NEWSWEEK PERISCOPE: Eyes on the CIA

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NEWSWEEK PERISCOPE: Eyes on the CIA

		The March 7 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, February 28) focuses on Martha Stewart, who -- with an A-list management team in place -- leaves prison thinner, wealthier and ready for prime time. Also, a look at the threat facing Iraqi women and the Justice Department's dilemma over terror suspect Abu Ali. Plus, an exclusive interview with the Saudi foreign minister. And, a report on Michael Jackson's hard-core fans. (PRNewsFoto) NEW YORK, NY USA

    NEW YORK, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- NEWSWEEK PERISCOPE item:
    (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050227/NYSU002 )

    Aviation obsessives with cameras and Internet connections have become a
threat to cover stories established by the CIA to mask its undercover
operations and personnel overseas. U.S. intel sources complain that "plane
spotters" -- hobbyists who photograph airplanes landing or departing local
airports and post the pix on the Internet-made it possible for CIA critics
recently to assemble details of a clandestine transport system the agency set
up to secretly move cargo and people-including terrorist suspects-around the
world.
    Google searches revealed that plane spotters Web-posted numerous photos of
two private aircraft-one a small Gulfstream jet and the other a midsize Boeing
737-registered to obscure companies suspected of CIA connections. Some of the
pictures were taken at airports in foreign countries where CIA activities
could be controversial. When the 737 last year went through a change of tail
number and ownership -- a suspicious company in suburban Boston apparently
transferred the plane to a similar company in Reno, Nev. -- Internet searches
of aviation and public-record data-bases disclosed details of the plane's new
owners and registration number. One critical database, accessible via Google,
was a central aircraft registry maintained by the government's own Federal
Aviation Administration. A U.S. intel source acknowledged that the instant
availability of such data and photos on the Internet is not helpful "if your
object is clandestinity." (To see how it works, check the Web for info on a
business jet carrying the Liechtenstein tail number HB-IES. The search should
turn up pictures of that plane at a European airport, as well as public
records and news stories describing how the plane, registered to a company
called Aviatrans, once belonged to Saddam Hussein.)
    Intel sources say the CIA's own lawyers years ago decreed that under U.S.
law the agency must register its aircraft-including their tail numbers and the
front companies that own them-with public authorities like the FAA, even
though this could provide clues to clandestine activity. Agency officials and
lawyers have discussed the possibility of changing U.S. laws and regulations
to make it easier for the agency to hide its activities. That may be
difficult, so for now, plane spotters can keep their eyes on the CIA.

    -- Mark Hosenball

             http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7037720/site/newsweek /

       (Periscope item in the March 7 issue of Newsweek, on newsstands
                            Monday, February 28.)

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