Notes to pages 71-80 | 313 71 When they finally settled: The descriptions of the initial two meetings between Greenwald and Poitras in April 2013 are provided in Greenwald's 2014 book, No Place to Hide, pp. 10-15. cHAPTER 8 Raider of the Inner Sanctum 73 “They think there’s a...
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We were married there, in the spring of 1969. My parents and brothers came with two busloads of friends from the kibbutz. Avraham Arnan was there, of course. But Ahraleh Yariv and Eli Zeira, two of the military intelligence heroes of the Six-Day War, also drove up for the wedding...
CHAPTER 25 Through the Looking Glass There’s definitely a deep state. Trust me, I’ve been there. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 Wa WAITING to hear back from Kucherena’s office, I arranged to meet with Victor Cherkashin, who had been one of the most successful KGB spy handlers i...
Epilogue | 303 The ugly part of the equation is the rampant growth of the pub- lic’s distrust of the institutions of government in America. Accord- ing to recent polls, 4 out of 5 Americans distrust the government. Snowden did not create this new age of distrust, but his disclos...
174 was activated to pressure the government to change position. Singapore’s experience in 2016-17 holds lessons for other ASEAN member states. On the surface, China claims that it does not interfere in the internal affairs of other states. At the same time, it is led by a Leni...
moshav of Za’arit. We equipped Yoni’s force with a pair of Land Rovers in Lebanese army colors and had them hide overnight in the moshav’s orchards, a hundred yards from the road on the Lebanese side of the frontier. The next morning, when we got confirmation the convoy was on it...
164 espionage work for another 8 years. (Whitworth, who was arrested by the FBI in 1985, was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 365 years in prison.) The Internet provided an almost ideal environment for false flags since its users commonly adopt aliases, screen names, and...
Glossary of Specialized Terms 327 Adaptive Inference Control: Algorithms or heuristics for guiding PLN inference, that cause inference to be guided differently based on the context in which the inference is taking place, or based on aspects of the inference that are noted as it...
‘Top 75’ Countries Ranked by Net Debt as % of GDP... 2009 Net Debt Rank Country Outstanding ($B) YY As % of World Total Net Debt as % of GDP 05-09 | 2009 GDP Change 2009 2005 YIY As%of 2009 Budget World Surplus / Total Deficit ($B) As % of World Gross Unemploy- Deficit...
money you put into it. Whereas, I could go—TI mean I don’t look that great now—but I could go from being seen as a figure of some probity and some intelligence to being a figure of much less intelligence and much less probity...” “Well,” says Pierce in seeming dramatic understat...
anything but under control. Within days, he bowed to political pressure and brought back Moshe Dayan, now a member of the Knesset, as Defense Minister. I still vividly remember a visitor to the sayeret the day after Eshkol’s address. Colonel Eli Zeira was head of the “collection...
asked what he knew about the car outside. “Nothing,” he said. “It’s not mine.” They took it away. As insistently as I, and others in Sayeret Matkal, had wanted to play our part on the battlefields of the Six-Day War — in the Sinai, on the Golan, in the bitter battle to capture J...
4.3 Emergentist Cognitive Architectures 67 Inferred state Action/ Correction | J -—— Critic “< : ~ h A Deep y Learning System Actor Pa Ee. (state inference) — A Actions Observations Rewards Environment ] Fig. 4.4: High-level architecture of DeSTIN brain is a massively paral...
80 4 Brief Survey of Cognitive Architectures 4.5.2 The Society of Mind and the Emotion Machine In his influential but controversial book The Society of Mind [Min&8], Marvin Minsky described a model of human intelligence as something that is built up from the interactions of num...
The Crime Scene Investigation | 135 communications intelligence. It provided a valuable window on the activities of adversary nations in the Pacific region and was able to monitor the ballistic missile tests and submarine activities of China, North Korea, and Russia. By 2013, th...