Readings on intelligence

Academia / CIA
Coleman, Peter. The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe. New York: The Free Press, 1989. 333 pages.
Peter Coleman is a former member of the Australian parliament and editor of the Australian journal “Quadrant,” one of the literary magazines established in the 1950s by [...]

Selected readings on the arms industry

Military / Arms Industry
Broad, William J. Star Warriors. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. 245 pages.
In this well-written and judicious book, science reporter William J. Broad chronicles his week inside the nation’s most notorious “skunk works,” or crash military R & D project: the mostly-young “Star Wars” team based at California’s Livermore Laboratory. The Livermore [...]

Exclusive! The speech by Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs in the American Congress

SPEECH ON CAPITOL HILL
House International Relations Committee Hearing Room,
September 26, 2006, 18.30-21.00
Honourable Members of Congress,
It is my pleasure to be here tonight, in the heart of American
Democracy. It is also a great honour to have the opportunity to
meet you in this wonderful room, the House International Relations
Committee Hearing Room, which carries such significance in the
minds [...]

Country profile- South Korea-

Capital: Seoul
Land surface: 99,646 Sq. Km
Population: 48,5 million-2006-
Life expectancy: 74 yrs men, 81 yrs women
Political system: Presidential Republic
Currency: Youan-964 Youan for a USD(07/2006)
Reserves: 211 billion USD-2005-
GDP: 788 billion USD-2005-
GDP growth: 4% -2005-
Income per capita: 16,300 USD-2005-
Production: Services(56,3%), Minerals(28,8%), Construction(9,2%), Agriculture(3,3%), Other(2,4%)
Exports: 285 billion USD-2005-
Imports: 262 billion USD-2005
Main products: Electronics, automobiles, ships, steel, chemicals
Main corporations: Samsung Electronics, [...]

H.A.A.R.P:High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program

HAARP is a Pentagon sponsored radio physics project, officially intended to expand knowledge about the nature of long-range radio communications and surveillance using the fluctuating Ionosphere (the portion of the upper atmosphere extending from 35 to 500 miles above the earth’s surface).
According to John L. Heckscher of Philips Laboratory at Hanscom Air Force Base, potential [...]

NATO opens Belgrade office

Source: Beta
BELGRADE — Zoran Stanković has announced the opening of a NATO office in Belgrade which will liaise with the Ministry of Defense.
Defense Minister’s aide Snežana Marković-Samardžić said the office will also serve to assist transit arrangements for NATO troops passing through Serbian territory. According to her, the office will be opened by the end [...]

OSINT Management and the Greek paradigm

Greece is a country situated in some of the most volative geostrategic areas of the world such as Estern Mediteranean and the Balkans. Moreover its corporations heavily invest there and have incetive to collect and most importanlty be able to analyze all relevant information to their business needs. Unfortunately up to now no cohesive policy [...]

Stalin’s Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941-45

It is only recently that Western historians have been able to render more or less full accounts of the Eastern Front, the decisive front in World War II. Only after Soviet historiography and archives opened up to some degree did it become possible to go beyond self-serving German and Soviet accounts of the war that [...]

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON INTELLIGENCE

Andrew Liaropoulos
(Analyst- Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict,
University of Wales, Swansea, UK)
Ioannis Konstantopoulos
(Ph.D Cand-Department of International
and European Studies, Panteion University, Greece)
Copyright: Research Institute for European
and American Studies (RIEAS)- www.rieas.gr
General Reading
· Bamford, James, Body of Secrets. How America’s NSA and the Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World (London: Arrow Books 2002).
· Bennett, Richard, Espionage. Spies [...]

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Jason Vest
(National Security Correspondent for Government Executive)
Copyright: Foreign Policy Journal on line
Note: A Critical Analysis of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol. 18, No. 2. Summer 2005.
People have long been fascinated with the shadowy milieu of espionage, what former British intelligence officer and novelist John Le Carre christened the “secret world.” Although its [...]