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Military secrets posted on Web
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zombie Cow)
Thu Aug 26 21:42:20 1999
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:12:05 +0300 (EEST)
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http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-08-26-0019.html
Military secrets posted on Web
By CP
TORONTO -- Canada's military secrets have spilled out onto the
Internet, courtesy of the Department of National Defence.
In what intelligence experts are calling an embarrassing gaffe and a
serious breach of security, one of the military's top-secret electronic
eavesdroppers posted the names and location of CF-18 pilots based
in Italy on his own Web page before and during the war in
Yugoslavia.
Master Cpl. Real Arsenault, a signals systems analyst with the
military's Communications Security Establishment, an elite
electronic espionage agency, also posted his own identity, sensitive
background information and details of his duties.
Moreover, he said he set up his Web page with the consent of his
superiors at the Defence Department.
He shut it down in the spring because he feared that it might
endanger personnel involved in bombing sorties over the Balkans.
Arsenault was at the Aviano Airbase in Italy from August to
December 1998, reprogramming the CF-18s' radar warning system.
He acknowledged this week that he posted the names of at least two
pilots who may have flown missions over Yugoslavia.
The Defence Department insisted throughout the bombing campaign
that the pilots' identities remain secret to protect them and their
families from reprisals.
"I went through the proper chain (of command) actually to see that I
was all right," said Arsenault.
