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Note: This is the first in a 6 part series being presented on the history of Intelligence Operations during the Revolutionary War. This is how our forefathers did it, folks. Read and be proud... Intelligence Operations in the War of Independence Organization of Intelligence The Committee of Secret Correspondence Recognizing the need for foreign intelligence and foreign alliances, the Second Continental Congress created the Committee of Correspondence (soon renamed the Committee of Secret Correspondence) by a resolution of November 29, 1775: RESOLVED, That a committee of five would be appointed for the sole purpose of corresponding with our friends in ...

ANDREI SOLDATOV sits down in the lobby of the Hotel Rossija in Moscow, orders tea, flips open his Sony Vaio laptop and logs on to the Internet to demonstrate his Web site via his wireless modem. A Vaio may not be an exploding pen or an umbrella that doubles as a machine gun, but in modern Russia, a high-tech laptop and wireless modem are about as James Bond as gadgets get. This is appropriate, given that his Mr. Soldatov's Web site, www.agentura.ru, is about Russian espionage. Mr. Soldatov is a 25-year-old journalist who covered the espionage beat for the ...

U.S. Accused of 'Promis' Information Warfare Program [Interview with Fabrizio Calvi and Thierry Pfister, authors of book L'Oeil de Washington (The Eye of Washington), by Denis Jeambar and Yves Stavrides; place and date not given: "Espionage: How Washington Booby-Trapped All the World's Computers"] [Translated from the French] How far can a government go? Democracies have settled that issue of the desire for power in principle: The state of law, situated at the heart of their institutional mechanisms, forms their boundaries. But that framework is in fact more virtual than real, and laws or treaties are very fragile barriers when it ...

This article was originally posted on FR by Jim Robinson on 3/14/97, but no one bumped it. PLA ESPIONAGE MEANS BUSINESS Brian Mosely tried again on 5/15/98 and the thread only received one bump at the time it was posted. PLA Espionage Means Business I'm reposting it now so it'll at least be in the working FR archives. PLA Espionage Means Business By Timothy W. Maier The People's Liberation Army is operating hundreds of front companies in this country to strengthen the Chinese military-industrial complex with Western capital, technology and systematic know-how.et in bed with China's People's Liberation Army, ...

In 1995, the CIA and the FBI learned that Osama bin Laden was planning to hijack U.S. airliners and use them as bombs to attack important targets in the U.S. This scheme was called Project Bojinka. It was discovered in the Philippines, where authorities arrested two of bin Laden's agents, Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Hakim Murad. They were involved in planting a bomb on a Philippine airliner. Project Bojinka, which Philip-pine authorities found outlined on Abdul Murad's laptop, called for planting bombs on eleven U.S. airliners and hijacking others and crashing them into targets like the CIA building. The hijacking ...

<p>Since the horrific events of Sept. 11, nearly everyone in Washington seems to have reached the obvious conclusion that U.S. intelligence agencies in general and the CIA in particular are failing to recruit human intelligence sources to penetrate hostile governments and terrorist groups. The congressional demagoguery and micromanaging that have crippled the CIA's ability to do its job began back in the 1970s, well before the current director, George Tenet, assumed the post. Nonetheless, Mr. Tenet certainly must shoulder much of the blame for the intelligence failure of Sept. 11 – as well as a host of other intelligence failures and poor policy decisions that took place during the Clinton era.</p>

Government Intelligence Monitoring Conspiracy Sites. In the weeks since the attack on the World Trade Center, government agents have been monitoring so-called "conspiracy theories" on the internet. Intelligence agents and other concerned public agencies have been alarmed by the appearance of websites spreading what George Bush recently referred to as "outrageous conspiracy theories." Conspiracy theories have been rampant in the wake of the terrorist attacks on America. A small sampling of those theories reveals blame being placed on everyone from the Mossad and Russian intelligence, to rogue elements within the U.S. government. Such "theories" have had a rather unpleasant knack ...

WASHINGTON – Any personal contacts and correspondence Wen Ho Lee's wife had with Chinese scientists were "her own business," the former counterintelligence chief of Los Alamos National Laboratory wrote in a confidential 1989 lab memo tucked into Sylvia Lee's personnel file – even though she and her husband had been investigated as potential Chinese spies. Then-security chief Robert S. Vrooman's seeming indifference fits a pattern of leniency that led to missteps in dealing with Chinese espionage at the New Mexico lab, intelligence sources say. Vrooman, a key defender of the Lees, helped swing the U.S. government's espionage case against ...

Who Knew What, And When? Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage. By Joseph E. Persico. Illustrated. 564 pp. New York: Random House. $35. By Thomas Powers WORLD WAR II ended so long ago, and Germany and Japan were beaten so utterly, that people who have spent most or even the whole of their lives in what we once called "the postwar world" find it hard to realize things might have gone the other way. The Allied victory seems inevitable now; the advantages of the Allies were overwhelming, in population, industrial strength, wealth and natural resources. But it ...

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The Strange Case of the Infamous Hanssen Affair &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The arrest of FBI agent Richard P. Hanssen is a another bad FBI cover story. It also seems to be a poorly crafted media stunt. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; When you think about it, what kind of a crime could they prove against him? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In the FBI's own counterintelligence protocols for a controlled drop, which was to get evidence to use in court, they're supposed to wait until the suspect, in this case Hanssen, has not only dropped the documents but the surveillance team is supposed to ...

In recent weeks there has been a spate of programs on the CIA on the History Channel, the nature of which suggests to me that these programs were probably prepared by the CIA for broadcast on the History Channel. The Crown Jewel of these programs was yesterday's program on the Warren Commission. All of these programs share certain characteristics and formats that indicate that they were prepared by the same agency. Without getting into details, they all subtly reinforce certain key points of disinformation that have been perpetuated by the government for years and that involve CIA operations. People who ...

US secret agents work at Microsoft: French intelligence Source: AFP | Published: Saturday February 19, 7:44 AM PARIS, Feb 18 - A French intelligence report today accused US secret agents of working with computer giant Microsoft to develop software allowing Washington to spy on communications around the world. The report, drawn up by the Strategic Affairs Delegation (DAS), the intelligence arm of the French Defence Ministry, was quoted in today's edition of the news-letter Le Monde du Renseignement (Intelligence World). Written by a senior officer at the DAS, the report claims agents from the National Security Agency (NSA) helped install ...

Source: The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency, James Bamford, Penguin Books, 1983. ISBN 0 14 00.6748 5. Pages 458-477. Thanks to James Bamford and Penguin Books Chapter 10 Abyss "THE PLO SENDS a man into New York, a terrorist, to plant bombs . . . An American organization is backing a revolution Haiti. . . A congressman is demanding money from a foreign government and you discover that from their communications . . . What do you do with it?" For fifteen years, G Group Chief Frank Raven struggled with such conundrums. Where to draw ...

The CIA in the New World Order: Intelligence Challenges Through 2015 Remarks by John C. Gannon Chairman, National Intelligence Council to the Smithsonian Associates’ "Campus on the Mall" 1 February 2000 Thank you for the warm introduction. I’m delighted to represent our Director, George Tenet, at the Smithsonian Associates’ "Campus on the Mall." This is an exceptional public education program that takes on today’s challenging issues in a creative and stimulating manner that is in keeping with benefactor James Smithson’s well-known commitment to what he called the "increase and diffusion of knowledge." I look forward after my remarks to your ...

Information based on Stefan Lemieszewski, William Engdahl, Mark Burdman, Elisabeth Hellenbroich, Paolo Raimondi, Scott Thompson, and others. The most damning of accusations: ~~ (Soros) spent the war in Hungary under false papers working for the Nazi government, identifying and expropriating the property of wealthy fellow Jews... Soros admits that he survived in Nazi Hungary during the war, as a Jew, by adopting what he calls a double personality. "I have lived with a double personality practically all my life," Soros recently stated. "It started at age fourteen in Hungary, when I assumed a false identity in order to escape ...

The long-secret case file concerning Al Gore Sr. links the late senator and father of the former vice president to communist operatives and shows his disdain for the FBI. Former vice president Albert Gore Jr.ís expected political comeback may be rougher than he imagines. Heís fresh from a European sabbatical, but not only will he be battling a popular incumbent president, but he faces the wrath of many senior Democrats who blame him for losing the White House. Now come ghosts from his senator fatherís communist-linked past, buried deep within the elder Goreís long-secret FBI file. Insight has obtained ...

History of the National Security Council Appendix Assistants to the President for Nationa1 Security Affairs 1953-1997 Established March 23, 1953, by President Eisenhower, in response to a report on NSC organization by Robert Cutler. Robert Cutler March 23, 1953 April 2, 1955 Dillon Anderson April 2, 1955 September 1, 1956 Robert Cutler January 7, 1957 June 24, 1958 Gordon Gray June 24, 1958 January 13, 1961 McGeorge Bundy January 20, 1961 February 28, 1966 Walt W. Rostow April 1, 1966 December 2, 1968 Henry A. Kissinger December 2, 1968 November 3, 1975 (served concurrently as Secretary of State from ...

‘Hanssen Is Not the Only One’ By Paul M. Rodriguez rodriguez@insightmag.com The names Robert Philip Hanssen and Aldrich Ames already are notorious. But, according to intelligence sources, the list of traitors in U.S. security agencies is likely to grow. The espionage case involving FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Philip Hanssen is far from over, according to U.S. law-enforcement and intelligence sources who tell Insight the alleged FBI traitor is among four to seven other U.S. agents under scrutiny as possible spies for Russia. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;“He’s not the only one. There is at least another significant case in the works,” says a ...

THURSDAY OCTOBER 04 2001 FBI traitor told Russia identity of top agent FROM DAMIAN WHITWORTH IN WASHINGTON THE FBI spy Robert Hanssen has confessed to betraying the most important Soviet double agent employed by the United States. Hanssen’s campaign of treachery is being revealed as even more deadly than feared. In a twist in one of the greatest Cold War espionage tales, Hanssen has revealed that he was responsible for telling his Moscow handlers the identity of the legendary informant “Top Hat”. Dimitri Polyakov, a senior official with Soviet military intelligence, was subsequently executed. For years it had been believed ...