Intelligence

Al Qaeda E-Mail Still Invisible

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 11, 2002, 2:52 PM (GMT+02:00)

In the days leading up to the first anniversary of al Qaeda's September 11 outrages against America, US authorities detected a sharp spike in the volume of electronic traffic flying around its component groups, raising the specter of a repeat terrorist attack. Yet no intelligence expert has succeeded in ...

Tehran Plots Second Anti-US War Front Deploying Syria, Hizballah, Palestinians

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 4, 2002, 3:47 PM (GMT+02:00)

Iran has drawn up an elaborate war plan of its own to counter the approaching US campaign against Iraq. Syria, Lebanon, the Hizballah and the Palestinians have been enlisted to provoke a massive confrontation with Israel that will serve as a second front and hamstring the US offensive. This is ...

Murder Gun Betrays Greek Terror Group after 27 Years

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 18, 2002, 5:27 PM (GMT+02:00)

The shadowy November 17 terrorist group that for 27 years eluded the Greek police has finally tripped up on a single mistake: It used the same 45-caliber gun for at least half dozen of the 23 political assassinations it committed from 1975. That gun was preserved and is now in ...

US Promises Iraq's Turkomans Autonomy

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 9, 2002, 10:46 AM (GMT+02:00)

US war planners have decided that their most useful strategic asset for the coming offensive against Saddam Hussein is the 2.5 million Turkomans of north and central Iraq - even more than the Kurds. DEBKA-Net-Weekly 's military and intelligence sources explain their reasoning: 1. The Turkomans control a vital strip ...

Pakistan Downs Indian Spy Drone Made in Israel

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 8, 2002, 5:22 PM (GMT+02:00)

According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military sources in New Delhi, a group of Israel electronic warfare experts is helping the Indian army set up and operate six early warning stations along the 750-km Line of Control dividing disputed Kashmir, for picking up movements of military forces, armed men and explosives on ...

Israel's Ofek-5 is One of Few Spy Satellites Capable of Rapid Orbital Detuning

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 28, 2002, 10:51 AM (GMT+02:00)

Shortly after blasting off Tuesday, May 28, from the Palmachim Air force Base on the Mediterranean coast, Israel's next-generation home-made spy satellite Ofek-5 was emitting its first radio signals while climbing to its planned orbit of about 500 km. In three days, the satellite's all-weather, day-and-night cameras are ...

How Much Do US Presidents Know about Terror? The Intelligence Was there, But Blocked

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 19, 2002, 10:55 AM (GMT+02:00)

Three separate episodes over two decades, presented here for the first time by the intelligence and terrorism experts of debkafile and DEBKA-Net-Weekly, demonstrate that the malaise afflicting US intelligence is long-standing. It has not been cauterized by the periodic excision of individual double spies and traitors. These clandestine bodies ...

Four Intelligence Agencies Resolve Church Tug-o'-War

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 7, 2002, 10:59 AM (GMT+02:00)

None of the parties to the Church of Nativity settlement in Bethlehem has reason to be proud of the text cooked up by four intelligence agencies - the American CIA, the British MI6, the Vatican's Opus Dei and the Israeli Shin Beit. It was designed to end Israel's 36-day ...

Arafat Plans to Torpedo US-Led Diplomacy

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 5, 2002, 3:57 PM (GMT+02:00)

Now that Israel has released Yasser Arafat from confinement, American, European and Saudi sources are all talking fast in the hope of moving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict onto the diplomatic track. All that remains, they imply, is for Arafat to democratize his regime and transfer authority to non-violent hands - names of ...

Israel Hands US Names of Jenin Hizballah and al Qaeda Fighters

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report April 27, 2002, 11:01 AM (GMT+02:00)

A terrorist attack in one of Israel's main cities was prevented by the 24-hour Israeli incursion into the West Bank town of Qalqilya, which ended Friday night, April 26. Prior intelligence of this plan prompted the foray. This information was passed to the United States. Another batch of intelligence ...

Palestinian Security Chief Dahlan Supervised Karine-A Loading from Dubai

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 9, 2002, 11:10 AM (GMT+02:00)

debkafile's military sources report that the Israeli intelligence officers due in Washington Wednesday, January 9, carry incriminating proofs of Yasser Arafat's direct complicity in all the stages of the foiled Karine-A gun-running operation. Headed by Lt.-Col Yossi Kuperwasser, head of Army Intelligence (Aman) Research Department, the ...

Iraqi Military Intelligence Feelers on Quiet Deal with US

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 20, 2001, 3:35 PM (GMT+02:00)

debkafile's intelligence sources in Washington have learned of a secret conciliatory messaged delivered by Iraqi military intelligence to US Middle East envoy Anthony Zinni when he visited the Jordanian capital of Amman last week. The Jordanians tried to persuade the retired Marine Corps general to meet military intelligence ...

Clinton Goes, Bush Arrives and Jonathan Pollard Remains Behind Bars

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 22, 2001, 11:16 AM (GMT+02:00)

Bill Clinton, with one foot out of the White House, granted last-minute pardons on Saturday, Jan. 20, to a long list of extremely controversial miscreants. But not to Jonathan Pollard. Clinton was forced to take him off the list, notwithstanding the promises he gave four Israeli prime ministers, the late ...

Aly Mohamed: The Creation of a Moslem Fundamentalist Double Agent

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 13, 2001, 2:50 PM (GMT+02:00)

The murder of militant right wing Rabbi Meir Cahane in New York in November 1990 was investigated only very cursorily by US agencies. They had his killer, the Egyptian immigrant El Sayyid A. Nosair, and they knew about the refugee center in Brooklyn, later discovered to be the principal base ...

Bush Surprise: Donald Rumsfeld Named Defense Secretary - Not As Widely Tipped CIA Director

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 28, 2000, 11:20 AM (GMT+02:00)

The 68-year old Donald Rumsfeld will be entering his second stint as defense secretary, having previously served in this post in the Ford administration in 1975-77 and later US ambassador at NATO headquarters in Brussels. George Bush senior's year as CIA director himself from 1976 to 1977 coincided with ...

Why Barak Misread the Palestinian Reaction to Clinton Proposals

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 28, 2000, 11:18 AM (GMT+02:00)

According to debkafile's political and intelligence sources, Prime Minister Barak was led astray in his reading of Yasser Arafat's response to President Clinton's peace proposals by an incomplete piece of intelligence: Arafat had secretly set up a panel to prepare Palestinian option for acceptance of a ...

Is Cairo's Latest "Israeli Spy Scandal" Linked to

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 29, 2000, 11:22 AM (GMT+02:00)

Egypt claimed Tuesday, Nov.28, it had arrested a 34-year old Egyptian engineer and charged an absent Russian accomplice, accusing both of supplying Israel with political, economic and military intelligence prejudicial to Egypt's national interests. The Egyptian, Sherif Fawzi Mohamed al-Filal, was claimed to have been recruited by the ...

Disinformation Campaign Letting Arafat Off the Violence Hook is Instigated by CIA Chief George Tenet To Save His Own Face

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 15, 2000, 11:24 AM (GMT+02:00)

The CIA has launched an extensive disinformation campaign, according to debkafile's intelligence sources, to falsely depict Yasser Arafat as powerless to halt the present wave of Palestinian violence and terror. Its primary purpose is to provide a face-saver for George Tenet, who regarded the tripartitate security mechanism he ...

Return of a Middle East Wire-Puller - Boutros Boutros-Ghali

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 13, 2000, 11:26 AM (GMT+02:00)

A choice piece of intelligence that Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak is unlikely to have shared with the departing US president Bill Clinton when they met in the White House Monday concerns an enigmatic international figure the Americans have no reason to love: former UN Secretary General, the Egyptian diplomat ...