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Timely items may be candidates for WP:ITN - in any case, deserve coverage.
- MYSTIC program (RETRO tool) recording and storing every single conversation in an 'unnamed country' for 30 days. [1][2][3]
- Panetta Review - a bizarre instance of Congress actually trying to oversee the CIA (epic fail). [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/11/cia-search-congressional-computer-sparks-constitutional-crisis/
Drafts and stubs for improvement
- Revision as of 06:25, 26 September 2010 User:George Orwell III (Update with latest changes; a lot already hidden in previous edits(s))
- this edit comments out most of the article, the edit summary is misleading
- a show/hide may be useful for Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel#ISCAP Bylaws.
- attempted repair, not familiar with this topic.
- No Place to Hide (Greenwald book)
- Draft:Section 215 of the Patriot Act -- see Section summary of the Patriot Act, Title II#Section 215: Access to records and other items under FISA
- Draft:Inspector General of the National Security Administration
- Draft:California Fourth Amendment Protection Act
- Draft:Utah Fourth Amendment Protection Act
- Draft:Tenth Amendment Center
- Draft:Offnow
- Draft:Bill of Rights Defense Committee
- Draft:Courage Foundation
- Draft:iPhone Location Services
- Garlic routing
- Draft: Reset the Net
New articles (or moved from Draft:) and DYKs under discussion
Please feel free to list your new Mass surveillance-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page. Note there is a five day deadline from when the article is created or moved to main article space to when the DYK must be filed. Articles are nominated and discussed at WP:DYKN.
- Zakharov v. Russia
- FISA Improvements Act, listed at DYK.
- USA Freedom Act, listed at DYK.
- Amash-Conyers Amendment, listed at DYK.
- Stop Watching Us, listed at DYK.
Missing articles about espionage, intelligence gathering and spies
Thanks to User:Skysmith - and earlier User:Canley, User:Hut 8.5, User:Moswento, User:MrLinkinPark333 & User:Nobunaga24 - also original at: [4]
- see also the Milhist Intel task force for this lot...
- Armed forces intelligence - ()
- aviation intelligence - ()
- Basic intelligence - ()
- Biographical intelligence - ()
- Chaos operation - ()
- Combat electronics warfare intelligence (CEWS) - ()
- Combat intelligence - ()
- Combined intelligence - ()
- Communications security monitoring - ()
- Controlled information - ()
- Counter-intelligence operation - ()
- Critical intelligence - ()
- Current intelligence - ()
- Cyber counterintelligence - ()
- Departmental intelligence - ()
- domestic intelligence - ()
- economic intelligence - ()
- Evasion and escape intelligence - ()
- Field intelligence - ()
- General military intelligence - ()
- Human resources intelligence - ()
- Interdepartmental intelligence - ()
- Merchant intelligence - ()
- National intelligence - ()
- Offensive intelligence - ()
- Political intelligence - ()
- Radar intelligence - ()
- Scientific and technical intelligence - ()
- Scientific intelligence - ()
- Security intelligence - ()
- Special compartment intelligence (SCI) - ()
- Technical operational intelligence - ()
- Terrain intelligence - ()
- User intelligence – ()
Terminology
- Access to classified information - ()
- Accuracy of information - ()
- Air Situation Data Exchange - ()
- Black trainee - ()
- Blood chit (intelligence) - ()
- Chaos operation - ()
- Circular intelligence - ()
- Condemned spy - ()
- Control question - ()
- Critical information - ()
- Critical Intelligence Requirements - ()
- Critical intelligence - ()
- Defense information - ()
- Demote maximally - ()
- Electronic security - ()
- Elevation of security - ()
- Elicitation (intelligence) - ()
- Essential elements of friendly information (EEFI) - ()
- Essential elements of information (EEI) - ()
- Essential secrecy - ()
- Extremely sensitive information - ()
- Faculty security profile - ()
- Footwarmer - ()
- global finding - ()
- Guarded frequencies Guarded frequency - ()
- Highly sensitive - ()
- Hostile intelligence services - ()
- Indications (intelligence) - ()
- Intelligence estimate - ()
- Intelligence process - ()
- Intelligence source - ()
- National security information - ()
- National security interests - ()
- Negative vetting - ()
- Operations and intelligence - ()
- Operative intelligence - ()
- Other intelligence requirement - ()
- Pavement artist - ()
- Place of conspiracy - ()
- Positive vetting - ()
- Priority Intelligence Requirement Priority intelligence requirements (PIR) - () / ()
- Protected frequencies protected frequency - ()
- Reliability of source - ()
- Residentum - ()
- Restricted frequency - ()
- Scalp-hunter - ()
- Security certification - ()
- Security loophole - ()
- Signal security - ()
- Special information requirement (SIT) - ()
- Taboo frequency - ()
- Threat curve - ()
- Tiger in the tank - ()
- War of diversion – ()
Espionage methods
- Agent validation- ()
- all-source analysis - ()
- All-source production - ()
- Chaos operation- ()
- Communication deception - ()
- Communications interception - ()
- Counter-Terrorism check - ()
- Counterintelligence technical survey - ()
- crib analysis - ()
- Daily intelligence summary (DISUM) - ()
- Defense intelligence production - ()
- Domestic surveillance- ()
- Economic intelligence- ()
- Electoral manipulation- ()
- electro-optical intelligence - ()
- Electronics security - ()
- Entrance National Agency Check (ENTAC) - ()
- Espionage network - ()
- I method - ()
- Image interpretation - ()
- Intelligence discipline - ()
- Intelligence operations - ()
- Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield - - ()
- Intelligence report - ()
- Intelligence summary - ()
- Interception network - ()
- Interrogation (intelligence) - ()
- Listening silence - ()
- Mind-control program- ()
- Movements analysis program - ()
- National intelligence surveys - ()
- National Reconnaissance program - ()
- Penetration (intelligence) - ()
- Periodic intelligence summary - ()
- Reconnaissance survey - ()
- Romeo operation - ()
- Satellite and missile surveillance - ()
- Special background investigation - ()
- Special information operations - ()
- Specialist intelligence report - ()
- Spy flight - ()
- Spy system - ()
- Submarine espionage, submarine spying - () – ()
Deception
- Dummy message - ()
- Dummy traffic - ()
- Electronic imitative deception - ()
- Electronic simulative deception - ()
- Imitative communications deception (ICD) - ()
- Manipulative communications cover (MCC) - ()
- Manipulative communications deception (MCD) – ()
Propaganda
Intelligence and espionage organizations
- Al Amn al-Askariya, Iraqi Military Security Service - ()
- Al Hadi Project OR Project 858, Iraqi signals intelligence - ()
- Allami Vedelmi Batosag (AVB) Hungarian Intelligence Service - ()
- Buero Ha, Swiss WW2 intelligence group - ()
- Cabinet General Intelligence Bureau, North Korea - ()
- Central Evaluation and Information Group, Zentrale Auswertungs und Informationsgruppe (ZAIG) East German intelligence evaluation group- ()
- Central External Liaison Department (CELD), Chinese Secret Service - ()
- CIA Technical Services Division - ()
- Cinquième Bureau, French intelligence, defunct- ()
- Civil Air Transport Company, Ltd. - ()
- Clandestine Committee of the Western Union - ()
- Clandestine Planning Committee - ()
- Combined Operations and Intelligence Center - ()
- Communications Coordination Committee - ()
- Council of the Tens Consiglio Dei Liege - ()
- Covert Operations Study Group - ()
- Covert Operations Study Group - ()
- Covert Operations Study Group- ()
- Cypher Bureau - ()
- Deciphering Branch - ()
- Defence Scientific Intelligence (DSI), UK - ()
- Directorate for Analysis - ()
- Directorate for Human Intelligence - ()
- Directorate for Intelligence Joint Staff - ()
- Directorate for MASINT and Technical Collection - ()
- Documentation and Security Directorate (DSD), secret police of Chad - ()
- Egyptian Intelligence Service - ()
- Fleet Intelligence Office - ()
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review - ()
- Geheime Kabinets-Kanzlei, Viennese Black Chamber, Austrian intelligence unit in Vienna - () / ()
- General Headquarters Intelligence - ()
- General Security Services - ()
- Ghanian Intelligence - ()
- Heads of Commonwealth Security Services - ()
- House Internal Security Committee - ()
- House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment - ()
- Intelligence and Analysis Service - ()
- Intelligence Directorate of the Internal Affairs Ministry, UM-0215, Romanian Intelligence Service - ()
- Irish Joint Section - ()
- Jamaariya Security Organization - ()
- Joint intelligence Committee (JIC) - ()
- Joint Intelligence Task Force for Combating Terrorism - ()
- Joint Task Force on Intelligence and Law Enforcement - ()
- Jonathan Institute, Israel - ()
- Kilowatt group, international antiterrorism group - ()
- Latin America Current Intelligence Group (LAGIC) - ()
- Line X group- ()
- London Signals Intelligence Board - ()
- Military Joint Intelligence Center - ()
- Mirtzan Einhim, Mossad group - ()
- National Association for Information Destruction - ()
- National Intelligence Officers National Intelligence Officer - ()
- National Security Planning Group - ()
- National Security Planning Group- ()
- National Strategy Information Center, USA - ()
- Natural Reconnaissance Office (NRO) - ()
- North Korean Ministry of Public Security - ()
- North Korean Reconnaissance Bureau of the General Staff Department - ()
- Office of National Intelligence Estimates (ONE) - ()
- Office of Special Operations- ()
- Operation Planning and Intelligence Board - ()
- Operational intelligence center - ()
- Operational Intelligence Centre, UK admiralty - ()
- Overseas Internal Security Program - ()
- Overseas Internal Security Program- ()
- Post Office Special Investigations Unit, UK - ()
- President's Board of Consultants of Foreign Intelligence Activities - ()
- President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities - ()
- Rabcor - ()
- Reparto Informazioni e Sicurezza, Italian intelligence - ()
- Restricted Interagency Group - ()
- Russian Intelligence Residency - ()
- Security Oversight Board - ()
- Senior Interagency Group - ()
- Service for Action and Military Intelligence (SNIP), Zaire - ()
- South African State Security Agency - ()
- Special Procedures Group - ()
- Spetzburo - ()
- State–Army–Navy Communication Intelligence Board - ()
- Technical Directorate - ()
- United States SIGINT system (USS) – ()
Cover organizations
- Asmara Chemie, German chemical firm used as a Mossad front company - ()
- Corporate Air Services – ()
- Importers and Exporters Services – ()
Espionage and intelligence operations
- Global Expertise Reserve Program (GERP) - ()
- Great Mole Hunt - ()
- Industrial Security Program (ISP) - ()
- Infiltration of agents - ()
- Operation Absorb - ()
- Operation Bluebell - ()
- Operation Captain Tom - ()
- Operation CKTAW - ()
- Operation Coordinating Board - ()
- Operation Courtship - ()
- Operation ELMEN - ()
- Operation Engulf - ()
- Operation Fake Tourist - ()
- Operation Foit - ()
- Operation Foot, British investigation against Soviet spies in Britain in 1971 - ()
- Operation Gilded Road - ()
- Operation Green Harvest - ()
- Operation Harward - ()
- Operation Hat - ()
- Operation HTLINGUAL - ()
- Operation Ignore - ()
- Operation Kayo - ()
- Operation Khodok - ()
- Operation Lucky Bag - ()
- Operation Noah's Ark (1969), Mossad mission to extract gunboats in France, 1969 - ()
- Operation NYCON - ()
- Operation Progress - ()
- Operation Recovery of the Irangate - ()
- Operation Rhyme - ()
- Operation Silicon Valley - ()
- Operation Stairstop - ()
- Operation Stockade - ()
- Operation Suzanna, Mossad operation in Egypt - ()
- Operation Tiepin - ()
- Operation Ultra – ()
- Operation Winterwind - ()
- Project Cherry - ()
- Project Monopoly - ()
- Protect Jennifer - ()
- Red Cap program - ()
- Vermehren affair – ()
Spy rings
- Garden shed spies - ()
- Jesuit Connection - ()
- Kriegsmarine network - ()
- Oxford Ring, spy ring - ()
- Rote Drei - ()
- Sapphire Ring - ()
- Zeppelin (spy ring) - ()
- Agency Field Officer - ()
- Air Intelligence Liaison Officer - ()
- Deep-cover officer- ()
- Security program manager (SPM) - ()
- Acoustic jamming - ()
- Alarm-clock bomb - ()
- Assistive listening systems assistive listening system - ()
- Attaché recorder - ()
- bio-optic synthetic systems (BOSS) - ()
- Bleep-box - ()
- Cable-tapping - ()
- Code cutter - ()
- Computer-controller Area Sterilization Multi-Sensor System (CASMS) - ()
- Doo transmitter, T-1151 radio transmitter - ()
- electronic communications intercept - ()
- Intelligence data handling systems - ()
- Intelligence database - ()
- Keyhole intelligence satellite - ()
- Magpie board - ()
- Message identifier - ()
- Pocket bug - ()
- Radar button - ()
- Reconnaissance airborne listening post - ()
- Roaming wired bug - ()
- Roaming wireless bug - ()
- Room bug - ()
- Security card - ()
- seismology of monitoring explosions - ()
- shoe transmitter - ()
- Snake electronic keyhole listener - ()
- Tap detector - ()
- Underwater cable tapping - ()
- Wireless bug - ()
- Wireless tap – ()
Related laws
- Classified National Security Information Act - ()
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Improvement and Enhancement Act - ()
- Intelligence Information Act - ()
- Official Secrets (Jersey) Law 1952 - ()
- Official Secrets Act (Canada) 1939 - ()
- Official Secrets Act (Canada) 1981 - ()
- Official Secrets Act 1951 - ()
- Official Secrets Act 1963, Official Secrets Act, 1963 – ()
- Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act - ()
Spies and intelligence operatives
Intelligence chiefs
- Anatoly Mikonov, deputy chief of GRU - ()
- Binyamin Blumberg, first leader of Lekem - ()
- Fritz Harfinger, US Navy director of Naval Intelligence - ()
- Kao Liang Chinese intelligence officer - ()
- Lacques Vauzanges, French military intelligence - ()
- Omer Mohamed al-Tayed Sudan intelligence chief - ()
- Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli French intelligence officer and whistleblower - ()
- Roget Wybot, Paul Warin, French intelligence chief - () / ()
- Walter Lindquist, Swedish intelligence chief - ()
- Yehosphat Harhabi, Head of Aman - ()
- Yevgeni Teleguev, KGB general - ()
Great War spies
- Alexander Szek (1894-1917) WWI British spy in Germany - ()
- Heinrich Schtaub, WWI German spy - ()
- Horst Eitner German double agent - ()
World War Two spies
- Friedrich Karl von Schleebrugge, German agent in Mexico - ()
- Guillaume Alscher, German spy in Vichy France - ()
- Guy Turrall, SOE - ()
- Herbert Tributh, German WW2 spy - ()
- Hugh O'Donnell (spy), Stalinist spy in Spain – ()
- Ismail Akhmedov, WW2 GRU officer - ()
- Jean Charles Alexander, WW2 double agent - ()
- Jean Marie Lallart, French Abwehr agent - ()
- Jeffrey Schevitz, Alleged German double agent - ()
- Juan Gomes de Lecube, Spanish Abwehr agent - ()
- Mohsen Fadl, German spy in Cairo - ()
- Paul Dehn (SOE) SOE propaganda expert - ()
- Pieter Dourlein and Johan Ubbink, Dutch SOE agents - ()
- Ruth Kühn, German spy in Hawaii for the Japanese - ()
Cold War spies
- Benjamin Siman-Tov, Israel intelligence officer - ()
- Ismail Akhmedov. GRU officer who defected to West - ()
- Jean Paul Soupert, Air Bubble, French chemist and double agent - ()
- Ladivslav Bittman Checkoslovak intelligence officer - ()
- Liao Ho-Shu, Chinese defector to USA - ()
- Masato Shinohara, Fuji bureau chief and spy for Japan in Korea - ()
- Nicholas Praeger (d. 1981) Czech agent in Britain - ()
- Pak No-Su (d. 1970) Chinese spy in Britain - ()
- Radumor Skotte, Czech spy - ()
- Robin Pearson, Stasi spy in Britain - ()
- Russel A. Langelle US embassy security chief - ()
- Tai Shen Kuo, Chinese spy in the USA - ()
- Thomas Fowler (spy) - ()
- Vadim Sintsov, Russian spy for the British - ()
Soviet spies
- Anton Donhause, West German politician and Soviet spy - ()
- Fiona Houlding, Soviet spy in the UK - ()
- George Zlatovski, Soviet spy - ()
- Georges Pacques, French official and soviet spy - ()
- Georges Paques Soviet spy in France - ()
- Igor Milkashevsky, Soviet boxer and NKVD agent - ()
- Israel Altman, Soviet spy - ()
- Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmarck, West German politician and soviet spy - ()
- Manfred Rotsch Soviet spy in West Germany - ()
- Marna Garikovna Melkova, Soviet NKVD agent and Beria's protégé - ()
- Pierre-Charles Pathé Soviet agent in France - ()
- Samuel Borisovich Cahan Soviet diplomatic spy in London - ()
- Stig Erik Comstans Wennestrom Swedish air force officer and Soviet spy - ()
- Vernon F. Mitchell, NSA mathematician and soviet spy - ()
- Victor Morris Hamilton, NSA linguist and soviet spy - ()
- William Martin (spy) and Vernon Mitchell, Soviet spies in NSA - ()
- Yenrik Yagoda NKVD officer - ()
- Zoya Ivanovna Rybkina, KGB colonel - ()
Defectors
- August Frantisek Chechoslovak defector - ()
- Ileg Agraniants Soviet defector - ()
Miscellaneous
- Abraham Dar, John Darling (spy), Shin Beth - ()
- Alfred K. Stern, US communist "fellow traveller" - ()
- Andreas Petresevics, Hungarian counterterrorism - ()
- Armgaard Karl Graves, German spy in Scotland - ()
- Ascanio Cinnafarino, Spanish intelligencer for duke of Parma - ()
- Charles Radcliffe Haffenden, US Naval intelligence - ()
- Edward G. Boxshall (1897-1894) British MI6 officer - ()
- George Grey Aston (1861-1938) British military intelligence - ()
- Giovan Barelli, Hospitaller spy in Constantinople - ()
- Hachim Abou Zeid, Sudanese secret service - ()
- Helmut Voigt, Stasi - ()
- Herman Siumm, Estonian spy - ()
- Iser Halprin, Shin Beth - ()
- Jean Herranz, French intelligence - ()
- Jelial-ad-din Mohammed Akbar - ()
- Johann Neeser, Swiss spy for Shin Beth - ()
- Joseph Andrew Blackwell, Victorian British spy - ()
- Keng Biao (b. 1903) Chinese diplomat and intelligence officer - ()
- Lucien Rouveure, French intelligence man - ()
- Lutz Bertram, German radio presenter and Stasi informer - ()
- Martin Dolinchek (AKA Anton Lubic), Alleged South African agent - ()
- Michel Moukharbal, PFLP member and Israeli informant - ()
- Mohamed al-Khuli, Syrian Air Force intelligence - ()
- Nissim Nassem, Lebanese spy in Israel - ()
- Otto Dietergartner, German spy - ()
- Stephen Alley British spy in the Soviet Russia - ()
- Stephen Held, German IRA sympathiser - ()
- Thomas D'Arques, 17th century English spy - ()
- Vyacheslav Lavinski - ()
- Wilhelm Naef, Swiss spy for Shin Beth - ()
- Yves Bonnet, French intelligence chief - ()
Cryptography
Issues
Other
- Assassination squad- ()
- Cambridge Comintern - ()
- Concept of intelligence operations - ()
- Corporate influence over intelligence - ()
- counterfeit profile – ()
- dead drop spike - ()
- Defense Intelligence Agency Manual - ()
- Diplomat as honourable spy - ()
- Escape network - ()
- Field offices field office - ()
- Gakzyna, KGB spy-training village - ()
- Geospatial Intelligence Stewardship - ()
- Intelligence federation - ()
- Intelligence journal - ()
- intelligence literature - ()
- Intelligence property book - ()
- Intelligence subject code - ()
- Intelligence system - ()
- Ironbark Papers - ()
- mail sanitization - ()
- malicious date - ()
- Myasoedov Affair - ()
- Nongovernmental global intelligence and security - ()
- Operational intelligence center - ()
- Politicization of intelligence- ()
- sex-for-secrets scandal - ()
- Technology-based espionage - ()
- Transcription Department - ()
- Transportation Security Laboratory - ()
- United States Signal Intelligence Directive (USSID) - ()
- Velvet Fist - ()
- Yellowbird (escape network, alleged escape network out of China – ()
Sources include
- Anthony Glees - The Stasi Files
- Ronald Payne - Mossad
- William MacKenzie - Secret History of Special Operations Executive
- Richard Deacon - Spyclopedia
needing checking
- Where spying, intelligence, espionage and intelligence gathering is in unlinked areas like books about... or works about...
See also
Actively revised articles
- Total Information Awareness
- Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)
- Aftermath of the global surveillance disclosure
- Commentary on Edward Snowden's disclosure
- Stop Watching Us
- The Day We Fight Back
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