WMD - MASINT - keeping your eye on the ball [cw]
Captain wardribe | 03.02.2004 12:41
staying on the ball...
the following message was received Friday, August 29, 2003 03:21:11;
after making my spin genocide page
during the Hutton inquiry...
HI...
I suggest you look into the United States Defense Department's Central MASINT Organization and it's role in collecting and analyzing weapons intelligence in Iraq.
On February 9, 1993 Department of Defense Directive 5105.58 created an intelligence office for the purpose of locating, characterizing and tracking Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Smart Weapons and Conventional Weapons and associated facilities in Iraq and throughout the world through the use of spaceborn and airborne MASINT ( Measurement and Signature Intelligence) remote sensing technologies. This office is now known as the Central MASINT Oragnization.
In 1994 the CMO published a book with the provocative title "CENTRAL MASINT ORGANIZATION BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WARFARE INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION STRATEGIES BRIEFING" yet it has never been mentioned in any news media coverage of such weapons intelligence collection in Iraq. Why not? It certainly seems relevant.
In 1996 the House Intelligence Committee designated the CMO as the primary source of, and supreme authority on, Weapons of Mass Destruction intelligence.
It was also considered to be the agency most critical to the survival of the United States of America as a nation in the 21st century.
In 1996 the CMO created the Covered Lantern real time hyperspectral remote weapons detection system that can be deployed on unmanned aircraft.
In Febuary of 2001 FBI agent Robert Hanssen was arrested in the most catastrophic espionage case in American history. What made Hanssen's spying so damaging was that he sold secret CMO documents to the Russians. At the time the news media widely reported that the CMO could detect and track nuclear, biological and chemical weapons anywhere in the world.
Yet two years later, as we prepared for war with Iraq, the same news organizations apparently developed selective amnesia and completely forgot about the CMO and it's amazing remote weapons detection technologies.
In all the months we have been hearding endless debates about the claims that Iraq possessed and deployed weapons of mass destruction the news media, including journalists who reported the Robert Hanssen story, have never asked the Bush administration if the CMO confirmed, or ruled out, to a scientific certainty that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration itself, in all it's endless talk about weapons of mass destruction, has never once mentioned the existence of the CMO even though it plans to spend one hundred and forty-four billion dollars over the next four years for new tactical remote sensing technologies to enable the CMO and the Air Force's National Air Intelligence Center to conduct real time detection , analysis and tracking of individual weapons anywhere on the face of the earth as part of Rumsfeld's "military transformation" program that includes the Department of Defense HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE EXPLOITATION initiative.
Is it possible that President Bush and Tony Blair deliberately ignored exculpatory CMO data that inconveniently proved that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction? Did Iraq actually destroy it's old, and militarily useless, WMD stockpile as they claimed?
After all we never saId WE did not have proof they did, just that THEY did not provide documentation. MASINT would easily detect a weapons incinerator and it's 1500 degree plus temperatures anywhere in Iraq and could easily analyze the smoke to see exactly was was burned there and how much. The no fly zones place all of Iraq within easy reach of MASINT sensors on US remote sensing aircraft, not to mention the CMO's Covered Lantern unmanned aircraft designed to locate concealed and camoflaged weapons .
Why else would the Bush adminstration suppress the CMO's remote sensor "weapons inspections" intelligence?
Why was CMO intelligence never made available to United Nations Weapons Inspectors who distracted the news media on the ground in Iraq for years?
Does the news media censor all references to the CMO or are they just ignorant of it?
Why does the news media think the CIA and NSA are the ultimate source of "WMD intelligence" when the CMO reports to Donald Rumsfeld, not George Tenet or Condolezza Rice?
Both CIA and NSA have no MASINT capability of their own.
Why has the CMO been excluded from all discussions about Iraq and why is it virtually unknown to the public when it ought to be at the very center of the discussion on weapons of mass destruction and pre-emptive warfare?
With increasing violence in Iraq and no traces of WMDs yet found don't the people of America and Great Britain have a right to know the plain truth about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or lack thereof?
The CMO is, according to the Congress of the United States, the ultimate authority on weapons of mass destruction intelligence. The budget for CMO technology over the past ten years has been vastly larger than the budget of the United Nations Weapons Inspections in Iraq.
Yet not one journalist has ever asked the obvious question.
What does the CMO know about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?
XXX X Pasadena, CA USA
more interesting reading...
"As we work with policy makers to define USCENTCOM's approach in the AOR, we address our objectives and goals in light of the political-military dynamics of the region. "
"The Central Region is of vital interest to the United States. Sixty-eight percent of the world's proven oil reserves are found in the Gulf Region and 43 percent of the world's petroleum exports pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The developing energy sector of the Central Asian States, with the potential for discovery of additional oil reserves, further emphasizes the importance of the Central Region to America and the world. "
Tommy franks...
http://216.239.59.104/unclesam?q=cache:EN_cQbigjtUJ:www.defenselink.mil/dodgc/lrs/docs/test01-03-22Franks.rtf+MASINT+iraq&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Naval intelligence [2001]:
http://www.nwdc.navy.mil/Library/Documents/NDPs/ndp2/ndp20001.htm
intelligence issues for congree [ 2001]
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/crs/intell4cong91201.pdf
US military transformation: bit scary!
http://www.oft.osd.mil/library/library_files/document_297_MT_StrategyDoc1.pdf
IC21: The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century: clandestine services
http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/house/intel/ic21/ic21009.html
UNSCON Journal from spring 2001
http://www.inscom.army.mil/PAO/journal/spring01.pdf
find more by googling US defense sites [ click below]
http://www.google.com/unclesam?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=MASINT+iraq
all the best
cw
http://www.wardrobe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index2.html
the following message was received Friday, August 29, 2003 03:21:11;
after making my spin genocide page
during the Hutton inquiry...
HI...
I suggest you look into the United States Defense Department's Central MASINT Organization and it's role in collecting and analyzing weapons intelligence in Iraq.
On February 9, 1993 Department of Defense Directive 5105.58 created an intelligence office for the purpose of locating, characterizing and tracking Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Smart Weapons and Conventional Weapons and associated facilities in Iraq and throughout the world through the use of spaceborn and airborne MASINT ( Measurement and Signature Intelligence) remote sensing technologies. This office is now known as the Central MASINT Oragnization.
In 1994 the CMO published a book with the provocative title "CENTRAL MASINT ORGANIZATION BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WARFARE INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION STRATEGIES BRIEFING" yet it has never been mentioned in any news media coverage of such weapons intelligence collection in Iraq. Why not? It certainly seems relevant.
In 1996 the House Intelligence Committee designated the CMO as the primary source of, and supreme authority on, Weapons of Mass Destruction intelligence.
It was also considered to be the agency most critical to the survival of the United States of America as a nation in the 21st century.
In 1996 the CMO created the Covered Lantern real time hyperspectral remote weapons detection system that can be deployed on unmanned aircraft.
In Febuary of 2001 FBI agent Robert Hanssen was arrested in the most catastrophic espionage case in American history. What made Hanssen's spying so damaging was that he sold secret CMO documents to the Russians. At the time the news media widely reported that the CMO could detect and track nuclear, biological and chemical weapons anywhere in the world.
Yet two years later, as we prepared for war with Iraq, the same news organizations apparently developed selective amnesia and completely forgot about the CMO and it's amazing remote weapons detection technologies.
In all the months we have been hearding endless debates about the claims that Iraq possessed and deployed weapons of mass destruction the news media, including journalists who reported the Robert Hanssen story, have never asked the Bush administration if the CMO confirmed, or ruled out, to a scientific certainty that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration itself, in all it's endless talk about weapons of mass destruction, has never once mentioned the existence of the CMO even though it plans to spend one hundred and forty-four billion dollars over the next four years for new tactical remote sensing technologies to enable the CMO and the Air Force's National Air Intelligence Center to conduct real time detection , analysis and tracking of individual weapons anywhere on the face of the earth as part of Rumsfeld's "military transformation" program that includes the Department of Defense HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE EXPLOITATION initiative.
Is it possible that President Bush and Tony Blair deliberately ignored exculpatory CMO data that inconveniently proved that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction? Did Iraq actually destroy it's old, and militarily useless, WMD stockpile as they claimed?
After all we never saId WE did not have proof they did, just that THEY did not provide documentation. MASINT would easily detect a weapons incinerator and it's 1500 degree plus temperatures anywhere in Iraq and could easily analyze the smoke to see exactly was was burned there and how much. The no fly zones place all of Iraq within easy reach of MASINT sensors on US remote sensing aircraft, not to mention the CMO's Covered Lantern unmanned aircraft designed to locate concealed and camoflaged weapons .
Why else would the Bush adminstration suppress the CMO's remote sensor "weapons inspections" intelligence?
Why was CMO intelligence never made available to United Nations Weapons Inspectors who distracted the news media on the ground in Iraq for years?
Does the news media censor all references to the CMO or are they just ignorant of it?
Why does the news media think the CIA and NSA are the ultimate source of "WMD intelligence" when the CMO reports to Donald Rumsfeld, not George Tenet or Condolezza Rice?
Both CIA and NSA have no MASINT capability of their own.
Why has the CMO been excluded from all discussions about Iraq and why is it virtually unknown to the public when it ought to be at the very center of the discussion on weapons of mass destruction and pre-emptive warfare?
With increasing violence in Iraq and no traces of WMDs yet found don't the people of America and Great Britain have a right to know the plain truth about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or lack thereof?
The CMO is, according to the Congress of the United States, the ultimate authority on weapons of mass destruction intelligence. The budget for CMO technology over the past ten years has been vastly larger than the budget of the United Nations Weapons Inspections in Iraq.
Yet not one journalist has ever asked the obvious question.
What does the CMO know about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?
XXX X Pasadena, CA USA
more interesting reading...
"As we work with policy makers to define USCENTCOM's approach in the AOR, we address our objectives and goals in light of the political-military dynamics of the region. "
"The Central Region is of vital interest to the United States. Sixty-eight percent of the world's proven oil reserves are found in the Gulf Region and 43 percent of the world's petroleum exports pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The developing energy sector of the Central Asian States, with the potential for discovery of additional oil reserves, further emphasizes the importance of the Central Region to America and the world. "
Tommy franks...
http://216.239.59.104/unclesam?q=cache:EN_cQbigjtUJ:www.defenselink.mil/dodgc/lrs/docs/test01-03-22Franks.rtf+MASINT+iraq&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Naval intelligence [2001]:
http://www.nwdc.navy.mil/Library/Documents/NDPs/ndp2/ndp20001.htm intelligence issues for congree [ 2001]
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/crs/intell4cong91201.pdf US military transformation: bit scary!
http://www.oft.osd.mil/library/library_files/document_297_MT_StrategyDoc1.pdf IC21: The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century: clandestine services
http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/house/intel/ic21/ic21009.html UNSCON Journal from spring 2001
http://www.inscom.army.mil/PAO/journal/spring01.pdf find more by googling US defense sites [ click below]
http://www.google.com/unclesam?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=MASINT+iraq all the best
cw
http://www.wardrobe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index2.html
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03.02.2004 14:41
Congressional
Intelligence Issues for Congress
Updated August 5, 2003
Richard A. Best, Jr.
Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
"...some observers believe that intelligence agencies may be in for a period of
transition and adaptation exceeding the one that followed immediately upon the dissolution
of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. In particular, it is argued that the three major
“INTs,” the major intelligence disciplines — signals intelligence (sigint), imagery
intelligence (imint), and human intelligence (humint) — will have to be fundamentally
reinvented and this process will have major technical and organizational ramifications.
There will have to evolve, it is further argued, a coherent community-wide managerial
structure that will respect the varied and changing needs of military and civilian intelligence
consumers while keeping costs within bounds and avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort.
Making some of these changes may not savemoney, and may even require budgetary growth.
However, according to this argument, a failure to confront changed realities may result in
substantial waste of the $27+ billion now invested in intelligence and intelligence-related
activities.
The events of September 11, 2001, persuaded many observers that theremay a need for
a wide-ranging review of the organizational structure of the Intelligence Community.
Media reports in early November 2001 indicated that a review of the Intelligence Community
by an Administration panel, headed by former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft,
would recommend transferring three major intelligence agencies to the direct control of the
DCI and the separation of the DCI from day-to-daymanagement of the CIA."
"A fourth INT, measurement and signatures analysis—masint—has received greater
emphasis in recent years. A highly technical discipline, masint involves the application of
more complicated analytical refinements to information collected by sigint and imint sensors.
It also includes spectral imaging by which the identities and characteristics of objects can be
identified on the basis of their reflection and absorption of light. A key problem has been
retaining personnel with expertise in masint systems who are offered more remunerative
positions in private industry."
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United States european command???
USEUCOM is a unified combatant command whose mission is to maintain ready forces to conduct
the full spectrum of military operations unilaterally or in concert with the coalition partners; to enhance
transatlantic security through support to NATO; to promote regional stability; and advance U.S. interests
in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East."
The USEUCOM area of responsibility (AOR) covers more than 21 million square miles and includes
93 countries and territories. Several other countries and territories are considered to be part of our area
of interest (AOI).
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Captain Wardrobe
even more
03.02.2004 15:07
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MASINT:
Scientific and technical intelligence information obtained by quantitative and qualitative analysis of data (metric, angle, spatial, wavelength, time dependence, modulation, plasma, and hydromagnetic) derived from specific technical sensors for the purpose of identifying any distinctive features associated with the source, emitter, or sender and to facilitate subsequent identification and/or measurement of the same. MASINT includes: Radar Intelligence (RADINT), Acoustic Intelligence (ACOUSTINT), Nuclear Intelligence (NUCINT), Radio Frequency/Electromagnetic Pulse Intelligence (RF/EMPINT), Electro-optical Intelligence (ELECTRO-OPTINT), Laser Intelligence (LASINT), Materials Intelligence, Unintentional Radiation Intelligence (RINT), Chemical and Biological Intelligence (CBINT), Directed Energy Weapons Intelligence (DEWINT), Effluent/Debris Collection, Spectroscopic Intelligence, and Infrared Intelligence (IRINT).
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lasers????(4 SCEPTIC)
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4.11.3 1982-1983
"The Navy TENCAP budget broke the $1.0 million dollar threshold for the first time and the office began to initiate research and development efforts. The first independent Navy TENCAP efforts were influenced by two studies:
The Chief of Naval Operations sponsored an Integrated Tactical Surveillance System (ITSS) study (see Section 4.7.1) which provided funds to several of the largest Department of Defense contractors for assessments of state-of-the-art capabilities that might be used for wide area surveillance against Soviet forces. As noted earlier, the ITSS studies recommended a "system-of-systems" approach to wide area surveillance, with heavy reliance on satellites and over-the-horizon-radar.
At the same time, Mr. Leo Brubaker, a maverick, mid-level analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency, conducted an assessment--under the study name Sudden Dawn-of unusual phenomena uncovered during Measurement and Signatures Intelligence (MASINT) efforts using reconnaissance satellites.
In 1982, Navy TENCAP began detailed research into the tactical support potential of the Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) strategic infrared warning satellites, under the project name SLOW WALKER. This effort was based in part on ITSS suggestions that infrared sensors should be part of the wide area surveillance mix and hints in the Sudden Dawn results that unexploited capabilities of the DSP satellites might have tactical applications.
The Naval Space Command was established on 1 October 1983 and Navy TENCAP was directed to send two of its six billets to Dahlgren, Virginia, to form a TENCAP detachment. This arrangement (four TENCAP billets on the CNO staff and two at Naval Space Command) remains current today. The Dahlgren TENCAP detachment receives its funding and priorities from the Washington office. Naval Space Command also assumed responsibility for the Navy SLOW WALKER detachments at the DSP ground stations."
Captain Wardrobe
oh yeah, and this...
03.02.2004 15:18
Truth from These Podia
Summary of a Study of Strategic Influence, Perception Management,
Strategic Information Warfare and Strategic Psychological Operations
in Gulf II
Sam Gardiner1
Colonel, USAF (Retired)
[extract]
The United States (and UK) conducted a strategic
influence campaign that:
• …distorted perceptions of the situation both
before and during the conflict.
• …caused misdirection of portions of the military
operation.
• …was irresponsible in parts.
• …might have been illegal in some ways.
• …cost big bucks.
• …will be even more serious in the future.
I know what I am suggesting is serious. I did not come to these conclusions
lightly. Because my plea is for truth in war, I have tried to be very careful not to fall into
a trap of describing exaggerations with exaggeration. I hope I’ve done that. I expect
some will believe I have been guilty of the same sins. As long as we can have some
discussion about truth in war, I accept the criticism.
Captain Wardrobe
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04.02.2004 16:08
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