Kurz vor Beginn des Prozesses gegen Beate Zschäpe gibt es neue Erkenntnisse der Ermittlungsbehörden zur Terrorzelle NSU: Das braune Netzwerk des Trios Uwe Böhnhardt, Uwe Mundlos und Beate Zschäpe war laut Informationen von BILD am SONNTAG größer als bisher bekannt. Demnach gehörten 129 Personen aus der rechtsextremen Szene zum engeren und weiteren Umfeld des Nazi-Trios, […]

Hat V-Mann “Primus” das rechtsextreme NSU-Netzwerk unterstützt? Um diesen Verdacht zu klären, will der Untersuchungsauschuss des Bundestags den zuständigen Beamten des Verfassungsschutzes vernehmen. Welche Rolle spielte V-Mann “Primus” im Fall des NSU? Der zuständige Beamte des Verfassungsschutz soll dazu Auskunft geben. Nach Berichten über einen V-Mann namens “Primus” und dessen mögliche Hilfe für das NSU-Terrortrio […]

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is a hotbed of “institutional racism,” where Islamophobic, racist and offensive remarks are an everyday occurrence, a newspaper reported on Friday. Westerwelle slams media limits for neo-Nazi trial (10 Apr 13) Search for Nazi death camp guards widens (9 Apr 13) Radical German Muslims join fight in Syria (7 Apr 13) […]

Mark Kennedy, a British police officer who spent seven years infiltrating environmental and activist groups while working undercover for the Metropolitan Police force in London, may have monitored an American computer scientist and spied on others while in the United States. The computer scientist, Harry Halpin, said that he was at a gathering of activists […]

The family of a teenager whose murder by a far-right commando rocked Spain in 1980 called Friday for an official inquiry after a newspaper reported that her killer has worked for police as an advisor since his release from jail. Yolanda Gonzalez, a 19-year-old Socialist Party activist who had appeared in photographs at the head […]

JERUSALEM — When President Obama lands here on Wednesday, he may encounter some Israelis staging a hunger strike in support of Jonathan Jay Pollard, the American serving a life term in a North Carolina prison for spying for Israel. But the call for Mr. Pollard’s release will not be restricted to the strident, right-wing protests […]

Ex-army officer Benjamin Pierce Bishop charged with communicating national defence information to Chinese woman Benjamin Pierce Bishop, who works for a defence contractor at US Pacific Command in Oahu, Hawaii, was arrested on Friday . Photograph: Alamy A US defence contractor in Hawaii has been arrested on charges of passing national military secrets, including classified […]

A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq. Another special forces veteran, Colonel James Coffman, […]

Exclusive: General David Petraeus and ‘dirty wars’ veteran behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. These units conducted some of the […]

It was the U.S. military’s most notorious security contractor—but it may also have been a virtual extension of the CIA. Eli Lake reports. Last month a three-year-long federal prosecution of Blackwater collapsed. The government’s 15-felony indictment—on such charges as conspiring to hide purchases of automatic rifles and other weapons from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, […]

Ondanks de voorkennis omtrent gruwelijke misdragingen door veiligheidsagenten van Blackwater, ging het KLPD en de AIVD in 2009 voor een training van (geheim) agenten in zee met dit obscure Amerikaanse particuliere beveiligingsbedrijf. “Op 17 november 2009 vertrok ik samen met de majoors Edwin en Mark naar Afghanistan. Wij maken deel uit van de nieuwe missie […]

boek van Bob Drogin Ook verschenen in het Nederland als Codenaam Curveball Erg Amerikaans boek, de tekst schreeuwt je tegemoet wat gaandeweg begint tegen te staan. Toch is het een verdienstelijk boek. Minutieus brengt Drogin het functioneren van geheime diensten in beeld tegen het licht van een menselijke bron. Curveball is de man die de […]

BBC’s Panorama reveals fresh evidence that agencies dismissed intelligence from Iraqi foreign minister and spy chief Tony Blair’s claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are challenged again in Monday’s Panorama. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Fresh evidence has been revealed about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister […]

  The lies of two Iraqi spies were central to the claim – at the heart of the UK and US decision to go to war in Iraq – that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. But even before the fighting started, intelligence from highly-placed sources was available suggesting he did not, Panorama has […]

Credo Mobile speaks out after judge orders US government to stop issuing ‘national security letters’ to access citizens’ data Judge Susan Illston declared the NSLs unconstitutional as they breached the first amendment rights of the parties being served the orders. Photograph: Frank Polich/Reuters The Californian telecoms company thought to be behind a stunning court victory […]

Smart technology and the sort of big data available to social networking sites are helping police target crime before it happens. But is this ethical? Companies such as Facebook have begun using algorithms and historical data to predict which of their users might commit crimes. Illustration: Noma Bar The police have a very bright future […]

Police scan your Facebook comments.Photo / File Police have developed a specialist software tool which mines social media for information. The Signal tool was developed for high-profile public events and emergencies and works by scanning public-facing material on social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Police director of intelligence Mark Evans said it was […]

Er gilt als der böseste Deutsche im Internet: Martin Münch liefert Polizei und Geheimdiensten Überwachungs-Software. Auch Diktatoren drangsalieren mit den Programmen ihre Bürger. Im Disney-Film “Mulan” ist alles so einfach. Die Heldin kämpft zusammen mit lauter Männern im chinesischen Militär gegen die Hunnen. Der Film zeichnet Mulans Gegner als schattige, gesichtslose Wesen. Die feindliche Reiterarmee […]

John Catt, who has no criminal record, wins legal action to have records deleted from police database of suspected extremists An 88-year-old campaigner has won a landmark lawsuit against police chiefs who labelled him a “domestic extremist” and logged his political activities on a secret database. The ruling by three senior judges puts pressure on […]

KGB’s former spy chief in Britain says he has no regrets about betraying the Soviet Union as he likens Putin to Mussolini Oleg Gordievsky says he is the only agent to defect from the KGB in the 1980s to survive. ‘I was supposed to die,’ he says. Photograph: Steve Pyke Three decades ago, Oleg Gordievsky […]

As William Hague and Philip Hammond prepare to meet their Russian counterparts in London this week, Jason Lewis reveals how a very suspicious spying slur is threatening to derail the reconciliation. Denis Keefe, right, in the Caucasus, at Black Cliff Lake To the outside world he is the epitome of diplomatic decorum: polite, softly spoken, […]

13 October 2005. Fourth list provides 29 new names of MI6 officers: http://cryptome.org/mi6-list4.htm 28 August 2005. See full list of 276 unique names of MI6 officers: http://cryptome.org/mi6-list-276.htm 27 August 2006. Thanks to A2. See also: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.british/browse_frm/thread/82c48e38b3fdca75/ 3bf294a25a6e6d25?lnk=st&q=%22Ian+Nicholas+Anthony%22&rnum=1&hl=en# 3bf294a25a6e6d25 Previous lists of MI6 officers: http://cryptome.org/mi6-list2.htm (21 August 2005) http://cryptome.org/mi6-list.htm (13 May 1999) See also HM Diplomatic […]

The British ambassador to Georgia has complained about footage of him used in a TV hoax about a Russian invasion. There was panic in Georgia on Saturday after a TV report that Russian tanks had invaded the capital and the country’s president was dead. It included footage of ambassador Denis Keefe, which was edited to […]

It follows the recommendation by the UK director of public prosecutions that Andrei Lugovoi be tried for the crime. Mr Lugovoi denies the charges, and the Kremlin says Russia’s constitution does not allow it to hand him over. Former KGB officer Mr Litvinenko died in London in 2006 after exposure to the radioactive isotope polonium-210. […]

Numerous notable journalists working for some of Britain’s most prestigious publications routinely collaborated with British intelligence during the Cold War, according to a BBC investigation. In 1968, Soviet newspaper Izvestia published the contents of an alleged British government memorandum entitled “Liaison Between the BBC and SIS”. SIS, which stands for Secret Intelligence Service, also known […]

Jeremy Duns examines leaked documents which suggest close links between MI6 and the British press during the Cold War. In December 1968, the British media was shaken by a series of secret documents leaked to Soviet state newspapers. The documents claimed a range of key Fleet Street correspondents and news chiefs were working for the […]

Cross-Taiwan Strait relations between China and Taiwan have thawed in recent years. China, who until the late 1970s was firing artillery shells toward the island nation, has supposedly taken a softer approach to what it considers a renegade or breakaway Chinese province. Added to this uptick in recent bilateral relations is current Taiwanese President Ma […]

Last week I spoke about the current state of the espionage war between China and Taiwan with Tim Daiss, a Southeast Asia-based American journalist who has been covering the Asia-Pacific region for over a decade. Our discussion formed the basis of a comprehensive piece on the subject, published in British newspaper The Independent, in two […]

Andrei Lugovoy said he had ‘lost all faith in the opportunity of an unbiased investigation in Britain’ A former KGB officer suspected of murdering Alexander Litvinenko has announced he will not take part in the coroner’s inquest due to take place later this year and attacked the British police and courts as “politically motivated”. Andrei […]

Andrei Lugovoi, who is now an elected official in Russia, says he won’t talk even by video to British investigators about the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London just over six years ago. During a Tuesday press conference in Moscow, KGB-officer-turned-parliamentarian Andrei Lugovoi holds papers about the 2006 poisoning of former Russian agent turned Kremlin […]

Inquest told the victim’s wheelchair was not secured and he died when it tipped over A double amputee died when his unsecured wheelchair tipped over backwards as he was being transported to hospital in an ambulance operated by under-fire outsourcing firm G4S. An inquest jury found that the driver and staff of the security firm […]

The company which failed to meet its Olympics security contract confirms a big fall in profits. Annual profits fell by a worse than expected 32% at G4S, the firm at the centre of last year’s Olympics security fiasco. Pre-tax profit for 2012 dropped to £175m from £257m the previous year as a result of a […]

G4S failed to supply enough personnel for the London 2012 Olympics, forcing the Government to draft in soldiers Getty Images G4S’s Olympics fiasco drove annual profits down by a third at the security company last year. The company also announced this morning that its chief financial officer, Trevor Dighton, would retire on April 30. He […]

For the first time, 25-year-old U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning has admitted to being the source behind the largest leak of state secrets in U.S. history. More than a thousand days after he was arrested, Manning testified Thursday before a military court. He said he leaked the classified documents to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks in […]

After 1,000 days in pretrial detention, Private Bradley Manning yesterday offered a modified guilty plea for passing classified materials to WikiLeaks. But his case is far from over—not for Manning, and not for the rest of the country. To understand what is still at stake, consider an exchange that took place in a military courtroom […]

After admitting guilt in 10 of 22 charges, soldier reveals how he came to share classified documents with WikiLeaks and talks of ‘bloodlust’ of US helicopter crew • Glenn Greenwald: Bradley Manning – the face of heroism Manning’s statement recounted how he had first become aware of WikiLeaks in 2009. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Bradley […]

For more information on the lack of public and press access to United States v. Pfc. Manning, visit the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed a petition requesting the Army Court of Criminal Appeals (ACCA) “to order the Judge to grant the public and press access to the government’s motion papers, the court’s own orders, […]

Last week, in a Grisham-like courtroom scene, Bradley Manning—the Army private charged with leaking hundreds of thousands of classified war logs and State Department cables to WikiLeaks—testified publicly for the first time since his arrest in May of 2010. For more than five hours, Manning described the two months he spent in a “cage” inside […]

A coroner is to hold a private hearing to decide if an inquest into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko should hear secret evidence from the intelligence services. Lawyers for the dissident’s widow, Marina, will be excluded from the special session. … 27 February 2013 Find this 27 February 2013 © 2012 Evening […]

LONDON — A lawyer for the family of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko accused the British and Russian governments Tuesday of trying to stymie a long-delayed inquest into his poisoning death. Litvinenko, a Russian intelligence agent turned Kremlin critic, died in London in November 2006 after drinking tea laced with the rare radioactive isotope polonium-210. […]