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Espionage Files: North Korea’s Shadow War, Part I

Posted on 24 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The Great Leader’s Shadow War In the late 1960s, North Korean president Kim Il-sung sent commandos to infiltrate South Korea   In the fall of 1966, things really began to change on the Korean Peninsula. The armistice agreement that had marked the de facto end of the Korean War in 1953 had created a demilitarized…

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Espionage Files: Operation CONDOR and Chile’s Bloody Past

Posted on 23 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

If you have never read about the bloody past of Chile in the 70’s and the bloody reigns of Allende and Pinochet (whom the CIA helped install in a coup), you should definitely do some reading, if your google-fu is strong, you should have no trouble finding quality reading; You can start with this 2013…

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Espionage Files: Documentary on CIA to Air on CBS Tommorrow at 8pm CST

Posted on 20 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

“THE SPYMASTERS” REMASTERED: If you missed Showtime’s “The Spymasters: The CIA in the Crosshairs” when it aired last fall – you get another shot on Saturday May 21nd at 8PM CST. on CBS.  The original documentary included interviews with every living CIA Director. It is unclear if they all will be in this version – since…

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Surveillance State: Inside The NSA’s Real-Time Regional Gateway (RT-RG)

Posted on 18 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

It is a very common trend to see “Counter-Terrorism” programs and technology that were once used to save American Military and Civilian lives in war get re-directed to spy on American citizens in Peace time. This is something to keep in mind with this program. -SF Relentless attacks on American military personnel at the height…

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Surveillance State: Big Brother Is Out In The Open Now

Posted on 18 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Perusing through the day’s emails, I came across this article. Since it dealt with Intelligence, I quickly scanned it to see if anything interested me.  About half-way down my mouth flew open. This suddenly went from a benign article about Intelligence Protection and Cutting Government Cost and Improving Efficiency to an article about Government Surveillance…

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Book Review: Playing to the Edge, American Intelligence in the Age of Terror

Posted on 16 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

by Michael V. Hayden Penguin, 448 pp When Michael Hayden was a young air force officer in the 1980s, the military stationed him as an intelligence attaché in Bulgaria. There, the man who would rise to the top of the American intelligence community in the post–September 11 era lived under constant surveillance: he and his…

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Espionage Files: CIA Tip Led to Mandela’s Fateful 1962 Arrest

Posted on 16 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The older I get, the more I am learning that ALL History has always had 2 faces: The Public Face, or the one most everybody is shown and taught in school, and the Real Face, or the face that has been hidden because it is not really fit for “public consumption”. My Goal since I…

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Spy Books Worth A Damn: “Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran”

Posted on 12 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

MISSING MAN: THE AMERICAN SPY WHO VANISHED IN IRAN By Barry Meier Farrar Straus Giroux, $27.00,  273 pp. The American public — especially the media — tends to demand, “Who’s to blame?” when a person vanishes in a foreign land with no explanation as to why, or whether, he is being held. Such is the…

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Espionage Files: The Day We Discovered Our Parents Were Russian Spies

Posted on 9 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

For years Donald Heathfield, Tracey Foley and their two children lived the American dream. Then an FBI raid revealed the truth: they were agents of Putin’s Russia. Their sons tell their story. Tim Foley turned 20 on 27 June 2010. To celebrate, his parents took him and his younger brother Alex out for lunch at…

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Espionage Files: The Life of the Modern Spy

Posted on 7 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The days of spy vs. spy of the Cold War are over. The enemies changed and technology revolutionized the world … and not always for the better. But spies remained an important part of the modern battlefield. This week on the War College Podcast, Jamillah Knowles chats with Reuters reporter and author Stephen Grey about his…

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