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Image Source : PIXABAY 1/7 The Research and Analysis Wing is the external intelligence agency of India which monitors developments in the neighbouring countries that have a direct bearing on India’s National security and carry out covert operations to protect India’s National interests. Image Source : pixabay 4/7 The Inter Services Intelligence is Pakistan's primary intelligence agency, responsible for gathering …

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1 month ago

Counter intel wing conducts raids at Srinagar jail, recovers electronic devices

India Today

The Counter Intelligence Kashmir of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday conducted raids in different blocks of the Central Jail in Srinagar and recovered several digital devices, including cellphones and tablets. A senior officer, associated with the raids, told India Today TV that the operation focused on multiple blocks and barracks within the prison and several electronic devices including …

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’Pakistan ISI agents seeking…’: Gujarat man caught for sharing Coast Guard secrets on WhatsApp, Facebook for ₹200 a day

Live Mint

In a startling development, the Gujarat unit of the Anti-Terrorist Squad has arrested a contractual worker for allegedly sharing sensitive information regarding the movement of Indian Coast Guard ships with a Pakistani spy. The arrested man, identified as Dipesh Gohil, worked at the Okha port and was reportedly paid to send confidential details about the Coast Guard's vessels. Pakistan’s Navy …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Beyond 26/11: How military satellites can redefine India's security framework

Firstpost

The lessons from 26/11 underscore the need for a robust, technologically advanced security framework in India. Military satellites, with their unparalleled intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities, are at the forefront of this transformation The harrowing events of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008 were a stark reminder of vulnerabilities in India’s national security framework. Integrating Satellites into India’s Security Framework …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

From the India Today Archives (2012): The 26/11 lessons we didn't learn

India Today

In July this year, Lashkar-e-Toiba operative and 26/11 handler Abu Jundal told Indian intelligence agencies that his organisation is plotting fresh attacks on India. "Forget knowing what let is doing in Pakistan, we don’t even know what they’re doing under our noses in India," says a senior police officer in Delhi. An Indian home ministry official is less rude when …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

BIG revelation: Pak, China piling sensitive data on J-K's infra projects, aiding terrorists in infiltration

India TV News

India TV EXCLUSIVE: In a major development, it has been uncovered that Pakistan's intelligence agency, along with China, is collecting sensitive information on strategic and important infrastructure projects in Jammu and Kashmir, especially essential installations, bridges, and critical tunnels, potentially to aid terrorist infiltration activities. Under the supervision of Pakistani Army SSG commandos and ISI operatives, they received training in …

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4 months ago

Whale, dead rat, cat or pigeon: Which animal is the best spy?

Al Jazeera

Hvaldimir, a beluga thought to have been a Russian spy, is dead. Hvaldimir, a white beluga whale thought to have been used as a Russian spy, was found dead last weekend under what animal rights organisations say were suspicious circumstances in Norway near Russian waters while wearing a harness. Yet, while the cause of the whale’s death is not clear, …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tech over human intelligence? Why fatalities among security forces are on the rise in Jammu region

India Today

The repeated fatalities suffered by security personnel in terror attacks in the Jammu region have raised questions about the way counterterrorism operations are being carried out in the forested and hilly terrains. Lack of credible human intelligence and perceived deviance from the standard operating procedures of anti-terror operations are believed to be some of the reasons behind the heavy casualties …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Moscow Attack: Why Russia May Have Ignored Any Terrorist Warnings From the CIA

The Quint

Given that intelligence is all about gathering and keeping secrets, it might sound odd to learn that intelligence agencies routinely share secrets. But the recent conviction of Canadian spy chief Cameron Ortis for selling secrets to suspected criminals, highlights the vulnerability of systems dependent upon trust. Countries who do not enjoy wholly friendly relations also share secrets, on a selective …

Intelligence Share

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Moscow attacks: Why the Kremlin may have ignored any terrorist warnings from the CIA

New Indian Express

The attack on the Crocus City concert hall in the Moscow suburbs, which left 137 people dead, has again raised questions about the effectiveness of intelligence in identifying and preventing massive acts of terrorism. He told a press conference: “Our security services are working on their own, no assistance is currently on the table.” Five eyes better than one Given …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Taking care of the Qatar eight

New Indian Express

Reports in well-respected international media have suggested that Israel spied on Qatar’s navy with the help of these eight hapless Indians and the domestic media has echoed these reports. Yet it runs counter to the SOP of any efficient or effective spy agency to use eight persons working together in one operation. According to veterans in the global intelligence community, …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Taking care of the Qatar eight

New Indian Express

Reports in well-respected international media have suggested that Israel spied on Qatar’s navy with the help of these eight hapless Indians and the domestic media has echoed these reports. Yet it runs counter to the SOP of any efficient or effective spy agency to use eight persons working together in one operation. According to veterans in the global intelligence community, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

After secret documents leak, Pentagon plans tighter controls to protect classified information

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Wednesday announced plans to tighten protection for classified information following the explosive leaks of hundreds of intelligence documents that were accessed through security gaps at a Massachusetts Air National Guard base. Asked if the department is trying to limit the number of people who have access to classified information, the defense official said it is …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Opinion: How could a 21-year-old leak national security data without the Pentagon knowing?

LA Times

Speaking about the recent intelligence leak of classified documents by a member of the U.S. military, President Biden downplayed the significance, remarking, “There’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that is of great consequence.” While it makes sense that the president would attempt to soft-pedal the fallout, the truth is that the Biden administration, Department of Defense and the U.S. …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Stunning leak arrest spotlights major ongoing US intelligence vulnerabilities

CNN

CNN — When FBI tactical agents wielding assault rifles confronted Robert Hanssen one Sunday evening in 2001, the most dangerous spy in US history was finally put out of service. As in the similar case of former CIA officer Aldrich Ames, who had been arrested by the FBI seven years earlier after similarly passing secrets for years that led to …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Leaked Pentagon documents: What are the major takeaways?

Al Jazeera

The US, UK and France are among Western countries with special forces deployed in Ukraine, according to leaked intelligence documents. Western special forces active in Ukraine A leaked classified US military document suggests that 97 special forces personnel from NATO countries were active in Ukraine during February and March of this year. In response to the leak of alleged classified …

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1 year, 8 months ago

How serious is the Pentagon files leak for the US and its allies?

Al Jazeera

The Pentagon is dealing with the fallout from the worst leak of US national security intelligence in many years. Initial media reports said it involved highly classified US and NATO plans to help Ukraine in its war against Russia. Russia has been accused of doctoring some files to create misinformation, and Ukrainian and South Korean officials have rejected some of …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Global Watch | How Chinese spy agencies deceived the world through ‘Grains of Sand’ theory

Firstpost

For the CCP and Xi Jinping, the Chinese espionage network is the most effective tool to dominate the world. Roger Faligot mentions one of the least discussed aspects of Chinese intelligence in Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping, “The word Qingbao in Chinese has two meanings: ‘intelligence’ and ‘information’… The concept becomes even more interesting when one studies …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Secret CIA museum for spies' eyes only

Hindustan Times

It is so secret only spooks can visit it, but on Saturday, the Central Intelligence Agency declassified some artefacts in its newly refurbished museum. Among the exhibits is the model of Ayman al-Zawahiri's safe house, used to brief President Joe Biden about the al-Qaida leader's whereabouts before the agency killed him in a drone strike in Afghanistan. A running agency …

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2 years, 7 months ago

History of RAW - India’s external intelligence agency

The Hindu

Did the Central Intelligence Agency set up a monitoring station in the 1960s, with a plutonium device buried somewhere under the snow and earth on the slopes of the Nanda Devi, to spy on the Chinese? According to Yatish Yadav, author of RAW : AHistory of India’s Covert Operations, “ Atma Ram panel suggests that new techniques need to be …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Secret intelligence has unusually public role in Ukraine war

Associated Press

LONDON — The war in Ukraine is the conflict where spies came in from the cold and took center stage. The U.S. this week declassified intelligence findings claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misinformed about his military’s poor performance in Ukraine by advisers scared to tell him the truth. Jeremy Fleming, who heads Britain’s electronic intelligence agency GCHQ, made …

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3 years, 4 months ago

India joined exclusive surveillance group after 26/11, says book

Hindustan Times

India, ignored by the Central Intelligence Agency over Pakistan during America’s “war on terror” and the decades preceding it, became the member of an exclusive surveillance group after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, making it a formidable intelligence force, according to a book by journalists Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark. The book, “Spy Stories – Inside the Secret World of the …

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3 years, 6 months ago

In the List of Strategic Blunders by US, Decision to Exit Afghanistan Most Pronounced

News 18

Notwithstanding being easily the world’s most powerful nation since the end of the Second World War, much glory still cannot be ascribed to the US statecraft. Though Donald Trump in August 2017 had loudly proclaimed that “US presence in Afghanistan would be determined by conditions, not calendars,” Trump’s administration later had eagerly speeded up the US negotiations with the belligerent …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Afghanistan withdrawal will likely dismantle a CIA intelligence network built up over 20 years Afghanistan withdrawal will likely dismantle a CIA intelligence network built up over 20 years

CNN

Washington CNN — President Joe Biden’s planned withdrawal from Afghanistan includes an intense unraveling of the extensive intelligence and covert action network that the US has built there over the two decades since 9/11 as part of the global war on terror. That’s simply a fact,” Burns said before noting the CIA will retain “a suite of capabilities, some of …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Interview with John Ferris on ‘Behind the Enigma: The Authorized History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency’

The Hindu

The GCHQ is one of Britain’s leading intelligence agencies known for its code-breaking achievements during the Second World War. Enter Behind the Enigma: The Authorized History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency : the first book to authoritatively capture the history of this secretive intelligence agency. How do you view GCHQ’s approach to handling citizens’ data in the light of …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Opinion | Pakistan’s plot foiled: Salute to our intelligence agencies

India TV News

In a shining example of intelligence sharing between security forces, a joint team of Army and CRPF jawans on early Thursday morning gunned down four Pakistani Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists near the Ban toll plaza at Nagrota on Jammu-Srinagar highway. The terrorists, armed with 11 AK-47 rifles, three pistols, and more than four dozen grenades and 10 kg RDX, were hiding in …

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4 years, 3 months ago

CIA document reveals depth of Soviet penetration in Indian media

Op India

The success of Vivek Agnihotri-directed movie ‘Tashkent Files’ has aroused the interest of Indian youth in the field of espionage during the cold war between USSR and USA. However, the CIA declassified a document titled ‘The Soviets in India: Moscow’s Major Penetration Program’ in 2011, two decades after the fall of USSR; which revealed the depth of KGB infiltration in …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile could 'circle the globe for years'

The Telegraph

The intelligence chief also highlighted Russia’s major investment in submarines and deep ocean capabilities such as “an unmanned underwater vehicle capable of delivering a nuclear payload to coastal targets or even carrier groups at sea” and the ability to threaten undersea cables, as recently reported in the Telegraph. “These capabilities together allow the Russians to hold the UK and its …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Yatish Yadav’s new book ‘RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations’ offers a peek into the exploits of Indian spymasters

The Hindu

Journalist and author Yatish Yadav’s new book RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations is a window into the heroic covert operations carried by India’s external spy agency Research and Analysis Wing. The book will give a detailed account of real spies and reveals hitherto unknown aspects of their life, trauma and temptation, triumphs and setbacks in executing each of …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Manish Tewari | Parliament oversight key for reforms in intelligence agencies

Deccan Chronicle

The multiple Chinese intrusions into India, occupation of our territory and the brutal murder of our soldiers undoubtedly constitute an intelligence failure. “The Review Committee had before it overwhelming evidence that the Pakistani armed intrusion in the Kargil sector came as a complete and total surprise to the Indian government, Army and intelligence agencies as well as to the J&K …

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4 years, 6 months ago

The CIA's cyber intelligence unit had terrible cybersecurity, inquiry finds

Salon

A government inquiry concluded that "woefully lax" security practices at the Central Intelligence Agency played a major role in a massive 2017 leak of confidential documents, most of which ended up appearing on WikiLeaks. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., wrote a letter to Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday noting that the CIA's WikiLeaks Task Force report reveal "lax …

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4 years, 10 months ago

For Decades, India Used CIA-Monitored ‘Encrypted’ Devices: Report

The Quint

An investigative report by The Washington Post has revealed that a leading cryptographic equipment company that sold its software to more than 120 countries, including India, was secretly owned by the Central Intelligence Agency. Crypto AG, which manufactures equipment that ensure secrecy of communications, was used by governments, military outfits, diplomats and even the Vatican, according to the Washington Post …

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4 years, 10 months ago

CIA spied on countries including India, Pakistan through secretly-owned Swiss encryption firm for decades, says Washington Post report

Firstpost

The CIA read the encrypted messages of several countries, including India, for decades through its secretly-owned Switzerland-based company trusted by governments all over the world to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret. Washington: The Central Intelligence Agency read the encrypted messages of several countries, including India, for decades through its secretly-owned Switzerland-based company trusted by governments …

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4 years, 11 months ago

ISI used same set of social media IDs to trap sailors, finds NIA investigation

Hindustan Times

The National Investigation Agency ’s initial probe into the naval spy ring busted in December has found that Pakistan’s spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, used the same set of social media accounts to honey trap sailors and paid them very small amounts of money, officials familiar with the matter said. National Investigation Agency ’s initial probe into the naval spy …

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5 years, 8 months ago

Bombings intelligence row exposes tension in Sri Lanka government

Al Jazeera

Defence minister says there was a ‘major lapse’ in intelligence sharing and attacks ‘could have been avoided’. When the attacks happened, the government’s two top officials – President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe – both said they knew nothing about the warnings. Saying that, you don’t know is not a good excuse.” State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene …

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5 years, 8 months ago

The looking glass war in the Himalayas

Deccan Chronicle

In late 1962 India and China fought a fierce war amidst the swirling clouds of the Himalayan ranges. Mao Zedong’s pronouncements about his willingness to joust with nuclear weapons and his stated belief that China could afford to lose half its population and still come out a winner in a nuclear war gave the world’s political leaders plenty of sleepless …

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5 years, 10 months ago

India’s rusted fangs need urgent repair

Firstpost

Modi has to address arguably the toughest strategic problem any leader of a nuclear-armed state has faced: hit another nuclear-weapon state to deter it from patronising terrorism. Anaemic spies Led by the dour career intelligence officer R Kumar, R&AW’s offensive operations against Pakistan have expanded in recent years and have grown in scale under Modi. In one controversial 2018 case, …

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Operation Tamarisk: The secret garbage war of the Cold War

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