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  1. Blackwater
    The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army

    Resource Type: Book
  2. Body of Secrets
    Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    The National Security Agency (NSA) is the largest intelligence gathering agency in the world. James Banford in his sequel to "The Puzzle Palace" draws on newly released government documents and interviews with past and present personel to give a detailed picture of the agency. Tracing its origins from the Truman admisnistration and using examples from modern day incidents (Gary Powers, the Pueblo, the Israeli attack on a U.S. surveillance ship and many more) he provides us with an overview of the murky and dangerous world of intelligence operations.
  3. CIA whistleblower was a spy who never came in from the cold
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Obituary of Philip Agee a CIA operative for twelve years, during which time he was posted throughout Latin America. He questioned the company's alignement with the military dictatorships of the region and defected, writing a tell all book and exposing CIA operatives.
  4. Cointelpro
    The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    The first in-depth look at the covert and illegal FBI counterintelligence program - code-name COINTELPRO.
  5. COINTELPRO
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
  6. FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers
    US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Dcuments show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.
  7. License to Kill
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Halimi places alleged Russian involvement in the attempted assasination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the context of routine extrajudicial killings by the wider inernational security services.
  8. Lockdown London
    The Olympics will see the UK's biggest mobilisation of security forces since the second world war

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The projected expense of security at the upcoming London Olympic Games is $867m -- part of the booming 'security industry'.
  9. Musta'ribeen, Israel's agents who pose as Palestinians
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Musta'ribeen, or mista'arvim in Hebrew, is a word that is derived from the Arabic "musta'rib", or one that is specialised in Arabic language and culture. In Israeli security terms, the word denotes security forces who disguise themselves as Arabs and carry out missions in the heart of Palestinian societies or other Arab countries.
  10. NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A threat of legal action by the government that could have stopped reporting on the files leaked by Edward Snowden led to a symbolic act at the Guardian's offices in London.
  11. Police State India
    Robert Clive and the Forbidden

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Describing security-mania in India.
  12. So the innocent have nothing to fear? After David Miranda we now know where this leads
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The destructive power of state snooping is on display for all to see. The press must not yield to this intimidation.


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