Assassination is such a cold-blooded business. How cold-blooded? This report comes The Yeshiva World, a legitimate new site for Israeli religious news. The site interviewed a Mossad agents who helped track down the Palestinians who kidnapped and killed 11 Israel athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Agent D: “It could be he’s smart, strong, intelligent –...
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Report: Former Intelligence Officer Secretly Held in Australia
Strange story about Australia’s national security state, which is quite powerful. But I never heard of secret detention of former intelligence officer. It is understood the man was a senior military officer involved in intelligence, but publishing information about his offending has been banned. It is not known when he was convicted. When he started...
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The Cambridge Five: How an Epic Spy Ring Penetrated British Power
From HistoryExtra, the story of how the Soviet KGB penetrated the upper ranks of British government during and after World War II. The CIA, in the person of James Angleton, was fooled as well. [If you want to know more, see biography of Angleton, THE GHOST: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton.]...
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Two Plead Guilty to Spying on MEK for Iran
This case reveals Iranian intelligence priorities in America: the Mujahedeen e-Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian dissident group that was once on the U.S. list of terrorism groups for its attacks on the American citizens in the 1970s. [Deep Sttes guide to Iranian intelligence agencies.] The Iranians were’n’t spying on the U.S. government. They were...
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Spies Like Us: The Spooks of Georgetown
It is plausible to argue that no single neighbhorhood anywhere on the planet has such a rich history of espionage, spying, and treachery as Georgetown in Washington’s DC. From the War for Independence to the War Between the States to the Cold War and the War on Terror, covert action has been a favorite pastime...