Computer problems happen all the time, and even the National Security Agency (NSA) doesn't seem to be immune. According to the UK Times, the NSA was hit with a computer virus this past January and their systems were down for three days. While the NSA's computers were shut down, the agency relied on Britain to supply the US government with intelligence. The NSA and British Intelligence work closely together, and the decision to rely on intelligence gathered by the UK is evident of the close relationship. No word on which virus did the damage.

The Clinton administration has discounted any threats to it's security, probably to its own detriment. The FBI was looking into intelligence gathering early in May at the White House by a foriegn intelligence agency, mainly the Mossad. Apparently secure telephones and modems were hacked into or otherwise tapped, and was easily done due to lax security measures at the White House, State Department, and other high-level government offices. The probe comes at a bad time for Israel, who risks undermining support for billions of US dollars for the return of land to Syria. At the very least it gives the impression that the Clinton-Gore administration is not serious about espionage threats. At the time of this writing, the FBI was still unclear as to what information Mossad agents had gathered.

Now for some loggings:

4027 - Cuban CW cut # stn w/ 5F grps at 0310. (TS)
4479 - Cuban cut # station at 0300 w/ audio mixing w/ YL/SS that was active on 10446. (JM)
4635 - YL/EE Counting station in AM at 0227 w/ 3/2F msg. (TS)
5135 - Cuban YL/SS in AM at 0542 w/ 5F msg. (TS)
5419 - Cuban CW cut # stn, caught end of transmission at 0337. (TS)
5435 - YL/EE Mossad stn ART w/ 5L msg at 0130, interfered with by Backwards Music Station. (JM)
5860 - CW stn at 0345 rptng 555 555 555 818 818 818 33 callup, then 33 grp 5F msg. (TS)
6529 - OM/SS "Babbler" V21 stn in USB at 0040 w/ random strings of numbers. (JM)
7445 - CIO2, Mossad E10 at 0300 running for at least 30 minutes. (JM)
7918 - YHF, YL/EE E10 Mossad stn in USB at 020 w/ 5L msg. (JM)
12215 - YL/SS Cuban V2a w/ 5F msgs at 0200. (JM)
13570 - YL/CC "New Star" 4F numbers station in AM at 1500. (JM)
14421 - V5 in AM rptng 499 grupo 178 at 0300. Note freq change. (JM)
14648 - 4XZ in CW at 2040 w/ VVV mrkr. (TS)
15388 - YL/CC "New Star" 4F stn in AM at 1400. (JM)
16303.6 - Unid US military SIGINT training stn at 2018 in CW, ASCII 100/170, RTTY 100/170, & Sitor-B w/ various coded msgs. (TS)
18481 - 4XZ, Haifa Naval, Israel, w/ three 5L msgs in CW at 1805. (TS)

Contributors: JM - John Maky, AR, TS - Tom Sevart, KS

That's all for now, see you next month.

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