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alarm every nation around the world. Offensive cyber weapons have been developed by multiple countries that could create havoc and damage to our information infrastructure. Cyber Arms have become easier to obtain, easier to use, and much more powerful. These weapons come at a fraction of the cost of traditional weapons such as tanks and missiles. Therefore, country or group sponsored attacks against information systems using computer viruses and other techniques should be considered an act of war. As such, governments must be proactive and establish parameters, definitions and regulations surrounding cyber war. Intelligence analyst Kevin Coleman believes a worldwide organisation should be created to combat the growing threat of cyber attacks. A fascinating feature that has a worrying conclusion... for everyone.
Estonian Minister of Defense Jaak Aaviksoo (left) expresses his views on the threat of cyber terrorism during his discussions with US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates in the Pentagon on 28 November 2007
INVOLUNTARY EXECUTIONER
A NEW THEORY ON THE LITVINENKO ASSASSINATION
A recent BBC documentary based on the research of Sunday Times correspondent, Mark Franchetti, has thrown up a surprising new scenario in the assassination of Aleksander Litvinenko in November 2006....
The documentary, called Britains Most Wanted, suggested that prime suspect and former KGB man Andrei Lugovoi, could have been used by forces in Moscow to get to Litvinenko, without him knowing he was Prime suspect: about to deliver a fatal blow. A young Andrei The new theory, according to Lugovoi in his KGB days Franchettis sources, is that Lugovoi was sent to Britain on a fact-finding mission about Litvinenkos liaisons with suspected Chechen terrorists. Lugovoi was reportedly selected because he could get close to Litvinenko. Before Lugovoi set off for London and his encounter with Litvinenko, he was given a substance that he believed was a truth serum or debilitating drug. This was to be slipped into Litvinenkos tea as they chatted about various topics. The agent, therefore, would have had no idea he was actually depositing Polonium-210 in Litvinenkos tea. Eye Spy examines the theory and also looks at comments made by Lugovoi in response to this story. Theres also news of a new witness and evidence that suggests that the planning behind the operation to kill Litvinenko began years earlier. A spectacular Russian intelligence success? Dont miss this.
When the case surfaced, J Edgar Hoover thought his G men were more suited to fighting organised crime than tackling an international spy ring... he also believed the case had been compromised. Hoover lost the argument and the FBI was ordered to investigate
The Nosenko Case - one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Cold War
Yuri Nosenko (right) - the KGB defector who Bagley maintains was a plant to deflect CIA attention away from other more important matters - including the assassination of John F. Kennedy
EXTRACTS:
EYE SPY: The CIAs best secret sources inside the USSR were Lt. Col. Pyotr Popov and Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, both of the GRU (Soviet military intelligence). Both were exposed and executed. The Soviets claimed that both moles had been unearthed by routine surveillance of Western diplomats in Moscow. But you believe this was not the case. How so? THB: I explain in my book the compelling reasons to disbelieve the story that Nosenko (among others) conveyed to us to mislead us about when and how the KGB really detected Popov and Penkovsky. I cite circumstances that leave little doubt that both were betrayed by one or more KGB moles in CIA. By looking behind a couple of Nosenkos tales we were able to identify the CIA man who apparently betrayed Popov. It was the man CIA had sent to Moscow to support the Popov case there....
DCI Angleton
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EYE SPY: Spy Wars has attracted criticism from some people in the intelligence community. We understand planned lectures have been cancelled and skulduggery is afoot. A former FBI CI officer called Spy Wars one of the most dangerous and disruptive books that could have been published in any time, particularly in 2007. In fact... radioactive poison. KGB defector Oleg Kalugin called the book absurd... trash. We were surprised by this language - it seems to have touched a raw nerve. Are some former players embarrassed that they may, after all, have allowed a KGB officer to provide so much disinformation? THB: Yes, my book touches sensitive nerves. It threatens the intelligence communitys abiding faith in Nosenkos bona fides. You could feel that sensitivity in the surprising words that you mentioned. Three veterans, one each from the FBI, CIA and KGB, were venting their emotions when they called my book radioactive poison and trash - they certainly werent reviewing it, as they pretended, because not a
single one of the three reviewers had even read it. The FBI veteran admitted to friends he hadnt read more than 40-odd pages of this radioactive poison. KGB veteran Kalugin, who had long been assuring Westerners that Nosenko genuinely defected, trashed the book for what he called its lack of understanding of the KGB and Soviet system. If he had read it, he would have been aware of the input into it by KGB veterans, some of whom knew more than he did about these KGB operations.
RED SKIES
DARING CHINESE SPIES RAID NSA CROWN JEWELS
Chinas spies create front company to penetrate and acquire intelligence from top secret NSA facility in Hawaii
On 30 August 2007, the National Security Agency/Central Security Service announced the expansion of its operations facility on the Pacific island of Hawaii (Field Station Kunia, Wahiawa). The move was to evolve a global cryptologic enterprise that is resilient, agile, and effective in prosecuting a dynamic threat environment, according to a press release. The new operations upgrade was hailed as a significant chapter in the evolvement of the worlds most secret agency. Lieutenant General Keith
B. Alexander, USA, Director, NSA/ Chief, CSS, said. What will rise from this site, is NSAs commitment to continue to provide our national and tactical decision-makers with the best cryptologic support possible. This building, its design, its infrastructure, its capabilities, and its location will support and protect an unparalleled intellectual combine. The enormous 400 million square foot building, officially called a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), also incorporates a detached 600 square foot shredder facility and a new Antenna Farm Building. Eye Spy learned that China, recognising the huge facility was aimed predominantly at the Asian Theatre, decided to create a translation contract firm, effectively a front company, that was officially registered in the USA. Beijing believed that more Chinese translators would be required due to the increase in signals traffic consumed by Field Station Kunia. It was a ruse that worked - at least temporarily until US counterintelligence discovered China was offering employees free trips back home to the mother country - a sure sign they were trying to turn them. But what of the genesis of the case? Eye Spy discovered that several years ago, defence budget details containing the price of Kunias upgrade, were published and freely available on the Internet. Thereafter, Chinas spy agency began its clever ruse.
US intelligence antenna array farm
it sparked one of the most enduring spy mysteries of all time. There were rumours he had been captured, shot, drowned and even killed by his own side - all of which were unproven. Now Eye Spy meticulously examines the claim made by a former Russian diver that he cut the throat of Crabb who was trying to fix a bomb to the underside of a Soviet warship, and explains why this mans story should not be taken too seriously....
EXTRACT 5: KNOW WHO YOU ARE Every head shape falls into a particular category: round, square, long, triangular, square, heart, pair etc. Knowing a head shape allows disguise experts to carefully prepare hair cuts, beards, eyebrows etc. to change its shape - and thus appearance. For example, a round head can be made to look longer and thinner simply by growing a small beard and moustache (Figs 1 and 2). A long narrow square-chinned head can look very different if a thick beard and moustache are grown. The illusion is ever better if the person grows his hair thicker and allows part of it on to the forehead. The square chin also disappears and the head is now oval (Figs 3 and 4).
a glance - not so in a busy shopping street where persons would be forced to move aside. Its because of this, some operatives are reluctant to use such tactics. EXTRACT 3: Many case or field intelligence officers do not like to use disguise techniques to conduct their business, but there are a multitude of reasons why it happens. Using doubles, for example, which often begins with making an impression... EXTRACT 4: One often overlooked aspect of disguise, especially in the double or switch element of One-time props used in disguise disguise tradecraft concerns the person being left or right-handed. A professional observer will strive to note if a person is left or right-handed by monitoring certain actions. Moments when such intelligence can be gleaned will always present themselves: the target could visit a cafe and hold his coffee cup; eat in a restaurant; write a cheque in a bank; present a credit card in a store; open a car door or put money in a parking meter etc. Similarly, they could carry a case
or bag over a certain shoulder - if there are any major deviations with a double here, it could spell serious trouble. Its the tiny things that can often ruin a deception of this kind, and one reason why this obvious, yet crucial element, if ignored, can make or break an operation. EXTRACT 6: How a person holds the disguise together is vital. And regardless of what many disguise experts say - it is advantageous if a person is able to hold their nerve. Props can be a terrific tool, but these must look realistic and be fully maintained. For government disguise experts the scope for creating a disguise is endless. From plastic surgery that will change appearance, to using drugs to increase the melanin count in the skin thus making the person darker, intelligence services, especially in the West, have units dedicated to this tradecraft.
FANTASY ISLAND
DEMYSTIFYING BRITAINS SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
As MI5 and MI6 recruitment programmes continue apace, more doors are being opened that allows ordinary mortals a glimpse of what its really like to work for a secret service. But for some job seek-
ers expecting to engage in a fantasy island type operation, the reality is somewhat of a let down. EXTRACT: The MI6 recruiter quickly bounced away the James Bond perception: This is the biggest myth at the service. We do not have a licence to kill, we do not carry Berrettas. Thats simply not true, he said. And for the record, there is not, no never was a licence to kill.
SIGSALY
LONDON CALLING WASHINGTON
What did Horace say Winnie?... Certainly a phrase unlikely to be familiar to todays BBC audiences but one that was heard often, spoken by comedian Harry Hemsley, during World War Two. The question might also have been posed during the war period by anyone attempting to eavesdrop on an encrypted conversation using the voice scrambling equipment [VOCODER] known as SIGSALY, developed by the Allies specifically for telephone communications between the other Winnie, Prime Minister Churchill, and President Roosevelt. David Hamer looks at this most vital communication system that helped secure links between London and Washington.
to justice after a lengthy espionage investigation by the FBI. William Sebold, who had been recruited as a spy for Germany, was a major factor in the FBIs successful resolution of this case through his work as Harry Sawyer a double agent for the United States. A fascinating slice of history that also covers the life of Nazi spy Frederick Joubert Duquesne.
FALLING DOWN
An interesting story about a former CIA rendition aircraft that crashed in Mexico... carrying four tons of Cocaine
RUSSIAN SPY REPORTS Annual release shows upsurge in Western spy attempts
FSB head Nikolai Patrushev said his country had disrupted 100 attempts by foreign intelligence service to spy on Russia. A look at those he identified and who is really behind the operations.
RADIOACTIVE SMUGGLERS
Russias FSB has released details of a staggering number of attempts to smuggle radioactive materials in and out of the country.
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