News you may have missed #373 (CIA edition)
June 11, 2010 2 Comments
- CIA forerunner’s sabotage manual released. Here is the Simple Sabotage Field Manual (.pdf) of the Office of Strategic Services (wartime forerunner of the CIA), dating from 1944. Via Bruce Schneier’s blog.
- CIA misread South Korea signs, documents show. Declassified CIA documents on South Korea show that the US spy agency was surprised by the 1979 assassination of dictator Pak Chung Hee, by his intelligence chief, did not anticipate the ensuring military coup d’etat, and dismissed the growing unrest that eventually led to a near-civil war in the country.
- Ex-CIA top official’s op-ed supports Miranda rights. In an op-ed in The Washington Post, Philip Mudd, a former senior official at the CIA and the FBI, argues that reading terrorist suspects their Miranda rights has never impeded an intelligence investigation.
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on oss manual… Was going to say, “meh, and, oss was new and not very experienced”. But this is a load of laughs.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/06/world_war_ii_sa.html#c440368
The methods of employee disruption bring to mind the story of Foxconn stopping payments to Chinese suicide factory workers families saying they are killing themselves for money.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0610/1224272194251.html
Maybe the chinese government is causing problems with foreign competitors on their soil to push them out and take over?
No. That is crazy.
Glad to see a US intelligence official supporting Miranda rights.
Although I wonder whether it’s just a battle of fig leaf vs no fig leaf.