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September 2001 News

  1. BREAKING THE CODE BY ROB LEVER Government Executive September 2001 -- John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, an intelligence think tank in Alexandria, Va., says the agency learned to avoid close scrutiny by giving Congress and the White House the information they wanted. "Fifteen years ago, if NSA could reassure the President that the Soviets were not going to attack, they could knock off for the afternoon," says Pike.
  2. Are electromagnetic pulses terrorists' next weapon of choice? By Keith Rogers Las Vegas Review-Journal September 30, 2001"I don't think there has been any significant effort to harden the private sector against electromagnetic pulse," said John Pike, director of globalsecurity.org, a defense and intelligence policy organization based near Washington, D.C.
  3. Colorado plays role in orbital espionage By By Ann Schrader The Denver Post September 30, 2001 - 'The new thing is the commercial imagery,' said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense, space and intelligence research organization based in Virginia.
  4. REVEALED: BIN LADEN'S LAIR By Jon Carter The People September 30, 2001 -- The incredible photos were released by defence think tank globalsecurity.org. Tim Brown, an analyst for the organisation, said: "They give us an insight into how the hunt for Bin Laden is likely to unfold and what our forces are going to be up against.
  5. Tightening the vise; For the Taliban it's a 'come-as-you-are war' BY E. THOMAS McCLANAHAN The Kansas City Star September 30, 2001 -- "The Taliban are fighting a come-as-you-are war," said John Pike of Globalsecurity.org, an independent defense-policy anlysis institute. "They have all the bullets they're ever going to have. The Northern Alliance are going to have all the bullets they can shoot, and then some."
  6. Special military-CIA teams already in Afghanistan By Earl Lane and Craig Gordon Newsday September 29, 2001 -- Analysts said it makes sense that small U.S. and British teams, with perhaps a dozen or fewer members, already are doing scouting missions in Afghanistan. The Joint Special Operations Command can use troops such as the Army Delta force commandos and Navy SEALs, according to John Pike, director of the nonprofit GlobalSecurity.org.
  7. US Can Choose Many Bases for Raids Matt Kelley Associated Press September 29, 2001 - ``It's almost certainly the case that someone's making the argument that we're better off getting an airfield out in the middle of nowhere that doesn't have a population nearby, where we can set up our own security,'' said military analyst John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org.
  8. American defense forces continue to prepare in Afghanistan David Martin CBS Evening News (6:30 PM ET) September 28, 2001 -- Mr. JOHN PIKE (Globalsecurity.org): The terrain is enormously jagged. There aren't that very many roads, and so American forces are almost certainly going to be going in by helicopter, by air, rather than on foot with vehicles.
  9. Fighting words, but so far no action Linda Diebel Toronto Star September 28, 2001 -- ``No useful purpose would be served by telling the folks in Afghanistan, `You don't have anything to worry about until Wednesday afternoon, but you'd better take shelter around 7 p.m.,' '' says military analyst John Pike, from GlobalSecurity.org.
  10. SMASH 'N GRAB TO FIND LADEN'S HIDEOUT By ROSS KANIUK Daily Star September 28, 2001 - Snatch squads from the ultra-secret Delta Force, which specialises in hostage rescue and anti-terrorist raids, will undertake lightning strikes. Military analyst John Pike said: "The taking of prisoners is going to be very important."
  11. KEY US AIM 'WILL BE TO TAKE PRISONERS' By Hugh Dougherty Daily Post (Liverpool) September 28, 2001 -- Military analyst John Pike said: "The taking of prisoners is going to be very important in this operation. "Their strategy is going to be very similar to the way the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency tries to unravel any criminal enterprise - which is to arrest people and work up the food chain."
  12. A CLOSER LOOK AT CAMP OSAMA By Niles Latham New York Post September 28, 2001 - The photos "give us an insight on how the hunt for bin Laden is likely to unfold and what American forces will be going up against when they look for and attack these complexes," said Tim Brown, an analyst with the defense think tank, globalsecurity.org. The organization released the photos, taken in December 1999 by the commercial satellite Ikonos, which is operated by Space Imaging Inc. and Lockheed Martin.
  13. Satellite sites offer different perspective of Earth By Daniel Sorid Reuters September 27, 2001 - One site, GlobalSecurity.org, displays pictures of military bases, rebel camps, and other secret areas captured by Ikonos.
  14. Colo. mission: Stay in state, watch skies By Mike Soraghan Denver Post September 27, 2001 -- "We'll be getting space support that the Russians back in the '80s could never have dreamed of," said John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a national security analysis firm.
  15. US has mix of spy techniques By Bryan Bender Boston Globe 9/27/2001 -- The military is also likely to be using a variety of aircraft outfitted with high-tech sensors to gather critical information from the air, according to John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense and foreign policy organization.
  16. The Keys to Finding bin Laden By Earl Lane and Lou Dolinar Newsday (New York, NY) September 26, 2001 -- "It's not like looking for a needle in a haystack," says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a liberal defense think tank. "It's more like looking for a piece of hay in a haystack."
  17. Pentagon strategy for waging this war against terrorism All Things Considered September 25, 2001 -- John Pike, who runs a think tank called GlobalSecurity.org, says missiles and mines may pose less of a threat than they did during the Soviet war with Afghanistan.
  18. THE WAR ON TERROR/A TIME GUIDE By Missy Adams Time October 1, 2001 -- Sources: AP, GlobalSecurity.org, USGS, United Nations Mine Action Program, CIA World Factbook, Encyclopaedia Britannica
  19. A different kind of war By Richard J. Newman U.S. News & World Report October 1, 2001 - Sources: CIA World Factbook; GlobalSecurity.org; Monterey Institute of International Studies; U.N. High Commission for Refugees
  20. A window on Osama's world By Gareth Cook Boston Globe September 25, 2001 -- ''Everything you learned about spy satellites from `Enemy of the State' is wrong,'' said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a national security consulting firm. He was referring to the 1998 film in which federal agents use satellites to track minute details of star Will Smith's life.
  21. Land Mines, Aging Missiles Pose Threat By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post September 25, 2001 -- U.S. aircraft can put out decoys to lead the incoming missile astray, said John Pike, an independent defense consultant.
  22. Information Is Vital To U.S. Victory By Andrea Stone USA Today September 25, 2001 -- "Good intelligence is a precondition for victory," says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense research group. "You cannot win without it."
  23. War Rules Are Likely To Change In U.S. Battle Against Terrorism By Carla Anne Robbins, Gerald F. Seib and Steve Levine, Wall Street Journal September 25, 2001 -- John Pike, who runs GlobalSecurity.org, an independent defense-analysis think tank, says that U.S. heavy bombers and carrier-based fighter jets also can be expected to target the dozen or so airfields that the Taliban is believed to have scattered across the country.
  24. Chances of a nuclear attack rated 'very low' By Dan Vergano USA Today September 24, 2001 -- Most worrisome, Pakistan, which borders Afghanistan and has links with Osama bin Laden, also possesses "dozens of nuclear devices," says Tim Brown of GlobalSecurity.org, a think tank in Alexandria, Va. Experts fear that a military coup in Pakistan would put nuclear warheads in the hands of terrorists.
  25. As More Forces Head To Region, U.S. Seeks Greater Access To Bases Ringing Afghanistan By Greg Jaffe Wall Street Journal September 24, 2001 -- Because Masierah Air Base is located on a small island off the coast of Oman, military officials wouldn't have to worry about protecting their planes from strikes. "There is nothing but sand crabs near that base. It is exceedingly secure and it is very well positioned for strikes against Afghanistan," said John Pike, who runs globalsecurity.org (www.globalsecurity.org), an independent defense-analysis think tank.
  26. AMERICA PREPARES REGIONAL CHALLENGES; STRATEGY EXPECTED TO FOCUS ON ELITE US 'SPECIAL FORCES' By Robert Schlesinger The Boston Globe September 24, 2001 -- "Presumably, all the various mistakes in Somalia will not be repeated here," said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense and intelligence policy organization. "But rather, new mistakes will be made."
  27. Stinger missiles said unlikely to threaten U.S. troops in Afghanistan BY: JOHN J. LUMPKIN Associated Press September 24, 2001 -- U.S. helicopters carrying special forces will probably operate only at night, said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a think tank in Alexandria, Virginia. "You think about American forces - we own the night," he said.
  28. Ein unabsehbarer "neuer Krieg" von ERIC CHAUVISTRÉ Die Tageszeitung 24.9.2001 - John Pike, Experte für Hightech-Rüstung und Leiter der kleinen Denkfabrik Globalsecurity.org in Washington, sagte im Gespräch mit der taz, es scheine fast, Rumsfeld wolle die terroristischen Attacken nutzen, um einen Angriff gegen Irak durchzuführen.
  29. Order of battle By Linda Diebel Toronto Star September 23, 2001 -- "There has to be '30 seconds over Kabul,'" says John Pike, a military and intelligence analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, referring to the Afghan capital where the Taliban is headquartered. "We just saw 6,000 Americans killed. That's more than at Pearl Harbour and there must be a response. American history requires those 30 seconds over Kabul, even if it is just to bounce the boulders.
  30. Elite Military Forces to Get a Major Test Los Angeles Times September 23, 2001 -- "This is the biggest test of special operations since Vietnam," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense policy organization. "This mission isn't just about capturing one guy. It's a long campaign with thousands of combatants."
  31. Special forces ready to hunt quarry in night raids South China Morning Post September 23, 2001 -- "Intelligence is fleeting and you want your force to be located near the target," John Pike, a Washington-based military analyst, said.
  32. TWO FIGHTERS FACE OFF; LOCKHEED MARTIN, BOEING COMPETE FOR BIGGEST-EVER U.S. DEFENSE CONTRACT By Richard Burnett THE ORLANDO SENTINEL September 23, 2001 -- "Whatever problems the defense budget might have had before, they have been nullified in the past few days," said Patrick Garrett, an associate researcher at Globalsecurity.org, a Washington think tank. "More than likely, whatever the Pentagon wants, it will get."
  33. AMERICA'S ORDEAL; Bush Faces Long Fight Against Terror By Earl Lane Newsday September 22, 2001 -- John Pike, director of the nonprofit GlobalSecurity.org said "The further it gets away from the 75th Ranger regiment going night stalking in Afghanistan and the closer it gets to placing all recent arrivals from Muslim countries under close surveillance, the bigger the problem you are going to have."
  34. A conflict like no other seen before by Julian Borger The Guardian (London) September 22, 2001 -- Afghanistan has got about a dozen airfields, so you pick one and parachute in. Intelligence is fleeting and you want your force to be located near the target,' John Pike, a Washington-based military analyst said.
  35. WAR ON TERRORISM: MILITARY - SPECIAL FORCES TO TARGET BIN LADEN'S STRONGHOLDS By Paul Peachey The Independent (London) September 22, 2001 -- "If there are any ambushes to take place, it's going to be the Americans doing the ambushing, not the Americans being ambushed" said John Pike, the director of the US defence and intelligence policy organisation Globalsecurity.org.
  36. A NATION CHALLENGED: THE MILITARY; TOP AIR CHIEF SENT By ERIC SCHMITT and MICHAEL R. GORDON The New York Times September 21, 2001 -- Chart: "IN THE REGION: The United States Military Presence" (Sources: International Institute for Strategic Studies; Department of Defense; Periscope; GlobalSecurity.org)
  37. Terror hunt from space By Mike Toner Cox News Service September 21, 2001 -- "From space, terrorists look a lot like any other bunch of guys sitting around a hooch," says John Pike, a space intelligence analyst and director of GlobalSecurity.com in Alexandria, Va. "In the 10 years since the Gulf War, we have seen a radical improvement in our satellite technology, but that has been offset by the ever diminishing visibility of the enemy."
  38. US military planners weigh options for retaliatory strikes Channel NewsAsia September 21, 2001 -- Special forces and commando units could - in the words of President Bush - try to "smoke out" Osama bin Laden and his men. Tim Brown - Senior Associate, GlobalSecurity.org, said, "They can hide, but they won't be able to operate. If they operate out in the open - even at night - we'll know that and we'll see it."
  39. Hunt for Bin Laden Will Require Patience - Experts By Tabassum Zakaria 2001 Reuters Limited September 21, 2001 -- The Taliban has about four dozen Russian-built combat aircraft, including MiG-21s, left over from the decade-long war against the Soviets who invaded Afghanistan and were ultimately driven out, said John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org.
  40. Elite Forces Would Take Pivotal Role Joseph Fitchett International Herald Tribune September 21, 2001 -- "You put in several thousand Special Forces, including a slice of the 75th Regiment, and several thousand more troops for logistics and extra protection, and you avoid the historical pattern in which Western armies end up vanishing in Afghanistan," according to John Pike, a U.S. specialist who is head of Globalsecurity.org.
  41. STAR WARS BATTLE By Nina Shapiro Seattle Weekly September 20, 2001 - John Pike is the founder of GlobalSearch.org in Alexandria, Va., a new think tank devoted to defense, space, and intelligence issues. "I think there has been a tendency over the last decade to concentrate on the exotic threats we face and to focus on the expensive solutions, and a tendency to focus on the threats that are least likely to emerge."
  42. Can Spy Satellites Find Osama Bin Laden? By Emily Yoffe Slate 9/20/2001 -- Can all the billion-dollar spy hardware orbiting Earth locate and identify Osama Bin Laden? And who else has satellite technology that matches that of the United States? Answer to the first question: no. Answer to the second: no one.
  43. IT IS EASY TO ENTER AFGHANISTAN AND HARD TO LEAVE Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) 9/20/2001 -- Focus on Afghanistan. Sources: ESRI; Jane's; GlobalSecurity.org; compiled from AP wire reports.
  44. United in crisis, legislators give Bush great discretion By Susan Milligan, and Anne E. Kornblut Boston Globe 9/20/2001 -- Military specialists said administrations typically tighten the flow of information during wartime and should be expected to do so under the current situation. ''You just do not normally disclose the details of an ongoing investigation,'' said John Pike, a defense analyst at GlobalSecurity.org.
  45. US considers helping Pakistan By Bryan Bender Boston Globe 9/20/2001 -- ''Pakistani President Musharaff is embarked on a course of action that could lead to his undoing,'' said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense and foreign policy organization in Alexandria, Va.
  46. What if the worst terrorist attack was yet to come? By FRANCIS TEMMAN Agence France Presse September 19, 2001 -- The most likely scenario would be a combined attack, according to Tim Brown of GlobalSecurity.org. "A scenario could be, for instance, a suicide bombing in the subway, combined at the same time with the release of anthrax or a deadly virus, which are invisible," Brown said.
  47. SATELLITES WILL AFFECT MILITARY CAMPAIGN DESPITE INSUFFICIENCIES By Matthew Jablonski Communications Daily September 19, 2001 - Entire U.S. technical information collection apparatus was designed to monitor Soviet Union during Cold War, and it will be "dreadfully difficult" to use spy satellites to gather information on terrorist organizations training and hiding in Middle Eastern nations such as Afghanistan, said John Pike.
  48. Investors flock to defense stocks By Richard Burnett Orlando Sentinel September 18, 2001 -- "None of this is surprising, the way that the government's $20 billion war chest turned into a $40 billion war chest so quickly," said John Pike, founder of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington think tank.
  49. AMERICAN N-STRIKES NOT RULED OUT DAILY MAIL (London) September 18, 2001 -- John Pike, head of the Global Security think tank in Washington said "We could incinerate Afghanistan's cities and kill millions of civilians. But while that might satiate the lust for revenge, it would turn the rest of the world against us and we are just not going to do it."
  50. Nhöõng kyõ thuaät nhaän daïng môùi Radio Australia - Vietnamese Service Magazine September 18, 2001 -- Moät vieân chöùc thuoäc coâng ty nghieân cöùu kyõ thuaät an ninh Global Security, oâng John Pike cho bieát, caùc nhaø khoa hoïc ñaõ cheá taïo moät heä thoáng kieåm tra khoâng duøng kyõ thuaät töø tröôøng. Phöông phaùp naøy khoâng nhöõng chuïp ñöôïc toaøn boä cô theå maø nhaân vieân an ninh coøn nhìn thaáy roõ nhöõng thöù vuõ khí khoâng phaûi laø kim loaïi. Tuy nhieân, heä thoáng kieåm soaùt hieän ñaïi naøy hieän chöa ñöôïc phoå caäp taïi caùc phi tröôøng treân theá giôùi, ngay caû treân laõnh thoå Hoa Kyø.
  51. Pike: Relatively low-tech nature of terrorist attacks not surprising Aerospace Daily September 17, 2001 "Over the last decade there has obviously been a tendency to focus on the exciting, high-end threats, and the expensive solutions to them," says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org.
  52. Offutt jets are probably relaying intelligence on Afghan air forces By Joe Dejka Omaha World-Herald September 17, 2001 -- John Pike, a leading expert on defense, space and intelligence policy, said last week that reconnaissance planes from the base probably are gathering information on Afghanistan's air defenses, possibly from the Indian Ocean or with the cooperation of bordering countries.
  53. Toppling terror will take time, strategists say By SCOTT CANON The Kansas City Star September 16, 2001 - Tim Brown, a senior analyst for the defense consultant Globalsecurity.org noted that even "a few successful commando raids" - with success far from certain - "aren't going to root out all the terrorists from Afghanistan."
  54. War would test stamina of Americans By RICK MONTGOMERY The Kansas City Star September 16, 2001 - American stamina will surely be tested, said John Pike, director of the Globalsecurity.org defense policy group. Not only is there the threat of the enemy fighting back at the airports, shopping malls, schools and sports stadiums of America, but "how will we know when we've won?" Pike asked. "I can't identify when we would turn this war off."
  55. The Pathways to Vengeance By James W. Crawley San Diego Union Tribune September 14, 2001 -- "There's a lot of carriers out there and that's 41/2 acres of American sovereign territory," said national security analyst John Pike.
  56. Aggressive response likely, analysts say By Michael Kranish and John Donnelly Boston Globe September 13, 2001 -- John Pike, a director of a group called globalsecurity.org, which analyzes intelligence and defense issues, said ''The case can be put to the Taliban that if you don't cough him up we will regard his action as being your action and, even if we can't blow him up, we could sure blow you up.''
  57. U.S. Navy pullout from Vieques unlikely to win support after terrorist attacks By PAISLEY DODDS Associated Press September 13, 2001 - John Pike, a defense analyst, said many things could have been done to prevent Tuesday's attacks, namely beefing up security at the airports, installing better X-ray equipment and locking the cockpit doors. But increasing military training will not lead to increased security at home, he said.
  58. Airport security technology expected to improve By Ed Scannell and Cathleen Moore InfoWorld Daily News September 13, 2001 -- "I think there will be growing interest in using biometric scanning at international access points in order to catch known people coming in on false papers" said John Pike, an executive with the research group GlobalSecurity.org.
  59. Proposed shield would not have helped, critics say The Kansas City Star September 13, 2001 - "In this case, our weak link is a commercial airplane," said Tim Brown, a senior analyst with Globalsecurity.org, which opposes a missile defense system. "Missile defense wouldn't have helped stop this."
  60. Couldn't We Have Known Sooner?; U.S. intelligence called into question in attacks By By Earl Lane Newsday (New York, NY) September 13, 2001 - John Pike, a security analyst at the nonprofit GlobalSecurity.org, said the early evidence suggests that the U.S. intelligence agencies did the best they could, given the tightly controlled nature of the bin Laden network. "There is no reason to believe the operation would have had enough unreliable people that informers or humint would have picked up on it," Pike said.
  61. Onboard anti-hijacking measures of limited effectiveness, say analysts By Jefferson Morris Aerospace Daily September 13, 2001 -- One rather low-tech approach to onboard security would simply be to keep the cockpit door locked, according to John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org. "Back in the 70s, when concerns about domestic hijacking were quite real, it was just standard procedure that the cockpit door was always locked, and the passengers never saw the flight crew," said Pike.
  62. $19bn a year spent on intelligence ... and still no warning The Australian September 13, 2001 - John Pike, of the research group GlobalSecurity.org, said airport security was the primary failure. "The notion that if we had just spent more on intelligence this would not have happened is absolutely unfair," Mr Pike said.
  63. US Intelligence and Military Response ABC Radio National Breakfast 6:46am September 13, 2001 -- We speak to John Pike, director of globalsecurity.org, a defence and intelligence organisation in Washington
  64. Outrage at lack of security at American airports ABC Radio september 13, 2001 -- John Pike heads American-based security firm Global Security.org and is considered a world expert on defence, space and intelligence matters. He goes further, saying it was airport security - or a lack thereof - which was the primary failure in the tragic sequence of events.
  65. Performance of intelligence agencies under scrutiny By: Rebecca Carr and Julia Malone Austin American Statesman September 12, 2001 - Not everyone was ready to blame U.S. intelligence. John Pike of the think tank GlobalSecurity.org said the failure was mainly one of airport security.
  66. Some security experts blame attack on failure og U.S. intelligence By Jonathan Wells and Jack Meyers The Boston Herald September 12, 2001 -- John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense and intelligence policy organization in Virginia, said the terrorist effort that struck the United States yesterday may have been "undetectable."
  67. International offensive against terrorism urged By Mark Matthews The Baltimore Sun September 12, 2001 - John Pike, an intelligence analyst in Washington, said, "It is possible that [the terrorists] could have hatched the plan with trusted reliable people who infiltrated into the U.S. one at a time, waiting for a prearranged signal," and staying away from traditional communication devices, he said.
  68. Attacks represent colossal failure for US intelligence By ROB LEVER AND JEAN-MICHEL STOULLIG Agence France Presse September 12, 2001 - John Pike of the research group GlobalSecurity.org said airport security was the primary failure. "The notion that if we had just spent more on intelligence this would not have happened is absolutely unfair," Pike said.
  69. U.S. intelligence unprepared for attack scenario By John Diamond Chicago Tribune September 12, 2001 - Not everyone was ready to blame U.S. intelligence. John Pike of the think tank GlobalSecurity.org said the failure was mainly one of airport security. "The notion that if we had just spent more on intelligence this would not have happened is absolutely unfair," Pike said.
  70. Who Did It? By David Ruppe ABCNews.com September 12, 2001 "You would think it would have to be bin Laden behind it, because who else would have the audacity, the conceptual audacity of it?" says John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org in Washington. "His organization fits the profile.
  71. Special Report: America Under Attack ABC News September 11, 2001 Tuesday (8:00 PM ET) Mr. JOHN PIKE (Director Global Security.org): "Making sure that the federal government continues to function, I think, is very important in a time of crisis, because it reassures the public that somebody is in charge and the situation is well in hand."
  72. Devastating attacks show evidence of sophisticated planning, terrorists' covert skill BY ADAM GELLER and JIM KRANE Associated Press September 11, 2001 -- While operating the planes required substantial know-how, such attacks likely relied more on overall orchestration, said Tim Brown, senior analyst with Global Security.org in Washington, D.C., which researches proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
  73. A peek into secrets most jealously guarded By Laura Sullivan The Baltimore Sun September 8, 2001 Saturday -- The Future Imagery Architecture, is estimated to be worth $25 billion over two decades. It will require thousands of aerospace industry workers to complete and will most likely operate out of Southern California, said John Pike, a space intelligence expert and director of Virginia-based GlobalSecurity.Org.
  74. Analysts: Space assets vulnerable, but putting weapons there debatable Jefferson Morris Aerospace Daily September 6, 2001 -- John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, argued that while there is no pressing need for America to develop offensive anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons, U.S. dependence on satellites provides incentive for others to do so.
  75. The Military and Space A Half-Day Conference at the Cato Institute Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - Should the U.S. Military Expand Its Role in Space? Peter Huessy, National Defense University Foundation; John Pike, Globalsecurity.org; and Charles Peña, Cato Institute.
  76. Leading Scientists See Fatal Flaw in Missile Defenses By Elizabeth Sullivan The Cleveland Plain Dealer September 3, 2001 - "Whether the actual data from the satellite would be as good as the simulated data is now, we're obviously several years and several billion dollars away from answering that question," said John Pike, who runs GlobalSecurity.org, a Virginia-based watchdog group.
  77. FBI AGENTS WANT NEW BOSS TO RAISE MORALE By James Gordon Meek Los Angeles Daily Journal September 04, 2001 -- That's a serious problem, according to intelligence analyst John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org in Virginia. "Morale is, unavoidably, closely connected to effectiveness," Pike said.
  78. Satellites of war ... and peace By Glenn Schloss South China Morning Post September 3, 2001 -- "It certainly works for transparency and confidence-building. It reduces the possibility of suspicion and deception," said John Pike, director of the GlobalSecurity.org consultancy. By being able to detect military build-ups or new facilities being built, decision makers would have early notice of potential problems and be able to seek to defuse tensions through diplomacy, he said.
  79. U.S. encoding devices are prized items in international espionage By SCOTT CANON The Kansas City Star September 1, 2001 -- "The United States is a very big country with a lot of very neat toys," said John Pike, director of the Globalsecurity.org defense policy group. "Other countries that don't have as many toys would like to have ours."
  80. U.S. to Sanction Chinese Firm By Robin Wright Los Angeles Times September 1, 2001 -- "It'd be a setback for the Chinese because most commercial satellites are made in U.S. and are less expensive and more capable than those made in other countries" said John E. Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a nonprofit U.S. organization specializing in space, defense and intelligence. "But it might turn out to be just as serious a setback to America's communications satellite industry."