signals intelligence system Königswarte District Bruck an der Leitha
Locations:
command building Hütteldorferstr. 126, 1140 Vienna
Maria Theresia barracks (eh Fasanengarten barracks): At the Pheasant Garden 2, 1130 Vienna
Fixed radio monitoring stations: u.Neulengbach Königswarte (Lower Austria), Kolomannsberg (Upper Austria), Koralpe (in the south of Austria)
Leader: Major General Fritz Weber (since 2003)
official website: No
The military intelligence official (Hnaa or HNA) is the foreign intelligence service of the Austrian Armed Forces and under, just like his partner services, the „ Heeres-Abwehramt “ (HAA oder HabwA) genannte (militärische) Inlandsnachrichtendienst, dem Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung und Sport (BMLVS) [1]. Daneben gibt es noch eine dritte Behörde die sich mit nachrichtendienstlichen Tätigkeiten befasst: das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung (BVT), der zivile Inlandsgeheimdienst der Bundesrepublik welcher dem Bundesministerium für Inneres (BMI) untersteht. [2]
Am 21. Januar 1985 ist der ehemalige Heeresnachrichtendienst durch Verteidigungsminister Friedhelm Frischenschlager im Zuge der Lucona affair been resolved, and it then emerged, both the Army news Agency (HNA - foreign espionage) and the Army Defense official (HAA - domestic spying). The HNA is attributed to the ÖVP, the HAA rather the Social Democrats. [3]
According to the " Standard " was the HNA is to 1991, largely uncontrolled, and since 1991 it referred to in Article 52a of the Federal Constitution under parliamentary oversight, which in turn are more stringent duty of confidentiality is subject to [4]. Parliamentary control is carried out since since 1 Military power law in force in July 2001 (MBG) durch den Rechtsschutzbeauftragten (RSB) beim BMLVS. Der Rechtsschutzbeauftragte hat die Aufgabe, HNA und AbwA auf eventuelle Grundrechtsverletzungen und widerrechtliche Datenverwendung hin zu überprüfen. Am 23. Jänner 2004 erklärte der Verfassungsgerichtshof Teile des neuen Militärbefugnisgesetzes für verfassungswidrig [5], jedoch erhielt der Leiter des Heeresnachrichtenamtes noch im selben Jahr einen eigenen Stab in der Zentralstelle des Verteidigungsministeriums (damals unter der Leitung von Gert-René Polli ), wodurch das HNA keine nachgeordnete Dienststelle des Ministeriums mehr ist. [6]
In einem Artikel von 2005 erwähnte die ehem. Innenministerin Liese Prokop that HNA and 2000, and state protection (BMI) were always strictly separate areas, they would have enjoyed the era streets were close ties. In BAT, the connecting lines are even enshrined in the management. Between 11 and 20 December 2004, interior and defense ministries in the hands of a minister, the ex-policeman from Tyrol, Guenther Platter . [7]
The HNA is the (only) strategic foreign intelligence service in Austria, and therefore part of the "security warning system." The Office obtained information on security policy-relevant regions, countries and organizations. From this information, write experts situational awareness. On the findings, including the Office informed the Department of Defense, the State Department and the Federal Government [8]. The HNA collects information mainly on Austria's eastern neighbors and the Balkans. In this region it is, according to newspaper reports as one of the best informed services in the world. [9]
quote from Major General Fritz Weber (since 2003 Head of the HNA) for the responsibilities of the HNA [10]:
"The Army News Agency is part of the security early warning system of the Republic of Austria and the European Union. His strength and exclusivity are the intelligence information about foreign countries. The Hnaa is responsible for the extensive intelligence information about foreign countries. This implies information across the security spectrum. A separation of information gathering in a military and civilian, the complexity of the modern situation report no longer with international practice. This information will then serve as basis for decisions on the political and military level. [...]While the Federal Agency for State Protection and Counter Terrorism (BVT) in accordance with the Security Police Act domestic-based work, the Army News Agency, the military power of law is followed, foreign-oriented. Knowledge about foreign countries are - specific interest profiles or specific requests for assistance on the part of the Ministry for the Interior -. The department made available "
At a meeting of the Federal Council on 27 June 2002 describes Federal Reinhard Todt (SPÖ Vienna) the powers of the HNA follows: "The Military Intelligence Office, the Defence Office has exactly the same opportunities as the police after security police law. You can find hidden Equip people with false identities. This is the last building blocks of a total surveillance " And even if it on the part of various ÖVP and FPÖ deputy was contradicted in this regard, it was his testimony at the meeting yet, at least indirectly confirmed -. So said ÖVP Federal Dr. Vincenz Liechtenstein later in the meeting "I think it is really necessary - and the 11th September, has shown very specifically - that look to give the police, the military intelligence office has plenty of opportunities, where there can be hazards. If you prevent this, you can wait more than a thank you letter from Mr Bin Laden . " [11]
The report of an investigation commission of the European Parliament in 2001, it is clear also that the HNA and the AbwA also in the ECHELON interception system are integrated and that the interception of foreign communications (incoming and outgoing civilian, military and diplomatic communications) and State communications (military, embassies, etc.) are used. [12]
specific details about the general and specific activities of HNA are rare or absent. However, there is an interesting article in the left newspaper Rosa Antifa Wien "which is received in particular to the general tasks of the military intelligence services in the course of military power law expansions in 2001 [13], and a very insightful application by Mr Rudolf Anschober with entitled " Army intelligence - 12 years sprawl are enough ", which states inter alia:
is "In fact, the current organization of the Army Defense Ministry and the military intelligence and in particular the work of these two services to every citizen of this Country's enigmatic and politically uncontrollable. [...] An effective policy review of the work of the two military intelligence services is not due to the lack of supervisory powers of the competent control sub-committees is currently possible. [...]
(Robert) Elmes said further that the testimony of defense with regard to international recognition and excellent quality are to question the military intelligence office. Some annual reports of the news office is inevitable, namely the suspicion that the copyright must be limited to the Austrian position. [...] (See also APA dated 17/04/1996) are currently von den Heeresnachrichten-diensten pro Jahr nach Schätzungen der Grünen ca. 5.000 Akten mit personenbezogenen Daten bearbeitet. […] Wie der Bundesminister für Landesverteidigung bestätigt, sind bis heute die Aufgaben und Befugnisse der Heeresnachrichtendienste gesetzlich nicht geregelt.“ [14]
Verschiedenen Berichten zufolge war das HNA u.a. involviert in die FPÖ-Spitzelaffäre , in verschiedene Fälle von illegalen Observationen und Abhöraktionen im Inland (oftmals in Verbindung mit dem AbwA und dem BVT), in der Sahara-Geiselnahme 2008, der Christian Waldner Ermordung, dem sogenannten „Hufeisenplan“ während the Yugoslav crisis and the fall Franz Fuchs , with evidence in the last two mentioned the facts most clearly for a direct involvement of the HNA. So the U.S. government thanked in the Kosovo conflict once on the Washington Post for the good performance of the Austrian news services [15]. Due to a recent message is to be discussed here are also short of a detail in the case of Franz Fuchs which have most of the media at that time paid little or no attention. But first to the current message:
early January 2010, the message went through the media that a international team of researchers have
set a new record: they cracked a 758-bit RSA key and needed it - with a network of hundreds of computers - 2.5 years [for more information, for example, " standard "].
And now to the detail in the case of Franz Fuch s: 1996 the magazine " profile " a 15 pages long
encrypted letter of confession of the then-unknown bomber Franz Fuchs . This letter was a RSA 1024-bit key cipher [see for example, "The Power of Mathematics to Protect Data and to Break Data Protection “, p.10] und von den Behörden an
Dechiffrierungsexperten des HNA, des BSI ( Deutsches Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der
Informationstechnik ) der NSA (amerikanische National Security Agency ) und andere Institutionen
Bekennerschreiben entschlüsselt, offenbar unter Beteiligung des mittlerweile verstorbenen deutschen Mathematikers und Kryptologen Hans Dobbertin [siehe „ heise online "or" taz.de "].
About the internal organization structure of the HNA is basically only known that it is divided into seven departments: 1 Guide, 2nd Information, 3 Evaluation, 4 Logistics, 5 Information Technology, 6 Communications Intelligence Service and 7 Operating point [16]. The signals intelligence service or telecommunications Reconnaissance Battalion (FAMB) was in 1994 as part of the Army division "New" included in the HNA. The FAMB is responsible for all the signals intelligence interception by different stations (eg the King waiting in Lower Austria). The headquarters of the FAMB is at the Maria Theresia barracks in Vienna. The so-called Peilkommando is in Neulengbach (the whole region is known as a security and risk zone) [17], further clarification will be entertained and mobile stations. [18]
The budget of the HNA, is exactly like that of the HAA, not included in the defense budget, thus also the ACA in this regard not the full insight. The annual budget is in a 1999 article published in the newspaper the Press "on 40 Mil. € estimated [19]. The number of employees has also been published anywhere and is not even for the Control relevant parliamentary sub-commission reported. suspect, according to a report in the newspaper "Kurier " insiders "that 800 civil servants working for the service [20], in the book" The Politics of infosphere: World-Information.Org "by Konrad Becker is called the figure of around 2,000 employees [21]. The information provided by former Federal Minister of Defence Werner Fasslabend respect to a request (5766 / J) by Mr Madeleine Petrovic in HNA, both soldiers and civil servants, including women and men employed, which the use of groups H1, H2, M BO 1, M Bo 2, M Z O 2, UO / C, M BUO 1, M BUO 2, M ZUO 2, M ZCh, A 1, B, A 2, C, A 3, D, A 4, A 5, VB I / a, VB I / b, VB I / c, belong to VB I / d and V4. Among them are university graduates, particularly in the areas of language and legal [22]. About the recruitment and selection of prospective employees apart from the above-mentioned article in the newspaper Rosa Antifa Wien "little concrete is known, however, is apparently not, as is common with other intelligence agencies, universities recruited [23]. External informants, according to the former Federal Minister of Defence Werner Fasslabend in HNA not employed, however, speak a lot of evidence against this claim [24]. More demands from MPs and other bodies with regard to the Parliament the HNA usually rejected with the following standard formula: " information within the meaning of the question for reasons of secrecy (Article 20 para 3 B - V) or no data protection suitable discussed at a parliamentary question to answer publicly be. " [25]
of Domingo Conte (February 2010)
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SOURCES:
[1] http://www.bmlv.gv.at/organisation/standorte/wien.shtml
[2] http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms / bmi_verfassungsschutz
[3] http://www.raw.at/sub/texte/inteam/inteam6/int6_vorwaerts_zu_metternich.htm
[4] http://derstandard.at/2459148
[5] http://www.bmlv.gv.at/journalist/pa_body.php?id=580
[6] # structure http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heeresnachrichtenamt or http://de. wikipedia.org / wiki / Defense Official #
tasks [7] http://www.kripo-online.at/krb/show_art.asp?id=854
[8] http://www.bundesheer.at/truppendienst/ausgaben/artikel.php?id=920
[9] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heeresnachrichtenamt#Aufgaben
[10] http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_OeffentlicheSicherheit/2005/07_08/files/Heeresnachrichtenamt.pdf
[11] http://www.parlament.gv.at/PG/DE/BR/BRSITZ/BRSITZ_00689/fnameorig_113975.html
[12] European Parliament Report on the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system, 2001/2098(INI)), nachzulesen: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21458788/Echelon-Report-English oder: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A5-2001-0264+0+DOC+XML+V0//DE oder: http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/1/1683/1.html siehe diesbezüglich auch „ENFOPOL-Papiere“: http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/6/6326/1.html
[13] http://www.raw.at/texte/inteam/inteam6/int6_vorwaerts_zu_metternich.htm
[14] http://www.parlament.gv.at/PG/DE/XX/A/A_00555/fnameorig_124888.html
siehe auch: http://www.parlament.gv.at/PG/DE/XX/NRSITZ/NRSITZ_00084/fnameorig_114157.html#Seite_120.html
[15] Konrad Becker: The politics of the Infosphere: World-Information.Org, page 96, (read: http://books.google.at/books?id=FZHHkEUvWQcC&pg=PA96-IA1&dq = Military Intelligence + becker & cd = 1 # v = onepage & q & f = false )
[16] http://www.parlament.gv.at/PG/DE/XX/AB/AB_05482/fnameorig_135370.html (Item 4)
[17] http://www.raw.at/texte/inteam/inteam6/int6_vorwaerts_zu_metternich.htm
[18] http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/ 5/5205/1.html
[19] http://www.acipss.org/intelligence/beitraege/bound_to_cooperate/current_organizations.htm or "Die Presse", 27 December 1999 ("Vienna as a playground for the agents)
[20] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heeresnachrichtenamt #
structure [21] Konrad Becker: The politics of the Infosphere: World-Information.Org , page 96
[22] http://www.parlament.gv.at/PG/DE/XX/AB/AB_05482/fnameorig_135370.html
[23] http://www.politspiegel.at/? p = 992
see [24]: http://www.parlament.gv.at/PG/DE/XXIV/J/J_03364/fnameorig_169868.html or: http://www.falter.at/ print/F2002_24_1.php
[25] http://www.parlament.gv.at/PG/DE/XX/AB/AB_05482/fnameorig_135370.html
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