Shining a light on black operations
Showing posts with label Secret Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Secret Government. Show all posts
3 Aug 2014
30 May 2014
Bilderberg 2014: Global leaders converge for annual 'secret' summit
The elite Bilderberg group gathers every year the most powerful business, political and military leaders from across the world to discuss global ‘megatrends’. While who attends these summits is not secret, the topics, nature and results of debate are kept private from the media and public.
The Bilderberg group is celebrating its 60th birthday at its annual summit this week in Denmark, where, according to the official participant list, both the Shadow Chancellor and George Osborne are due to attend. Attending industry and military leaders include the Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt, the current Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Philip Breedlove and the former NSA chief, Keith Alexander. One can only guess Edward Snowden’s invite was lost in the post.
Fury as UK Cabinet Secretary cooks up deal to keep Blair and Bush letters secret
The Iraq War inquiry was condemned as a whitewash last night after more than 150 crucial messages from Tony Blair to George W Bush were censored.
Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood has vetoed the release of the letters and phone calls in the run-up to the 2003 conflict, officials revealed. In them, Mr Blair is said to have promised the US President: 'You know, George, whatever you decide to do, I'm with you.'
The decision raises the possibility that the long-delayed findings of the £10million inquiry will be published before the general election. The official reason for the censorship is that publication would deter prime ministers from speaking freely in private.
22 Jun 2013
GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications
Britain's spy agency GCHQ has secretly gained access to the network of cables which carry the world's phone calls and internet traffic and has started to process vast streams of sensitive personal information which it is sharing with its American partner, the National Security Agency (NSA).
The sheer scale of the agency's ambition is reflected in the titles of its two principal components: Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation, aimed at scooping up as much online and telephone traffic as possible. This is all being carried out without any form of public acknowledgement or debate.
One key innovation has been GCHQ's ability to tap into and store huge volumes of data drawn from fibre-optic cables for up to 30 days so that it can be sifted and analysed. That operation, codenamed Tempora, has been running for some 18 months. GCHQ and the NSA are consequently able to access and process vast quantities of communications between entirely innocent people, as well as targeted suspects. This includes recordings of phone calls, the content of email messages, entries on Facebook and the history of any internet user's access to websites – all of which is deemed legal, even though the warrant system was supposed to limit interception to a specified range of targets.
20 Mar 2013
The Spies Who Fooled the World
BBC Panorama: On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used to justify the invasion were based on fabrication and lies.
3 Nov 2012
The Secrets of J. Edgar Hoover
Though never elected to any office, for 50 years he was more powerful than presidents. As head of the FBI he knew what everyone else wanted to keep hidden. But behind the public persona, his shocking private life nearly brought him down. What were the Secrets of J. Edgar Hoover?
20 Sept 2012
5 Jul 2012
Secrets of the CIA
The hour-long show, Secrets of the CIA, produced by Princess Productions, takes the form of a chronological countdown of the 20 most unfortunate and embarrassing incidents in the US intelligence agency's history.
Wallace will pay particular attention to scenarios including the CIA's role in bringing the Taliban to power in Afghanistan and providing arms and specialist training to Osama Bin Laden.
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