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ISSUE NUMBER 70A BRIEF REVIEW

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PUBLICATION DATE OCTOBER 2010

Eye Spy examines the strange death of a GCHQcodes’ analyst on secondment to MI6. GarethWilliams was almost certainly murdered in a prop-erty owned or rented by MI6 and used by contactpersonnel attached to the Service. The Policeinvestigation appears to have ground to a halt...

Quite often following the unusual death of anintelligence officer, cover stories are created andseeds of disinformation planted to mask certainaspects of the victim’s work and intelligence back-ground. Such a scenario engulfed Gareth Williams,31, an active operational codes’ analyst who hasperformed in various theatres, including Afghani-stan.

In many cases the released information is mundane and slight, but sufficient enough to deflect attentionaway from the investigation. It also allows breathing time for senior officials to prepare their commentary andresponses from an inquisitive media.

MYSTERY OF 36 ALDERNEY STREET

VOLUME IX NUMBER SIX (ISSUE 70)

ISSN 1364 8446 publication date:

Oct/Nov 2010

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EYE SPY 70MI6 agent and KGB Colonel

Oleg Gordievsky

“KGB poisoning is based on the poison being undetectable... the fact that noevidence of poison was initially found means absolutely nothing...”

From the editor“Don’t believe all what you read in the press”. Such a comment could not have been appliedmore appropriately to the reporting on the death of MI6 codes’ worker Gareth Williams. Onsecondment from the listening arm of British Intelligence - GCHQ, Mr Williams decomposingbody was found naked (stuffed in a sports bag) in his MI6-rented apartment in the Pimlicodistrict of London. Eye Spy presents its findings.

We also publish a catalogue of unusual deaths associated with MI6 officers and those tiedin with the Service. Chilling stuff. And keeping with the MI6 theme, Sunday Times DefenceCorrespondent, Michael Smith, has written an exclusive feature on the origins of the

Service’s incredible ‘Tradecraft Factory’.

It’s another information-packed edition, whichincludes the truth behind the al-Qaida operation tostrike Europe’s capital cities - something whichEye Spy revealed 18 months ago. We also focus onthe CIA 2011 Desk, created specifically to counter alikely terrorrist attack in the United States on the10th anniversary of 9/11.

And there’s just time to advise that Eye Spy hasbeen in London filming for a BBC documentary onthe city’s incredible association with espionage andintelligence.

A brief overview of Eye Spy 70 follows.

MI6 SPECIAL

Mark Birdsall with BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera filming in London

ANATOMY OF THE PERFECT MURDER?

Residents provide a community police officer with their details - Eye Spy learned severalapartments used by Service personnel were temporarily evacuated

MI6: CLOAK AND DAGGERSThe unexplained death of MI6 man GarethWilliams, is laced with intrigue, but debate stillrages over the exact circumstances how hewas killed, for what reason, and by whom?Even if it transpires he was killed because ofevents linked to his personal life, whichsources used by this magazine doubt, MI6 andits various fronts have lost personnel and‘contact’ agents on a regular basis throughoutits one hundred years of operations.

Eye Spy takes a brief look at a number of casefiles, some well known, others not so, thatreflect the dangers sometimes faced byassociates and employees of the world’s mustcunning collectors of secrets....

TOWERING INTERCEPTION

Military intelligence datamining outfit Able Dangerallegedly could not form arelationship with civilian

agencies such as the FBI -therefore losing the threads

to Mohamed Atta andOsama bin-Laden

Readers of Eye Spy will befamiliar with Army Reserve Lt.Colonel Anthony Shaffer, a‘black-ops’ team leader betterfor his role in the secret USintelligence data mining effort -ABLE DANGER - and his com-mentary that more could havebeen done to disable the 9/11plot and capture Osama bin-Laden (see Eye Spy 36).

The Able Danger outfit (nowdefunct), with links to the CIA,probably got as close to anyonein piecing together the intelli-gence that also revealed thethreat of lead hijacker MohamedAtta.

Shaffer’s book, Operation DarkHeart has caused quite a stir inthe US, with Pentagon chiefsordering the purchase of thebook’s entire first print-run costat an estimate cost of $47,000(£30,000).

Eye Spy looks at the back-ground to this astonishingdecision...

CIA surveillance frame (pre 9/11) showing Osama bin-Laden address around 30 terrorists

ABLE DANGER: OPERATION DARK HEART

In this exclusive feature, Eye Spy reveals the incrediblespy drama that took place in one of London’s most iconicbuildings - the BT Tower. This is the story of electronicinterceptions involving MI6 and the KGB, and how awarning by MI5 that signals were being “snatched fromthe skies” went unheeded, until....

EXCLUSIVE

STUXNET ATTACK - IRANA THRESHOLD LEVEL CYBER EVENT

Eye Spy’s senior US editor explains why a recentcyber attack on an Iranian nuclear plant is a pivotal

moment that has implications for everyone

Since 2007, Eye Spy’s Kevin Coleman has given readers agradual introduction into the world of cyber warfare, crime,espionage and other elements that engage in this invisibleworld. In between, he has warned about the various types ofcyber attack [threat] programmes, and their increasing complex-ity. The dangers and implications for ordinary people onceseemed tiny and so far away - but this is no longer is the case.

So who was really behind a most pivotal event that forced Iran todelay the opening of a key nuclear plant?

24 HOURS - LONDON 7/7 INQUESTSAlready information previously unseen and gleanedby the security services, has meant a re-write ofmany stories concerning the attack, including the‘event time-line’ (ETL).

The most striking data so far is the revelation thatthe al-Qaida (AQ) bombers definitely intended toattack the capital on the day London was chosen tohost the 2012 Olympic Games. This, supposedlybecause AQ cell leader, Mohammed Sidique Khan,

had e-mailed his associatesjust 48-hours before theattack saying he had ahospital appointment with hiswife who was pregnant at thetime. Eye Spy has always been convinced this was the intended date of the opera-tion anyway, but for reasons most obvious we have been unable to publish this. Wealso understand police are still seeking information on as many as 20 individuals...

Terror chief Mohammed Sidique Khan, showed concern about the well-being of his family - enough to delay the attacks by 24-hours

Tennent Bagley, former headof the CIA’s anti-Soviet

Counter-intelligence Desk andauthor of the controversial

book Spy Wars, talksexclusively to Eye Spy about

the recent SVR spy ring whichwas exposed on the eastern

seaboard of the United States.

Mr Bagley believes noteverything about this case is

so clear cut...

Background: In the summer of 2010, eleven, perhaps twelve SVR illegals were deported from the UnitedStates for their association with Russian Intelligence. In return for their release, Moscow agreed to free fourpeople linked to British and American Intelligence. The incident was remarkable for many reasons, not leastthe speed in which events unfolded. Eye Spy sought professional guidance from a man who made a livingfrom spy catching, former CIA man Tennent Bagley.

Two years ago, Mr Bagley sent shudders through the spy world when he provided convincing evidence thatone of America’s “key gains” in the Cold War, KGB defector Yuri Nosenko, was a plant hiding KGB moleswho have never been uncovered. Now he explains why certain facts about the recent spy case do not makesense...

A HIDDEN AGENDA?

EXCLUSIVETHE SVR SPY RING - INTERVIEW WITH FORMER CIA OFFICER

EXTRACT:

EYE SPY: Does this event reveal a wider, ongoingRussian spy effort against the United States?

TB: I don’t know exactly what this event reveals, butyou can be sure the Russian effort is ongoing. Theshift from “Soviet” to “Russian” didn’t change thespy programme. And these eleven are by no meansthe only Russian Illegals operating in the UnitedStates. What they call today the Russian IntelligenceService (SVR) is just the going name for the foreignintelligence component of the KGB - that KGB thatwas born as the Cheka back in December 1917. Ithas had about fourteen name changes since then,but it’s the same outfit, doing the same old things. Through all those years they never stopped plantingpeople like these recent eleven in the West.

As Jonathan Evans - Director-General of MI5 warns of a new wave of terrorattacks by dissidents in Northern Ireland, details have emerged of anintricate MI5 operation which was truly international.

Code-named ‘Nare and Liburna’, the operation involved undercover liaisonswith an MI5 agent by the name of ‘Ali’ in Bruges, Amsterdam and Istanbul. Inthese locations, bogus arms dealers, middle-men and couriers all met todiscuss financing the deal and smuggling the weaponry across Europe andinto Ireland. McCaugherty did not know Ali was working for MI5...

MI5 OPERATION ‘NARE AND LIBURNA’

MIRROR MUMBAI - AQ CODEWORD FOR EUROPE ATTACKSCIA OPERATION THWARTS TERROR ATTACKS IN EUROPE’S CAPITALS

Following a year-long multi-agency intelligence operation fronted by the CIA, USpara-military forces disrupted the planning of a complex terrorist operation thatcould have resulted in serious casualties in several European cities and possiblyNorth America.

Undoubtedly, the huge CIA-controlled UAV raid on a “culinary school” - al-Qaida(AQ) speak for a terrorist training centre - on 27 September in North Waziristan,was but part of a massive international counter-terrorist effort targeting senior AQplanners. It is understood the site had been uncovered by NSA and GCHQtelephone intercepts of persons from the UK, Europe and North Africa who hadliaisons with some of the camp’s trainers. Thereafter the area was monitored byNSA reconnaissance satellites and UK and American Special Forces.

A central British connection appears certain after a Pakistan ISI (Inter-ServicesIntelligence Agency) officer, said “two British brothers (one of whom was killed)were at the heart of the plot.” The man was named as Abdul Jabbar, originallyfrom Pakistan’s Jhelum province. Eye Spy understands he has links to a numberof suspected terrorists in northern England and London....

The operation was activated after intelligence gleaned by the CIA’s hugeStation in Afghanistan, suggested an attack was ‘imminent’

EYE SPY INTEL:OBL believed by bringing

together several AQ terroraffiliates, this would make

him relevant again.However, by allowing sucha large gathering into the

training camp,intelligence leaked...

An early MI6 infiltrationoperation in Russia

provided London with adeep insight into the

events which swept awaythe White Army

World renown intelligence and defence writer Michael Smith provides an astonishingly detailed account ofMI6’s infiltration operation that placed two British spies inside Moscow during Russia’s turbulent transitionto Communism.

This important feature is drawn from the researches of Smith’s brilliant new book ‘SIX: A History of Britain’sSecret Intelligence Service’, and amply reveals the extent and deliberation of key intelligence, political andbusiness persons who combined to give London an all “powerful seeing eye” on the dramatic events thatresulted in the creation of what MI6 called, “the Communist menace”...

Intelligence authority,Michael Smith of

The Sunday Times

TROJAN HORSES: THE REAL SECRET SPY WARS

CIA AND THE 2011 DESKEye Spy reveals the special CIA unit charged withgleaning global intelligence specific to al-Qaida’slong-awaited attack on the United States

A US counter-terrorist trainingoperation. Such

events are becom-ing much more

regular as the 10thanniversary of 9/11

approaches

EXCLUSIVE

Intelligence and codes expertDavid Hamer examines the

machinery and people behindsome “unbreakable codes”

created years ago. These ground-breaking achievements werestrangely, ignored for varying

reasons.

Hamer provides good solidevidence that these past effortshold great relevance to today’s

code-breaking and code-makingefforts

In this edition of Eye Spy, Hamerfocuses on one such project -

The CHAOCIPHER.

THE CHAOCIPHER - LETTER FROM FORT MEADE

NEW: WORLDWATCH - EYES AND EARS

Eye Spy associate editor Paul Beaumont takes a fascinating intelligence journey around the world

SECURITY ALERTAQ USES LIVE WEBCAM FEEDS TO GATHER INTELLIGENCE

Failed Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, has given counter-terrorism chiefs one big headache as he admitted using live webcamfeeds in New York, to gather vital intelligence. This included notingthe times when pedestrian traffic was busiest, places to park, andlocal security posts.

This information has caused counter-terrorist officials around theworld to identify such cameras and question if they pose a risk.Eye Spy examines the background to this emerging threat.

In court, moments after receiving a life-term behind bars, the terroristjail, screamed the “war with Muslims has only just begun.”

Faisal Shahzad

LONDON SPY SITESBBC DOCUMENTARY SET FOR BROADCAST

The BBC has been filming a new intelligence-spy documentary to be featured on INSIDE OUT.Eye Spy helped provide a few interesting sites and stories, such as this agent-meeting point in central London!

Mark Birdsall with seniorBBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera

EYE SPY 70 BEST OF THE REST....

ROAD TO THE KREMLIN: Failed SVR agent Anna Chapmanreceives medal from Kremlin, job and photo shoot offers...and much more as she seeks to launch a political career...

JAILED CIA TRAITOR: Former CIA tradecraft instructor,Harold Nicholson, jailed for spying on behalf of the KGB,outflanks the FBI from inside his prison cell

LICENCE TO KILL: MI6 has always dismissed suggestions its officers haveno power or authority to use lethal force. But is this really the case?

NEVER SAY NEVER: A former MI6 Chief and his memoirs

FEATURES ON: Igor Sutyagin, the alleged MI6 agent who was released as part of theUS-Russian spy exchange has many plans; So how did former Russian spy and defectorSergei Tretyakov die? He may have known some members of the SVR spy ring; SimonWiesenthal, the legendary Nazi hunter’s secret past; Is Dahi Khalfan Tamin, the UAEpolice chief investigating the assassination of Hamas gun-runner Mahmoud al-Mabhouhin a Dubai hotel, himself a target?

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In this feature, MIKE FINN examines the evidence that suggests it ispossible to change the way information is received and understoodby the brain, and its implications...

MIND CONTROL PRINCIPLES IN THE INTELLIGENCE CYCLEHOW ONE WORD CAN HAVE SUCH A DEVASTATING EFFECT

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