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Many events in history have been changed because of covert missions by military or by secret organisations led by a government.
 
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<em>“History isn’t like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always – eventually – manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It’s been around a long time.” ~ Terry Pratchett, Mort</em>
 
<em>“History isn’t like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always – eventually – manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It’s been around a long time.” ~ Terry Pratchett, Mort</em>
  
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Discoveries and experiences are being shared, conspiracies disclosed <ref>25 Most Top Secret Military Operations In History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dWiRtkzaAQ
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Discoveries and experiences are being shared, conspiracies disclosed, injustices revealed, the dead named, and sometimes governments change as a result of that. Or, when a government changes, more likely it is caused by covert operations.
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</ref>, injustices revealed, the dead named, and sometimes governments change as a result of that. More likely, when a government changes it is caused by covert operations.
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=== Alphabet soup ===
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== Strategies ==
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How it works? Around 80% is copycatting strategies Napoleon used <ref>The Hidden Hand: Espionage and Napoleon http://www.thedearsurprise.com/the-hidden-hand-espionage-and-napoleon/
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</ref>. <em>[[Scenario planning]]</em>, the supportive application of <em>systems theory</em>, <em>game theory</em>, <em>wargaming theory</em><ref>Principia Cybernetics web http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/TOC.html</ref><ref>Wargames, simulations, & exercises http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-sims.htm</ref><ref>Flames of War: Historical Scenarios http://www.wwpd.net/p/historical-scenarios.html</ref> and many other modes of practical strategic thinking and strategic execution are also used.
  
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==== Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) ====
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== Old known military operations ==
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Intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, between people (COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication (ELINT). The NSA SIGINT Strategy 2012-2016 covers all the comsec and crypto initiatives to covertly exploit people, cryptographers, anonymisers, informants, planted spies, security firms, networks, governments, nations <ref>NSA Global SIGINT Power to Generate Profits and Pay http://cryptome.org/2013/11/nsa-power-profit-pay.htm</ref>.
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These "old known" operations are great case studies in for practicing catching that 80% in covert operations, and in [[psychological warfare]] and [[propaganda]].
  
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==== Communications Intelligence (COMINT) ====
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=== Operation Himmler ===
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Covers all electronic communications in the US and the world "to ensure national security". The NSA at Ft Meade, Maryland has had the most advanced computers in the world since the 60s. Technology is developed and implemented in secret.
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Operation Himmler was a series of unconventional operations undertaken by the SS in order to serve specific propaganda goals of Nazi Germany at the outbreak of the war. It was intended to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany in order to justify the subsequent invasion of Poland. Most known is the Gleiwitz incident. <ref>Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 4 TWENTY-FOURTH DAY Thursday, 20 December 1945, morning session: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/12-20-45.asp</ref> And it has been persuasively argued that Nazis set fire to their own parliament, the Reichstag, and blamed that fire on others. <ref>History Channel: The Rise of the Third Reich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTQ4TILv3RQ
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</ref> The Reichstag fire was the watershed event which justified Hitler’s seizure of power and suspension of liberties.
  
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==== Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) ====
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=== Shelling of Mainila ===
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ELINT is divided into Technical ELINT (TechELINT) and Operational ELINT (OpELINT):
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The Shelling of Mainila on November 26, 1939 was a military incident where the Soviet Union's Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila, declared that the fire originated from Finland across a nearby border and claimed to have had losses in personnel. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939, and declared that the fire originated from Finland as a basis launching the Winter War four days later. <ref>Diplomatic correspondence between Finnish and Russian Governments (in Russian) http://www.aroundspb.ru/finnish/docs/dir0note.php</ref>
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* Technical ELINT obtains signal structure, emission characteristics, modes of operation, emitter functions, and weapons systems associations of such emitters as radars, beacons, jammers, and navigational signals for determining its capabilities and role in a larger system as part of electronic warfare.
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* Operational ELINT focuses on locating  specific  ELINT  targets  and  determining operational patterns of the systems named Electronic Order of Battle (EOB) for supporting military operational planners and tactical military commanders on the battlefield.
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And it's "counter" programs, existing and under development (afaik):
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* Electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM) in the US and electronic protective measures (EPM) in Europe
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* Wild Weasel (alias Iron Hand or SEAD)
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* Smart Dust
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* Wolfpack
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==== Foreign Instrumentation Signals Intelligence (FISINT) ====
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=== Stay Behind (Gladio) ===
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TELINT (Telemetry Intelligence), later named FISINT (Foreign Instrumentation Signals Intelligence) used for intercepting, processing, and analysis of foreign telemetry is closely related to TechELINT and conducted by DoD.
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Gladio is the infamous NATO “stay behind” operations in Europe during the Cold War that were revealed in the nineties, a tale of secret arms caches and exotic code names, of military stratagems and political intrigues. A chronology of events is described in Secret Warfare: Operation Gladio and NATO's Stay-Behind Armies. <ref>Secret Warfare: Operation Gladio and NATO's Stay-Behind Armies http://www.php.isn.ethz.ch/collections/coll_gladio/chronology.cfm?navinfo=15301</ref>
  
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==== Human intelligence (HUMINT) ====
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Prime Minister Andreotti acknowledged that Gladio had developed into a branch of an extensive network, operated within NATO and abetted by a 1956 agreement between the United States and Italian secret services. Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece and Luxembourg have all acknowledged that they maintained Gladio-style networks to prepare guerrilla fighters to leap into action in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion. Many worked under the code name Stay Behind. In Greece it was named operation Red Sheepskin. According to news reports at the time, such operations existed also in Britain, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Turkey and Denmark, and even in neutral countries like Switzerland and Sweden.
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Any information that can be gathered from any human sources. The National Clandestine Service (NCS) is the branch of the CIA responsible for the collection of HUMINT.
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==== Domestic Intelligence (DOMINT) ====
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Bombings and actions were denied, but note that the aim of the 1956 agreement with US agencies was to make sure that the italian communist party, the largest in the west, never got a foothold in the government. And there were long-reported links between Italian secret services and neo-fascists, and that the major unsolved acts of terrorism that rocked Italy in the 1970's are all presumed to be the work of people on the far right that were never caught while left-wing 'terrorists' somehow were caught and imprisoned.
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The NSA has a permanent national security anti-terrorist surveillance network in place. This surveillance network seems hidden from the public, save for the leaks.
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=== Communications Privacy Folly ===
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In some countries, the Stay Behind networks were shut down. Greece's socialists say that they discovered theirs in 1981, subsequently abolished it and rounded up weapons in 1985. In France, Mitterrand said he eliminated the French branch, but he did not say when. Apparently the networks in most other european countries continued.
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In reply to a request for comments on Mexico law revisions – Warrantless Real-time Cell phone Geolocation  Data Surveillance, Cryptome comments - This is the short version of why there can be no solution to preventing communication systems abuse <ref>Communications Privacy Folly http://cryptome.org/2012/06/comms-folly.htm</ref>.
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== Countermoves ==
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=== The Lavon Affair ===
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An Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind "evidence" implicating the Arabs as the culprits. One of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, several of the Israelis later confessed, and three were honored by Israel later. <ref>Israel Military Intelligence: The Lavon Affair (Summer 1954) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/lavon.html
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</ref><ref>Israel honors 9 egyptian spies http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3065838,00.html
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I don’t think any alternative will be possible until certain realities are faced, not just by fringe figures like ourselves but by much broader swathes of society, and that seems unlikely <ref>The Californian Reality http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1401/msg00064.html </ref>.
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=== The CIA in Iran ===
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Documented by the <em>New York Times</em>, Iranians working for the C.I.A. in the 1950’s posed as communists and staged bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected president. <ref>Secrets of history: The CIA in Iran http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html</ref>
  
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== News and watchdogs ==
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=== Operation Northwoods ===
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* Lux ex Umbra - monitoring Canadian signals intelligence (SIGINT) activities past and present http://luxexumbra.blogspot.ca/
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Declassified documents show that in the 1960s, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan code-named Operation Northwoods to blow up American airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. The operation was not carried out because the Kennedy administration refused to implement these Pentagon plans. <ref>The official northwoods documents http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf</ref>
  
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== Books ==
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=== Macmillan backed Syria assassination plot ===
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The plans, frighteningly frank in their discussion, were discovered in the private papers of Duncan Sandys, Mr Macmillan's defence secretary, by Matthew Jones, a reader in international history at Royal Holloway, University of London. <ref>
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Macmillan backed Syria assassination plot - Documents show White House and No 10 conspired over oil-fuelled invasion plan http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/sep/27/uk.syria1
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== Documentaries ==
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Part of the "preferred plan" reads: "''In order to facilitate the action of liberative forces, reduce the capabilities of the Syrian regime to organise and direct its military actions, to hold losses and destruction to a minimum, and to bring about desired results in the shortest possible time, a special effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals. Their removal should be accomplished early in the course of the uprising and intervention and in the light of circumstances existing at the time.''"
  
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=== Counterintelligence ===
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== Infiltration of dissident movements by police ==
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Not only the military runs covert operations, so does the police. Well known are infiltrations of protest and political movements.
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=== Paid informants in the uk ===
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''Since the bad old days of the 70s and 80s, when the system became discredited ''<ref>Inside job http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/oct/23/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy
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</ref>'' and the Crown Prosecution Service refused to touch any "supergrass" cases, the rules have been tightened. [...] The use of informants is monitored by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. The act's provisions extend to Scotland in cases where a public authority authorises the use of a covert source.'' <ref>Analysis: The rules on police informants http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/25/police-surveillance-sources-informants
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In 2009, in england, a climate change activist taped men who offered cash for information about group's members and activities <ref>Guardian: Police caught on tape trying to recruit Plane Stupid protester as spy http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/24/strathclyde-police-plane-stupid-recruit-spy</ref>. In the tapes the police officers claim to have infiltrated a number of environmental groups and said they are receiving information about leaders, tactics and plans of future demonstrations. Campaigners were also monitored by civil servants <ref>Campaigners monitored by civil servants http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/may/01/liberty-climate-protesters-campaigners
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</ref>, and after the Strathclyde police was forced to release details of money paid to "covert human intelligence services" after a ruling by the Scottish information commissioner, details revealed the force had almost doubled the annual amount it paid to informants since 2004, when £145,198 was paid. A total of £762,459 was paid between 2004 and 2008.
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=== Incitement ===
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The G20 police 'using undercover men to incite crowds' <ref>G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds' http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/may/10/g20-policing-agent-provacateurs
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=== Undercover surveillance ===
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'''Xmas gifts at all cost'''
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Scotland Yard has deployed undercover officers to spy on a network of activists whose viral campaign against tax avoiders threatens to close down hundreds of shops in the run-up to Christmas. The surveillance officers were first used at a protest in October, despite an assurance given to parliament last year that only officers in full uniform gather intelligence at protests. <ref>UK Uncut protesters spied upon by undercover police http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/dec/03/uk-uncut-protests-undercover-police/print
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'''European network of police infiltration'''
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And what no one could have known was that, despite appearances, the 33-year-old "freelance climber" was an undercover police officer beginning an audacious operation to live deep undercover among environmental activists. <ref>Mark Kennedy: A journey from undercover cop to 'bona fide' activist http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jan/10/mark-kennedy-undercover-cop-activist
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</ref> And tactics included promiscuous behaviour <ref>Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with activists' http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jan/22/undercover-police-cleared-sex-activists
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</ref>. Kennedy did not "switch sides" by which the trial collapsed, as some media wrote. The trial collapsed because the defence insisted that Kennedy must have made reports and demanded to see them. Rather than disclose this evidence, the crown chose to fold the case. <ref>Undercover and over-the-top: The collapse of the Ratcliffe trial http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/472027.html
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In 2011, a third undercover police spy is unmasked, and more details on the scale of Kennedy's key role in protest movements across Europe emerge. Apparently he also acted as an agent provocateur in Ireland, Germany and Iceland. He may have asked the public relations agent Max Clifford to sell his story. <ref>Third undercover police spy unmasked as scale of network emerges http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jan/14/third-undercover-police-spy-cardiff/print
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'''Blacklisting case'''
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March 2015 the construction union UCATT exposes infiltration by the police and made a FOI request on december 2, 2014. Response was delayed and delayed and ... on february 20 the police said that they were "not required to confirm or deny whether or not the information requested is held" and cited six areas of why they could not reveal the information including national security. <ref>UCATT exposes infiltration by the police http://www.ucatt.org.uk/ucatt-exposes-infiltration-police
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== The CIA’s new black bag is digital ==
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''Over the past decade specially-trained CIA clandestine operators have mounted over one hundred extremely sensitive black bag jobs designed to penetrate foreign government and military communications and computer systems, as well as the computer systems of some of the world’s largest foreign multinational corporations. Spyware software has been secretly planted in computer servers; secure telephone lines have been bugged; fiber optic cables, data switching centers and telephone exchanges have been tapped; and computer backup tapes and disks have been stolen or surreptitiously copied in these operations. In other words, the CIA has become instrumental in setting up the shadowy surveillance dragnet that has now been thrown into public view. Sources within the U.S. intelligence community confirm that since 9/11, CIA clandestine operations have given the NSA access to a number of new and critically important targets around the world, especially in China and elsewhere in East Asia, as well as the Middle East, the Near East, and South Asia. (I’m not aware of any such operations here on U.S. soil.)'' <ref>Foreign policy: The CIA’s New Black Bag Is Digital http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/17/the-cias-new-black-bag-is-digital/
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See [[timeline masters of the internet]] and [[surveillance]].
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== War games ==
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''Official secretkeepers of NATO, Russia and their fearsome enemies know these kinds of stories are meant to reduce fear and defense expenditures so should be applauded as tricks of the anti-war industry which must be resisted with fearless slaughter of many terrified civilians and a tiny few luckless warfighters who drive drunk to the PTSD club and overshoot (over-drone) a construction barrier of the crumbling National Defense Highway system to sink into a toxic lake of endless war waste surrounding every military base on the planet and rapidly growing throughout the universe with application of war technology to invasion of the heavens for peaceful, merely scientific, although top secret, purposes, that is to erect intergalactic shields of protection of hapless creatures being drained of their vital fluids for nourishing the Great Gods of National and Environmental Security, now blessed by Pope Francis for the benefit of Great Architecture afficionados from St Peter to Pentagon to whereever Strangeloves squat before vast Sony plasmas of roach-squashing, fail/safe buttons neutered, flesh life as known and loathed by cryogenic demigodly automatons aimed for extinction'' ~ [http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.cypherpunks/8027 John Young] in the context of a reported Ukraine event on june 2015. <ref>Russian Non-Invasion Causing Concern in European Capitals http://russia-insider.com/en/russian-non-invasion-causing-concern-european-capitals/ri8139
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</ref><ref>“Crimea Is Ours!” Russian popular geopolitics in the new media age http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2015.1038574
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</ref><ref>MH17 – Forensic Analysis of Satellite Images Released by the Russian Ministry of Defence https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/05/31/mh17-forensic-analysis-of-satellite-images-released-by-the-russian-ministry-of-defence/
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<nowiki> </nowiki>Also see [[Psychological warfare]] and [[Scenario planning#Simulation: The Alpha Complex|scenario planning a simulation of The Alpha Complex]].
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== Droning on ... ==
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An Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a type of aircraft which has no onboard crew or passengers. UAVs include both autonomous drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs). A UAV is capable of controlled, sustained level flight and is powered by a jet, reciprocating, can also fly upside down or electric engine. The earliest recorded use of a UAV for warfighting occurred on August 22, 1849, when the Austrians attacked the Italian city of Venice with unmanned balloons loaded with explosives, after their occupying force were kicked out by the
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enitians. The first pilotless aircraft were built during and shortly after World War I.
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In recent years, US targeted strikes involving UAVs have gone from a relative rarity to a relatively common practice in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia. As the number of strikes increases, so, too, does the strategic risk.
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See [[timeline merchants of death]] and [[game of drones]].
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== (Counter) moves ==
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=== Black Bag ===
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* [[Digital threats, detection, protection and (counter) moves]]
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=== Drones ===
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* "Lasers and dazzlers" can be used to blind its cameras and sensors
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* Detection can be done with acoustic receivers
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* "Jammer" techniques can be used to interfere with navigation and communications
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* "Spoofing" can be used to create false civil GPS signals that trick the vehicle's GPS receiver into thinking nothing is amiss — even as it steers a new navigational course induced by the outside hacker.
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== Resources ==
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=== Undercover surveillance ===
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* Resisting Surveillance: it's not just about the metadata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8yfDX0Myvw
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* The Undercover Research Project aims to create an one-stop resource on political policing and undercover surveillance http://undercoverresearch.net/
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* The Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance exists to help co-ordinate, publicise and support the quest for justice for people affected by political undercover police spying and to ensure such abuses do not continue http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/
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* Spied Upon is an upcoming documentary film showing the side of the story of those targeted by secret police, while revealing at a human scale today's complex international spying apparatus, a system that has spun out of control. We are currently fundraising for final shooting and completion of a rough cut in late 2015 http://spiedupon.com/
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* Verfassungsschutz abschaffen! http://www.verfassung-schuetzen.de/wissen/verfassungsschutz-abschaffen/
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=== Companies setting protest agenda's ===
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* Wenn Konzerne den Protest managen ... http://www.konzernprotest.de/
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=== News and watchdogs ===
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* Secret bases: http://www.secret-bases.co.uk/
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=== Books ===
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* @War: The rise of the military-internet-complex http://cryptome.org/2014/11/at-war-mil-net-complex.pdf
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=== Reports ===
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* Unclassified report from The U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board https://info.publicintelligence.net/USAF-RemoteIrregularWarfare.pdf
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* Cockrell School Researchers Demonstrate First Successful "Spoofing" of UAVs http://www.engr.utexas.edu/features/humphreysspoofing
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=== Documentaries ===
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'''Industry'''
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* Trabalho Interno - Inside job https://vimeo.com/39018226
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'''Military'''
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* 25 Most Top Secret Military Operations In History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dWiRtkzaAQ
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* The War You Don't See https://vimeo.com/67739294
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'''Police'''
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* Undercover police officer: 'How I spied on the Stephen Lawrence campaign' http://www.theguardian.com/uk/video/2013/jun/24/undercover-police-stephen-lawrence-video
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* 'Why police recruited me to infiltrate the British National party' http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2014/jun/23/police-recruit-infiltrated-undercover-british-national-party-bnp-video
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'''Counterintelligence'''
 
* Counter-Intelligence: I - The Company https://vimeo.com/65148608
 
* Counter-Intelligence: I - The Company https://vimeo.com/65148608
 
* Counter-Intelligence: II - The Deep State https://vimeo.com/65942057
 
* Counter-Intelligence: II - The Deep State https://vimeo.com/65942057
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* Counter-Intelligence: IV - Necrophilous https://vimeo.com/66019647
 
* Counter-Intelligence: IV - Necrophilous https://vimeo.com/66019647
 
* Counter-Intelligence: V - Drone Nation https://vimeo.com/66183267
 
* Counter-Intelligence: V - Drone Nation https://vimeo.com/66183267
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=== Comics ===
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* Manufacturing ‘Terrorists’ http://www.defendingdissent.org/pdf/DDFPublications/OccupyCleveland.pdf
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== Related ==
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* [[Timeline merchants of death]]
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* [[Propaganda]]
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* [[Psychological warfare]]
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* [[Game of drones]]
  
 
== References ==
 
== References ==

Latest revision as of 08:35, 19 August 2015

“History isn’t like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always – eventually – manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It’s been around a long time.” ~ Terry Pratchett, Mort

Discoveries and experiences are being shared, conspiracies disclosed, injustices revealed, the dead named, and sometimes governments change as a result of that. Or, when a government changes, more likely it is caused by covert operations.

Strategies

How it works? Around 80% is copycatting strategies Napoleon used [1]. Scenario planning, the supportive application of systems theory, game theory, wargaming theory[2][3][4] and many other modes of practical strategic thinking and strategic execution are also used.

Old known military operations

These "old known" operations are great case studies in for practicing catching that 80% in covert operations, and in psychological warfare and propaganda.

Operation Himmler

Operation Himmler was a series of unconventional operations undertaken by the SS in order to serve specific propaganda goals of Nazi Germany at the outbreak of the war. It was intended to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany in order to justify the subsequent invasion of Poland. Most known is the Gleiwitz incident. [5] And it has been persuasively argued that Nazis set fire to their own parliament, the Reichstag, and blamed that fire on others. [6] The Reichstag fire was the watershed event which justified Hitler’s seizure of power and suspension of liberties.

Shelling of Mainila

The Shelling of Mainila on November 26, 1939 was a military incident where the Soviet Union's Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila, declared that the fire originated from Finland across a nearby border and claimed to have had losses in personnel. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939, and declared that the fire originated from Finland as a basis launching the Winter War four days later. [7]

Stay Behind (Gladio)

Gladio is the infamous NATO “stay behind” operations in Europe during the Cold War that were revealed in the nineties, a tale of secret arms caches and exotic code names, of military stratagems and political intrigues. A chronology of events is described in Secret Warfare: Operation Gladio and NATO's Stay-Behind Armies. [8]

Prime Minister Andreotti acknowledged that Gladio had developed into a branch of an extensive network, operated within NATO and abetted by a 1956 agreement between the United States and Italian secret services. Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece and Luxembourg have all acknowledged that they maintained Gladio-style networks to prepare guerrilla fighters to leap into action in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion. Many worked under the code name Stay Behind. In Greece it was named operation Red Sheepskin. According to news reports at the time, such operations existed also in Britain, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Turkey and Denmark, and even in neutral countries like Switzerland and Sweden.

Bombings and actions were denied, but note that the aim of the 1956 agreement with US agencies was to make sure that the italian communist party, the largest in the west, never got a foothold in the government. And there were long-reported links between Italian secret services and neo-fascists, and that the major unsolved acts of terrorism that rocked Italy in the 1970's are all presumed to be the work of people on the far right that were never caught while left-wing 'terrorists' somehow were caught and imprisoned.

In some countries, the Stay Behind networks were shut down. Greece's socialists say that they discovered theirs in 1981, subsequently abolished it and rounded up weapons in 1985. In France, Mitterrand said he eliminated the French branch, but he did not say when. Apparently the networks in most other european countries continued.

The Lavon Affair

An Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind "evidence" implicating the Arabs as the culprits. One of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, several of the Israelis later confessed, and three were honored by Israel later. [9][10]

The CIA in Iran

Documented by the New York Times, Iranians working for the C.I.A. in the 1950’s posed as communists and staged bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected president. [11]

Operation Northwoods

Declassified documents show that in the 1960s, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan code-named Operation Northwoods to blow up American airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. The operation was not carried out because the Kennedy administration refused to implement these Pentagon plans. [12]

Macmillan backed Syria assassination plot

The plans, frighteningly frank in their discussion, were discovered in the private papers of Duncan Sandys, Mr Macmillan's defence secretary, by Matthew Jones, a reader in international history at Royal Holloway, University of London. [13]

Part of the "preferred plan" reads: "In order to facilitate the action of liberative forces, reduce the capabilities of the Syrian regime to organise and direct its military actions, to hold losses and destruction to a minimum, and to bring about desired results in the shortest possible time, a special effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals. Their removal should be accomplished early in the course of the uprising and intervention and in the light of circumstances existing at the time."

Infiltration of dissident movements by police

Not only the military runs covert operations, so does the police. Well known are infiltrations of protest and political movements.

Since the bad old days of the 70s and 80s, when the system became discredited [14] and the Crown Prosecution Service refused to touch any "supergrass" cases, the rules have been tightened. [...] The use of informants is monitored by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. The act's provisions extend to Scotland in cases where a public authority authorises the use of a covert source. [15]

In 2009, in england, a climate change activist taped men who offered cash for information about group's members and activities [16]. In the tapes the police officers claim to have infiltrated a number of environmental groups and said they are receiving information about leaders, tactics and plans of future demonstrations. Campaigners were also monitored by civil servants [17], and after the Strathclyde police was forced to release details of money paid to "covert human intelligence services" after a ruling by the Scottish information commissioner, details revealed the force had almost doubled the annual amount it paid to informants since 2004, when £145,198 was paid. A total of £762,459 was paid between 2004 and 2008.

Incitement

The G20 police 'using undercover men to incite crowds' [18] is not exceptional during protests.

Undercover surveillance

Xmas gifts at all cost

Scotland Yard has deployed undercover officers to spy on a network of activists whose viral campaign against tax avoiders threatens to close down hundreds of shops in the run-up to Christmas. The surveillance officers were first used at a protest in October, despite an assurance given to parliament last year that only officers in full uniform gather intelligence at protests. [19]

European network of police infiltration

And what no one could have known was that, despite appearances, the 33-year-old "freelance climber" was an undercover police officer beginning an audacious operation to live deep undercover among environmental activists. [20] And tactics included promiscuous behaviour [21]. Kennedy did not "switch sides" by which the trial collapsed, as some media wrote. The trial collapsed because the defence insisted that Kennedy must have made reports and demanded to see them. Rather than disclose this evidence, the crown chose to fold the case. [22]

In 2011, a third undercover police spy is unmasked, and more details on the scale of Kennedy's key role in protest movements across Europe emerge. Apparently he also acted as an agent provocateur in Ireland, Germany and Iceland. He may have asked the public relations agent Max Clifford to sell his story. [23]

Blacklisting case

March 2015 the construction union UCATT exposes infiltration by the police and made a FOI request on december 2, 2014. Response was delayed and delayed and ... on february 20 the police said that they were "not required to confirm or deny whether or not the information requested is held" and cited six areas of why they could not reveal the information including national security. [24]

The CIA’s new black bag is digital

Over the past decade specially-trained CIA clandestine operators have mounted over one hundred extremely sensitive black bag jobs designed to penetrate foreign government and military communications and computer systems, as well as the computer systems of some of the world’s largest foreign multinational corporations. Spyware software has been secretly planted in computer servers; secure telephone lines have been bugged; fiber optic cables, data switching centers and telephone exchanges have been tapped; and computer backup tapes and disks have been stolen or surreptitiously copied in these operations. In other words, the CIA has become instrumental in setting up the shadowy surveillance dragnet that has now been thrown into public view. Sources within the U.S. intelligence community confirm that since 9/11, CIA clandestine operations have given the NSA access to a number of new and critically important targets around the world, especially in China and elsewhere in East Asia, as well as the Middle East, the Near East, and South Asia. (I’m not aware of any such operations here on U.S. soil.) [25]

See timeline masters of the internet and surveillance.

War games

Official secretkeepers of NATO, Russia and their fearsome enemies know these kinds of stories are meant to reduce fear and defense expenditures so should be applauded as tricks of the anti-war industry which must be resisted with fearless slaughter of many terrified civilians and a tiny few luckless warfighters who drive drunk to the PTSD club and overshoot (over-drone) a construction barrier of the crumbling National Defense Highway system to sink into a toxic lake of endless war waste surrounding every military base on the planet and rapidly growing throughout the universe with application of war technology to invasion of the heavens for peaceful, merely scientific, although top secret, purposes, that is to erect intergalactic shields of protection of hapless creatures being drained of their vital fluids for nourishing the Great Gods of National and Environmental Security, now blessed by Pope Francis for the benefit of Great Architecture afficionados from St Peter to Pentagon to whereever Strangeloves squat before vast Sony plasmas of roach-squashing, fail/safe buttons neutered, flesh life as known and loathed by cryogenic demigodly automatons aimed for extinction ~ John Young in the context of a reported Ukraine event on june 2015. [26][27][28]

Also see Psychological warfare and scenario planning a simulation of The Alpha Complex.

Droning on ...

An Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a type of aircraft which has no onboard crew or passengers. UAVs include both autonomous drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs). A UAV is capable of controlled, sustained level flight and is powered by a jet, reciprocating, can also fly upside down or electric engine. The earliest recorded use of a UAV for warfighting occurred on August 22, 1849, when the Austrians attacked the Italian city of Venice with unmanned balloons loaded with explosives, after their occupying force were kicked out by the enitians. The first pilotless aircraft were built during and shortly after World War I.

In recent years, US targeted strikes involving UAVs have gone from a relative rarity to a relatively common practice in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia. As the number of strikes increases, so, too, does the strategic risk.

See timeline merchants of death and game of drones.

(Counter) moves

Black Bag

Drones

  • "Lasers and dazzlers" can be used to blind its cameras and sensors
  • Detection can be done with acoustic receivers
  • "Jammer" techniques can be used to interfere with navigation and communications
  • "Spoofing" can be used to create false civil GPS signals that trick the vehicle's GPS receiver into thinking nothing is amiss — even as it steers a new navigational course induced by the outside hacker.

Resources

Undercover surveillance

Companies setting protest agenda's

News and watchdogs

Books

Reports

Documentaries

Industry

Military

Police

Counterintelligence

Comics

Related

References

  1. ↑ The Hidden Hand: Espionage and Napoleon http://www.thedearsurprise.com/the-hidden-hand-espionage-and-napoleon/
  2. ↑ Principia Cybernetics web http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/TOC.html
  3. ↑ Wargames, simulations, & exercises http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-sims.htm
  4. ↑ Flames of War: Historical Scenarios http://www.wwpd.net/p/historical-scenarios.html
  5. ↑ Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 4 TWENTY-FOURTH DAY Thursday, 20 December 1945, morning session: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/12-20-45.asp
  6. ↑ History Channel: The Rise of the Third Reich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTQ4TILv3RQ
  7. ↑ Diplomatic correspondence between Finnish and Russian Governments (in Russian) http://www.aroundspb.ru/finnish/docs/dir0note.php
  8. ↑ Secret Warfare: Operation Gladio and NATO's Stay-Behind Armies http://www.php.isn.ethz.ch/collections/coll_gladio/chronology.cfm?navinfo=15301
  9. ↑ Israel Military Intelligence: The Lavon Affair (Summer 1954) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/lavon.html
  10. ↑ Israel honors 9 egyptian spies http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3065838,00.html
  11. ↑ Secrets of history: The CIA in Iran http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html
  12. ↑ The official northwoods documents http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf
  13. ↑ Macmillan backed Syria assassination plot - Documents show White House and No 10 conspired over oil-fuelled invasion plan http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/sep/27/uk.syria1
  14. ↑ Inside job http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/oct/23/ukcrime.immigrationpolicy
  15. ↑ Analysis: The rules on police informants http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/25/police-surveillance-sources-informants
  16. ↑ Guardian: Police caught on tape trying to recruit Plane Stupid protester as spy http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/24/strathclyde-police-plane-stupid-recruit-spy
  17. ↑ Campaigners monitored by civil servants http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/may/01/liberty-climate-protesters-campaigners
  18. ↑ G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds' http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/may/10/g20-policing-agent-provacateurs
  19. ↑ UK Uncut protesters spied upon by undercover police http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/dec/03/uk-uncut-protests-undercover-police/print
  20. ↑ Mark Kennedy: A journey from undercover cop to 'bona fide' activist http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jan/10/mark-kennedy-undercover-cop-activist
  21. ↑ Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with activists' http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jan/22/undercover-police-cleared-sex-activists
  22. ↑ Undercover and over-the-top: The collapse of the Ratcliffe trial http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/472027.html
  23. ↑ Third undercover police spy unmasked as scale of network emerges http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jan/14/third-undercover-police-spy-cardiff/print
  24. ↑ UCATT exposes infiltration by the police http://www.ucatt.org.uk/ucatt-exposes-infiltration-police
  25. ↑ Foreign policy: The CIA’s New Black Bag Is Digital http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/17/the-cias-new-black-bag-is-digital/
  26. ↑ Russian Non-Invasion Causing Concern in European Capitals http://russia-insider.com/en/russian-non-invasion-causing-concern-european-capitals/ri8139
  27. ↑ “Crimea Is Ours!” Russian popular geopolitics in the new media age http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2015.1038574
  28. ↑ MH17 – Forensic Analysis of Satellite Images Released by the Russian Ministry of Defence https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/05/31/mh17-forensic-analysis-of-satellite-images-released-by-the-russian-ministry-of-defence/
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