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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS US Strategic Command, located at Offutt is also the fastest-growing crime in the NSA PHONE TAPS MAY CONFIRM Air Force Base in Nebraska, is the com- USA, with one in four families victimised. DIANA WAS PREGNANT mand and control centre for US nuclear The Home Office will now consider Les acting for Mohamed al-Fayed forces. US Space Command in Colorado — making identity theft a separate crime. At say that the international electronic Springs, Colorado, commands military the moment, stealing someone's identity is eavesdropping network Echelon intercept- space operations, information operations, not an offence; only gaining financially ed telephone conversations in which Diana, computer network operations and space from it is. Princess of Wales, discussed her marriage campaign planning. Both commands are The document proposes a universal enti- plans and pregnancy. charged with countering the proliferation of _ tlement card that would allow a "simple The Echelon station at Menwith Hill in weapons of mass destruction. way to access public services". Benefit northern England was reportedly used to "StratCom and SpaceCom have success- claimants would also use the card, which intercept Diana's private phone calls, fully provided the capabilities to meet the could contain health records, fingerprint details of which are believed to be amongst nation's defense needs for many years," —_ information and bank details. hundreds of documents held by the US- said Rumsfeld. "The merged comman Home Secretary David Blunkett wants to based NSA. Mohamed al-Fayed's lawyers will be responsible for both early warning make the card part of the "citizenship" have been trying to secure the documents of and defense against missile attack as debate, with legal residents in Britain through the US Freedom of Information well as long-range conventional attacks." receiving a positive sense of identity and _ legislation, so far without success. The intended merger is scheduled to take _ rights to services by carrying it, and he has Mr al-Fayed has consistently maintained place in October 2002, and the preferre presented the scheme to the House of _ that Diana and Dodi were murdered by location for the command headquarters is Commons. The proposal has been a never- forces loyal to the monarchy because the Offutt Air Force Base. realised pet project of both Labour and Princess planned to marry a Muslim. (Source: US Department of Defense News _ Conservative governments for more than According to the London Sunday Release No. 331-02, June 26, 2002) 20 years. Express, Mr al-Fayed believes that Diana Refusing to register for a card would was under US surveillance because of her UK PROPOSES ID CARDS TO probably be a punishable offence, but min- — stance against landmines, which threatened COMBAT IDENTITY THEFT isters indicated that they did not anticipate US military interests. UK government consultation major efforts to enforce participation. (Source: Sydney Morning Herald, June 24, document reports that identity theft— They expected most people would want to 2002) where criminals use people's personal "opt in" to the scheme because they would details to launder money, steal goods and _ be denied services if they did not. FBI SECRETLY CONTROLLED open bogus bank accounts—is one of the The creation of a card scheme could AMERICAN COMMUNIST PARTY fastest-growing crimes in Britain, rising by involve every UK resident aged 16 and ccording to a recently released book, more than 50 per cent in the past year. In over being issued with a new, unique, The Secret History of the FBI (St the first three months of this year, more than _ personal number. Martin's Press, NY) by veteran journalist 10,000 cases were recorded, equal to half of (Sources: The Observer, June 30, 2002; The Ronald Kessler, from 1954 onwards the all the cases recorded in 2001. Identity theft | Guardian, May 27 & July 3, 2002) FBI was e: sentially i in charge of the activi- + Do af tha Ca tha TICA US Strategic Command, located at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, is the com- mand and control centre for US nuclear forces. US Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado, commands military space operations, information operations, computer network operations and space campaign planning. Both commands are charged with countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. "StratCom and SpaceCom have success- fully provided the capabilities to meet the nation's defense needs for many years," said Rumsfeld. "The merged comman will be responsible for both early warning of and defense against missile attack as well as long-range conventional attacks." The intended merger is scheduled to take place in October 2002, and the preferre location for the command headquarters is Offutt Air Force Base. (Source: US Department of Defense News Release No. 331-02, June 26, 2002) FBI SECRETLY CONTROLLED AMERICAN COMMUNIST PARTY ccording to a recently released book, The Secret History of the FBI (St Martin's Press, NY) by veteran journalist Ronald Kessler, from 1954 onwards the FBI was essentially in charge of the activi- ties of the Communist Party in the USA. According to Kessler, in 1954 the FBI began running a top-secret operation code- named Solo, which entailed operating as an informant Morris Childs—the principal deputy to Gus Hall, head of the American Communist Party. In effect, Childs was the second-ranking official of the party and reported for 27 years on party activities and strategy, while making over 50 clandestine trips to the Soviet bloc, China and Cuba. The FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover held the secret of Solo so tightly that officials in the CIA, NSA, Defense Department, State Department and National Security Council could only read reports of the operation while agents waited to return them to bureau headquarters. Not until 1975 did the FBI inform the President and Secretary of State of the true source of the information. (Source: Website http:/www.overthrow.com, July 13, 2002) cy ———— we ol 8 = NEXUS Sar LK. www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2002