Coming Events 

         Tuesday, 2 August 05 - Las Vegas, NV - AFIO Las Vegas Chapter Meeting
         Tuesday, 2 August 05 - Washington, DC - Spy School Polygraph Interrogation 101
         Saturday, 6 August 05 - Glen Burnie, MD - US Army Special Operations Detachment/US Army Foreign Counterintelligence Activity Reunion
         6 August 05 - Melbourne, FL - AFIO Satellite Chapter hosts Mr Andy Byers, author of "The Imperfect Spy"
         13 August 05 - Lenox, MA - AFIO Members at Tanglewood
         18 August 05 - Arlington, VA - CONFERENCE ON DEFENSE AGAINST INSIDER THREAT
         25 August 05 - Washington, DC - Her Majesty’s Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
         31 August - 2 September 05 - Raleigh, NC - Raleigh International Spy Conference
         10 September 05 - Orange Park, FL - AFIO North Florida Chapter Meeting
         11 September 05 - Madison, OH - AFIO Northern Ohio Chapter hosts picnic
         12-15 September 05 - Orlando, FL - ASIS, 51st Annual Seminar & Exhibits
         13 September 05 - Virginia - Shenandoah Valley Golf Club, VA - NIF Golf Tournament
         15-18 September 05 - Great Lakes, IL - The AFIO Midwest Chapter will hold its 13th consecutive 2-day Fall Symposium
         Thursday, 15 September 05 - Washington, DC - The German Historical Institute is holding a symposium
         Friday, 16 September 2005 - New York, NY - AFIO - New York Metropolitan Chapter hosts evening event on "Corporate Espionage
         27-28 September - Washington, D.C. - Eisenhower National Security Series Conference
         29 September 05 - Colorado Springs, CO - AFIO Rocky Mountain Chapter hosts meeting
         16 September 05 - New York, NY - AFIO New York Metropolitan Chapter holds evening meeting
         7 October 05 - Tysons Corner, VA - NIP Annual Meeting & Symposium
         12-16 October 05 - Arlington, VA - 101-OSS Association and OSS Society Reunion
         14-15 October 2005 - Fredericton, Canada - Terrorism in History - University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
         27 - 30 October 05 - AFIO 30th Anniversary Symposium Celebration at FBI Headquarters and Sheraton Premiere Hotel, McLean, Tyson's Corner, VA
         27-28 October - Lincoln, NH - Naval Cryptologic Veterans Reunion
         8 - 13 November 05 - Hot Springs, VA - SpyRetreat 2005 Conference - Espionage: The Unknown Wars - held by CiCentre
         3 December 05 - Orange Park, FL - AFIO North Florida Chapter Meeting
         13-14 December 05 - Chantilly, VA - AFCEA Hosts their Fall Intelligence Symposium at the National Reconnaissance Office
         27-28 January 06 - Springfield, VA - Conference on "INTELLIGENCE AND ETHICS"
         17-20 February 06 - Arlington, VA - The Intelligence Summit™ 2006

SECTION I - CURRENT INTELLIGENCE

HAYDEN SAYS DNI HAS IMPOSED SAFEGUARDS ON NIE CREDIBILITY - DNI Negroponte has imposed strict safeguards intended to ensure that NIEs are based on credible information instead of the kinds of unsubstantiated claims that were the basis for prewar intelligence on Iraq, DDNI Michael Hayden told a House intelligence subcommittee, the New York Times reported on 29 July.
         www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/politics/29intel.html?th&emc=th
                  Hayden indicated the change was in response to intel failures on Iraq, most notably the October 2002 NIE that erroneously asserted the Iraqis had chemical and biological weapons and were rebuilding their nuclear program.
                  Hayden said the change was intended to give new, critical scrutiny to both human and technical intelligence. Among the focuses, he said, will be "who said what, why, and why do we think this is true?"
                  Hayden acknowledged the precautions were likely to result in estimates that proved much less definitive than in the past. But he said he and Negroponte would embrace a higher tolerance for ambiguity than had been accepted and would encourage analysts to be forthright about what they did not know.
                  The DDNI described the change as a major breakthrough that would significantly widen the circle of senior intelligence officials required to be given detailed knowledge about other agencies' sources. In the past, the 15 IC agency heads who make up the National Intelligence Board have been expected to endorse estimates with only limited knowledge of other agencies' sources.
                  Hayden acknowledged, as an NIB member in 2002, that he voted in favor of the NIE, basing his judgment on detailed knowledge only about sigint gathered by the NSA which he then headed.
                  Henceforth, Hayden said, no NIE will be approved until each agency whose sources are being used articulates to all others its confidence in the source. One intelligence official said this precaution was adopted in early May. Officials said the practice already been applied to a recent highly classified intelligence report on Iran, producing findings that the officials described as infused with considerable uncertainty about the status of Iran's nuclear weapons program.
                  Hayden's testimony was the first given to Congress by the DNI's staff since the office was established 90 days ago, according to the Times. (DKR)

FBI TRANSLATION BACKLOG GROWS - FINDING NEEDLES IN A GROWING HAYSTACK -  COMPUTER SYSTEM UP EARLIEST IN 2009 - The FBI backlog of untranslated terrorism intelligence doubled last year, and the time it takes the Bureau to hire translators has grown longer, officials said on 27 July, the New York Times reported.
         www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/politics/28fbi.html?pagewanted=all
         Glenn A. Fine, DoJ IG, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that none of the backlogged material came in what the Bureau considered its highest-priority investigations. But, he also said, the Bureau has no assurance that some 8,300 hours of untranslated material does not include information that could be critical to terrorism investigations.
         As for the Bureau's long-delayed effort to overhaul its computer system and allow agents to search terrorism files more easily, he said this would not be completed until 2009 at the earliest.
         "It sounds to me very much like business as usual," said Lee Hamilton, former vice-chairman of the 9/11 commission. "And business as usual is unacceptable."
         Earlier this year the FBI scrapped a $170 million project for a virtual case file system to allow for easier searching and organizing of investigative files on terrorism and other matters. That project has been replaced by the Sentinel Project, and Director Mueller told the committee the bureau now expected a 40-month timetable beginning at the end of this year. He said he could not disclose the estimated cost because it could compromise bidding for the job.
         The IG's report found that if the FBI had made progress in hiring more linguists, expanding its ranks to 1,338 in March, from 1,214 in April 2004, but met hiring targets in fewer than half of 52 languages examined. The average time it takes to hire a linguist grew from 13 months to at least 14 months with an average of 16 months.
         The Judiciary Committee also heard from John Russack, program manager for the DNI's information sharing environment office, that he had only one full-time employee and two contractors, some seven months after the directorate was created. Committee Chairman Arlen Specter told Russack the status of the information sharing office must be reviewed in two years and that if more progress was not made, "you may lose your office sooner." (DKR)

SECTION II – CONTEXT AND PRECEDENCE

OPEN SOURCES COLD-SHOULDERED - The IC largely ignored threats from Usama bin Laden, detailed in television documentaries, books and on the Internet in scores of languages, until it was too late, Fox news reported former MI and CIA officers as saying.
          www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163889,00.html
         Proponents said open source information can be an equally or more effective resource but that an over-reliance on secret information has caused an institutional bias against it that could otherwise help identify terrorist threats across the globe before the damage is done.
         "Everything we needed to know to prevent 9/11 was either known to elements of the US government but not shared across agency boundaries, or openly published in foreign language media we chose to ignore," said Robert Steele, a former clandestine officer who now heads Open Source Solutions Network Inc., a global provider of open source networking and analysis training.
         Steele asserts that the US government is spending less than one percent, about $500 million, of the estimated $70 billion total yearly intelligence capabilities budget, on gathering and using information in the public sphere. "The US government has absolutely no idea what is going on in the provinces of countries, within tribes or at the ethnic and neighborhood level where the psychology and sociology of suicidal terrorism is best understood," he said.
         "I think we need to do more," said Hal Kempher, former MI, now a California-based homeland security consultant. "One of the problems we have, particularly with state and local governments, is effectively scanning what's out there. Scanning to look for burgeoning trends ... in order to find anomalies."
         Rep. Rob Simmons, chairman of the House Homeland Security Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment Subcommittee, who led a hearing last month on what the government could do better, said: "I believe that the Department of Homeland Security and the US Government need to do more to create open source products and integrate open source information into the DHS analytical product."
         Intelligence experts say much of the prejudice against open sources stems from the effort employed in acquiring secret information and the specialized services that have built up around it. "Many policymakers and other consumers are also a bit dazzled by the 'secret' stamp, so they tend to demand, for example, (to) respond more positively, to clandestinely-acquired material," said Tom Carroll, a consultant and former CIA clandestine officer based in California. (DKR)

MUELLER SAYS US FAR SAFER SINCE 9/11 - The United States is far safer today against the possibility of a new terrorist attack than it was before 9/11, FBI Director Mueller told a Senate committee on 27 July, the Washington Times reported.
         www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050727-112659-9854r.htm
         Mueller, who took over the Bureau a week before 9/11, said federal, state and local law enforcement authorities have worked diligently to reduce the threat. But, he added, citing bombings last month in the London transport system that killed at least 56 people, there probably is more that could be done although you can never protect 100 percent.
         The Director attributed the upgraded US status against potential attacks to:
         -- The removal of the sanctuary al-Qa'ida enjoyed in Afghanistan which gave it the ability to coordinate attacks.
         -- The successes of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, particularly CIA, in working with their counterparts overseas to take down key members of the Qa'ida leadership. He named Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, and Hambali.
         -- Improved cooperation between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
         Mueller said the Bureau plans to institute a National Security Service to integrate its intelligence and investigative missions to guard against future terrorists attacks. By combining counterterrorism and counterintelligence divisions, he said the FBI will develop a work force through initiatives, many of which are already in place.
         "Those initiatives are designed to recruit, hire, train and retain investigative and intelligence professionals who have the skills necessary to the success of our national intelligence, national security programs," he said. "The single FBI official in charge of this service will be able to ensure that we direct our national security resources in coordination with the DNI and the Attorney General." (DKR)

SECTION III – CYBER INTELLIGENCE

SENIOR CIA OFFICER SEES IT POLICY LOSING GWOT - Gilman Louie, head of the CIA's venture-capital arm, believes misguided IT security policies have paralyzed the government's ability to share vital national-security data, GCN.com reported on 27 July.
         "From an IT perspective, we are losing the war on terror," said Louie, president and CEO of In-Q-Tel. "The bad guys are winning because we have convinced ourselves that our networks are so insecure, and that we are unable to protect information on them, that we don't put information on our systems."
         Louie blamed the problem on policies created by non-IT professionals restricting the use of technology because its security is less than perfect. "Perfection is the enemy of the good," he said. Such policies could be increasing the nation's risk rather than reducing it.
         He told a Black Hat Briefings computer security conference that, "People are going to die. Attack is imminent. London is coming to the United States."
         In-Q-Tel was chartered to help fund the commercial development of technologies that could be used by the intelligence community. The name was inspired by the gadget master known only as "Q" in the James Bond movies.
         Louie said that almost four years after 9/11 little progress has been made on information-sharing between and among government agencies.
         "We fundamentally don't have it,� he said. "We are crippled beyond your wildest imagination. We can't even get a simple thing like e-mail to work across agencies" because no one trusts anyone else. (DKR)

SENATOR QUERIES DOD SPENDING ON  IT - Sen. Carl Levin, ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, wants to know if DoD centralized IT spending would solve its data sharing and system interoperability problems, FCW.com reported on 28 July.
         www.fcw.com/article89725-07-28-05-Web
         Levin asked John Grimes, the nominee to be DoD chief information officer, to submit a report to the committee within 90 days of his confirmation. The report will focus on whether the DoD CIO should have more power over the services� IT budgets.
         Levin said that while IT spending is one of the fastest growing parts of the DoD budget, it is not centralized and there are constant references to technical difficulties with military systems.
         Grimes replied that each service prepares its own IT budget, but DoD has standards in place to ensure interoperability. He agreed to send the committee the report after his confirmation. (DKR)

CIA-BACKED PROGRAM TO USE E-MAIL TO CATCH TERRORISTS - A CIA sponsored program, Spotfire, is introducing a tool for uncovering patterns and relationships in information extracted from e-mail that should assist in war on terrorism, according to InformationWeek.com on 27 July.
         Data can be extracted by homegrown programs and through text-mining tools available from a variety of vendors, including other In-Q-Tel-supported vendors such as Basis Technology, MetaCarta, and Stratify. Spotfire's product, DecisionSite for Email Analysis, goes to work on the data and presents the results in tables or grids with different-sized splotches of color that indicate data patterns.
         DecisionSite's Email Portfolio feature enable an analyst to store and link e-mail addresses and any other attributes to build a detailed picture of communicators and their activities. E-mails also can be mapped geographically using a variety of technologies, including ESRI Inc.'s ArcGIS software. (DKR)

SECTION IV -- BOOKS, SOURCES, AND ISSUES

Books

TOUR OF WASH DC SPY HAUNTS - Pamela Kessler, Undercover Washington: Where Famous Spies Lived, Worked and Loved (Capital Books, paperback, 176 pp. $15.95)
         Kessler, a former Washington Post reporter, knows the regional espionage landscape and takes the reader on a guided tour of drops, safehouses, graveyards, mansions, museums, secure government offices and restaurants used for rendezvous in the Washington area. If you want to find the mailbox used by traitor Aldrich Ames to signal he had something for the KGB, Kessler tells where to go. Ditto the Georgetown mansion where Wild Bill Donovan held secret meetings during World War II. Also the grotty Georgetown restaurant, Au Pied de Cochon, from which Soviet defector Vitaly Yurchenko walked out on his minders and strolled further up Wisconsin Avenue to the Soviet embassy to re-defect.
         Accompanying this greatly updated text which quickly sold out the last time it appeared [warning] are more than 60 photographs of secret operatives and the hangouts where they lived, worked, loved and sometimes died gruesome deaths. If you will be visiting Washington Metro area for the AFIO Symposium, or for other business events, or for pleasure, or know people who will, this is an ideal gift or personal reference manual.
         AFIO Chairman Peter Earnest says about the book, "Fact-filled, rich in illustrations, and penned in her breezy style, Pam Kessler's tour of the spy capital is a fun and engaging way to delve into real spies and their skullduggery." (DKR)

MI VET'S HARSH WARNING ON PROTECTING US - Ralph Peters, Expanding America's Global Supremacy (Sentinel, 304 pp. $24.95)
         Peters was an MI officer who retired from the U.S. Army as a light colonel after having put his boots on some of the globe's more remote and dangerous ground. He has become an outstanding, extraordinary, and extraordinarily valuable, commentator on the military and its relations to American society and that large part of the world that wishes us ill.
         As usual with Peters, scholarship and cultural depth inform this work in which he argues for the need for care in maintaining U.S. military superiority. In doing so he sets out the character of the matrix of our current major enemy, that large part of the Muslim world whose culture has sunk into a malevolent sickness of the soul. It is a depressing and troubling world, familiar to those who have lived in it while ignored by many in academia and the liberal classes who view it through faulty and corrupt lenses.
         Peters warns that DoD court eunuchs, who insist that war be cheap and bloodless, are a threat to the maintenance of a military ferocity vital to the defense of the United States. He argues with intelligence and honesty for the employment of torture, assassination and devastation that, in a bitter irony, require employment because survival is the sine qua non for the continuation of a Western civilization that prefers a gentler moral order. (DKR)

MILITARY INTEL IN THE IRAQ WAR - Gregory Hooker, Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Role of Military Intelligence Assessments, Second Edition (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 114 pp. $19.955)
         Hooker, CENTCOM's senior intelligence analyst for Iraq, was deeply involved in prewar planning of the Iraqi war. He finds that near-constant demands by SecDef Rumsfeld and his aides for new versions of the war plan, using fewer American troops, wasted time and diverted attention from fleshing out a blueprint for the invasion.
         He narrates the military�s initial attempts to refocus on regime change and USG's ineffective preparation for the occupation. Problems CENTCOM had to overcome included rampant media leaks, unrealistic strategic proposals, and time constraints caused by competing assumptions between senior policymakers and military planners.
         Hooker provides invaluable insight into challenges that may confront future U.S. war planning and intelligence efforts. (DKR)

Issues

CIA VET CHARGES AGENCY FIRED HIM OVER IRAQI NUKE REPORTS - An informant, who had examined and purchased parts of Iraqi centrifuges, told the CIA in the spring of 2001 that Iraq had abandoned a major element of its nuclear weapons program, but the agency did not share the information, a former CIA officer, now suing the agency, has charged, the New York Times reported on 1 August.
         www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/politics/01weapons.html?
         In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. in December, the former CIA officer, whose name remains secret, said that the informant told him that Iraq's uranium enrichment program had ended years earlier.
         A more-than 20-year veteran of the agency, he filed his reports with the DO Counter Proliferation Division. They were never disseminated to other agencies or to policy makers, as is typically done, he charged.
         In the lawsuit, he says he was told that the agency already had detailed information about continuing Iraqi nuclear weapons efforts, and that his informant should focus on other countries.
         He was fired in 2004 because, he says, his reports questioned the agency's assumptions on a series of weapons-related matters. He says he was the target of retaliation for refusing to go along with the CIA's conclusions. Michelle Neff, a CIA spokeswoman, said the agency would not comment on the lawsuit.
         While the existence of the lawsuit has previously been reported, details have not been made public because the documents in the suit have been heavily censored and the substance of the claims is classified. Several people with detailed knowledge of the case provided information to the Times about his allegations, but insisted on anonymity because the matter is classified.
         The former officer's lawyer, Roy W. Krieger, likened his client's situation to that of Valerie Plame. The former officer and Plame worked in the same unit. "In both cases, officials brought unwelcome information on WMD in the period prior to the Iraq invasion, and retribution followed," said Krieger. (Krieger also represent another former CIA officer, who is suing the agency charging it is seeking to prevent publication of his book. See CIA SUED FOR BLOCKING BOOK PUBLICATION under Notes, below.)
         In court documents, the former officer says he learned in 2003 that he was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation and was accused of having sex with a woman contact, a charge he denies. He was also investigated for diverting money for payments to informants to his own use, which he also denies. (DKR)

SECTION V -- CAREERS, NOTES, LETTERS, QUERIES AND AUTHORS SEEKING ASSISTANCE, CORRECTIONS, OBITUARIES, COMING EVENTS

Careers
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NEW $55,000 POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATESHIP PROGRAM STIPENDS by U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
         Application deadlines are February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1
         DHS�s Science and Technology Directorate is seeking applications for up to 10 Postdoctoral Associates to conduct mission-focused research at DHS-affiliated venues including DHS Centers of Excellence, DHS laboratories, and homeland security activities at Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories.
         The DHS Postdoctoral Associateship program is designed to provide support to doctoral scientists and engineers of unusual promise or proven achievement who will be given an opportunity to conduct research on challenges which are part of the mission of DHS. Postdoctoral Associateship awards will be made to doctoral level scientists and engineers, within five years of their doctorate, in nationally competitive evaluations held four times each year.
         �This DHS Postdoctoral program will be an essential aspect of our effort to develop the next generation of scientists and engineers who are focusing on the homeland security mission,� said Dr. Charles McQueary, Under Secretary for Science and Technology. �These young men and women are full of energy, ability, and vision, and by tackling the challenges of the post-9/11 world they will help create a safer America.�
         Postdoctoral awards are made for one year, renewable for a maximum of three years. The approximate annual stipend for new awardees for the 2005 program year will be $55,000, depending upon the sponsoring venue. Financial support is provided for allowable relocation expenses and for limited professional travel during the duration of the award. Associates must devote their full-time effort to the approved program plan, and except for limited professional travel, must be in residence at a DHS-affiliated venue during the entire period of the Associateship.
         Approved DHS venues for the inaugural year of the Postdoctoral Associateship program include:
         � Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at the University at Southern California
         � National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD) at the University of Minnesota
         � National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense (NCFAZD) at Texas A&M University
         � Bechtel Nevada - Remote Sensing Laboratory (Bechtel Nevada)
         � Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
         � Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
         � Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
         � National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
         The DHS Postdoctoral Associateship Program is coordinated for Science & Technology by the National Research Council of the National Academies. Initiated in 1954, the Associateship Programs have contributed to the career development of over 11,000 scientists and engineers ranging from recent Ph.D. recipients to distinguished senior scientists.
         For more information or to apply, visit www.DHS.gov/universityprograms. Application deadlines are February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 for reviews in mid-March, mid-June, mid-September and mid-January, respectively.

NEW POSITIONS AT DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY - Vacancy announcements for positions at DHS-headquarters. These positions are also posted on www.usajobs.opm.gov

Paralegal Specialist GS-0950-09/12
         Supervisory Physical Scientist GS-1301-15
         Program Specialist (Transportation Security Grants) GS-0301-12/13
         Program Specialist (Transportaion Security Grants) GS-0301-09/11
         Fire Program Specialist (Grants) GS-0301-12/13
         Budget Analyst GS-0560-12/14
         Statistician GS-1530-13/14
         Staff Assistant GS-0301-11
         Staff Assistant GS-0301-09/12
         Program Analyst GS-0343-09/12
         Supervisory Operations Officer (Assistant Senior Watch Officer) GS-0301-14
         Program Analyst GS-0343-09/12

Notes

CIA SUED FOR BLOCKING BOOK PUBLICATION - Gary Berntsen, 48, who retired last month after 23 years with the CIA, is suing the agency for the right to publish a book detailing the events leading up to Usama bin Ladin's escape from Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains, AP reported,
         http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050731/1038716.asp
         Berntsen charges the agency is squelching publication of the story he resigned from the agency to tell. But he also acknowledges he retired two years early because he ruffled senior management feathers and would not be further promoted.
         In his book, he relates the attacks he coordinated at the peak of the fighting in eastern Afghanistan in late 2001, including how U.S. commanders knew bin Ladin was in the mountains near the Pakistani border.
         Berntsen claimed in a federal court that the CIA is over-classifying his manuscript and has repeatedly missed deadlines written into its own regulations to review his book. His attorney, Roy Krieger, said he delivered papers to the U.S. District Court in Washington after hours on 27 July. The agency declined to comment because the suit had not yet been filed officially.
         President Bush and other senior administration officials repeatedly claimed during the 2004 campaign that commanders did not know whether UbL was at Tora Bora when they attacked and rejected allegations by Sen. John Kerry that an opportunity was missed to capture or kill bin Laden because the fighting was outsourced to Afghan warlords.
         "When I watched the presidential debates, it was clear to me ... the debate and discussions on Tora Bora were -- from both sides -- completely incorrect," said Berntsen, who declines to provide details until the agency finishes declassifying his book. "It did not represent the reality of what happened on the ground."
         A Republican and Bush supporter, Berntsen had not spoken publicly before.
         His book chronicles chapters of his 23 years with the agency. Berntsen spent most of his career as a case officer in the Middle East, serving as the top U.S. intelligence official in three countries. His account covers his role handling the response to the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in East Africa and continues through late 2001 when he was assigned to command a CIA team inserted into Afghanistan, code-named Jawbreaker, the title of his book, tentatively due out in October.
         Berntsen, says AP, is the recipient of two of the CIA's three highest medals, one for preventing Islamic extremists from assassinating the Indian prime minister in 1996. (DKR)

CANADIAN INTEL DENIES HARRASSING MUSLIMS - The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has rejected accusations by the imam of a Toronto mosque of harassing Muslims, UPI reported on 27 July.
         news.monstersandcritics.com/southamerica/printer_1037360.php
         The imam, Aly Hindy, circulated a flyer to local mosques alleging CSIS officers abused and humiliated a Muslim woman while asking about her husband. The flyer claims the officers forced their way into her house.
         A CSIS spokesman says they are taking the allegations seriously but deny the charges. (DKR)

OSS SOCIETY SUMMER NEWSLETTER NOW ONLINE - The Summer 2005 edition of The OSS Society newsletter is now available at www.osssociety.org.
         Highlights of this issue include: -- Society's Annual Meeting Held at Country Club Where OSS Trainees Once Blew Up the Greens; --Judge Webster Named Honorary Chairman of The OSS Society; --Murder of Peter Dewey Recalled by Seymour Topping;  --OSS reunion planned for October 2005; --Greek-American Operational Groups Honored in Athens; --Remembering 109: Chester Cooper Recalls Meeting Gen. Donovan (DKR)

Letters

 'FORMER CIA OFFICERS CALL ON BUSH FOR FIRINGS IN PLAME CASE,' WIN #28-05 dated 25 July 2005 - AFIO member William Ted B. writes:
         Having served as an employee and contract consultant for over 50 years with CIA from 1952 to date, I am appalled at how political the NOC issue has become of questions about the depth of Plame's cover. Having been responsible for this aspect during a period of my tenure with the agency, I find that there is no such thing as a soft cover as a NOC. I think all the clandestine service officers have worked through the onus of serving at Langley. It was always understood that one would neither confirm nor deny.
         I am troubled with the wide publicity and comments by fellow officers in trying to make a differentiation about cover. No one knows what her duties were and whether she serviced NOC field officers or anything else. As we all know the reason for cover is to protect those whom we have serviced or handled. I say let us stop denigrating our service and live by the code of sensitivity and secrecy. Let us get away from playing politics.
         Those who have served with our fine service find this debacle beneath the professionalism of an Intelligence Officer. I can only say we have come a long way in a direction that I am sure is bothersome to the old professionals.

Obituaries

PAUL OSCAR ELMQUIST - A retired CIA Asian specialist, he died, aged 84, on 16 July of respiratory arrest at Sleepy Hollow Manor in Falls Church, VA, the Washington Post reported.
         www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/26/AR2005072602050.html
         Born in Stanton, Iowa, he grew up in Iowa and California. A voracious reader from a young age with particular interests in natural history and theology, he spent his life exploring how the two areas were connected. He received a bachelor's degree in geology from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, in 1942.
         After working for the U.S. Geological Survey, prospecting for uranium in the Southwest, he enlisted in the USMC and trained in the Japanese language as a combat interpreter. He was en route to Japan for his first deployment when World War II ended. He landed in Nagasaki and became part of the recovery efforts following the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
         After his discharge from the Marines, he received a master's degree in 1955 and a doctorate in 1962, both in Asian studies, from Harvard University. He moved to Washington in 1955 to work for the CIA as a Far East intelligence officer, with expertise as a geographer and mapmaker. He retired from the agency in 1972 and then moved with his family to Santurce, Puerto Rico, where he taught history for three years at the College of the Sacred Heart. When he returned to Northern Virginia, he did contract typing, working primarily on medical trial transcriptions.
         With a sophisticated sense of theology and the function of the church in the life of the individual and the community, his daughter said, he was active in the Lutheran church at the local and national levels, with particular interests in social concerns and music ministries.
         Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Ann Elmquist; three children, Martha Sherman, Rachel Elmquist and John Elmquist; and four grandsons.

ALAN R. PAXSON - A retired CIA senior analyst, he died on 7 July, aged 59, of cancer at Capital Hospice in Arlington, VA. Last year he served as a civilian adviser to the Iraqi government.
         www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/30/AR2005073001238_2.html
         Born in Rockville, MD, he moved at age 4 to a farm outside Alma, NB. He graduated from Hastings College in Nebraska, and did graduate work at Vanderbilt University in Nashville before moving to Northern Virginia.
         He joined the CIA in 1969, spending much of his career in DI as an analyst of European issues, becoming chief of the Western Europe division in 1982. He served in France and Germany, where he witnessed the collapse of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. He served in staff positions for several years in the comptroller's and inspector general's offices before retiring in 1996.
         In his first year of retirement, he completed a 1,363-mile solo bicycle trip from Florida to Virginia in 27 days. He then accompanied his wife to assignments in Greece and England, returning in 2001.
         He returned to work at the CIA in 2001 as an independent contractor, reviewing classified operational files for declassification and release.
         He was a member of Mensa and the Financial Planning Association, and enjoyed golf as well as bicycling.
         His marriages to Ann Thomas and Joan Eaton ended in divorce.
         Survivors include his wife of nine years, Jan Jennings Paxson; two step-daughters, Stephanie Jennings and Jessica Jennings; his parents, Wayne and Velma Paxson; two brothers; and a sister.

GOLDEN L. WILLIAMS - A retired USAF lieutenant colonel and a former NSA analyst, he died of pneumonia on 18 July at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, MD. He was 88.
         www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/30/AR2005073001238_4.html
         Known to friends as "Bill" or "Goldie," he was born in Marysvale, UT, and grew up on a small farm. Graduating from high school in nearby Ridgefield in the midst of the Depression, he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and then held a variety of jobs throughout the 1930s. He was working as a "powder monkey," tamping dynamite charges into holes at a copper mine in Utah, when he decided to enlist in the Army Air Forces in 1942.
         He trained as an aircraft engine mechanic, became an instructor and worked in England refurbishing battle-damaged aircraft. He helped prepare and modify many of the aircraft used on D-Day. He also assisted Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, the man who invented high-speed stroboscopic photography. Williams helped with installing the first photo strobe lights on reconnaissance aircraft.
         He graduated from Officer Candidate School and was assigned to the occupation forces in Germany. After the war, he was transferred to MI and posted to bases in Japan and the United States, including Fort Meade in 1959 where he was assigned to the NSA. He retired from the Air Force in 1962 but continued working at NSA as a civilian research analyst until his second retirement in 1972.
         In retirement, he worked for a few years at the University of Maryland Research Farm. His jams and jellies won numerous ribbons for the farm.
         An outdoorsman who particularly enjoyed fishing and deer hunting, he served as an assistant scoutmaster and was a member of the Order of the Arrow.
         He enjoyed watching baseball and basketball and was a faithful Redskins fan. He also played guitar and banjo with local bands that played old-time music.
         His wife, Guiomar Nunes Williams, died in 1997.
         Survivors include a daughter, Gaye Williams, and two sons, Craig Williams and Alan Williams.