Results for “Defense Intelligence”

The Rise of the NSA | 203 communications intelligence allowed the CIA (and other U.S. intelli- gence services) to test and verify the reports of their human sources in foreign countries. Moreover, because of the immense amount of foreign data that the NSA vacuumed in through its...

212 documents were not their illegality. Nor did the fact they were lawful actions stop him from taking highly-sensitive GCHQ documents referring to them. In his five weeks at this Booz Allen job, he also used this same newly-acquired “Priv Ac” at the NSA to steal files from the...

107 phone for fear of being tracked by an intelligence service. When she travelled, she bought “burner” phones locally and disposed of them before any calls could be traced back to her. A precaution she took that June was not to meet Snowden face-to-face out of concern about the...

161 intelligence. A former top intelligence official told me “The queen on our chessboard had been taken.” To be sure, even after the loss of its “queen,” the game was not lost. The NSA moved to mitigate the damage and find new ways of obtaining unexpected intelligence. In June...

177 that could be hacked into from the outside. It will be recalled that the NSA threat officer had cited these failures in his 1996 report on NSA vulnerability. He also said that efforts of the Russian Intelligence Services to use false flag recruitments provided the KGB with “...

156 remotely intercepting even the faintest traces of electromagnetic signals, hacking into computers, and eavesdropping on distant conversations, but using special units, called “tailored access operations,” to plant listening devices in embassies and diplomatic pouches. It als...

222 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS the activities of Russia and China. It was charged with monitoring nuclear proliferation in Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea, poten- tial jihadist threats everywhere in the world, and much else. The Russian foreign intelligence service, the SVR,...

The Russians Are Coming | 227 history dating back to the era of the czars, Russian intelligence had perfected the technique of false flag recruitment, through which it assumes an identity to fit the ideological bent of a potential recruit. Russian intelligence was well experien...

THE UNITY OF INTELLIGENCE Frank Wilczek Frank Wilczek is Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, and the author of A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design. I. A Simple Answer to Contentious Questions: e Can an artif...

228 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and Helsinki were using the Trust to deliver arms and supplies to their partisans inside Russia. The Trust also furnished spies’ and exiled leaders’ fake passports, which allowed them to sneak back into Russia to particip...

…understood that there was evidence that the women had lied about their ages. AUSA Weinstein replied that this was not a defense and that Mr. Thomas should not believe “the spin” of Mr. Epstein’s “high-priced attorneys.” Indeed, Mr. Weinstein told Mr. Thomas that the USAO was very...

…sher terms," Sloman wrote. "That said, some have mistakenly suggested that our office kowtowed to Epstein's high-priced defense lawyers or, worse, that his lawyers corrupted or intimidated us into submission. ... Nothing could be further from the truth." Sloman did not directly a...

…s offensive. Mr. Epstein, a 53-year-old Manhattan money manager who has hired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and defense attorney Jack Goldberger, has denied knowing how old the girls were. But police interviews with five alleged victims and 17 witnesses under oath, as wel...

…searches and seizures applies to (and may prohibit) court-mandated discovery of victims. 3°! For all these reasons, a defense subpoena seeking third-party information about a crime victim rests on extraordinarily shaky ground. The Advisory Committee must ensure that through cas...

…’s why. After the ouster of Mubarak in February, his presidential powers were shifted to a military council, led by the defense minister. It’s an odd situation, or as the Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany, author of “The Yacoubian Building,” put it to me: “We have had a revolution...