From: owner-deltagreen-digest@nocturne.org (deltagreen-digest) To: deltagreen-digest@nocturne.org Subject: deltagreen-digest V1 #11 Reply-To: Delta Green List Sender: owner-deltagreen-digest@nocturne.org Errors-To: owner-deltagreen-digest@nocturne.org Precedence: bulk deltagreen-digest Tuesday, April 21 1998 Volume 01 : Number 011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:54:10 -1000 From: "M-Zodiac" Subject: DG: Re: CELL Z : Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Are you running a DG campaign currently? Want players? (singular). I believe we corrisponed before, about MAGE. I mentioned the failure of my Technocracy campaign, and you wondered why I considered it a bad thing that everyone was plotting against each other. You mentioned you were based out of Old Racist (formerly Porteus) Hall too. I'm on the second floor Saturdays and Sundays, usually, though we have two other locations since the rentacops have been hassling us there. This ain't meant for the mailing list. If it gets there, someone tell me what I did wrong. - -Marc "Heard joke once. Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears and says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci." -Rorschach - -----Original Message----- From: The Man in Black To: Delta Green List Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 10:26 AM Subject: DG: CELL Z : Honolulu, Hawaii, USA >CORRESPONDING NEUROBROADCAST BEGIN >{EMERALD : PANTHEON : SEPHIROTH} > >This is not a dream, you are receiving a Priority Delta signal from the >New World Order. This is not a Dream. > >Cell Z, or Zero Cell, operates in an area where MJ influence is >particulary strong. Pearl Harbor, Hickam AFB and the US Pacific Command >dominate tradecraft and while service branches in the Army/USMC are easy >to penetrate, the Air Force and Navy remain under the Aegis of our >disti @8439567934 nguished opposition (agents recruited from USAF & USN >have a disturbing tendency to turn, dissappear or be plants). > > ><<<->>> : @94357 > >This situation of interservice rivalry has not escalated to noticable >levels, but has forced me to recruit from the largely complacent state >government. The State of Hawaii is currently suffering from budgetary >incompetance leading to draconian cutbacks of state personnel. > >In other words, military resources in the critical Pacific region are >essentially unavailable to Delta Green. This may or may not be a *good >thing*. @197 > >The actual CELL composition: > >Zed : liason to international groups combatting the influence of the >supernatural. former NRO Delta operative. Frequently found traveling the >Asia/Pacific rim. 'Diplomat' with the US State department. > >Zachary: Physicist with State Dept. of Health Radiation branch. > >Zotos : NRO (USAF) satellite monitor at White Sands missile tracking >station (and MJ front) on the Island of Kauai. > >Zelda : a systems operator at the Maui High Performance Computing Center. >see http://www.mhpcc.org > >SuZy: A police officer with the Honolulu Police Dept. Special Services >Division (HPD's version of SWAT). > >This is not a Dream. You have received a Priority Delta Signal from the >New World Order. This is not a Dream. > >CONNECTION TERMINATED > >The Man in Black is : the Toughest mib in the history of this mailing list >Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum >nWo 4 Life : TOO Sweeet! > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:12:17 -1000 From: "M-Zodiac" Subject: DG: Fw: Info Exchange Since everywone else is doing it: Okay, I'm Marc Mielke, currently have a McJob copying legal documents. Live in Honolulu, Hawaii. Knowledgeable regarding Secret agencies from researching a long-running secret-agent campaign. Also researched extensively on conspiracies. otherwise, my mind is just totally gfilled with lots of random, useless information mostly rgarding popular culture, television, and movies. However, I am somewhat of an expert on the Cthulhu Mythos, but then, who isn't? Used to read a lot of standard "factual" occult literature,and consider myself quite knowledgeable in the area, but have the perspective that it's all bunk. Feel the same about the "great" religions, which I've studied extensively using my father's library (he used to teach College Comparative Religion). Also have a bit of a feel for game design. Wrote my own SF game, but not self-confident enough to try to have it published. Can sorta intuitively feel if something is unfair or unplayable, and can even fix it sometimes. - -Marc "Heard joke once. Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears and says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci." -Rorschach ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:12:04 EDT From: Croaker Jr Subject: Re: DG: Re: CELL Z : Honolulu, Hawaii, USA << This ain't meant for the mailing list. If it gets there, someone tell me what I did wrong. -Marc >> You might have hit REPLY to the original Z-Cell message. On some e-mail applications mail on this list is listed as FROM the actual sender, but it has a REPLY-TO code which routes replies to the list. If that's the case, you need to type the recipient's name manually instead of just hitting REPLY. Shane Ivey CroakerJr@aol.com http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6580/dg.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:27:00 +0100 From: Adam.Crossingham.Octavian@mktmail.com Subject: DG: [DG] RE: Info Exchange [Keepers] KEO - Spoiler Follows: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > John Gallant or C.H. writes: <<< I'm really curious; what is Pacific-style? Is it a regional thing or something related to film? >>> Sorry, I was trying to be obtuse and illuminating at the same time. My *Pacific-style confrontation* is the one that happens at the end of the 'Shadows of Yog-Sothoth' campaign, or what happens to the Norwegian freighter at the end of the 'Call of Cthulhu' short story. Either version happens at a certain set of co-ordinates in the Pacific. Death or absolute insanity are almost certainly guaranteed if you happen to be there at same time as Big C. Confrontation? I should have typed annihilation. <<< The Lloyd's building looks more like a machine than a building. >>> It's designed to have all the building services on the outside, so that there is more room on the inside... apparently. <<< The building is the uniting of technology and humanity. Order; the opposing force to the Chaos that Cthulhu & Co. will bring. A temple, a shrine, a place of refuge in the dark times. >>> It's certainly a temple - to making and losing money. That said it does stand close to what was the centre of Roman Londinium. There might be secrets in the basement unknown to most. <<< If any of that were the case, what of the Pompidou, created in part by Rogers as well? Was Rogers aware of more than he let on? >>> Perhaps the Pompidou and Lloyd's buildings are the first two of a chain of city centre sanctuaries of some sort... - -- Adam Crossingham home: tigger@the-wolery.demon.co.uk work: Adam.Crossingham.Octavian@mktmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:41:44 +0400 From: yanasikt@superonline.com (Osman Zeki Yanasik) Subject: DG: what are these cells ? Well, I strongly feel that I should know about these cells, but damn, I don't ! What are these cells in DG ? Is it a some kind of hierarchy ? Also is there any standart equipment or weapons for DG agents to use ? Thanks, Tolga ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 09:55:39 -0400 From: Duran Goodyear Subject: Re: DG: what are these cells ? Well, it seems we have an elder god in our midsts... or. Some one hasn't bought the DG Book yet. Cells are the way that Delta Green is devided up. There are 26 cells, one cell, for each letter in the alphabet. Each cell has 3 members, (sometimes 4) and each member's code name starts with their cell letter For instance. My Cell D Dyson, (me) and others who have yet to join... A cell is the the top, with the founders and leaders in it. I highly suggest getting the book. It fills you in much better. - -Dyson At 04:41 PM 4/21/98 +0400, you wrote: >Well, I strongly feel that I should know about these cells, but damn, I don't ! > >What are these cells in DG ? Is it a some kind of hierarchy ? > >Also is there any standart equipment or weapons for DG agents to use ? > >Thanks, > >Tolga > _____________________________ Duran Goodyear dug96@hampshire.edu IM: Dyson RS ICQ: 3785415 http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~dug96 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 04:12:40 -1000 From: "M-Zodiac" Subject: DG: Re: what are these cells ? The cell structure is how many conspiratorial groups are organized. Basically, each member only knows two other members. It worked in the French Resistance, which is why DG uses it. Read any book on the Resistance, Conpiracies in general, or any modern-era revolutionary/resistance movement. It oughta go into detail there. How the hell it works in an RPG, I dunno. In a 3-member group or group with 3 agents and the rest friendlies, it's okay. Beyond that, the concept of certain PCs not knowing others seems to me a bitch and half for the GM to work. If you like, be loose with it. The recently-posted cell Z, for one, seems to exceed the traditional size. - -Marc "Heard joke once. Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears and says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci." -Rorschach - -----Original Message----- From: Osman Zeki Yanasik To: delta-green Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 3:58 AM Subject: DG: what are these cells ? >Well, I strongly feel that I should know about these cells, but damn, I don't ! > >What are these cells in DG ? Is it a some kind of hierarchy ? > >Also is there any standart equipment or weapons for DG agents to use ? > >Thanks, > >Tolga > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:31:20 +0400 From: yanasikt@superonline.com (Osman Zeki Yanasik) Subject: Re: DG: Re: what are these cells ? > The cell structure is how many conspiratorial groups are organized. > Basically, each member only knows two other members. It worked in the French > Resistance, which is why DG uses it. Read any book on the Resistance, > Conpiracies in general, or any modern-era revolutionary/resistance movement. > It oughta go into detail there. Who gives the orders to the agents ? Is there a boss for each cell ? And also who is organizing all these cells ? Well, I don't have DG sourcebook because it can't be found anywhere in my country. My family owns a publishing company and we are seriously thinking about translation of key products of Pagan and Chaosium. We'll get into contact with them soon. Thanks, Tolga ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 09:42:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Juneau Subject: RE: DG: Social Sec. Cards On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, John Gallant wrote: > << Crowe III; 'twas chock-full of errors about firearms... a Bad Thing for > the firearms book to be. >>> > > Speaking of JHC3 and guns, does anyone here have the Firearms book by Pagan? > What's it like? Illoed? Not enough for me to remember; might be a few, tho, but nothing exciting. It's medium-thick, smallish print, and tables, tables, tables. Some good info in there, but it's not for everyone. > << selection of "new ID" books, as well as 'How To Find Anybody" and a few > other oddities. And today's spam included a mail from someone > offering, among the tax-haven and offshore-banking touts, a source for the > "yellow parchment" needed for birth-certificate fraud, as well as a > hospital rubber-stamp and instructions for use. >>> > > And you didn't pass this gem on? Cthulhu must be rolling over in his watery > grave (of course the might one will rise, and glorious chaos shall reign as > we, the devoted, feast on the populace in an orgy primal bloodletting and > cannibalism, but that is neither here nor there). Naw, I'm (almost never) spamming for someone else. (There's the rare "neat thing" I see, usually a URL, that I pass on to my "short list" or a single person that'd be interested.) Besides, it really is flirting with the line, and quite possibly overtaken by events - between the spamming and the legal aspect, Ye Admin there has undoubtedly gotten a pile of mail about it. "A giant whirlpool in the South Pacific?" "Yeah, it's Cthulhu. Turns out the Spice Girls are doing a song about our Dreamer in R'lyeh." Don ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 08:03:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jose Burgos Subject: Re: DG: Re: Military ranks > > E-3 Airman 1st class (two bars) > > E-4 Senior Airman (3 bars) > > E-5 Sergeant (3 bars, white star, aka "buck" sergeant) > > This got changed in '94-95. They stopped promoting to buck sergeant. > If you passed the test you were promoted straight to Staff Sgt. Buck > sergents were actualy E-4s as well, they got paied just the same as > Senior Airmen. The diffrence was they were NCOs. Before this all non > NCO enlisted had subdued stars on their chevrons. Now everybody gets > white stars. Yes, I remember this having changed after I left (I was the last of the "buck" sergeants then). > > E-6 Staff Sergeant (4 bars, white star) > > E-7 Tech Sergeant (5 bars, white star) > > E-8 Master Sergeant > > E-9 Senior (?) MS. > > Thats as far as I can remember, the command structure may have changed > > in the last 5 years. However, this should be fairly accurate. > > They didn't have Chief Master Sergeants in '92? Honest question, I was > under the impression that that rank had been around a while. Yes, they did, I simply forgot the highest rank. Glad you remembered, (but then again its fresher in your mind than mine). Thanks for clearing this up. Jose burgos_j@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 98 19:12:25 UT From: "John Gallant" Subject: DG: [DG] Nevada Base info After thinking about it for a while, I realized how little I knew about the Walker Lake base. So I sent a note to one of my buddies in Reno to dig up what he could. The info on the Underwater Nuclear Warfare aspect is practically non-existant. Sorry. On that front I only know that it says it is. Another friend of mine claims to have been stationed out there in the mid 80's but refused to go further other than saying there was far more than is immediately visible. Whatever. Our estimates put the facility at approx. 1200-1800 square miles. Remember, this is Nevada where 80-85% of the land is government owned. Pinpointing military boundaries is darned hard. The only thing visible from the road are dozens of rows of concrete magazines, barracks, a cemetary, and several unimpressive pre-fab buildings. The base was created after the loss of one in NJ to fire in 1926, IIRC. After that, the US wisely decided to relocate it largest ammo dump to an area where enormous explosions wouldn't be an issue. >From historical sources: >Built in July 1928, commissioned in September 1930 for the purpose of >receiving, renovating and storing ammunition. Expansion during the onset of >WWII brought upon the construction of other industrial buildings which >included assembly plants for rockets, mines, depth charges, and torpedoes. The >depot is one of the largest in the world. >Post Cold War statistics include the following: more than 2100 magazines and >900 production and storage facilities. >The core of the facility, as one enters the gate from the west, has a factory >on the right side of the road and offices on the left side. Further down is a >residential area (barracks?) for both civilian and upper military personnel on >the left. After that is the magazine complex. There is an extension of the >magazine complex on the south side of highway 95. > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:48:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Jonathan P Keim Subject: DG: PDF request Could someone send me a copy of the DG character sheet in .PDF? Thanks, Munch munch+@pitt.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 98 20:34:18 UT From: "John Gallant" Subject: DG: X-mas This was sent out on the Fading Suns list this past December by Steven Helberg. I'm aware that the time of year is wrong, and it isn't a tool for DG keepers, I figured you might enjoy it anyway. >57 ELM STREET >BETHLEHEM, PA. >11:51 P.M., DECEMBER 24TH > Mulder: We're too late! It's already been here. > Scully: Mulder, I hope you know what you're doing. > Mulder: Look, Scully, just like the other homes: Douglas fir, truncated, >mounted, transformed into a shrine; halls decked with boughs of holly; stockings hung by the chimney, with care. > Scully: You really think someone's been here? > Mulder: Someone, or something. > Scully: Mulder, over here--it's a fruitcake. > Mulder: Don't touch it! Those things can be lethal. > Scully: It's O.K. There's a note attached: "Gonna find out who's naughty and nice." > Mulder: It's judging them, Scully. It's making a list. > Scully: Who? What are you talking about? > Mulder: Ancient mythology tells of an obese humanoid entity who could travel at great speed in a craft powered by antlered servants. Once each year, near the winter solstice, this creature is said to descend from the heavens to reward its followers and punish disbelievers with jagged chunks of anthracite. > Scully: But that's legend, Mulder--a story told by parents to frighten children. Surely you don't believe it? > Mulder: Something was here tonight, Scully. Check out the bite marks on this gingerbread man. Whatever tore through this plate of cookies was massive--and in a hurry. > Scully: It left crumbs everywhere. And look, Mulder, this milk glass has been completely drained. > Mulder: It gorged itself, Scully. It fed without remorse. > Scully: But why would they leave it milk and cookies? > Mulder: Appeasement. Tonight is the Eve, and nothing can stop its wilding. > Scully: But if this thing does exist, how did it get in? The doors and windows were locked. There's no sign of forced entry. > Mulder: Unless I miss my guess, it came through the fireplace. > Scully: Wait a minute, Mulder. If you're saying some huge creature landed on the roof and came down this chimney, you're crazy. The flue is barely six inches wide. Nothing could get down there. > Mulder: But what if it could alter its shape, move in all directions at once? > Scully: You mean, like a bowl full of jelly? > Mulder: Exactly. Scully, I've never told anyone this, but when I was a child my home was visited. I saw the creature. It had long white shanks of fur surrounding its ruddy, misshapen head. Its bloated torso was red and white. I'll never forget the horror. I turned away, and when I looked back it had somehow taken on the facial features of my father. > Scully: Impossible. > Mulder: I know what I saw. And that night it read my mind. It brought me a Mr. Potato Head, Scully. It knew that I wanted a Mr. Potato Head! > Scully: I'm sorry, Mulder, but you're asking me to disregard the laws of physics. You want me to believe in some supernatural being who soars across the skies and brings gifts to good little girls and boys. Listen to what you're saying. Do you understand the repercussions? If this gets out, they'll close the X-files. > Mulder: Scully, listen to me: It knows when you're sleeping. It knows when you're awake. > Scully: But we have no proof. > Mulder: Last year, on this exact date, SETI radio telescopes detected bogeys=20 in the airspace over twenty-seven states. The White House ordered a Condition Red. > Scully: But that was a meteor shower. > Mulder: Officially. Two days ago, eight prized Scandinavian reindeer vanished from the National Zoo, in Washington, D.C. Nobody--not even the zookeeper--was told about it. The government doesn't want people to know about Project Kringle. They fear that if this thing is proved to exist the public will stop spending half its annual income in a=20 holiday shopping frenzy. Retail markets will collapse. Scully, they cannot let the world believe this creature lives. There's too much at stake. They'll do whatever it takes to insure another silent night. > Scully: Mulder, I-- > Mulder: Sh-h-h. Do you hear what I hear? > Scully: On the roof. It sounds like...a clatter. > Mulder: The truth is up there. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:27:46 -0700 From: paposehn@juno.com (Phil A Posehn) Subject: Re: DG: About DELTA GREEN: COUNTDOWN I hope the British Delta Green book covers those confusing military insignia! Phil Posehn _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:15:00 -0400 (EDT) From: The Man in Black Subject: Re: DG: Re: what are these cells ? On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, M-Zodiac maocked all that is good and wrote: > work. If you like, be loose with it. The recently-posted cell Z, for one, > seems to exceed the traditional size. Some "members" are actually friendlies. > Subject: DG: what are these cells ? > > >Well, I strongly feel that I should know about these cells, but damn, I > don't ! The cell structure of DG is explained on p.41. (if you don't have a copy then what are you doing on this list?) The Man in Black is : Z-cell for life! Novus Ordo Seclorum : E Pluribus Unum : Annuit Coeptus "My skin may be white, but my heart is BLACK." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:42:36 +0900 From: ft203004@fsinet.or.jp (Jay and Mikiko Noyes) Subject: DG: Re: Nevada Base info and government observation Considering the various topics discussed on this and other mailing lists, how much effort do you think the U.S. government, or other governments for that matter, put into monitoring them? Perhaps we should pause now to wave at the friendly agents of the NSA... (Wave) Jay >After thinking about it for a while, I realized how little I knew about the >Walker Lake base. So I sent a note to one of my buddies in Reno to dig up >what he could. The info on the Underwater Nuclear Warfare aspect is >practically non-existant. Sorry. On that front I only know that it says it >is. Another friend of mine claims to have been stationed out there in the mid >80's but refused to go further other than saying there was far more than is >immediately visible. Whatever. Our estimates put the facility at approx. >1200-1800 square miles. Remember, this is Nevada where 80-85% of the land is >government owned. Pinpointing military boundaries is darned hard. The only >thing visible from the road are dozens of rows of concrete magazines, >barracks, a cemetary, and several unimpressive pre-fab buildings. > >The base was created after the loss of one in NJ to fire in 1926, IIRC. After >that, the US wisely decided to relocate it largest ammo dump to an area where >enormous explosions wouldn't be an issue. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:48:49 -0400 (EDT) From: The Man in Black Subject: Re: DG: Subjects for discussion On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Joseph Camp wrote: > >What I can see is some kind of deal between Delta Green and the ghouls. > >The ghouls sould give DG their knowledge of the Mythos, and in return DG > >would cover up the ghouls' ... indiscretions. As always, I must state my associates' objections to complicity with *any* supernatural force. It is dangerous to humanity to provide aid and comfort to the enemy. The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum "A kick in the face is more than a dispute." - Bobby "The Brain" Heenan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:10:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Juneau Subject: Re: DG: Re: Nevada Base info and government observation On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Jay and Mikiko Noyes wrote: > Considering the various topics discussed on this and other mailing lists, > how much effort do you think the U.S. government, or other governments for > that matter, put into monitoring them? > > Perhaps we should pause now to wave at the friendly agents of the NSA... Who do you think made sure DG sold out? Don ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:13:06 -0500 From: Jeff McSpadden Subject: DG: Exposing the Global Surveillance System Shamelessly stolen from http://censored.sonoma.edu/ProjectCensored/top_stories.html Exposing the Global Surveillance System Source: CAQ Title: "Secret Power: Exposing the Global Surveillance System" Date: Winter 1996/1997 Author: Nicky Hager For over 40 years, New Zealand's largest intelligence agency, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), has been helping its Western allies to spy on countries throughout the Pacific region. Neither the public nor the majority of New Zealand's top elected officials had knowledge of these activities, activities which have operated since 1948 under a secret, Cold War-era intelligence alliance between the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (the UKUSA agreement). But in the late 1980s, in a decision it probably regrets, the U.S. prompted New Zealand to join a new and highly secret global intelligence system. Author Hager's investigation into this system and his discovery of the ECHELON Dictionary has revealed one of the world's biggest, most closely held intelligence projects, one which allows spy agencies to monitor most of the telephone, e-mail, and telex communications carried over the world's telecommunication networks. It potentially affects every person communicating between (and sometimes within) countries anywhere in the world. The ECHELON system, designed and coordinated by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is one of the world's biggest, most closely held intelligence projects. Unlike many of the Cold War electronic spy systems, ECHELON is designed primarily to gather electronic transmissions from nonmilitary targets: governments, organizations, businesses, and individuals in virtually every country. The system works by indiscriminately intercepting very large quantities of communications and using computers to identify and extract messages of interest from the mass of unwanted ones. Computers at each secret station in the ECHELON network automatically search millions of messages for pre-programmed keywords. For each message containing one of those keywords, the computer automatically notes time and place of origin and interception, and gives the message a four-digit code for future reference. Computers that can automatically search through traffic for keywords have existed since at least the 1970Os, but the ECHELON system was designed by NSA to interconnect all these computers and allow the stations to function as components of an integrated whole. Using the ECHELON system, an agency in one country may automatically pick up information gathered elsewhere in the system. Thus, the stations of the junior UKUSA allies function for the NSA no differently than if they were overtly NSA-run bases located on their soil. The exposure of ECHELON occurred after more than fifty people who work or have worked in intelligence and related fields, concerned that the UKUSA activities had been secret too long and were going too far, agreed to be interviewed by Hager, a long-time researcher of spying and intelligence. Materials leaked to Hager included precise information on where the spying is conducted, how the system works, the system's capabilities and shortcomings, and other details such as code names. The potential abuses of and few restraints around the use of ECHELON have motivated other intelligence workers to come forward. In one example, a group of "highly placed intelligence operatives" from the British Government Communications Headquarters came forward protesting what they regarded as "gross malpractice and negligence" within the establishments in which they operate, citing cases of GCHQ interception of charitable organizations such as Amnesty International and Christian Aid. Nicky Hager states: "The main thing that protects these agencies from change is their secrecy. On the day my book [Secret Power] arrived in the bookshops, without prior publicity, there was an all-day meeting of the intelligence bureaucrats in the prime minister's department trying to decide if they could prevent it from being distributed. They eventually concluded, sensibly, that the political costs were too high. It is understandable that they were so agitated." Student Researchers: Bryan Way, Brad Smith Faculty Evaluator: David Van Nuys, Ph.D. - ---------------------------------------------- ICQ# is 9957476 http://www.inlink.com/~jeferi/ opening soon: project annex at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/2864/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:15:37 -0500 From: Jeff McSpadden Subject: DG: Russian Plutonium Lost Over Chile and Bolivia Russian Plutonium Lost Over Chile and Bolivia Source: CAQ Title: "Space Probe Explodes, Plutonium Missing" Date: Spring 1997 Author: Karl Grossman On November 16, 1996, Russia's Mars 96 space probe broke up and burned while descending over Chile and Bolivia, scattering its remains across a 10,000-square-mile area. The probe carried about a half pound of deadly plutonium divided into 4 battery canisters, and no one seems to know where they went! Gordon Bendick, Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Security Council, states there are two possibilities. Either the "...canisters were destroyed coming through the atmosphere [and the plutonium dispersed], or the canisters survived re-entry, impacted the earth, and...penetrated the surface...or could have hit a rock and bounced off like an agate marble." This amount of plutonium has the potential to cause devastating damage. According to Dr. Helen Caldicott, president emeritus of Physicians for Social Responsibility, "Plutonium is so toxic that less that one millionth of a gram is a carcinogenic dose." She states: "One pound, if uniformly distributed, could hypothetically induce lung cancer in every person on earth." Dr. John Gofman, professor emeritus of radiological physics at the University of California, Berkeley confirms the increased hazard of lung cancer which would occur if the probe burned up and formed plutonium oxide particles. On November 17, when the U.S. Space Command announced the probe would re-enter the earth's atmosphere with a predicted impact point in East Central Australia, President Clinton telephoned the Australian Prime Minister John Howard and offered "the assets the U.S. has in the Department of Energy," to deal with any radioactive contamination. Howard placed the Australian military and government on full alert and warned the public to use "extreme caution" if they came in contact with the remnants of the Russian space probe. In the first of a series of blunders, the day after the space probe had fallen on South America, the Space Command remained focused on Australia. Later they reported the probe had fallen in the Pacific, just west of South America. A Russian news source put the site in a different patch of the Pacific altogether. Major media in the United States reported the probe as having crashed "harmlessly" into the ocean. On November 18, 1996 The Washington Post ran the headline: "Errant Russian Spacecraft Crashes Harmlessly After Scaring Australia." On November 29, U.S. Space Command completely revised its account. It changed not only where, but also when the probe fell. The final report placed the crash site not west of South America, but directly on Chile and Bolivia. The date of the crash was also revised from November 17 to November 16, the night before. Apparently, U.S. Space Command had initially tracked the booster stage of the Russian craft, and not the actual probe itself. Yet once the U.S. had determined the plutonium might have landed on South America it did nothing to help locate and recover the radioactive canisters. "You can clearly see the double standard," charged Houston aerospace engineer James Oberg. "Australia got a phone call from the President, and Chile got a two week-old fax from somebody." Many attribute this double standard to racism. The New York Times mentioned the incident on page 7 under "World Briefs" on December 14, 1996. The Russian government has been uncooperative, still refusing to give Chile a description of the canisters to aid in retrieval efforts. Student Researchers: Robin Stovall, Kecia Kaiser Faculty Evaluator: Catherine Nelson Ph.D. - ---------------------------------------------- ICQ# is 9957476 http://www.inlink.com/~jeferi/ opening soon: project annex at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/2864/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:16:52 -0500 From: Jeff McSpadden Subject: DG: Little Known Federal Law Paves The Way for National Identification Card Little Known Federal Law Paves The Way for National Identification Card Source: WITWIGO Date: May-June 1997 Title: "National ID Card is Now Federal Law and Georgia Wants to Help Lead the Way" Author: Cyndee Parker Mainstream Coverage: The New York Times, September 8, 1996, Section 6; Page 58, Column 1 Related article in The San Francisco Chronicle, September 19, 1996, Page A1 In September 1996, President Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act of 1996. Buried at approximately page 650 was a section that creates a framework for establishing a national ID card for the American public. This legislation was slipped through without fanfare or publicity. This law has various aspects: It establishes a "Machine Readable Document Pilot Program" requiring employers to swipe a prospective employee's driver's license through a special reader linked to the federal government's Social Security Administration. The federal government would have the discretion to approve or disapprove the applicant for employment. In this case, the driver's license becomes a "national ID card." According to the author, "For the first time in American history, and reminiscent of Communist countries, our government would have the ability to grant approval before a private company enters into private employment contracts with private citizens. Because of the nature of the employment system alone, personal information would be accessible to local agencies and anyone who even claims to be an employer. The government would have comprehensive files on all American citizens' names, dates and places of birth, mothers' maiden names, Social Security numbers, gender, race, driving records, child support payments, divorce status, hair and eye color, height, weight, and anything else they may dream up in the future." Another part of the law provides $5 million-per-year grants to any state that wants to participate in any one of three pilot ID programs. One of these programs is the "Criminal Alien Identification Program," which is to be used by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to record fingerprints of aliens previously arrested. A third part of this law provides that federal agencies may only accept driver's licenses that conform to new requirements, meaning only licenses which contain digital fingerprints. The author of the national ID law, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), stated in a Capitol Hill magazine that it was her intention to see Congress immediately implement a national ID system whereby every American would be required to carry a card with a "magnetic strip on it on which the bearer's unique voice, retina pattern, or fingerprint is digitally encoded." Congressman Dick Armey (R-TX), among others, has strongly denounced the new law, calling it "an abomination, and wholly at odds with the American tradition of individual freedom." Shortly before the bill was signed into law, Georgia passed its own legislation, creating something similar to the federal ID program. The Georgia law requires residents to give digital fingerprints before obtaining a driver's license or state ID. This law was approved by the state legislature in April 1996 and received virtually no public or media attention at that time. Since passage, many Georgia lawmakers have tried repealing the law. Eight repeal bills were drafted in the Georgia Assembly and one in the Senate. However, all of the bills were blocked in the Senate and never voted on. Student Researcher: Bryan Way, Erika Nell, Matt Monpas Faculty Evaluator: Peter Phillips, Ph.D. - ---------------------------------------------- ICQ# is 9957476 http://www.inlink.com/~jeferi/ opening soon: project annex at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/2864/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:20:11 -0500 From: Jeff McSpadden Subject: DG: BIG BROTHER GOES HIGH-TECH BIG BROTHER GOES HIGH-TECH Sources: COVERT ACTION QUARTERLY Date: Spring 1996 Title: "Big Brother Goes High-Tech" Author: David Banisar INSIGHT Date: 8/19/96 Title: "Access, Privacy and Power" Authors: Michael Rust and Susan Crabtree Date: 9/9/96 Title: "New Surveillance Camera Cheers Police, Worries ACLU"* Author: Joyce Price (*Reprint from Washington Times) George Orwell's prediction concerning government surveillance in his science fiction novel 1984 is rapidly becoming reality in the "free world." Information on individuals in the developed world can now be obtained by governments and corporations using new surveillance, identification, and networking technologies. These new technologies are rapidly facilitating the mass and routine surveillance of large segments of the population--without the need for warrants and formal investigations. In Britain, nearly all public areas are monitored by over 150,000 closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV). Equipped with a powerful zoom lens, each camera can read the wording on a cigarette packet at 100 yards. These cameras can track individuals wherever they go--even into buildings. In the U.S., Baltimore announced plans to put 200 cameras in the city center. The FBI has also developed miniaturized CCTV units it can put in a "lamp, clock, radio, duffel bag, purse, picture frame, utility pole, coin telephone, and other [objects]" and then control remotely to "pan, tilt, zoom, and focus." Another type of surveillance camera currently in development boasts the equivalent of X-ray vision, and can penetrate clothing to "see" concealed weapons, plastic explosives or drugs. Known as the passive millimeter wave imager, it can also see through walls and detect activity. And while neither is expected to be available until 1997, the manufacturer has been flooded with calls from law enforcement agencies around the globe. The camera has also prompted suggestions that it is in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees the right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure. Additionally, new biometric technologies which use sophisticated computer-scanning to measure personal characteristics--including fingerprints, retinal patterns, and the geometry of the hand--are already being tested by U.S. immigration authorities at JFK, Newark, and Vancouver airports in place of passports. Other emerging fields of surveillance include Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) which track the movements of all people using public or private transportation. Such systems are linked to ordinary bank accounts and can generate records that show a driver's name and address, and the exact time and place where tolls have been charged. Nine states in the U.S. already use similar systems to track over 250,000 vehicles every day, and 12 more states will soon put their own systems on-line. While technologically dazzling, such advances threaten to render privacy vulnerable on a scale never seen before--without providing accountability for those who may misuse it. SSU Censored Researchers: Richard Henderson Stacey Merrick - ---------------------------------------------- ICQ# is 9957476 http://www.inlink.com/~jeferi/ opening soon: project annex at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/2864/ ------------------------------ End of deltagreen-digest V1 #11 *******************************