A Look at Insider Threats: Tradecraft, Motivations and Personalities of Some of the Most Notorious Traitors in History
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A Look at Insider Threats: Tradecraft, Motivations and Personalities of Some of the Most Notorious Traitors in History Subtitle: Moles I Have Known Outline • Insider Definitions. • Other Insiders. • Career Experience. • Soviet Tradecraft. • Insider Motivations. • Insiders –John A. Walker, Jr., Aldrich H. Ames, Robert Hanssen, Jonathon Jay Pollard. • Traitors Among Us. • Insider Threat Detection Programs. Insider Definitions • An entity with authorized access that has the potential to harm an information system or enterprise through destruction, disclosure, modification of data, and/or denial of service. • Trusted insiders with the intent to do harm can exploit their access to compromise vast amounts of sensitive and classified information as part of a personal ideology or at the direction of a foreign government. • An employee of an IC organization with access and clearances who volunteers to give national defense information to a hostile or foreign intelligence service. (The “CI Insider” –Traitor.) Other Insiders • CIA: Philip Agee, David Barnett, Virginia Baynes, Wu‐Tai Chin, Douglas Groat, Edward Lee Howard, William Kampiles, Kara & Hana Koecher, Edwin Moore, Harold Nicholson, Susan Scranage, Glen Shriver • FBI: Katrina Leung, Richard Miller, Nada Prouty, Earl Pitts, James Smith, Douglas Tsou, u/i KGB source. • NSA: David Boone, Jack Dunlap, Kenneth Ford, Victor Hamilton, Robert Lipka, William Martin, Bernon Mitchell, Ronald Pelton, Joseph Petersen, William Weisband. • DIA: Waldo Dubberstein, Frederick Hamilton, Ronald Montaperto, Anna Montes. • NRO: Brian Regan. • US Army: Ryan Anderson, David Boone, Clyde Conrad, Thomas Dolce, Ernest Forbrich, George Gessner, Otto Gilbert, Jeffrey Gregory, James Hall, Ulysses Harris, Joseph Helmich, Selverick Insom, Eric Jenott, Robert Johnson, Ben‐Ami Kadish, Steven Lalas, Bradley Manning, William Millay, James Mintkenbaugh, Ali Mohamed, Thomas Mortati, Leslie Payne, Michael Peri, Roderick Ramsey, Roy Rhodes, Daniel Richardson, Glen Rohrer, Jeffrey Rondeau, Leonard Safford, Charles Slatter, Richard Smith, Albert Sombolay, Zoltan Szabo, George Trofimoff, Svetlana Tumanova, Kelly Warner, William Whalen, Huseyin Yildirim. US Air Force: Herbert Boeckenhaupt, Harold Borger, ‘Bronson’, Edward Buchanan, Jeffrey Carney, Guiseppe Cascio, Christopher Cooke, ‘Crest’, John Davies, Raymond DeChamplain, James Fondren, Larry Franklin, George French, Oliver Grunden, ‘Herman’, John Jones, Joseph Kaufman, Francisco Mira, Gustav Mueller, Frank Nesbitt, Bruce Ott, Walter Perkins, Robert Thompson, Russell Tinnell, “Walton’, ‘Wesson’, Ronald Wolf, James Wood. US Navy: Michael Allen, Stephen Baba, Russell Brown, Matthew Diaz, Nelson Drummond, Robert Ellis, David Fleming, Wilfredo Garcia,Ronald Graf, Antonia Guerrero, John Haeger, Stephen Hawkins, Robert Hoffman, Brian Horton, Bruce Kearn, Robert Kim, Craig Kunkle, Gary Ledbetter, Kurt Lessenthien, Leee Madsen, John Maynard, Samuel Morison, Michael Murphy, Jeffrey Pickering, Charles Schoof, Michael Schwartz, Philip Seldon, Timothy Smith, Glen Souther, Henry Spade, Michael Tobias, Ariel Weinmann, Edward Wine, James Wilmoth, Hans Wold, Jay Wolff. • US Marine Corps: Charles Anzalone, Leandro Argancillo, Robert Cordrey, Clayton Lonetree, Gary Marziaz, Frank Nesbitt, Brian Slavens. Career Experience • Jan 1968, DIA, entry into IC as Navy LT. North Korean Navy ‐ Pueblo incident, Soviet Navy. • 1975, DIA, Soviet/Warsaw Pact Division, Strategy & Doctrine Branch. Analyzed Soviet Intelligence (KGB & GRU). • 1976, DIA Counterintelligence Division. Analyzed Soviet Intelligence (KGB & GRU, threat to DOD, cases, etc.). • 1981, FBI, Intelligence Division, Operational Analysis Section (CI‐ 3A & B). Analyzed Soviet Intelligence (KGB & GRU operations, cases, tradecraft, etc.). • 1984, Naval Investigative Service, Counterintelligence Directorate, CI Collection Manager. Briefed on Soviet Intelligence. • 1986, US Army Intelligence. Counterintelligence and Terrorism Division. Manager/supervisor. Analyzed hostile/foreign intelligence services, including Soviet Intelligence. Career Experience • 1992, Intelligence Community Staff/Community Management Staff, CIA. Detailed to Counterintelligence and Security Countermeasures Office. • 1994, US Army Intelligence and Security Command, 902nd MI Group (CI), US Army Counterintelligence Center. Manager/supervisor. Handled hostile intelligence threat to “black programs,” & Soviet Intelligence. • 1996, DoD CI Working Group. Analyzed Military Service CI organization, methods, & tradecraft. • Jan 2001, retired from 902nd MI Group. • May 2003, trip to Moscow as part of CICentre SpyTour. Briefed by KGB officers, travel to intelligence sites, etc. • Jan 2004, DIA Defense HUMINT Service, CI Support to HUMINT. CI Contractor. • 2005, DoD Counterintelligence Field Activity. Liaison Officer, CI Contractor. • 2006 to present, FBI Academy, DIA/Joint Counterintelligence Training Center & DIA/Joint Military Attache’ School. Role‐Player and Surveillance Role Player . • 1970‐1991, Naval Reserve Intelligence Command, CTF‐168 (Collection), projects, operations, and XO, Naval Intelligence Support Center, XO, Naval Investigative Service, Officer/Agent and Senior CI Adviser. Career Experience • Defectors ‐ debriefed, talked to, met, or just friends. • Soviet Navy: Captain Third Rank Nick Shadrin (Nikolay Artamonov). • KGB: Gennadiy Aksilenko, KGB co‐optee, Peter Deriabin, Oleg Gordievskiy, General Oleg Kalugin, Nikolay Kholkov, Yuri A. Koshkin, Stanislav Levchenko, Oleg Nechiporenko, Alexander Preobrazhensky, Vladimir Sakharov, Victor Sheymov, Andrey Suvorov (Rostov), Oleg Tsarev, Alexander Vassiliev ‐ 15. • GRU: Ismail Akhmedov (Ege), Vylacheslav Baranov, Sergey Bokhan, DS‐3108, Major Dmitri Kozlov, Stan Petters (Stanislav Lunev), Anatoliy Somaninskiy, Victor Suvorov (Vladimir Rezun), Boris Voladarsky ‐ 9. Soviet Tradecraft • Personal Communications: Personal Meets. • Impersonal Communications: Accomodation Addresses (AA), Roll‐Over Cameras, Short Range Agent Communications (SRAC), Concealment Devices, Computer Discs (CD), Dead Drops (DD), Brief Encounters (BE), One‐Time Pads, Brush Passes, Recognition Signals, Signal Sites (SS) – Emergency Signals, Surveillance, Surveillance Detection Routes (SDR), Car Tosses, Secret Writing (SW). Soviet Tradecraft • Recruitments: • Russians use basically same tradecraft, sometimes updated, but change targets. • Long‐term, gradual, cautious, used mainly by KGB. • Cold pitches –“crash,” used sometimes by GRU. • Excellent overall, but not overly successful against the US target in recent decades, as American target difficult, thus we concentrate on Insiders. Insider Motivations • MICE: • Money (Greed). • Ideology. • Compromise (Blackmail). • Ego (Adventure/Thrills). Insiders • Time‐Line. • Nexus/Relationship. • Tradecraft. • Damage Assessment. • Discovered/Caught. • Motivation. • Personality. • Books. Johnny Walker the Red WINDFLYER. TIME‐LINE: ‐ Apr 1967, assigned to Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, VA. ‐ Dec 1967, walk‐in to Soviet Embassy on 16th Street, Washington, DC. Gave up Top Secret KW‐47 keylist. ‐ Sep 1969, transferred to San Diego, befriends Jerry Whitworth. ‐ 1970, Jerry A. Whitworth recruited. ‐ Nov, 1971, USS Niagara Falls as Classified Material Custodian. ‐ Jun 1976, Barbara Walker (Crowley) divorces Walker. ‐ Jul 1976, retires from US Navy, opened a detective agency in Virginia Beach. ‐ Jun 1983, recruits Michael Walker. ‐ May 1984, RUS letter (Whitworth). ‐ 29 Nov 1984, Barbara Walker informed FBI Boston Field Office about John Walker’s espionage. ‐ 15 May 1985, received call about aunt’s funeral in NC. ‐ 20 May 1985, 150 FBI agents, DD Maryland site, 3:30am call, Walker arrested at Maryland hotel. ‐ 22 May 1985, Michael Walker arrested by Naval Investigative Service, released from prison in 2000 after 15 years. ‐ 23 May 1985, Aleksey Trachenko (KGB case officer) left for Moscow. ‐ 29 May 1985, Arthur Walker arrested, sentenced to three life sentences, plus 40 years, died 5 July 2014. ‐ 3 Jun 1986, Jerry Whitworth arrested, fined $410,000 and sentenced to 365 years . ‐ 6 Nov 1986, John Walker sentenced to two life terms plus 10 years, at Butner, NC, was scheduled to be released in May 2015, but died 28 August 2014. Johnny Walker the Red • Nexus/Relationship: • FBI HQ, 1981‐1984, Dave Szady, Jim, Jack Lowe, Dave Major. Gen Oleg Kalugin. DIA, Pueblo. • Naval Investigative Service HQ, 1984‐1986, Al Sipe ‐ Lanny McCullah. • Briefings –Navy, NIS, NSA. CINCLANTFLT N‐2, Norfolk, Admiral Thomas Brooks. • Tradecraft: • KGB. Personal meets ‐ Soviet Embassy & department store (Zayre’s). DDs in Maryland and DC area, Minox minature camera. Travel to Hong Kong, Vienna, Austria, and Casablanca, Morocco. Johnny Walker the Red • Damage Assessment: • Considered one of the most damaging in the history of the US. Information passed included naval codes ‐ US ability to detect Soviet submarine movements, read over a million US encrypted messages through highly sensitive decryption key, locations of SOSUS, ship movements during Vietnam War –caused the death of unknown numbers of men in Vietnam. “Information would have been ‘devastating’ to the US if there had been a war between the US and the Soviet Union.” Vitaliy Yurchenko, Soviet defector. Paid an estimated $1,000,000. Spied for 18 years. • Discovered/Caught: FBI tip‐off, analysis/investigation. • Motivation: • Greed. • Ego, adventure? • Immoral, self‐importance. • No ideology. Believed US Government “broken,” and “K‐Mart has better security than the Navy.” • Books (6).