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VOLUME XIII NUMBER ONE (ISSUE 97)

ISSN 1364 8446 publication date:

JUNE 2015

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EYE SPY 97

EYE SPY WEB EDITORIALFROM THE EDITOR - MARK BIRDSALL

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What possesses a young man from England to travel to the war theatres of Iraq and Syria andblow himself up... killing half a dozen Iraqis in the process? Talha Asmal, 17, lived in a part of thecountry that has sadly seen several other of its residents turn to terrorism. A number of the 7/7London bombers had links to Dewsbury, a small town in West Yorkshire. Just days after thebombers targeted London’s transport system, killing over 50 people in the process, NewScotland Yard found their safe house in Leeds where the gang had built over a dozen improvised

bombs. Dewsbury is of course but a few miles south of the city. Interestingly, police failed to locate around 20people believed to have played a supportive role - some I understand lived in Dewsbury.

That was a decade ago and Asmal was but a small child. Despite a number of government backed ‘engagement’programmes enabled to counter the growing influence of ISIS and the now lesser attraction of al-Qaida, still dozensof UK nationals opt to make the trip across Europe to find solace with terrorists in faraway lands. I’m not sure whatthey think they will find, but in all reality there is only one end game that awaits. Asmal’s family believe he wasinfluenced and brainwashed by the rhetoric of ISIS found on so many Internet sites - much to the sound of stirringmusic. I am of the opinion they are probably correct, but Eye Spy understands that MI5 has never stopped its searchfor others who may be physically operating in such towns as Dewsbury to recruit. Either way, Asmal becomesBritain’s youngest-ever suicide bomber, and unless there is more done to lessen the perceived ‘attraction’ of ISIS,he certainly won’t be the last one.

Of interest and relevance to a major new tradecraft feature that starts in this edition, at travel points around thecountry, Customs and Police have introduced a new line of questioning with regards to some people suspected ofwanting to reach the gangs of ISIS. Body language reading is an important tool. However, there are so many rusesto counter suspicion, especially with those intent on reaching ISIS. Thus security services are placing much moreemphasis on the spoken word, information and subsequent investigation. Hopefully, a combination of thesepractises will allow officers to identify those people who are about to embark on a journey that they will ultimatelyregret, leaving families such as the Asmals distraught.

Just briefly, many readers have registered an interest inEye Spy’s new An Insider’s Guide to 500 Spy Sites inLondon. Eye Spy 97 contains a fascinating feature on anumber of sites linked to the D-Day spies. Full orderdetails will appear shortly in the magazine and on-line.

A brief overview of Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine issue97 follows... Talha Asmal

Eye Spy revisits its vast archive of strange stories linked to the intelligence world. Inthis fascinating feature, we examine some extraordinary factual events that if not

substantiated by intelligence could easily fall in the category of fiction...

STRANGE BUT TRUEINTELLIGENCE HAPPENINGS WITH A DIFFERENCE

PROPAGANDA WARSUS and British Intelligence set to counter Russia’s burgeoning

propaganda empire by drawing upon the experiences and skill of theirown past masters of deception

MOSCOW CALLING... MOSCOW CALLING

TRADECRAFT

BODY LANGUAGETRADECRAFT

Eye Spy examines the controversial subject of body language reading - and whymore and more intelligence and security services are becoming less reliant on

‘expert’ opinion and increasingly on imparted information

Latest developments inUkraine as Russian GRU

agents exposed

SPIES IN UKRAINEPUTIN CRITIC ASSASSINATED IN MOSCOWPUTIN WAR - PAY BACK

GHOST STATIONSINTEL SECRETS OF LONDON’S FORGOTTEN TUBE STATIONSEye Spy examines some of London’s underground secrets and KGB dead letter drop sites

DANGEROUS SEA GAMES

Tensions increase in South China Seasas intelligence war grows

CONFRONTATION ‘INEVITABLE’ BETWEEN US AND CHINESE MILITARY

An examination of recent files released by the United States on Osama bin-Laden,and a look at why the operation to detain him may not be as reported in 2011

LETTERS OF OSAMA BIN LADENINSIGHT INTO THE MIND OF A TERRORIST

BLACK GOLDKEY DEVELOPMENTS IN FIGHT AGAINST ISIS

Alliance winning critical battles as intelligence collection grows... however, intelsources warn terror group set to step-up attacks in West - full overview

ST. ERMIN’S THE SPIES HOTELPUTIN CRITIC ASSASSINATED IN MOSCOWPLUS REVIEW OF INTELLIGENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR

St. Ermin’s Hotel is inextricably linkedto the world of spies. Peter Matthewslooks back over one thousand years ofhistory, singling out some important

events which eventually led to theconstruction of St. Ermin’s in the

nineteenth century...

THE BRITISH BOMBMAKERSUK NATIONALS FIGHTING FOR ISIS

In May, political and military leaders gathered at the Cenotaph in Whitehall to commemorate the70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. To mark this event, Eye Spy draws upon a number of

relevant files on D-Day in our forthcoming book - Classified: The Insider’s Guide to 500 SpySites in London, to examine some of the locations used by various spies, staffers, officials and

special people who helped defeat the Nazis in WWII...

THE SECRET HEROES

VE DAYVE DAY& The D-Day Spies& The D-Day Spies

RIPPLES FROM NSA LEAKSSPY PROGRAMMES ‘BURNED’ BY EDWARD SNOWDEN

OPERATION MERLINTHE TRAP DOOR TO IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME

SYRIAN SPY MYSTERYTHE CIA BACK-CHANNEL MAN CRUCIAL TO WAR AGAINST ISIS

INSIDE STORY

A VERY PUBLIC WARA NEW COLD WAR? RADIO PROPAGANDA PAST AND PRESENT

LETTER FROM FORT MEADE

A look at the life and work of America’sgreatest cryptanalyst - this as the NSA

opens a new exhibition dedicated toWilliam F. Friedman

DID YOU KNOW? SERIES CONTINUES

SECRETS OF CAMP X

Lynn Hodgson continues hisfascinating series on events atthe super secret British agent

training facility in Canada calledCamp X. Eye Spy also uncovers

the forgotten London ‘brickwall’ where the agents

despatched to kill leading NaziReinhard Heydrich were

photographed prior to theirwartime mission

COUNTER TERROR EXPO 2015REFLECTIONS

Notes and observations of the recent counter-terrorism event in London

REVIEWS AND BREAKING NEWS FROM THE INTEL WORLDMAJOR INTEL DIGESTS

• NATO COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE• END GAME FOR BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER• CIA BLACK SITES• RUSSIAN SPY GAMES• LEE RIGBY CONTROVERSY

• NEW TWIST IN HUNT FOR ALPS ASSASSIN• ISIS AND THE MARITIME REFUGEE PIPELINE• CHINA’S MONUMENTAL US GOVERNMENT STAFF HACK• OSAMA BIN-LADEN AND THE ‘CORRIDOR OF OPPORTUNITY’ - OBSERVATIONS• NEW DEATHS AND ATTACKS LINKED TO THE ‘ASSASSINATION LIST’

• UAV STRIKES ON ISIS AND AL-QAIDA• BARDO MUSEUM ATTACK LATEST• AIRLINE SECURITY• AN UNUSUAL ‘SPY’ ARREST• CYBER SECURITY

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Classified: The Insider’s Guide to 500 Spy Sites in London provides visitors to the UK’s capital with a uniqueopportunity to journey to places that are forever embedded in the city’s fantastic spylore. Also included are manyforgotten sites where spies from around the world have conducted their own secret war with MI5 and MI6. Serviceheadquarters, covert hiding places, secret front companies, agent training locations, mail opening centres, under-ground venues, safe houses, dead letter drop sites and the darker side of this fascinating ‘cloak and dagger’ worldare explored, including assassination and murder most strange. There’s also a splendid candid commentary aboutthe history of Britain’s Secret Service from its inception in 1909 to the present day.

This informative work produced by the editorial team of Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine reveals London’s enduringliaison with the world of espionage. An illuminated history of secret spy games, tradecraft and treachery hosted byone of the greatest cities in the world... indeed, the spy capital of the world!

• intelligence service headquarters • branch locations• operations’ and planning centres • watcher surveillance

residences • front companies • interrogation rooms• special spy training schools • equipment centres • spyand spy chief residences • branch locations • dead letter

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• entertainment and clubs • codebreaking buildings• assassins • garages and lock-ups • honeytraps • plots

• disguises • strange twists of fate • heroes • villains

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