SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2004, Issue No. 9
January 28, 2004

2004 INTELLIGENCE BUDGET DISCLOSED IN FRANCE

There was a time within living memory when the United States set the standard for democratic decision-making and government accountability. In areas such as intelligence spending, that is no longer the case.

The government of France has recently published its intelligence budget total for 2004, in the amount of 291.1 million Euros. See:

法国加入了英国，加拿大，荷兰，塞尔维亚和巴西等国家，通常会披露基线情报支出信息（SN06/12/03,10/08/03,10/24/03).

这与美国政府顽固地提供情报支出的一般核算形成对比。

根据中央情报机构的分类政策，即使披露50年的预算信息也会损害国家安全并危害情报来源和方法。看：

具有讽刺意味的是，预算保密实际上可能通过阻碍了1990年代中期的支出下降的公开辩论，并促进了情报资金转移到国防帐户，从而损害了美国情报。

LEAKS AND LEAKS AND LEAKS

Congressional Democratic leaders this week asked the General Accounting Office to investigate White House procedures for protecting classified intelligence information in connection with the unauthorized disclosure of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame. See:

五角大楼文件泄漏者丹尼尔·埃尔斯伯格（Daniel Ellsberg）敦促更多的官员泄露将“暴露政府谎言”和“极大地改变我们是否应该派遣我们的孩子在伊拉克死亡的公众话语”的文件：

埃尔斯伯格（Ellsberg）赞扬了英国政府雇员凯瑟琳·冈（Katherine Gun）的行动，他因泄露机密信息而受到英国官方秘密法的指控。看：

Not only leakers of classified information, but journalists who publish leaked information should be held accountable for their actions, argued CIA official James Bruce in a stern 2002 presentation to the American Bar Association, featured by the Counterintelligence Centre:

HOUSE DEMOCRATS INVOKE SEVEN MEMBER RULE

Democratic members of the House Committee on Government Reform are invoking a little-known statutory provision known as the "seven member rule" to try to extract information from reluctant government agencies.

According to the rule, which originated in 1928, the executive branch is obliged to ("shall") provide "any information requested of it relating to any matter within the jurisdiction" of the Committee when so requested by at least seven members.

In January 15 letters, the Committee members, led by Rep. Henry Waxman, thus requested certain information from the Department of Energy:

从卫生部和人类的检修es:

另请参见1月27日，克劳斯·马雷（Klaus Marre）的“ Waxman测试7-Memer的规则，以获取游说文件的访问规则”：

PROLIFERATION: LEARNING FROM THE DECLASSIFIED RECORD

“几个冷战时代的中央情报机构（CIA）和国防情报局（DIA）核增殖趋势的解密提供了有趣的见解。”

See "Predicting Nuclear Proliferation: A Declassified Documentary Record" by Peter R. Lavoy, published in Strategic Insights, Center for Contemporary Conflict, Naval Postgraduate School, Vol. III, Issue 1, January 2004:

陆军中期歧视研究（1989年）

One of the enduring challenges of ballistic missile defense is the problem of "midcourse discrimination" -- i.e., distinguishing between actual missiles in flight and decoys.

The issue was explored in a 1989 report of the Army Science Board, which noted that "discrimination is not a problem that can be 'solved'. Rather it will be a continuing race between the offense and defense to institute, respectively, more effective pen-aids and more capable means to counter those pen-aids to a degree that is adequate to maintain the defense's desired level of effectiveness. It will be a chess game that requires looking ahead several moves, and its effectiveness will probably always be a matter of judgment rather than a demonstrable fact."

"The technical issues identified and discussed in this Panel Report are as relevant today as they were in 1989," said MIT professor Ted Postol, a critic of missile defense programs.

参见“第一阶段战略防御系统的中期歧视”，陆军科学委员会，1989年2月：

DIA ON SOVIET MILITARY SPACE DOCTRINE (1984)

In 1984, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) conducted an analysis of Soviet military space programs. Based on published statements and other sources, the DIA was able to infer "a Soviet military space doctrine that elucidates the ultimate Soviet objectives in outer space."

The resulting pamphlet, entitled "Soviet Military Space Doctrine," dated 1 August 1984 and marked "for official use within the US Government," is now available here (24 pages, 3.3 MB PDF file):

or in a smaller (2 MB), slightly fuzzier version:

火星：没有UFO掩盖

"A spokesbeing for the Mars Air Force denounced as false the rumors that an alien spacecraft crashed in the desert outside of Ares Vallis," according to a mock news release circulating at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, home of the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

请参阅“火星空军否认不明飞行物崩溃的故事”：

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