CIA'S ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL Y2K PREPAREDNESS (Source: MSNBC Website via SANGER'S REVIEW OF Y2K NEWS REPORTS)

MSNBC has created a map of the world where you can click on one of 17 different countries for a CIA assessment of their Y2K risks. Here are afew examples:

Russia: "Power loss, telephone loss will be widespread. Interruptions toimports/exports will be severe. Interruptions of government services will be widespread and severe. Air transportation interruptions likely. Chance of unrest or bank panics is moderate....Nuclear weapons claimed under control, except for tracking weapons in inventory. UNIFIED ENERGY SYSTEMS has no plans. Banks, finance, insurance firms slow to action. ASSOCIATION OF RUSSIAN BANKS bemoans 'every-man-for-himself approach.'"

Pakistan: "Power loss, telephone loss will be widespread. Interruptions to imports/exports will be severe. Interruptions of government services will be widespread and severe. Air transportation interruptions likely. Chance of unrest or bank panics is moderate."

China: "Power, phone loss will be widespread. Food, water, oil shortages will be isolated but severe. Interruption of government services will be both widespread and severe. Chance of unrest, bank panics is moderate....Modernizing missile forces, but Y2K implications not clear. Military vulnerable to likely mainframe problems. Business community slow to recognize problems."

Canada: "Interruptions to imports/exports and oil shortages will be isolated but severe." (JG)

Link: http://www.msnbc.com/modules/Y2KInternational/map_nestframe.asp

-- Jean Wasp (jean@sonic.net), March 07, 1999