Time: Wed Sep 03 18:01:45 1997 by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA04935; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 17:57:30 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 17:57:29 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Loose Bits Sink Ships ... (fwd) <snip> > >It is said that "loose lips sink ships". There is nothing more >valued to the military than the freshest information from the >enemy. Over the past few weeks, I have shown the Clinton >administration engaged at the highest levels to export US >military technology to China. Then Secretary of Defense William >Perry, working with then Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, >officially set things in motion. DOD would look the other way >while Commerce did the shipping. Secret memos forced from the >administration show that the decisions were made inside the >White House. The involvement of Tony Lake, George Tenet and >Vice President Gore in erecting the White House driven >"Inter-Agency Working Group" for cryptography (IWG) all point >directly at the President as being responsible. > >The route to Beijing from Washington is not a direct road, mind >you, but as in the HUA Mei, case, it still led directly to the >Generals of the Peoples Liberation Army. Two PLA Generals owned >the HUA Mei Hotel. Thus, the PLA was able to purchase encrypted >cellular phones, radios and a secure - real time - fiber optic >communications net from the U.S., using the guise of a >"commercial" application. The fact that the seller was a close >associate of William Perry was simple co-incidence, in >Washington terms. > >Still, a more direct route to the new world can always be found. >When the President of China visited Seattle on November 16, >1993, he met with President Bill Clinton. Out of that meeting >came an agreement for the US to sell super computers to China. >Yet, less that 48 hours before PRC President John Sa Men met >with President Clinton, the Director of the NSA, Adm. McConnell, >just happened to write a letter to Secretary Ron Brown, giving >his approval for super computer exports (eg.. November 15, 1993 >letter). The ink was hardly dry on Adm. McConnell's letter when >Bill was shaking hands with John Sa Men. Of course, the US >super computers are now doing nuclear weapon research at the >Chinese Academy of Science. Just another Washington >co-incidence. > >Then there is the documentation from the Defense Logistics >Agency, another arm of DOD, where U.S. military cryptographic >devices, computers, software and radios were sold as "scrap" to >dealers in surplus military equipment. The massive amount of >material and military systems involved are not measured by the >pound but by the ton! The article noted that entire systems, >complete with software, were recovered by investigators but no >major shake up at DOD seems to be underway. Again, indirect >routes have led to Hong Kong based Chinese operations to >scavenge advanced systems from the U.S. Again, DOD refused to >clean up the problem and ignored the potential threats. > >Then there are the twin security problems posed by John Huang >and Ira Sockowitz. The Commerce Department cannot really say >what John Huang had access to. However, the CIA has made it >clear that he did receive briefings that would pose a serious >threat to the national security. Ira Sockowitz, on the other >hand, walked out of the Commerce Department with boxes of secret >material, placing them in his personal safe at the Small >Business Administration. Unauthorized removal from a SCIF of >secret document is a clear violation of Federal law. > >Most people would face a couple of years in jail for what Ira >Sockowitz did. Yet, Mr. Sockowitz has nothing to fear from the >Attorney General. Janet Reno does not wonder why a Commerce >employee would take thousands of pages of secret material from >the Commerce Department directly after Ron Brown died. In fact, >Ira missed the plane that Ron crashed in, thus he was more or >less alone with all those secrets when he returned to >Washington. Perhaps, another Washington co-incidence? > >Finally, we have Vince Foster with NSA cryptographic materials >in his office at the time of his death. In fact, the NSA and >the White House denied Vince had anything to do with the ultra- >secret National Security Agency. Yet, after legal action by >Washington Weekly, the NSA was forced to release a few pages of >two binders that Mr. Foster had in his office at the time of his >death. All that is known is Vince was invited to Ft. Meade on >May 2, 1993 with Benard Nussbaum and Webb Hubbell. They had >lunch and discussed cryptographic policy. Of course, the Secret >documents from April and February of 1993 prove the Clinton >administration was preparing to mandate the Clipper chip and ban >all other computer security. As draconian as the >nationalization of all computer security seems the basic fact >remains that Clipper also came with it's own Achilles heel. >That flaw was clearly pointed out by NASA which noted, in their >rejection letter on Clipper, that a single penetration of the >master keys (eg... a "John Walker") would compromise all the >Clipper chips. > >It is said that loose lips sink ships... However, in the new >age of Clinton security that phrase can rightly be modified to >read: "Loose bits sink ships..." > >1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 > >Charles R. Smith >SOFTWAR >http://www.us.net/softwar > >Pcyphered SIGNATURE: >7EFA9E27F3C31692C995175D3D01B6750BFC5E4AC6B084FCDC2CE8276B4EB1A6 >57F265895BF7742C39C7C006FC9D324990A439DB0D6A26D768A5BB70EE90C5B4 >FC3D943FDBC0FA30 ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. 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