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Reports from 7-17 March 2010 Africa: 1 Nigeria: House approves maritime security establishment 2. Nigeria: Jonathan sacks National Security Adviser 2. Nigeria extradites Al-Qaeda suspect 3. Botswana: DIS a success - Seretse Europe: 4. Britain: Intelligence and Security Committee publishes 2 annual reports 7. Nokia accused of selling spy equipment to Iran 7. Bulgaria: Defence Minister: Govt, not president should control intelligence 8. Germany: Platzeck’s Brandenburg chancellery infiltrated by Russian spies US 9. Pentagon to investigate intelligence unit that allegedly used contractors 10. Obama, Hill wage intel turf battle Australia 11. ASIO feels the strain as raw recruits take key jobs Asia 12. India needs real-time decision-support system to track terror 13. India to create money-laundering database Middle East 14. Iran’s cyber-police hack US spy sites 15.Iran’s spies show how it’s done People 16. Israel spymaster and Mossad founding father David Kimche dies at 82 17. US: Obama’s TSA nominee an intelligence expert 17. Pakistan: Head of spy agency gets term extended History Noteworthy Books
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March 17, 2010 (Ed: extracted) The House of Representatives is pushing ahead with the creation of a separate armed organisation to combat lawlessness in Nigeria’s maritime sector, with the adoption of its committee’s recommendations to establish the Maritime Security Agency (MASECA). During a public hearing on the bill in January the Nigerian Navy and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), opposed the establishment of the body, saying it will duplicate their functions of regulating activities in the nation’s coasts. The Navy argued that the creation of such a body will retard the development of the force since the new body will be competing for “scarce resources” from government. It said its constitutional policing functions will be breached by the body which, according to the Navy, would not have the capacity and training to function properly. “The Agency would surpass the Nigerian Navy as the dominant force in Nigeria’s maritime domain,” the force said in its presentation during the hearing in January. “Simply put, the Maritime Security Agency would be a coast guard more powerful than the NN but without qualified personnel and assets in the first five years.” The committee said the new body will deal more with intelligence gathering and has already in its inventory, Radars, Unmanned Air Vehicles and Maritime Patrol Aircraft. Lawmakers on Tuesday adopted most of the recommendations of the House committee headed by Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi which include a provision that the head of the organisation will report to the President, through the National Security Adviser. The Agency, to be headquartered in Abuja, will be funded by the government and from additional maritime levies, and would have more security instruments that will enable it fight piracy more than the existing (NIMASA), the bill said. http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/5541712147/house_approves_maritime_security_establishment.csp
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Nigeria: Jonathan sacks National Security Adviser By Ihuoma Chiedozie, Abuja, 9 Mar 2010 (Ed: extracted) Acting President Goodluck Jonathan on “The Acting President did not mince words in Monday sacked the National Security Adviser, informing them (security chiefs) that they must Maj.-Gen. Sarki Mukhtar (rtd), and replaced perform or resign, or lose their jobs; he made it him with Lt. Gen. Aliyu Gusau (rtd), who held clear that the administration would not joke the same position during the Olusegun with the security of the lives and property of Obasanjo administration. Mukhtar’s removal Nigerians in any part of the country. Also, it followed a meeting of the National Security was gathered that recent reports linking Council over the renewed violence in Jos, Mukhtar to underground moves to replace Plateau State. Yar’Adua in 2011, or even become viceThe short statement, which was titled “Gusau president in case Jonathan emerges replaces Mukhtar as National substantive President, did not Security Adviser,” reads, “The help his cause. Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Feelers in the Presidency Ebele Jonathan, has appointed indicate that Gusau is highly Lt.-Gen. Aliyu Gusau (rtd) as regarded in the government, and National Security Adviser. “He is seen as a stabilising force, replaces Maj.-Gen. Sarki Mukhtar especially in the manner he (rtd). carried out the same assignment Our correspondent gathered for Obasanjo. from a reliable source in the A source informed our Presidency that Mukhtar’s correspondent that Jonathan removal was one of the wondered how the roving band “measures being taken to of killers, believed to be behind stabilise the security situation in the attacks, were able to plan Interim Pres Jonathan the country.” and carry out the attacks It was gathered that Jonathan felt that the without attracting the attention of security reoccurrence of the crisis in Jos, as well as agencies, who were supposed to be carrying recent security challenges in several parts of out serious surveillance activities in the town. the country, suggested that the NSA was not The security chiefs were also directed to on the top of his job, hence the need for a investigate and find out how their officers in change. The source added that reports Jos were unable to get wind of the latest available to the Acting President also indicated attacks, despite their surveillance activities. that there were serious lapses on the part of the security agencies. http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201003093485678
Nigeria extradites Al-Qaeda suspect Cover Stories Mar 9, 2010 (Ed: extracted) ABUJA— A TERRORIST suspected to belong to the Al-Qaeda network, Ibrahim Haman Ahmed, who was extradited to the United States of America by Nigerian government officials had been on the wanted list of the United States Central Intelligence Agency for more than two
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years, security and diplomatic sources in Abuja told Vanguard, yesterday. The man who was allegedly trained by AlQaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and working for the Al-Shabaab group in Somalia, was said to be the most senior figure of the terrorist organization in Nigeria. He was said to be trying to recruit young Nigerian Muslims to join the terrorist organization.
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Ahmed’s arrest and extradition to the United States was, however, said to be connected to his role in fighting the government of Somalia where he was said to have spent eight months. He was extradited from Nigeria to the United States through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Before then, he was said to have hidden somewhere in Sokoto and moving around the north western states of
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Kano, Katsina, Kebbi and Zamfara states where he was said to have been targeting western educated youths for recruitment. The arrest of the terror suspect who is suspected to be from Eritrea has, however, heightened American concerns about Nigeria which is seen as an emerging haven for Muslim terrorists around the world.
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Botswana: DIS a Success - Seretse 11 March 2010 commercial banks are targets for fraudsters Justice and Security Minister, Ramadeluka while schools are in danger of drug dealers. Seretse on Tuesday said that since its "The other area of concern has been the establishment two years ago, the Directorate unauthorized distribution of generic of Intelligence and Security (DIS) has pharmaceutical drugs by some local successfully delivered on its mandate of pharmacies acting in concert with some ensuring the nation's security and providing medical practitioners to fleece unsuspecting information to decision makers. patients," he said. Seretse made these comments during his He said that it is necessary for the DIS to request of P3.2billion total budget for the acquire necessary infrastructure financial year 2010/11. The for its operations. "It should be ministry covers the department noted that acquisition of offices, of Botswana Defence Force residential houses, security (BDF), Directorate of equipment and the building of Intelligence and Security (DIS), communication infrastructure, Botswana Police Service (BPS) takes a bigger share of the DIS Prisons and Rehabilitation, and budget during this financial Directorate on Corruption and year," said the minister. Economic Crimes (DCEC). The minister further revealed "The DIS has uncovered some that government has deferred networks operating in Botswana the construction of seven police thus threatening our national stations and hundreds of staff interests. Such groupings were houses during the 2010-11 involved in the areas of terrorist financial year due to budgetary related activities, fraud and Botswana Minister of Justice, constraints. money laundering, drug Defence and Security trafficking and distribution, The minister said that the human smuggling and trafficking, white collar rollout of Cluster Policing, Merger of two crime and official corruption, weapons police forces and the introduction of smuggling and distribution, illicit diamond Automated Fingerprint Identification System dealings and corporate tax evasion to has led to a slight decrease in crime. mention but a few," the minister said. "The crime index for Penal Code offences He said that some suspects have been declined from 53 crimes per 100 people in arrested, prosecuted and convicted, saving 2008 to 52 in the year 2009," he said. He the government millions of Pula. He said that added that even the number of road Editor: Dalene Duvenage
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accidents has gone down whilst fatalities went up. "The increase in fatalities is a function of the occupancy rate of vehicles involved in fatal accidents," he said. Seretse said that the Automated Fingerprinting Identification System (AFIS), which automates the collection of fingerprints and palm prints data, has been completed. "This system will allow for efficient and effective tracing of fingerprints of people who commit crime. The system is currently being rolled out to out-stations, and to date 30 police stations out of 46 targeted have been covered," he said. On the state of prisons, the minister said that they currently have a holding capacity of 4,219 inmates but there are 4,861 inmates. He said the escape from prisons by some inmates remains a serious challenge as 32 such cases were reported last year while 10 others involved immigration detainees. "Therefore, the department needs to do more to curb further escapes by stepping up security installations in the prisons such as introducing guard dogs for patrol purposes, improved security fencing and improved surveillance," he said.
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Minister of Justice, Defence and Security, Ramadeluka Seretse had a difficult time in Parliament on Wednesday evening trying to repair the damaged reputation of his last born organ - Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS). After the majority of MPs hit hard at the security organisation, accusing it of eavesdropping on people's phone conversations, and that it is a terror squad instead of protecting people, Seretse put the blame on phone hackers. He claimed that there are criminals, just like internet hackers, who target telephone conversations so that they can acquire information from unsuspecting users. However, Seretse assured the House that the nation is safe from the DIS, and that they must feel free wherever they are and speak freely on their phones. "DIS is here for you, feel free wherever you are, speak freely on your phones," he declared. This is despite complaints from opposition MPs and outspoken MPs from the ruling party that the DIS is following them and listening to their private conversations. It is said that even some ministers are afraid of speaking on their phones.
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Europe Britain: Intelligence and Security Committee publishes Two Annual reports March 14, 2010 Spyblog (Ed: Excerpted) The Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, who is supposed to provide the public with independent scrutiny of the secret intelligence services, has actually written two Annual reports in the last 9 months. The Intelligence and Security Committee's Annual Report for 2008-2009 was laid before Parliament today by the Prime Minister. A copy of the Report can be found here. A copy of the Government Response to the Editor: Dalene Duvenage
Intelligence and Security Committee's Annual Report 2008-2009 can be found here. These Annual Reports are not an adequate mechanism for holding the secret intelligence agencies to account, either for their waste of public money, or for how well they are doing their job. The debate on the Intelligence and Security Committee Report is scheduled for this Thursday 18th March 2010. GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters
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Nevertheless, work to tackle the threat of electronic attack is about a third below the level planned. We have been told that the shortfall is because of the difficulties GCHQ has had in recruiting and retaining skilled internet specialists in sufficient numbers although specialist recruitment campaigns have been set up to try and address this problem. The loss of 35 laptop computers discovered back in 2008, including 3 which could have held Top Secret information.
MI5 - Security Service The Security Service has continued its rapid recruitment programme and plans to grow to around 4,100 staff by the end of 2010/11 (compared with current staffing of approximately 3,500).We have since been informed that this target has been reduced to 3,800
MI6 - Secret Intelligence Service MI6 still seems incapable of managing its capital expenditure and IT project finances. This is the second year in a row that the Secret Intelligence Service has failed to manage its capital spend across the financial year, putting both efficiency gains and valuefor-money gains at risk. SIS has now appointed a senior official to manage IT budgets across the Service, an area where this kind of expenditure surge has been particularly prevalent. We hope that this appointment will help the department to plan more effectively and organise capital spending across the year. SIS recruited 204 new staff during 2007/08, against a target of 230 (the remainder having been selected but had not yet started). As at 31 March 2009, SIS had 2,253 staff; this is predicted to increase to 2,527 by March 2010. On the second point, the Chief explained that, due to the time taken to train new staff, and the time required for them to accumulate sufficient experience, the recent rise in staff numbers had yet to result in any real increase in terms of the numbers of staff Editor: Dalene Duvenage
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who were actually deployable. As a result, SIS has reviewed its training arrangements and the Intelligence Officer New Entrants Course (IONEC), which was previously open only to Intelligence Officers and took six months, has been redesigned into two threemonth modules open to a wider group of staff. SIS hopes that this will allow for the speedier deployment of new entrants into operational jobs and provide greater flexibility in terms of providing a greater number of staff who can do a wider range of jobs. With the significant growth in staff numbers in recent years, as previously mentioned, SIS now has a higher proportion of younger and less experienced officers. This carries significant risk - one of the keys to managing this is ensuring that officers without sufficient experience can at least have access to the existing knowledge and expertise within the organisation.
Backup Data Centre In SR07 we didn't bid for the funds to do a new resilient facility. So we have done the initial study with the other two Agencies and that came back with a costing of about ÂŁ*** million to ÂŁ*** million. Prior to that GCHQ had done its own independent study on building a resilient data centre for itself and the prices were in that same sort of ballpark. As a result of those pieces of costing work, the three Agencies have concluded that none of the three of us have the funding within our baselines to pay that sort of bill. So we will be attempting to make the case in the next spending review to obtain the funding to do that. (Oral evidence - GCHQ, 24 January 2009). So none of the three UK intelligence agencies have their own, or a shared, properly resilient secure offsite disaster recovery computer centre.
The National Security Forum 107. When the Prime Minister announced the National Security Strategy in March 2008, he also outlined plans for a National Security
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Forum87 to advise the Ministerial Committee on National Security, International Relations and Development (NSID) on the strategy. The Cabinet Office told the Committee that it is envisaged that the Forum would meet around six times a year and described its expected composition: We also note that the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy has yet to be appointed. The other Whitehall departments and intelligence agencies seem to be ignoring this National Security Forum.
pounds, and said that we would be investigating why this vital project failed, the associated cost implications and the options for a replacement system.107 However, there seems to be a more modest replacement programme underway called Collaboration in the Intelligence Community (CLiC): Following the failure of SCOPE Phase 2, GCHQ and SIS set up an initiative called Collaboration in the Intelligence Community SCOPE and CLiC (CLiC). This is intended to be a low-risk, inexpensive approach, providing The SCOPE programme incremental changes to existing was established in 2001 as systems, and designed to address a major interdepartmental the intelligence community's IT project designed to most urgent IT collaboration facilitate more efficient requirements. The Chief of SIS and effective information told us: sharing across the wider intelligence community. It was intended to be delivered in SCOPE Overseas two phases: The SCOPE Overseas project was initiated in • Phase 1: connecting key departments November 2005, with the aim of providing (such as the Home Office and SOCA) secure email between some overseas posts to the existing secure communications and other domestic users on the UK network used by the intelligence Intelligence Messaging Network (UKIMN). community; and The UK infrastructure for SCOPE Overseas • Phase 2: improving and expanding the became operational in mid-2008. There are secure communications network and now 12 posts connected. extending the system's capabilities. In May 2009 the FCO told the Committee that *** would be connected in the coming SCOPE has been dogged continually by months. The system will be rolled out to problems and we have repeatedly voiced around 40 posts by March 2010. There is concerns about the programme. After a twocurrently no FCO funding for further year delay, Phase 1 was eventually installations beyond April 2010. implemented in late 2007, and the Committee was assured (in January 2008) So after 5 years, only a maximum of 40 British that concerted efforts were being made to Embassies or Consulates, even though the UK ensure successful and timely delivery of is diplomatically represented in of over 120 Phase 2. However, just three months later, as countries, have access to this secure email we reported last year, the decision had been system ? That is totally unacceptable. Every taken to abandon SCOPE Phase 2. We single British Embassy and Consulate should reported that we were appalled at what have secure communications technology appeared to be a waste of tens of millions of available. http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2010/03/14/intelligence-and-securitycommittee-publishes-two-annual-reports.html
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Nokia accused of selling spy equipment to Iran 8 March 2010 A comprehensive electronic surveillance system that was sold by the Nokia Siemens Network Group to Iran is capable of spying on almost all electronic communications, according to its brochure. “The system can monitor all voice and data communications very efficiently. In addition, it can snatch messages with content considered suspicious,” according to Professor of Data Network Technology at the Aalto University, Jukka Manner. The system monitors internet communications in addition to text and multimedia messaging, mobile and landline telephone calls, instant messages, e-mail communications, telefax communications, data transfer over the mobile network and mobile telephone positioning. “What more would anyone need for monitoring?” asks Manner. Helsingin Sanomat reports that Nokia Siemens has confirmed that the brochure the
newspaper acquired for the Monitoring Center was of the same system sold to Iran. However, the company adds that the version sold was a trial version and did not have the capacity for internet surveillance. Lauri Kivinen, Nokia Siemens Networks Head of Corporate Affairs and soon to be Director General of YLE, has been criticised in the media for failing to be aware or honest about his company’s dealings. Kivinen, who has also been criticised by advocates of free speech, has maintained that there was a misperception about the Iran deal. Nokia Siemens Networks has previously sold the network surveillance equipment under the Trovicor brand, an offshoot of Siemens, in 2008. That same year saw the company deliver the surveillance equipment to Iran Telecom. Prior to the joint venture, network equipment had also been sold by Nokia Networks to the same Iranian operator. http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/03/0 8/nokia-accused-of-selling-spy-equipment-toiran/
Bulgaria: Defense Minister: Govt, Not President, Should Control Intelligence Domestic , March 16, 2010 The executive branch rather than the President should be in control of Bulgaria’s intelligence services, according to Defense Minister Anyu Angelov. Speaking Tuesday evening, Angelov has made it clear he was expressing his personal opinion. He said the issue is yet to be discussed. In his words, the transfer of the responsibility over the National Intelligence Service and the National Protective Service from the President to the government should not be approved before the end of the term of the acting President, Georgi Parvanov. As the impeachment scandal between Bulgaria’s President and ruling rightist Editor: Dalene Duvenage
majority is currently raging, media reports pointed to rumors that the Borisov government considered snatching the control of the intelligence services from the President. Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, has repudiated these rumors in a timely manner saying that no such transformation will be carried out before the end of Parvanov’s term in 2012. Bulgaria’s National Security Strategy, which is currently being drafted by an interinstitutional working group headed by Tsvetanov and is expected to be ready by the end of May 2010, is expected to find a long-
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term solution for the legal status of the two one and the same group whose head should intelligence services in question. be proposed by the Prime Minister. According to Defense Minister In its recently released annual Angelov, all of the country’s Human Rights Report on Bulgaria, intelligence services should be the US State Department has answerable to one and the same pointed out that “The National institution. Intelligence Service and the National Protective Service, which Currently, Bulgaria’s Military answer to the president, continued Intelligence answers to the Defense Minister, while the to operate in the absence of “civilian intelligence”, the Bulgaria's Defense Minister judicial, executive, and legislative Anyu Angelov. Photo by BGNES National Intelligence Service, and oversight.” the National Protective Service are under the It has also noted the bill to reform Bulgaria’s command of the President. State National Security Agency (DANS) General Angelov said that even though there adopted in November 2009 which “removed has been some healthy competition between organized crime, drugs, dual-use goods, and the two services, oftentimes they became transborder crime from the agency's redundant as they submitted one and the jurisdiction and prohibited DANS from same pieces of information. conducting controlled delivery and undercover operations. DANS is now strictly According to the Defense Minister, the responsible for domestic intelligence Military Intelligence, the National Intelligence analysis.“ Service, and the National Protective Service (even though the last one is not technically an intelligence body) could be set together in http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=114267
Germany: Platzeck's Brandenburg chancellery infiltrated by Russian spies Published: 13 Mar 10 The chancellery of Brandenburg Premier The German secret service bugged and Matthias Platzeck has been infiltrated by watched him for five months, during which spies working for the Russians, according to time he met with a Russian secret agent a magazine report. handler. He has been given different work Focus news magazine said on Saturday within the Brandenburg state that despite the spies being uncovered, administration. they were not prosecuted but simply A further connection was made moved to different jobs within the state between the head of the special authorities. Russian section for infiltration of In two cases the spies even moved jobs German security institutions, and a within the state chancellery – still woman working at the Brandenburg within immediate reach of Platzeck, the Matthias Platzeck state chancellery. magazine said. This emerged during what the magazine One of the suspects is a high-ranking described as intensive bugging of the Russian governmental civil servant, who according to embassy in Berlin. It is thought the woman files in the Czech interior ministry, had close may have been recruited by the Russian contact to the Cold War-era Prague secret services while studying in Moscow. She has service. also been moved within the chancellery.
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A third alleged spy in the Brandenburg capital includes many former members of the Potsdam was recruited by the Moscow secret communist party and is considered service during the Cold War, and given false untouchable by many mainstream parties. papers before he was hired by the chancellery to organise trips for Platzeck to Leading a state which was part of former East Moscow. Germany, he has also called for reconciliation Platzeck has come under fire for leading a with those who ruled or supported the onecoalition of his own Social Democratic Party party state. (SPD) and the socialist Left party, which http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100313-25859.html
United States Pentagon to investigate intelligence unit that allegedly used contractors Washington Post, March 16, 2010 (excerpted) The Pentagon said Monday that it was looking into allegations that a Defense Department official had set up an intelligence unit staffed by contractors to hunt insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the guise of social and cultural information-gathering. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman declined to confirm or deny whether a criminal investigation had been opened into activities by Michael D. Furlong, a former Special Operations officer who now works as a senior civilian officer for the Joint Information Operations Warfare Center at Lackland Air Force Base, Tex. Furlong's operation, which included numerous former intelligence and Special Operations officials now in the private sector, raised hackles at the CIA, where it was considered "a semi-independent intelligencecollection operation in a war zone," according to a U.S. official familiar with the agency's concerns. Unease about Furlong rose to the highest levels of the intelligence agency, with several briefings provided to CIA Director Leon Panetta. Although the military apparently terminated the operation late last year, Geoff Morrell, spokesman for Defense Secretary Robert M.
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Gates, said Monday night that the Pentagon was "in the process of trying to get to the bottom" of the allegations "and determine if any policy or legal guidelines were ignored." If so, he said, "the department will take immediate corrective action and quickly pursue accountability through appropriate channels." The U.S. Strategic Command, the parent organization of the information operations center, confirmed that Furlong is a full-time civilian employee but did not respond to requests to clarify the nature of his job. The allegations of a contractor intelligence operation first appeared Sunday night on the New York Times Web site, which said that the operation was designed to help track and kill suspected militants. It noted that it is illegal for the military to hire contractors to act as covert spies. Agreements with the government of Pakistan also prohibit the U.S. military from conducting undercover operations there. The number of government agencies working in Afghanistan -- many of them involved in intelligence work -- and the expansion of vaguely defined "information operations" and "strategic communications" by the military have led to overlap and confusion. The situation has been compounded by the Obama administration's expanded mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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According to several government and civilian sources, Furlong's operation was funded under a $24.6 million contract by the Defense Department's Joint IED Defeat Organization, which was set up early in the Iraq war to combat insurgents' roadside bombs. His operation was part of a larger military information program, called Capstone. In an August review of Afghanistan operations, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in that country, wrote that "CAPSTONE contracts . . . should be supported as these will significantly enhance . . . monitoring and assessment efforts."
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Morrell called information operations "an essential weapon in modern warfare." Among the private firms working with Furlong was International Media Ventures, a relatively new "strategic information" company formed by retired Special Operations officers. Military officials stationed in Afghanistan said that Furlong referred on a number of occasions to work he was doing with former CIA officer Duane Clarridge. Among a number of activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Clarridge was privately retained last year to negotiate with insurgents who had kidnapped New York Times reporter David Rohde. Rohde eventually escaped.
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Obama, Hill wage intel turf battle Washington Times, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 (Ed: excerpted) Orszag said the White House is trying to give The Obama administration and Capitol Hill Congress access while letting the intelligence are engaged in a major turf battle as community do its work effectively. lawmakers face fresh resistance from the White House over a push to increase their He said the current provisions "undermine oversight of the nation's intelligence this fundamental compact between the agencies. Congress and the president regarding the reporting of sensitive intelligence matters ... Both houses of Congress have passed bills an arrangement that for decades has that would force officials at the CIA and other balanced congressional oversight intelligence agencies to notify a broader responsibilities with the president's group of lawmakers of key operations and responsibility to protect sensitive national give congressional investigators greater security information." latitude to examine the intelligence community. But as House and Senate The question of oversight of the intelligence negotiations try to hammer out a final community has proved a touchy subject for agreement, the White House - which itself Democrats at both ends of Pennsylvania has had a turbulent relationship with the Avenue since Mr. Obama's election. intelligence community - this week said either The House and Senate bills would overhaul of those moves could draw a presidential the current system of notification, under veto. which the chairmen and ranking minority Top Democrats said the negotiations are at a members of the House and Senate delicate state and that the heart of the intelligence committees - along with party dispute is the balance of power between the leadership in both chambers - are kept executive and the legislature over sensitive apprised of covert intelligence activities. intelligence policies and operations. Though different, both the House and Senate bills require that all members be informed of In a sharply worded letter to the negotiators either the "main features" or "general obtained by The Washington Times, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter R. Editor: Dalene Duvenage
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information" of activity that the so-called "Gang of Eight" is briefed about. The bills would both also give Congress' investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office, jurisdiction over intelligence matters to conduct oversight investigations. The tug of war has produced some strange bedfellows - several Republicans are backing the Obama administration's opposition to the GAO provisions, for example, while House and Senate Democrats are at loggerheads with the Democratic president.
The final House bill keeps the current information-sharing structure, but requires that all members be given "general information" regarding a Gang of Eight notification. It also demands that the administration provide the legal authority under which it is conducting a given intelligence activity. The Senate version of the bill also includes the legal explanation provision and requires the administration to brief the entire committee on the "main features" of an activity shared through a Gang of Eight briefing. http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/17/obama-hill-wage-intel-turf-battle/
Australia ASIO feels the strain as raw recruits take key jobs March 7, 2010 ASIO is putting young, inexperienced officers in senior jobs, as the domestic spy agency struggles to absorb an influx of recruits hired in an unprecedented expansion of the organisation. Key positions in combating terrorism and detecting foreign spies are being left vacant as ASIO trains new officers, recruited in slick advertising campaigns targeting generations X and Y. ASIO's staff has doubled in the past six years, but twothirds have less than five years' experience, according to its unreported submission to the Joint Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee last month. While the submission says it has benefited from the skills brought by new staff, it reveals the proportion of seasoned agents is falling, with ASIO struggling to maintain the number of officers in key intelligence roles. As the organisation expands, officers have been rapidly promoted beyond their level of skill, at a time when the federal government's new counter-terrorism white paper warns the threat of terrorism is ''a persistent and permanent feature of Australia's security Editor: Dalene Duvenage
environment''. ''The need to fill critical senior officer vacancies, particularly in the intelligence-focused areas, has drawn heavily on officers with limited or narrow experience in the organisation and who may not have well-developed leadership skills,'' the submission says. ASIO's workload has increased exponentially since the September 11, 2001, terrorism attacks in the US, and the Bali bombings in 2002. Its budget for this year is more than $400 million, four times more than in 2003. Under legislation introduced in Parliament last month, combating people-smuggling will be added to its responsibilities. The organisation's $606 million headquarters being built on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin - dubbed the Lubyanka on the Lake by Canberra wits - will house a new multi-agency counter-terrorism control centre. The submission reveals an organisation straining under huge expansion. It is struggling to attract enough linguists and recruits from ethnic backgrounds, with skills critical to preventing home-grown terrorism
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and catching foreign spies. It also reveals that A $2 million advertising campaign last year coping with a massive influx of new staff attracted 12,550 applicants. Of those, 564 numbers have doubled since 2003 to 1609, underwent ''Top Secret (Positive Vetting)'', a and will peak at 1860 next year - has detailed examination of their background to distracted the agency from its key functions, ensure they can be trusted with secrets. as it juggles its human resource management. ASIO aims to vet applications within 16 It says the growth ''has occurred at a time weeks, but sometimes it can take more than when there has been little, if any, relief in the six months, ''particularly for applicants who rapid operational tempo'' - jargon for the have complex backgrounds, or when there growing pressure of its intelligence work. are matters that need to be resolved''. The organisation is overwhelmingly young: ''The long lead times associated with the half the staff have been in the agency three recruitment and vetting process result in years or less, their median age is 36, while critical vacancies remaining unfilled for only about 300 have more than 10 years' extended periods.'' experience. Only about 18 per cent of ASIO Recruiting linguists remains a ''challenge''. staff are intelligence officers - the people who While it has recruited ''a larger number'' of detect evidence of terrorism or espionage staff from ethnically diverse backgrounds, ''a and the proportion is ''growing slowly'', with range of cultural and other factors'' mean the the area ''difficult to grow and sustain''. ethnic diversity of ASIO's workforce is below At the same time, it appears ASIO staff are Australian Public Service levels. happy in the service - only 4.5 per cent of A younger workforce, in which women staff left last year, a dramatic fall on the account for 45 per cent of the total, creates previous year. other issues. They are in an age group that The expansion has created other problems: has families, leading to an increase in the checking the background of potential recruits number taking parental leave and working means ASIO officers are diverted from their part time. intelligence and security roles. http://www.theage.com.au/national/asio-feels-the-strain-as-raw-recruits-take-key-jobs-20100306ppta.html
Asia India needs real-time decision support system to track terror PC NATION, March 12, 2010 Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday called for a sound real-time decision support system to track down terrorists and organised criminals who had developed various channels of communication with the help of technology. “The terrorists and organised criminals have developed overt and covert technologies, including Information Communication Technology. This has made the job of law and order professionals far more challenging than ever before,” he said addressing the Silver Jubilee function of the National Crime Record
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Bureau. The Home Minister said the country needed solutions that could offer robust, real-time and validated decision support systems for the police leadership to evolve remedial and pro-active strategies. “The sheer magnitude of crime in a federal polity of our geographical size makes this task a really challenging one,” he said. Chidambaram added that the challenges posed by criminality in general and other more serious manifestations of crime in particular like terrorism, insurgency, Leftwing
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extremism, trans-national crimes, drugs and and passport authorities, and subsequently arms trafficking, cyber crimes tend to be extended to other national agencies establish that war against the Indian state through the NATGRID so that terror and was being fought more in the hinterland than crime could be fought more professionally. on the borders. “It will also create a mechanism to provide “Today we are fighting our battles on public services like registration of online individual pitches. We need to connect, complaints, ascertaining the status of case coordinate and supplement our efforts both registered at the police station, verification of at micro and macro levels,” he said. persons etc,” he said. Chidambaram, Referring to the Home Ministry’s Rs 2,000 however, expressed disappointment over the ambitious Crime, Criminal Tracking Network initial delay in implementation of the CCTNS and Systems (CCTNS) project, the Home project. “If we remain firm, determined and Minister said a conscious decision has been have complete control, it is possible to limit taken to mandate the NCRB to roll out the the slippage in some stages”. CCTNS. He admitted that, though the initial easy tasks “Through the CCTNS, we intend to create a of the CCTNS project had been completed, national databank of crime and criminals and the key works were yet to be done and hoped their biometric profiles,” he said. This that the NCRB would be able to do it database will have a handshake with efficiently and in time databases of 21 other agencies of the criminal justice system like courts, jails, immigration http://www.dailypioneer.com/241498/India-needs-real-time-decision-support-system-to-trackterror-PC.html
India to create money-laundering database NEW DELHI, March 9 (UPI) The Indian government is setting up a centralized database to coordinate intelligence from central security agencies in its battle against money laundering and terrorist funding. The database would act as a "ready reckoner" for different security, as well as law and order enforcement, groups, a report by the Press Trust of India said. Sources in the home ministry said the goal is to greatly improve detection of illegal money movement within and outside the country and among groups or institutions using banks and other intermediaries. The database would be created by the Financial Intelligence Unit-India, the national agency responsible for processing and analyzing information relating to suspect financial transactions.
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The government announcement comes after an alarming increase in the numbers of suspicious and counterfeit money transactions in 2009. A finance ministry report said, the Financial Intelligence UnitIndia detected 4,400 suspicious transactions last year, more than double the figure for 2008. Banks also reported a major surge in counterfeit currency transactions. They reported just less than 8,600 incidences of receiving counterfeit money in 2008 but noted more than 35,700 last year. The government also received 69 requests for information from foreign financial intelligence units while Indian institutions sent 17 similar requests to other countries, it said. The government often works with foreign police organizations to investigate money laundering which is usually connected to
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cross-border drug dealing, as was the case in early December. Indian police in New Delhi acting with British police arrested Naresh Kumar Jain, suspected of being one of the world's leading underworld bankers and also wanted in the United States. The Serious and Organized Crime Agency in the United Kingdom had had Jain, 50, under investigation since 2006. Agency officers said they believe him responsible for laundering millions of dollars, including drug money in Britain, of profits from organized crime in the past several years,a report in The Guardian newspaper said at the time. Jain, also known as Naresh Patel, was arrested in April 2007 by Dubai police but jumped bail in 2008. He allegedly ran his operations out of Dubai and was capable of shifting up to $2.2 billion of money a year to any country of a client's choosing.
Much of Jain's money was suspected of being moved by the informal hawala, an honorbased money transfer system primarily in the Middle East, East Africa and South Asia. His property in Dubai was searched and police said they found banking and wire-transfer evidence of layering, a money-laundering technique to disguise the origin of sham commodities trading that had links to a finance company in Manhattan, The Guardian report said. The U.S. government seized $4.3 million of Jain's money and another $2.3 million from his business dealings worldwide has been frozen. Jain remains in jail in New Delhi but insists that India's Narcotics Control Bureau has framed him, according to a report by the Press Trust of India. His suspected accomplice in hawala, Pakistani national but Dubai-based Ahmed Parvez, is being prosecuted in Italy, the bureau said. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/03/09/India-to-create-money-launderingdatabase/UPI-40151268140680/
Middle East Iran's cyber-police hack US spy sites Policing, 15th March 2010 demonstrations and rallies Iranian security forces have arrested 30 through releasing unreal people accused of waging cyber-war against and unfounded news and the country with the backing of the United reports after the June States. presidential elections ... providing media and A few hours after announcing the arrests the news support for the Jundollah terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guards said they had group and the monarchist opposition hacked 29 websites they allege are funded by groups." US spooks. The sites use a cover of human The network was accused of distributing 70 rights activity to disguise an espionage million copies of US-made anti-filtering network. software. Tehran's Public and Revolutionary Court said Iranian authorities said the sites were funded on Saturday that the network of sites was by the US via opposition groups like the designed to collect information about Iran's Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization and nuclear programme. The sites were also monarchist groups. accused of: "provoking sedition and illegal http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/15/iran_cyber_war/
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Iran's spies show how it's done 13 March 2010 (ed: Excerpted) The dramatic arrest of Abdulmalik Rigi, Iran's most wanted man, on February 23 continues to be shrouded in mystery. But with information and insights gleaned from security sources in Tehran, Asia Times Online can reveal some of the most intricate background details leading to this stunning arrest. The imagery - and the concomitant political message - was compelling. The image of a young man being surrounded by balaclavaclad security officers by the side of a small commercial plane was designed to send the strongest possible message to Western intelligence services, their political masters and the Western public in general. If the West led by the mighty United States has failed in its nearly nine-year pursuit of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his
hadn't even crossed the minds of many Iranian security officials. This is not so much a failure at the intelligence and security levels, but an indication of profound cultural arrogance and misplaced self-assuredness. Jundallah's strong religious and sectarian rhetoric, coupled with its tactics of suicide bombings and beheadings (painfully reminiscent of the atrocities perpetrated by Sunni jihadi groups in neighboring Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan), was a major shock to Iranian security officials, who by 2004 had begun to realize the extent of the problem, and quickly took remedial action. The Islamic Republic prides itself on having efficient and adaptive security and intelligence services. Iranian officials often cite the successful experience of
deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, these agencies in countering a Abdulmalik Rigi embattled broad range of security and Iran managed to get its man with minimal intelligence threats, including terrorism by political and economic cost. left-wing and secessionist groups and intense Aside from frustrating American subversion espionage and subversion activities by efforts in Iran's southeast, the capture of the Western intelligence services, over the past Jundallah leader sends an unmistakable 30 years to underscore their skills and message that in the intelligence wars of the capabilities. It seems that the full gamut of Middle East, the Islamic Republic of Iran has these capabilities was deployed against once again seized the initiative. The Jundallah and its local allies in Iran and repercussions of this will be felt across all Pakistan to great effect, to the extent that the spheres and at all levels, boosting Iran's group is now for all intents and purposes diplomatic and political posture in the decapitated and probably a spent force. region, and thus making the country less Using old tribal espionage networks vulnerable to American and Israeli bullying. established decades ago, the Ministry of Intelligence successfully penetrated Iranian authorities believed their country to Jundallah, recruiting many of its members, be immune from the kind of Sunni militant including top commanders. Although security terrorism that had plagued neighboring sources in Tehran decline to comment on the countries, in particular Pakistan and Iraq. The matter, sources close to Jundallah-centered idea that Shi'ite-majority Iran with its deepinvestigations in Tehran and Zahedan (capital rooted culture and civilization and strong of Sistan and Balochistan province) claim that sense of national identity and cohesion could the Ministry of Intelligence had recruited fall victim to indigenous practitioners of this Rigi's younger brother, Abdulhamid. retrograde and savage form of terrorism Editor: Dalene Duvenage
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Certainly, the behavior of Abdulhamid Rigi objectives; to depict the operation as an alland the leniency afforded him by Iranian Iranian affair (with no assistance rendered by security and judicial authorities has raised any foreign intelligence service) and to paint many questions and lends credence to the Rigi as an American agent. suspicion that Abdulhamid was recruited as By any standard, Abdulmalik Rigi's arrest is a an agent, probably in late 2007. major success for the Islamic Republic's Despite having been tried and sentenced to intelligence services. This dramatic operation death for several murders, Abdulhamid has has boosted the morale of Islamic Republic regularly given interviews to Iranian media loyalists throughout the Middle East and since his ostensible "arrest" in 2008. In these caused considerable dismay and interviews he has claimed to have met embarrassment to Iran's Western enemies. American diplomats and secret agents in Whether the Islamic Republic will be able to Karachi and Islamabad in Pakistan, thus reap the full political and diplomatic buttressing the unflinching belief of Iranian dividends of this major intelligence success intelligence chiefs that Jundallah has had a US will depend on large measure to what extent Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) tail all along. Iranian policymakers can think imaginatively But there is something distinctly unusual about all the conflict points between Iran and about Abdulhamid Rigi's media appearances the United States, especially in regards to insofar as he seems more like an enthusiastic policy towards Pakistan and Afghanistan and and skillful prop for his new masters rather the nuclear standoff. It will also depend on to than a captured and broken terrorist leader. what extent Iran can keep up the momentum of this success in the intelligence and security The precise details surrounding Abdulmalik sphere with a view to continuing to deter Rigi's arrest are the subject of considerable Israeli military aggression, either against debate. The Iranian government is content Lebanon or Syria, or far less likely against Iran for confusion to prevail, especially since it itself. feels it has succeeded in achieving two immediate post-arrest public relations http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LC13Ak01.html
People Israel: Spymaster and Mossad founding father David Kimche dies at 82 Former top Mossad operative David Kimche, one of Israel's top diplomats and a classic intelligence and spymaster, died Monday at the age of 82. Kimche joined the Mossad spy agency in the early 1950s, and was in essence one of the organization's founding fathers, among those who designed its doctrine and modus operandi. He was involved in just about every aspect of the Mossad over the course of his service, eventually reaching the position of deputy head of Mossad. Kimche left the Mossad in 1979, after almost 30-years, due to a quarrel with the then Mossad Chief Yitzhak Hofi. Shortly after his retirement, Foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir, who he knew from their Mossad days, appointed him the foreign ministry's director general. Kimche was Israel's point man in the Iran-contra affair, in which Washington authorized Israel to sell U.S. weapons to Iran in violation of an international embargo. Kimche left the foreign ministry after six years turned to private business, amongst other places in Africa and the Persian Gulf, and continued to serve in various public capacities. In his last years, Kimche was involved in initiating peace talks with the Palestinians, he was the president of the Israel Council of Foreign Relations, and two years ago he signed a petition supporting talks with the Hamas. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1155157.html
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US: Obama's TSA nominee an intelligence expert March 9, 2010 President Obama on Monday nominated a new head of the Transportation Security Administration, a retired Army general and intelligence expert who would oversee the nation's airline passenger screening system. Robert A. Harding would be the fifth person in nine years to head the agency and, if confirmed, would arrive as the Obama administration adjusts security operations in the wake of the attempted Christmas Day airliner bombing. http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-tsa-nominee92010mar09,0,5621298.story
Pakistan: Head of Spy Agency Gets Term Extended March 9, 2010 Pakistan's top spy can remain in his position for another year, Pakistan's army announced today, keeping in place a three-star general who United States officials have become convinced is committed to flushing militants out of his country. Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the director-general of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency, would have had to take mandatory retirement later this month without the one year extension, which was officially declared today but informally granted weeks ago. United States officials, many of whom are deeply suspicious of the ISI's relationship with the Taliban, have come to believe that keeping Pasha in place will facilitate efforts to flush out Taliban safehavens from Pakistan. The ISI leads Pakistan's efforts against al Qaeda and the Taliban, and works closely with the CIA. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/10/90186/pakistani-spy-chief-crucial-to.html
History Britain: ‘Spyclists’ spread alarm : Hitler Youth had Britain on edge Wednesday, March 10, 2010 (excerpted) LONDON (AP) — Clouds of war were gathering over Europe, and the English police officer was concerned. A group of black-clad Germans had been spotted heading for London — by bicycle. Newly declassified British intelligence files reveal the ripples of alarm that spread through the country as Hitler Youth cyclists toured Britain in 1937. Reports of sightings poured in from local police amid fears the teenagers might be two-wheeled “spyclists” scouting the country for a future invasion. He enclosed a clipping from the local newspaper, which failed to convey much sense of menace. It recounted how “the homey atmosphere familiar at an English fireside at the Christmas season prevailed when the Spalding Rotary Club entertained a party of German youths to a sausage-andmashed potato supper.” Another police report warned that the Germans were “in possession of cameras” and had been seen taking pictures. Another document described how a Hitler Youth group was kept under surveillance as it arrived at London’s Liverpool Street station, dressed in black shorts, brown shirts,
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backpacks and “various pictorial Scout movement badges.” The undercover agent reported that “there was no untoward incident” as the Germans took the subway across town. However, organized groups of Hitler Youth also toured other nations in the 1930s that eventually became the victims of Nazi aggression, such as Belgium, the Netherlands and Yugoslavia. They reportedly took part in reconnoitering roads and bridges and in other activities that helped the Nazis map their invasion routes. Still, the MI5 spy agency did not appear to have been overly alarmed by the Hitler Youth presence. MI5 chief Vernon Kell responded to one report on the cyclists with a note: “Should they come this way, which is unlikely, I will let you know any information that I can obtain.” http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/mar/10/spyclists-spread-alarm/
Germany/Vatican: Nazis planned to infiltrate Vatican with spies dressed as monks Rome: 15 Mar 2010 Germany hatched a plan during World War Two to infiltrate the Vatican with spies disguised as monks, according to secret MI5 intelligence reports. Officials in Germany thought the idea of agents posing as monks and priests in a cloister would be the perfect cover for them. A Nazi sympathiser living in Rome came up with the idea and it was Photo: GETTY quickly seized upon by officials in Berlin who saw it as the ideal opportunity to keep up with Allied activity in the city. The plan is revealed in MI5 reports held at the National Archives in Kew and which have now been declassified - and it comes just days after other files revealed how Germany had also tried to infiltrate the Boy Scouts. Operation Georgian Convent as it was called involved the purchase of a building in Rome by Michael Kedia, a Russian anti communist Nazi sympathiser from Georgia (Russian Republic of) who was also known to British intelligence. Officials in Germany thought the idea of agents posing as monks and priests in a cloister would be the perfect cover for them and enable them to covertly carry out spying work as during the war the Vatican remained neutral. Money was provided from Germany and a building to be used as the Georgian cloister was bought by Kedia in the Monteverde district of Rome, just to the north of St Peter's. Six agents were sent to the cloister to pose as monks and seminarians but they aroused the suspicion of Vatican officials for their lack of knoweldge on Catholic doctrine - and their interest in women. However, the plan was thwarted after a tip off to the Vatican who wrote a letter to Germany's Ambassador for the Holy See saying it had been informed of the plot and "deplored" by it. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7441937/Nazis-planned-toinfiltrate-Vatican-with-spies-dressed-as-monks.html
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US: How Reagan's propaganda succeeded Robert Parry, Consortium, 8/3/10 (Ed: Excerpted – thanks Nel Marais!) In the 1980s, CIA propaganda experts and military psy-war specialists oversaw the creation of special programs aimed at managing public perceptions in targeted foreign countries as well as inside the United States, according to declassified documents at Ronald Reagan’s Presidential Library. These recently discovered documents buttress previously disclosed evidence that Reagan’s CIA Director William J. Casey played a key behind-the-scenes role in pushing this political action initiative, which recruited well-heeled private-sector conservatives to subsidize the secretive government operations.The documents show that Casey used a senior CIA propaganda and disinformation specialist named Walter Raymond Jr., who was placed inside the National Security Council in 1982, to oversee the project and to circumvent legal prohibitions against the CIA engaging in propaganda that might influence U.S. public opinion or politics. In the late 1970s and through the 1980s, those and other conservative foundations poured millions of dollars into right-wing think tanks, media outlets and anti-journalism attack groups that targeted American reporters who challenged the Reagan administration’s propaganda. The early planning papers also indicated a desire to use this relatively overt system to funnel money to pro-U.S. trade unions in Asia, Africa and Latin America in support of a variety of political operations, including setting up television stations and funding print publications. Eventually, Casey’s concept of a global initiative led to the founding of the National Endowment for Democracy in 1983 ostensibly for the purpose of promoting foreign democratic institutions. But the NED also created a cover for the United States to funnel money to pro-U.S. groups in hostile countries. And it subsidized Washington’s growing community of neoconservatives who wrote oped articles in leading newspapers and went on TV news shows advocating an aggressive U.S. foreign policy www.consortiumnews.com/2010/030810.html
Noteworthy Top 10 Think Tanks – Worldwide (Non-US) 1. Chatham House, UK 2. Transparency International, Germany 3. International Crisis Group, Belgium 4. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden 5. Amnesty International, UK 6. International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), UK 7. Adam Smith Institute, UK 8. French Institute of International Relations, France 9. Center for European Policy Studies, Belgium 10. German Institute for International and Security Affairs, (SWP, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), Germany Source: 2009 Global Go To Think Tank Rankings (TT Index) last version.pdf
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Developing a Common Understanding of Unconventional Warfare Lieutenant Colonel Mark Grdovic, USA, Special Operations Command Central in the latest issue of Joint Force Quarterly. The current USSOCOM- and USASOC approved UW definition is significant for several reasons. First and foremost, it provides instant clarity to decisionmakers. With clarity come credibility, confidence, and trust, all of which are essential in the relationship between the special operations community and senior decisionmakers. Secondly, this definition brings a degree of accountability previously absent from this topic. Specifically, it ensures that individuals and organizations possess the associated professional knowledge and operational capabilities to claim proficiency in UW. www.ndu.edu%2Fpress%2Fjfq_pages%2Feditions%2Fi57%2Fgrdovic.pdf
Books An Insider's Guide to 150 Spy Sites in London (Paperback) by Mark Ian Birdsall (Author), Deborah Plisko (Author), Deborah McDonald To most people, they are just anonymous flats, houses and buildings scattered around London. But for those fascinated with the secret world of spies and the work of the intelligence services, they are places of mystery and intrigue. Now, dozens of locations where both domestic and foreign spies have “lived, worked and played” have been brought together in a new book — The Insider's Travel Guide to 150 Spy Sites in London, written by professional spy-watchers Mark Birdsall and Deborah Plisko. Sso far as they could establish, none of the buildings and sites in the book were still used by intelligence services. I-SPY LIST OF ESPIONAGE SITES • Café Daquise, near South Kensington station East European cuisine is still served at this café where Christine Keeler, the call girl at the centre of the Profumo scandal, would meet her lover, Eugene Ivanov, a Soviet embassy attaché at the nearby Soviet Embassy. • Brompton Oratory, Brompton Road Behind a marble pillar on the right inside the front door can be found a dead letter drop site used by the KGB in the height of the Cold War. • 54 Broadway, close to St James's Park station Home to MI6 for many years from 1926 onwards, despite a sign on front door saying it was the office of a fire extinguisher company. There was a secret entrance at the rear at 21 Queen Anne's Gate. The building is now leased as offices. • Imperial House, 80-86 Regent Street Used in the Thirties by Russian spies, it was later established as a base for the British intelligence services for concealing front companies and agent handlers. Now private offices and apartments. Editor: Dalene Duvenage
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19 Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea Now a private property, this was once home to a front company used by businessman and MI6 agent Greville Wynne. Wynne used it to recruit and “turn” Oleg Penvoksy, a Soviet intelligence officer who later spied for Britain.
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A History of the Egyptian Intelligence Service: A History of the Mukhabarat, 1910-2009 Owen L. Sirrs This book analyzes how the Egyptian intelligence community has adapted to shifting national security threats since its inception 100 years ago. Starting in 1910, when the modern Egyptian intelligence system was created to deal with militant nationalists and Islamists, the book shows how the security services were subsequently reorganized, augmented and centralized to meet an increasingly sophisticated array of challenges, including fascism, communism, army unrest, Israel, France, the United Kingdom, conservative Arab states, the Muslim Brotherhood and others. The book argues that studying Egypt's intelligence community is integral to our understanding of that country's modern history, regime stability and human rights record; Intelligence studies have been described as the 'missing dimension' of international relations. It is clear that intelligence agencies are pivotal to understanding the nature of many Arab regimes and their decision-making processes, and there is no published history of modern Egyptian intelligence in either a European language or Arabic, though Egypt has the largest and arguably most effective intelligence community in the Arab world.
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