Two months before the laptop's disappearance, investigators discovered an electronic eavesdropping device in a conference room, prompting the Clinton administration to expel a Russian diplomat.
The reform followed the disclosure that a United States spy on the United Nations team had planted an electronic eavesdropping device in Baghdad that helped guide allied bombing in December 1998.
At another, he said there was no disagreement within the administration over an electronic eavesdropping program that other officials said was the subject of hot debate.
While the American military virtually ran the island during World War II, the network of bases here has dwindled from 17 stations to one, in Thule, an electronic eavesdropping post in the far north.
In a hard-hitting report on the Echelon network, the European parliament said last month that any EU state involved in an electronic eavesdropping system used to spy on European citizens and companies would be in breach of both the European convention on human rights and EU law.
On another point about continuing intelligence activities, the Russian leader indicated that the 1,500 Russian military technicians who operate an electronic eavesdropping facility at Lourdes, outside the Cuban capital and used to intercept communications in the United States, may not be here permanently.
The files allegedly suggested that the NSA had also conducted an electronic eavesdropping operation in a building in Brussels, where the EU Council of Ministers and the European Council were located.
Sheela admitted creating an electronic eavesdropping system at Rajneeshpuram, the sect's commune-city, and conspiring to spread salmonella bacteria on food in 10 restaurants in the area.
The district is home to a military hospital, hit by rocket-propelled grenades and mortar rounds on Sunday, and an electronic eavesdropping facility, as well as a military police compound and another army unit, the sources said.
Mr. Lanigan, the surveillant, has a trove of electronic eavesdropping gadgets, including a pair of sunglasses with a pinhole video camera mounted in the bridge.
The computers watch and listen for key words in telephone, fax and Internet communications and route intercepted messages on a topic requested by a country, the descendant of a decades-old electronic eavesdropping network set up by the United States with Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand.
