Counterintelligence

. ..both are things which should disappear as soon as possible. But anyway it is interesting to see from time to time the sympathies between both ideologies and the naive right wing worship of a brutal regime. I wrote a brief abstract about "The ongoing right wing enthusiasm for North Korea".  Source:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Propaganda_of_North_Korea_(6073871366).jpg The topic is not new, but this time I came across it while Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus and me looked into the smuggling of two Maybach cars from Italy to Rotterdam. Our extensive confidential report showed much more, but I think that even the abstract, which can be downloaded on my website, is an interest read.

The frustration that China is currently creating with its repressive measures and threats around the world has several consequences. One of them will be that China will pay less attention to sanctions and export controls: Why follow Western sanctions regimes when it is all about weakening China? - this question will be asked in some small leading groups of the Chinese government. The defiant answer will be: Exactly! Why should China take care of it when other international legal regulations are also disregarded by Beijing and apparently nobody can prevent it!? In the future it will be easier to deliver bombs and missiles to North Korea and since I have a few kilograms of uranium left anyway, I looked around for a trustworthy supplier. As so often, I found it on Alibaba: Cargo Movers International Logistics Co., Ltd. At first I was confused, because the company advertises with a container from Ocean Network Express (ONE), according to Wikipedia " jointly owned by the Japanese shi

Many years ago, Wolfgang Schäuble - at that time interior minister of a German federal state - had the idea of installing the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung as a kind of secret service instead of the traditional intelligence agencies as BfV or BND . Well, now is the opportunity to implement his idea and, moreover, to make the decades of work of certain German and foreign political circles a reality: the complete shutdown of all German secret service work and to lead necessary, efficient government advice to an end. (For those who are not so familiar with irony: The following screenshot is irony) Source:  https://bit.ly/2Y3KLey   With the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of May 19, 2020 ( 1 BvR 2835/17 ) the German Foreign intelligence agency BND has been weakened: According to the verdict, the BND will have to base its strategic telecommunications reconnaissance abroad, which is SIGINT and therefore the surveillance of persons abroad, on the German consti

...is something which interests me. And so I am pleased to point out to my new paper: "Far-right extremists step up international networking", published with Jane‘s Intelligence Review .  Key Points are: Increased monitoring of the communications of far-right extremists suggests that their personal and international contacts are growing in importance. Far-right extremists travel internationally to network at conferences and events, and to gain combat experience and training in conflict zones. The increasing internationalisation of far-right extremism is likely to further international networking between extremists in-person and virtually. For those who want to read some further information, based on my analysis for Jane's Intelligence Review, please feel free to download " Global Networking of Right-Wing Extremism. Some additional remarks " from my website.

I find the new Senate Review of the Intelligence Community Assessment of Russia Investigation extremely useful and since hours I cannot stop reading.  Didn't know that they already planned years ago the Hygiene Demo in Berlin, but here I found the evidence: Multifaceted it obviously is! (Source of picture:  https://www.dw.com/de/die-phalanx-der-erwachten-in-der-corona-krise-lockdown-gegner-aller-l%C3%A4nder-vereinigt-euch/a-53191263 ) Well, the KGB lost Operation INFEKTION and I assume the GRU and friends will loose this one as well.

Die derzeitige Krise, hervorgerufen durch den Corona Virus, bietet eigentlich eine gute Gelegenheit,  die heilige Kuh namens Intelligence Cycle unter nahezu Kriegsbedingungen zu testen:  Traditionelles nachrichtendienstliches Arbeiten orientiert sich seit Jahrzehnten an diesem Modell –  besonders in Europa, besonders in Deutschland. Die spärliche Literatur im deutschen Sprachraum  zu diesem Modell, vieles davon eher im Bereich von Competitive Intelligence angesiedelt,  behandelt dieses starre System geradezu als sakrosankt. Es kann nun bewiesen werden,  ob es funktioniert! Man kann jedoch gleich konstatieren, dass vieles davon nun hinterfragt werden muss. Sammlung  von Daten, Verarbeitung und Weitergabe der dann hoffentlich generierten Informationen: Wie kann  das heute funktionieren? Es fängt bereits bei MEDINT, also Medical Intelligence an. Im sehr guten  Nachschlagewerk von Godman und Maret („Intelligence And Information Policy For National  Security“) geht es hier um nicht m

Ganz aufregende, voll krass investigative Recherchen zum derzeit umstrittenen Verein Uniter zeigen Unerhörtes! Unter der Rubrik Investigativ der Tagesschau wird stolz gemeldet, dass das " ARD-Magazin Kontraste  in Zusammenarbeit mit t-online" herausgefunden habe (gar durch gefährliche Recherchen vor Ort?), dass Uniter " mit Kräften der Philippinischen Nationalpolizei (PNP) eine Trainingseinheit im Laguna Distrikt südlich der Hauptstadt Manila durchgeführt [hat]. Im Juli 2019 fand dazu eine Schulung mit der PNP auf den Philippinen statt ."  Ich vermute mal, dass versehentlich der folgende Absatz in dem o.g. Tagesschau-Artikelchen vergessen wurde: Unsere unter Einsatz ihres Lebens investigativ recherchierenden, mutigen Journalisten fanden heraus, dass bereits am 3. April 2019 im Newsletter Intelligence Online u.a. zu lesen war: " Uniter has offered its services to the Philippines in the past. " Unsere tapferen Rechercheure konnten trotz enorm hoher Risik