Wednesday, June 20, 2018

ISI & Islamist Terrorists

21-10-5 Pakistan's ISI secret service = helping Taliban regain power? | DW > .
24-5-25 Why We Cannot [Easily] Stop Dictators - Versed > . 
23-10-10 Hamas: Gazan terrorist militants behind atrocities in Israel | ABC > .
23-7-15 Why Pakistan's on the Brink of Collapse - T&P > .
Paramilitary, PMCs, Guerrillas, Terrorists 


The Pakistani secret service is coming under scrutiny over its possible role in the Taliban take-over of Afghanistan. Unlike other countries, Pakistan maintains connections to the Taliban. Some of the Taliban's new government ministers were educated in religious universities there. Now questions are being asked about whether the Taliban have received support from Pakistani intelligence.
Who's behind Islamist terrorism? | DW Doc (private) > .
Pakistan + Χί ➾ India 2022 ..

Who’s financing, planning and commissioning terror attacks in Europe? This investigative documentary follows a trail that leads to Pakistan’s intelligence service, the ISI, which seems not only to fight terror, but sponsor it as well.

This film aims to find out who’s backing Islamist terrorists. Most of those who’ve carried out attacks in Europe were found to be lone wolves or member of small, independent cells. Here, award-winning author Daniel Harrich looks a bit deeper into the incidents. Leads take him to Brussels, Madrid and London, and to an organization called Lashkar-e-Taiba, or the "Army of the Righteous". It was founded by, and is closely linked to, the Pakistani intelligence service, ISI.
 
Harrich’s probe uncovered those who were pulling the strings behind many attacks. They are ISI officers, who often work in cooperation with and receive money from their German, French and US secret service counterparts. The filmmakers observe that when the fear of new attacks grows in the West, the more money it sends to its partners in Pakistan. And the more money these partners have, the more terrorist attacks are carried out. "The Business with Terror" probes ISI’s role as a sponsor of terrorism and asks: Where do we draw the line in cooperating with partner intelligence services?

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Jones


Bruneval Raid > .
Operation Biting - Raid on Bruneval - tnh > .
Secrets of War - WW2 - tb >> .
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=secrets+of+war ?

Reginald Victor Jones CH, CB, CBE, FRS (29 September 1911 – 17 December 1997) was a British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert who played an important role in the defence of Britain in World War II.

Jones, R. V., 1978, Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945, London: Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 0-241-89746-7 (Published in the USA as The Wizard War with the same subtitle.)
Jones, R. V., 1988, Instruments and Experiences, London: John Wiley and Sons.
Jones, R. V., 1989, Reflections on Intelligence, London: Heinemann.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Victor_Jones

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1127842.Most_Secret_War

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Linguists & Y Stations

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Y Stations - 1 - Bletchley Park > .


Between the World Wars, before the invention of radar, parabolic sound mirrors were used experimentally as early-warning devices by military air defence forces to detect incoming enemy aircraft by listening for the sound of their engines. During World War 2 on the coast of southern England, a network of large concrete acoustic mirrors was in the process of being built when the project was cancelled owing to the development of the Chain Home radar system. Many of these mirrors are still standing today. The sound mirror at Abbot’s Cliff, between Folkestone and Dover in Kent, is one of the easier ones to access, via a small road connecting to the A20 then a footpath with traverses along the cliff-edge. The beach under Abbot’s Cliff is little known outside the naturist community with whom it is a popular spot.

Set below the high chalk cliffs between Samphire Hoe Country Park and “The Warren” Country Park, this is not the most accessible beach along the Folkestone / Dover coast. The beach here is mostly pebble and shingle with rocks off the shoreline. It is a pleasant, natural feeling spot that has not been developed. Whilst Abbot’s Cliff is not officially a nudist beach it is long established. Some even suggest that it may escape the anti-nudity by-laws applying to other Folkestone beaches on account of the land being owned by the railway authority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-stations .

Lorenz Cipher

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The Toughest Code WW2 Code Was Lorenz Cipher, Not Enigma - Front > .
Top 5 Features of an Enigma | Bletchley Park > .

When it came to sending top-secret messages, Hitler didn't bother with the Enigma cipher. He used the supposedly unbreakable Lorenz cipher. It was broken within four years by a crack team of genuine geniuses.

LCS - London Controlling Section

1943 Operation Mincemeat - London Controlling Section - Austin > .
1944 Lies and Deceptions that made D-Day possible - IWM > .
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The London Controlling Section (LCS) was a British secret department established in September 1941, under Oliver Stanley, with a mandate to coordinate Allied strategic military deception during World War II. The LCS was formed within the Joint Planning Staff at the offices of the War Cabinet, which was presided over by Winston Churchill as Prime Minister.

Following the onset of the Second World War, the Allied nations began to recognise deception as a useful strategy. In early 1941 Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Clarke's 'A' Force department, based in Cairo, undertook deception operations for the North African campaign. As their work came to the notice of high command Clarke was summoned to London, in late September 1941, to brief the army establishment.

The Joint Planning Staff of the War Office were impressed with Clarke's presentation and recommended to the Chiefs of Staff Committee that a similar department should be formed in London to oversee deception across all theatres of war. Clarke was offered the job of heading this new section, named the London Controlling Section. However, he declined, preferring to return to Cairo.

Instead, on 9 October, the post was offered to Colonel Oliver Stanley, a former Secretary of State for War. However, Clarke had left very little information about 'A' Force and his own deception activities, so Stanley had to fend for himself. His task was made more difficult by the fact that strategic deception was a wholly new concept in England, and had few champions in the military establishment. The LCS was granted representatives from all three of the services, and theoretically had a lot of power. In practice there was little interest in deception. The army sent Lieutenant Colonel Fritz Lumby, while the RAF, refusing to send any Group Captains due to the Battle of Britain, commissioned the author Dennis Wheatley as their representative. This lack of interest left the LCS, according to Wheatley, in a state of "near impotence". The climate was not right for strategic deception on the Western Front, very few offensive operations were being planned, and Stanley was not able to do much to raise the profile of the department. However, the LCS did manage to put together Operation Hardboiled, a fictional threat against Norway, although it eventually fizzled out.

The end of Hardboiled was very demotivating. To make matters worse, Stanley's wife was diagnosed with a terminal illness, and he took extensive sick leave to care for her. In May 1942, Lumley was offered a posting to Africa, which he eagerly accepted. On 21 May two important events occurred; Lieutenant-Colonel John Bevan was selected to replace Lumley at the LCS, and Churchill received a letter from Archibald Wavell, the commander who had started Clarke's deception career in Cairo, recommending a broader Allied deception strategy. The letter seems to have invigorated Churchill's interest in deception; when Bevan arrived at the department on 1 June he found himself promoted to Controlling Officer; Stanley's request to return to politics having been speedily granted in the interim.

Bevan was a driven individual with good connections in the establishment. He recognised the role that the London Controlling Section could play in Allied strategy and set to work making it happen. Bevan kept Wheatley, another socialite, on the staff, and the two complemented each other well. He also recruited Major Ronald Wingate.

The London Controlling Section was moved down into the Cabinet War Office, to be closer to the other key strategic war planning. This helped the new department be taken seriously.

The first major deception operation carried out by the London Controlling Section was the cover plans for Operation Torch (the Allied invasion of French North Africa on 8 November 1942). The deception plans that were masterminded for this operation were: Operation Overthrow, SOLO I, SOLO II, Operation Townsman and Operation Kennecott.

The most significant operation with which LCS was associated was Operation Fortitude, the cover and deception for the Normandy invasion in 1944. The strategic plan for Allied deception in 1944, Operation Bodyguard, was drawn up by LCS, which set down the general story of Fortitude. Fortitude was however implemented by the "Ops (B)" section of SHAEF, under General Eisenhower. Ops (B) was composed of two sections, one dealing with physical deception and the other dealing with Special Means, that is, controlled leakage. Initially, the TWIST Committee of the LCS selected the channels for dissemination of controlled leakage. Ultimately, the TWIST committee was abolished and Ops (B) was allowed to deal directly with Section B1A of MI5, which managed controlled agents.

The organisation was publicly revealed by Sir Ronald Wingate in 1969.

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