Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
Canada: Secret Cold War Plan Included Mass Detentions
October 14th, 2010Via: CBC: At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government crafted a top-secret plan to detain thousands of citizens with Communist links in the event of a national security threat, according to a joint CBC/Radio-Canada investigation. The secret contingency plan, called PROFUNC, allowed police to round up and indefinitely detain Canadians believed to […]
DARPA Wants Automated Counterintelligence Magic 8 Ball
October 13th, 2010Via: DARPA Solicitation: Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (ADAMS): Each time we see an incident like a soldier in good mental health becoming homicidal or suicidal or an innocent insider becoming malicious we wonder why we didn’t see it coming. When we look through the evidence after the fact, we often find a trail – […]
James Corbett: The Truth About Terrorism
October 5th, 2010Research Credit: mja
Pre-Crime Magic 8 Ball Uses “Resentment” in Spoken and Written Information to Identify “The Terrorists”
September 29th, 2010I like Tony’s commentary on this over at Technofascism Blog. He offers a couple of quotes from 1984: “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, […]
FBI Raids Homes of Five Minneapolis Antiwar Activists
September 26th, 2010Via: Star Tribune: The FBI raided the Minneapolis homes of five antiwar activists, including three leaders of the Twin Cities peace movement, Friday morning as part of what it called a probe of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” The Minneapolis office of an antiwar organization was also raided, protest leaders said. No one […]
Rendell’s Office Releases Content of All Bulletins on Planned Protests
September 21st, 2010Here’s the document dump: PA Intelligence Bulletins. Via: Philadelphia Inquirer: The bulletins, issued to police, public officials, and commercial interests three times a week since October, were prepared by a private contractor that the state Office of Homeland Security hired last year for $103,000 without competitive bidding. Much of their content – such as announcements […]
Pennsylvania’s Homeland Security Chief Goes Into Hiding
September 17th, 2010Via: Post Gazette: The former Special Forces colonel who has headed the state Office of Homeland Security for four years and who now finds himself at the center of a firestorm over an anti-terrorism contract is missing in action. James F. Powers Jr. has basically gone underground since Tuesday, when Gov. Ed Rendell denounced a […]
Some of Blackwater/Xe’s Corporate Clients: Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Deutsche Bank and Barclays
September 17th, 2010Via: The Nation: Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to […]
FBI Forwards Letters to Political Prisoners to Local Law Enforcement Agencies
September 15th, 2010Via: IndyMedia: Recently we began receiving documents in response to a FOIA request we filed with the FBI about Eric McDavid. The documents have uncovered a few alarming pieces of information, but one in particular we felt it necessary to share with the public as soon as possible. For years people have been speculating that […]
Privacy Tool for Iranian Activists Disabled After Security Holes Exposed
September 15th, 2010Via: Wired: A highly lauded privacy tool designed to help Iranian activists circumvent state spying and censorship has been disabled after an independent researcher discovered security vulnerabilities in the system that could potentially expose the identities of anonymous users. Users have been instructed to destroy all copies of the software, known as Haystack, and the […]
