The Intelligence Files: Today's Secrets, Tomorrow's Scandals [Paperback]

Olivier Schmidt (Author)

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Publication Date: November 2004

These potential scandals are culled from the files of the French-language ADI Journal, "Intelligence, the bible for conspiracy theorists and avidly read in intelligence agencies because it is so rich in insider gossip. Articles include: - Terrorist Networks & Traffic Analysis Before & After September 11- FBI's Wen Ho Lee Case Turns into the Lee FBI Scandal- Trumped Up Proof of Libyan Terrorism- Losing a Spy Elite: The Chinook Crash- Mossad Assassinations- Money Laundering the Swiss Way

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"Intelligence probes where others fail to look and offers interpretations that challenge the conventional wisdom." -- Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists

About the Author

Olivier Schmidt is an associate of the ADI (Association de droit a l'information), for which he founded and directed all publications, including Parapolitics, Intelligence Newsletter and the current ADI journal, Intelligence. He was guest speaker at a "Datanet Security" conference in Miami along with former NSA Counsel Stewart Baker and the first woman CIA Deputy Director, Ruth Davis, and "designated contradictor" at the Western Europe Union intelligence conference in Paris with the former French DGSE foreign intelligence chief Admiral Pierre Lacoste and the "political father" of the French atomic bomb, Jacques Baumel. He holds US, British and French degrees in logic and information sciences, and enjoys dual nationality, American and French. His family members served in the armed forces of both countries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Clarity Press (November 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932863426
• ISBN-13: 978-0932863423
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,240,197 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting reading, October 19, 2006

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This review is from: The Intelligence Files: Today's Secrets, Tomorrow's Scandals (Paperback)

This is a collection of articles from a European online journal called Intelligence. They deal with that netherworld where national and international politics, the military and the spy business intersect.

It sounds like a good thing for developing countries to put aside large tracts of land for "nature." Such a practice has now become required to receive Western aid. The poorer a country is, the more land they have to take out of production. How can a country dig itself out of poverty if large portions of their territory are no longer available for farming or livestock? To give one example of this new form of empire, 40 percent of the territory of Tanzania is now within strictly protected zones.

An extremely sophisticated radar system, called Have Stare, is being installed in Norway, its official purpose being to monitor space junk. Its actual purpose is as part of the Star Wars missile defense system. Ever since a passenger plane crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland, in the late 1980s, the whole world has blamed Libya. They recently "admitted" responsibility, even though the evidence to prove it was flimsy, at best.

If any one event can be said to have started "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland, it was the shootings of more then 40 unarmed protesters by British troops in 1972 in Londonderry (Bloody Sunday). A government inquiry, which became dismissed as a whitewash, absolved the soldiers of responsibility, declaring that they fired in self-defense. An independent inquiry came to the conclusion that the protesters really were unarmed, and that the British troops fired first.

I totally enjoyed this book, and learned a lot from it, but I am something of a foreign politics lover. More than the usual amount of knowledge of world affairs would help when reading this book, but it is very highly recommended.