WL New Leak: CIA Red Cell Memorandum on United States "exporting terrorism"

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Yesterday WikiLeaks tweeted about an upcoming release for today.
Got posted up this morning.
I don't know what to make of this though, a bit above my head as it causes me to reverse-examine the perception of "terrorism" so I am trying to get my mind around it.

I will add more info when I find media editorial analysis of the info.

5 page PDF file so I cant copy pasta sorry:
Has direct, Magnet and torrent download options.
Link to WL web page:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/CIA_Red_Ce...22,_2_Feb_2010

From description on WL page for the file:

Release date August 25, 2010
Summary
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This CIA "Red Cell" report from February 2, 2010, looks at what will happen if it is internationally understood that the United States is an exporter of terrorism; 'Contrary to common belief, the American export of terrorism or terrorists is not a recent phenomenon, nor has it been associated only with Islamic radicals or people of Middle Eastern, African or South Asian ethnic origin. This dynamic belies the American belief that our free, open and integrated multicultural society lessens the allure of radicalism and terrorism for US citizens.'

The report looks at a number cases of US exported terrorism, including attacks by US based or financed Jewish, Muslim and Irish-nationalism terrorists. It concludes that foreign perceptions of the US as an "Exporter of Terrorism" together with US double standards in international law, may lead to noncooperation in renditions (including the arrest of CIA officers) and the decision to not share terrorism related intelligence with the United States.

WL Tweet:

CNN baldly lies, stating SECRET//NOFORN is lowest level of classification http://bit.ly/cpCayz
about 4 hours ago via bitly

Article from CNN:

WikiLeaks releases 'CIA report'
By the CNN Wire Staff
August 25, 2010 -- Updated 1832 GMT (0232 HKT)

(CNN) -- The whistle-blower website WikiLeaks on Wednesday posted what it said was an internal CIA report into the perception that the United States exports terrorism, but one U.S. official said it does not divulge spectacular developments.

The three-page document, dated February 2, 2010, asks, "What If Foreigners See the United States as an 'Exporter of Terrorism?' "

"These sorts of analytic products -- clearly identified as coming from the agency's 'Red Cell' -- are designed to simply provoke thought and present different points of view," said CIA spokesman George Little.

A U.S. intelligence official said, "it's always disturbing when classified information is inappropriately disclosed." However the official added, "this is not a blockbuster paper."

The document, promised by the group in a Twitter message on Tuesday, is labeled "secret," the lowest level of classification.

The website set off a firestorm recently when it posted some 76,000 U.S. documents related to the war in Afghanistan. The group has said it has another 15,000 documents, which it plans to release soon.

The U.S. Defense Department has demanded WikiLeaks return all documents belonging to the Pentagon and delete any records of them. Officials in Afghanistan have also criticized the leak. The founder and editor of the website, Julian Assange, was arrested in absentia last week in Sweden on charges of rape, but the warrant was revoked less than a day later by Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne.

Assange told the Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera on Sunday the accusations are "clearly a smear campaign."

"The only question is, who was involved?" he asked, declining to say who he thinks is behind the effort.

Separately on Tuesday, the attorney for the alleged victims told CNN rumors that the Pentagon or CIA was somehow involved in the sex crime accusations against Assange are "complete nonsense."
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates also has criticized the organization's last leak of documents saying it would have a significant negative impact on troops and allies, revealing techniques and procedures.

Assange has defended the leak by saying it can help shape the public's understanding of the war. He said the material was of no operational significance and that WikiLeaks tried to ensure the material did not put innocent people at risk.

Assange reportedly has spent his life developing the tech skills needed to set up WikiLeaks. When he was a teenager in Melbourne, Australia, he belonged to a hacker collective called the International Subversives, according to the magazine Mother Jones.

He eventually pleaded guilty to multiple counts of breaking into Australian government and commercial websites to test their security gaps, but was released on bond for "good behavior," the magazine said.

As WikiLeaks has grown and published increasingly high-profile items, Assange has found himself the target of what he says are many legal attacks.

Link to Al Jazeera English You Tube vid referred to in the CNN article:

Wikileaks founder claims smear campaign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZkcXgxBbU



WL Tweet:

Indian, not US press, has the best writeup of the CIA's "Exportation of Terrorism" leak: http://bit.ly/b07IHR
about 3 hours ago via bitly

WikiLeaks posts CIA documents on home grown terrorists

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Washington, Август 26, 2010
WikiLeaks posts CIA documents on home grown terrorists

The CIA feels that nations across the globe would start co-operating with it less in the wake of the Headley case and growing instances of home grown terrorists and start believing that the U.S. is an exporter of terrorism, according to a secret document posted by WikiLeaks.

The CIA concluded that foreign governments would be less likely to cooperate with the U.S. on detention, intelligence-sharing, and other issues, the whistleblower site said.

“Primarily we have been concerned about Al-Qaeda infiltrating operatives into the United States to conduct terrorist attacks, but AQ may be increasingly looking for Americans to operate overseas,” said the document.

The CIA termed it as a thought provoking document. “These sorts of analytic products — clearly identified as coming from the Agency’s ‘Red Cell’ — are designed simply termed it to provoke thought and present different points of view,” CIA spokesperson, Marie Harf, told PTI.

The leaked document notes that Pakistani-American David Headley conducted surveillance in support of the LeT for the Mumbai attacks that killed 167 people.

“LeT induced him to change his name from Daood Gilani to David Headley to facilitate his movement between the US, Pakistan and India,” the CIA document said.
Headley had confessed to plotting the Mumbai attacks and LeT’s role in it.

“If the US were seen as an exporter of terrorism, foreign partners may be less willing to cooperate with the United States on extrajudicial activities, including detention, transfer, and interrogation of suspects in third party countries,” the document said.

“As a recent victim of high-profile terrorism originating from abroad, the US Government has had significant leverage to press foreign regimes to acquiesce to requests for extraditing terrorist suspects from their soil.

However, if the U.S. were seen as an “exporter of terrorism,” foreign governments could request a reciprocal arrangement that would impact US sovereignty,” the CIA said.

The CIA documents running into a few pages said contrary to common belief, the American export of terrorism or terrorists is not a recent phenomenon, nor has it been associated only with Islamic radicals or people of Middle Eastern, African or South Asian ethnic origin.

“This dynamic belies the American belief that our free, open and integrated multicultural society lessens the allure of radicalism and terrorism for US citizens. Late last year five young Muslim American men travelled from northern Virginia to Pakistan allegedly to join the Pakistani Taliban and to engage in jihad.”

The document said: “Their relatives contacted the FBI after they disappeared without telling anyone, and then Pakistani authorities arrested them as they allegedly attempted to gain access to al-Qaeda training facilities.”

It said if foreign regimes believe the U.S. position on rendition is too one-sided, favouring the U.S., but not them, they could obstruct U.S. efforts to detain terrorism suspects.

For example, in 2005 Italy issued criminal arrest warrants for U.S. agents involved in the abduction of an Egyptian cleric and his rendition to Egypt.

“The proliferation of such cases would not only challenge U.S. bilateral relations with other countries but also damage global counterterrorism efforts,” it said.

“If foreign leaders see the U.S. refusing to provide intelligence on American terrorism suspects or to allow witnesses to testify in their courts, they might respond by denying the same to the U.S.

In 2005 9/11 suspect Abdelghani Mzoudi was acquitted by a German court because the U.S. refused to allow Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a suspected ringleader of the 9/11 plot who was in U.S. custody, to testify.

“More such instances could impede actions to lock up terrorists, whether in the U.S. or abroad, or result in the release of suspects,” said the CIA document posted by WikiLeaks.

WL Tweet:

Congressional committee to vote on US withdrawl from Pakistan following leak http://bit.ly/bmlPYk

Rules Committee to vote on measure urging removal of troops from Pakistan

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Rules Committee to vote on measure urging removal of troops from Pakistan
By Jordan Fabian - 07/26/10 01:40 PM ET

The House Rules Committee will vote Monday evening on a resolution urging the removal of U.S. armed forces from Pakistan after newspapers published leaked documents suggesting that Pakistani intelligence has cooperated with Islamic extremist groups.

The privileged resolution, introduced by anti-war Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) was drafted before the revelation of the documents. Kucinich introduced the measure in response to a Wall Street Journal report last week, which said that the United States is conducting special military operations in Pakistan.

The United States has publicly worked to enlist Pakistan in its efforts to root out Islamic extremist groups such as al Qaeda and the Taliban from neighboring Afghanistan.

The House Rules Committee said Monday it will take up the measure at 6:30 p.m. Kucinich and his co-sponsor, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), argue the Obama administration has failed to notify Congress about armed forces in Pakistan, thereby violating the War Powers Act.
“The U.S. military has significantly increased its activity in Pakistan — both in troop presence and Predator attacks — at a time when there are, according to the CIA, very few al Qaeda members in that country,” Paul said in a statement last week. “This increasing U.S. military activity in Pakistan has little to do with protecting the United States and in fact is creating more enemies than it is defeating.”

If a vote is taken by the full House, Kucinich and Paul will likely receive time on the floor to speak on the issue. The leak of 92,000 secret documents by the organization Wikileaks on Sunday will probably further fuel the debate.

Since the resolution is privileged in nature — because it deals with war powers — it was scheduled to come up for a floor vote this week regardless of the leak issue. But the Rules Committee will make determinations on Monday about how the sensitive measure is brought to the floor.

The documents detailed in the leak show that the government believed Pakistani intelligence was covertly aiding the Afghan insurgency against the United States while Pakistan was taking American aid to help fight against it.

The Obama administration has strongly condemned the leak as a danger to national security, but war critics have used the information to argue the conflict has is increasingly becoming unwinnable.

Kucinich introduced a similar resolution earlier this year to force the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan immediately. It was easily defeated.
—This post was corrected from a previous version posted at 1:04 p.m.

So that covers it

[BerenTebogo]

I fucking love wikileaks.

[Effluo]

It has been known for many years shit like this is going on. Nice to finally see it in writing.

[BerenTebogo]

I'm pretty sure there are annual protests at a military base in Georgia regarding this exact subject. I'm not an expert on the subject but I know that the information has existed for a long time despite the government continually denying it.

[Azull]

Yes we have nutjobs here like everywhere else in the world.

Most of the time our nutjobs stay in our borders and screw with us ala Timothy McVeigh.

Sometimes though you do have situations where people are getting recruited like the young men Somali decent (i think) in Minnesota going to their homelands to fight there.

[Lurking Badger]

I don't think you understand the implications of this leak.

[Vuitton]

Yes we have nutjobs here like everywhere else in the world.

Most of the time our nutjobs stay in our borders and screw with us ala Timothy McVeigh.

Sometimes though you do have situations where people are getting recruited like the young men Somali decent (i think) in Minnesota going to their homelands to fight there.

Our "nutjobs" are sourced from the american government and military. They aren't randoms that leave the country on their own personal mission.

[Correction]

This document seems tame in comparison to the other things WikiLeaks has put out there...a big 'what if?' that assums a threat to the ability of the US to operate 'extrajudiciously' in foreign countries. Every example of US-sourced terror operations listed in the document is public knowledge with a breadth of MSM coverage. All the leaked document does is posit the theory that both friends and enemies abroad could interpret this shit as 'hey the US isn't cooperating with our investigations into terrorism happening within our borders.' and nothing more.

Of course I could have missed something, but I see little to get up in arms about. It just shows that the CIA is aware of the importance of the image that the US is staunchly anti-terrorist and the dangers of appearing otherwise.

[guartz]

Yea, Chomsky been saying this for, what, 30 years now?

[guartz]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...tate_terrorism

[Kuya]

The CIA produces a lot of valuable information that doesn't have to involve being the president's personal army, but a lot of the information the CIA produces isn't read or payed attention to by the higher ups. Especially if it's inconveniant.

[guartz]

The CIA produces a lot of valuable information that doesn't have to involve being the president's personal army, but a lot of the information the CIA produces isn't read or payed attention to by the higher ups. Especially if it's inconveniant.

See, I always thought CIA viewed presidents as "assets" instead of the other way around.

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Anyone here know what the acronym NOFORN in the .pdf file means?
Also can't seem to find out what the Red Cell part of the CIA does.. any clues aside from the info on the left column with brief description of them?

[Kuya]

It's a complicated relationship. Sometimes the CIA does exactly what the president wants. Sometimes the CIA is an inconveniance that gets in the way of the president doing what he wants. Other times the CIA wants to do things the president doesn't want. It depends on who's the president and who's running the CIA.

[Souj]

http://www.videodetective.com/photos/532/022355_45.jpg

[OWS_Tonx]

http://www.videodetective.com/photos/532/022355_45.jpg

good fucking movie

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Updated OP with info..

Answered my own question (sort of) by Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOFORN

NOFORN - no foreign nationals

Also, the statement of NOFORN (meaning "no foreign nationals") is applied to any information that may not be released to any non-U.S. citizen. NOFORN and distribution statements are often used in conjunction with classified information or alone on SBU information. Documents subject to export controls have a specific warning to that effect.

The restriction of NOFORN no longer applies to Australia or Britain when the matter concerns either military operations (including training) in which they are participating or the broader war on terror. It was reported that this change took place in July 2004, when President Bush signed a presidential decree changing US national disclosure policy.[citation needed][dubious-discuss]


SECRET

This is the second-highest classification. Information is classified secret when its release would cause "serious damage" to national security. Most information that is classified is held at the secret sensitivity.

[ozz]

It's an analysis of how what we do could affect foreign affairs, rtfa its not a bfd

ALSO ITS INCONVENIENCE/INCONVENIENT there is no a

[Stumblingdrunk]

your a inconveniant

[Achitophel]

The blind leading the blind in here.