Intelligence
Al Qaeda and the Net
Timothy L. Thomas of the Foreign Military Studies Office: “We can say with some certainty, al Qaeda loves the Internet.” A general but interesting overview of how terrorist groups can (and do) use the Internet to further their goals and activities.
Mapping Colombia
The Defense Intelligence Agency asked the Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office to assess the feasibility of creating a property database for Colombia, ostensibly to help in anti-terrorism and drug interdiction efforts. A report by FMSO’s Geoffrey Demarest recently posted (pdf) says that data covering some 30 percent of Colombian property is commercially available and the [...]
Patriot Act II?
The Center today released a copy of draft legislation (pdf) it obtained that would be a sequel to the Patriot Act of 2001 and would “give the government broad, sweeping new powers to increase domestic intelligence-gathering, surveillance and law enforcement prerogatives, and simultaneously decrease judicial review and public access to information.”
Middle East Propaganda
The National Security Archive has released a collection of documents detailing the United States’ attempts to win the hearts and minds of Middle Easterners 50 years ago. Most of them are from State Department archives and depict efforts targeting Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq. Interesting stuff.
Aerial Espionage
The National Security Archive yesterday released “a comprehensive documentary history of U.S. aerial espionage in the Cold War and beyond,” including 50 declassified documents from the administration and intelligence agencies that worked on aerial reconnaissance and other spying activities. The documents themselves are PDFs but make for interesting reading, especially the CIA debriefing of Francis [...]
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