Various Intel & Surveillance

ꕤ Article SOURCE as marked 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 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- 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/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- 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 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- 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 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- 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 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Some of what I looked at. The attack on the Indian air base sounded exciting. But it got even better when I got onto the French intelligence stuff ... they sound like total rogues. ꕤ