The Pentagon will announce a major new £200m intelligence centre in Britain this week, which would act as the headquarters for all US military data in Europe and Africa, according to US media reports. Known as the Joint Intelligence Analysis Centre, the facility will be located at the RAF Croughton, a US Air Force base…
Category: Espionage Files
Espionage Files: Russian Spies Pose as Diplomats in Sweden
Cold War 2.0 is in Full Effect!! The Great Game is again being Played. -SF The most significant intelligence risk against Sweden comes from Russian spies, often posing as diplomats or business people, according to the Swedish security service Säpo, which has just released its annual report. Swedish military confirm Russian warship sighting (02 Oct…
Israel Watch: Ex-Mossad Chief Dagan Laid to Rest in Private Ceremony With Military Honors
(NOTE: Due to a Retraction that I was unaware of, One Word has been added to this story by the Times of Israel so as not to offend certain People from Poland. Instead of “Nazi Poland” it is now “Nazi Occupied” Poland. Any further hate mail can be directed to the Editor of The Times…
Espionage Files: Hillary Clinton Singled Out for Backing Honduran Coup in 2009
Something tells me the next few months during the Bread and Circus hysterics of Politics will be remembered as the “Time of the Closet Skeletons”. Remember folks: The only thing worse than a Politician is a child molester.-SF
Espionage Files: Syrian Rebel Spy Chief Claims CIA Ignored Intelligence On Rise of ISIS
Free Syrian Army agent says his agents have been providing the US agency with GPS positions of its leaders and headquarters but the US has failed to act The “spymaster” of a key moderate Syrian rebel group has accused the CIA of failing to act on reams of detailed intelligence his network has been supplying…
Espionage Files: Watch Thy Neighbor
To prevent whistleblowing, U.S. intelligence agencies are instructing staff to spy on their colleagues. Elham Khorasani was sitting in her car at a stoplight in Northern Virginia when she got the call. It was April 16, 2013. “I’m with the FBI,” a man on the line said, “and we’re at your home executing a search…
Espionage Files: Another Russian Dead by “Mysterious Circumstances”??
What No Radioactive Poisoning this time Putin? The SVR is getting sloppy. -SF In November, the Free Thought Project reported that Mikhail Lesin, the former head of media affairs for the Russian government, and the founder of Russia Today (RT), was found dead in the hotel room that he was staying at in Washington DC….
Cold War Files: The Americans are Coming
…or is it the Russians? The popular FX series premieres episode one of season four on Wednesday. (March 16th). In case you’re not already read in on the cold-war drama, prepare to be taken back to 1980s Virginia and into the household of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, a seemingly normal American couple who are actually…
Espionage Files: Spy vs Spies: Why Deciphering Putin is So Hard for U.S. Intelligence
American intelligence officers are trained to tackle tough targets. But there are tough targets, and then there’s Russian President Vladimir Putin, who plays his cards so closely that it’s hard for his own advisers to divine what he’s thinking, says Gregory Treverton, chairman of the National Intelligence Council. “Putin is so isolated that the chances…
Cold War Files: 10 Dastardly Secret Operations of the KGB
Like the CIA, the Soviet (and now Russian) spy agency known as the KGB has engaged in decades of secret operations across the world, ranging from blackmail to kidnapping. Most of the secrets that we know about the KGB today are because of one man—Vasili Mitrokhin. Mitrokhin was an archivist for the KGB for 30…