ALGERIE DEFENSE

Harry S. Truman

From President Truman on, each President has written a note of thanks to the men and women of the CIA. These notes are displayed with the President’s official photograph in the Presidential Gallery of the New Headquarters Building. This story is the first in a series about the relationship each president has [...]

February 8, 2010 Michael Evans and Tom Coghlan /entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

The head of Britain’s special forces has been trying to stop the publication of a book by a senior BBC journalist which describes in “tactical detail” operations carried out by the SAS in Iraq from 2003 to 2009.

The major-general, who cannot be identified for security reasons, is [...]

February 10, 2010 By Grant Gross, IDG News Service pcworld.com

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking its members to contact Google executives and ask them not to work with the U.S. National Security Agency to investigate cyberattacks allegedly coming from China.

The civil liberties advocacy group, in an e-mail sent to members this week, asked them [...]

CIA.GOV Posted: Feb 04, 2010

Dr. Ralph Bunche was a man of many firsts. He was the first African-American to:

•Be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize
•Serve as a desk officer at the State Department
In addition, Bunche was a part of America’s most important intelligence first: The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) — the predecessor of today’s CIA. [...]

12 February 2010  
The Security Service’s Director General, Jonathan Evans, has written an article for the Daily Telegraph concerning recent press coverage about MI5.

For the full text of the article, see below.

It is rare that the intelligence services comment in public, but some of the recent reporting on the supposed activities and culture of MI5 has [...]

Gen. William J. Donovan

 US    CIA .GOV A Look Back … Donovan

In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the nation was in a state of shock and horror. The day after the attack, the United States officially declared war on Japan, with Nazi Germany declaring war on the United [...]

 BY PHILIP DORLING, NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
11 Dec, 2009 canberratimes.com.au
The Australian National University is set to become an elite educational centre for Australia’s spies and security experts.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday announced that former Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Michael L’Estrange would head up Australia’s new national security college.

A joint venture between the Federal [...]

The Associated Press Posted: 12/13/2009

DALLAS—Federal agents are investigating whether a helicopter they have held for 14 months at an airport in Texas was earmarked for shipment to Iran.
The agents suspect an Italian company has already shipped two helicopters in contravention of a U.S. trade embargo with Iran, and that the third was also intended for [...]

Washington, 11 déc 2009 (SPA) – Des gardes de la société de sécurité privée américaine Blackwater ont participé à des opérations secrètes en Irak et en Afghanistan, a rapporté vendredi le New York Times, citant d »anciens employés et des responsables du renseignement.
Les hommes de Blackwater – groupe impliqué dans plusieurs scandales en Irak, en particulier [...]

By Associated Press December 3, 2009

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A Congolese court has upheld death sentences for two Norwegians convicted of espionage and murder, U.N. radio said Thursday, prompting condemnation from Norwegian officials.

Radio Okapi said a military court in Kisangani announced the decision on Thursday. Norwegian media identified the two as Tjostolv Moland and Joshua French.

The [...]