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| | American Civil Liberties Union : End Government Use of Secret Evidence Against Immigrants |
 | | In a case from the 1950's, secret evidence was used to deny a WWII "war bride" the opportunity to come to the U.S. and join her husband. | | | When eventually she was granted a hearing, the secret evidence was found to be worthless because the "confidential source" that offered it turned out to be a jilted former lover of her husband. | | | The use of secret evidence is a feature of totalitarian governments, not of a democracy. |
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http://www.aclu.org/ImmigrantsRights/ImmigrantsRights.cfm?ID=10774&c=98
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| | The New Yorker: Fact |
| | Rumsfeld reacted in his usual direct fashion: he authorized the establishment of a highly secret program that was given blanket advance approval to kill or capture and, if possible, interrogate “high value” targets in the Bush Administration’s war on terror. | | | The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. | | | There was fear that the situation at Abu Ghraib would lead to the exposure of the secret sap, and thereby bring an end to what had been, before Iraq, a valuable cover operation. |
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040524fa_fact
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| | CS 513 System Security -- Secret Sharing |
| | A simple solution would be to give the secret code to these three generals, but then it is possible for a lunatic general to start a war and destroy the planet. | | | Because of the second property of secret splitting, we know that no single general is able to launch the missile by himself, because each general has only one share and has no information about the secret code. | | | Also note that a secret splitting scheme is simply a special case of secret sharing where n is equal to t. |
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http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Courses/cs513/2000SP/SecretSharing.html
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| | Secret War Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) |
| | Despite these denials, however, the Secret War was actually the largest U.S. covert operation prior to the Afghan-Soviet War, with areas of Laos controlled by North Vietnam subjected to three million tons of bombing, representing the heaviest U.S.-led bombing campaign since World War II. | | | Find More Information about "Secret War" in LaunchBase.net's: | | | For the Secret Wars comic books please see Secret Wars (disambiguation) |
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http://www.launchbase.net/encyclopedia/Secret_War
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| | Project InPosterum: The Devil's Playground: Poland in World War II |
| | The Polish Secret Service had successfully reconstructed the German coding machine, the "Enigma." Anticipating a war, Poland delivered a complete duplicate of the "Enigma" to the British in July 1939, enabling them to break the German secret code and to read their secret dispatches during the war. | | | Members of the anti-German conspiracy, who tried to reshape Polish secret agencies into regular organs of state administration, were arrested by the Soviets on the grounds of anti-Communist sabotage and diversionary activity. | | | However, the Polish condition sine qua non was that the Soviets nullify the Ribbentrop-Molotov line of Poland's partition and guarantee the inter-war Polish-Soviet border, established by the Treaty of Riga in 1921 and confirmed by the Polish-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty of 1932. |
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http://www.projectinposterum.org/docs/wrobel2.htm
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| | Franklin Roosevelt's 'Secret Map' speech |
| | Roosevelt had, in fact, made numerous secret arrangements to involve the U.S. in war. | | | In a memoir published in late 1984, war-time British agent Ivar Bryce claimed credit for thinking up the "secret map" scheme. | | | I have in my possession a secret map, made in Germany by Hitler's government-by the planners of the new world order. |
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http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p125_Weber.html
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| | WW II: The Secret of Communication |
| | This top secret World War II Secret Agent Training School was strategically placed in Canada on the shores of Lake Ontario. | | | During WW2 the German armed forces top secret codes were broken at Bletchley Park, providing the allies with vital infomation towards their war effort. | | | The Venona Project, a very secret programm to examine, and possibly exploit, encrypted Soviet diplomatic communications. |
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http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/secret.htm
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| | Post-War Iraq Quiz |
| | U.S. troops found a "top secret" Iraqi intelligence memo at a secret police headquarters that described an offer by a "holy warrior" in Africa to sell uranium and other nuclear material to Iraq. | | | The Bush administration claimed that war against Iraq would somehow diminish the danger from al Qaeda. | | | Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on al Qaeda, said al Qaeda had been weakened, but it had no trouble in recruiting fresh members among Muslims whose anti-Western passions had been fuelled by the war in Iraq. |
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3545.htm
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| | Catholic Insight : Social : War in Iraq |
| | The saying that "war is always a defeat for humanity" sums up the message of Christian Revelation. | | | A tyrant and his secret police security apparatus has been overthrown and a people has been liberated after three decades of brutal oppression. | | | So then, is that not the same thing as condemning the United States and Britain for their war on Saddam Hussein? |
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http://catholicinsight.com/online/social/article_294.shtml
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| | CNN Cold War - Document: Khrushchev's secret speech |
| | CNN Cold War - Document: Khrushchev's secret speech | | | The contents of the speech, originally secret, were soon known to the world, and the truth of Stalin's reign began to come out. | | | After the speech, new investigations led to the release of thousands of prisoners for years to come. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/07/documents/khrushchev
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| | History of Ancient Athens - The Persian Wars |
| | After the defeat of Croesos by the king of Persia, Cyrus, the Ionic cities which had fought against him in the war, asked to be governed with the same terms as they were before, under the kindly and benevolent king Croesos. | | | Themistokles then told him to keep it a secret, that he was responsible for this and asked him to take part and tell the news to the council. | | | Pausanias summoned the council of war and took the decision to retreat, to a place called the Island, which was two kilometers further and halfway between it and the town of Plataea. |
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http://www.sikyon.com/Athens/ahist_eg02.html
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| | Mexican War on Encyclopedia.com |
| | A local Mexican television station announces late on February 18, 2004, the detention of Miguel Nazar Haro, former head of the secret police with an old file-photo of him, when he was allegedly one of | | | 'Mexican women throughout history have had to be very strong, because we've been through wars and many difficult times,' Paul. | | | A Conversation with Civil War Historian James M. McPherson |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/M/MexicanW1.asp
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| | The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 17 |
| | When he told me that the prisoners of war had been killed, he emphasized once more the necessity of keeping it strictly secret in order to avoid disagreeable consequences. | | | BAZILEVSKY: In the camp for Russian prisoners of war known as "Dulag 126" there prevailed such a severe regime that prisoners of war were dying by the hundreds every day; for this reason I tried to free all those from this camp for whose release a reason could be given. | | | COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: He said that he knew there were Polish prisoners of war in Smolensk; and, with the permission of the Tribunal, I would like to ask the witness what these prisoners of war were doing. |
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/07-01-46.htm
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| | Free Speech Kept Off US Streets |
| | But Ramsey says that when members of his organization, the Instead of War Coalition, seek to obtain permission to hold demonstrations during presidential visits, the Secret Service tells them such matters are the responsibility of local police. | | | Nor is the Secret Service's carefully worded denial of responsibility as definitive as it might appear. | | | The "establishment of viewing areas" is indeed a local responsibility, but local officials say the Secret Service has in some cases all but ordered them to pen in protesters. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1026-04.htm
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| | Amazon.com: So You'd Like to... Understand Poland's History |
| | For insights into the Polish underground during WWII, both 'Karski : How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust', and 'Story of a Secret State' are very worthwhile reads. | | | For more on Jewish history in Poland, read 'The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War' and 'The Destruction of the European Jews (Third Edition)'. | | | Also, Norman Davies 'Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw' provides a moving description of Polish heroism during the fight against the Nazis in Warsaw during the summer of 1944, 60 years ago this August. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/31HGOB9UZZRUF
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| | "The Albigenses: Bearers of a Bygone Wisdom-Tradition" by Arne Wettermark /TITLE |
| | The Albigensian perfecti were heirs to a lost secret, a secret come from the Orient, known to the Gnostics and the early Christians. | | | So red was the flame that rose toward the sky, so high and pillarlike the smoke, that those Toulousains, Lauraguais and Albigeois, who raised their eyes toward Ariege, knew by this sign that their heroic brethren had been annihilated and that the last hope of the south had died. | | | The epilogue of the Albigensian war took place at Montsegur around the middle of the thirteenth century. |
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http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/23-73-4/ph-wett.htm
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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Triple Alliance and Triple Entente @ HighBeam Research |
| | A European conference (1878; see Berlin, Congress of), called to revise the treaty, caused a sharp decline in the friendship between Russia on the one hand and Austria-Hungary and Germany on the other; Bismarck formed (1879) a secret defensive alliance—the Dual Alliance—with Austria-Hungary. | | | Italy's interests had long been more or less divorced from those of the Triple Alliance; as early as 1902 a Franco-Italian accord on North Africa had been reached in a secret treaty. | | | The new German Empire, under the hand of Otto von Bismarck, was steered carefully, always with an eye upon France, for the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) had left France thirsting for revenge and for recovery of the lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:TripAlEnt&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish |
| | The CIA has been operating a secret network of detainment facilities across the globe to capture and interrogate suspected terrorists, facilities that would be illegal in the U.S. and where torture is enforced by explicit permission by the president. | | | I have yet to be even nearly convinced that Plamegate reveals some massive conspiracy to deceive the public in advance about the rationale for the Iraq war. | | | This creates the hope that in Iraq, as in Clausewitz's doctrine, civil war is the continuation of politics by other means, not the opening salvo of the war of the all against the all. |
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http://andrewsullivan.com/index.php?.../2004_10_31_dish_archive.html
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| | JAPAN'S DARK BACKGROUND 1881-1945 |
| | Japan received many of the things she had gone to war for but at home the population, in a feeling fostered by the militarists and secret societies, came to feel cheated out of total victory. | | | During the war years, this might be a very small cabal of Navy officers, torn between dedication to their nation and Emperor while opposing the evil of the secret societies. | | | By the time war came with America and the Allied Powers, Unit 731 numbered 3000 directly within the unit and when sister units and satellite facilities were counted in, Ishii had some 20,000 people working on his projects. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/leiber/50/bds1.htm
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| | Condoleezza Rice Gave Secret Speech To Prominent Jews : SF Bay Area Indymedia |
| | The decision, termed routine by the White House, is causing particular discomfort for the lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which has been battling the perception among some political commentators that Jewish groups unduly influenced the Bush administration's decision to wage war against Iraq. | | | Condoleezza Rice, gave a speech Monday to roughly 4,000 members of pro-Israel lobbying group, in speech closed to the media and the public. | | | Restrictions on Rice speech worry Israeli lobbying group |
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| | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon (chapter41) |
| | When the African war became the topic of popular discourse and secret deliberation, each of the Roman generals was apprehensive, rather than ambitious, of the dangerous honor; but as soon as Justinian had declared his preference of superior merit, their envy was rekindled by the unanimous applause which was given to the choice of Belisarius. | | | Leuderis, an ancient warrior, was left in the capital with four thousand soldiers; a feeble garrison, which might have seconded the zeal, though it was incapable of opposing the wishes, of the Romans. | | | The temper of the Byzantine court may encourage a suspicion, that the hero was darkly assisted by the intrigues of his wife, the fair and subtle Antonina, who alternately enjoyed the confidence, and incurred the hatred, of the empress Theodora. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: States of the Church |
| | The narrow police spirit of the absolute governments, which did not distinguish between what was justifiable and what was not, promoted the growth of dissatisfaction, which first took shape in secret societies. | | | When Pius IX in an Encyclical announced on 29 April, 1848, that he could never persuade himself to engage in a war against a Catholic power such as Austria, and that he would never assume the headship of an Italian confederation, his popularity in Liberal-National circles was wellnigh at an end. | | | The Byzantine emperors subsequently were less liberal in their gifts; the wars with the Lombards likewise had an unfavourable effect, and there remained few families in a position to bequeath large estates. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Journal, 1955 - 1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War |
| | F.(his notation of using people's initials to hide their identity from I suppose the French secret police), was keeping a testimony of the murders occurring all around him as evidence. | | | Since he was assassinated by a French terrorist group just three days before the cease-fire that ended the war, his account is especially poignant. | | | As a result, his journal brings a unique perspective to what was perhaps the most brutal of the anticolonial wars. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/080326903X?v=glance
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| | Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War - USA PATRIOT Act Info and Links |
| | Secret draft text of "PATRIOT II" (Center for Public Integrity) - article plus downloadable PDFs of the entire leaked draft. | | | PATRIOT Act Website Creates New Myths (ACLU) - learn the facts about misleading claims Ashcroft and the Justice Dept. are making in support of the PATRIOT Act. | | | The September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the Septmber 11 Attacks, April 2003 (13.5 MB PDF file) |
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| | Hong Kong - From International Drug holocaust the Opium War to 1997 and Beyond |
| | To preserve the Truth of History, the U.S. President's biographer Geoffrey Ward rejects efforts of the Delano family to minimize Warren's Opium dark secret. | | | Writing home, an American named Warren Delano said he could not pretend to justify the opium trade on moral grounds, "but as a merchant I insist it has been fair, honorable and legitimate". | | | After losing the 2 infamous Opium War, China, a rich country greatly admired by Marco Polo, quickly became a poor country and started to disintegrate. |
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| | Secret War Against the Jews by John Loftus, book reviewed by Dean Rink |
| | While the focus of this book is the secret war against the Jews, it raises larger questions about how clandestine intelligence operations have distorted our appreciation of history and made it nearly impossible for the average citizen to follow rationally his country's foreign policy initiatives. | | | Many of these Jews were communist double agents, but others defected to Zionism after the war, and told Israeli founding fathers like David Ben-Gurion of secret deals between the British and the Americans, and the Nazis. | | | After World War II ended, and the dimensions of the Nazi Holocaust became clear, it was politically impossible for men like these to constrict immigration of the survivors to Palestine, and ultimately impossible for them to stop the formation of the state of Israel. |
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| | War Eagles Air Museum - Guestbook |
| | But a darker chapter is being written now about the Wallenberg family and its extensive business empire, as Sweden confronts dismaying new evidence that the country's wartime collaboration was more extensive than is widely known, and that the Wallenberg family profited from secret dealings with the Nazis. | | | For instance, documents from World War II contain evidence that Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg, Raoul's cousins, used their Enskilda Bank to help the Nazis dispose of assets seized from Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust. | | | Years are claiming numbers of this group where the ravages of that war could not. |
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| | Sicilian Culture: News: Motts Tonelli's Life in Football & War: To Hell & Back |
| | Beaten, starving, without ammunition or medicine, Motts and 10,000 other U.S. troops were now prisoners of a foreign foe in what was the worst loss by an American force in any war.... | | | He looked to his ring, tucked away in his secret place, but even that wasn't enough. | | | In the years that followed the war, Motts became a successful politician. |
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| | Limited War: Afghanistan |
| | Karmal was replaced by Najibullah, formerly head of the secret police, on May 4, 1986. | | | This war began toward the end of Jimmy Carter's term as President of the United States. | | | The fundamental pattern of the wars in Afghanistan and and Vietnam was strikingly similar. |
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| | World Affairs Board - India Vs. China (borderline War) |
| | It is very difficult as most of the Chinese information is not in english, and being an Indian I have no access to a translator to read those documents, and a lot of Indian info is still secret. | | | A lot of vital info has been kept secret by both the nations. | | | If the war lasts for a few days it will be a now win situation but if there are continues low intensity border skirmishes then indians can use their trump card of blokcing chineese oil supplies to control the chineese. |
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http://militaryaffairsboard.com/printthread.php?t=3455
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