The Classified Home Computer Mystery Solved :
Quite easily, I might add ... Deutch was just doing what we all do - telecommuting
from home using the CIA's LAN ( Local Area Network ) at : 162.45.0.0 -- NET-CIA

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The CIA's LAN :

Central Intelligence Agency (NET-CIA)
   Agency Technology Services
   (Office of Information Technology
    ATS/EDSN, 1U1132 NHB)
   Washington, DC 20505

   Netname: CIA
   Netnumber: 162.45.0.0

   Coordinator:
      Public Networks  (ANM3-ORG-ARIN)  edsn@UCIA.GOV
      (703) 874-7205

   Record last updated on 30-Mar-1998.
   Database last updated on 18-Feb-2000 05:36:32 EDT.

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     Deutch lapses puzzle Pentagon -- The Washington Times

     The Pentagon cannot explain how former CIA Director John Deutch placed highly classified defense information on his unprotected home computers, a spokesman said Thursday.
     "How could classified material have gotten onto an unclassified system? . . . How did this happen?" asked Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, the spokesman of two investigations being conducted by the department. "Just how did that material get to where it got?"
     The spokesman was responding to a report in The Washington Times that the Pentagon is investigating whether Mr. Deutch compromised ultrasecret special access programs, known as "black programs" because they are so secret, by placing details about them on his home computers.
     In a related development, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence announced Thursday that Mr. Deutch will appear before a closed-door meeting of the committee on Tuesday to answer questions about the security breach.
     A committee spokesman said Mr. Deutch would be questioned about the information found on his home computers, including data from both the CIA and the Pentagon.
     "The committee is going to inquire about all aspects, including the nature of the information," the spokesman said.
     The committee is investigating whether the CIA tried to cover up the investigation into Mr. Deutch's mishandling of classified material.
     Sen. John W. Warner, Virginia Republican and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was concerned about the latest disclosures relating to sensitive Pentagon data.
     "At the present time, the primary jurisdiction is with the Intelligence Committee but I and the Senate Armed Services Committee are following this closely," Mr. Warner said through a spokesman.
     In the House, a spokesman for the committee on intelligence said that panel is waiting to see the results of various investigations before deciding whether to conduct its own inquiry.
     The president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board also is investigating some aspects of the handling of the matter.
     Asked about the special access programs, Adm. Quigley would not answer directly. He said it could be something "that was relevant" to the department "at any classification level."
     "We're reviewing paper that was provided to us by the CIA that they felt pertained to DOD equities," Adm. Quigley said. "If it was a subject that we would care about, we were provided paper by the CIA that says,'Here, this is what we know, this is what we found. You guys do with this what you will.' "
     Mr. Deutch was stripped of most of his security clearances in August after a CIA investigation determined that he had improperly stored CIA secrets on his home computers.
     Earlier this month, the CIA provided a diary kept by Mr. Deutch to the Pentagon that officials said contained details of special access programs.
     Adm. Quigley said two investigations were launched at the Pentagon on the material. One is a security review of the material and the second is a probe by the Pentagon inspector general.
     Once the material is reviewed, "we'll take the appropriate steps, but we're just not to that point yet to say with definition what the next step is," he said.
     Adm. Quigley said the inspector general's office has been hampered by the sensitivity of the material.
     "In other words, the inspector-general personnel that are accomplishing this part of the review don't necessarily have the requisite security classification, the security clearance, to review the material," he said.
     The second review is being carried out by various elements of the Pentagon who have all the needed security clearances to review the material.
     Special access programs include some of the Pentagon's most sensitive information. Past programs have included special high-technology weapons and special intelligence collections systems.
     The Pentagon also has launched a special access program on electronic "information warfare" —how to attack electronic and computer systems. That information is known to be a target of foreign intelligence services.
     Asked why the sensitive information, which was discovered in early 1997, was only supplied to the Pentagon 11 days ago, Adm. Quigley said, "I don't know that we had a full understanding at that point of what information may have been involved that was relevant to the Defense Department."
     "First, we need to understand what the material that we received from the CIA contains. Where does that point us for future directions and courses of action? We just don't know yet until we're done reviewing that," Adm. Quigley said.



Ex-CIA Chief Had Top
Secret Data On Unsecured
Home Computer ONLINE

2-22-00


WASHINGTON

 (Reuters) - Shortly before his December 1996 retirement, then-CIA Director John Deutch negotiated a no-fee consultant contract that enabled him to keep three agency computers on which he had stored highly classified information, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
 
The newspaper, citing officials familiar with a report by the CIA's inspector general, said the contract was signed eight days after Deutch asked the CIA's administrative chief to find a way that he could keep a laptop and two desktop computers.
 
The computers were unsecured and attached to the Internet. But during his 20 months as the nation's top intelligence official, Deutch had composed on them highly classified documents, including memos to President Clinton and reports on trips to CIA stations abroad that mentioned secret operations, according to the Post report.
 
Deutch, who served as deputy defense secretary between March 1994 and May 1995 and CIA director from May 1995 to December 1996, was stripped of his CIA and high-level defense intelligence clearances last August for mishandling classified information.
 
After parts of a classified CIA inspector general report into the investigation of Deutch's handling of secret material at home became public this month, Deutch voluntarily asked the Pentagon to remove remaining security clearances that allowed him to advise companies on classified defense projects.
 
Deutch's home computer with the secret material was used to connect to the Internet, including to pornography sites, by someone in his household, raising security concerns that outside hackers could have accessed the computer files.
 
Deutch has agreed to appear before a closed Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Feb. 22 to discuss the issue.
 
The Post said Richard Calder, then CIA deputy director for administration, told Deutch on Dec. 5, 1996, that the only legal way for him to keep government computers after retirement would be under a contract.
 
Deutch began contract negotiations with attorneys in the agency's general counsel's office, but never told them -- or apparently anyone else at the CIA -- that the computers held top-secret information, the Post said.
 
Some lawyers in the general counsel's office opposed the contract and initially suggested Deutch buy a computer and return those supplied by the CIA, the Post said, quoting the internal CIA report.
 
But Deutch insisted and, with support from then-CIA General Counsel Michael O'Neill, changed the contract proposed by the attorneys. Instead of being allowed one computer for six months, he was permitted to keep the three computers for one year, the report said.
 
The contract restricted their use to unclassified government business, the Post quoted a senior intelligence official as saying.
 
The contract took effect on Dec. 16, the day after Deutch's resignation. A day later, a CIA technician reported that he found classified information on a computer he was working on at Deutch's Bethesda, Maryland home, the Post said.