Espionage and politics
Here is the url of the charge sheet against FBI intelligence analyst Leandro Aragoncillo and police Senior Superintendent Michael Ray Aquino.
I. Facts taken from the charge sheet -
a. Aragoncillo passed classified documents to Aquino who then passed it to three identified public officials in the Philippines.
b. The FBI became suspicious of Aragoncillo when he intervened in the deportation case of Aquino. They started monitoring his activities, focusing on the passing of classified documents through hotmail and yahoo mail accounts.
c. The documents seemed to be intelligence reports about Philippine officials.
d. Aquino was the go-between and introduced Aragoncillo to the three public officials.
e. Aragoncillo does not seem to have been motivated by money, rather he was interesed in a change of government and the installation of a political group, he deemed fit for the Philippines.
f. All emails of Aquino and Aragoncillo were properly identified both by the email providers and isp address of their computers.
II. Questions
a. Why would the FBI have information about officials of the Philippine government?
- Spying outside of the US is usually the task of the CIA. Maybe it was a report about US-based assets of past and present Filipino government officials. It could have been related to drugs, money laundering, bribes connected with US-based companies, and other suspected crimes that fall into the realm of the FBI.
- Global terrorism has increased the networking and cooperation between agencies of the US government as such it could have been possible that an intelligence analyst may have access to the shared information pool of the different intelligence services of the US. All Aragoncillo would need is the necessary password and user-profile to get the information. As such it would not be surprising that intelligence report from the CIA or the State Department could be obtained.
b. Why did Aragoncillo and Aquino use their email accounts to pass on the information?
- Perhaps they underestimated the ease in tracking electronic data and they might have misjudge the sensitivity of the document.
- The ease of passing information via the Net is obvious. What is not is the ease of following the electronic trail.
c. Where the files damaging?
- Probably not.
d. What will happen to the three public officials were linked to this cact of espionage?
III. Some initial conclusions -
a. Irregardless of the documents' value what is critical is its classification as sensitive information. And any nation is quite sensitive and severe when it comes to lapses in security.
b. The FBI may or may not be the author of the files. They are, however, in charge of guarding the US security and it seems that they followed the proper procedure in building the case. Aragoncillo, Aquino and their counterparts in the Philippines without care.
c. If proven guilty they would be fined and will serve time in jail.
IV. Additional information
On June 19, 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for espionage in Sing Sing prision. They were convicted for giving the United States' atomic secrets to the Soviets.
I. Facts taken from the charge sheet -
a. Aragoncillo passed classified documents to Aquino who then passed it to three identified public officials in the Philippines.
b. The FBI became suspicious of Aragoncillo when he intervened in the deportation case of Aquino. They started monitoring his activities, focusing on the passing of classified documents through hotmail and yahoo mail accounts.
c. The documents seemed to be intelligence reports about Philippine officials.
d. Aquino was the go-between and introduced Aragoncillo to the three public officials.
e. Aragoncillo does not seem to have been motivated by money, rather he was interesed in a change of government and the installation of a political group, he deemed fit for the Philippines.
f. All emails of Aquino and Aragoncillo were properly identified both by the email providers and isp address of their computers.
II. Questions
a. Why would the FBI have information about officials of the Philippine government?
- Spying outside of the US is usually the task of the CIA. Maybe it was a report about US-based assets of past and present Filipino government officials. It could have been related to drugs, money laundering, bribes connected with US-based companies, and other suspected crimes that fall into the realm of the FBI.
- Global terrorism has increased the networking and cooperation between agencies of the US government as such it could have been possible that an intelligence analyst may have access to the shared information pool of the different intelligence services of the US. All Aragoncillo would need is the necessary password and user-profile to get the information. As such it would not be surprising that intelligence report from the CIA or the State Department could be obtained.
b. Why did Aragoncillo and Aquino use their email accounts to pass on the information?
- Perhaps they underestimated the ease in tracking electronic data and they might have misjudge the sensitivity of the document.
- The ease of passing information via the Net is obvious. What is not is the ease of following the electronic trail.
c. Where the files damaging?
- Probably not.
d. What will happen to the three public officials were linked to this cact of espionage?
III. Some initial conclusions -
a. Irregardless of the documents' value what is critical is its classification as sensitive information. And any nation is quite sensitive and severe when it comes to lapses in security.
b. The FBI may or may not be the author of the files. They are, however, in charge of guarding the US security and it seems that they followed the proper procedure in building the case. Aragoncillo, Aquino and their counterparts in the Philippines without care.
c. If proven guilty they would be fined and will serve time in jail.
IV. Additional information
On June 19, 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for espionage in Sing Sing prision. They were convicted for giving the United States' atomic secrets to the Soviets.
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