News you may have missed #502
April 22, 2011 2 Comments
- Interesting interview with career US intelligence officer. A discussion on al-Qaeda’s quest for nuclear weapons with Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and former Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the US Department of Energy.
- CIA reveals World War I documents. The CIA has declassified secrets for writing with invisible ink and even opening sealed letters without detection: state-of-the-art spying techniques from World War I.
- Israel indicts Australian for spying for Hamas. Australian citizen Iad Rashid Abu Arja, has been indicted in Israel for allegedly entering the country on a mission from Hamas. According to Israel, Arja “aimed to acquire various technological devices for the purposes of encryption, photography, and guiding missiles”.
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The WWI documents released by the CIA read just like Herbert Yardley’s book, The Black Chamber, written in 1931. He revealed a lot of the secret writing secrets before people could be really prosecuted for revealing governement secrets when not related to espionage.
Is it just me, or does the current battle over secrecy classifications seem to parallel the Crypto Wars?