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Pe 21 Ianuarie 2009, Hillary Rodham Clinton este numită secretar de stat
în Administraţia Obama. Pe 11 Iunie 2009, Mark H. Gitenstein este nonimalizat
de preşedintele Obama ambasador US în România. Pe 16 Iunie 2009, secretarul de
stat, Hillary Clinton vrea să afle tot despre România. Şi trimite următoarea
notă către ambasada US din Bucureşti.

Sursa, aici. WikiLeaks, of course.

R 162145Z JUN 09
FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO AMEMBASSY BUCHAREST
INFO DIA WASHINGTON DC//
DHI-1B/CLM//DP// CIA WASHINGTON DC//NHTC// 0000

S E C R E T STATE 062395

NOFORN

EO 12958 DECL: 06/16/2034
TAGS PINR, KSPR, ECON, RO
SUBJECT: (S) REPORTING AND COLLECTION NEEDS: ROMANIA

REF: STATE 18770
Classified By: SUZANNE MCCORMICK, DIRECTOR, INR/OPS.
REASON: 1.4(C)  

¶1. (S/NF) This cable provides the full text of the
new National HUMINT Collection Directive (NHCD) on
Romania (paragraph 3-end) as well as a request for
continued DOS reporting of biographic information
relating to Romania (paragraph 2).

¶A. (S/NF) The NHCD below supercedes the NHCD contained
in Ref C and reflects the results of a recent Washington
review of reporting and collection needs focused on
Romania and sets forth a list of priorities (paragraph
3) and reporting and collection needs (paragraph 4)
intended to guide participating USG agencies as
theyallocate resources and update plans to collect
information on Romania. The priorities may also serve
as a useful tool to help the Embassy manage reporting and
collection, including formulation of Mission Strategic
Plans (MSPs).

¶B. (S/NF) This NHCD is compliant with the National
Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF), which was
established in response to NSPD-26 of February 24, 2003.
If needed, GRPO can provide further background on
the NIPF and the use of NIPF abbreviations (shown
in parentheses following each sub-issue below) in NHCDs.

¶C. (S/NF) Important information responsive to the NHCD often is available to
non-State members of the Country Team whose agencies participated in the review
leading to the NHCD,s issuance. COMs, DCMs, and State reporting officers can assist
by coordinating with other Country Team members to encourage relevant reporting
through their own or State Department channels.

¶2. (S/NF) State biographic reporting ) including on Romania:

¶A. (S/NF) The intelligence community relies on State reporting officers for much
of the biographical information collected worldwide. Informal biographic reporting
via email and other means is vital to the community’s collection efforts and can
be sent to the INR/B (Biographic) office for dissemination to the IC. State
reporting officers are encouraged to report on noteworthy Palestinians as
information becomes available.

¶B. (S/NF) Reporting officers should include as much of the following information as
possible when they have information relating to persons linked to Romania: office and
organizational titles; names, position titles and other information on business
cards; numbers of telephones, cell phones,pagers and faxes; compendia of contact
information, such as telephone directories (in compact disc or electronic format if
available) and e-mail listings; internet and intranet “handles”, internet e-mail
addresses, web site identification-URLs; credit card account numbers;
frequent flyer account numbers; work schedules, and other relevant biographical
information.

¶3. (S/NF) Romanian NHCD - priority issues: 

¶A. National Leadership and Governance
1) Rule of Law, Corruption, and Crime(CRIM-4)
2) National Leadership (LEAD-3H)
3) Political Evolution and Democratic Reform (DEPS-4H)

B. Financial Stability, Energy Security, and Societal Challenges
1) Financial Stability and Economic Development (ECFS-5)
2) Energy Security(ESEC-3H)
3) Money Laundering (MONY-5H)
4) Demographics, Minorities, and Human Rights (DEMG-5H)

C. Foreign Relations
1) Black Sea, Balkans, and Other Regional Neighbors (FPOL-4H)
2) Russia (FPOL-4H)
3) European Union (FPOL-4H)
4) The United States (FPOL-4H)
5) International Organizations and Other Foreign Relations (FPOL-4H)

D. National Security
1) GRPO can provide text of this issue.
2) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (FMCC-4H)
3) Force Structure, Modernization, and Readiness (FMCC-4H)
4) Proliferation and Counterproliferation (ACWP-4H)
5) Counterterrorism and Terrorism (TERR-4H)
6) Information to Support US Military Operational Planning (INFR-5H)

E. Telecommunications Infrastructure and Information Systems (INFR-5H)

¶4. (S/NF) Reporting and collection needs:

¶A. National Leadership and Governance

1) Rule of Law, Corruption, and Crime
(CRIM-4). Policies, plans, and efforts to develop, protect, and strengthen
independent and effective judiciary, including advocates, opponents, obstacles,
and progress. Government, non-public and public views about, and indications of,
impact of corruption and crime on governance, internal development, financial
stability, intelligence and security services, weapons security, military readiness,
and foreign investment.  Details about organized crime groups, including leadership,
links to government and foreign entities, drug and human trafficking, money
laundering, credit card fraud, and computer-related crimes, including child
pornography. Details about cyber crime. Government plans and efforts to combat cyber
crime. Details about drugtrafficking, including trends, types of drugs, production,
identification of trafficking groups and individuals, money laundering, and smuggling
methods and routes. Government counter-drug control and enforcement plans,
organizations, capabilities, and activities. Government efforts to cooperate with
international partners to control illicit drug trade. Illegal acquisition of
government documents, such as passports and driver licenses. Links between organized
crime groups, cyber criminals, and terrorists. Details about law enforcement
organizations and capabilities, including procedures, capabilities, challenges,
and plans to remedy obstacles to swift and equal justice. Plans and efforts of law
enforcement organizations to use biometric systems.

2) National Leadership (LEAD-3H).

Objectives, strategies, efforts, authorities, and responsibilities of national
leaders. Philosophies and motives behind leadership objectives, strategies,
and efforts. Identities, motives, influence, and relations among principal advisors,
supporters, and opponents. Decisionmaking procedures, including differences under
varying circumstances. Relations among national government entities, including
president, premier, ministers, national security and defense council, intelligence
and security services, legislature, prosecutor general, and judiciary. Corruption
among senior officials, including off-budget financial flows in support of senior
leaders. Sources of funding for political candidates, and government plans and
efforts to ensure funding transparency.
Public support for or opposition to administration, as well as government
strategies and tactics to increase, maintain, and exercise authority. Assessment,
vulnerability, personality, financial, health, and biometric information about
current and emerging leaders and advisors.  3) Political Evolution and Democratic
Reform (DEPS-4H).  Government and public commitment to, and plans and efforts to
protect and strengthen, representative government, rule of law, freedom of press,
religious freedom, private ownership, and individual liberties. Policies and efforts
regarding political, judicial, economic, social, and educational reform. Plans and
programs to manage perceptions, including through media manipulation. Popular
attitudes about Romania,s evolvingpolitical, philosophical, and regional identity.
Identification, roles, goals, and composition of significant societal groups,
such as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Developments within political parties
and blocs. Details about internal workings of major political parties. Strength and
vitality of political parties. Information about opposition and extremist groups,
including domestic and foreign support.


¶B. Financial Stability, Energy Security, and Societal Challenges

1) Financial Stability and Economic Development (ECFS-5). Plans and efforts to
respond to global financial crisis. Public response to financial challenges.
Leadership concerns about, and efforts to avoid, economic collapse. Opposition,
extremist, and fringe group plans and efforts to exploit financial crisis to achieve
objectives. Plans and efforts regarding economic cooperation with the US, EU, Group
of Eight, and international financial institutions, including World Bank,
International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development,and Paris Club. Plans and efforts to pursue economic reform, including
amongmonetary and fiscal policies. Plans and efforts to develop national
infrastructure,and private sector and market institutions, including financial
system. Plans andefforts to adopt international investment norms, protect
intellectual property, and support entrepreneurs, especially in small and medium
businesses. Plans andefforts to attract and retain foreign investment. Plans and
efforts to protect foreign investors from government corruption and inefficiencies.
National and regional economic conditions, including real output, domestic and
foreign investment,foreign trade, capital flight, monetization, and gray economy.
Plans and efforts to limit capital flight and barter. Economic policy decisionmaker
identities, philosophies, roles, interrelations, and decisionmaking processes.
Role of private businessmen in economic planning. Published and non-published
national budget,including oversight and associated banks and financial institutions.
Details about major financial institutions. Plans and efforts to comply with IMF
agreements.Plans and efforts regarding Euro adoption.

2) Energy Security (ESEC-3H). Policies, plans, and efforts to diversify energy
sources and develop, rehabilitate, or expand energy infrastructure, including
investment in capacity, efficiency, storage, nuclear power, flex-fuel, or other
sources of alternative energy. Details about financing strategies, and openness
to foreign investment. Willingness, plans, and efforts to develop and implement
unified Europe energy security strategy. Declared and secret energy agreements
with Russia, Iran, other Caspian basin countries, and others. Details about national
energy policymakers, key commercial figures in the sector, and their relations with
other national leaders. Views about and responses to Russian plans and efforts
regarding Romanian dependence on Russian energy. Factors, including corruption
and foreign influence, affecting government decisionmaking on key energy issues.
Energy imports, including sufficiency, impact on economy, and influence on
bilateralrelations. Organized crime involvement in energy sector.

3) Money Laundering (MONY-5H). Government plans and efforts to implement
anti-moneylaundering legislation, enforcement, and prosecution. Money
laundering,includingmethods, techniques, transactions, locations, and associated
individuals,organizations, and institutions. Use of shell corporations and
non-financial intermediaries, such as lawyers, accountants, and casinos, as well
as related bank accounts to launder criminal proceeds. Links between money
laundering groups and terrorists. Drug traffic involvement in money laundering.
Use of money laundering as an influence-gaining measure.

4) Demographics, Minorities, and Human Rights (DEMG-5H). Information about, and
government policies and efforts regarding, religious and ethnic minorities,
especially Hungarians, Roma, and Turks. Public attitudes toward minorities.
Indications of human rights abuses. Details about demography, including birth rate,
fertility rate, mortality rate, incidence of infectious diseases, and migration.
Plans and efforts to respond to declining birth rates, including through promotion
of immigration.

¶C. Foreign Relations

1) Black Sea, Balkans, and Other Regional Neighbors (FPOL-4H). Plans and efforts
regarding relations with Black Sea and other regional neighbors. Plans and efforts
to jointly respond to challenges regarding counterterrorism, counterproliferation,
counternarcotics, and illegal migration. Plans and efforts regarding cooperative
agreements, especially Black Sea FOR, Harmony, Enhanced Black Sea Security
Proposal, and Black Sea Economic Cooperation Zone. Romanian participation in
US-sponsored programs designed to promote regional security cooperation, healthy
civil-military relations, and effective management of military resources. Plans
and efforts regarding Russian influence in the region, especially on politics,
energy, and other domestic issues. Plans and efforts to cooperate with regional
neighbors on energy security. Details about disputes and rivalries with neighbors.
Policies, plans, and efforts regarding Romanian minorities in neighboring
countries.Relations with, and military deployments in, the Balkans. Plans and
efforts to promote democracy in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, especially
Macedonia. Plans and efforts regarding Moldova and Kosovo. Policies, plans, and
efforts regarding Ballistic Missile Defense.

2) Russia (FPOL-4H). Policies, plans, and efforts regarding relations with Russia,
especially on strategic issues, such as energy, security, transportation, and trade.
Details about personal relations between Romanian leaders and Russian officials or
businessmen. Senior leadership, intelligence officials, and ministerial-level
vulnerabilities to Russian influence. Efforts to cooperate with or oppose Russia
in support of, or opposition to, US policies. Leadership and public views about
relations with Russia. Government and public attitudes about Russia,s strategic
objectives in the region, and Romania,s vulnerability to Russian coercion and
influence.

3) European Union (FPOL-4H). Philosophies and motives behind leadership objectives,
strategies, and efforts regarding the European Union (EU). Evidence of, and
thoughts about, increasing reliance upon EU, and diminishing reliance upon US,
regional leadership. Leadership and public views about levels of influence among
European states, including relations between states and EU institutions as well
as emergence of a preeminent state or a core alliance in Europe.  Evidence of
Romanian mismanagement of EU funding, and government efforts to ensure transparent
management of foreign aid. Details about formal and informal alliances between
Romania and other EU states, including plans and efforts to cooperate on issues
of mutual concern. Plans and efforts to cooperate with regional neighbors,
EU members, and non-state actors to influence EU policies. Plans and efforts,
including investment strategies, regarding European Security and Defense Policy
(ESDP). Plans and efforts regarding EU expansion. Plans and efforts regarding
specific EU policies and decisions.

4) The United States (FPOL-4H). Policies, strategies, and efforts concerning
relations with the US. Expectations regarding diplomatic, security, and economic
relations with the US. Leadership and public perceptions about US regional policies,
presence, and activities. Plans and efforts to support or oppose US positions in
international fora.  5) International Organizations and Other Foreign Relations
(FPOL-4H). Plans and efforts to pursue national objectives in international fora,
such as the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe. Plans and efforts regarding leadership opportunities in international
organizations. Details about relations with China and nations that are hostile to
US interests.

¶D. National Security

1) GRPO can provide text of this issue and related requirements.

2) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (FMCC-4H). Plans, efforts, and ability to
maintain defense spending for force modernization, North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) interoperability, meeting NATO-required spending levels and
force goals, and defense capability initiative implementation. Strategy and
efforts to win public support for such spending. Plans and efforts to fulfill
commitments to NATO, including manpower and equipment for out-of-area operations.
Actions to accommodate NATO procedures and methods. Government and public
confidence in NATO Article 5 security guarantees. Attitudes toward stationing or
long-term deployment of NATO or US forces on Romanian soil, NATO commands in
Romania, and out-of-country deployments of Romanian forces. Plans and efforts
regarding NATO enlargement, including strategic concepts and future roles of the
alliance. Government, including military, intelligence, and security service
willingness, ability, and efforts to protect US and NATO classified information.
Awareness of and concern about foreign penetration. Implementation and
strengthening of personnel-vetting procedures. Policies, plans, and efforts
regarding EU defense and security cooperation, including ESDP; views and intentions
regarding any conflict between ESDP and NATO obligations.

3) Force Structure, Modernization, and Readiness (FMCC-4H). Details about threat
assessment, including agreement and disagreement among civilian and military leaders.
Perceptions about, and response to, cyber warfare threat. Plans and efforts to
support or oppose US objectives in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. Willingness
and capability to participate in NATO, EU, and other multilateral relationships,
including out-of-area operations, multinational peacekeeping force in Southeast
Europe, and humanitarian and peacekeeping operations. Policies and efforts regarding
access, overflight, and transit of US military forces and equipment. Disposition,
readiness, and mission of military forces. Plans and efforts regarding force
structure, military reform, and modernization, including future roles, strengths,
and compositions of military services. Details about military cooperation with
other nations. Details about defense industry, including plans and efforts to
cooperate with foreign nations and actors. Weapon system development programs,
firms, and facilities. Types, production rates, and factory markings of major
weapon systems. Decisionmaking regarding acquisition of US or other nation weapon
systems. Military and paramilitary manpower, structure, budget and expenditure
by service and function, mission, doctrine, tactics, order of battle, command and
control, equipment, maintenance, training, exercise participation, support for
international peacekeeping operations, professionalism, non-commissioned officer
development, health care, pay, housing, loyalty, and morale. Civil-military
relations. Perceptions about, and commitment to, intelligence sharing agreements
with the US. Indications of national-level denial and deception program, including
doctrine, targets, goals, organizations, and activities. Location, mission,
organization, associated personnel, funding, development, and use of underground
facilities and other hardened structures, including for protection of command and
control networks, civil and military leaders, and critical resources. Details about,
and transfer of, advanced engineering techniques to harden key facilities,
including by use of specialty concretes. Details about dual use of underground
civil infrastructure. Plans and efforts to help other states develop underground
facilities and other hardened structures.

4) Proliferation and Counterproliferation (ACWP-4H). Commitment, plans, efforts,
and ability to manage a secure military export regime, including details about
monitoring end user activities and imposing penalties for violations. Organizational
readiness and capability of border police and customs officials to control borders.
Plans and efforts to adhere to international control regimes. Plans and efforts to
implement legislation and enforce effective export licensing regimes. Willingness
and efforts to cooperate with the US to prevent proliferation. Foreign use of
Romania as weapons transshipment point. Details about weapons transportation,
including associated firms, agents, modes, methods, routes, nodes, schedules,
and communications. Details about organizations, groups, and individuals engage
in sales of weapons or technologies to states that are hostile to US interests
or non-state entities. Plans and efforts to circumvent antiproliferation treaties
and arrangements.

5) Counterterrorism and Terrorism (TERR-4H). Government counterterrorism policies,
plans, capabilities, and efforts. Government and public support for or opposition
to US efforts, including military operations, in the war on international terrorism.
Government willingness, capability, and effort to establish and protect legislative
framework to combat terrorists; control borders; detain terrorists; seize
terrorist-associated bank accounts; share intelligence; and protect weapons,
associated facilities, and energy and other critical infrastructure against
terrorist attack and intrusion. Terrorist plans to attack US and other persons,
facilities, or interests. Terrorist plans and efforts to acquire or transship
chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons. Terrorist identities,
motives, objectives, strategies, locations, facilities, command structures,
links to other groups or states, associations with humanitarian or medical groups,
use of forged and/or modified travel documents, telecommunication methods and
modes, transportation, funding, finance and business operations, security,
recruitment, and training. Indications of foreign entity, public, or local
support for terrorists. Details about terrorist involvement in illicit drug and
other criminal trade.  6) Information to Support US Military Operational Planning
(INFR-5H). Information to support US contingency planning, including for noncombatant
evacuation, and humanitarian and medical relief operations. Current status,
vulnerability of, and plans to modify, critical infrastructures, especially
transportation, energy, and communications. Civilian and military medical and
life science capabilities and infrastructures. Military medical research and
development, including new vaccines,therapeutics, and chemical, biological,
radiological, and nuclear medical defense. Information, including statistics, about
infectious diseases, such as avian influenza, tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency
virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome, hepatitis A, and tickborne encephalitis.
Locations and levels of chemical and radiological contamination of food, water, air,
and soil. Locations and types of industrial facilities with chemicals stored onsite.
Descriptions and locations of potential evacuation sites, police and fire stations,
hospitals, hotels, and diplomatic facilities. Plans and capabilities of government
and NGOs to support, including provision of security for, relief operations.
Policies, plans, and efforts regarding detained, captured, and arrested US persons,
including prisoners of war and missing in action.

¶E. Telecommunications Infrastructure and Information Systems (INFR-5H). Current
specifications, vulnerabilities, and capabilities of, and planned upgrades to,
national telecommunications infrastructure and information systems, networks,
and technologies used by civilian and military government authorities, including
intelligence and security services. Plans and efforts to acquire US export-controlled
telecommunications equipment and technology. Official and personal phone numbers,
fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of principal civilian and military leaders.


CLINTON

P.S. În aceeaşi zi, informaţii identice au fost cerute de secretarul de stat
Hillary Clinton şi pentru Ungaria, Slovenia şi Bulgaria. Aici , aici şi aici.