MSS in Simplified Chinese | MSS in English Há poucas agências de inteligência com uma agenda mais ambiciosa do que a do Ministério de Segurança do Estado da China. O MSE é responsável pelas missões de inteligência externa e contraespionagem do governo, assim como pelos programas de segurança interna. Apesar dos relatos de tumultos internos,...
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China’s Top Spy is a Working Class Hero
SpyTalk on China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS in Chinese) Since its founding in 1983, the MSS has had a preeminent role in China’s vast machinery of domestic repression. But Chen appears set to turn its foreign spying arm into an increasingly effective presence in America and elsewhere during the 2020s, says Nicholas Eftimades, one...
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Mock Crucifixion Outside FSB Headquarters For Russia’s Political Prisoners
На Лубянке сейчас так pic.twitter.com/mHqAeEYte6 — Илья Яшин (@IlyaYashin) November 5, 2020 Last June Anastasia Shevchenko became the first person to be criminally charged under the law on “undesirable organizations” that came into force in May 2015, according to Amnesty International. The law gives the government the power to ban activities of foreign or international...
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The FBI’s War on MLK and What It Means Today
The Double Exposure documentary film festival has several provocative offerings on the world of intelligence and spying. Coming on October 16: MLK/FBI is the first film to uncover the extent of the FBI’s surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on newly discovered and declassified files, utilizing a trove of documents obtained...
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Are Undercover Police Agents Provoking Violence? Probably.
So far the evidence is anecdotal, but history suggests it is likely that undercover police agents are among those provoking violence in the George Floyd protest in order to discredit the demonstrators and justify the use of force. David Rovics at Counterpunch provides some historical perspective on the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO). Launched in 1958,...