De Belgische Staatsveiligheid heeft jarenlang een ‘mol’ gehad binnen de top van het Vlaams Belang. Dat zegt Bart Debie, ex-politiecommissaris en gewezen veiligheidsadviseur van partijkopstuk Filip Dewinter. ‘De Staatsveiligheid deed onderzoek naar de financiering van de partij en naar de contacten van Filip Dewinter’, zegt Debie. ‘En ik was drie jaar lang hun informant.’ ‘Wat […]

When the man known to his activist girlfriend as John Barker disappeared, she embarked on a journey that led her to the former home of a child whose name he used as an alias John Dines taking part in a race in the early 1990s when he was serving as an undercover sergeant in the […]

Deputy assistant commissioner Pat Gallan summoned before MPs to respond to revelations officers used IDs of children John Dines, an undercover police sergeant, as he appeared in the early 1980s when he posed as John Barker, a protester against capitalism. Dines’s alternative identity used that of a child who had died. Photograph: Guardian A senior […]

The Metropolitan Police covertly stole the identities of about 80 dead children for use in operations by undercover police officers, according to a new investigation. The practice, condemned as “gruesome” by Keith Vaz, the chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, carried on for three decades as a means for police to infiltrate anti-racist, anti-capitalist […]

Exclusive: Undercover officers created aliases based on details found in birth and death records, Guardian investigation reveals John Dines, an undercover police sergeant, as he appeared in the early 1990s when he posed as John Barker, a protester against capitalism Britain’s largest police force stole the identities of an estimated 80 dead children and issued […]

ATTAC Switzerland has taken notice with great satisfaction of the civil court’s president Jean-Luc Genillard’s decision of 25 January 2013 in the case «Nestlegate». The Court has convicted NESTLE and SECURITAS AG of spying activities directed at ATTAC. It has recognized that these parties conducted illegal infiltrations. The claimants have been entitled to a financial […]

De Zwitserse afdeling van Attac heeft op 20 juni 2008 de autoriteiten van het Kanton Vaud, Zwitserland, gevraagd om de infiltratie van Attac door de multinational Nestlé te onderzoeken. Nestlé is het bedrijf van onder andere KitKat, After Eight, Bros en Nespresso. Acteur en regisseur George Clooney is de belichaming van het hippe kopje koffie. […]

Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, has been found guilty of spying on Swiss activists in 2003 with the help of Securitas, a private security company. Jean-Luc Genillard, president of the Lausanne civil court, told the two companies to pay 3,000 Swiss Francs ($3,267.55) to each of nine victims. Vevey, Switzerland, based Nestlé sells $91 […]

Press release issued by ATTAC Switzerland, 26 January 2013 (English translation provided by ATTAC Switzerland – click here for German version) ATTAC Switzerland has taken notice with great satisfaction of the civil court’s president Jean-Luc Genillard’s decision of 25 January 2013 in the case «Nestlegate». The Court has convicted NESTLE and SECURITAS AG of spying […]

On 24 and 25 January 2012, the multinational food-industry corporation Nestlé and the Swiss private security firm Securitas were in court in Lausanne, Switzerland, defending themselves against a civil suit for spying on the “anti-globalization” movement ATTAC. This trial, which has been delayed for a long time, has finally lift the veil of secrecy that […]

Mehr als 20 Jahre lang sollen zwei russische Agenten in Deutschland gelebt haben: Sie nannten sich Andreas und Heidrun Anschlag, studierten, arbeiteten, heirateten, bekamen eine Tochter und spitzelten wohl durchweg für Moskau. Wie geht das? Kann es richtiges Leben geben in einem falschen? Welche Regungen sind echt, welche Entscheidungen aufrichtig, welche Handlungen gehören einem selbst? […]

A married couple accused of spying for the Russian secret services for more than 20 years went on trial in Germany on Tuesday, in one of the biggest espionage court cases since the Cold War. Germany charges two alleged Russian spies – National (28 Sep 12) Russian spies suspected of stealing car secrets – National […]

A spectacular trial has begun at a Stuttgart court involving a German-based couple accused of spying on NATO and the EU for decades on Russia’s behalf. Neighbors say they knew something was fishy. It reads like a John le Carre novel: “dead mail boxes,” secret radio signals, encrypted messages hidden in plain sight on the […]

The two accused spies, their faces not shown due to a court order, appearing in a German courtroom Tuesday. Germany put a married couple thought to be in their mid-40s on trial this week on suspicion that they spied for Russia for more than two decades under the cover of being an ordinary middle-class family. […]

Days after he was sentenced to 30 months in prison, John Kiriakou — the first CIA official to be jailed for any reason relating to the torture program — denounces President Obama’s appointment of John Brennan to head the CIA. “I’ve known John Brennan since 1990,” Kiriakou says. “I worked directly for John Brennan twice. […]

Former CIA agent John Kiriakou speaks out just days after he was sentenced to 30 months in prison, becoming the first CIA official to face jail time for any reason relating to the U.S. torture program. Under a plea deal, Kiriakou admitted to a single count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by revealing […]

Judge says former intelligence officer who exposed aspects of use of torture should have been jailed for longer Former CIA officer John Kiriakou leaves a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP The former CIA officer John Kiriakou was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison, by a federal judge who rejected […]

How a discovery in a Gitmo detainee’s cell led to charges against ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou. On Monday, the Justice Department charged former CIA officer and author John Kiriakou [1] with repeatedly “disclosing classified information to journalists, including the name of a covert CIA officer and information revealing the role of another CIA employee in […]

WASHINGTON — Looking back, John C. Kiriakou admits he should have known better. But when the F.B.I. called him a year ago and invited him to stop by and “help us with a case,” he did not hesitate. In his years as a C.I.A. operative, after all, Mr. Kiriakou had worked closely with F.B.I. agents […]

Kathryn Bigelow given classified information by high ranking official She was also briefed by CIA and military officials and Navy Seals Campaign group said the White House has acted improperly The director of an Oscar-nominated film about the killing of Osama bin Laden was given classified information about the operation by United States intelligence chiefs. […]

Oscar contender is triggering growing criticism from US senators that the movie supports ‘waterboarding’ It has received five Oscar nominations and created a buzz among movie fans around the world. But Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, which recounts the operation that traced and killed Osama bin Laden, is at the centre of growing controversy over […]

Action against al-Qa’ida in North Africa could last decades, PM warns The West faces a decades-long battle to defeat al-Qa’ida in North Africa, David Cameron warned today, as he signalled a dramatic shift in the UK’s fight against terrorism. The heads of MI5, MI6, GCHQ and the Chief of the Defence Staff will gather on […]

WASHINGTON — The United States military is preparing to establish a drone base in northwest Africa so that it can increase surveillance missions on the local affiliate of Al Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups that American and other Western officials say pose a growing menace to the region. For now, officials say they envision […]

Missile manufacturer, police forces and golf video company among more than 130 groups licensed to use technology A surveillance drone used by Merseyside police, one of three forces that have permission to use UAVs. Photograph: John Giles/PA Defence firms, police forces and fire services are among more than 130 organisations that have permission to fly […]

The ARGUS-IS can view an area of 15 sq/miles in a single image Its zoom capability can detect an object as small as 6in on the ground Developed by BAE as part of a $18million DARPA project System works by stringing together 368 digital camera chips A sinister airborne surveillance camera gives the U.S. military […]

Multimillion-pound plans by three police forces to outsource services to the firm at the centre of the Olympics security debacle have collapsed. Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner David Lloyd said the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Strategic Alliance had discontinued negotiations with G4S. The three forces were looking in to working with G4S in a bid […]

ALMERE / JITSKE BOKHOVEN – D66 Almere vindt het gebruik van de Raven, onbemande vliegtuigjes (drones) die sinds enige tijd worden ingezet om inbrekers te pakken, een vergaande inbreuk op de privacy van Almeerders. Fractievoorzitter Jan Lems heeft dan ook schriftelijke vragen aan het college van burgemeester en wethouders gesteld om erachter te komen wat […]

De Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD) leest niet elke e-mail die wordt verstuurd, ook al is dit een hardnekkige mythe die blijft bestaan, zo liet de dienst onlangs weten. Toch wordt mogelijk dit jaar de wet aangepast waardoor de AIVD meer bevoegdheden krijgt om internetverkeer te onderscheppen. Tijdens de NCSC Conferentie in Den Haag sprak […]

Most law enforcement agencies refuse to reveal the surveillance technologies they use, claiming doing so could threaten national security. But authorities in Germany have shown it’s possible to be transparent without the sky falling in—by disclosing how they’ve spent millions on spy tools to help monitor Skype, email, and mobile phones. Earlier this year, German […]

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu criticizez the government for not addressing the issue of illegal recordings and locating the perpetrators of these crimes Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), speaks during a breakfast with Ankara media bureau chiefs. The leader of the main opposition party likened […]

The rumors started to hit the political corridor as soon as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan’s Security Chief Zeki Bulut was removed from office on Sept. 7, 2012. He was actually appointed as the police chief of the Western Anatolian town of Denizli. On paper it was a promotion, but in fact it was a clear […]

Fingers continue to be pointed as speculation grows in Ankara over who is responsible for wiretapping the prime minister Speculations have been mounting over perpetrators of the eavesdropping of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after he made public Dec. 21 that wiretapping devices were found in his home-office. Erdoğan then suggested it was actors within […]

Early last January, two concealed audio surveillance devices were found at the Ankara headquarters of Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP). Officials and supporters of the center-left party, which is currently Turkey’s main opposition political force, were shocked by the discovery, and an investigation was launched to uncover the culprits. In a surprising move, Turkish police […]

Judge rules that Manning will not be allowed to present evidence about his motives for the leak – a key plank of his defence Colonel Denise Lind ruled that general issues of motive were not relevant to the trial stage of the court martial. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of being […]

Maina Kiai says he is ‘deeply concerned’ about use of officers such as Mark Kennedy to infiltrate non-violent groups Mark Kennedy, an undercover police officer who infiltrated a group of environmental protesters. Photograph: Philipp Ebeling A senior United Nations official has called on the British government to launch a judge-led public inquiry into the “shocking” […]

Judge rules half of the women’s cases can be heard in open court but half must be first heard by secret tribunal The judge said that claims against two police officers – Mark Kennedy (pictured above) and a second spy who posed as Mark Jacobs – should first be heard by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. […]

A sophisticated computer virus discovered at the center of the French government’s secure computer network was planted there by the United States, according to unnamed sources inside France’s intelligence community. Paris-based magazine L’Express, France’s version of Time magazine, says in its current issue that the alleged American cyberattack took place shortly before last April’s Presidential […]

EXCLUSIF. En mai, l’équipe de Nicolas Sarkozy a été victime d’une opération d’espionnage informatique hypersophistiquée. Les sources de L’Express concordent : le coup vient de… l’ami américain. Révélations sur une attaque qui s’inscrit dans une bataille planétaire. CYBERGUERRE – Les intrus qui se sont introduits dans les réseaux informatiques de l’Elysée en mai dernier ont […]

Circus Belly-Wien heeft in Almelo bezwaar aangetekend tegen de aan het circus geweigerde speelvergunning voor 2012. In TC/Tubantia lezen we waarom Almelo geen speelvergunning wilde afgeven aan Circus Belly-Wien: De gemeente vreest een verstoring van de openbare orde door vechtpartijen met dierenrechtenactivisten. De door de gemeente Almelo genoemde demonstraties van dierenrechtenactivisten en vechtpartijen met dierenrechtenactivisten […]

ALMELO – De gemeente Almelo heeft circus Belly Wien ten onrechte geweigerd, zegt de Commissie Klassiek Circus. De AIVD en de politie zouden een hetze tegen het circus zijn begonnen. De commissie legt die complottheorie uit op de eigen website. Almelo weigert Belly Wien omdat de gemeente bang is voor ongeregeldheden. Die angst is gebaseerd […]