Chelsea Manning, the former soldier who leaked the the vast trove of material known as the Wikleaks cables, says she refused to talk this week to a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia. Manning confirmed that the questioning concerned her actions in 2010.. The grand jury investigation is believed to be related to the investigation of...
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Bellingcat Confirms Iranian Forces Hacked U.S. Drone
Last week The Deep State reported the claim of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that it had hacked a U.S. drone forcing American forces to destroy it This week Nick Waters of the Bellingcat open-source investigative site says that independently obtained video confirms that Iranian back forces did bring down a U.S. drone in...
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Eyes in the Sky: A Conference on Aerial Surveillance
The Project on Government Oversight, otherwise known as POGO, is a Washington pubic interest group, on the cutting edge of accountability. POGO is calling attention to the growth of aerial surveillance in America with a conference on March 7. This is not the NSA-CIA version of spying–mass surveillance and espionage–but a more ordinary task carried...
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The Ancient History of Espionage
British intelligence historian Christopher Andrew via The National Interest, the first books to argue that intelligence should have a central role in war and peace were written not in classical Greece or Rome but in ancient China and the Indian subcontinent: The Art of War (Sunzi bingfa), traditionally ascribed to Confucius’s contemporary, the Chinese general...
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Spooks for Hire: How Mossad Seeds the Global Private Intelligence Industry
The privatization of secret intelligence is happening all over the world. It’s like the privatization of everything else: a function of government is farmed out to corporations.. And it’s something of a menace to social movements Just as the job of army–to guard, shoot, and kill– is turned over to mercenaries, now known in corporate-speak...