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In an anti-terror operation in the southeastern Syrian border town of Gaziantep, Turkish police Tuesday arrested four ISIS suspects riding in a car loaded with military weapons and a drone, presumably en route to Syria. Three of the detainees were foreigners. The car carried a drone plus apparatus, two night sights for long-barreled weapons, 352 ammunition clips for Kalashnikovs, two rifle scopes, 50 45mm bullets, 18 camouflage smocks and three bandoliers.
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Title: MI6 The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949
Author: Keith Jeffery
Jeffrey, Keith (2012). MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949. London: Bloomsbury Publishing
OCLC: 768489395
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- This is a revised and updated version of the 2010 edition.
Date Posted: August 18, 2015
Compiled and reviewed by Hayden B. Peake.[1]
In his foreword to MI6, the then chief of service (“C”), Sir John Sawers, writes that the book “is a landmark in the history of the service.” And indeed it is, by any measure. Although the service was officially recognized in 1994, only Alan Judd’s 1999 biography of Sir Mansfield Cumming was based on official MI6 files.[2] This is not to say that prior to 1994 the existence of MI6 was a well-kept secret. In 1992, publication of The Spy Who Saved The World[3] revealed MI6’s contribution to the work of Oleg Penkovsky in great detail while identifying the principle officers involved. The following year, British intelligence historian Nigel West unofficially surveyed the many MI6 officers who had published their memoirs.[4] What distinguishes Keith Jeffery’s book from these earlier works is its more broad timeframe and his unrestricted access to MI6 archives. MI6 confirms and corrects the record, although not the entire record.
As Jeffery makes clear in his preface, while his access was unlimited, what he could write about was not. The primary restrictions were the timeframe, 1909-1949, and the prohibition against identifying certain agents, officer, and operations. By stopping at 1949, the book could mention Kim Philby of the Cambridge Five only in connection with the Gouzenko case. Likewise, VENONA had to be excluded. With respect to naming individuals, Jeffery could not use names unless they had been officially released, even if the names appear in the public domain. Jeffery explains the reasoning with the comment that unofficial sources were often “unsubstantiated assertions in sensational and evanescent publications” or what he more colorfully terms the “sub-prime intelligence literature.” (p. xii)
These limitations aside, MI6 is an astonishing work of scholarship. It reveals the development of the service from its one-man origins, through WWI, the interwar period, and WWII. The latter brought great challenges, first with the abolition of the Z Organization—which controlled nonofficial cover officers—under Claude Dansey. Then came the formation of the SOE (Special Operations Executive), the work of the codebreakers at Bletchley Park, and the initial loss and subsequent rebuilding of British worldwide espionage capabilities. MI6 concludes with the transition from a wartime structure to its Cold War organization. About one third of the book concerns administration, and the balance covers operations.
Along the way some colorful Brits make an appearance. Examples include Sir Paul Dukes, who operated under the noses of the Bolsheviks in Russia, and Wilfred “Biffy’’ Dunderdale—fond of fast cars and a friend of lan Fleming—in France, whose fluent Russian aided in the debriefing of the first Soviet defector, Boris Bajanov, Then there was Haline Szymanska, the wife of a Polish military attaché and “friend” of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the German Abwehr chief. She served as an agent for the Poles and MI6, and Canaris arranged for her escape to Switzerland, though Jeffery does not mention the rumor that she was also his mistress. She also had links to Allen DuIles. When she informed him that the Germans were reading his cipher, he continued to use it until Claude Dansey, then the assistant to “C,” told the MI6 head of station to remind “the fool [Dulles]” of the fact. Subsequent communications were passed through British channels. (p. 511)
This is just a minute sampling of the hundreds of stories Jeffery tells in MI6. In this revised edition he has added details to the adventures of Sir Paul Dukes, SIS’s role in the Rudolf Hess defection, and on the agent NANNYGOAT’s links to a Romanian network. Finally, he describes in detail a case omitted entirely from the first edition—the Volkov case, which threatened to expose Philby and other Soviet penetrations of British intelligence.
MI6 is a most valuable addition to the literature of intelligence.
[1] Hayden B. Peake, “The Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf”, Intelligencer: Journal of U. S. Intelligence Studies (20, 3 Spring/Summer 2014, pp. 130-131). Hayden Peake is the Curator of the CIA’s Historical Intelligence Collection. He has served in the Directorate of Science and Technology and the Directorate of Operations. Most of these reviews appeared in recent unclassified editions of CIA’sStudies in Intelligence. These and many other reviews and articles may be found online athttp://www.cia.gov.
[2] Judd, Alan (1999). The Quest for C: Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of the Secret Service. London: HarperCollins Publishers
[3] Schecter, Jerrold L.(1992) and Peter S. Deriabin. The Spy Who Saved The World: How A Soviet Colonel Changed The Course of The Cold War. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons
[4] West, Nigel (1993), ed. The Faber Book of Espionage. London: Faber and Faber
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OVER THE WEEKEND in Iowa, as you may well know, a “Batman” became a Bat-meme. The scene unfolded above the state fair, where the Des Moines airspace met the churn of The Donald’s hairspace.
Candidate Trump, as if channeling the wily senior politician opposite Robert Redford in “The Candidate” or Burt Lancaster’s eccentric oilman mogul in “Local Hero,” arrived from the skies like he was descending from Olympus. He landed among the fair and good people of Iowa in a Trump copter that, as The Post reported, kicked up an apt metaphor of a duststorm. Then, in canny (and canned) fashion, the leading GOP contender offered rides to some of the cheering children. One of these kids, 9-year-old William, was savvy enough (though we hope not staged enough) to be toting a GoPro camera.
“Mr. Trump?” inquired the lens-wielding William.
“Yes?” said The Helicopter Don.
“Are you Batman?”
“I am Batman.”
And with those words, and William’s subsequent Facebook clip, the Internet responded to that Bat-signal like japing crusaders with meme art and #BatTrump hashtags at the ready.
It’s tough to picture Trump trading his navy blazer for a purple-black cape, so the Internet spasmed with laughter, giddy over this political theater of the absurd. And yet — yes, and yet — is Donald Trump really so different from fellow moneyman Bruce Wayne?
To peer beneath their masks for a moment, here are 15 ways in which Trump and Wayne/Batman aren’t so different:
1. Both men were born in Gotham during the World War II era. (Wayne debuted in 1939; Trump in 1946.)
2. They both have been fond of the distinguishing article in their singular nickname (“The Bat-Man” or “The Donald”).
3. One is a 6-foot-2 American billionaire who likes to emblazon a civic phallic symbol with his name. The other is, well, a 6-foot-2 American billionaire who likes to emblazon pretty much anything big with his name.
4. They both have self-named structures in Midtown (Wayne Tower and Trump Tower) over 50 stories high, from which they can survey their city.
5. Each is forever on the lookout for a large spotlight.
6. Their highly intelligent fathers profoundly influenced what career each son chose.
7. Each man has Scottish ties. (Trump on his mother’s side; Batman co-creator Bill Finger has said that Bruce Wayne was partly named for Scotland’s Robert Bruce.)
8. Each man is rather fond of having an apprentice or young sidekick to mold and scold, to banter with and correct.
9. Each man has appeared in a narrative alongside a younger female named Holly Robinson.
10. Each has an uneasy relationship with what he views as an “alien” presence, whether that be an immigrant from Mexico or Krypton.
11. Each is eminently fond of private, sometimes custom helicopters, boats and planes.
12. Forbes has valued the fortune of each man at more than $4 billion. (In the case of Bruce Wayne: roughly $7 billion).
13. Both men have ties to people whose residence has been positively filled with cats (be it Selina Kyle or Chuck Blazer).
14. Batman and Trump have both had network series for which they have received Emmy nominations. And each has also appeared as an animated character.
15. Contrary to the perception of some, neither man actually possesses a single superpower.
Writer/artist/visual storyteller Michael Cavna is creator of the "Comic Riffs" column and graphic-novel reviewer for The Post's Book World. He relishes sharp-eyed satire in most any form.
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Police sources say a raid on the Moscow headquarters of the Church of Scientology earlier this year revealed spy equipment installed in reconciliation rooms. A leak claims the recordings could allegedly be used to blackmail parishioners of the church.
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Scientology, founded in 1952 by L. Ron Hubbard, is often accused by critics of being a cult and a commercial enterprise. Dubbed as one of the most controversial new religions of the 20th century, it teaches that people are immortal beings who have forgotten their true nature. According to Hubbard, “a civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.”
The Church of Scientology previously came under the radar of Russian law enforcement authorities back in the 1990s, when intelligence agencies came across questionnaires that Hubbard’s followers distributed to potential members. A thorough analysis of the booklets showed that they met all the criteria for ‘hosting professional intelligence activities’, LifeNews reports.
People were not only asked about their marital status, religious beliefs, interests, income and hobbies, but for instance, if this or that person had previously served in the military, Scientologists found out the particular number of his unit and the exact whereabouts of the weapons storage sites.
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“This sect does not give one any freedom of choice. People are given no chance to leave. They are being kept on a short leash instead, constantly put under pressure. A person becomes dependent on the sect members by virtue of the information that he had given them,” the source added.
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