Friday, 06 December 2013 Billions of dollars annually are being used to fund operations conducted by the United States intelligence community, the likes of which allow the government to eavesdrop on emails, listen to world leaders’ phone calls… Read More ›
Intelligence Gathering
British intelligence agents in Russia instructed to find Snowden – Canadian NGO
© Photo: Voice of Russia The British intelligence MI-6 station in Moscow was given the task to locate a former CIA agent Edward Snowden who was granted temporary political asylum in Russia, states Center for the Study of Globalization, a… Read More ›
Revealed: Australian spy agency offered to share data about ordinary citizens
• Secret 5-Eyes document shows surveillance partners discussing what information they can pool about their citizens • DSD indicated it could provide material without some privacy restraints imposed by other countries such as Canada • Medical, legal or religious information… Read More ›
CIA’s most senior officer in Pakistan ‘unmasked’ by Imran Khan’s party
PTI party names man in letter to police demanding he be nominated as one of those responsible for drone strike Jon Boone in Islamabad theguardian.com, Wednesday 27 November 2013 08.52 EST Supporters of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party… Read More ›
Top secret document reveals NSA spies on porn habits of suspected terrorists in bid to discredit them
Document was revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden It shows agency spied on suspected radicalizers to harm their reputations Civil liberties campaigners have voiced concerns about the revelations One says: ‘NSA surveillance activities are anything but narrowly focused’ By Daily… Read More ›
Since When Are Your Phone Calls Private, Goverment Lawyer Asks
By NICK DIVITO MANHATTAN (CN) – Since Americans expect their phone companies to keep records of their calls, they have no basis to challenge the National Security Agency’s mass collection of that data, a lawyer for the government argued Friday…. Read More ›
Government Told to Explain Need for Secrecy “But says it’s a Secret “
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN (CN) – The U.S. government must explain why a Feb. 19 order of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court cannot be released to the public, even in a redacted form, a FISC judge ruled. In September 2013, Judge… Read More ›
NSA’s goal to continually expand surveillance abilities “anyone, anytime, anywhere.”
Latest Snowden leak reveals NSA’s goal to continually expand surveillance abilities Published time: November 23, 2013 04:05 The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland (AFP Photo / Saul Loeb) In a mission statement last year the… Read More ›
Movie producer was working secretly for Israeli intelligence on arms deals and claims other Hollywood figures including Sydney Pollack helped him
Revealed: Arnon Milchan – the Hollywood producer behind hits Pretty Woman, Fight Club and LA Confidential who became a real-life James Bond Arnon Milchan at the premiere of Mr and Mrs Smith, which he produced Tim walker Friday 22 November… Read More ›
Central government cyberspies step up surveillance of ethnic groups with new language-tracking technology
Sophisticated new system allows tracking of messages in language of all mainland’s ethnic groups Mainland authorities have boosted their cyberspying capability by developing technology that can track communications in the languages of ethnic groups. The sophisticated new system will allow… Read More ›
US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to ‘unmask’ Britons’ personal data
• 2007 deal allows NSA to store previously restricted material • UK citizens not suspected of wrongdoing caught up in dragnet • Separate draft memo proposes US spying on ‘Five-Eyes’ allies James Ball theguardian.com, Wednesday 20 November 2013 14.00… Read More ›
In-Q-Tel 2000-2011 Tax Returns – The CIA’s venture capital firm
November 18, 2013 The following tax returns for the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, Inc. were collected from a number of sources including Bulk.Resource.Org. The returns span from tax year 2000-2011. A ZIP archive containing the returns from all years… Read More ›
Fisa court documents reveal extent of NSA disregard for privacy restrictions
Incensed Fisa court judges questioned NSA’s truthfulness after repeated breaches of rules meant to protect Americans’ privacy Fisa court judge John Bates found that the NSA engaged in ‘systemic overcollection’. Photograph: Paul J Richards/AFP Newly declassified court documents indicate that… Read More ›
Court order that allowed NSA surveillance is revealed for first time
Fisa court judge who authorised massive tapping of metadata was hesitant but felt she could not stand in the way The NSA’s metadata trawl was approved by a judge who felt the agency was asking for ‘exceptionally broad’ permission to… Read More ›
Spy fears: CIA, Pentagon ‘work against’ Russia building GLONASS station in US
Boris Zyryanov, chief of division of electric and radio tests of navigating satellites, supervises the electric testing of the GLONASS-M space navigation satellite (Reuters / Ilya Naymushin) US intelligence and military are pressing the State Department not to license… Read More ›
Obama permits Russian GPS stations to be built on U.S. Soil / While opposed by the CIA and Pentagon
American spy agencies don’t want Russian GPS sites in their backyard Planto let Moscow build monitor stationson US soil, as a gesture to improve diplomatic relations, is opposed by the CIA and Pentagon PUBLISHED : Monday, 18 November, 2013, 5:30am… Read More ›
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) The Documents (HTML)
Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP…. Read More ›
GCHQ spoofed LinkedIn site to target global mobile traffic exchange and OPEC – report
Published time: November 11, 2013 00:23 Edited time: November 11, 2013 01:05 Satellite dishes are seen at GCHQ’s outpost at Bude, close to where trans-Atlantic fibre-optic cables come ashore in Cornwall, southwest England (Reuters/Kieran Doherty) The UK’s electronic spying… Read More ›
Britain ‘snooped’ on Icelandic officials’ emails to recover cash from broken banks
Published time: November 10, 2013 12:06 AFP Photo / Nicholas Kamm An Icelandic MP says Britain spied on Iceland while wrestling to rescue its citizens’ cash from collapsed Icelandic banks after the financial crisis. Birgitta Jónsdóttir claims she received… Read More ›
Terrorists and Criminals may now exploit all the vunerabilities the NSA and GCHQ had built into our systems
Berners-Lee: ‘Appalling and foolish’ NSA spying HELPS CRIMINALS Crooks rush in where spies boldly tread, says internet godhead By Jasper Hamill Posted in Security, 7th November 2013 14:58 GMT Sir Tim Berners-Lee, granddaddy of the internet, has attacked the NSA and… Read More ›
AT&T gets paid $10 million/ year by the CIA to give up user data and customers phone logs
Published time: November 07, 2013 16:57 AFP Photo/Etienne Franchi The second-largest telecom country in the United States has been on the Central Intelligence Agency’s payroll to the tune of $10 million a year in exchange for voluntarily handing over… Read More ›
De Blasio ‘Needs To Explain Himself’ Over Cuba Honeymoon, Sandinista Support / Which he is proud of
The story of a Cambridge-raised Sandinista supporter who married a former lesbian and rose through the political ranks to become mayor of America’s largest city Bill De Blasio is a political insider who worked on campaigns of Bill and Hillary… Read More ›
Illegal tapping in the Netherlands: lawyers and journalists sue Dutch minister for NSA links
Dutch Interior Minister Ronald Plasterk is being taken to court by a group of individuals and organizations in connection with his handling of the NSA phone and internet taps. The group, which includes the Dutch journalists association, privacy… Read More ›
Was Kenya mall massacre ‘mastermind’ backed by CIA cash? Disturbing claims by ‘double agent who worked with terror suspect for years’
Morten Storm was an informant for intelligence agencies for five years Met Abdukadir Mohamed Abdukadir, or Ikirma, in Nairobi in 2008 At the time, the Somali terrorist was only a messenger in Al-Shabab Storm believes CIA gave him the resources … Read More ›
How ‘high-level U.S. government agency’ fell for fake femme fatale created by two hackers
By James Nye PUBLISHED: 00:44 EST, 4 November 2013 | UPDATED: 08:03 EST, 4 November 2013 Two hackers staged a successful cyber-attack on an unidentified U.S. government agency simply by setting up fake LinkedIn and Facebook accounts posing as… Read More ›
Snowden document reveals key role of companies in NSA data collection
NSA leverages relationships with commercial partners to collect vast quantities of data from fibre-optic cables, file shows • Tapping fibre-optic cables – see the NSA slide Ewen MacAskill and Dominic Rushe in New York theguardian.com, Friday 1 November 2013… Read More ›
Did the NSA even spy on the POPE? U.S. spies accused of intercepting phone calls during conclave as he was elected head of Catholic church
US security services ‘targeted Francis in run up to and during conclave’ Claims NSA intercepted phone calls made to and from priests’ residence Other leading bishops and cardinals ‘also being monitored by US spies’ By Hannah Roberts PUBLISHED: 14:58 EST,… Read More ›
NSA ‘broke into Yahoo and Google data centers to obtain millions of records every day’… and leaked doodle shows how spy agency did it with a smiley face
The Washington Post cites documents leaked by Edward Snowden In 30 days, the NSA gleaned 180 million new records including text, audio and video – and who sent it to whom and when they sent it NSA: Claims that we… Read More ›
Spain colluded in NSA spying on its citizens, Spanish newspaper reports
El Mundo says it has document detailing collaboration between US intelligence agency and foreign countries Paul Hamilos in Madrid theguardian.com, Wednesday 30 October 2013 07.41 EDT A man protests against NSA spying outside the foreign ministry in Madrid. Photograph:… Read More ›
Russian report says Chinese appliances hide Wifi slurping spam-spreaders
DON’T BREW THAT CUPPA! Your kettle could be a SPAMBOT By Simon Sharwood Posted in Security, 29th October 2013 07:03 GMT Russian authorities have claimed that household appliances imported from China contain tiny computers that seek out open WiFi networks… Read More ›
Spain and France’s intelligence agencies carried out collection of phone records and shared them with NSA, agency says
NSA spy row: France and Spain ‘shared phone data’ with US By Raf Sanchez, Peter Foster in Washington 8:35PM GMT 29 Oct 2013 European intelligence agencies and not American spies were responsible for the mass collection of phone records which… Read More ›
Undercover police to be banned from having sexual relationships with targets (U.K.)
New rules will stop undercover officers having intimate relationships with people they are investigating, following concern over series of cases Mark Kennedy, a former Scotland Yard officer, is alleged to have slept with a number of women whose activities he… Read More ›
Phone chargers given to world leaders by G20 Russian hosts ‘were able to capture data for the Kremlin’
The revelation came after Germany’s secret service investigated the devices It warned that they were ‘trojan horses’ capable of fishing for information Warnings have gone out to every government that received them By Hannah Roberts In Rome PUBLISHED: 08:53 EST,… Read More ›
Obama ‘gave the go-ahead for Merkel phone tapping’ as he wanted to ‘know everything’ about world’s most powerful woman, German newspaper claims
Bild newspaper in Germany called US denials of eavesdropping ‘diplomatic lies’ as new documents emerge They quote a secret source which claims Obama not only sanctioned the operation against Mrs Merkel but extended it By Allan Hall In Berlin PUBLISHED:… Read More ›
Europe should be grateful for spying, say U.S. lawmakers
World Oct. 28, 2013 – 07:00AM JST WASHINGTON — Europeans should be grateful for U.S. spying operations because they keep them safe, U.S. lawmakers said Sunday, urging allies to improve their own intelligence and oversight efforts. House Intelligence Committee Chairman… Read More ›
The NSA’s Secret Spy Hub in Berlin / SCS agents may have been compromised
By SPIEGEL Staff According to SPIEGEL research, United States intelligence agencies have not only targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone, but they have also used the American Embassy in Berlin as a listening station. The revelations now pose a… Read More ›
The Bank of America Keyword list is confirmed ( Hundreds of Classified Project Titles )
Engineering Evil Commentary on the code word list: The original release of the Keyword list was 28 FEB 2013. Since then the URL of the hacking group has been taken down. The hypothesis behind the confirmation is due to that… Read More ›
“National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander had briefed Obama on the operation against Merkel in 2010.”
Obama aware of Merkel spying since 2010: German report 27 Oct 2013 Berlin (AFP) US President Barack Obama was personally informed of mobile phone tapping against German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which may have begun as early as 2002, German media reported… Read More ›
Euro Parliament axes data sharing with US – the NSA swiped the bytes anyway
Hacking claims now probed by Continent’s cops By Iain Thomson Posted in Government, 24th October 2013 18:24 GMT The European Parliament has voted to halt the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP), an agreement to share data on financial transactions… Read More ›
Was ISRAEL behind the hacking of millions of French phones and NOT the U.S.? Extraordinary twist in spying saga revealed
Agents said to have intercepted 70 million calls and text messages a month France had previously blamed the United States of America US was first suspected of hacking into Nicolas Sarkozy’s phone in 2012 By Nabila Ramdani PUBLISHED: 11:32 EST,… Read More ›
NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts
• Agency given more than 200 numbers by government official • NSA encourages departments to share their ‘Rolodexes’ • Surveillance produced ‘little intelligence’, memo acknowledges James Ball The Guardian, Thursday 24 October 2013 14.14 EDT The NSA memo suggests… Read More ›
Europe Furious Over US Spying Allegations ” Worse than Orwell’s 1984 ” Emergency meeting Called
‘Out of Hand’ The newest allegations of US spying have unleashed a torrent of criticism and concern in Europe. If suspicions unearthed by SPIEGEL that the US tapped Chancellor Merkel’s cell phone turn out to be true, the ramifications for… Read More ›
Russian representative denies US media claims of his involvement in espionage – Rossotrudnichestvo exchange program
Photo EPA/CJ GUNTHER WASHINGTON, October 24 (Itar-Tass) – Representative of Russia’s Federal Agency for Cooperation with Fellow-Countrymen Abroad /Rossotrudnichestvo/ in Washington, Yury Zaytsev, has expressed astonishment over publications in the U.S. media saying that the FBI suspects him of working… Read More ›
Berlin Complains Chancellor Merkel’s Mobile Phone may of been tapped by US intelligence agencies for years
Did US Tap Chancellor Merkel’s Mobile Phone? By Jacob Appelbaum, Holger Stark, Marcel Rosenbach and Jörg Schindler Berlin is taking seriously indications that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone might have been tapped by US intelligence, according to SPIEGEL information. Merkel spoke with President… Read More ›
US spy agency snooped on French citizens: Report ( code-named “US-985D” )
AFP Monday, Oct 21, 2013 PARIS – The US National Security Agency (NSA) secretly recorded millions of phone calls made in France, daily Le Monde reported on Monday, citing documents from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. The spy agency taped… Read More ›
Whom is benefiting economically from NSA spying ( A moderator question ) ?
EEV: It is highly evident that individuals are benefiting from using the U.S. Governments spy network to gain an unfair advantage in the investment markets. The NSA spying is alluding to being used more as a personal tool of enrichment… Read More ›
British spies ‘hid activities from MPs’
Former Labour minister accuses spies of ignoring MPs over surveillance Nick Brown says there is ‘uncanny’ similarity between GCHQ programmes exposed by Edward Snowden and bill’s proposals Rowena Mason, political correspondent The Guardian, Tuesday 15 October 2013 Former… Read More ›
Terrorists may be doing ‘dry-runs’ to prepare for next 9/11 attack – memo
11 сентября 9/11 атака взрыв An internal memo obtained by WTSP-TV reportedly details an incident which some pilots believe may have been a “dry-run” for terrorists plotting another 9/11-style attack. Delta Airlines pilot Wolf Koch told the… Read More ›
Foreign diplomats gathered for UN General Assembly ‘pack Manhattan strip club’
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 10:56 EST, 29 September 2013 | UPDATED: 11:02 EST, 29 September 2013 After a long day of international peace-keeping, it’s important to let off some steam. According to a report in the New York… Read More ›