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Spy in NATO during the Kosovo war was a US officer, report says
Source: Deutsche Press Published: 3/10/00
Berlin (dpa) - A reported mole in NATO who supplied target information to
Serbia during last year's Kosovo war was a United States Air Force officer,
a newspaper said Friday. Berlin's left-wing Tageszeitung newspaper said it
had been contacted by the officer who had revealed his activities under the
condition of strict anonymity after the war ended.
Earlier this week the Guardian newspaper in Britain published an advance
BBC report claiming a mole had been active in NATO during the conflict.
The Tageszeitung said the U.S. officer had betrayed highly secret air
tasking orders (ATO) for NATO jets taking part in air strikes during the
first two weeks of the war. Among the missions he betrayed was that of the
U.S. F-117 A Stealth fighter which was shot down by Yugoslav air defence
systems.
During the first two weeks of the war NATO has said 600 people had access
to the ATO, but this was then reduced to 100 people owing to American
insistence.
According to the Tageszeitung, the officer said he passed information to
Belgrade out of his belief that NATO attacks were not allowed under
international law, and what he viewed as the "blackmail ultimatum''
levelled at Yugoslavia by the United States and its Western allies prior to
the conflict.
In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon was quoted by the
Washington Post Friday as saying there had been ``security problems''
during the first two weeks of the Kosovo war.
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Knut Rognes
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