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Report on Federal Anti-Activist Intelligence Network

By Frank Morales

On May 4, 2000, the Intelligence Newsletter, based in Paris, France,
published a report which stated that "sources close to the Washington DC
Metropolitan Police have given Intelligence Newsletter details about
intelligence units that gather information on anti-globalization militants
in the US and elsewhere". (1) In addition, the same sources said that
during the April 17 Break the World Bank DC protests, "reserve units from
the US Army Intelligence and Security Command helped Washington police
keep an eye on demonstrations staged at the World Bank/IMF meetings." In
addition, the French intelligence service report notes that "the Pentagon
sent around 700 men from the Intelligence and Security Command at Fort
Belvoir to assist the Washington police on April 17, including specialists
in human and signals intelligence. One unit was even strategically located
on the fourth floor balcony in a building at 1919 Pennsylvania Avenue with
a birds-eye view of most demonstrators."

According to the report, information on the protest movements is collected
and stored by six Regional Information Sharing System (RISS) centers
funded by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Ostensibly these intelligence centers are set up to counter organized
crime, drugs and terrorism but it takes no great stretch to comprehend how
civil disobedience, once defined as a terrorist threat and/or criminal
conspiracy would, or has become a target. According to the Intelligence
Newsletter report, "the RISS also act against any political activist group
deemed to be a threat and over the last year has found itself focusing on
anti-globalization groups." In addition, the report notes that in order
"to justify their interest in anti-globalization groups from a legal
standpoint, the authorities lump them into a category of terrorist
organizations. Among those considered as such at present are Global
Justice (the group that organized the April 17 demonstration), Earth
First, Greenpeace, American Indian Movement, Zapatista National Liberation
Front and Act-Up." Although this story has yet to be verified, given the
existence of RISS and the paranoid proclivities of the US national
security state and its civil disturbance planning apparatus, we should
assume the report is accurate.

According to RISS program documents (2), the agency is set up to "share
intelligence and coordinate efforts against criminal networks that operate
in many locations across jurisdictional lines." The program "serves more
than 5,300 member law enforcement agencies" across the country including
the FBI, DEA, IRS, Secret Service, Customs and the BATF. It is overseen by
the Bureau of Justice Assistance, State and Local Assistance Division, 810
Seventh Street, NW, Washington, DC (202-305-2923). Its immediate overseer
is the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR), PO Box 12729,
Tallahassee, Florida, (850-385-0600). The IIR also sponsors the State and
Local Anti-Terrorism Training program (SLATT) which provides, via its
"extremist research experts", "training and information to state and local
law enforcement personnel in the areas of domestic anti-terrorism and
extremist criminal activity." (3) The FBI's National Security Division
Training Unit is a partner with IIR in providing SLATT training
nationally.

According to a 1999 Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) report on RISS,the
six federally funded Regional Information Sharing System centers are
financed "to support law enforcement efforts to combat
multi-jurisdictional criminal conspiracies and activities." (4) The six
centers, the Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement
Network, Newtown, PA, the Mid-States Organized Crime Information Center,
Springfield, MO, the New England State Police Information Network,
Franklin, MA, the Rocky Mountain Information Network, Phoenix, AR, the
Regional Organized Crime Information Center, Nashville, TN, and the
Western States Information Network, Sacramento, CA, are set up in such a
way that "each center's staff possess sufficient flexibility to tailor the
individual center's priorities and operations to the particular- perhaps
unique - needs of the region." According to the BJA report, the centers
"maintain pools of specialized investigative equipment for loan to
participating member agencies", including "photographic, communications
(and) surveillance" equipment. In addition, "all six RISS Intelligence
Centers have confidential funds available to member agencies for the
purchase of investigative information, contraband, stolen property, and
other items of an evidentiary natureThe net amount of confidential funds
provided by the centers to member agencies totaled $265,526 for 1998."

According to the Intelligence Newsletter report cited earlier, it's the
Mid-Atlantic Network, based in Newtown, Pennsylvania, whose region
includes New York and the District of Columbia, that is particularly
efficient in activist spy work. According to the report, that center
"distributes intelligence on the groups to other police departments via
RISSNET, enabling investigators to find links between the movements and
look into their finances, telephone calls and membership lists." According
to Mid-Atlantic Network documents, it was "initiated by the US Congress in
1974 to aid law enforcement agencies in targeting, identifying, and
removing multi-jurisdictional criminal elements." The Network offers a
"secure database containing information concerning known or suspected
criminals, businesses, organizations and their related identifying
information", along with "training in the seizure of computers." (5)

As mentioned earlier, the Intelligence Newsletter report claims that
hundreds of Army intelligence operatives were present during the DC
anti-World Bank demo. Again, with a premonition of tens of thousands of
protesters, it is quite likely that the report is accurate. After all, one
can rest assured that the Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan,
code-named Garden Plot, is especially fixated on defending the seat of
government (corporate) power in America. (6) That DC was flooded with
intelligence operatives and assorted government spies is, lamentably,
quite likely. The US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM),
cited in the French report, is a "a major army command", which "conducts
dominant intelligence, security and information operations for military
commanders and national decision makers." (7) Based at Fort Belvoir,
Flagler Road, Virginia, (the Nolan Building) since 1989, INSCOM recently
redesignated a number of units including "the Continental United States
Military Intelligence Group that supported the National Security Agency
and a number of field stations."

According to military documents, during the course of the 90's, "INSCOM
was drawn into contingency operations other than war all over the globe"
These "contingency operations" or domestic military operations other than
war, are law enforcement "support missions" in civil disturbance
suppression. Quite possibly they are run out of the "Emergency Operations
Center" at Fort Belvoir. These operations have been enhanced with the
recent creation of the "National Ground Intelligence Center." Further,
according to INSCOM, "the mission of the Special Security Group that had
disseminated Sensitive Compartmented Information since World War II was
drastically realigned. The unit was redesignated and resubordinated to the
902nd Military Intelligence Group." Some of this "sensitive" information
is contained in so-called top secret SAP programs. In this regard, INSCOM
is in the business of "providing counterintelligence support to the Army's
growing number of Special Access Programs -- highly sensitive projects
which required exceptional security measures." Actually, the gathering of
intelligence during the DC protest involves an even higher source, given
that "in 1993 the Secretary of Defense ordered service human intelligence
assets consolidated under Defense Intelligence Agency control", at which
time "INSCOM turned over most of its human intelligence operations"

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Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) Program, http://www.iir.com/riss/

State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Program,
http://www.iir.com/slatt/

Bureau of Justice assistance, The RISS Program, 1998,
http://www.iir.com/Publications/RISSProgram1998.pdf

Middle Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized Crime Law Enforcement Network,
http://www.iir.com/riss/magloclen/index.htm

Frank Morales, "US Military Civil Disturbance Planning The War at
Home," CovertAction Quarterly #69, Spring/Summer 2000,
http://www.covertaction.org/

US Army Intelligence and Security Command, http://www.vulcan.belvoir.army.mil/


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