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To: DMaA who wrote (66034)	2/17/2000 12:04:00 PM
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Pentagon probe targets Deutch Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published 2/17/00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Pentagon is investigating whether ultrasecret "black programs" were compromised by former CIA Director John Deutch after he put details about some of the Defense Department's most sensitive activities on his home computers. Defense and intelligence officials said the Pentagon recently set up a special panel to examine a personal diary containing highly classified defense information that was kept improperly on Mr. Deutch's home computers ? desktop and laptop systems that were used to access the Internet and had received e-mail messages from abroad. The CIA, meanwhile, launched a "damage assessment" to determine whether its secrets were compromised by Mr. Deutch, who was CIA director from 1995 to 1996. The CIA withheld information from the Pentagon about what are known as "special access programs" for more than a year and only provided it after news reports highlighted the security breach earlier this month. Special-access programs are so secret that officials privy to them are authorized to lie to keep them from becoming public. Most are kept secret from the CIA and only disclosed to the Pentagon's top three or four officials. Mr. Deutch was briefed on many of these programs when he was undersecretary of defense for acquisitions and later deputy secretary of defense from 1993 to May 1995, when he became CIA director. Most of the programs have been ongoing for the past seven years. Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, a Pentagon spokesman, said a team of defense security officials was set up 10 days ago to review the material first uncovered in Mr. Deutch's diary by CIA security officials in January 1997. Adm. Quigley said a damage assessment could result from the investigation but that none had been launched yet. "Let's just see what we find," he said. An intelligence official said the information on the black programs "was in some ways even more sensitive than the CIA" secrets kept on the home computers. The CIA information included details of agency covert action programs. Among the black programs currently under way are efforts to develop new weapons and methods of warfare, including electronic "information warfare" and how the U.S. military plans to conduct it in the future. They also include highly sensitive intelligence and collection development programs for future operations. That information is known to be a major target of foreign intelligence services from Russia, China and other nations. Other defense officials said privately the fact that details of special-access programs were kept on computers that are not secure is a security breach because of the sensitive nature of the programs. They said both Defense Secretary William S. Cohen and Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre have (cont) etherzone.com