[FPSPACE] FW: Secrecy News -- 05/21/08

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: "Steven Aftergood" <saftergood at fas.org>
>Reply-To: saftergood at fas.org
>To: ljk4 at msn.com
>Subject: Secrecy News -- 05/21/08
>Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:00:02 -0400
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>SECRECY NEWS
>from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
>Volume 2008, Issue No. 48
>May 21, 2008
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>Secrecy News Blog:  http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/
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>**	INTEL AGENCY ACTION URGED AGAINST SPACE, CYBER THREATS
>**	NORTH KOREA-SYRIA CONTACTS VIEWED BY OPEN SOURCE CENTER
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>INTEL AGENCY ACTION URGED AGAINST SPACE, CYBER THREATS
>
>U.S. defense intelligence agencies should aim to "eliminate" the
>capabilities of opponents to operate effectively against the United
>States from outer space or cyber space, according to a new Pentagon
>strategy for defense intelligence.
>
>Defense intelligence shall "eliminate any advantage held by our
>adversaries to operate from and within the space and cyber domains,"
>says the new strategy document, "Defense Intelligence 2008" (strategic
>objective IV).
>
>"As stated in the U.S. National Space Policy, the focus of defense
>intelligence in space will be to ensure full situational awareness for
>military and civilian decision-makers, support military planning
>initiatives, and satisfy operational requirements. As addressed within
>the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, cyberspace has
>become a vital national interest economically, militarily and
>culturally, and the current patchwork of passive defense is likely to
>fail in the face of greater vulnerabilities and more sophisticated
>threats."
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>"Defense intelligence must do its part to defeat this critical threat."
>
>See "Defense Intelligence 2008" (flagged by BeSpacific.com):
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>      http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/2008strategy.pdf
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>NORTH KOREA-SYRIA CONTACTS VIEWED BY OPEN SOURCE CENTER
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>Intergovernmental contacts between North Korean and Syrian officials
>during the last two years were scrutinized by the DNI Open Source
>Center (OSC), but even in retrospect the available record presents no
>indication of joint work on a secret nuclear facility destroyed by
>Israel last September.
>
>"A review of available North Korean and Syrian print and online media
>in the period 2005-2007 has yielded the names of dozens of DPRK and
>Syrian officials involved in military, scientific, trade, and other
>aspects of bilateral relations," the OSC analysis said.
>
>However, "no obvious indications of covert military cooperation
>surfaced in the highly-censored media of North Korea or Syria in this
>period."
>
>In other words, assuming the allegations of clandestine nuclear
>cooperation are true, open source intelligence provided no clues
>concerning the activity.
>
>Like most other OSC products, the new analysis has not been approved
>for public release.  But a copy was obtained independently by Secrecy
>News.
>
>See "DPRK-Syria Bilateral Contacts, 2005-2007," Open Source Center, May
>2, 2008:
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>      http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/osc/dprk-syria.pdf
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