India: RAW officer under CBI scanner for spying

Express Buzz

NEW DELHI: A preliminary inquiry is underway by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the role of a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer in passing commercial information to a private company participating in a bid to sell surveillance equipment for two spy planes.The deal, in which US company Raytheon and Israel’s Elta Systems were competing, has already been put under review by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after discrepancies in the bidding process were flagged.The officer has been repatriated to the parent cadre but the tussle over the contract has stalled strengthening of spy agency’s air wing - Aviation Research Centre. 

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Pakistan: SECP Registers US Intelligence & Security Agency Garda World Illegally

South Asian News Agency

ISLAMABAD, (SANA): It is revealed in a secret report that Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has registered the notorious US intelligence and security agency Garda World (GW) working in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries of the world, as a business consultancy firm.

According to the sources the agency after paying millions of rupees as bribery through a law firm of Islamabad secured the membership of SECP.

GW is working in the field of security in Pakistan but the work of said agency is also termed dangerous for the country like Black Water.

It is also revealed that after the information of deporting the Country Manager of the agency Anthoni Gerald Maganti, he is still present in Pakistan.

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331 "Diplomats" Suspected Of Espionage By Pakistan Recalled To US

Asad Kharal [Express Tribune]

LAHORE: According to a deal reached between relevant officials of Pakistan and the US in exchange for the release of US national Raymond Davis, as many as 331 US officials, most of whom are suspected of being engaged in espionage under diplomatic cover, have been identified to leave the country.

Pakistani authorities, The Express Tribune learnt, have agreed that these US officials would not be declared ‘persona non grata’ if they left the country voluntarily within a stipulated time.

Previously, Pakistan was almost ready to summarily expel these persons, who have various levels of diplomatic immunity, as most of them were issued Pakistani visas without getting prior No-Objection Certificates (NOC) following Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), sources familiar with the matter revealed.

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FBI Spies On Muslims In The US

Press TV

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation pries into the lives of Muslims across America as part of nationwide intelligence gathering in the fight against terrorism, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) says.

According to CAIR, Muslims in the United States are watched, especially at mosques, a Press TV correspondent in Washington reported on Tuesday.

With part of the intelligence gathering focused specifically on Muslims, the US government's goal is to have every state and local law enforcement agency feed information to the FBI, which is in charge of terrorism investigations.

CAIR is particularly concerned with trainers hired by some law enforcement agencies whose extreme views on Islam and terrorism is considered counter-productive by the FBI and other US intelligence agencies.

“Whenever you have law enforcement personnel being trained by anti-Muslim bigots, it is going to have an impact,” says Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR. 

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From The Historical Archives: Joe Biden Claims Knowledge Of Dozens Of Cover-Ups

Historiographic Anarchy

In 1978, current vice president Joe Biden accused the American Intelligence Community engaging in dozens of cover-ups involving crimes such as espionage and murder to protect national security. His allegations were reported on page 8 of the next's day New York Times and, with the exception of a reference in James Bamford's The Puzzle Palace, promptly forgotten despite Biden's multiple presidential and and vice-presidential campaigns.


In addition to the political hay that could have been against him, the continued silence over this allegations is puzzling in light of the counterintelligence view that one should never give up in pursuing spies and lack of statu[t]e of limitation on murder and espionage.

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New Jersey man arrested for alleged sale of military technology to China

Sean Gardiner [The Wall Stree Journal]

A New Jersey man who allegedly misappropriated sensitive military technology and exported it to China was arrested by federal agents on Tuesday.

Sixing Liu, a 47-year-old Chinese-born permanent resident of the U.S., was charged with one count of exporting defense-related technical data without a license. 

According to the criminal complaint, Mr. Liu, who was known by the first name of "Steve" and until recently lived in Flanders, N.J., worked for a New Jersey-based technology company from March 2009 to November 2010 as a senior staff engineer. The company, which the indictment didn't identify, had a contract to work on "precision navigational devices" and other components for the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Five German Nationals Arrested in Lahore

LAHORE: Five German nationals were arrested in Lahore on Friday for not having their travel documents.

According to Express 24/7 correspondent Shiraz Hasnat, the foreigners were not able to provide their documents and were taken into custody for questioning by the police.

The reporter said that police had found snapshots on their cameras of the railway headquarters and other sensitive areas nearby.

The German nationals said they were on a visit to Lahore and their travel documents were at the hotel.

In the aftermath of the arrest of US national Aaron Mark DeHaven, who was detained in Peshawar for overstaying his visa, a nationwide crackdown has begun against foreign citizens living in the country illegally.

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I Had Ray Davis’s Job, in Laos 30 Years Ago. Same Cover, Same Lies.

By ROBERT ANDERSON

The story of Raymond Allen Davis is one familiar to me and I wish our government would quit doing these things – they cost us credibility.

Davis is the American being held as a spy working under diplomatic cover out of our embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. You can understand why foreign countries no longer trust us and people are rising up across the Middle East against the Great Satan.In the Vietnam War the country of Laos held a geo-strategic position, as does Pakistan does to Afghanistan today. As in Pakistan, in Laos our country conducted covert military operations against a sovereign people, using the CIA.

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ISI orders full list of CIA spies in Pakistan

Jason Ditz [AntiWar]

The two spy agencies have long worked side by side in the region, and the CIA even funds a major portion of their counterpart’s budget, but Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has signaled a further split today in the wake of the Raymond Davis detention.

Davis, nominally a “consulate technical adviser” who was arrested in Lahore on a double murder, was eventually revealed to be not just a CIA operative, but the de facto leader of CIA operations within the nation, according to confessions from top US officials.

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