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Ads by Google      Intelligence Collection From the beginning, the CIA was resented by military intelligence, the FBI, and the press. The MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs) was the name given to the NKVD in 1946 after some of its foreign intelligence operations were spun off into Smersh (a "Death to Spies" agency), the MGB (Ministry of State Security – military counterespionage), and K1 (economic intelligence). of an espionage operation: (1) a way for the agent to get a hold of someone in case of emergency; (2) a way for the intelligence officer to get information from the agent; and (3) a way to pay the agent. http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/427/427lect02.htm   (13158 words)      t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt Blair-Powell UN Report Written by Student An analysis of the footnotes for the al-Marashi essay clearly demonstrate that his work was meant to describe Iraq's intelligence apparatus and military situation in the 1990s. The British report states that the Iraqi intelligence agency is "spying on foreign embassies in Iraq." The al-Marashi essay's version states that the Iraqi intelligence agency is "monitoring foreign embassies in Iraq." The rhetorical leap from "monitoring" to "spying" is evident. Britain's report was touted as an up-to-the-minute intelligence review of the situation in Iraq. http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/020803A.htm   (1401 words)      IWS Intelligence & Counterintelligence Chapter Counterintelligence - (DOD) Information gathered and activities conducted to protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted by or on behalf of foreign governments or elements thereof, foreign organizations, or foreign persons, or international terrorist activities. US Defense and Intelligence Abbreviations and Acronyms November 1997 DVP-2600-1828-97, Joint Military Intelligence College Congressional Reports: Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, July 2003 http://www.iwar.org.uk/sigint   (1739 words)      Jorge Zaverucha, Brazil's New Old Order The discovery demonstrates that contrary to government assertions, the military intelligence service has not become apolitical and subject to control by Congress; instead, national security doctrine principles remain operative. The intelligence companies were directly subordinate to area military commands and outside the control of the national Congress. Secret Brazilian military documents recently discovered in the sourthern state of Pará have revealed that military intelligence services continue to spy on civilians considered "enemies" of the current order, just as they did during the military regime that ruled Brazil between 1964 and 1985. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~caguirre/zaverucha3pr.html   (1739 words)      Intelligence Resources Bush and Classified Intelligence Leak RFE/RL 07 Apr 2006 -- Democrats are calling for an explanation from Pres. Pentagon: Russian Intelligence and Saddam VOA 24 Mar 2006 -- A DoD report quotes an Iraqi document as saying Russia provided intell to Iraq US, Russia and Intelligence Claim VOA 28 Mar 2006 -- SecState Rice called on Russia to conduct a "serious investigation" into an allegation Russian officials provided intell to Iraqi leaders http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell   (1404 words)      UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY - WHO WE ARE Naval Intelligence monitors the maritime shipment of goods to identify illicit cargoes of military systems, nuclear material, drugs, and illegal aliens. The majority of Naval Intelligence personnel, civilian and military, are assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). It is also the principal source for intelligence on global merchant shipping activities and commercial fishing; in particular, to support national objectives in counter-proliferation, counter-narcotics activities, embargo support, and customs enforcement. http://www.intelligence.gov/1-members_navy.shtml   (349 words)      U.S. Military Intelligence USAMINOA (U. Army Military Intelligence Noncommissioned Officer Academy) History of the 441st Counterintelligence CIC and 441st Military Intelligence MI Military Intelligence by John Patrick Finnegan (Chapters 1-11) via US Army Center for Military History http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/milintel.html   (668 words)      UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY - WHO WE ARE The intelligence organizations of the four military services (Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marines) concentrate largely on concerns related to their specific missions. The former mission has grown enormously in importance since September 2001, many new analysts have been hired, and the FBI has been reorganized in an attempt to ensure that intelligence functions are not subordinated to traditional law enforcement efforts. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has all-source analytical capabilities that cover the whole world outside US borders. http://www.intelligence.gov/1-members.shtml   (614 words)      Military Tribunal Authorization Act of 2002 (9) Military trials of the terrorists may be appropriate to protect the safety of the public and those involved in the investigation and prosecution, to facilitate the use of classified information as evidence without compromising intelligence or military efforts, and otherwise to protect national security interests. Second, on the length of detention, the bill authorizes detention of individuals subject to military tribunals for as long as the President certifies that the United States is in armed conflict with al Qaeda or Taliban forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere, or that an investigation, prosecution or post-trial proceeding against the detainee is ongoing. This leaves introduction of legislation showing how military tribunals may be constituted to comport with constitutional mandates and values as one of the few avenues to inform the process in development of regulations. http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_cr/s1941.html   (614 words)      Brazil and CIA OBAN united the various military police intelligence services into one paramilitary organization which knew no limits. CENIMAR, the navy's intelligence section, had its main prison and torture center in the basement of the Ministry of the Navy, near the docks of the harbor in Rio de Janeiro. The Advanced War College is responsible for national security studies, development of military strategy, and ideas on nation building -- the last being taken from the Pentagon and the U.S. Army's experience in reconstructing postwar Japan. http://www.namebase.org/brazil.html   (614 words)      Political/Military issues Military gathering intelligence on Amnesty International and Christian Aid. To be an effective military force into the 21st century, the US Army should start now to redefine the battlefield so that new operational concepts can evolve and produce the doctrine and materiel requirements that will lead to meaningful restructuring of all components of the land force. The Military and the Environment in the Post Cold War Era - We are undertaking a long-term and rather ambitious research program to examine the changing relationship of the military and the environment over time and place. http://publish.uwo.ca/~mcdaniel/weblinks/poli.html   (17090 words)      Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD The Iraqi Intelligence Service was the former Regime’s largest intelligence service; the Directorate of General Military Intelligence and the Directorate of General Security supported the Regime on a smaller scale. The Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) served the Regime as a conventional intelligence service, but it also undertook denial and deception operations to thwart UN inspectors and for the illicit procurement of dual-use materiel and military equipment. The original mission of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS), commonly known as the Mukhabarat, was foreign intelligence collection, domestic counterintelligence, and clandestine operations—standard activities for intelligence services worldwide—but the former Regime also used the service, beginning in late 1997, as a tool for the Military Industrial Commission (MIC) and its illicit procurement efforts. http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/chap1_annxB.html   (4266 words)      DEBKAfile - Intelligence On May 19, DEBKA-Net-Weekly revealed its contents: a large stack of Iraqi intelligence documents that US forces seized in Baghdad and which expose the deep penetration of the Mubarak regime achieved by the deposed Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein. In just a few weeks, X will step out from the extraordinary cover under which he lived and operated in secret for half a century as a spy for the Israeli Mossad and US Central Intelligence Agency. US intelligence has dissected the makeup of the guerrilla groups lurking in Baghdad and points north in an area enclosed by Tikrit, Haditha, Fallujah and Baquba. http://www.debka.com/section.php?cid=7   (1477 words)      International Criminal Tribunal For Afghanistan at Tokyo, 3/10/04 Hundreds of prisoners were killed and maimed for which the Defendant has direct responsibility, as the Commander-in-Chief of US forces the decision to bomb the prisoners was taken by special forces and Intelligence teams. Weapons deployed against military targets and combatants should not therefore be of indiscriminate effect as to affect civilians and those who have laid down their arms. General Richard B. Meyers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States military, admitted, that no US aircraft from any US air base, or from Norad, the joint US-Canadian Air Defense Command were mobilized or scrambled on 11 th September 2001 to protect the citizens of the United States. http://www.ratical.org/radiation/DU/ICTforAatT.html   (1477 words)      MSN Encarta - U.S.-Iraq War Critics pointed to an October 2002 assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which concluded that Hussein was unlikely to cooperate with terrorist groups unless he felt that his regime was in peril. U.S.-Iraq War, military action led by the United States against the regime of Saddam Hussein, the authoritarian leader of Iraq. Opponents of military action against Iraq challenged the Bush administration’s case. They argued that an invasion to overthrow Hussein would pull resources away from the U.S. campaign against terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701610462/U_S_-Iraq_War.html   (1199 words)      WorldTribune.com: Bush administration prepares to get tough with Syria U.S. military intelligence: Saddam transferred WMD to Syria Officials said the Assad regime was warned that the failure of the military talks, which began on Tuesday in Damascus, could trigger what they termed a major deterioration in U.S. relations with Syria. They said the Defense Department has drafted a range of military options meant to put Damascus on the defensive and encourage insurrection within Syria. http://216.26.163.62/2004/ss_syria_09_28.html   (694 words)      Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction The only publicly acknowledged evidence for the claim that Iraq had tried to acquire uranium from Africa, which President Bush made in his January 28, 2003 State of the Union address, based on British intelligence information, are these documents that were claimed to have been official correspondence involving officials of the Republic of Niger. Intelligence analysts from the United States and other nations immediately began to scrutinize the document, and senior U.S. officials quickly rejected the claims. The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence Research (INR) argued that while Saddam wished to acquire a nuclear weapon, it did not believe that Iraq's recent activities made a compelling case that a comprehensive attempt to acquire nuclear weapons was being made. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB80   (7384 words)      Hans von Sponeck: Must We Attack Iraq? There is a wealth of intelligence information about Iraq on military and political issues in the hands of the United Nations to gauge the sincerity of Iraq's willingness to dialogue. Quick fixes with military hard-ware will not produce the civilian soft-ware for stability and peace. Dialogue and negotiations, not military confrontation, should be the basis for this approach. http://www.counterpunch.org/sponeck1.html   (1543 words)      CHAPTER THREE: TRANSITION INTO A TACTICAL FORCE 1950 - 1952 The unit was responsible for making up identification cards on the IBCs and ascertaining their knowledge ability in various fields of intelligence (e.g., ground military, air, naval, political, economic, or scientific and technical), and to notify the agencies primarily concerned with that type of information. Border incidents were frequent and included shots being fired at FRG border patrols and American military personnel along the border, occasional small scale patrols into FRG territory, and kidnappings of German and American personnel. Already tighter than the East German border, efforts begun after the Communist Coup of 1948 (see Chapter 2, International Relations), were intensified during 1950. http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/documents/BorderOps/ch3.htm   (1543 words)      Iraq Chronology Also, the U.K. military reportedly is negotiating with Iraqi oil workers to return to work in the country's North Rumaila oil fields. Resolution 949, condemning Iraq's large-scale deployment of military units toward the Kuwaiti border and demanding their complete withdrawal. Iraq had cut off exports when clients had refused to pay a surcharge directly to Iraq, which would violate terms of the "oil for food" program permitting Iraq to export oil while sanctions remain in effect, rather than to the account controlled by the United Nations Sanctions Committee. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/iraqchron.html   (17659 words)      IRAQ CRISIS Statements from the U.K. Prime Minister's office include background information on Iraq and the current crisis; links to the P.M.'s speeches and key information on the U.K. military and their support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (Operation Telic). Information on military forces of the U.K., U.S., and Iraq, and the missile defenses of Israel. Current news and links to reports on the economic, political and humanitarian consequences of the Iraq war. http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/iraq/iraq_crisis.htm   (2021 words)      cannabisnews.com: Call for Military Has Border Uneasy After conducting its own inquiry, the Border Patrol acknowledged inadequate intelligence-sharing and poor coordination with the military, as well, but it did not accept any guilt. Military units still carry out other anti-narcotics duties, including air reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, and road building along the border as part of the joint task force with federal authorities. In October 1998, the Pentagon ended armed military patrols in support of civil law enforcement anti-drug operations along the border. http://www.cisum.com/news/thread11628.shtml   (2021 words)      Iraq Survey Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bush, on his part, had convened the Iraq Intelligence Commission in February 2004 fostering the impression that an independent commission would help to support the notion that his decision-making ability or honesty was not to blame, but rather that faulty intelligence was at play. Until March 2003, Saddam Hussein convinced his top military commanders that Iraq did indeed possess WMD that could be used against any U.S. invasion force, in order to prevent a coup over the prospects of fighting the U.S.-led Coalition without these weapons. Bush's primary rationale for invading Iraq was the allegation that Saddam was actively developing WMD and had stockpiles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Survey_Group   (1952 words)      Iraqi assassination unit outlined in file - baltimoresun.com The documents said the missions of the Al Ghafiqi project were carried out by individuals from within the Intelligence Service and by some outside it, including the paramilitary Fedayeen Saddam and the Military Intelligence Service, most recently headed by Gen. Zahayr Naqib. BAGHDAD // The Iraqi Intelligence Service established a unit to assassinate Saddam Hussein's enemies at home and abroad that claimed 66 successful "operations" between 1998 and 2000, according to documents obtained by The Times. Found on the floor of a looted Intelligence Service villa on the east bank of the Tigris River here, the six-page file described the program and contained suggestions for improving its effectiveness — including obtaining poisonous gas disguised as perfume or explosives that would detonate when the car of the target passed by. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/iraq/bal-assassins0425,0,532646.story?coll=bal-home-headlines   (950 words)      2003 Invasion of Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia British officials did not dispute the document's authenticity, and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's spokesman has called the document "nothing new." The document corroborates the information in the full advice of Lord Goldsmith: "The Attorney-General said that the desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action. Their view was that Iraq had violated the terms of the cease-fire by breaching two key conditions and thus made the invasion of Iraq a legal continuation of the earlier war. Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Zarqawi had settled in Kurdish northern Iraq (an area not controlled by Saddam Hussein's government) where he joined the terrorist organization Ansar al-Islam, which was an enemy of the Ba'athist government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq   (10109 words)      Grenada: Hindsight From a military point of view, the lack of accurate intelligence was to be the most serious failure of the operations. (9:174) The Revolutionary Military Council (RMC) " government of terrorists" repeatedly assured the American government about the safety of the Americans on the island, and allowed those who wished to 1eave to do so without hindrance. For U. military operations to succeed today and in the foreseeable future given the often divergent nature of service interests to succeed in war utilization of "joint" methods, structures, and relationships is required. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1992/KLM.htm   (4263 words)      Brazil and CIA As opposition to the military junta increased, control of the state apparatus became synonymous with increased surveillance, arrests, and torture of those engaging in political activity. The Brazilian army's "intellectual gray eminence," Couto e Silva was particularly influential in the formation of the Advanced War College, popularly known as the "Brazilian Sorbonne." At one point the head of Dow Chemical's Brazilian section, Couto e Silva became head of Brazil's first national intelligence service, the SNI, after the coup in 1964. Boarding a military aircraft, Drummond was flown to Brasilia where he spent an hour with the president identifying leaders of the demonstration and assuring Costa e Silva that they were communists who did not represent the majority of students. http://www.namebase.org/brazil.html   (4263 words)      Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party The military presence and military expenses of the U.S. in Latin America have grown in the last years, in the provision of weapons, equipment, technical assistance in the field of intelligence and training in all our countries. To reinforce the policy of installation of military dictatorships, in June of 1999, the World Bank, after carrying out a "survey" in 80 countries, divulged a report in which one of the conclusions was that "there is no evidence that democracy helps the poor more." In fact, by enormously increasing military expenses, financing and carrying out military coups, intervening in various countries and unleashing imperialist wars all over the planet, the United States dictator is at the head of the greatest reaction in capitalism, in world terrorism. http://www.mltranslations.org/Brazil/6semla.htm   (4263 words)      Iraq - definition of Iraq in Encyclopedia Although government policies supporting large military and internal security forces and allocating resources to key supporters of the Ba`ath Party government have hurt the economy, implementation of the United Nations' oil-for-food programme in December 1996 was to have improved conditions for the average Iraqi citizen. Most Arab Iraqi Muslims are members of the Shiite sect, but there is a large Sunni population as well, made up of both Arabs, and Kurds. Almost 72% of Iraq's population consists of Arabic speakers (mainly Iraqi but some Hejazi); the other major ethnic group are the Kurds (25%), who live in the north and north-east of the country. http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Iraq   (4263 words)      Webplanet Online; Intelligence & National Security As a former military person (U.S. Navy) I have always been interested on Intelligence and security topics. NIMA (National Imagery and Mapping Agency); NIMA provides imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information in support of military, national-level, and civilian users The Intelligence Community is a group of 13 government agencies and organizations that carry out the intelligence activities of the United States Government. http://mywebplanetonline.com/intelligence.htm   (4263 words)

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