yet more shocking revelations in this week's "spy kids" media wars.
Now as many of you know, coz Dan Brown told you,
people from the Elysee to the Louvre can't have proper conversations about their mummies and secrets anymore without being bugged (a technical expression) And they're sick of it.
During the presidency of Mitterrand it is reported today, everyone was listened to including the lawyers of the Irish trio known as "the lambs".
according to former chief of the interior spookiiii division Jean Paul Mosy
http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20050111.FAP6608.html?1903
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=267469
http://www.lexpress.fr/info/infojour/infos.asp?id=050110180758.093dygif&rub=fra&pid=050110171858
And in related news ex workers for "the agency" keep piling it on, starting a high court battle for their pensions and social welfare entitlements after fighting the cold war, and staying up all night digging tunnels and dropping concrete blocks out of transport aircraft.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67955&condense_comments=false#comment97439
And just over the water MI6 has taken the unprecedented step of appointing a senior "quality control officer" to monitor the credibility and veracity of its secret intelligence, the Guardian can reveal.
The senior official, will be known as "R" -
MI6 has also appointed what they call a "non-executive director", a high-flier from the private sector with the task of trying to ensure the british spies gather secret information as efficiently and effectively as possible.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1388401,00.html
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Maybe a Department of Justice insider,
could udpate the reader on the local situation in Dublin.
Do lawyers and their clients, confessors and their sinners, juries and their judges, doctors and their patients, military officers and their soldiers have to leave Ireland / Eire before they can be recorded, is the Dublin / Dalkey government up to scratch on that type of thing?
Michael Mc Dowell you know it makes sense-
appoint a quality control advisor.
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Gene Hackman "the conversation".
Gene Hack Man 1974
Today's Guardian Leader article on "if those chaps don't have a spokesperson, how can we trust them with the iguanas & satelite saucers & abaci & Q & past & future"???
very good questions
ask the KGB.
The agency has struck back.
3 reports were issued this week-
report 1 claims India and China will outrank the USA in 2020 thy have come to this conclusion after watching episodes 21 - 23 of the Montypython complete Telly series in which the biggest fish yet is the Chinese one and it eats uncle sam.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/1238.html
report 2 claims Iraq is a breeding ground for terrorists
with software dating technlogy bringing suitable terrorists together in a healthy and loving relationship to parent terrorist offspring.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1391072,00.html
report 3 claims eating a balanced diet, and taking regular exercise can boost your life expectancy especially if combined with interesting habits, and loving and giving.
(no source available At time of press.)
It has been reported that the Pentagon (big building in a shape of a pentagon just off the potamac river down from roosevelt island and across from the mall) takes over some CIA spy operations while US 'super-secret' commandos get duty on US soil.
The Pentagon, expanding into the CIA's historic bailiwick, has created a new espionage arm and is reinterpreting US law to give [Department of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld] broad authority over clandestine operations abroad. ...
Designed to operate without detection and under the defense secretary's direct control, the Strategic Support Branch deploys small teams of case officers, linguists, interrogators and technical specialists alongside newly empowered special operations forces.
You won't even see them.
Intrigued? read more at links-
who's territory?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10008032
deny split!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002159740_intel25.html
& the chinese take-
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/25/content_2504471.htm
CIA have been officially asked to release the NAZI colaboration files relevant to the Cold War theatre.
It is uncertain whether the interpretation of the Cold War theatre will include all other elements in the recent history of South and Central Americas.
(C/P coz it gets bzzzzted quickly)
CIA pressure to disclose Nazi records
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA, under pressure from Congress, has agreed in principle to release new documents detailing its ties to
former Nazis who aided U.S. Cold War espionage against the Soviet Union, officials say.
Facing demands for public testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, CIA officials have conceded on Sunday that records on former
Nazis who have not been accused of war crimes, including members of the German SS, should be subject to the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure
Act of 1998, the officials said.
"This means the information we thought would come out when we wrote the law, will now come out," said Sen. Mike DeWine, an Ohio
Republican who co-authored the disclosure legislation.
The CIA, which had no immediate comment, has released some 1.25 million pages of documents about Nazi war criminals in compliance
with the disclosure act, which requires government agencies to divulge records of war criminals to the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial
Government Records Interagency Working Group.
But up to now, the CIA has refused to disclose documents on ex-Nazis who have not been accused as war criminals. Members of the
working group and U.S. lawmakers contend the law applies to any individual who belonged to an organization guilty of war crimes.
The records at issue include hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, including material on CIA dealings with former members of the
Nazi party and the German SS, who joined the allied Cold War effort against the Soviet Union in Europe, congressional officials said.
The CIA's position changed late last week in closed-door discussions with working group members after DeWine, who sits on the Senate
Judiciary Committee, demanded that CIA Director Porter Goss appear before the panel to provide a public explanation of his agency's refusal
to disclose the records.
Goss co-sponsored the 1998 disclosure legislation during his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he led the chamber's
intelligence committee.
It was not clear whether DeWine would cancel the judiciary committee hearing, tentatively set for February 15.
A CIA spokesman, who asked not to be identified, said the agency was prepared to demonstrate flexibility.
"As we deal with issues of review and declassification, the question we ask is not what should we withhold but what can we release," the
spokesman said.
CIA officials and members of the working group were due to meet on Monday at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, to begin reviewing
documents for possible disclosure.
Former Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, a working group member, and DeWine said the release of Nazi-related material was essential
now that the United States is embroiled in a war on terrorism and battling insurgents in Iraq.
Reuters
and link to Swiss info-
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5520057
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The Polish Cold War secret police archives have been opened in the last weeks, now all citizens of Poland may "get the key to the door" and learn what was done to them in the name of Stalinist progress. Though many are used to closed doors,
and dark ways, and you have to be patient with them, but even patience runs thin. Patience with the red dragons runs the thinnest the soonest.
The Polish Stalinist authorities ran more than 28,000 agents monitoring the words, deeds, thoughts and all of their brothers and sisters, in the name of order.
http://www.ipn.bip.net.pl/
http://voanews.com/english/NewsAnalysis/2005-01-31-voa36.cfm
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