News you may have missed #312

• Kiwi external spies to focus on domestic intel. New Zealand’s External Assessments Bureau has announced on its website that it has been renamed the National Assessments Bureau, and will conduct more work on intelligence within New Zealand. The change follows a review of the government’s three security services, which, besides the NAB, include the Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) and the Government Communications Security Bureau.
• CIA’s European secrets: Clandestine prisons investigated. Interesting documentary on the CIA secret prison network in Europe, by Russia Today. Available freely on YouTube.
• Pentagon official behind ‘rogue ops’ gives interview. US Air Force official Michael Furlong, who was identified last weekend as the father of a clandestine intelligence network of private contractors, set up possibly without supervision or approval by senior US Defense officials, has finally spoken to the media.