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The Guardian (London) March 6, 2003 SECTION: Guardian Home Pages, Pg. 9 HEADLINE: Outcry as historian labelled a Soviet spy: Foreign Office papers 'prove Christopher Hill was a mole' BYLINE: Owen Bowcott The late Christopher Hill, the distinguished Marxist historian who became master of Balliol College, Oxford, is alleged to have operated as a Soviet "agent of influence" during wartime service at the Foreign Office. A fellow historian has revealed details of conversations and government papers which he says prove that Mr Hill - who died aged 91 on February 23 - was a Soviet "mole" who concealed his membership...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States has asked about 60 countries to expel selected Iraqis who officials say are undercover agents possibly poised to attack American interests overseas, officials said. In a separate development Wednesday, the State Department said it had ordered two U.N.-based Iraqi diplomats to leave the country.The government has identified 300 Iraqis in the 60 countries whom officials want expelled, the U.S. officials said. Some are operating as diplomats out of Iraqi embassies, the officials said, adding that the foreign governments were expected to comply with the U.S. request.State Department spokesman Philip Reeker confirmed the expulsion request...

Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members The United States is conducting a secret 'dirty tricks' campaign against UN Security Council delegations in New York as part of its battle to win votes in favour of war against Iraq. Details of the aggressive surveillance operation, which involves interception of the home and office telephones and the emails of UN delegates in New York, are revealed in a document leaked to The Observer. The disclosures were made in a memorandum written by a top official at the National Security Agency - the US...

American preparatory schools have large numbers of graduates who have faithfully and courageously served this country in time of war – many having given their lives. It is no discredit upon them or the universities they attended that three eastern U.S. prep schools also produced two of Adolf Hitler's and one of Joseph Stalin's most valuable spies. Tyler Gatewood Kent St. Alban's and Princeton On May 20, 1940, reports Joseph Persico's superb Random House book and New York Times best-seller, "Roosevelt's Secret War," Scotland Yard, MI5, and two other officers arrived at 47 Gloucester Place in London. After having to...

<p>Leaders of America's war on terrorism have promised to take the battle wherever it leads, to whatever distant shore that may be.</p> <p>But according to an ex-State Department official, who ought to know, the United States' anti-terrorism campaign may be barking up the wrong tree.</p>

KARACHI, Pakistan -- Two suspected al-Qaida men arrested in a raid in southern Pakistan last week were undone by satellite phone calls they made that were traced by U.S. intelligence agents, a senior Pakistani security official with knowledge of the case said Saturday. The men, who were arrested in a pre-dawn raid Thursday after a fierce shootout, had made calls to several Middle Eastern countries, helping authorities zero in on the second-floor apartment where the men were living in the southern port city of Karachi. "Their links with other al-Qaida operatives are confirmed," the official told The Associated Press on...

L ike every American, I offer you my prayers and best wishes as you go about the business of figuring out why we suffered the worst intelligence failure in our country's history, and of recommending what we now must do to assure that this kind of thing doesn't happen again. I don't mean to be presumptuous, but — since none of you has actually worked at the CIA — may I offer a piece of advice?Drill fast, drill deep. By doing so — and only by doing so — will you be able to pinpoint precisely where the failure...

MOSCOW - Following Russia's historic rapprochement with the West after Sept. 11, even celluloid superspy James Bond has forgiven his traditional nemesis in Moscow and gone in search of fresh enemies. The latest Bond flick, "Die Another Day," has the evergreen hero battling bad guys from the hermit state of North Korea. That's fiction, but in the real world, actual spies appear to be busier than ever. In the past month alone, Canada and Sweden angrily expelled Russian diplomats for "activities incompatible with their status," the familiar code for espionage. Moscow announced Friday that it will no longer accept US...

Thieves who broke into a government contractor's office snatched computer hard drives containing Social Secu rity numbers, addresses and other records of about 500,000 service members and their families. The company, Phoenix-based TriWest Healthcare Alliance, provides managed health care to the military in 16 s tates, including Utah. It serves about 1.1 million active-duty personnel, their dependents and retirees. TriWest spokesman Jim Kassebaum said computer equipment stolen from a TriWest office in Phoenix on Dec. 14 c ontained names, addresses, phone numbers, medical claim histories, and Social Security numbers for beneficiaries in its central region, which covers the central United...

Why Ronald Reagan Did Not Reform the CIALev NavrozovTuesday, Dec. 10, 2002 The CIA's published and generally available annual testimonies before Congress in the 1970s were unique. A unique departure from ritualistic (and self-serving) secrecy. No other Western intelligence agency has ever done it. The CIA deserves praise: At least the public, including myself, learned how good or bad the CIA is. The English public has been unable to learn how good or bad the SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) is even if it is worse than the CIA. I duly read the CIA's testimonies before Congress and wrote an article...

WASHINGTON: Foreign governments are increasingly using women and naturalised American citizens to spy on the United States with globalisation and information technology making it difficult to stop employees from stealing state secrets, according to a report on Wednesday here. "It does point to a kind of confluence of factors -- the increase in the number of naturalised citizens, people who have foreign attachments and people who cite divided loyalty as a motive. These are all signs that the globalisation we see going on is also happening in espionage," said Katherine Herbig, author of the report issued by Defence Personnel Security...

<p>Maryland's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, has been hinting that restrictions on firearms ownership might have prevented the recent string of shootings that have terrorized the region and left at least six people dead. Although careful not to appear to be making political hay of the carnage, Mrs. Townsend nonetheless quipped not-so-elliptically the other day that there must be a new debate "about how best to protect our citizens," and that existing gun control laws "save lives."</p>

Attorneys for a decorated U.S. Navy intelligence officer have told a federal court in Seattle that the crew of a Russian vessel believed on a spying mission intentionally fired a laser at a Canadian air force helicopter sent to photograph the ship, permanently injuring the officer and the pilot. Larry Klayman, president and chief general counsel for the nonprofit legal group Judicial Watch, said Cmdr. Jack Daly, then a lieutenant, was injured when the crew of the Kapitan Man allegedly fired a laser at him as the ship laid off Puget Sound near Washington state five years ago. Daly is...

Thomas Lamar "Tommy" Bean is selling used cars in south Texas right now, and to him, that's the fault of Congress. It's Congress, after all, that won't allow him to regain his license to sell guns. On Oct. 16, his case comes before the U.S. Supreme Court. And if he gets his way, Bean, a convicted felon, will be dealing guns again. At issue in United States v. Bean, No. 01-704, is a provision in federal law that allows felons to obtain a permit to own and sell firearms. The case has placed gun-rights advocates in the unusual position of...

On 1997's El Corazón, Steve Earle wished for the return of Woody Guthrie to a world sorely lacking voices of righteous dissent. Here, Earle stops pining for ghosts and gruffly makes his own claim to the agit-folk crown. The controversial "John Walker's Blues" drew attention to the album and the ire of many who misunderstood it, but it's only one of many topical tunes on a disc that issues a kind of call to arms: over the distorted guitars and garbage-pail drums of "Amerika v. 6.0" and in the spare and creepy satire "Conspiracy Theory," Earle rallies listeners to resist...

You've heard the reports since September 11th, 2001. Hundreds of arrests at airports all over the United States of workers who provided false information with their employment applications, had engaged in identity theft/fraud, many of them were illegal immigrants, some with criminal records. Most of those arrested seemed to be ramp workers, security screeners, etc., many with access to restricted areas. Just this month, 28 workers were arrested at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. With the exception of some arrests that were made at the Salt Lake City Airport in December 2001, rarely have the words "mechanics" or "maintenance personnel"...

WorldNetDaily Exclusive Farmers, hunters march for 'Liberty and Livelihood'Huge turnout expected today for biggest civil liberties protest in British history Posted: September 22, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Sarah Foster © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Crowds expected to number in the hundreds of thousands are descending on London from all parts of the British Isles, to be joined by supporters from other countries, for what its sponsors predict will be the biggest protest march ever held in Britain. The coordinating Countryside Alliance, an umbrella organization, expects over 300,000 demonstrators, with some estimates going as high as 500,000 or even 1 million. They're arriving by...

WBAL Radio1090AM Baltimore Ron Smith's "Something to Say" CommentaryWeekdays at 6:50AM | rsmith@wbal.com | Ron Smith Show Page Senseless? September 11, 2002    Ron Smith's Something to Say Everywhere one turns this day, organized mourning for those killed by the attack on America a year ago dominates. The TV channels, the radio stations, the newspapers; all filled with pathos, human interest stories about survivors and their grief, and with memories of the 3,000 or so souls who perished that fateful September 11, 2001. We live in an age of media excess, so who can be surprised that the first anniversary of...

About the Poll About the Earth Summit Send to a Friend Take the Poll For the Media Get the Results Welcome to this first ever Online Global Poll on the issues of the environment and sustainable development. Create history. Voice your opinion. Click on your region to begin the poll We all share the same earth and the same environment. We believe that everyone's voice should be heard in debating the policies and making the decisions that affect us all. The earth belongs to all of us. This first in the world, Online Global Poll is being conducted in...

<p>WASHINGTON -- When the White House three months ago held its first hearing on whether to let airline pilots carry guns, the Bush administration didn't bother sending anyone to register its opposition. The idea seemed unlikely to go far.</p> <p>Not anymore. The Republican-controlled House has since approved such a move. Despite objections from airline executives, gun-control groups and some aviation-safety experts, the Democrat-led Senate appears ready to follow suit. Now the administration, which announced its opposition to arming pilots less than three months ago, says it is reconsidering that stance.</p>