Mark Kennedy, who infiltrated environmental movement until his cover was blown, demands up to £100,000 for ‘personal injury’ Former police spy Mark Kennedy, who was known as Mark Stone, claims the undercover operation ‘destroyed his life’. Photograph: Philipp Ebeling for the Guardian A former spy is suing the Metropolitan police for failing to “protect” him […]

Mark Kennedy, 43, is claiming damages for ‘personal injury’ and ‘consequential loss and damage’ Ten women and one man are also suing the Met for emotional trauma The landmark case is due to be heard at the High Court next year A former undercover police officer is suing Scotland Yard for failing to ‘protect’ him […]

Companies making use of offshore secrecy include firm that supplied surveillance software used by repressive regimes. A number of so-called nominee directors of companies registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) have connections to military or intelligence activities, an investigation has revealed. In the past, the British arms giant BAE was the most notorious user […]

Companies making use of offshore secrecy include firm that supplied surveillance software used by repressive regimes Bahraini protesters flee teargas. Activists’ computers in the country were infected with Finfisher spying software. Photograph: Mohammed al-Shaikh/AFP/Getty Images A number of nominee directors of companies registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) have connections to military or intelligence […]

TULSA, Okla. — Jim Thavisay is secretly stalking one of his classmates. And one of them is spying on him. “I have an idea who it is, but I’m not 100% sure yet,” said Thavisay, a 25-year-old former casino blackjack dealer. Stalking is part of the curriculum in the Cyber Corps, an unusual two-year program […]

University of Tulsa’s Cyber Corps programme is training students to write viruses, hack networks, crack passwords and mine data The little known course has been named as one of four ‘centres of excellence’ and places 85 per cent of graduates with the NSA or CIA Not your average student: The University of Tulsa is training […]

Frank Olson’s sons claim their father was killed by the CIA Did the CIA spread LSD? The sons of a CIA scientist who unwittingly took LSD and fell to his death in 1953 have sued the government, saying the CIA killed their father. Eric and Nils Olson claim their father, Frank Olson, was pushed out […]

Dr. Frank Olson’s life was a mystery, full of dubious experiments for the CIA, and unexplained trips to Porton Down. His death, in 1953, was stranger still. Was it suicide? A failed exercise in brainwashing? Or murder? And what did he know that made his death so convenient? Next week, a grand jury may finally […]

Frank Olsen’s family claim CIA threw him from a hotel window and covered up his death after he witnessed torture by agency operatives in Europe CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The agency is being sued by the family of scientist Frank Olson, who died in 1953. Photograph: Dennis Brack/EPA/Corbis The family of a US government […]

Bei den von der WAZ veröffentlichten Berichten handelt es sich um sogenannte „Unterrichtungen des Parlamentes“. Diese Papiere stellt das Verteidigungsministerium jede Woche dem Verteidigungsausschuss des Bundestages zu Verfügung. Sie sollen die Abgeordneten über die weltweiten Einsätze der Bundeswehr auf dem Laufenden halten und sind mit dem Hinweis „VS – Nur für den Dienstgebrauch“ gestempelt. -> […]

Die Afghanistan Papiere sind online. Tausende geheime Seiten über einen Krieg, den die deutschen Soldaten nicht mehr gewinnen können. Unser Video gibt eine Einführung in das Projekt. -> zu den Afghanistan Papieren Was soll das? Über den Krieg in Afghanistan wird in der Öffentlichkeit nicht immer wahrheitsgetreu gesprochen. Das wollen wir ändern und die Faktenbasis […]

Protesters take action out in the cold rain at Bradley Manning’s November 27th hearing that addressed his unlawful pretrial punishment. Ft. Meade, MD – Yesterday at Bradley Manning’s Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning’s pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other […]

  Manning takes stand at pre-trial hearing and speaks at length about his treatment by the military following his arrest in 2010 Bradley Manning steps out of a security vehicle as he is escorted into the courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP After 917 days in military captivity, the world finally heard on […]

Investors going to Africa face political risk in some countries and the very bad transportation and infrastructure, says Erik Prince. Photo: SCMP The man who built up Blackwater – the giant private security force that guarded US diplomats in some of the world’s most dangerous places, including Afghanistan and Iraq – sees Africa as his […]

IPCC tells MPs that hundreds of officers beyond South Yorkshire force will be investigated and more documents uncovered The police watchdog said it was getting new information from members of the public about the Hillsborough disaster. Photograph: PA The massive scale of the inquiry by the police watchdog into the Hillsborough disaster emerged on Tuesday […]

WASHINGTON — Authorities with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the CIA, decided to remove the terms “attack,” “Al Qaeda” and “terrorism” from unclassified guidance provided to the Obama administration several days after militants attacked the U.S. mission in Benghazi, a senior official said Tuesday. The U.S. ambassador to the […]

Frederick W Humphries II unmasked as investigator who was banned from case because of relationship with Jill Kelley Jill Kelley complained to FBI agent Frederick Humphries about threatening emails from Paula Broadwell, who had an affair with David Petraeus. Photograph: Chris O’Meara/AP The FBI agent who set in motion the investigation that brought down David […]

  Former CIA director insists no information was passed to Paula Broadwell as closed-door congressional hearing begins David Petraeus resigned his post as CIA director after the FBI uncovered his extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Former CIA director David Petraeus has denied passing classified documents to his lover, Paula Broadwell, as […]

An undated photo shows Soviet dictator Josef Stalin with his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva. Alliluyeva, who changed her name to Lana Peters. (AP Photo/Courtesy Icarus Films) (TheBlaze/AP) — Newly declassified documents show the FBI kept close tabs on Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s only daughter after her high profile defection to the United States in 1967, gathering […]

Josef Stalin’s only daughter, who went by the name of Lana Peters after marrying an American in 1970, died in a Wisconsin nursing home in 2011. MADISON, Wisconsin — Newly declassified documents show the FBI kept close tabs on Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s only daughter after her high-profile defection to the United States in 1967, […]

“The police cannot be permitted to hide behind the cloak of secrecy, when they have been guilty of one of the most intrusive and complete invasions of privacy that can be imagined.” The approach of the Metropolitan Police to the litigation has been obstructive from the outset, refusing to provide any substantive response to the […]

Mark Kennedy, in environmentalist mode: three of the women referred to in court had intimate relationships with him. Photograph: Guardian Undercover police officers had long-term sexual relationships with political activists and joined them at family gatherings and on holidays to make their targets “emotionally dependent” on them, according to papers submitted to the high court. […]

Scotland Yard has been accused of ‘trying to hide its secrets’ after appealing for a case involving female activists who were ‘conned into sexual relationships’ with undercover police officers to be heard in secret. One man and 11 women from environmental activist groups are seeking damages from Scotland Yard for the ‘emotional trauma’ they suffered […]

  Scotland Yard has been accused of trying to “hide its dirty secrets” after it sought secret hearings for cases brought by female activists who had sexual relationships with undercover police officers. Eleven women and one man are suing the Met for emotional trauma after claiming they were tricked into forming intimate relationships with undercover […]

Police accused of planting weapons next to Marikana miners’ bodies in bloodiest such incident since end of apartheid Police in South Africa have been accused of planting weapons on the bodies of dead miners as part of an official cover-up of the Marikana massacre, in August. Damning photographic evidence was presented to an independent commission […]

A year ago Germany was rocked by the discovery of a group of right-wing extremists calling themselves the National Socialist Underground. Controversy and a number of investigations have since followed. November 4, 2011: A bank robbery in Eisenach, Germany. The two robbers, who escaped on bicycles, got away with 70,000 euros ($89,800). Sharp-eyed witnesses provided […]

A secret paper written by senior police officers paints a disastrous picture of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency. It suggests that the service may have actually strengthened the country’s far-right scene through its large network of far-right informants. It’s a Wednesday in early summer 2012, on the terrace of a Chinese restaurant in Nuremberg’s city center. […]

Der Berliner Verfassungsschutz hat noch im Juni 2012 mehrere Akten im Bereich Rechtsextremismus schreddern lassen – trotz der auf Hochtouren laufenden Aufarbeitung der NSU-Mordserie. Es ist nicht die erste Panne im Haus von Innensenator Henkel. Der spricht von “menschlichem Versagen”. Berlin – Der Berliner Verfassungsschutz hat Akten geschreddert, die möglicherweise für den NSU-Untersuchungsausschuss des Bundestags […]

Es gab eine Zeit, da trug Achim Schmid kein graues Sakko, sondern ein weißes Gewand und eine Kapuze über dem Kopf. Der 37-Jährige war damals Chef einer deutschen Gruppierung des Ku-Klux-Klans. Ende 2002 stieg er aus. Zehn Jahre später holt ihn seine Vergangenheit ein. „Einmalige Ku-Klux-Klan-Affäre des Verfassungsschutzes“ titelte die „TAZ“ vor ein paar Tagen. […]

In mid-October, a massive car bomb killed Wissam al-Hassan in downtown Beirut. The intelligence chief was buried as a hero and praised by the West for his help in investigating the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Or was he a double agent, possibly also active sometimes for the Syrians? It’s a story […]

The fallout from the assassination of Internal Security Forces (ISF) Information Branch chief Wissam al-Hassan nearly two weeks ago was very similar to that following the series of assassinations that has rocked Lebanon since 2005. Syria was blamed immediately, and those who expressed doubt were labeled collaborators. March 14 alluded to Hezbollah’s involvement as well. […]

Four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed in a six-hour, commando-style attack on the US Mission on September 11 CIA Director David Petraeus did not attend the ceremony when the coffins arrived back in US to conceal the CIA operation in eastern Libya Al Qaeda in North Africa and Islamist militia Ansar al-Sharia were […]

BEIJING—Cruising around Beijing in a silver Jaguar with “007” in the license plate, Neil Heywood seemed to relish the air of intrigue that surrounded him. In meetings, the British consultant hinted about his connections to Bo Xilai—the onetime Communist Party highflier—but often he would refuse to hand over a business card. He spoke Mandarin, smoked […]

An investigation by The Wall Street Journal has concluded that Neil Heywood, the British businessman who was murdered in China last November, was an active informant for British intelligence at the time of his death. The news appears to confirm intelNews’ assessment of April 2012 that Heywood was in fact connected with British intelligence. A […]

Taiwan has arrested three retired military officers on suspicion of spying for China, allegations that have unsettled lawmakers fearful that state secrets could be leaked to Beijing. The accused include the former chief of political warfare at the Taiwanese naval meteorology and oceanography office, according a Ministry of National Defense statement sent Monday to local […]

Taiwan has arrested three retired military officers suspected of spying for China, officials say. One of the officers, identified by local media as Chang Chih-hsin, was the former political warfare head of the meteorology and oceanography office. The Defence Ministry has said that Mr Chang did not leak sensitive material. But local media warn his […]

Authorities in Taiwan have announced the arrest at least eight current and former military officers on suspicion of conducting espionage on behalf of China. The eight are accused of leaking Taiwanese military secrets to Beijing, in a case that some Taiwanese legislators described yesterday as one of the most serious instances of espionage in the […]

Files from the Security Service (MI5) released to The National Archives today include the personal post-war diaries of Guy Liddell, then Deputy Director General of MI5. Liddell’s diaries cover the period 1945 to 1953 and provide a fascinating new insight into the early Cold War era. Daily entries record Liddell’s impressions of key moments including […]

LONDON — Overstaffed, overconfident and all too often over here. That’s how a top British spymaster saw his American counterparts at the FBI and CIA, according to newly declassified diaries from the years after World War II. Friction between British spies and their American colleagues is a recurring theme in journals kept by Guy Liddell, […]

Caretakers and community workers are the way to improve safety in deprived communities, not more technology Not long ago, I was shown around an award-winning housing estate in east London, which was the proud recipient of a Secured by Design (SBD) award. The housing on the gated estate had small windows, reinforced steel doors and […]