrical appliances within 2,500 meters. The installation would be operated by a Sigint unit currently stationed in Feuchtwangen and would be part of the Third Air force Division. In response to parliamentary questioning by MP Wolfgang Behrendt, assistant defense minister Peter Wichert said the installation was approved in early 1995 as part of plans to centralize HF monitoring within the German defense ministry. According to Mr. Wichert, "all the components of this plan are to be realized".

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Intelligence, N. 45, 7 October 1996, p. 49

NORWAY

THE "OSLO/ANC" CONNECTION REVEALED

The Norwegian Government, using money laundering and other covert financial techniques, transferred millions of dollars of public funds to anti-apartheid activists during the 20-year period leading up to the collapse of the white racist regime. The financial aid, amounting to almost $350 million, went to the families of imprisoned African National Congress members and was also used to finance political agitation in the 1970s and 1980s. The Oslo Government used intermediaries -- generally members of the Church of Norway (CoN) -- to smuggle cash into South Africa. A Norwegian intelligence agent, Bjarne Lindstrom, working under diplomatic cover from the Norwegian consul-general's office in Cape Town, distributed money to the impoverished black residents of the townships. A group of local businessmen also used the CoN's Durban office to purchase "financial rands" (introduced when South Africa needed hard currency and issued at 30 percent above the normal rate of exchange) which the CoN then distributed to ANC activists. The "Oslo/ANC" connection is detailed in a recently published book, "Mandela's Land", written by Tomm Kristianen, the African correspondent for Norwegian radio from 1990 to 1994. His account of the covert support for the ANC is confirmed by Svenn Stray, foreign minister from 1981 to 1986, and by Trond Bakkevig, general secretary of the CoN, who smuggled "hard currency" concealed in a body-belt into South Africa on at least five occasions.

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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 23:10:48 +0100 (MET) From: Olivier Schmidt Subject: Re: Intelligence; INT N. 47 sum

INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122 N. 47 New Series, 4 November 1996 Publishing since 1980

Editor Olivier Schmidt (web http://www.blythe.org/Intelligence) A one year subscription (23 issues with full index) is US $315.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 47, 4 November 1996

FRONTPAGE

BULGARIA - NEVA'S VAST NETWORK OF MONEY AND DEATH p.1

TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES

U.S. POLICE "WISH LIST" FULFILLED BY FBI COVERT TECH p.2 NEW AND POPULAR INTERNET SCAMS AND PROTECTION p.3 "BAD DAY" FOR FBI INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES p.4 DIGITAL TELEPHONY - FBI's Pass or Fail Tech List. p.5 GUARDS - Bright Future for Private Security. p.6 VIRUSES - Another Word Macro from Microsoft. p.7 INTELLIGENCE - The U.S. Army Discovers "Smarts". p.8 AEROSTATS - Upscaling from Tactical to Strategic. p.9 UAV - Brits "Go It Alone" with a "Survivor". p.10 ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE - Strange French Cuisine. p.11 NAVIGATION - Joint GPS/Glonass System Winning Support. p.12

PEOPLE

U.S.A. - JIM R. FREEMAN p.13 U.S.A. - GLORIA STEINEM p.14 PALESTINE - FARID ASALIYAH p.15 HONG KONG/CHINA - LAWRENCE LEUNG p.16 U.S.A. - Lester K. Coleman, III. p.17 U.S.A. - Emmett Paige, Jr. p.18 U.S.A. - Patrick and Robin Eddington. p.19 GREAT BRITAIN - Charles Guthrie. p.20 BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS - Herman Luyten. p.21 RUSSIA/U.S.A. - Armand Hammer. p.22 EGYPT - Ahmad Rached Mohamad. p.23 IRAQ/BRAZIL - Hugo do Oliveira Piva. p.24 SAUDI ARABIA - Osama Bin Laden. p.25

AGENDA

COMING EVENTS FROM NOW TO 15 DECEMBER 1996 p.26

INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD

U.S.A. - SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS AND TORTURE p.27 MAJOR SHAKE-UP COMING AT THE FBI p.28 American Airlines, a Tough Customs Customer. p.29 FBI Makes It Big on Wall Street. p.30 CIA's Papal Intelligence Exchange Went East. p.31 CIA-Cocaine-Contra Connection Refuses to Die. p.32

GREAT BRITAIN - PRE-ELECTION LAW & ORDER BILL p.33 MAKING PROFITS GOING TO WAR IN RENTED TANKS p.34 LAST U.S. NUCLEAR MISSILES GO HOME p.35

NORTHERN IRELAND - SIR HUGH'S LAST WORDS & MASONRY FEARS p.36

IRELAND - DOUBLE STANDARD DOMINATES PEACE PROSPECTS p.37

FRANCE - U.S. USE OF THE "FRANCO-FRENCH" HERNU AFFAIR p.38 High-Tech Defence Business with the U.S. p.39 "Spill Over" From Sri Lanka. p.40

BELGIUM - TUNIS PUSHES COOLS FUNDAMENTALIST CONNECTION p.41

NETHERLANDS - HUSHED-UP DRUG SEIZURE SUCCESS p.42 A Public Hearing for CIA "Drug Culture". p.43

GERMANY - NEW ATTACK ON FRENCH HELIOS-2 PROJECT p.44 Scientology "Excommunicated" by BfV. p.45

ITALY - PROMISED REFORM STARTS WITH SPY CHIEFS p.46

HUNGARY - TALES OF THE COLD WAR p.47

EASTERN EUROPE - Security & Balkan-Soviet Break-Up. p.48

UKRAINE - Sabre and Hughes Get a Foot Hold. p.49

ETHIOPIA/ERITREA - Sale of Entire Navy "Sunk". p.50

ISRAEL - "Hail and Farewells" in Intelligence Cooperation. p.51

SOUTH KOREA - Embarrassing "Party Crashers". p.52

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Intelligence, N. 47, 4 November 1996, p. 28

U.S.A.

MAJOR SHAKE-UP COMING AT THE FBI

According to several specialists, a major shake-up of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is shaping up at the Justice Department and will very likely be carried through if Pres. Bill Clinton is reelected. Perhaps in anticipation of such a development, and just before the recent series of FBI scandals hit the press, director Louis J. Freeh, supposedly acknowledged to friends that he was considering a New York law firm job or candidacy for a federal judgeship. Mr. Freeh must be credited with pulling the FBI out of the Cold War while expanding its counter-espionage competence, and bringing it into the 21st century equipped to handle modern industrial espionage and high-tech delinquency. That has been a major task.

However, the FBI's treatment and mishandling of Atlanta Olympics bomb suspect, Richard Jewell, has caused very serious concern about the Bureau's entrenched "ham-handed" tactics (see p. 4 in this issue). The confirmation that these tactics are not the result of a "rogue" operation is that the FBI didn't find anything wrong with them until Attorney General Janet Reno herself told the FBI they were wrong and ordered an internal investigation. This tense situation has been pushed to the point of explosion with the 30 October guilty plead of E. Michael Kahoe, head of the FBI Violent Crime Section during the bloody 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Mr. Kahoe was charged with obstruction of justice for destroying an internal critique of FBI Ruby Ridge action. Former FBI deputy director, Larry Potts, and three other senior FBI officials remain under investigation, and Mr. Kahoe is cooperating with the investigation. The three Bureau officials, still suspended with full pay, are: Danny O. Coulson, Mr. Potts' deputy during Ruby Ridge; Gale Richard Evans, a Violent Crime Section chief at headquarters under Mr. Kahoe; and George Michael Baird, an inspector's aide on a team that conducted an internal investigation of the incident in 1993-1994.

One should add to this list the non-solution of the explosion of TWA Flight 800 this summer. But this particular case seems to be outside the FBI's purvey and involves "high politics" and Clinton administration strategic considerations (see "French Intelligence Explanation for TWA 800"; INT, N. 44/1). As we mentioned in that article, the destruction of Flight 800 will not be solved before the presidential elections.

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Intelligence, N. 47, 4 November 1996, p. 38

FRANCE

U.S. USE OF THE "FRANCO-FRENCH" HERNU AFFAIR

On 30 October, the headlines on the front page of "Le Monde" read "Europe Stands Up to the U.S.", and the next day, "French Counterespionage is Convinced Charles Hernu was an Eastern Agent". This front page article was followed by an interview with weekly "L'Express" journalists, Jerome Dupuis and Jean- Marie Pontaut, instigators of the "Hernu affair", in which they defend their "scoop" by saying that a media "manipulation" would serve no purpose since former French Socialist Defense Minister Charles Hernu died in 1990. They obviously forgot to read the "Le Monde" the day before. There is a war going on between the U.S. and France in Africa, where U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher recently led a presidential election "road show" in what France -- and particularly French intelligence services -- considers its "backyard"; and in the Middle East, where French President Jacques Chirac "gate crashed" at the strictly private U.S.-Israeli party of "keeping the Arabs down". In this dirty and secret war, the intelligence services are on the front line, and anything and everything that can weaken or discredit them is considered "good ammo". Despite the lack of substance and of professional seriousness of the supposed documents concerning Mr. Hernu, the "affair" is indeed "good ammo".

The above "U.S. did it" argument put forward by some specialists is countered by others with a "Franco-French" argument. Indeed, one hardly even hears of former national counterespionage directors publicly taking up diametrically opposed positions on a major affair, which, strictly speaking, is not within their competence. But, then on what basis can journalists Dupuis and Pontaut declare that former head of DST counterespionage, Yves Bonnet, who defended Mr. Hernu's reputation, "doesn't know what he's taking about"? Perhaps the journalists know more about covert manipulations than Mr. Bonnet. At any rate, one of Mr. Bonnet's successors, Jacques Fournet, publicly stated that he warned Pres. Francois Mitterrand in 1992 that Mr. Hernu had been in contact with Eastern services in the 1950s and 1960s. However, Mr. Fournet later refused to confirm whether the incriminating documents were false or real. Quite obviously, there's an internecine "Franco-French" fight going on in the intelligence community, with Messrs. Bonnet and Fournet on opposite sides.

COMMENT -- These two "obvious" explanations of the "Hernu affair" both touch fundamental aspects of an operation which, in reality, subsumes both. According to certain "Intelligence" French contacts, the U.S. caught this "Franco-French" fight "on the rebound" and went on to score with it. For over a year now, the French government has been looking for a new director to replaced Jacques Dewatre at the head of DGSE foreign intelligence (INT, N. 23/48 & 38/41). This strained situation has seen several "leading candidates" come and go, and has even led to international "dirty tricks" to try to force a solution (INT, N. 40/1). According to "Intelligence" sources, the "Hernu affair" just eliminated the current "leading candidate" to head the DGSE: one of Mr. Hernu's former chiefs of staff, "a general who recently became a prefect". With this "elimination", some specialists expect another "highly- qualified" general to become a prefect within a few months, before taking his turn "walking the plank". If he makes it, Washington, just by accident, wouldn't be unhappy to welcome him among world intelligence leaders.

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Intelligence, N. 47, 4 November 1996, p. 46

ITALY

PROMISED REFORM STARTS WITH SPY CHIEFS

When Franco Frattini became the new president of the Comitato di Controllo sui Servizi Segreti parliamentary intelligence oversight committee last month, he clearly stated that he was fed up with intelligence services which "give no guarantee of transparency" (INT, N. 46/18). His plans to reform intelligence services and open them up for employment of "engineers, doctors, and statistical experts" goes along well with Prime Minister Romano Prodi's plans to shake up the military Servizio Informazione e Sicurezza Militare (SISMI), the civilian Servizio Informazione e Sicurezza Democratica (SISDE), and the civilian coordinating body, the Comitato Esecutivo per i Servizi di Informazione e Sicurezza (CESIS).

On 16 October, the government got down to work and Adm. Gianfranco Battelli, 59, was appointed to direct the SISMI and its 2,223 members working in the four divisions of Defense (counterespionage), Research (foreign intelligence), Situation Elaboration (Analysis), and Organized Crime. Turin prefect, Vittorio Stelo, 56, will take over the SISDE and its 1,339 members working in anti-mafia, anti-terrorism, and anti-crime units along with the national police. Florence prefect, Francesco Baradino, 61, will head the CESIS and its 202 members coordinating SISMI, SISDE, Carabinieri, police, armed forces and Guardia di Finanza activities, as well as liaison with foreign intelligence services. Indeed, this makes a "clean sweep" of the "big three" and only spares Romano Prodi, head of the Comitato Interministeriale per le Informazione e la Sicurezza (CIIS), Fernando Masone, head of the Polizia di Stato since 25 August 1994, Gen. Luigi Federici, head of the Arma dei Carabinieri since 26 February 1993, and Gen. Constantino Berlenghi, head of the Guardia di Finanza since 13 September 1991.

COMMENT -- Sweeping changes at the top of Italian intelligence are not without precedent. However, the new chiefs of the "big three" are considered highly qualified and serious about intelligence reform. Mr. Stelo has had a "fast- lane" career, being appointed prefect of Siena in 1988, and deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Giuliano Amato in 1992 before becoming prefect of Turin. He is considered an "establishment man" but is intelligent enough to avoid irritating labor union organizations. Adm. Battelli is an intelligence specialist, having served with naval intelligence, with the Defense general staff in "Plans and Operations", then as Defense deputy secretary general in 1992 and secretary general in 1995. Mr. Baradino, from Naples, worked for 25 years in public prosecution in Bologna, was head of the Digos special investigative police during the terrorist era of the 1970s, and then general secretary of the Justice Ministry. What remains to be seen is whether this rather competent team gets "bogged down" in Italian partisan politics before reforms can be carried out.

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