Establishment AND EXAMINE THE SECRET SOCIETIES

 

(Romans were almost beyond belief the members of this secret group, it was said, were cannibalistic, eating human flesh and drinking human blood during secret rituals, and their gory feasts often included newborn babies.

They promoted sexual orgies among brothers and sisters)

They were among the most frightening of early secret societies a furtive group both feared and hated by citizens of the Roman Empire. Many suggested killing every man, woman and child who were members. Others proposed caution, having heard tales of bloody vengeance taken against enemies of the group. Some grew worried that their own neighbors might be society members, infecting their children with dangerous ideas and engaging them in revolting practices. A few were fascinated by the outrageous antics attributed to this secret organization; their curiosity piqued, their imaginations running rampant, they asked themselves: could these people really be so depraved?

Read more...

Abwehr the new version of Gestapo nowadays

 

One tendency, among others, that national intelligence services have exhibited throughout this century is a frequent and repeated change of name. Since except in revolutionary conditions, and not by any means always then, the newly named apparatus usually consists of most of the same men doing approximately the same job for about the same pay, the change in nomenclature may imply little more than an administrative re-organization at a high level, which can of course be of greater or lesser importance if it brings with it a higher or lower degree of efficiency on the Part of the men and women who do the work of collecting, collating and evaluating intelligence material. It may, on the other hand, be a simple mania for secrecy as such.

In London, in 1940, everyone who was interested, and quite a few people who were not knew that the main clerical apparatus of 'M.I.5', the British army's counterintelligence service, was located in a commandeered prison called Wormwood Scrubs. It would have been easier to change the name of the organization than to move the files, but when the problem was solved by a German bomb that destroyed a large part of the records, M.I.5 did not then have publicly to change its name, simply its location.

On the other hand the K.G.B., which before that was essentially the M.V.D previously the N.K.V.D, the O.G.P.U and earlier still Lenin's Cheka has functioned, so far as this we knows, from a permanent base within the Lubyanka Prison, Moscow.

Read more...

The invention of Queen Elizabeth's M.I.6 octopus

 

The British, or perhaps one should be more accurate in saying the English, Secret Service enjoyed for a very long time a reputation for almost uncanny efficiency. It is not hard to see how this legend arose, to the delight of the English, to frighten England's real or potential enemies, and thus to be a source of great, additional strength to England, later to Britain, to the United Kingdom and during its historically brief life to the British Empire. The collapse of the legend can be dated quite easily and in two stages.' The first was the defeat of British Intelligence in Ireland & Michael Collins and his men (and women) in the Anglo-Iris War of 1918-22. This, the loss of Ireland, led directly to t~ decline and ultimate dissolution of the British Empire as such, The second stage was the defeat, by Russia and by British communists of British intelligence in the period that followed the' Second World War. Both these episodes, of the greatest historical significance, will be dealt with later in the blog

Read more...

Okhrana: the story of soviet intelligence services

 

With brief periods of 'thaw' usually ascribable to internal chaos, a change of regime or both, Russia has been a police state sin its creation by Ivan IV, known as 'the Terrible', the first Czar to set up an institutionalized terror apparatus, the Oprichnina, in 1563.

This large force of brutal and brutalized men emulates their master's massive, at times exquisite, sadism. They did no merely murder individuals, but whole classes and the inhabitant of whole provinces on a scale not to be outdone before the autocracies of Lenin and Stalin. After the chaos of the seventeen century, Peter the Great, in his determination to 'Westernize' empire, employed terrorist methods that foreshadowed Stalin' collectivization of the Ukrainian peasantry.

Read more...

Ancient history background About Intelligence services

When writing about so emotive a topic, to start with an tempt at clarification. Secret intelligence, however; is a field of an activity in which clarity appears to be, and often is, en ... gulfed in obscurity. This is not only intrinsic, but often deliberate and not infrequently self-defeating. Let us take the humble example of the squid which exudes a black fluid in order to disguise its direction of escape from a potential enemy. The squid's enemy will attempt not only to penetrate the cloud of darkness, an attempt which will probably prove a failure, but will also calculate through knowledge of currents, submarine rock formation and so forth, the direction of escape that its enemy or prey is likely to take. Meanwhile the squid itself may become bewildered and lost in its own secret cloud and even have the misfortune to emerge straight into its enemy's jaws.

Read more...

The Case of the Petrified Girl

 In the hills of eastern Kentucky, the legend of the “petrified girl. ” Set in the little farming village of Ezel, near Morgan County, the story evokes religious accounts of “incorruptible” corpses as well as ghoulish tales of the “undead.”

Late in the last century one account says “in 1880,” another “the 1880s,” still another “around 1900”—workmen were moving graves from the old Ezel burying ground to a new cemetery site. In some accounts, the reason for the relocation is not recalled, but most state it was due to a typhoid epidemic that stemmed from the graveyard’s pollution of local wells. In the course of the disinterments, the men uncovered the grave of a young girl. Some vague accounts have neither name nor age for her, while others reach near agreement that she was “a 17-year-old daughter of a Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler” or more specifically “Minnie Wheeler, a seventeen-year-old girl.”

Read more...

THE SECRET WEAPONS OF CIA

Exploding wine bottles, guns constructed out of pipes, bullets made of teeth, aspirin explosives: they sound like props from a second-rate spy story. Horrifyingly enough, they are real. The CIA has spent a great deal of its time and your money--developing countless bizarre weapons for assassination, sabotage, and mass destruction. If that's news to you, it's because the CIA doesn't want these products, some of which are quite easy to put together, to fall into the "wrong hands." As for whether they are in the right hands now--judge for yourself.

The CIA has developed many exotic and sophisticated devices intended for use in interrogation, sabotage, and assassination.

These weapons are necessary--if you grant that what the CIA itself does is necessary. If the CIA wants to eliminate a key KGB agent operating in Hungary, it faces certain problems. 

Read more...