FC: U.S. plan to bug U.N. Security Council revealed --The Observer

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 12:48:30 +0100
To: declan () well com
From: Maurice Wessling <maurice () bof nl>
Subject: US plan to bug Security Council
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Declan,

The UK newspaper The Observer published an NSA email which instructs NSA 
personnel to step up sigint operations against the UN Security Council.

http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905954,00.html

Maurice Wessling
Bits of Freedom


To: [Recipients withheld]
From: FRANK KOZA@Chief of Staff (Regional Target) CIV/NSA
on 31/01/2003 0:16
Subject: Reflections of Iraq debate/votes at UN - RT actions and potential 
for related contributions
Importance: High
TOP SECRET/COMINT/XL

All,

As you've likely heard by now, the Agency is mounting a surge particularly 
directed at the UN Security Council (UNSC) members (minus US and GBR of 
course) for insights as to how to membership is reacting to the on-going 
debate RE: Iraq, plans to vote on any related resolutions, what related 
policies/ negotiating positions they may be considering, alliances/ 
dependencies, etc - the whole gamut of information that could give US 
policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head 
off surprises. In RT, that means a QRC surge effort to revive/ create 
efforts against UNSC members Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea, 
as well as extra focus on Pakistan UN matters.

We've also asked ALL RT topi's to emphasise and make sure they pay 
attention to existing non-UNSC member UN-related and domestic comms for 
anything useful related to the UNSC deliberations/ debates/ votes. We have 
a lot of special UN-related diplomatic coverage (various UN delegations) 
from countries not sitting on the UNSC right now that could contribute 
related perspectives/ insights/ whatever. We recognise that we can't afford 
to ignore this possible source.

We'd appreciate your support in getting the word to your analysts who might 
have similar, more in-direct access to valuable information from accesses 
in your product lines. I suspect that you'll be hearing more along these 
lines in formal channels - especially as this effort will probably peak (at 
least for this specific focus) in the middle of next week, following the 
SecState's presentation to the UNSC.

Thanks for your help




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