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12 December 1998. Thanks to CM.
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For more on NSA's Echelon program:
<A HREF="http://jya.com/echelon-dc.htm">http://jya.com/echelon-dc.htm</A>
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<A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com"><I>The Washington Post</I></A> Online
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<B><FONT size="+2">NSA Admits to Holding Secret Information on Princess
Diana</FONT></B>
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<FONT size="-1"><I>By Vernon Loeb</I></FONT><BR>
<FONT size="-1">Washington Post Staff Writer</FONT><BR>
<FONT size="-1">Saturday, December 12, 1998; Page A13</FONT>
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The National Security Agency has disclosed that U.S. intelligence is holding
1,056 pages of classified information about the late Princess Diana, inspiring
a flurry of sensational headlines this week across London's tabloids.
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"America's spy chiefs admitted last night they snooped on Princess Diana
for years -- and learned some of her most intimate love secrets," The Mirror
reported on Thursday. The Daily Record claimed that the NSA intercepts "have
gone on right until she died in the Paris car crash with Dodi Fayed."
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The truth, while intriguing, is unlikely to be so lurid. The source of the
Fleet Street speculation was a simple, <A HREF="#nsa">two-page NSA denial</A>
of a Freedom of Information Act request. In the denial, released last month,
the super-secret U.S. spy agency admitted possessing a Diana file.
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The document says nothing about the contents of those 1,056 secret pages,
why they were gathered or how they were obtained. One U.S. intelligence official
said yesterday that the references to Diana in intercepted conversations
were "incidental."
<P>
Diana, the official insisted, was never a "target" of the NSA's massive,
worldwide electronic eavesdropping infrastructure. The NSA system sucks up
millions of electronic signals from around the world every hour, but only
"targeted" communications are actually analyzed and deciphered after a vast
array of supercomputers sort them out on the basis of programmed search terms,
such as "Saddam Hussein."
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The Diana controversy is not the only, or the most serious, dispute in Europe
that has raised the profile of the reclusive NSA.
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The giant spy agency, Maryland's largest employer, has been the subject of
intense controversy in Britain and across Europe since a
<A HREF="http://jya.com/stoa-atpc.htm">report</A> released in January by
the European Parliament concluded that "within Europe, all e-mail, telephone
and fax communications are routinely intercepted by the United States National
Security Agency."
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The report focused on a system called Echelon through which the NSA and its
spy partners in Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia share communications
intercepted from around the world and systematically divide the huge task
of analyzing the "take."
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"Each of the five [countries] supply 'dictionaries' to the other four of
keywords, phrases, people and places to 'tag,' and the tagged intercept is
forwarded straight to the requesting country," according to the report.
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"The end of the Cold War has not, apparently, brought an end to the [NSA's]
Echelon eavesdropping system," a state-funded Russian daily, the Rossiyskaya
Gazeta, complained last month. "This system has become a weapon of 'economic
warfare.' "
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Il Mondo, an Italian weekly news magazine, called Echelon "this incredible
communications vacuum cleaner."
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Steven Aftergood, an intelligence expert at the Federation of American
Scientists, said he can't understand why the Echelon controversy has gone
unnoticed in the United States. The lack of interest, he acknowledged, may
stem from the fact that the NSA is prohibited by law from targeting American
citizens for communications intercepts, here or abroad.
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"What is clear," Aftergood said, "is that the U.S. and our allies promiscuously
collect electronic communications around the world. Whether the descriptions
of Echelon are accurate or not, that much is definitely true."
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The Freedom of Information Act request seeking classified material on Diana
was submitted earlier this year by an Internet news service based in New
York, <A HREF="http://www.apbonline.com">apbonline.com</A>.
<P>
In denying the request, the NSA disclosed existence of a 1,056-page Diana
file and reported that Fort Meade, where the agency is located, had produced
39 "NSA-originated and NSA-controlled documents," totaling 124 pages.
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Those documents, the NSA denial said, had been classified top secret "because
their disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave
damage to the national security."
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If unclassified and released, one U.S. intelligence official explained, the
damage would be caused not by the information about Diana, but because the
documents would disclose "sources and methods" of U.S. intelligence gathering.
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&copy; Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company
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<A NAME="nsa">See original NSA/Diana news report</A>:
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<A HREF="http://www.apbonline.com/911/1998/11/30/diana1130_1.html">http://www.apbonline.com/911/1998/11/30/diana1130_1.html</A>
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Transcription of NSA letter from two GIF images:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<A HREF="http://www.apbonline.com/911/1998/11/30/diana_frame1.html">http://www.apbonline.com/911/1998/11/30/diana_frame1.html</A><A
HREF="http://www.apbonline.com/911/1998/11/30/diana_frame2.html"><BR>
http://www.apbonline.com/911/1998/11/30/diana_frame2.html</A>
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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY<BR>
CENTRAL SECURITY SERVICE<BR>
<SMALL>FORT GEORGE E. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755-6000</SMALL>
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Serial J9570A-98<BR>
5 NOV 1998
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Dear <I>[Blank]</I>
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This is the final response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request
of 9 June 1998 for "any and all records (including but not limited to
photographs, recordings, email, memos, graphs, film and video) in connection
with Lady Diana Frances Spencer, date of birth 7/1/61 in Norwalk, England
and date of death August 31, 1997 at Pitie Salpetriere Hospital in Paris,
France." As you agreed to when you discussed the case with the FOIA case
officer on 16 July 1998, we did not process any foreign press articles discovered
during our search for responsive records. The elimination of the foreign
press articles moved your case from the hard to the easy processing queue.
After subtracting the foreign press articles from the original total of documents
reported to you in our 10 July 1998 letter (1349 documents), we processed
143 documents (1,056 pages) for possible release. Of these 182 documents,
143 documents (925 pages) have been forwarded to the originating agencies
for their direct response to you.
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The remaining 39 NSA-originated and NSA-controlled documents (124 pages)
responsive to your request have been reviewed by this Agency as required
by the FOIA and have been found to be currently and properly classified in
accordance with <A HREF="http://jya.com/eo12958.txt">Executive Order 12958</A>.
These documents meet the criteria for classification as set forth in
Subparagraphs (b) and (c) of Section 1.5 and remain classified TOP SECRET
as provided in Section 1.3 of Executive Order 12958. The documents are classified
because their disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally
grave damage to the national security. The information is exempt from
declassification in accordance with Section 1.6(d) of E.O. 12958. Because
the documents are currently and properly classified, they are exempt from
disclosure pursuant to the first exemption of the FOIA (5 U.S.C. section
552(b)(1)).
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In addition, this Agency is authorized by various statutes to protect certain
information concerning its activities. We have determined that such information
exists in these documents. Accordingly, those portions are also exempt from
disclosure pursuant to the third exemption of the FOIA which provides for
the
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<SMALL>[Fax header printed upside down:] NOV 24 '98 14:59 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
&nbsp; P.2</SMALL>
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<I>[page 1]</I>
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Serial: J9570A-98
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withholding of information specifically protected from disclosure by statute.
The specific statutes applicable in this case are Title 18 U.S. Code 798;
Title 50 U.S. Code 403-3(c)(6); and Section 6 Public Law 86-36 (50 U.S. Code
402 <U>note</U>). No portion of the information is reasonable segreable.
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Since your request has been denied for NSA originated or controlled documents,
you are hereby advised of this Agency's appeal procedure. Any person denied
access to information may file an appeal to the NSA/CSS Freedom of Information
Act Appeal Authority. The appeal must be postmarked no later than 60 calendar
days after the date of the initial denial. The appeal shall be in writing
addressed to the NSA/CSS FOIA Appeal Authority (N5P5), National Security
Agency, 9600 Savage Road STE 6248, Fort George E. Meade, MD 20755-6248. The
appeal shall reference the initial denial of access and shall contain, in
sufficient detail and particularity, the grounds upon which the requester
believes release of information is required. The NSA/CSS Appeal Authority
will endeavor to respond to the appeal within 20 working days after receipt,
absent any unusual circumstances.
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Sincerely,
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[Signature]
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JOANN H. GRUBE<BR>
Deputy director of Policy
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<SMALL>[Fax header printed upside down:] NOV 24 '98 14:59 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
&nbsp; P.3</SMALL>
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<I>[page 2]</I>
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<I>[End NSA letter]</I>
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See the NSA FOIA Web site:
<A HREF="http://www.nsa.gov:8080/docs/efoia/">http://www.nsa.gov:8080/docs/efoia/</A>
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12 December 1998. Thanks to JM.
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<A HREF="http://www.the-times.co.uk"><I>The Sunday Times</I> Online</A> (UK)
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<HR NOSHADE>
Friday December 11 1998 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<B>WORLD NEWS: RUSSIA</B>
<HR NOSHADE>
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<FONT SIZE=5> Hostages forced to admit spying </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2></FONT>
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BY ANNA BLUNDY<BR>
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A VIDEOTAPE in which the four Western hostages beheaded in Chechnya this
week claim to be spies has been discovered by Chechen special services, according
to a report by NTV television.
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Vakha Arsanov, the Vice-President of Chechnya, is said to have shown the
tape to a reporter in Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic.
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The four men - three Britons and a New Zealander - apparently identify themselves
as Darren Hickey, Peter Kennedy, Rudolf Petschi and Stanley Shaw.
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Mr Kennedy says in Russian: "We have been recruited by the English intelligence
service. We installed a satellite aerial so that all telephone conversations
on Chechen territory were heard by German, English and Israeli special services
and the Central Intelligence Agency."
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"They must have been forced to confess," Mr Arsanov said.
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Sir Andrew Wood, the British Ambassador to Moscow, said: "We don't comment
on these things in general. But any reasonable analysis would show that we
have no wish to spy on Chechen territory." Mike Haddock, the embassy press
spokesman, added that the embassy had not seen the tape.
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The bodies of the men, abducted on October 3 from their flat in Grozny and
murdered earlier this week, have not yet been found.
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