11.5.1. Partly this overlaps on the earlier discussion of crypto laws
in other countries.
11.5.2. Major Non-U.S. Surveillance Organizations
+ BnD -- Bundesnachrichtendienst
- German security service
- BND is seeking constitutional amendment, buy may not need
it, as the mere call for it told everyone what is already
existing
- "vacuum cleaner in the ether"
- Gehlen...Eastern Front Intelligence
- Pullach, outside Munchen
- they have always tried to get the approval to do domestic
spying...a key to power
+ Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) -- W. German FBI
- HQ is at Wiesbaden
- bomb blew up there when being examined, killing an
officer (related to Pan Am/Lockerbie/PFLP-GC)
- sign has double black eagles (back to back)
- BVD -- Binnenlandse Veiligheids Dienst, Dutch Internal
Security Service
+ SDECE
- French intelligence (foreign intelligence), linked to
Greepeace ship bombing in New Zealand?
- SDECE had links to the October Surprise, as some French
agents were in on the negotiations, the arms shipments
out of Marseilles and Toulon, and in meetings with
Russbacher and the others
- DST, Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire,
counterespionage arm of France (parallel to FBI)
+ DSGE, Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extériere
- provides draft deferments for those who deliver stolen
information
+ Sweden, Forsvarets Radioanstalt ("Radio Agency of the
Defense")
- cracked German communications between occupied Norway and
occupied Denmark
- Beurling, with paper and pencil only
+ Mossad, LAKAM, Israel
+ HQ in Tel Aviv, near HQ of AMAN, military intelligence
- doesn't HQ move around a lot?
- LAKAM (sp?), a supersecret Israeli intelligence
agency...was shown the PROMIS software in 1983
+ learned of the Pakistani success in building an atom bomb
and took action against the Pakistani leadership:
destruction of the plane carrying the President (Zia?)
and some U.S. experts
- Mossad knew of DIA and CIA involvement in BCCI
financing of Pakistani atom bomb efforts (and links to
other arms dealers that allowed triggers and the like
to reach Pakistan)
- revelations by Vanunu were designed to scare the Arab and
Muslim world-and to send a signal that the killing of
President Zia was to be the fate of any Pakistani leader
who continued the program
11.5.3. They are very active, though they get less publicity than do
the American CIA, NSA, FBI, etc.
By Tim May, see README
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