Belgium: State Security Service officers not allowed to carry weapons…because of a legal glitch

Posted on March 9, 2017 by L

“One of the oldest domestic intelligence agencies in continuous existence is Belgium’s civil security service, the Veiligheid van de Staat or Surêté de l’Etat (VSSE).”

Kenneth L. Lasoen

Jaak Raes — Current Administrator-General of Belgian State Security Service VSSE

 

Because of a legal mistake, the officers of the Belgian State Security Service were not allowed to legally carry weapons for almost one year. The mistake was detected last month and several dangerous missions are said to have been cancelled. A new law — which corrects this mistake — is entering into force today (March 9 2017). Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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US REPORT: Colombia’s cocaine production is ‘up’. Really?

Posted on March 9, 2017 by L

“There are troubling early signs that cocaine availability is on the rise in the US for the first time in nearly a decade.”

US State Department — February 2017

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Since 2000, the US has sent Bogotá more than US $10 billion in counter-narcotics and security assistance through the infamous ‘Plan Colombia’. The result is nil. Colombia’s cocaine  production has remained ‘more or less’ constant over the last two decades. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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US: Annual number of suspected criminal leaks undiminished by Obama’s policy

Posted on March 8, 2017 by L

“There’s been major crimes committed. What I’m concerned about is no one is focusing on major leaks that have occurred here… We can’t run a government like this. A government can’t function with massive leaks at the highest level.”

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA)

Number of ‘leak’ cases per year reported to US DOJ

The number of crimes reports — i.e., referrals of suspected violations of criminal law — involving leaks of classified information for each of the last eight Calendar Years (CY) is stable despite Obama’s unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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CIA : A Few Good Women – Phyllis Nancy Faraci ( 1939 – April 18 1983)

Posted on March 8, 2017 by L

”This tragedy, however awful, must not distract us from our search for peace in Lebanon and elsewhere. Your devotion to duty is known to all of us. Please let everyone know we will never give in to this cowardly type of incident. I am determined now more than ever that we do everything that is necessary to make Lebanon a free and safe country again.”

Ronald Reagan — April 20 1983

“The department identified these six Americans as missing and presumed dead: Phyllis Faraci, 44, an administrative specialist in the Beirut embassy since 1982 and a former administrative aide in United States Embassies in South Vietnam and Kuwait.”

NYT — April 21 1983

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The Memorial Wall is a memorial at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It honors CIA employees who died in the line of service. There are 117 stars carved into the white Alabama marble wall. [WIKIPEDIA]. Eleven represent women. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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Marine Le Pen: President Bashar Al-Assad is a more “reassuring” choice for France

Posted on March 7, 2017 by L

“There is no viable and plausible solution other than this binary choice, which is Bashar al-Assad on one hand and the Islamic State on the other hand. Assad is obviously today a much more reassuring solution for France than the Islamic State.”

Marine Le Pen — French presidential candidate

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FRANCE — President Francois Hollande insists that Assad should leave office in order to bring peace to Syria. French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen disagrees. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Steven Spielberg to direct ‘Pentagon Papers’ film

Posted on March 7, 2017 by L

“For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority. ”

Daniel Ellsberg

Spielberg’s next movie ‘The Post’ is a film about American journalists challenging the US government over whistleblowing documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg in 1971. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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This Day in History — March 6 1988: Operation Flavius

Posted on March 6, 2017 by L

“Operation Flavius — also referred to as the ‘Gibraltar killings’ — was a controversial military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988.”

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Here are some ‘Intelligence-related’ events that occurred on a March 6. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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RUSSIA: FSB to employ the leader of the Shaltay Boltay hacker group

Posted on March 6, 2017 by L

“The [Shaltay Boltay] group is famous for their attacks of email addresses and other means of communication of  persons like Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, News Media CEO Aram Gabrelyanov, former head of Ministry of Defense Construction Department Roman Filimonov and many others.”

Crime RUSSIA

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Vladimir Anikeev — Courtesy of ‘Crime Russia’

According to his lawyer, Vladimir Anikeev has been offered a job as an adviser for the Information Security Division of the Russian Federal Security Services (FSB). Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_Today Continue reading →

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An Introduction to Dutch Intelligence Agencies

Posted on March 6, 2017 by L

“The situation in the Netherlands is different in at least two major aspects from many other countries. First, there is no institutional separation between domestic security and foreign intelligence as the two secret services combine both tasks. Second, the current [eavesdropping] law restricts bulk or untargeted collection to wireless communications only, so cable access is only allowed for targeted and individualized interception.”

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AIVD Headquarters — Zoetermeer

In 2002, a major reorganisation created two Dutch secret services: the AIVD and the MIVD. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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FRANCE — And the Next DGSE Boss is?

Posted on March 5, 2017 by L

“The Middle East we have known is over. We see that Syria is already divided on the ground, that the regime is controlling only a small part of the county, only one-third of the country which was established after WWII. We have the same thing in Iraq. I doubt really that one can come back to the previous situation.”

DGSE Director Bernard Bajolet

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Bernard Bajolet (DGSE)

The Director of the French secret service — the Directorate-General for External Security  (DGSE) — is expected to retire on May 21 2017. Who will replace him? Let us take a look at the top candidates. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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