Eye Spy Issue 89

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ISSUE NUMBER 89 PUBLICATION DATE FEBRUARY 2014

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EYE SPY 89 VOLUME XII NUMBER ONE (ISSUE 89) ISSN 1364 8446 publication date: FEBRUARY 2014

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Subscribed to by all the world’s leading intelligence and security agencies FROM THE EDITOR - MARK BIRDSALL

NEW HORIZON THREATS Russia has revealed the identities of two suicide bombers who struck just a few days after Christmas in the city of Volgograd. The targets - Volgograd Metro Station and a packed commuter trolley bus were selected by the notorious Doku Umarov. He has been dubbed ‘Russia’s Bin-Laden’ and is the leader of a powerful Chechen terrorist group. A little over two weeks later, a video emerged on a web site that supports his group. It contained a film clip of two young men threatening a “major surprise” to those who have waited excitedly to attend the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. At the end of the tape - scenes of the Volgograd bombings were played - suggesting it was these two thugs who killed 34 residents and security staff. In this edition of Eye Spy we have a major feature not only on the attacks, which include some interesting photographs, but also take a look at the most significant incidents of the last two decades which have plagued Russia.

A developing situation which has attracted the interest of intelligence watchers is happening in the South China Seas. Beijing has just created an Air Defence Zone over islands controlled by Japan. America’s response was to fly two B-52s straight through the claimed island airspace. Japan’s premier announced a massive increase in its military forces and there is a great deal of tension in the region. The CIA is concerned that a secret war could soon turn very public. Our writers examine the back story to events and look at a number of other air and maritime operations plus several hair-raising incidents - any one of which could ignite military action between the super powers.

If the CIA’s Far Asian Desk has its hands full in the South China Seas, Langley’s Middle Eastern Desk staff must be burning the midnight oil and earning lots of overtime. Events in Iran, Syria, Egypt Libya and various north African countries, continue to be monitored, all for different reasons. And it against this backdrop that Eye Spy presents an informative feature of thirty years of CIA-Iran spy games and operations. We also have an interesting sidebar on MI6, and how it seems certain Tehran’s spy agency MOIS (Ministry of Information and Security), benefited when police simply allowed thousands of people to storm the British Embassy a little over two years ago. Eye Spy has identified the group which led the attack - and who controls it.

For those interested in classic spy stories, we take an indepth look at the reasons behind the British Government’s refusal to release a batch of documents on the so-called Profumo Affair of the early 1960s. John Profumo was the then Minister of State for War. He started having an affair with a London socialite who just happened to be dating a Russian intelligence officer as well. In the middle of the case, London osteopath Stephen Ward whose client list must have been the most envied in the world. He would later commit suicide - though evidence is emerging that could change that assumption. It is a brilliant study - evidence indeed that London has decided to save the blushes of many famous people - much to the despair of intelligence historians who were expecting the release of the papers in January 2014 - these won’t appear now until 2064.

Another mystery that continues to haunt one American family concerns Robert Levinson - the former FBI agent who disappeared on the Iranian island of Kish. It has now transpired he was in the pay of the CIA. But what of his mission in 2007? Eye Spy investigates and comes up with some interesting information.

Edward Snowden remains in the news. The disgraced NSA contractor has been busy plotting his latest side swipe at his former employer.

Eye Spy looks at the programmes revealed by Snowden, especially those on the interception of diplomatic communications. Surprisingly, there are no surprises.

We also have news of a controversial Mossad operation that may or may not have taken place. Either way, it has already pricked the ears of Interpol and legal officials.

These are just some of the highlights in this edition.

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF EYE SPY INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE 89 FOLLOWS...

THE LEGACY: CIA-IRAN SPY GAMES MISTRUST, SUSPICION AND REVENGE How events in the late 1970s and early 80s continue to affect Langley’s policy on Iran this as the CIA seeks to outflank Iran’s powerful and emerging spy agency - MOIS

OPERATIONS, PLOTS, ESPIONAGE AND ASSASSINATIONS

BUGS: CULTURE OF INTERCEPTION THE STRANGE JOURNEY OF MR BORLAND Paul Beaumont continues his historical look at the evolvement and covert use of bugs and the public’s increasing fascination with the subject. In this feature Paul relates the strange story of how one amateur UK radio operator stumbled across a puzzling conversation and sought to locate its point of transmission. This would eventually lead to a most interesting discovery - one which not only caught the imagination of the public, but also attracted the attention of the police and...

America’s Central Intelligence Agency

NEW MI6-IRAN SPY WARS TEHRAN GRABS UK INTEL

RED INTELLIGENCE WARS WASHINGTON AND BEIJING CLASH IN NEW CHINA SEAS As China claims air space above contested islands and announces Air Defence Identification Zone the CIA’s Far East Desk focuses its attention on events in the South China Seas and warns of the increasing likelihood of conflict.

Information-packed feature including secret spying operations and deadly encounters between two of the world’s greatest military powers

THE MOSSAD STRIKES AGAIN? ISRAELI SPY AGENCY AND CALCULATED ELIMINATIONS

TOO HOT TO HANDLE THE PROFUMO AFFAIR The British Government has refused to sanction the release of documents relating to one of the biggest spy scandals of all time involving government ministers, celebrities, Russian and British spies, plus a plethora of famous celebrities. While ministers insist they will not be destroyed, intelligence historians despair as London announces they will remain behind lock and key for at least 50 more years - this in a deliberate action intended to protect several well known people A MAJOR EYE SPY INVESTIGATION...

Ward’s surgery and consulting rooms were located in this London building

DOUBLE OR TRIPLE AGENT? At the heart of the affair, osteopath Stephen Ward. Eye Spy was informed by an MI5 agent Ward was a KGB contact man, though certainly provided the British Security Service with information as well

A DEADLY 24 HOURS A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE Terrorists strike twice in Russia as security fears increase ahead of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games. The attacks occurred in Volgograd, a city which serves as the country’s primary gateway to the volatile North Caucasus. In this special feature Eye Spy investigates the bombing and includes a disturbing ‘index’ of twenty years of terrorist and counter-terrorist operations in Russia

‘In the past year we have faced problems and serious challenges including the inhuman terrorist attacks in Volgograd and unprecedented disasters in the Far East.

We bow our heads in memory of the victims of these terrible attacks. We will strongly and decisively continue the battle against terrorists until their annihilation...’

President Vladimir Putin

LEVINSON MYSTERY AND THE CIA’S THREE-DECADE OLD IRAN OPERATION Eye Spy examines the strange disappearance of former FBI and DEA agent Robert Levinson in Iran, which could yet prove pivotal in negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions - this as his role as a CIA contact man is controversially revealed. Plus a feature on a most secret Langley research project that began over three decades ago and has yet to conclude...

Levinson disappeared on the Iranian island of Kish in 2007

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OBAMA’S WATERGATE? Officials in Washington - desperate to protect the President as an election loomed - created a ‘firewall of untruths’ regarding those behind the attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi which resulted in the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, two former US Navy SEALs and an embassy staffer. Eye Spy examines a wealth of contradictory evidence and misleading statements

ROYAL CONCIERGE THE INTERCEPTION OF DIPLOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS Rogue NSA contractor Edward Snowden continues to dominate the world of cyber space, and once again his underhand actions have caused deep embarrassment in Washington - in this case revealing intercepts made at luxury hotels where foreign diplomats, politicians, ministers and world leaders stay prior to and following important meetings.

However, espionage and the targeting of diplomatic and government staff is a tradecraft centuries old... Eye Spy provides a fascinating overview of its history to the present day

Edward Snowden

EDWARD SNOWDEN America’s Greatest Traitor? - Yes, according to many in the US Intelligence Community

ARMED AND DANGEROUS THE HUNT FOR RUSSIA’S ‘BLACK WIDOWS’ A major feature on the growing use of females as suicide bombers. Often widowed following the death of their husbands/spouses or killed by security services whilst committing terrorist offences, these operatives have been dubbed ‘black widows’. They are responsible for a growing number of attacks in volatile areas such as the North Caucasus, Middle East and northern African states

Alerts were posted for these four females by Russia’s FSB ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games

AL-QAIDA MOVES INTO ISRAEL SHIN BET COUNTER-MEASURES As an al-Qaida plot to destroy a major convention centre in Jerusalem is thwarted, Eye Spy examines the growing menace of the group in Israel - this as it moves into uncharted waters PRIMARY TARGET: Jerusalem Convention Centre

ENCOUNTER CONTROL IN THE INTELLIGENCE CYCLE Eye Spy Security Editor - Mike Finn continues his new series on the complex, but often necessary discipline of Encounter Control in the Intelligence Cycle.

In this feature the author looks at situation awareness

PART TWO

THREE MAJOR INTEL DIGESTS REVIEWS AND BREAKING NEWS FROM INTEL WORLD

UNDERCOVER

THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE RELEASES NEW INTEL, ESPIONAGE AND RELATED BOOK RELEASES

IRAN AND MI6

THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE RELEASES UK SERVICE USED IN PROPAGANDA WARS

HONOURING CODEBREAKERS THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE RELEASES BLETCHLEY PARK STAFFERS REMEMBERED

Tommy Flowers - creator of the codebreaking machine which helped break the German WWII Enigma

THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE RELEASES

LANGLEY - INSIDER’S VIEW

THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE RELEASES

ANNA CHAPMAN

THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE RELEASES SVR SPY, SNOWDEN AND NEW HORIZONS

‘JIHAD JANE’ LEE RIGBY

THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE RELEASES PHOTO SPECIAL

Terrorists - Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale

ALAN TURING UNMANNED SEA SURVEILLANCE

THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE RELEASES

THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE RELEASES

THE LOCKERBIE FILES

THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE RELEASES NEW INTEL ON THE DOWNING OF PAN AM FLIGHT 103 FBI explosives expert Tom Thurman discovered bomb residue which provided a major breakthrough for investigators

CIA UAVs

THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE RELEASES LEGAL CHALLENGES

EDWARD SNOWDEN

THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE RELEASES RUSSIAN INFLUENCE AND ASSISTANCE

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