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22 April 2007
James Atkinson's Congressional testimony:
http://cryptome.org/cg-leakage.htm
Amendment 1:
http://cryptome.org/cg-unmet.htm
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:27:29 -0400
To: John Young <jya[at]cryptome.net>
From: "James M. Atkinson" <jmatk[at]tscm.com>
Subject: Amendment Two to "Coast Guard Leaky Ships" Testimony - Ugly Questions
Note: I added the following amendment to my written testimony after the Coast Guard refused to give Congress a straight answer and they started using double speak in their answers, and qualifying answers with footnotes, non-disclaimers, and using double speak instead of providing the requested information. The the Coast Guard went so far as to delay and foot drag right up to the last minute where they were sending the committee documents at 8:30 PM at night the evening before the hearing as they no doubt thought that nobody would be able to address the documents they provided on such short lead-time, and the Coast Guard could in turn claim to have provided some of the information (at the last minute).
The problem is that by the 11th, I already had figured out what the Coast Guard and Lockheed Martin was up to and issued an interim opinion, so when the report hit the copy machine on the 16th, and the Coast Guard saw it on the 17th they were in major damage control mode. They issued the last batch of documents late on the 17th, AFTER they read my written testimony/report and realized that they had been caught playing games and had better come at least partially clean.
These are extremely ugly questions, which the Coast Guard is not keen to answer, and which are politically quite embarrassing. Right after the Coast Guard found out that these questions were going to be poised they decided to announce that they were going to scrap the ships.
These questions were included in my written testimony, and neither the Coast Guard nor Lockheed Martin seems to be keen to answer them. The Inspectror General of DHS failed to ask all these questions when they initiated TWO different investigations into the matter.
The questions are not classified, and only one or two of them would require a classified document be produced, although all of the questions can be answered in an unclassified way without producing the actual classified document.
-jma
Amendment Two
It is my professional recommendation that this Committee request that the Coast Guard immediately supply you the following EXACT information for each of the eight cutters.
The proper answer to each of these questions is either: Yes, No, or a specific date, a person’s name, and so on. You should assume that you are being forced to deal with the Coast Guard leadership as a hostile witness and that they are being evasive in their direct answers. As such, you must now ask harsh questions, but questions to which they can only supply simple, yet direct answers.
I recommend that you insist that the Coast Guard provide these exact questions with exact answers and that no answer be qualified with a footnote or answered in any evasive way. I further recommend that you give the Coast Guard one request for each of the eight ships, and that they give you the answer in the form of narrative form.
You may also find it prudent to expand this query to not only include the eight 123-feet cutters, but also to include all assets in the Coast Guard inventory acquired in the past 10 years to include the National Security Cutter, and all other assets capable of C4ISR access, or with access to classified systems or networks including those which may be legacy assets, and projects that are still on the drawing board.
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In regards to Hull/Keel Number xxxx, also known as xxxxx (asset name) please provide the following answers.
1a) What date was the (fill in the asset name and number) subjected to it's first visual TEMPEST inspection by the contractor
1b) On what dates did the contractor provide any additional visual TEMPEST inspections
1c) What were the results of each of these visual tests performed by the contactor
1d) Who performed these visual inspections
1e) What were the results of this inspection
1f) What documentation exists in regards to this inspection
2a) On what dates did the contractor subject the (insert name) cutter to any kind of instrumented TEMPEST inspection
2b) On what dates did the contractor provide any additional instrumented TEMPEST inspections
2c) What were the results of each of these instrumented tests performed by the contractor
2d) Who performed these instrumented inspections
2e) What were the results of this inspection
2f) What documentation exists in regards to this inspection
3a) What date was the (fill in the name and number) cutter subjected to it's first visual TEMPEST inspection by the USCG
3b) On what dates did the USCG provide any additional visual TEMPEST inspections
3c) What were the results of each of these visual tests performed by the USCG
3d) Who performed these visual inspections
3e) What were the results of this inspection
3f) What documentation exists in regards to this inspection
4a) On what dates did the USCG subject the (insert name) cutter to any kind of instrumented TEMPEST inspection
4b) On what dates did the USCG provide any additional instrumented TEMPEST inspections
4c) What were the results of each of these instrumented tests performed by the contractor
4d) Who performed these instrumented inspections
4e) What were the results of this inspection
4f) What documentation exists in regards to this inspection
5a) What date was the (fill in the name and number) cutter subjected to it's first visual TEMPEST inspection by Space and Naval Warfare Center (SPAWAR)
5b) On what dates did SPAWAR provide any additional visual TEMPEST inspections
5c) What were the results of each of these visual tests performed by the SPAWAR
5d) Who performed these visual inspections on behalf of SPAWAR
5e) What were the results of this inspection performed by SPAWAR
5f) What documentation exists in regards to this inspection by SPAWAR
6a) On what dates did SPAWAR subject the (insert name) cutter to any kind of instrumented TEMPEST inspection
6b) On what dates did SPAWAR provide any additional instrumented TEMPEST inspections
6c) What were the results of each of these instrumented tests performed by SPAWAR
6d) Who performed these instrumented inspections for SPAWAR
6e) What were the results of this inspection by SPAWAR
6f) What documentation exists in regards to this inspection by SPAWAR
7a) What date was the (fill in the name and number) cutter subjected to it's first visual TEMPEST inspection by other U.S. Government agency or contractor to include, but not be limited to the Navy, Army, Department of State, Central Intelligence Agency, DISA, NSA, or any contractor or employee.
7b) On what dates did any other contractor or government agency provide any additional visual TEMPEST inspections
7c) What were the results of each of these visual tests performed by the any other contractor or government agency
7d) Who performed these visual inspections on behalf of any other contractor or government agency
7e) What were the results of this inspection performed by any other contractor or government agency
7f) What documentation exists in regards to this inspection by any other
contractor or government agency
8a) On what dates did any other contractor or government agency subject the (insert name) cutter to any kind of instrumented TEMPEST inspection
8b) On what dates did any other contractor or government agency provide any additional instrumented TEMPEST inspections
8c) What were the results of each of these instrumented tests performed by any other contractor or government agency
8d) Who performed these instrumented inspections for any other contractor or government agency
8e) What were the results of this inspection by any other contractor or government agency
8f) What documentation exists in regards to this inspection by any other
contractor or government agency
9a) On what date did this ship pass it's latest visual TEMPEST inspection
9b) On what date did this ship pass it's latest instrumented inspection
9c) On what date was the interim authority to operate (IATO) granted
9d) On what date was classified ciphering materials in any form brought on board the ship
9e) On what date was classified keys or ciphering materials loaded into cryptographic equipment, or loaded into radios or other devices capable to utilizing ciphering and/or keying materials.
9f) On what was the classified software loaded onto any computer, radio, or device that may have not been included in the prior question.
9g) One what date was classified testing initiated on this ship, by whom
9h) On what date was classified testing completed on this ship, by whom, and what were the results
9i) On what dates was the NONSTOP evaluation performed on this ship, what countermeasures where performed, and by whom.
9j) One what date was the first authority to operate issued or granted.
9k) After the first authority to operate (ATO) was granted, what was the date of the ciphering materials being changed, from whom, and under what COMSEC account number.
9l) Please list the names and contact information for all COMSEC custodians who provided cipher, COMSEC, or other classified software, firmware, or hardware items to this ship since the USCG took possession from the contractor. This includes all time prior to the IATO, the time between the IATO and the ATO, and all time up to the present date.
9m) Provide the date when the ship last passed any classified traffic though any shipboard communications, C4ISR, navigation, cell phone, or other mechanism of security of communications.
9n) Provide a date(s) of any TSCM inspection performed on this ship, by whom, what were the results
9o) Provide the dates of any COMSEC equipment being removed from the ship
9p) Provide the dates that ciphering materials were last removed from the ship
9q) Provide the dates that the COMSEC or classified operating software was last removed from the ship
9r) Does this ship currently contain any classified COMSEC, Ciphering, or other communications equipment
9s) Has any member of the USCG (or any other branch of the military) crew of this ship lost their security clearance, or had it revoked or suspended, or been involved in any judicial or non-judicial disciplinary action. What position did these people serve in, what was the final disposition?
9t) What was the highest level of classified information that was ever processed by way of the on-board communications (C4) system, SBU, Confidential, Secret, Top Secret?
9u) What date was the ARC-210 removed or decommissioned
9v) What date was the IFF or UPX-28 removed or decommissioned
9w) What date was the C4ISR system decommissioned, disconnected, or removed.
9x) What is the date that the contractor, SPAWAR, or USCG loaded or updated the C4ISR software
9y) On what date was the MF/HF or RT-9000 or other elements or the HF system
removed or decommissioned
10a) Has this ship or other asset traveled into the littoral waters of any nation other then that of the United State, if so when, and what country
10b) Has this ship traveled within 250 miles of the coast line of any other nation, if so, when, and what country.
10c) Since taking possession of the ship (after the acceptance date noted
on the DD250) have any foreign nationals been on this ship, who, for what
reason, why, and what access where they allowed on the ship, and where did
they go or visit while on-board.
11a) What is the date when the first classified email message or other correspondence of an electronic nature was transmitted or received on this ship
11b) What is the power level on the output of the power amplifier of the IFF system.
11c) What is the power level on the output of the power amplifier of the ARC-210 line of sight system.
11d) What is the power level on the output of the power amplifier of the ARC-210 SATCOM system.
11e) What is the power level on the output of the power amplifier of the MF/HF system.
11f) What is the power level on the output of the power amplifier of the VHF Marine communications system.
11g) What is the power level on the output of the power amplifier of the UHF paging system.
11h) What is the power level on the output of the power amplifier of the RADAR system.
11i) What is the frequency range on the RADAR system.
11j) What is the pulse rate of the RADAR system, what is the pulse rise time,
and what is the pulse repetition rate
12a) Has any radio or system on-board this ship been loaded with HAVE QUICK waveforms, related COMSEC keys, ciphering materials, or integrated or external ECM/ECCM modules. If so when where they installed, when where they removed, and by whom.
12b) Has any radio or system on-board this ship been loaded with HAVE QUICK II waveforms, related COMSEC keys, ciphering materials, or integrated or external ECM/ECCM modules. If so when where they installed, when where they removed, and by whom.
12c) Has any radio or system on-board this ship been loaded with SINCGARS waveforms, related COMSEC keys, ciphering materials, or integrated or external ECM/ECCM modules. If so when where they installed, when where they removed, and by whom.
12d) Has any radio or system on-board this ship been loaded with DAMA waveforms, related COMSEC keys, ciphering materials, or integrated or external ECM/ECCM modules. If so when where they installed, when where they removed, and by whom.
12e) Has any radio or system on-board this ship been loaded with TALON waveforms, related COMSEC keys, ciphering materials, or integrated or external ECM/ECCM modules. If so when where they installed, when where they removed, and by whom.
12f) Has any radio or system on-board this ship been loaded with SATURN
waveforms, related COMSEC keys, ciphering materials, or integrated or external
ECM/ECCM modules. If so when where they installed, when where they removed,
and by whom.
13a) What was this ship first approved for full connection to SIPRNET, to what level
13b) When was this ship last approved for full connection to SIPRNET, what is the current status
13c) At any time was connectivity to SIPRNET ever revoked, denied, or suspended for any reason.
14a) Has any communications system onboard this ship or this asset ever been considered “high risk” by any other government agency such as the Navy or any other agency or contractor.
14b) Has any government agency ever refused or declined to provide classified information to this ship or asset due to the risk level presented by the posture or condition of the TEMPEST inspections, COMSEC systems, or C4ISR systems.
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