TUCSON CREDENTIALS - APRIL 1996- Summary
MAY PICNIC - scheduled for Saturday, May 4, 1996 at Bob & Lin Lamb's home in Green Valley. Don't forget to RSVP and coordinate with Lin at 625-4427.
NEW LUNCH SPOT - Monday, April 1, 1996, we will meet at the hometown Buffet, 5101 N. Oracle (next to Black Angus). USE $1.00 Senior discount card when paying for your meal. This will save you .50 each month. Will need $1.00 for gratuity at end of meal. See Secretary Ken Hermann.
OUR SPEAKER - for February was Bruce Gebhardt, who took over the Pheonix division recently. Bruce gave a interesting talk on the Bureau's current activity in Arizona.
BILL & EILEEN PRICE - Welcome to Tucson and the Tucson Chapter. Bill spent most of his career in Seattle/Spokane. Now resides at 5160 N. Amapola Way, Tucson, AZ. 86745. Give them a call at 743-4830.
MARY BUTLER - recently broke her hip and is recuperating. Please send cards to their home: 3940 E. Timrod #203, Tucson, AZ 85711.
INTERNET CYBERFEDS - Who have access to the Internet (WWW) take a look at the"Unofficial" Society Home Page: http://www.primenet.com/~tomm98/Society. index.html
For Registration Form for Atlanta Convention: print out...
National Convention
BICS - Background Investigation Contract Service program has been finally approved nation wide. . Retired agents will start conducting background investigations for FBI special Agent applicants.
GET WELL SOON - Jim Ader, Mary Butler, Bob Davis, John Holtzman, Harry Lindawood, Mary Moffett, Laura Nelson, and Bill Roemer,
LADIES LUNCHEON - Thursday, April 25, 1996 (12:30 PM) at 501 La Posada Cir. in Green Valley. Please RSVP Connie Lockrem by March 18 to make reservations: 648-8302.
WESTERN REGIONAL CONVENTION - Bellevue, WA., June 6-8, 1996. Don't miss this one, only a few miles north. Forms available.
KERMIT JOHNSON - has a new address and telephone number: 1550 E. River Rd. #369, Tucson, AZ 85718, Phone: 529-1212.
E-MAIL -addresses wanted. If you have a computer and are on the Internet, AOL, or any of the on line services, contact Tom at 297-7878 for a list of retired agents and their e-mail addresses...
NATIONAL CONVENTION - next year will be held in Atlanta, GA., September 25-29, 1996. Over 300 persons had already registered for this convention in San Francisco.. Registration Forms are available or check the Internet at: http://www.primenet.com/~tomm98/Atl.skyline.html
BOB KEEFE - is back and hopes to be at our next luncheon. Give him a call at 760-1409 and say hello.
E-MAIL ADDRESS - If you have an E-Mail address, please send Tom a message at [email protected].
PHOTOS NEEDED - for this publication. Do you have some old snap shots of the FBI in 1942? We�d like to see them and share them with our readers. Originals will be returned. Thanks.
FBI DIRECTOR WARNS CONGRESS
Economic espionage by foreign countries and firms against U.S. companies is a growing threat to national security, FBI Director Louis Freeh warned Congress.
``The problem involves billions of dollars, thousands of jobs and the health of our national economy,'' Freeh said at a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
``Current FBI investigations reflect 23 countries engaged in economic espionage activities against the United States,'' Freeh added.
Freeh did not identify any of the countries, but other witnesses told of incidents involving companies and individuals from China, Germany and Japan.
Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Russian President Boris Yeltsin recently ordered the use of industrial intelligence to close the technology gap with western nations.
``I think it's an ominous sign,'' Freeh said of Yeltsin's statement. ``They (foreign countries) certainly have increased their activities in the United States.''
Because of the threat, Freeh said the FBI established a counterintelligence program in 1994 to detect and stop foreign economic espionage.
Specter said the White House had estimated that U.S. businesses were losing $100 billion a year from foreign spying. He said at least 51 countries had spies in the United States trying to steal economic information.
A recent report from the General Accounting Office, the congressional investigating agency, said some U.S. allies were trying to steal American military technology. The report did not identify the countries.
Freeh said the problem was becoming more difficult because of the greater importance of advanced technology and the increased access to electronic information on computers.
He said some countries use their students studying in the United States as intelligence agents or pay employees of U.S. firms to obtain economic secrets or proprietary information.
Freeh said current laws on theft and fraud often could not be used in industrial spying cases because no physical property was actually stolen.
``For example, if an individual downloads computer program code without permission of the owner, has a theft occurred even though the true owner never lost possession of the original?'' Freeh asked.
He urged Congress to pass laws that deal specifically with economic espionage.
Among the legislation being considered is a bill that would make theft of proprietary information a federal crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for individuals and to $10 million in fines for companies.
Another bill would make it illegal for a foreign government to sponsor the theft of economic information.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said U.S. companies should also scramble their computer systems through encryption to protect their information.
``Encryption is not only good for American business, it should be good business for Americans,'' Leahy said.
Profiling Serial Murderers - FBI
PROFILING SERIAL MURDERS - FBI
One of the most exciting activities for an FBI agent is the profiling of serial murderers. FBI agent John Douglas spent 25 years tracking down some of the world's most notorious serial killers by probing the deepest recesses of their twisted minds. Peering into the heart of darkness for a quarter of a century cost him his marriage, made him a firm believer in the death penalty and convinced him that true repenters are rare.
By chance, he flew to Britain to publicise his memoirs about tracking down mass murderers in the very week that gun enthusiast Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children and their teacher in a Scottish school.
`That really was ironic, truly extraordinary,'' said Douglas whose round of publicity interviews for his book ``Mindhunter'' were given a grisly topicality. The killings that rocked Britain and shocked the world hammered home the point to Douglas -- evil knows no boundaries.
Reflecting on what he saw in his years with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), he had a stark warning for law officers everywhere who face the horror of a serial killer loose in their community. `Unfortunately ours is very much a growth industry and we'll never run out of customers,'' said Douglas who pioneered criminal personality profiling in the FBI's elite Serial Crime Unit. That meant looking into the minds of some of the most dangerous criminals on earth to see what made them tick: ``Put yourself in the position of the hunter. That is what I have to do.'' Douglas tracked down killers, not with guns blazing and sirens wailing, but with his mind. He interviewed 150 of America's most notorious criminals from Los Angeles cult leader Charles Manson to the New York ``Son of Sam'' killer David Berkowitz.
Called in by police forces throughout the country to help catch serial killers, he used psychology, experience and the crime scene evidence to build up a profile. He studied their habits and motives and tried to predict their next move. The stakes were always terrifyingly high. If he took a wrong turn, another innocent victim could die. He became the model for special agent Jack Crawford in ``The Silence of the Lambs,'' a chilling tale of one killer helping to track down another.
Jonathan Demme, director of the Oscar-winning film, said of Douglas: ``He knows more about serial killers than anyone in the world. I wanted to cast him as agent Crawford.'' Douglas found after years of studying evil at close quarters that serial killers came from broken homes with absent fathers and domineering mothers. They were not killers by nature. As children, they often wet their beds, started fires and were cruel to animals.
Loners with low self-esteem, they are above average intelligence but like to visit the graves of their victims. Lie detectors rarely work with them. Often they take macabre souvenirs. One shoe fetishist cut off his victim's left foot and kept it encased in a high-heel shoe in his freezer.
Douglas issues a chilling warning about the serial killer: ``He learns from experience, he is good at what he does and he will get better until he is caught.'' Douglas remains profoundly doubtful about the chances of a serial killer being truly repentant and capable of reform.
In his book, he says: ``I've become very pessimistic about anything remotely akin to rehabilitation for most sexually motivated killers.'' He says psychiatrists are too ready to listen to persuasive killers and never examine the stark evidence of their victims's suffering. As Britons weep over the massacre of innocents at Dunblane Primary School, he delivers a poignant epitaph to his own marriage that ended after his years confronting human depravity.
``When you have seen what I've seen, giving your children the space and freedom they need to live is a constant emotional struggle.
``I spent so much time over the years learning about the victimology of dead children that I short-changed and didn't learn enough about my own brilliantly alive ones.''
FBI TO STOP ADS
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has suspended a controversial advertising campaign asking Vietnamese immigrants to help track down people spying for Hanoi, an FBI spokesman said Friday. The FBI said contracts for the ads in Vietnamese-language newspapers in the United States would not resume until the campaign is evaluated. ``Based on that evaluation, we will make a decision on whether to place more'' ads in Vietnamese-language newspapers, said George Grotz, FBI spokesman in San Francisco. Grotz denied that the decision to put the campaign on hold was influenced by criticism from U.S.-based Vietnamese groups and Hanoi officials who said the ads would damage U.S.-Vietnam relations and promote division in the Vietnamese-American community.
``We are going to do a step-by-step, thorough analysis of the information we have received and where appropriate will conduct investigations,'' Grotz said. The ad campaign began in February asking recent Vietnamese emigres to call a toll free number with information on anyone they suspected of being a spy for Hanoi. Grotz said the agency had received 200 calls in response to the controversial ads, which appeared in Southern California and Houston. Grotz said U.S. counter-intelligence agents believe Vietnam spies are engaging in economic espionage in the high-technology industry in the United States. The Centre for Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement in San Francisco said the ads were ``very divisive'' and could promote distrust among Vietnamese community. And in Hanoi, the Foreign Affairs Ministry press department said in a statement that the ads risked harming relations between the two former adversaries. Hanoi and Washington, bitter adversaries in the Vietnam War, ended decades of formal animosity last July when President Clinton announced the normalization of diplomatic ties.
HAMAS RAISING MONEY IN US
Hamas and other Middle East extremist groups are raising money in the United States using different names, FBI Director Louis Freeh told a Senate hearing. `There is fund raising. It is very difficult to trace those funds outside the United States,'' Freeh told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing. Asked about Hamas, which has claimed responsibility for four recent suicide bombings in Israel, and other groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Freeh said: ``They do not raise funds in those names in the United States.'' The U.S. government has barred fund raising for Hamas in the United States. The fund-raising appeals say the money was for humanitarian purposes, such as for hospitals, and Freeh said some of it was used that way.
Freeh spoke as U.S. President Bill Clinton left for an anti-terrorism summit in Egypt, where he will seek a broad international condemnation of guerrilla groups and their backers. The meeting on Wednesday at the Red Sea scuba-diving resort of Sharm el-Sheikh includes the heads of state or representatives from more than two dozen other countries.
Freeh warned that extremism was only one of several foreign-based threats faced by the United States. `Such offences as terrorism, nuclear smuggling, organised crime, computer crime and drug trafficking can spill over from other countries into the United States,'' he said. Freeh said he believed the FBI and other American law enforcement agencies were aware of the activities of Hamas and similar groups in the United States. But he said ad hoc groups such as the one that carried out the World Trade Centre bombing in 1993 were more difficult to monitor. He said much of the crime entering the United States was coming from gangs in Russia and the former Soviet Union. ``Evidence that organised crime activity from these areas is expanding and will continue to expand to the United States is well documented,'' he said.
Sens. Mitch McConnell, Republican-Kentucky, and Patrick Leahy, Democrat-Vermont, said they were especially concerned about theft of nuclear material from the former Soviet Union. ``In countries like Russia where security is lax and corruption is widespread, the smuggling of nuclear material by terrorists is a frighteningly real prospect,'' Leahy said. Freeh said Washington was trying to increase cooperation with police in other countries and was training foreign police officers in the United States and at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest. The FBI also opened an office in Moscow in July, 1995, and Freeh said said he wanted to increase the number of FBI agents stationed in other countries as legal attaches.
FBI Agent Hanging Up his Badge
FBI AGENT HANGING UP HIS BADGE NEXT STOP COLORADO--AND A WHOLE NEW LIFE
The FBI official who supervised wiretap and other electronic surveillance during the early stages of the Operation Silver Shovel investigation of public corruption admits he's also a frameup artist. While no one in Brian Carroll's 26-year career as a federal law officer has accused him of framing anyone or anything, the secret is out that the 50-year-old will soon be pursuing two new private careers: - Turning his hobby of delicately framing paintings and photographs into a business for customers in Colorado. - Appearing on television as a courtroom commentator to explain testimony and evidence at the Denver trial of those charged in connection with bombing the Oklahoma City federal building. All that starts after his last day on the job before retiring as associate special agent in charge of the Chicago FBI office. Carroll is definitely going into the framing business in Ft. Collins, Colo. Whether he does TV commentary in Denver as a consultant is up in the air. Carroll, a native of Washington D.C., has led the bureau's special operations and research center in Quantico, Va., and was the agent who coordinated rescue and evacuation efforts in 1993 when a gunman with explosive devices invaded a federal building in Topeka, Kan., killing a guard.
Carroll's late father, Joseph, also was a well-known FBI official who, among other things, helped direct the manhunt and capture of Stateville prison escapee Roger "Terrible" Touhy, a notorious bootleg figure, in 1942. During a recent interview, Carroll said teamwork, not lone heroics, achieves results in any bureau investigation. He cited Silver Shovel, the federal investigation of local government corruption and crooked waste haulers. Responding to criticism from some that Silver Shovel has unfairly targeted minorities and contributed to pollution woes, Carroll advised the media and the public to take a wait-and-see attitude. "The government always takes a hit at the outset of high-profile and controversial investigations, particularly those targeting public officeholders," said Carroll, who cleared all "intrusive technology"--the use of wiretaps and other electronic eavesdropping--during Silver Shovel's early stages in 1994. "But the evidence (in Silver Shovel) will show that the government was justified. If you are afraid of criticism, you will never be successful."
As for its use of John Christopher, the FBI mole who met with at least two Chicago aldermen, Carroll reminded critics of the reason why the agency entered into the investigation 2 1/2-years ago. "We saw that nobody was doing anything about (illegal) dumping," Carroll said. "He (Christopher) didn't wake up one morning and start dumping. Others had been doing it, and he told us about it." PHOTO: Brian Carroll packs his mementos from a 26-year FBI career. He is retiring as associate special agent in charge of the Chicago office. Tribune photo
FBI JOINS THE SEARCH FOR FUGITIVE BARRINGTON HILLS CASE MAY STRETCH TO MEXICO
The FBI and Lake County police met to discuss their strategy for finding fugitive Peter Hommerson, the Algonquin craftsman charged with murdering a wealthy Barrington Hills couple. The FBI got involved in the case because Hommerson is alleged to have crossed state lines and possibly fled to Mexico, where he was seen Jan. 29 in the border town of Nueva Laredo. On top of the Lake County arrest warrant charging Hommerson with first-degree murder, a federal warrant charges him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. The federal intervention allows investigators to expand their search across the country and get crucial help from police contacts in foreign countries.
"The federal warrant changes everything," said Bob Long, an FBI spokesman in Chicago. "We actively open a case. We assign leads. We go to his known haunts and hangouts. We talk to anyone who might have a clue as to where he is." Hommerson was questioned just two days after Marvin and Kay Lichtman were shot in their Barrington Hills mansion, which was set ablaze on the evening of Jan. 23. H