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February 2001 News

  1. Snake proteins may make good sensors By KELLY HEARN, United Press International February 28, 2001, Wednesday -- "The military has many functions for infrared detectors but generally they are used in heat-seeking, air-to-air missiles and air-to-ground heat seekers," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a non-profit policy research firm in Alexandria, Va.
  2. What's all the intrigue worth? By Scott Shane The Baltimore Sun Feb 28, 2001 -- John Pike, a longtime spywatcher who recently left the Federation of American Scientists to start a policy organization called GlobalSecurity.org, notes that there may be life-saving intelligence coups the public never hears about.
  3. CONGRESS TO HOLD CLOSED HEARINGS ON ACCUSED SPY ROBERT HANSSEN LATER THIS WEEK NBC News TODAY SHOW (7:00 AM ET) February 27, 2001, Tuesday -- Mr. JOHN PIKE (Intelligence Expert): The Special Collections Service is sort of like America's "mission impossible" force. They do exactly that sort of close surveillance, burglary, wiretapping, breaking and entering.
  4. ROBERT HANSSEN REPORTEDLY SOLD ELECTRONIC EAVESDROPPING SECRETS TO RUSSIANS NBC NIGHTLY NEWS (6:30 PM ET) February 26, 2001, Monday -- Mr. JOHN PIKE (Intelligence Expert): Giving away information about spy satellites really doesn't take the spy satellites out of the sky. But giving away information about the count--surveillance techniques that the Special Collections Service is using would make it a lot easier to defeat those techniques.
  5. New non-lethal energy weapon heats skin By KELLY HEARN, UPI Monday, 26 February 2001 -- "Unlike the other three branches, the Marines often are in situations where there are lots of innocent bystanders, where they have to control an unruly mob," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a non-profit policy research firm in Alexandria, Va.
  6. Darth Rumsfeld BY JASON VEST; The American Prospect February 26, 2001 -- "There are two different takes on the Rumsfeld report," says veteran defense analyst John Pike, now of GlobalSecurity.org. "One of them is that it basically helped define the conventional wisdom, that there was basically a bipartisan consensus that missile defense was no longer controversial." The other view, he says, is that the report is one of the greatest travesties in the history of the intelligence community.
  7. Why they spy By Adam Pertman Boston Globe 2/25/2001 -- ''People usually spy for some combination of emotional gratification and remuneration,'' says John Pike, the director of a Washington-based policy organization called Global Security.org and a specialist in intelligence issues for several decades. ''But whatever their reason, in almost all cases today, money is how people keep score.''
  8. President Concerned By Espionage But Expresses Confidence In Freeh, FBI The Bulletin's Frontrunner February 23, 2001 -- 'When you read the (FBI's) affidavit, it's obvious somebody walked in and gave them the "Ramon" file after Nov. 17,' says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based security policy group.
  9. Researchers build 'world's fastest gun' By KELLY HEARN, United Press International February 23, 2001, Friday - "The military has looked into hypervelocity launchers before," said John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a Washington-based defense policy organization. Having nixed the idea of using hypervelocity weapons in space, Pike said, military planners considered using them for ground combat.
  10. How effective were last week's air strikes against Iraq? FOX SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRIT HUME (18:00 ET) February 22, 2001, Thursday -- JOHN PIKE, GLOBALSECURITY.ORG: These precision weapons require precision targeting, and very simple mistakes like using the wrong map projections can lead to the sort of results that we've seen in this strike.
  11. Review Is Ordered of FBI Procedures By PAUL RICHTER, Los Angeles Times Wednesday, February 21, 2001 -- Hanssen was smart enough to conceal the fact that he was receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Russian government. "These people tend to know what they're doing," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based security policy organization.
  12. ROBERT HANSSEN, FBI COUNTERINTELLIGENCE SPECIALIST, CHARGED WITH SPYING FOR THE RUSSIANS HARDBALL WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS CNBC News (8:00 PM ET) February 21, 2001 - MATTHEWS: Well, let's find out from our expert, Mr. Pike, about this whole guy-- Mr. JOHN PIKE (GlobalSecurity.org): Well, this guy was, apparently, according to his own words, fulfilling a childhood ambition.
  13. Russian tip set up the trap By Kevin Johnson and Toni Locy USA TODAY February 21, 2001, ''When you read the (FBI's) affidavit, it's obvious somebody walked in and gave them the 'Ramon' file after Nov. 17,'' said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a security policy group in Washington.
  14. HOW SERIOUS IS THE GPS SPACE THREAT? GLOBAL POSITIONING & NAVIGATION NEWS February 21, 2001 -- John Pike, director of GobalSecurity.org and long-time foe of space militarization, says he's more concerned with threats to low-flying military reconnaissance spacecraft than with the survival of the GPS system.
  15. We bombed Iraq! What else is new? By Alicia Montgomery and Laura Rozen Salon.com Feb. 17, 2001 -- "What's the big deal?" asked longtime Pentagon watchdog John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org. "They've been doing the same thing for years." The main thing that distinguished Friday's action from the strikes that occurred under the previous administration, Pike said, is publicity.
  16. Warplanes strike strategic sites outside Baghdad By John Diamond Chicago Tribune February 16, 2001 -- "It's unusual that they hit that close to Baghdad," said John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a military analysis Web site. "The main thing that is new is that they called a news conference and had a briefing on it. That is a major, substantial departure from the last several years."
  17. U.S. Strikes from a Distance By David Ruppe ABCNews.com Feb. 16, 2001 -- Another type of precision-guided standoff weapon that might have been used is the AGM-154A Joint Standoff Weapon, says military analyst John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org.
  18. Space Station Could Cost Another $4 Billion By Larry Wheeler and Steven Siceloff FLORIDA TODAY 16 February 2001 -- John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said the Bush administration doesn't know what it wants out of the space station.
  19. Troubled space station to cost more LARRY WHEELER; Gannett News Service February 16, 2001, Friday, John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said "I don't think (Secretary of State) Colin Powell wants to go to Europe to discuss national missile defense and then have to tell them they won't be a big part of the space station."
  20. Science marches on - in orbit ALEXANDRA WITZE The Dallas Morning News February 12, 2001, Monday "It belittles the adventure of space flight, and it belittles the difficulty of scientific research back here on Earth, to pass off the space station as a science project," says John Pike, a space-policy analyst and director of GlobalSecurity.org in Alexandria, Va.
  21. Fight puts airwaves at risk By Anthony Shadid, Boston Globe, 2/10/2001 -- The more formidable obstacle - and one with which the military would be loath to tamper - is the Air Force's Space Ground Link Subsystem, the network through which the military talks to its fleet of satellites. As for moving those, ''just don't even think about it'' said John Pike, a defense analyst in Washington.
  22. US defence expert shoots down laser test project The Engineer February 9, 2001 -- Controversial US plans for a national missile defence system will not work, according to one the country's leading ballistic technology experts. John Pike, formerly with the Federation of American Scientists, and now director of military intelligence thinktank GlobalSecurity.org, has dismissed the project as costly and ill-conceived.