Im Luxemburger Jahrhundert-Prozess zu den Bombenattentaten in den 80er-Jahren sagte Andreas Kramer am Dienstag aus, der in einer eidesstaatlichen Erklärung behauptete, sein Vater habe als Geheimdienst-Mitarbeiter die Anschläge in Luxemburg (und auch der Schweiz) koordiniert. Claude Karger, Chefredaktor des Luxemburger «Journal», begleitet den Prozess. Der Historiker Andreas Kramer (rechts) unterhält sich mit Verteidiger Gaston Vogel […]

Duisburger Historiker Andrea Kramer behauptet, sein Vater sei für den Anschlag mit verantwortlich gewesen Sagt Andreas Kramer die Wahrheit? War sein Vater für das Attentat auf dem Münchner Oktoberfest aus dem Jahr 1980 verantwortlich? Wenn es stimmt, was der Duisburger Historiker derzeit erzählt, dann steht der Bundesrepublik ein gewaltiger Skandal bevor. Telepolis berichtete bereits ausführlich […]

Die eidesstattliche, vor einem Luxemburger Notar abgegebene Versicherung des deutschen Historikers Andreas Kramer, der über die geheimdienstliche Tätigkeit seines verstorbenen Vaters berichtet, ist inzwischen online veröffentlicht worden. Johannes Karl Kramer, vormaliger Soldat zuletzt im Range eines Hauptmanns im Verteidigungsministerium, war auch hochrangiger Agent des BND gewesen. Seinem Sohn zufolge war Kramer Operationsleiter von GLADIO/Stay Behind […]

Hinter Bombenattentaten in Luxemburg, welche mithilfe von BND- und MI6-Agenten und zehn luxemburgischen Unterstützern vollzogen wurden, steckt Medienberichten zufolge der Stay-Behind-Leiter des Bundesnachrichtendienstes, Johannes Kramer (Alias Cello). Die zehn luxemburgischen Unterstützer sollen demnach eigens weitere Helfer rekrutiert haben. Der Sohn von Johannes Kramer, Andreas, hatte dies unter Eid vor Gericht ausgesagt. Eine eidesstattliche Erklärung wurde […]

Beim luxemburgischen Untersuchungsausschuss stand am Dienstag Charles Hoffman als dritter Geheimdienstdirektor Rede und Antwort. Dieser leitete den SREL in den Jahren von 1985 bis 2003. Beigetreten war er dem Dienst 1976. Es ging bei der Befragung unter anderem auch um das sogenannte “Stay Behind” Netzwerk. Vor Beginn der Erklärung sagte Hoffmann, dass der Geheimdienst niemals […]

(ham) – Die jüngsten Entwicklungen in der Affäre Bommeleeër sowie ein Relikt des kalten Krieges standen am Mittwoch auf der Tagesordnung des parlamentarischen Geheimdienstausschusses, zu der auch Srel-Chef Patrick Heck geladen war. Konkret ging es in der Sitzung um das Netzwerk „Stay Behind“ sowie um den vermeintlichen Lauschangriff auf den ehemaligen Chef der Gendarmerie, Colonel […]

Im Luxemburger Bombenleger-Prozess wurde am Dienstag der bislang wohl spektakulärste Zeuge Andreas Kramer vernommen. Der Duisburger Historiker hatte vor einigen Wochen u.a. den deutschen Bundesnachrichtendienst in einer eidesstattlichen Versicherung belastet, in den 1980er Jahren in inszenierte Terroranschläge verwickelt gewesen zu sein. Kramers Vater, Johannes Karl Kramer, sei beim BND ein Strippenzieher gewesen, der mit dem […]

Der Luxemburger Geheimdienstskandal bietet ganz großes Kino: Eine James-Bond-Uhr, Spezialagenten, Bombenanschläge, Verwicklung ausländischer Mächte, Cover Up, Hochverrat durch einen Geheimdienstchef und eine ruchbare Intrige im Hochadel. Ein Untersuchungsausschuss sowie ein Strafprozess gegen zwei vormalige Angehörige einer Polizeispezialeinheit sollen das trübe Kapitel aus dem Kalten Krieg beleuchten – mit Staatschef Jean-Claude Juncker nebst Hochadel und Geheimdienstelite […]

Der Bericht aus Jahr 1990 zu dem Luxemburger “Stay behind”-Netzwerk. (str) -Hausfrauen, Lehrer, Handwerker und Eisenbahner als mit Funkgeräten ausgerüstete Geheimagenten. Drei Kisten mit Waffen in einer Wiese begraben. Das könnten die Zutaten eines spannenden Spionageromans sein. Es sind aber die Details des Berichts von Ex-Premier Santer aus Jahr 1990 zu dem Luxemburger “Stay behind”-Netzwerk. […]

wort.lu listet die wichtigsten Daten auf: 30. Mai und 2. Juni 1984 Die beiden ersten Explosionen ereignen sich am 30. Mai und am 2. Juni 1984 in Beidweiler, wo ein Mast der Cegedel gesprengt wird. Das benutzte Material stammt zweifelsfrei aus Helmsingen und Wasserbillig. 12. April 1985 Explosion in Bourscheid: Ein Weekend-Haus, das kurz zuvor […]

Der Luxemburger Geheimdienst Service de renseignement de l’État (SREL) ist im Zuge diverser Affären in die Kritik geraten, u.a. wegen des Abhörens eines Gespräches zwischen Premierminister Jean-Claude Juncker und Großherzog Henri. Letzterer geriet in Verlegenheit, nachdem der vormalige SREL-Chef Marco Mille behauptet hatte, der großherzogliche Hof unterhalte wohl gute Kontakte zum britischen Geheimdienst. Laut einer […]

Seit dem 25. Februar findet vor der 9. Kriminalkammer in Luxemburg ein spektakulärer Strafprozeß statt, der trotz seiner politischen Dimension in deutschen Medien fast keine Resonanz findet. Angeklagt sind in der »Affaire Bommeleeër« (Bombenleger) die beiden früheren Mitglieder der »Brigade mobile de la Gendarmerie« Marc Scheer und Jos Wilmes. Den Exbeamten werden unter anderem versuchter […]

The first time “Danny” (far right) officially ran as a CAM medic: March 18, 2012 at a protest to mark the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. On March 27, Chicago teachers and their supporters – including parents, students and community residents – rallied against the largest mass public school closure in US […]

A high-stakes game is being played in the United States today called, “To Catch a Terrorist.” The public need not worry, though, as the risks are surprisingly low. In this game, the police claim to prevent nefarious terrorist plots, while in reality they’re taking credit for foiling the same victimless crimes they themselves manufacture. This […]

POLICE have admitted it was “common practice” for undercover officers to adopt the identities of dead children for aliases in the 1980s – but said they had no idea exactly how many times the sick tactic was used. Despite a number of requests from relatives of dead children, Chief Constable Mick Creedon said none of […]

Craig Monteilh describes how he pretended to be a radical Muslim in order to root out potential threats, shining a light on some of the bureau’s more ethically murky practices Craig Monteilh: ‘It is all about entrapment.’ Photograph: The Washington Post Craig Monteilh says he did not balk when his FBI handlers gave him the […]

As the Obama administration faces criticism for the Justice Department’s spying on journalists and the IRS targeting of right-wing organizations, newly released documents show how the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and local police forces partnered with corporations to spy on Occupy protesters in 2011 and 2012. Detailed in thousands of pages of records […]

We host a discussion on policing and the Occupy Wall Street movement with Chuck Wexler, director of the Police Executive Research Forum, which helped organize calls among police chiefs on how to respond to the Occupy protests, and with Norm Stamper, the former police chief of Seattle, who recently wrote an article for The Nation […]

Emails released by Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department about the Occupy Our Homes movement reveal frustration from one Bank of America intelligence analyst. Occupy our Homes, a part of the Occupy movement that began in fall 2011, gained headlines as protesters fought back against home foreclosures across the country. Bank of America Senior U.S. Crime […]

On May 20, 2013, DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy released the results of a year-long investigation: “Dissent or Terror: How the Nation’s Counter Terrorism Apparatus, In Partnership With Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street.” The report, a distillation of thousands of pages of records obtained from counter terrorism/law enforcement agencies, […]

Counter-terror police officers collaborated with corporate entities to combat protests. Undercover police officers monitored and tracked the Occupy movement. A right-wing corporate-backed group hired a police officer to help protect a conference. These are some of the details revealed in a new report published by the Center for Media and Democracy’s Beau Hodai, along with […]

Under the guise of “cybersecurity,” the new all-purpose bogeyman to increase the secret state’s already-formidable reach, the Obama administration and their congressional allies are crafting legislation that will open new backdoors for even more intrusive government surveillance: portals into our lives that will never be shut. As Antifascist Calling has frequently warned, with the endless […]

After the seizure of AP’s phone records, we ask if the US is still the land of the free for journalists and sources. On May 10th, the Associated Press news agency received an email from the US Department of Justice saying that records of more than 20 phone lines assigned to its reporters had been […]

There’s evidence that the Justice Department’s seizure of Associated Press phone records is far from unprecedented. The Justice Department’s seizure of call logs [1] related to phone lines used by dozens of Associated Press reporters has provoked a flurry of bipartisan criticism, most of which has cast the decision as a disturbing departure from the […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department’s controversial decision to seize phone records of Associated Press journalists was just one element in a sweeping U.S. government investigation into media leaks about a Yemen-based plot to bomb a U.S. airliner, government officials said on Wednesday. The search for who leaked the information is being led by the […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House efforts to soft-pedal the danger from a new “underwear bomb” plot emanating from Yemen may have inadvertently broken the news they needed most to contain. At about 5:45 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 7, just before the evening newscasts, John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s top White House adviser on counter-terrorism, […]

The Department of Justice secretly obtained Associated Press phone records from 20 different phone lines over two months, according to the news agency. The subpoenaed phones records included personal and office lines for several national security reporters and editors as well as “the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery.” […]

Antiwar.com has a troubling story detailing how what appears to be either an FBI counterintelligence investigation of suspected Israeli spies or an attempt to track down everyone who had posted terrorist watch lists online led to the FBI to investigate the site and Justin Raimondo and Eric Garris. The story is troubling for several reasons: […]

WASHINGTON — Two editors of AntiWar.com sued the FBI on Tuesday, alleging that the bureau has failed to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents about the government’s investigation of the website. FBI documents posted online show that the bureau recommended opening an investigation into the website in 2004 after it […]

President Obama waves after addressing his administration’s drone and counterterrorism policies, as well as the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, in a speech at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. President Obama’s remarks at the National Defense University on Thursday, as released by the White House: Good afternoon, everybody. Please be seated. […]

In a major address Thursday President Barack Obama sought to reframe the nation’s counterterrorism strategy, saying, “Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue. But this war, like all wars, must end. That’s what history advises. That’s what our democracy demands.” Speaking at the National Defense University in Washington Obama said, “America is at […]

Eric Holder acknowledges previously classified details of drone program and says US deliberately targeted Anwar al-Awlaki, who died in Yemen in 2011 Holder claimed Anwar al-Awlaki, who died in Yemen in 2011, had been involved in plots to blow up planes over US soil. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA The White House has launched a new effort […]

The Rendition Project website is the product of a collaborative research project between Dr Ruth Blakeley at the University of Kent and Dr Sam Raphael at Kingston University. Following the declaration of the ‘war on terror’ in September 2001, the US Government led the way in constructing a global system of detention outside the law, […]

The Rendition Project suggests aircraft associated with secret detention operations landed at British airports 1,622 times US warplanes at their base in the British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Photograph: Usaf/AFP The UK’s support for the CIA’s global rendition programme after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US was far more […]

The media seems to forget about New Orleans and any place that the middle class can’t easily relate to On 3 September 2005 – less than a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast – I began to understand that America cared little about what was happening in New Orleans. I was an undergraduate […]

What definition of the term includes this horrific act of violence but excludes the acts of the US, the UK and its allies? Two men yesterday engaged in a horrific act of violence on the streets of London by using what appeared to be a meat cleaver to hack to death a British soldier. In […]

Police officers at a block of flats in Greenwich, south-east London, which was raided in connection with the killing of British soldier Lee Rigby. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters The two suspects in the butchering to death of a British soldier had been known to the domestic security service MI5 and the police over an eight-year period, […]

While nothing can justify the killing of a British soldier, the link to Britain’s vicious occupations abroad cannot be ignored I am a former soldier. I completed one tour of duty in Afghanistan, refused on legal and moral grounds to serve a second tour, and spent five months in a military prison as a result. […]

There’s so much data available on the internet that even government cyberspies need a little help now and then to sift through it all. So to assist them, the National Security Agency produced a book to help its spies uncover intelligence hiding on the web. The 643-page tome, called Untangling the Web: A Guide to […]

Document shows agency requested removal of interrogation scene with dog, and shots of operatives partying with AK47 A newly declassified CIA document suggests members of the US agency did help to shape the narrative of Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s recent film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. In January the US Senate intelligence […]