Archivo etiqueta «Servicios secretos»
By David Wise, a writer and historian of intelligence and espionage. His most recent book is Tiger Trap: America’s Secret Spy War with China (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 11/12/11):
In 1995, a middle-aged Chinese man walked into a C.I.A. station in Southeast Asia and offered up a trove of secret Chinese documents. Among them was a file containing the top-secret design of the American W-88 nuclear warhead that sits atop the missiles carried by Trident submarines.
He told a story to the C.I.A. that was so bizarre it might just be true. He said that he worked in China’s … Seguir leyendo
By Elliott Abrams, senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and deputy national security adviser in 2007; Eliot Cohen, a professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and counselor of the State Department in 2007; Eric Edelman, the Hertog practitioner in residence at SAIS and undersecretary of defense for policy in 2007 and John Hannah, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and national security adviser to the vice president in 2007 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 16/09/11):
Bob Woodward wrote a curious … Seguir leyendo
By Bob Woodward, an associate editor of The Post. His assistant, Evelyn M. Duffy, contributed to this column (THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/09/11):
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A key lesson of the 9/11 decade for presidents and other national security decision makers is the importance of rigorously testing intelligence evidence: poking holes in it, setting out contradictions, figuring out what may have been overlooked or left out. It is essential to distinguish between hard facts and what is an assessment or judgment.
The so-called slam-dunk case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction illustrates the failure. If anyone should … Seguir leyendo
By David Wise, the author, most recently, of Tiger Trap: America’s Secret Spy War with China (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 06/09/11):
A Chinese spy story with a reverse twist surfaced in Beijing last week, providing further evidence that China’s rulers are having trouble maintaining their tight control over the Internet.
Maj. Gen. Jin Yinan of the People’s Liberation Army, in what he apparently thought was an internal briefing, revealed half a dozen cases of Chinese officials who had spied for Britain, the United States and other countries. Somehow, the video of his sensational disclosures leaked out. Clips of his … Seguir leyendo
By Clare Algar, executive director of Reprieve (THE GUARDIAN, 05/09/11):
The revelations from Libya show just how far we are from touching the bottom of British complicity in rendition and torture. For anyone who had hoped that, 10 years on from the catastrophic attacks on the United States which kicked off the “war on terror” we might be starting to come to terms with the abuses carried out in our name and put them behind us, the depressing news is that we seem to be further than ever from doing so.
With the caveat that these documents have yet to be fully … Seguir leyendo
By Jack C. Chow, the U.S. ambassador on global H.I.V./AIDS from 2001-3 and the assistant director-general of the World Health Organization on H.I.V./AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria from 2003-5. He is currently a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College of Public Policy (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27/07/11):
The C.I.A. spared no effort in its relentless and ultimately successful campaign to locate and kill Osama bin Laden. But it has been revealed that the no-holds-barred inventiveness of C.I.A. operatives involved the recruitment of a Pakistani doctor to run a community vaccination program in Abbottabad as cover to try and obtain … Seguir leyendo
Por Ángel Viñas, catedrático de la UCM y autor de La conspiración del general Franco (EL PAÍS, 30/06/11):
En el periodo de entreguerras del pasado siglo Gran Bretaña contaba con los mejores servicios de inteligencia del mundo. No sorprenderá que los relatos de sus triunfos figuren entre los best sellers del Reino Unido. El pasado año se han publicado tres obras sustanciales sobre ellos. Pero en ninguna se aborda uno de sus fracasos más resonantes, precisamente el relacionado con una España de la que, entre 1931 y 1936, se ocupaban cuatro sistemas de información británicos.
El más importante se … Seguir leyendo
By Kal Raustiala, professor of law and director of the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 03/03/11):
Surely a screenplay is already in the works. An American diplomat guns down two men in broad daylight in Lahore, Pakistan. The diplomat, who secretly works for the CIA, is apprehended and turned over to the local police. In his car, according to news reports, is a Glock 9-millimeter handgun, 75 rounds of ammunition, a global positioning system device, a survival kit and a satellite phone. As U.S. officials from the president on down press for his release, … Seguir leyendo
Por Enrique Gimbernat, catedrático de Derecho penal de la UCM y miembro del Consejo Editorial de EL MUNDO, y Manuel Ollé, profesor de Derecho penal de la URJC y abogado (EL MUNDO, 06/01/11):
En el diario ABC de 27 de diciembre de 2010, José Luis González Cussac, catedrático de Derecho Penal de la Universidad de Valencia, bajo el título La vida de todos, publica un artículo en el que hace una referencia inequívoca a los autores de esta Tribuna, al escribir que «[r]ecientemente algún medio recoge la opinión de un experto que, reproduciendo una muy personal tesis … Seguir leyendo
Por José L. González Cussac, catedrático de Derecho Penal de la Universidad de Valencia (ABC, 27/12/10):
El título de la magistral película “La vida de los otros”, sobre la temible policía política de la desaparecida República Democrática Alemana, expresa de forma gráfica la fractura social que provoca el uso totalitario de los servicios de inteligencia y de los policiales. Frente a ese “los otros”, categoría más antropológica que jurídica común a todos los totalitarismos, contra el que valdría todo, los sistemas democráticos garantizan los derechos de todos a todos.
Recientemente algún medio recoge la opinión de un experto que, … Seguir leyendo
Por Manuel Ollé, profesor de Derecho Penal de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos y abogado (EL MUNDO, 19/12/10):
[Nota: según informa El Mundo en su edición del 19/12/10, Rubalcaba ordenó al CNI pinchar los móviles de los controladores]
La Ley Orgánica 2/2002, reguladora del Control Previo del Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI), permite que un magistrado del Tribunal Supremo, a petición del director del CNI, autorice la entrada y registro en domicilios así como la intervención de cualquier tipo de comunicación, sea telefónica, postal, telegráfica u otra cualquiera, como podrían ser las mantenidas por e-mail o SMS.
En el … Seguir leyendo
By Harry Ferguson, a former SIS officer and the author of Operation Kronstadt (THE GUARDIAN, 07/12/10):
It is highly unusual to expel a single foreign national for espionage activities. These incidents tend to involve the expulsion of a number of suspected agents all at the same time. The classic example is Operation Foot in 1971, when 105 Soviet diplomats were sent packing, or the departure of most of the KGB’s London station in 1985 following the defection of the station chief, Oleg Gordievsky.
The reason for this approach is that if a security service is lucky enough to … Seguir leyendo
By Laura K. Donohue, an associate professor of law at Georgetown Law Center and author of The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics and Liberty (THE WASHINGTON POST, 08/10/10):
In a 6-to-5 vote last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit dismissed a lawsuit against a company accused of helping the CIA carry out the “extraordinary rendition” of terrorist suspects, transporting them to other countries for interrogation and, the lawsuit alleged, torture.
The five men who sued Jeppesen DataPlan, a Boeing subsidiary that reportedly provided flight planning and logistical support, could not use even public records to … Seguir leyendo
By Mohammed Hanif, a correspondent for the BBC Urdu Service and the author of the novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/08/10):
Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, has been accused of many bad things in its own country. It has been held responsible for rigging elections, sponsoring violent sectarian groups and running torture chambers for political dissidents. More recently, it has been accused of abducting Pakistanis and handing them over to the United States for cash.
But last week — after thousands of classified United States Army documents were released by … Seguir leyendo
By Charles McCarry, the author, most recently, of Christopher’s Ghosts (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 11/07/10):
Don’t be too hard on those crazy Russian spies. If the goal of tradecraft is a natural appearance, they have carried out their instructions with style. As for the wisdom of living secret lives in obscure suburbs in the hope of befriending American neighbors who might someday be someone, it’s not such a zany enterprise if you stop to think that nine of the last 12 presidents of the United States were nobodies from nowhere, as are most of our generals, admirals, politicians, … Seguir leyendo