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Increase number of U.S. spies overseas

By Andrei Akulov | 12/07/2012 - 14:32 |

On December 2, 2012, the Washington Post reported that the intelligence community is undergoing a major refurbishment. The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional agents abroad as part of an ambitious plan to create a spy network that the CIA larger in size.

According to the newspaper report, the five-year project aims to transform the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which has been dominated in the last decade demands of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a service focused on emerging threats spies and more aligned with the CIA and military units command. With the expansion completed, the agency would have 1,600 officers deployed around the world - something that has never happened before. Apart from military attaches and others working openly without coverage, there will be deployed over clandestine operations abroad. The staff will be trained by the CIA and occasionally work with the Joint Special Operations Command U.S. (JSOP) but receive orders from the Department of Defense.

As the report explains, the increase of the DIA agents is part of a larger trend: the convergence of military and intelligence agencies that initially has blurred their different missions, capabilities and even leadership ranks. The Washington Post claims that the initiative, combined with the expansion of the CIA from the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, will create a spy network of unprecedented size. Among the highest priorities Pentagon intelligence officials said, are Islamic militant groups in Africa, arms transfers to Iran and North Korea, and military modernization is happening in China.

According to an article in the Taipei Times, it is known that a number of agents operating in Taiwan DIA. He points out that, "Taiwan's geographic proximity to China, as well as their close cultural and trade relations with the emerging power, have proved attractive and convenient for U.S. agents for years, as the quality of intelligence on China collected by civilian agencies military and Taiwan. In addition to the DIA, CIA and Department of Homeland Security, the highly secretive National Security Agency (NSA) has also been cooperating with the National Security Bureau of Taiwan, sharing Chinese communication interventions. The NSA is also known for helping to build a Taiwan intelligence in Yangmingshan in Taipei ".

What is the Day?

The DIA was created in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy and his famous head of Defense, Robert McNamara. The number of employees around the 16,500 (35% of soldiers and 65% civilians) worldwide. The agency is part of the Intelligence Community. It is headed by a Director, who chairs the Military Intelligence Directorate. This is a three-star military officer who serves as principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs leader. Currently, the position has the Army colonel, General Michael T. Flynn.

The exact numbers and specific information of your budget are not made public for security. Its activities include all aspects of military requirements - from highly complex technical data to foreign biographies of military leaders. It coordinates the activities of components of the intelligence services to provide data to combatants in the battlefield, defense policy makers, as well as those involved in arms procurement operations. Right now, is in the process of building a new facility at Bethesda, Maryland, which will serve as a new campus for the University of National Intelligence and installation of the DIA and other members of the Intelligence Community.

Apart from the DIA, the U.S. intelligence community is made up of a thousand clandestine organizations, which include the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and other agencies that focus on threats and specific technologies, such as the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, responsible for remotely detecting spy satellites.

* This is a segment of the article "U.S. Intelligence Goes Through Drastic Reshuffle" originally published by columnist Andrei Akulov in Russian Strategic Culture magazine.

Seems like a mere game to all of them.


As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods,
They kill us for their sport.
King Lear Act 4, scene 1, 32–37






Secret Agent Man

Police State & Surveillance

Secrets Echelon spy network could be revealed in court Megaupload

By Reason | 12/12/2012 - 14:01 | Rating: 0

A decade ago there were many rumors about Echelon, an electronic spy network of linking the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. A flurry of stories covering the connections between the five countries, speculation about the capabilities of the network and rumors about Echelon goals in a post-Cold War world.

The European Parliament even got to produce a report (download PDF here) which discussed the potential risks posed espionage system for the European Union. So, like all things of the same caliber, public attention stopped focusing on it and most people lost interest in the above surveillance.

Now, Echelon is appearing again in the headlines and is likely to know much more about the network, mostly due to the copyright infringement case against file storage company, Megaupload.

For highly bizarre being developed, we learned earlier this year that the Bureau Government Communications Security, the New Zealand equivalent of the National Security Agency (NSA), illegally spied the former head of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom. The New Zealand government did on behalf of his American friends, and seemingly real-time intelligence shared with American authorities in the country. Looking discover how far government officials arrived to build a case against Megaupload, judges now want to know the whole story.

From the New Zealand Herald:

Auckland The Supreme Court ordered the police to reveal details, testing or discarding the existence of a live broadcast of the raid after conflicting evidence emerged from a senior officer of the police.

The case is now aimed at the heart of intelligence agreements with New Zealand and other U.S. Echelon partners - Australia, Canada and Britain.

The secret group, also known as the Five Eyes, collects and analyzes data from electronic networks worldwide, with the aim of benefiting their trade among member countries.

The order for the Bureau Government Communications Security (GSCB) reveal highly classified details, brought to the spy agency must now sit by the police in the dock, while the court continues to demonstrate the illegality of the permit to pave the Dotcom mansion in North Auckland.

In the times of the European Parliament report on Echelon, European authorities were concerned that the system was used for commercial purposes after the fall of the communist bloc. Of course, we are in a new world, and suppliers of all kinds of goods and services must be flexible in finding new markets. But the implication of Echelon in a case of copyright alliance seem reduce the level of a private investigator specializing in matrimonial espionage and trivial matters.

Given the long time partner of Echelon continued their agreement of the Cold War, as well as the secrecy of its capabilities, an epilogue would be wonderful to see it all come to light following a minor case of copyright, handled poorly by people still think the world is as in the sixties.

I see people like those in the photograph at the top of this thread, and I just wonder how they can possibly believe that they're the good guys. How dense are they?

wake_up_bomb wrote:
People feel they are defending them, in their minds that makes them the "good guys"

I have always known that School of the Americas ,and University of the Americas are CIA.
They taught Dictatorships of Latin America, different systems of Torture.






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They claim that the U.S. was able to study the high mountains of Bolivia "to invade Latin America"

By RT | 01.10.2013 - 16:57 | Rating: 0

The American expedition to Chacaltaya glacier, denounced by the Government of Bolivia, "has to do with the possibility that the U.S. can eventually invade our peoples of Latin America. "

Observers believe so the School of the Americas, as said in a comment given to RT activist South Team this organism, Pablo Ruiz. As a test of the war aims of the expedition, led by researcher Robert Roach Corwine son, the independent expert cited his Pentagon-funded financing.

Ruiz said that in Latin America there are U.S. military bases they are a constant threat to the governments of the region to defend its sovereignty. "Forward-believe-in context of major difficulties with U.S. natural resources must eventually contemplate an invasion of all countries as Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela ".

"Unfortunately, he added, that those millions of dollars in this climate research possibly go to war, because what we want here is to study weather conditions for soldiers operating in mountain conditions."

The bond of high mountain research programs of the Department of Defense were released Tuesday by the Minister of Government of Bolivia, Carlos Romero. He cataloged as a violation of national sovereignty such scientific research for military purposes, made without prior notice to the authorities.

The Bolivian head researcher exposed the lie of the U.S., who had declared a "day" of residence as "tourist" when he entered the June 12, 2012 to leave the country three months to conduct a major study of high-altitude conditions. Also cited a newspaper publication that warned about a scientist who had obtained "the military funding to study treatments for altitude sickness," referring to Corwine Roach.