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According to a piece in the Metro 19/06 "Radio pranksters left Cuban leader Fidel Castro swearing at listeners after they duped him into thinking he was talking to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez."
The Miami based Spanish Language station used clips from previous Chavez speeches to make claims about a lost briefcase.
At the recent 21st birthday celebrations for Prince William an impostor, dressed as none other than Osama bin Laden gatecrashed the party. Whilst seen as extremely funny by most persons the authorities have asked for a full enquiry to the matter and Royal Security has since been stepped up. Tony Blair has even apologised to the Queen - no doubt to try and boost his failing ratings amongst the voting public.
Hilda Murrell was a 78 year old rose grower who lived in Shrewsbury. Apart from her fondness for roses she was also known to be an ardent anti-nuclear campaigner. On Saturday 24th March, 1984 her body was discovered in a remote wood several miles from her house.
Whilst Police treated the murder as 'ordinary' it soon entered the realms of the conspiracy theorists.
The Police version was that an unknown burglar entered Hilda Murrell's house and abducted her, killing and dumping the body subsequently.
Conspiracy theorists linked Hilda Murrell's demise to several theories; Tam Dalyell apparently linked the death to the loss of various papers concerning the sinking by HMS Conqueror of the Argentinian Warship. the Belgrano. He forwarded the theory that she was interrogated by Government 'specialists' from the security forces.
Another theory was televised by Central TV. An interesting reconstruction was made by John Stalker who fielded a burglar/sex attack theory where Hilda Murrell, having been left for dead, crawled1584 feet away from the scene.
At the time that Hilda Murrell was murdered she was preparing to offer a paper on Sizewell B nuclear power station, "An Ordinary Citizen's View of Radioactive Waste Management". Along with others she firmly believed that she was being targeted by private detectives working on the case for the security services. What was know was that a fake PO Box number was set up to gather details on the activists, many of whom complained about the harrassment of being under constant surveillance and whose telephones were being tapped. Just before her death Mrs Murrell made a phone call to friends and was recorded as stating ,"If they don't get me first, I want the world to know that one old woman has seen through their lies."
There were two other theories suggested - that involving a rogue private detective with a previous conviction for a sex offence and the other, the interrogation theory.
It seems possible that the truth may come out shortly. A man was reported as having been arrested on 09/06 and then stated as having been charged on 10/06. At the time Hilda Murrell's underwear had been removed and body fluid left. The further development of DNA recognition processes and the taking of samples by the police on arrest for certain offences this arrest may have been prompted by a match and an obvious confession.
Two books feature Hilda Murrell's story, but obviously not to the current events:
Stranger on the Line, the secret history of phone tapping: Patrick Fitzgerald and Mark Leopold. p217 to 218
Enemies of the State: Gary Murray p143 to 208
Online: http://www.urbanparanoia.co.uk/rants/wkhm.htm
©HarryPalmer2003
On Tuesday 6th May a voice on a telephone call stated: "Hello! Have you seen the front of the Daily Mail today?" It was Rob of Essex. "Yes, I have came the reply."
The headlines read 'Israeli Secret Agents Target London'. The next comment was, not surprisingly, "Do you reckon we'll see better signals from E10?"
According to the 'Daily Mail' Israeli secret agents are stepping up their operations to counter the threat of 'exported terror'. [Two Britons are stated as having been involved in a suicide bomb attack previously]. The piece continues stating that Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered MOSSAD to increase operations by infiltrating radical groups, tailing militants and gathering intelligence. The article also states that Sharon 'believes murderous Islamic fanatics are being allowed to operate freely from London'.
Although MOSSAD has a total of eight departments the Collections Department is the largest. It has offices in other countries that may, or may not, have diplomatic cover. The Department has a number of 'desks' that are responsible for various geographical regions, the case officers responsible directing the 'stations' they are responsible for.
A Technology Department is responsible for the development of advance technologies for support of MOSSAD operations. In April 2001 this advertisement was placed [in Hebrew] for the right sort of technologists:
THE MOSSAD IS OPEN
Only to 13 Engineers
The technology branch of the Mossad is looking for electronics engineers and computer science graduates.
Do you dream of developing sophisticated technological instruments?
Are you looking for work that provides a challenge every day? The technology branch of the Mossad invites you to become a partner in the production of clandestine technology. If you are looking for a future in which you can contribute to yourself and to the State, send your resume noting your citizenship ID number to this fax number: 1-800-363-003; email: tec-job@zahav.net.il
The Mossad is open. Not to everyone. Not to many. Maybe to you.
This announcement is directed equally to men and women. Only suitable candidates will receive a response.
The Special Operations Division [Metsada] conducts highly sensitive assassinations [Dr Gerald Bull], sabotage and paramilitary and psychological warfare projects.
Fifteen geographically organised desks for Western Europe, USA, Latin America, CIS, China, Africa, Morocco. Algeria and Tunisia [collectively the Maghreb] Libya, Jordan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Iran and Iraq [Remember Farzad Bazoft]. These desks make up the Research Department; responsible for intelligence production. This includes daily situation reports, weekly summaries and detailed monthly reports.
Will Britain be seeing an increase in Israeli Diplomats? Perhaps a head count on the number of persons who enter the Embassy at Kensington Palace Gardens might provide an answer, providing you can navigate around the added concrete obstacles outside.
©Harry Palmer
The French DST intelligence services have detained a man travelling at the Charles de Gaulle Airport whilst in transit from Germany to Reunion Island. The DST believe the man, Karim Mehdi, to have links to al Qaeda and whilst being interrogated admitted links to the al-Qaeda network. The cell in question was believed to be that led by Mohammed Atta involved with the attacks on the Pentagon and New York. Mr Mehdi admitted that to investigators that he was going to Reunion Islands to plan an attack on the popular tourist destination.
Deep fat friers aside, Freemasons Hall used as Thames House interior BBC's Spook's returns for another [wait for it] extended series.
[Good views of the foyer area and fire escape from the Great Hall itself].
Looking in the Radio Times it was seen that a web site had opened, complete with message board. Whilst the majority of messages seemed to revolve around whether or not the characters Ellie and Maise [or was that cupcake?] would survive from the last episode of the first series there was a particular message and replies which were of immediate interest to E2k:
Real spies communications methods
Is there anyone using this message board who is aware of how a foreign ministry would communicate with their agents overseas on short wave radio? Anyone know who enigma2000 are?... sal ibn hari
re: Real spies communications methods **** ****** - 1st post - 27 May 2003 23:20
This could be totally unrelated, but there is a Yahoo group listed under shortwave, called- named after?-enigma 2000... they have something on bizarre stations picked up..broadcasting morse and 'number stations'.
I dont think that i can paste it, but if you search on google, 'enigma2000', the 3rd page , right at the bottom a site called 'electronic links' has , well. lots of similar site links.. they might be of interest. ...
Then this reply:
re: Real spies communications methods sal ibn hari - 3rd post - 29 May 2003 08:09
Thanks Jess, I found Enigma 2000 - lots of members and frequencies. Heard a message yesterday - someone speaking letters on 4461kHz yesterday night! Fantastic. Have you downloaded their newsletter? It really is full of interesting things to do with the Intelligence World. ...
You can read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/spooks/
The series took off well with a less than exciting start as the whinging and whining Ellie and her oh so cute child, Maisie escaped the threatened immolation by a Semtex packed laptop. Staying up to watch episode 2 via BBC3 was also an experience. This time Muslim extremists intended suicide bombings in Birmingham. A respected Muslim made much of this to the newspapers claiming that the storyline would tar all Muslims with the same brush and asked for the episode to be shelved. Erstwhile [and rather boring] hero Tom Quinn was blown up once again whilst bits of agent and unfortunate 16 year old fanatically impressed bomber rained down on him. It was noted that despite 'Tom' [think that's the legend he used for that episode] being blown off his feet and suffering theatrical blood around his mouth the police car windows remained intact - despite them being shut! In unbelievable style Tom lets his 'love' for Ellie and Maisie interfere in his work.
A decent review was read in T2, The Times 03 June and can be accessed:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-701060,00.html
There was a similarity to the way in which the MI5 assisting Muslim was used. The Reda Hassaine story can be read:
http://www.themodernreligion.com/terror/british-spy.html
Interestingly Mr Hassaine is mentioned as "just before 4pm on Tuesday 10 November 1998 Hassaine walked into Scotland Yard and asked to speak to Special Branch." Episode 3 dealt with dirty money, laundering and the Russian Mafia whilst Episode 4 featured a drill involving the use of the nerve agent VX. All good stuff but a pity that the author of that story had not read Jane's offering on NBC weaponry to get his facts right. Nice to see 'survivall' single filter respirators and barrier suits being issued. Surely MI5 would be issued with S10 respirators and noddy suits? And were was the Fuller's earth and the auto injectors?
Those without digital tv mised Spooks in favour of being force fed with Tennis from Wimbledon. Oh Really! It's all too infuriating!
Readers of various Sunday newspapers will not have failed to read that the British Intelligence services are not putting their hands up to having produced Blair's 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'. All the articles maintain that the document was not the work of our Secret Squirrels. The Metro [02/06] laid the facts out with 'Blair's spun report on Saddam's weapons' and stated that PM TB 'personally changed a key dossier about WMD to justify a war with Iraq…' The Metro stated that this was claimed by the former Cabinet Minister Clare Short. Ms Short accused TB of 'bypassing normal Whitehall procedures, relying on personal contacts with the US administration rather than Cabinet colleagues. As if that was not enough Ms Short also accused the PM of 'duping the public over the case for war'.
In usual form TB insisted the proof would be made public 'Over the coming weeks and months, we will assemble this evidence and then we will give it to the people'.
Whilst Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is stated as denying that the Intelligence reports had been hyped the former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook sated that the Government had made a 'monumental blunder' over Iraq.
Wonder if TB has read Frederick Forsyth's excellent novel 'Fist of God'? Professionally written it compares with TB's WMD dossier in its fictional origins.
On 03/06 the news buzzed with mention that the British Intelligence Agencies were said to be harbouring 'rogue elements' using the WMD dispute [did they ever exist?] to undermine the Government. Despite the rogue spies claim Intelligence chiefs are ready to defend their role on producing the Government's dossier on WMD. This means that the heads of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ will give evidence to the Commons Intelligence Security Committee, which is investigating the issue.
Unfortunately the Commons Intelligence Security Committee meets in secret and reports directly to the Prime Minister rather than the Commons -- and -- surprise, surprise! Its findings are not made public. John Scarlett, the former MI6 station chief in Moscow, chairs the Commons Intelligence Security Committee. He has already indicated his support, having dismissed suggestions of hype.
As if opening the Metro newspaper on the 0552 toVictoria on 06/06 and reading the page 7 headline 'Weapons dossier sent back 6 times by No10' followed by 'The crucial dossier used by Tony Blair to justify the invasion of Iraq was returned to intelligence chiefs at least six times for re-writing, it was claimed last night.' That was early in the morning; later at 0708 on the radio station LBC [97.3MHz] Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi who wrote the plagiarised document 'Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network: A Guide and Analysis' was interviewed. In answer to questions he stated that he had not been contacted regarding its use and that the piece contained his original spelling errors. He did state that evidence of WMD's were all around if the authorities read the correct signs in Iraq. Questioned on the threat that Saddam Hussein posed to the rest of the world Dr al-Marishi indicated that the threat was only a domestic one and cited the use of chemicals in the Iran/Iraq war.
A things progress it was stated in a few newspapers that Blair assured spy chiefs that there would be no more dodgy dossiers. Blair apparently promised 'that secret intelligence material will never be published again without the permission of MI6, MI5 and GCHQ.
A later report [Metro 12/06 by Mark Capper] had the headlines 'Blair dodges grilling over Iraq dossier' and stated in part…'Mr Blair challenged critics to produce any evidence that the dossier had been tampered with.'
Dr Hans Blix [retiring UN Chief weapons inspector] stated that the US intelligence on Iraq's alleged WMD's was not solid and should not have been used to justify the war. He also said 'I have detractors in Washington - there are bastards who planted nasty things in the media' and claimed that the US pressured inspectors in Iraq to 'make more' of findings to trigger the war.
[Really doesn't matter what Blair says - the war has been fought, many have suffered accordingly but Blair got his way. It doesn't matter if he never publishes another dodgy doc because the specific job he wanted done has been done].
With reference to the holding of hundred of persons in connection with the 9th September attacks a Judge in the US has ruled that no information need be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act. "America faces an enemy just as real as its former Cold War foes, with capabilities beyond the capacity of the judiciary to explore," wrote Judge David B. Sentelle.
British Bosses who snoop on staff emails and phone calls without first notifying the targeted employees could face legal action. Surveillance of emails, voicemail, Internet use and recording with CCTV cameras are covered by the Employment Practices Data Protection Code.
However if criminal activity is suspected the above methods would be acceptable. Apparently the sending of pornographic emails is among the three most likely ways to get dismissed.
The Australian Security Information Office received the power to detain those suspected of having information about terrorist activities. The minimum age at which suspects can be detained has been raised from 14 to 16 to appease civil liberties supporters,
Saddam Hussein's Information Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf handed himself in to US forces but has since been released.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf earned himself the nickname 'Comical Ali' due to the apparent outlandish claims [from the Coalition's view] he made concerning the advance of Coalition Forces through his country.
His rhetoric almost certainly stopped public order breaking down to the level of disruption seen after the US 'liberation' of Baghdad.
Whilst we can sit in front of a TV and see events within a few minutes of their occurrence, he served a country where the majority received their information by way of mouth. In that respect he did his job well.
We were not surprised to read that al-Qaeda has opened a new offensive against the West with the unfortunate deaths of 29 Americans in bomb attacks. The areas affected were the al-Hamra compound, al-Jadawel housing complex and the Vinnell workers complex.
Vinnell, a Virginia based company employs military specialists and has been accused of fronting for the CIA. In the past two employees were stated in 'Time' magazine as being involved in a failed attempt to overthrow Martin Bishop, the Leftist PM of Grenada. Shortly after another employee was implicated in the Iran-Contra affair.
Vinnell has been 'Saudi based' almost 30 years and had won a contract to train Saudi troops to guard oilfields. Not surprisingly in the 1991 Gulf War Vinnel troops were seen fighting alongside Saudi troops.
This unfortunate action clearly shows that despite the US action on terrorism, Afghanistan and Iraq, the threat has not diminished. The Times comment column accurately stated 14/05 'The bombs in Riyadh show that the threat of September 11 is not over'. It further stated, 'The Saudi bombs are being attributed to the al-Qaeda network. If so, we might reasonably ask for an inquiry into why two colossally expensive and destructive wars were fought by the West yet left unscathed the architect of all this woe'.
In the excellent series 'Das Boot' one scene showed the boat being depth charged by a British Corvette, on convoy protection, after torpedoing a tanker. As the crew shook with terror, the WEO was heard to say, "Now comes the bill."
[As those stranded in Kenya were no doubt aware, being unable to board British flights due to al-Qaeda threats]!
The headlines 'Bombing Threat to Embassy' referred to the closing of British and American embassies in Saudi Arabia; due the article states, to the 'Intelligence Agencies having picked up chatter between terrorist agents about new attacks against western targets'. Travel to Saudi Arabia has been advised against by the Foreign Office and 30000 British citizens already there have been told to take extra precautions. Not content with influencing ex-pats' lives the Government ordered the installing of concrete blocks around Parliament to guard against suicide bomb attempts. [That won't guard them against the effects of the ballot box though]!
As GCHQ staff [an estimated 4000+] prepare to move to the £330M building the Guardian newspaper was given a guided tour around the new doughnut shaped headquarters of GCHQ. [Donut to our cousins in the US].
According to the article, written by Richard Norton-Taylor, it is built on the outskirts of Cheltenham, Gloucs and is open plan. It replaces over 50 aged buildings on two sites.
GCHQ will tackle new threats, including those posed by terrorist networks. It is surrounded by roads with names such as Connery Way and Lazenby Drive.
Richard Norton-Taylor outlined notable points about the building and its contents as:
The construction and maintenance will cost circa £1.1bn over 30 years. Whilst the budget for operations is an official secret it is estimated to be around £800M.
GCHQ is the biggest employer in Gloucs. Its linguists are fluent in a total of 67 languages. I was also the first to develop a means of sending information securely via the internet. [CESG?].
The canteen can seat 600 and BT laid more than 5000 miles of cable [distance equivalent of Cheltenham to Cairo and back again] and 1850 miles of fibre optics. More than 6000miles of electrical wiring have been installed.
Richard Norton-Taylor's article 'The Doughnut, the less secretive weapon in the fight against international terrorism' appeared in 'The Guardian' Newspaper of Tuesday June 10, 2003 on page 3.
Fourteen Cuban Diplomats at the United Nations and in Washington have been given ten days [14/05] to leave US. It is claimed that they were 'engaging in intelligence activities'. There has been no comment from the Cuban Foreign Ministry in Havana.
In Issue 15 we printed these two stories:
Page 30:
Terror attack on Britain Imminent?
According to Blair Britain will enjoy an inevitable attack by terrorists. Most timely that 'G' wrote in with :
"Whilst Mr Blair believes an al-Qaeda attack on Britain is imminent and that he 'could spend billions' in preparation, the sad fact is that he won't.
The Nation could be vaccinated against biological agents, could receive respirators and Atropine/Oxime auto injectors against chemical weaponry, but they won't.
All HM Govt has done is to pass laws to allow the Military to seal off areas affected by such a terrible attack and to shoot anyone who attempts to leave it.
The reason is obvious; keeping the unfortunates in a known area reduces the call on the NHS, allowing those so affected to conveniently perish and pass on the cost of their suffering to their nearest and dearest in the form of funeral charges.
Leaflets giving advice on survival matters could be printed, but instead HM Govt advises those with Internet access to download an American publication from the FEMA site.
That is if you have managed to find the Government UK Resilience site in the first place. Of course you could take a look at :
http://www.fema.gov/doc/areyouready/areyouready.doc and http://www.surviveall.co.uk/main.htm
Looking at the second URL would give you the option to buy your own respirator."
[Tnks G]
followed by:
Page 31
Shoot to Kill!
The 'News of the World' suggested in a page 2 story on 12/01 that Police and Army will get powers to shoot to kill anyone attempting to leave an area that has been closed due to a chemical or biological attack. [That'll keep the cost on the NHS down -- coop 'em up 'till they die]. Wonder what they'll do for the looters, rioters and rapists within that enforced curfew?
Extra security has been ordered with respect on the air supply in London Underground stations and improved security at reserviors.
Not four months has passed and now we hear that the Police may have to shoot members of the public to control crowds after a chemical, biological or nuclear attack. Police, we are informed, would have to take tough and extreme action so that the risk of infection or radioactivity was not spread, and prevent members of the public trying to break cordons to get away. [A typical response if faced with something you cannot fight is to flee]. Then we hear that a Home Office spokeswoman states, "Police have existing powers to detain someone in the unlikely event that people try to leave the scene of an incident. This does not include shooting people and we are not bringing in powers to do this." She forgot to mention that the Military already have those powers.
Freight containers are being screened to detect any 'dirty nuclear devices' being brought into the country.
In the meantime the we hear from Mr Bob Elder addressing the Police Federation [98000 members of a total of 130000] that 'it was clear that police could have to resort to firearms to stop contamination being spread by fleeing victims.' He also stated that 'It's an option that Government are going to have to consider'.
The provision of Computer systems and missiles looks set to go to foreign bidders. The Defence Infrastructure Initiative, a scheme to maintain computers and simplify battlefield communications. The shortlisted consortiums are lead by US companies. Is Britain not capable of doing this work itself? A debate in the Times [26/06] asked 'Is giving defence conracts to foreigners unpatriotic'?
[Wonder if they thought about the thousands who lost their jobs and the proportion of those who suffered repossession because of Britain's ability of helping everyone else except Britons].
The NSA has released historical documents relating to COMINT and SIGINT work with UK up to 1945. The full details can be found:
http://www.nsa.gov/programs/opendoor/index.html
A German tourist jailed for nine months was freed after a court decided that his holiday snaps did not compromise Greece's security. The tourist was a 55 year old Turkish born resident of Frankfurt, has been freed and granted the right to claim compensation.
09 May 2003:0618
Hong Kong - A rural Chinese province was gripped by rumours of a singing ghost after a radio was left inside a dead farmer's tomb, a news report said on Friday.
The ghost stories swept through Tongzi county in Guizhou, western China, after the farmer - an avid music fan - was buried with his favourite radio switched on at his side, the South China Morning Post reported. - Sapa-DP
The Royal Irish Regiment is to be axed in Northern Ireland as part of a major plan to cut troop numbers in the Province, it has emerged. Military authorities plan to scrap all three Home Service battalions, comprising of nearly 3,000 soldiers under a new deal to break the deadlock in the peace process.
[© Copyright 2003, Press Association].
NL16 Page 32 'Whoops'. If American bases are your thing try: http://www.globemaster.de/regbases.html
A short news item suggests that an apology and reinstatement is to be sought for Mr Profumo who lied to the House when questioned about his affair with Christine Keeler.
A 45 year old Iraqi male has been arrested in Belgium and charged with premeditated assault and battery.
The Iraqi is suspected of having sent 10 letters containing toxic powder to the Prime Minister and the British, Saudi and American embassies and other offices. After coming into contact with the powder 20 persons had to be treated for skin and eye irritation and breathing problems. The powder is believed to be composed of pesticide and poison.
Disused Royal Observer Corps posts are being auctioned off. The purpose of these bunkers was to provide part of the monitoring facilities in the event of Nuclear War. Three men [or women] monitoring teams would have been housed 15ft beneath the surface, returning to the top to make various measurements.
There is no electricity, water or gas and the designs were very cold as they relied on natural air movement for ventilation.
The units were said to be expected to fetch at least £8200 [US$13202]. One fetched £21000 [US$31818]!
Bearing in mind that they are set in land that measures 15 by 10 yards it would be possible to mount a decent antenna for operating in an electrically quiet area.
For info and images: http://subbrit.hosting.ic5.net/roc/index2.shtml
For over 20 years hidden between a couple of walls in his parent's house Iraqi Jawad Amir amused himself by listening to the Arabic service of the BBC World Service on his transistor radio. The 49 year old who was sentenced to death by Saddam Hussein also found comfort in his copy of the Holy Koran. In the images of him in his hideaway he was shown wearing just one earphone connected to a rather large receiver, make unknown.
Trooping the Colour marked another year for HMQueen's official birthday and was no doubt watched by thousands at the scene and millions world wide via television. It was noticeable that this year crowds were not allowed to form along Horse Guards Road, presumably for security reasons.
Across the World British Embassies would have celebrated this event with a Garden Party or two and other social events. No different was the bash held in the British Embassy in Baghdad for 'about 150 diplomats, spies, soldiers and assorted Iraqi worthies'. This, we are informed was to celebrate the re-establishment of a British presence in Iraq. Apparently the Australian guests used an armoured car whilst American generals used Humvees. Of course, as befits his status Paul Bremer [US Diplomat who says he is in charge of Iraq's provisional government] arrived in a cavalcade 'worthy of the US President himself.
A brass quintet from The Black Watch played music and HM's Ambassador, Christopher Segar, offered toasts to the Queen and Iraq's future. Wonder if he knows OFTEL have a say in how Iraq's telecommunications services are going to refurbished. [Will the contractors - probably none British - even bother to listen to them? Probably not].
There was an excellent image from the garden party on the front page of 'The Times' 16/06 and a rather fine article accompanied it: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-715319,00.html
[All this brings back personal memories of the Trooping, at the Parade Ground, Steamer Point, Aden when I saw HE Governor take the parade in full ceremonial dress. Excellent memories, the like of which will, sadly, never be seen again. The loss of our Colonies and Protectorates, the dissolution of Empire and our movement towards Europe means that Great Britain remains a dumping ground for the worlds 'ne'er do wells'. Even the special relationship with America has been nothing but one-sided, Blair runs when Bush calls. Great Britain? Not on your nelly - not any more].
PLondon recently travelled to see MH re his PC [was losing his NL downloads -- AOL user says all] in Kings Lynn. WAGN train from Kings Cross to KL passes through Baldock, excellent view of the monitoring stations 4 towers, rotatable and a couple of sat dishes. Well worth the £22 fare. [WAGN very clean, very efficient].
Alexander Zaporozhskiy, a former Russian intelligence officer has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for spying for the United States. He retired from the FIS in 1997 and was arrested in 2001.
JMM sent in a rather interesting piece concerning the apparent wish of the US to 'own' space. The development of exotic new weaponry, nuclear warheads and spacecraft will allow the US to hit any target on earth in seconds. The document concerned is 'The Strategic Master Plane [SMP]. The SMP states 'the US will not allow any other power to get a foothold in space.'
In a discussion on the 0552 to Victoria a fellow commuter stated 'America has buggered up Iraq, Somalia and Nicaragua, space seems to be the next thing to ruin - they watch far too much tv.' Thanks Arun!
To see the Sunday Herald piece by Neil MacKay: http://www.sundayherald.com/34768
Microsoft Word documents are notorious for containing private information in file headers which people would sometimes rather not share. The British government of Tony Blair just learned this lesson the hard way.
Last week, Alastair Campbell, Blair's Director of Communications and Strategy, was in the hot seat in British Parliament hearings explaining what roles four of his employees played in the creation of a plagiarised dossier on Iraq which the UK government published in February 2003.
The names of these four employees were found hidden inside of a Microsoft Word file of the Iraq dossier which was posted on the 10 Downing Street Web site for use by the press. The "dodgy dossier" as it became known in the British press raised serious questions about the quality of British intelligence before the second Iraq war.
[Tnx Politech]
Simon Mason sent this via the e2k_news@hotmail.com facility: You might have seen a section on my website (and in the original ENIGMA mag.) that dealt with the real life story of Thomas Wagner (Michael Michnowski) who contacted me a while ago and I posted his message here, changing his name to protect his identity: http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page465.htm
Anyway, at the end of the piece I hoped that his story would see the light of day and I'm glad to say it has. Follow the link at the bottom of the page to see his incredible story! There are 11 chapters in all and an epilogue. The page links end around chapter 7, so you have to go here: http://radio.weblogs.com/0101986/stories/ to see the full lot from 1 - 11. Could you pass it on to the spooks lot as I'm not at work and my post will get bounced.
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT E2K_NEWS@HOTMAIL.COM HAS NOW BEEN DISCONTINUED. PLEASE SEND ALL INFO/REQUESTS VIA: enigma2000-owner@yahoogroups.com
And finally:
We finish with a very apt quote from 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin'
"In those days Great Britain was less wealthy than it is now, but it was also less complacent, and considerably less useless. It had a sense of humanitarian responsibility and a myth of its own importance that was quixotically true and universally accepted merely because it believed in it, and said so in a voice loud enough for foreigners to understand. It had not yet acquired the schoolboy habit of waiting for months for permission from Washington before it clambered out of its post-imperial bed, put on its boots, made a sugary cup of tea, and ventured through the door."
[Thanks for sending KW]
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