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Several Border Patrol agents were fired upon Wednesday evening in Nogales while responding to a call about a vehicle that was entering the country without going through a port of entry, an official said Thursday. Around 7 p.m. Border Patrol agents responded to a report of a silver Mercedes sport utility vehicle driving through the desert in Nogales, said Jesus Rodriguez, a spokesman for the agency's Tucson Sector. As the agents neared the SUV, they were fired upon, he said. One patrol vehicle took rounds to the windshield and the body. The agent in that vehicle fired back as did...

Communist priest informers scandal continues Father Tadeusz Isakowicz has decided not to publish information on priests who he says collaborated with the communist secret services, after being warned of the move by his bishop. Report by Michal Kubicki 31.05.06 Contrary to expectations, one of Poland’s best known priests, former Solidarity chaplain in the Nowa Huta steel works in Krakow, has not published the information from secret service files on the clergy who had collaborated with the communist regime. The decision of Father Tadeusz Isakowicz, who himself was a victim of repression by the secret services, came after a warning from...

Border Patrol agents discovered 91 illegal entrants who had been smuggled into the country in the back of a panel truck Thursday night southwest of Sonoita, an official said Friday. The Border Patrol received a call around 10 p.m. from someone concerned about possible illegal activity, said Jesus Rodriguez, a spokesman for the agency's Tucson Sector. The caller suspected the truck was picking up illegal entrants. When Border Patrol agents from Nogales and Sonoita pulled the truck over on Arizona 82 around Milepost 26, about 35 miles south of Tucson. the driver got out and ran into the brush, Rodriguez...

MIAMI — A Taiwanese businessman pleaded guilty Wednesday to acting as a covert agent for the Chinese government and trying to buy sophisticated military parts and weapons, including an F-16 fighter jet engine and cruise missiles.

The Central Intelligence Agency has warned former employees not to have unapproved contacts with reporters, as part of a mounting campaign by the administration to crack down on officials who leak information on national security issues. A former official said the CIA recently warned several retired employees who have consulting contracts with the agency that they could lose their pensions by talking to reporters without permission. He added that while the threats might be legally "hollow," they were having a chilling effect on former employees. The CIA called the allegations "rubbish". Jennifer Millerwise Dyke, spokeswoman for CIA director Porter Goss,...

RUSSIA Soviet Active Measures: Deception, Disinformation, and Propaganda A - D Atkinson, James. The Politics of Struggle: The Communist Front and Political Warfare. Chicago: Regnery, 1966. [Petersen] Barghoorn, Frederick C. 1. The Soviet Cultural Offensive. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960. 2. Soviet Foreign Propaganda. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964. 3. Soviet Image of the United States: A Study in Distortion. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1950. Binyon, Michael. "US Was Main Target of Dirty Tricks." Times (London), 13 Sep. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk] "America was the top target for most KGB operations, but most were dirty tricks that were often as...

SAN DIEGO — Two supervisory U.S. Border Patrol agents who helped establish a successful cross-border anti-smuggling program have been charged with smuggling migrants for a Mexican trafficking organization. The agents, both stationed in the Imperial Valley, released apprehended illegal immigrants in exchange for cash, pulling in about $300,000, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday. The men, Mario Alvarez, 44, and Samuel McClaren, 43, also released captured members of a Mexican smuggling ring, dropping one off at a Wal-Mart parking lot in Calexico for $6,000, prosecutors allege. Excerpt: Read the rest here: Click here.

"The complaint said McClaren deposited $85,900 in personal bank accounts, while Alvarez deposited $82,000."

2/28/2006 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- For many people, the three letters “O-S-I” conjure up images of intrigue, adventures, glamour and risk. However, for agents assigned to the Office of Special Investigations, the federal-level investigative service represents long days, serious work and countless hours of writing. “In a deployed environment, our typical day lasts anywhere from 12 to 16 hours,” said Special Agent Joe Smith, explaining that nighttime meetings account for part of the long hours. “While there is no ‘typical day’ in OSI work, some of the work we do includes investigative interviews, liaison meetings with (host-nation) officials and...

The past, the East learns, is always present By Judy Dempsey International Herald Tribune THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2006 BERLIN After Poland's new conservative government took office late last year, one of its first decisions was to recall 10 ambassadors because of their communist past. Then last week, a Hungarian weekly magazine published charges that the film director Istvan Szabo was an informer during the late 1950s, a particularly depressing era after Soviet-led tanks crushed the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. It also disclosed that the retired Catholic primate, Cardinal Laszlo Paskai, imprisoned by the communist regime from 1949 to 1956, had cooperated...

Israel: Spielberg "Munich" Dangerous; Rationalizes TerrorismThere is no excuse for terrorism, no rationalization for the murder of innocent civilians.By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem----December 28......Steven Spielberg has made a very big mistake. And rather than admitting it: "you know it was an error, I overreached, I am going to pull it - my movie on the Munich Massacre," Spielberg hires a spin doctor from Israel. But Steven, no amount of PR spin will pull you out of this mess. You cannot ask Israel to hesitate for one tenth of one second on our war against terrorism. Many in Israel...

Washington (UPI) Oct 25, 2005 By Claude Salhani UPI International Editor Iranian Intelligence agents have entered the United States to spread disinformation, according to the Iran Policy Committee, a group composed mostly of former U.S. government officials who are lobbying the Bush administration for regime change in Teheran. The agents, who reportedly flew into the United States from Toronto, Canada, using Dutch and British passports, held a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington Monday -- except no press showed up. When opponents of the Tehran regime who were present took photos and videos, the agents tried to...

Federal agents executed a search warrant at the home of Minneapolis City Council member Dean Zimmermann today. Zimmermann, a Green party member who is seeking re-election, was not available for comment, but his campaign manager, Lauren Maker, said the agents spent three hours at his home.

Iran claimed today that it had arrested anti-government separatists with links to British intelligence services, accusing them of involvement in violent protests and a recent spate of deadly bombings. A statement issued on state-run TV did not say how many people had been detained or reveal their nationalities, but alleged they were arrested in the south-western Khuzestan province, which borders British-controlled southern Iraq. “The agents arrested have confessed to belonging to separatist opposition groups and having links with foreign especially British intelligence services,” a TV announcer said, quoting a ministry statement. British Embassy officials in Tehran could not be reached...

There is a large demonstration in the city of Sanandaj in Iranian Kurdistan since 6.30 PM local time Monday 1st of August, 2005, to condemn the brutal acts of the regime of Iran in the cities of Mahabad, Sardasht, Piranshahr, Shino, Divandareh and Baneh, where the Islamic Republic security guards have opened fire on peaceful demonstrations and massacring civilians. In support to the people of above mentioned cities, all shops and markets were closed and an outsized demonstration was organized in at least 13 district of the city of Sanandaj. Slogans such as “down with the Islamic Republic, Long live...

Judith Miller of the New York Times is in jail, for running afoul of the law of unintended consequences. What began two years ago as an effort to smear President Bush has backfired, big time. Miller is in jail because she won't tell Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald who told her that Valerie Plame, wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, worked for the CIA. Wilson gained his 15 minutes of fame in 2003 when he claimed in an op-ed in the New York Times that President Bush had lied in his State of the Union address that year when...

Stephen Hayes, whose book The Connection detailed the links that are said not to have taken place between Saddam and al Qaeda, returns to the fray. Marvelling at the bare-faced lies of CNN which has been stating that there were no links -- and that the 9/11 Commission said so, when it said explicitly that there were -- he adds a few more examples of the contacts: 'In 1992 the Iraqi Intelligence services compiled a list of its assets. On page 14 of the document, marked "Top Secret" and dated March 28, 1992, is the name of Osama bin Laden,...

A senior Chinese diplomat who wants to defect said he could help identify many of the "thousand secret agents" China has in Australia. Chen Yonglin said he feared for his life and was on the run with his wife and six-year-old daughter as Chinese agents were after him. Speaking at a pro-democracy rally in Martin Place yesterday to mark the 16th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Mr Chen said Chinese agents had kidnapped dissidents in Australia and forced them back to China. "I am seeking political asylum in Australia. I am in a very dangerous situation. Chinese agents are...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hiring 2,000 new agents next year could push the U.S. Border Patrol to its limits in training and managing its ranks, Bush administration officials testified Tuesday. Previously, Homeland Security Department officials have questioned whether the Border Patrol could handle the new agents, as Congress mandated in an intelligence reform law last year and re-approved last week by the House. On Tuesday, training officials said it is possible - but warned that the new hires would not come without added costs. The 2,000 new agents would come close to making out what the Border Patrol could hire "without...

London, Apr. 04 – Iran’s hard-line leaders are setting up a “secret government” in Iraq, according to a prominent Arabic language news outlet. The Saudi-affiliated Elaph website wrote in its Friday issue, “The Iranian Intelligence Ministry is creating a secret government in Iraq”. “Mobs have attacked Iraq which is recovering (following the U.S.-led war) and are trying to tear the country apart as much as they can”, it said, referring to Iranian Intelligence agents which have infiltrated Iraq mainly from the south. The Elaph site claimed that following the 2003 war, the Iranian regime launched its biggest recruitment operation through...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Senior Bush administration officials have warned in recent weeks that al-Qaida is regrouping for another massive attack, its agents bent on acquiring nuclear, chemical or biological weapons in a nightmare scenario that could dwarf the horror of Sept. 11. But in Pakistan and Afghanistan - where Osama bin Laden and his chief deputy are believed to be hiding - intelligence agents, politicians and a top U.S. general paint a different picture. They say a relentless military crackdown, the arrests last summer of several men allegedly involved in plans to launch attacks on U.S. financial institutions, and...

In Russia's former Soviet backyard, even Communist governments are turning west after Ukraine's so-called orange revolution. Moldova, a small ex-Soviet republic squeezed between Ukraine and Romania, holds national elections Sunday, attracting attention as another possible link in a chain of polls that have produced westward-looking democracies, starting with Georgia's Rose Revolution in 2003 and continuing in Ukraine last December. Only this time, it isn't the unseating of an old-guard regime that could bring change, but a ruling party that is turning from Moscow to the West on its own. President Vladimir Voronin's Communist Party is expected to win easily. Being...

We did it... We protested churchill. There was a collection of pro-Churchill moonbats that showed up, and we protested them as well.

TROUBLE SPEAK Ward Churchill copied 'original' art piece Takes a swing at TV reporter who confronted him -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 26, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Professor Ward Churchill Adding to a growing list of allegations, controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill appears to have violated copyright law by claiming a reknowned artist's work as his own. Churchill, whose integrity has been challenged since news broke earlier last month of his paper blaming victims of 9-11 for the attacks, made an Indian-theme serigraph in 1981 called "Winter Attack" and printed 150 copies. But one of the buyers,...

Ward Hill as a member of the schismatic Boulder/Denver branch of AIM [American Indian Movement] as spent his whole life trashing the FBI and police. Here is what he said in his "Roosting Chickens" article. He is an anarchist who publishes his books through anarchist publishers. He wants to trash our law enforcement and intelligence organizations so that we will be destroyed. He doesn't want to make them better. He want the USA off the planet. He has often depicted the FBI and CIA as terrorist organizations.

Ward Churchill is the professor from Colorado University who called the dead in the World Trade Center "Nazis" and also said that the US deserved 9/11, and that we should have not fought back. Prof Churchill may get fired from the University of Colorado-Bolder He may appear on March 1st, time pending, if the administration approves of it.

In his FrontPage Magazine article Andrew Alexander’s Lies About the Cold War, Jamie Glazov speaks of the Soviet regime’s aggressive and expansionist designs against the West in the post-WWII period, and how de-classified Soviet sources prove that they had extensively infiltrated their agents into Western society. "...the Venona transcripts are thousands of Soviet intelligence messages that were intercepted and decoded over four decades by the FBI and the NSA (National Security Agency). Released over the past few years, these files prove that there was a large-scale Communist penetration of the U.S. government, and that Communist spies passed on valuable information...

PALOMINAS - More than $1 million worth of marijuana was seized Wednesday by agents from the U.S. Border Patrol's Naco Station after a vehicle pursuit. At approximately 9:45 p.m., agents observed a pickup truck illegally enter the United States about eight miles west of the Naco Port of Entry, according to a press release from the agency's Tucson Sector. The truck's driver was unaware he had been spotted and drove slowly along local ranch roads until the truck reached Highway 92. When an agent attempted to stop the vehicle on the highway near Miller Canyon Road, the driver performed an...

DOUGLAS - Individuals on the Mexican side of the border shot at a pair of U.S. Border Patrol agents on Friday and Monday, according to an agency's Tucson Sector spokeswoman. The two incidents bring the number of shootings aimed at agents in Cochise County to three since last Wednesday and four since Oct. 1, Andrea Zortman said. All involved agents from the Douglas Station. "They are definitely a lot more aggressive," Zortman said about assaults against agents. In the most two recent shooting incidents in the county, a vehicle and material protecting cameras were hit, she said. Around 6 p.m....

The headline in the New York Sun reads like a bad joke but makes perfect sense: "Venezuela Outsources Intelligence Activities To Cuba." In a global society, where what economists call 'comparative advantage' rules, each country does the most of its specialty. And in Cuba, its only production of note is its repressive police state. This is the only product it can credibly export, and quite an economically damning fact. But the substance of its number one export is very disturbing. It has a buyer in Venezuela's Marxist dictator, Hugo Chavez. The details of this new law that Chavez has passed...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's former agents are funding a sophisticated alliance with foreign Muslim militants to carry out vicious attacks on polling stations during Iraq's elections, the deputy prime minister said on Sunday. Barham Salih said intelligence gathered from dozens of Saddam's former intelligence and army officers and foreign fighters arrested in the past week points to a major offensive during the polls. Members of Saddam's toppled Baath Party and foreign militants inspired by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his key ally in Iraq, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, may have suffered setbacks but have plenty...

London 10.01.05 | The house of former PDVSA executive Juan Santana has just been raided by the police (DISIP). They are now raiding that of Horacio Medina, another oil executive accused by the Chavez regime of treason. Sources report that they are headed for yet another raid in Edgar Paredes' house. Lawyers of Mireya Panti, another manager accused, have been prevented from reading and accesing the files regarding this case, even though they were appointed as defence more than a year ago. Judge Jose Ramon Flores maintains that the appointment only contemplates acts of assistance whilst in the company and...

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) confirmed that Rodrigo Granda Escobar, known as "the Chancellor" was kidnapped in Venezuela, while attending the Second Bolivarian Peoples Conference. In a statement published on their web page, the Central Command of this organization blamed the kidnapping of "Ricardo", as he is known within FARC, on "the Colombian intelligence services" and blamed his deportation on "gringo advisors and the complicit support of corrupt elements of the Venezuelan police". In the statement they went on to ask that the government of Venezuela make "its position clear regarding guarantees to the other bolivarian organizations that...

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Since the September 11 attacks, a new consensus appears to have developed on the need for tighter immigration enforcement and border controls. Gone are the days when the Wall Street Journal repeatedly called for a constitutional amendment declaring that “there shall be open borders.” Knowledgeable Americans have come to understand that our welcoming immigration policies are easily exploited by terrorists and that porous borders and lax immigration enforcement are no longer an option. With at least 8 million illegal aliens living in the United States and nearly one million new aliens arriving each year, the potential for terrorists entering the...

Baghdad, Nov. 13 - Ten Iranian agents were arrested during a raid on a local mosque in Falluja following attacks by coalition forces. News of the arrests came at a press conference by the heads of the multinational and Iraqi forces in Falluja.

[North Korean agent apparantly riled up, over the weekend, at the attention he has generated from Japanese reporters in Jakarta] Charles Robert Jenkins, a US Army sergeant, defected to North Korea in 1965, near his post along the DMZ. He is considered a deserter by the US government.After nearly 40 years in North Korea however, he and his two children were allowed by risk-taker and dictator Kim Jong-il to go to non-extradition treaty Indonesia on Friday, to meet his separated Japanese wife, who was kidnapped by North Korean agents years ago, and was able to get out of North...

Jun 11, 2004 Two Border Agents Based in Texas Found Dead Southwest of Tucson, Ariz. The Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Two off-duty border agents based in Texas were found dead Friday southwest of Tucson. The male and female agents, who both worked for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in El Paso, Texas, were found by a Tohono O'odham Nation police officer who was responding to a report of an abandoned vehicle, the tribe said. It's not known what the two agents were doing in Arizona, said Doug Mosier, a spokesman for the Border Patrol in El Paso. The...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite increasing concern about terrorist threats to the United States, the FBI before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was hampered by a culture resistant to change, inadequate resources and legal barriers, the national commission investigating the attacks said on Tuesday. "From the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, FBI and Department of Justice leadership in Washington and New York became increasingly concerned about the terrorist threat from Islamic extremists to U.S. interests both at home and abroad," said the report, presented at a commission hearing. Attorney General John Ashcroft, his predecessor, Janet Reno, former FBI Director...

Spy veterans hit at 'timid' CIA agents By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 21/02/2004) Today's CIA agents are spoiled, inexperienced, and hamstrung by safety rules, leaving vital operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in near disarray, senior American officials and intelligence veterans said yesterday. Angry intelligence sources told the Los Angeles Times that the head of the CIA's Baghdad station - the largest in agency history - was sacked recently amid concern that his team of more than 500 was failing to penetrate Iraq's deadly insurgency. In Baghdad, many CIA employees are sheltered in secure compounds at the airport or in...

Organization claims lax federal policies causing murder of cops The National Association of Chiefs of Police claims national border security is a "sham" and the lack of controls by the federal government is rewarding criminals. In a statement, Jim Kouri, vice president of the 14,000-member organization, slams the feds for using "smoke and mirrors in our border security strategy." He also indicts states issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens. "Even the president of the United States is prepared to reward lawbreakers," he said, referring to President Bush's proposal to legalize millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. Kouri, an Arab-American,...

NACO, Ariz. -- A pair of U.S. Border Patrol agents were reportedly assaulted by a suspected drug smuggler on Monday. Following the incident, a 41-year-old Mexican national is in the custody of the federal government and more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana was seized, according to an agency spokesman. The two agents, assigned to the Naco Station, attempted to stop a 2000 Ford Excursion on Naco Highway, approximately two miles north of the Naco, Ariz., Port of Entry, but the driver failed to yield and sped off in an effort to evade arrest, a press release from the agency's Tucson...

Iranian agents flood into Iraq posing as pilgrims and traders By Philip Sherwell in Najaf and Jessica Berry (Filed: 28/09/2003) Iran has dispatched hundreds of agents posing as pilgrims and traders to Iraq to foment unrest in the holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala, and the lawless frontier areas. Teheran's hardline regime has also allowed extremist fighters from Ansar al-Islam, a terror faction with close links to al-Qa'eda, to cross back into Iraq from its territory to join the anti-American resistance. The Pentagon believes that Iran is building a bridgehead of activists inside Iraq, ready to destabilise the country if...

Title: Anti-North Korea protest sparks Scuffles (Started by North Korean reporters) at World Student Games in S. Korea TAEGU, S. KOREA: Scuffles broke out at the World Student Games in South Korea Sunday as a group of North Koreans broke up a peaceful (anti-Kim Jong-il) protest outside the press center here. About 100 riot police and another 40 police officers moved in as four members of the North Korean delegation charged about a dozen protesters demonstrating against Pyongyang’s communist regime. Norbert Vollertsen, a German activist who had appeared at the demonstration wearing a neck brace and supported by crutches, collapsed...

Canada just dodged a bullet. Last week the story emerged that Syrian intelligence discovered an al-Qaeda plan to attack the American embassy in the heart of Ottawa. With the large U.S. garrison next door in Iraq, the Syrians have seen the wisdom of co-operating with the Americans against al-Qaeda. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency acted on their information and foiled the terrorists' plans. The Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) was evidently involved in some fashion, but has refused to comment on the news. No one has said when the attack was to take place and no information has been...

NEW ORLEANS — Federal prosecutors have hailed a federal appeals court ruling as a victory in their efforts to curb illegal drug use at high energy, all night dance parties known as raves. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on June 20 that an agreement, worked out between the government and a rave club in New Orleans, can be enforced although it bans legal playthings like giant pacifiers, glow sticks and mentholated inhalers. Prosecutors say the stuff is Ecstasy paraphernalia that promotes illegal drug use. In 2001, federal prosecutors said the case was the first use of crackhouse...

THE Arab news channel that won global influence after broadcasting a video of the terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden was infiltrated by Iraqi intelligence agents in a campaign to subvert its coverage, according to documents obtained in Baghdad. Senior officers of Iraq’s intelligence agency controlled three agents who worked at the Al-Jazeera network, say the files. Their detailed reports also refer to the Qatar-based news network as an “instrument” of the regime. Since Al-Jazeera was founded in 1996 it has won a worldwide audience of 35m- 50m and become “the CNN of the Arab world” — watched in cafes and...

Two Border Patrol agents wounded Pair caught in cross-fire between rival gangs BY CELINA ALVARADO Times staff writer A Laredo man was arrested and charged Monday with the attempted murder of two U.S. Border Patrol agents in a late Sunday night shooting in the Ladrillera neighborhood, at the 2400 block of Boston. The shooting suspect, 18-year-old Jesus Arias, Jr., from the 3700 block of Pinder Avenue, was arrested at the 2300 block of Pierce by officers from the Laredo Police Department, Webb County Sheriff's Department and U.S. Border Patrol, backed by a Border Patrol helicopter crew. The suspect, Jesus Arias,...

WASHINGTON, April 20 (AFP) - US intelligence officials have tracked around 12 Iranian agents moving from Tehran to Al Kut in southeastern Iraq over the past month, according to latest edition of Newsweek out Monday. "We are absolutely 100 percent positive that there are Iranian operatives in town," a senior US military intelligence official told Newsweek, adding that several of them were known members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard. US officials believe that the Iranians in Al Kut, 160 kilometersmiles) southeast of Baghdad are primarily intelligence officers gathering information and possibly spreading propaganda. There are concerned though that Iran appears...

March 5 — The United States is launching a campaign, code-named Imminent Horizon, to disrupt and rattle Iraqi intelligence agents around the world, intelligence sources told ABCNEWS. These are people the United States suspects are trying to engineer terrorist attacks against American interests overseas. The United States is secretly asking for help from more than 60 countries — nations ranging from Bahrain, Yemen and Egypt to Italy and Japan. Intelligence sources say the United States has a list of about 300 suspected Iraqi agents. The domestic part of this operation has already swung into action in New York. Sources say...