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Fwd: Intell

Guys!

      The fwd'd email comes from Capt John Stevenson, Australian Navy, ret.,
and neighbor of mine.  He served on Australian carrier(s?) during the Korean
War, and is a remarkable man. 


Mike,
     Most interesting thankyou. Interested to see that
Des Ball got a mention. Re your query on Fleet air arm
operations off Korea. We operated the carrier "Sydney"
off the west coast alternating with the Brits We used
Sea Furies and Fireflies. To get detailed information
you would have to write to: The Secretary, Defence
Dept. Canberra, A.C.T., Australia..... The Secretary
to the Admiralty, London, U.K.

       Regards      Steve
--- DasHaas@aol.com wrote:
> Just in case you guys were interested, here's the
> latest newsletter from the 
> Assoc. of Former Intelligence Officers that I belong
> to:
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 
> Reply-to: <afio@his.com>
> From: "AFIO" <afio@his.com>
> To: "AFIO MEMBER" <afio@his.com>
> Subject: AOL-edition WIN #15-01 dtd 16 April 01
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:50:52 -0400
> 
> AOL-edition of WIN 15-01 dated 16 April 2001
> [formating, color, type styles, photos, graphics
> removed]
> 
> WINs are produced by Editor Roy Jonkers for AFIO
> members and WIN
> subscribers, for educational purposes. Associate
> editors Don Harvey and John
> Macartney also contribute articles to the WINs.
> REMEMBER TO SIGN UP FOR THE 4 May BUSINESS
> INTELLIGENCE SYMPOSIUM IN
> WASHINGTON DC. Super program. See our Website
> www.afio.com
> Your Mission: Sponsor a New Member!
> 
> SECTION I -- CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
> 
> EP3e NAVY RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHT -- The released
> crewmembers on the Navy EP3e
> reported that they had fifteen minutes to complete
> their destruction
> checklist of the equipment related to their ISR
> (intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance) mission
> before they left the
> aircraft. This is as it should be -- presumably slim
> pickings for Chinese
> intelligence exploitation.
>             One aspect of this mission is
> particularly relevant to public
> discussions on the topic by AFIO members. That is
> the frequent use of the
> term “SPY PLANE” by our media talking heads and
> press reports, now echoed by
> Chinese Government officials. AFIO members might do
> well to protest the use
> of this erroneous terminology in each case where it
> occurs. This was a
> reconnaissance flight, like those flown for more
> than fifty years off the
> coasts of the Soviet Union, China, North Korea and
> in the Middle East,
> providing important information used to save
> American lives in recent cases
> (e.g. Iraq, Yugoslavia) whenever our forces are
> called upon to execute
> national security war missions. These reconnaissance
> flights are perhaps
> analogous to the cavalry scouts of another era.
> General Lee was without his
> cavalry scouts during the battle of Gettysburg, for
> example -- it left him
> 'blind' and it showed in the results. Spies and
> spying are quite another --
> important but different -- means of obtaining
> information on actual or
> potentially hostile forces. Reconnaissance and
> spying may both try to gather
> information, but their modus operandi are
> dramatically different -- overt
> versus covert. Educate them! Let them hear from you!
>             Chinese officials have clearly been
> aggravated by the growing
> frequency of the US recce flights. But even US
> domestic critics say the
> reconnaissance flights provide critical
> intelligence, particularly about
> other countries' radar defense systems. This kind of
> intelligence helps the
> Defense department to figure out how to disrupt
> communications and disable
> missile batteries that could endanger American
> troops and pilots. Even
> though China is at a relatively early stage in
> modernizing its armed forces,
> it has been buying submarines and planes from
> Russia. The reconnaissance
> flights help discover how and where China plans to
> position them. Much of
> China's buildup is aimed at Taiwan. And in 1996,
> when China fired three
> unarmed missiles into the Taiwan Strait in an
> attempt to intimidate the
> Taiwanese before their first presidential election,
> the EP-3E planes made
> almost daily flights over the strait, soaking up
> radio messages, radar beams
> and other electronic signals. In a typical mission
> off China, the planes
> carry 14 intelligence specialists. They include some
> who speak Chinese, who
> eavesdrop on the military's radio traffic, and
> others who record the radar
> signals emitted by antiaircraft batteries. In
> addition, the presence of
> reconnaissance planes often stimulates Chinese
> defense forces to light up
> their radar systems to track the flights. And as the
> Chinese fighter jets
> scramble to intercept the spy planes, the American
> intelligence officers
> record the radio chatter between the pilots and
> their bases and note their
> flight tactics.
>             But the dangers in the mission are
> evidenced by this EP3e
> incident. Still, the action is nowhere near as
> heated as during the cold
> war, when many American reconnaissance missions were
> flown along (and
> sometimes penetrated to provoke a reaction) the
> borders of Communist
> countries. From the 1950's through the early 1970's,
> the Soviet Union, China
> and North Korea all shot down American
> reconnaissance planes. Declassified
> records indicate that more than 30 planes were lost,
> and at least 150 airmen
> were killed or reported missing, some of whom are
> only now being recognized
> and honored, leaving their families in the dark for
> decades. (Reconnaissance
> Fund of the Intelligence Scholarship Foundation )
> Those missions were more
> dangerous, but the EP3e incident serves as a
> reminder of dedication required
> by those engaged to serve in the ever-ongoing
> "silent war," the intelligence
> mission. "In God we trust. All others we monitor."
> (Jonkers) (NY Times 14
> April01//C. Drew)
> 
> CHINA SIGINT CAPABILITIES -- While attention focuses
> on the captured US Navy
> aircraft and its personnel, China's own electronic
> networks continue their
> work out-of-sight. The focus of China's electronic
> collection activities is
> on its immediate neighborhood. According to
> Professor Desmond Ball of the
> Australian National University, writing some ten
> years ago, "There are
> several dozen SIGINT ground stations deployed
> throughout China concerned
> with monitoring signals from Russia, Japan, Taiwan,
> Southeast Asia and
> India, as well as internal communications .... The
> two largest SIGINT
> stations are, first, the main Technical Department
> SIGINT net control
> station on the northwest outskirts of Beijing; and,
> second, a large complex
> near Lake Kinghathu in the extreme northeast corner
> of China."
>             Ground stations oriented toward Russia
> include those at Jilemutu
> and Jixi in the northeast, and at Erlian and Hami
> near the Mongolian border.
> Two sites in Xinjiang, at Qitai and Korla, are in a
> special category. These
> have reportedly been operated by China jointly with
> the US Central
> Intelligence Agency's Office of SIGINT Operations
> since the late 1980’s.
> These sites were originally tasked to monitor Soviet
> missile tests and space
> launches, but their current status is uncertain.
>             SIGINT operations covering India are
> controlled from a large
> station at Chengdu, supplemented by the nearby
> facility at Dayi and
> "numerous" smaller posts along the Indian border. A
> major complex at Kunming
> mainly covers Indochina, and most notably Vietnam.
> Other significant
> facilities are located near Shenyang, near Jinan and
> in Nanjing and
> Shanghai. Additional stations are in the Fujian and
> Guangdong military
> districts opposite Taiwan.
>             China has at least two major SIGINT
> facilities on Hainan: a
> large complex mainly monitoring signals activity in
> and around the South
> China Sea; and a ground station, together with
> decryption capabilities, for
> intercepting signals transmitted through US and
> Russian communication
> satellites. Ships and aircraft under the South Sea
> Fleet, headquartered at
> Zhanjiang immediately north of the island,
> supplement these to link with a
> far-reaching electronic intelligence
> (ELINT)-gathering system.
>             The Chinese network of ground stations
> is supplemented by "half
> a dozen ships, truck-mounted systems, airborne
> systems and a limited
> satellite collection capability," according to
> Professor Ball. Little is
> publicly known of China's airborne systems. Ball
> identified the
> 
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