Intelligence
Diving Into The Pond
From Studies In Intelligence:
When the Pond was created in early 1942, the United States had very little experience with intelligence, and the notion of a spy agency which would be not only officially unacknowledged, but actually unknown, appealed to some people in Washington. These people were repelled by the larger-than-life publicity hound William Donovan and [...]
The Regime Change Business
An interesting end to a review of Stephen Kinzer’s book “All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror” by CIA Historian Dr. David S. Robarge. Robarge criticizes Kinzer for trying to link the 1951 coup (known to Agency folks by the acronym TPAJAX) to today’s terrorism, but offers this [...]
North Korea’s War Plans
A South Korean newspaper has published a 33-page document issued by North Korea last year entitled “Detailed Wartime Guidelines” that “ordered its people to prepare for a protracted war against the United States, issuing guidelines on evacuating to underground bunkers with weapons, food and portraits of leader Kim Jong-il.”
It was apparently issued on April 7, [...]
Intelligence in the Internet Era
A. Denis Clift, president of the Joint Military Intelligence College, writing in Studies in Intelligence: “The Internet era brings an on-rush of changes, both revolutionary and subtle, to the work of intelligence - changes in the doctrine and practice of collection, analysis, and dissemination; and changes in the mindsets and relationships between intelligence and law [...]
Australia’s Arrest Powers
From the Sydney Morning Herald: “Australia’s domestic intelligence agency, ASIO, will have aggressive new powers from today to detain for an unlimited period citizens suspected of having information about terrorist offences.” Simeon Beckett, a lawyer and spokesman for Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, writes that the new law could make journalists “think twice before reporting [...]
