Intelligence / Surveillance
Kashmir Islamist Attack India Airbase
Terrorists
who attacked #India Air Force (IAF) base
at #Pathankot
were detected by aerial #surveillance platforms
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/terrorists-at-pathankot-were-detected-immidiately-iaf-116010200408_1.html
[read elsewhere that terrorists entered base & fired indiscriminately, so aerial detection means jack.]
Spy Arrest - India
last week: ex-IAF official Ranjith KK
arrested re passing secrets to #Pakistan
subsequent attack on base
Ranjith, 30, honey-trapped
Inter-Services Intelligence (IS) operative
posed as a journalist on Facebook & befriended.
#India
Crime Branch
arrested x5
incl. Border Security Force + Rashtriya Rifles
re alleged espionage
http://www.thestatesman.com/news/india/pathankot-attack-linked-to-arrest-of-iaf-spy/114122.html
#India
Pathankot air base
terror attack by x7 - Jaish-e-Mohammad
13 hours encounter
x4 each, killed (not final figure)
#India JeM stormed airbase & fired indiscriminately
Garuda commandos, Army troops + police deployed. Airfields on high alert.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/pathankot-terror-strike-how-the-attack-unfolded-1184452.html
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
(ie Army of Muhammad)
Islamist militant, based Kashmir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaish-e-Mohammed
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L-3
USA intel contractor
revenue of $2.80 billion - Oct quarter
/ quarterly revenue down - 4.2%
L-3
VP Curtis Brunson sold 55,465 shares
@ total: $6,861,020.50
--> still has 75,201 shares in company.
http://www.wkrb13.com/markets/990171/fy2015-eps-estimates-for-l-3-communications-holdings-inc-lll-raised-by-analyst/
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Vodafone
lawful interception / #Surveillance #Ireland
@ 7,973 in 2015
--> no push-back possible / mandated
#Ireland
Garda (police) Síochána Ombudsman Commission
Feb. 2014 - was bugged / surveillance (suspected)
--> security sweep done (& was leaked to press).
UK govt published draft text of new Investigatory Powers bill Dec 2015
/ if passed: 12 months phone & internet data storage
#UK investigatory powers bill:
lets intel & police to hack into PCs & phones
/ legal obligation on carriers to help them
“The UK government is seeking the power to compel companies, many of them based in Ireland, to hack users on their behalf."
#UKpolitics ... stand by for #Facebook & #Apple UK government malware.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/future-of-mobile-the-intelligence-behind-tracking-digital-evidence-374065.html
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GCHQ spy boss Sir Brian Tovey has died aged 89
Director - 1978 to 1983
army intel
U. London, deg Mod. Chinese
** there's a ban on union membership for GCHQ staff.
http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Spy-boss-eye-fine-Renaissance-art/story-28450497-detail/story.html
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Count Alexandre de Marenches
1921-1995
French intel Director / Reagan adviser
{Norman knights origin}
quit army in protest Algerian policy
Factions in French intel.
circulating defamatory reports re de Gaulle
/alleged affair Alain Delon + dead Delon bodyguard.
Medhi Ben Barka
French intel kidnapping of Ben Barka (Morocco left-wing)
died interrogation #Paris / CIA involved
/ won't release documents.
Ben Barka (Morocco)
son says French withholding docs implicating French secret services (SDECE) + potentially CIA & Mossad.
Jan 1969
French actor Alain Delon held for questioning
/ murder bodyguard Yugoslav, Stefan Markovic
x3 interrogations prior
Mavkovic's body
--> inside a sack on garbage dump
--> shot in head & beaten skull to cover wound
Alain Delon
Navy in Indo-China
Marseilles waterfront
criminal connections
Bodyguard Stefan Markovic
alleged drug ring involvement
alleged politician drug parties
(spread by French intel?)
Theory of photos of politicians in compromising positions
& attempted blackmail by bodyguard.
Bodyguard Stefan Markovic:
Letter -
"If I get killed, it's 100% the fault of Alain Delon" + "godfather François Marcantoni"
François Marcantoni
charged as accessory to murder.
Released after 11 months.
Guilt could not be established.
François Marcantoni
Corsican gangster.
French resistance.
Bank robber + writer.
Died Paris 2010
Link | Wikipedia
Mehdi Ben Barka
major figure in Third World movement
supported revolutionary anti-colonial action
--> angered USA & France.
OSPAAAL
Asia, Africa + #LatAm solidarity
fm. Havana Tricontinental Conference
pro socialism 3rd World
anti: globalisation, imperialism, neoliberalism & pro defending human rights
Medhi Ben Barka involved re: OSPAAAL
Link | Wikipedia
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