IRANIAN ASSASSINATIONS OPEN CIA RECRUITMENT OPPORTUNITIES

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The Iranian assassination attempts, specifically the botched attempt in Azerbaijani, opens up an avenue for the CIA to infiltrate the institutions in Iran. Spy recruitment of Azerbaijani citizens may be easier than one would imagine. Why? Their brothers and sisters living in Iran are surviving under a Persian apartheid. Azerbaijanis are suffering from an unrelentless barrage of racial discriminations- they're not allowed to   learn their own language, have their own TV or radio stations, or name their own streets, businesses or even their children under Azerbaijani names. The Iranian regime labels the  Azerbaijani language as a "foreign language" and bans its usage without governmental permission!

What an opportunity for the CIA, Mossad, and Western intelligence services to take advantage of and recruit patriotic Azerbaijani's in order to penetrate deep into Iran's discriminating governmental institutions!

Iran's assassination attempts opens the window of opportunity even more for spy recruitment. A covert battle is being waged between Israel's Mossad and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and National Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran (MISIRI). MISIR is the secret police and primary intelligence agency of Iran, which took over the previous government's security apparatus. It is very well funded and has a history of brutality towards the people of Iran, especially the Azerbaijani's. In 1999, it partook in serial murders of dissident writers and intellectuals and assassinated Iranian political dissidents outside the country.

 

Currently, a full-scale spy agency covert war is underway- plane crashes, disappearances, cyberwarfare, worldwide bomb attacks...the list grows weekly. Tehran's string of assassination attempts on Israeli diplomats in India, Georgia and Thailand; sticky bombs attached to cars that kill Iranian nuclear experts; the Stuxnet computer worm targeting Iran's uranium-enrichment computer software; Iran's assassination attempt of the Israeli Defence Force's (IDF) representative in India; its assassination attempt of Israeli diplomats in Bangkok, Thailand; Iran's recruitment of Azerbaijan's local thug, Balagardash Dadashev, to kill Israeli school children and teachers in Baku; Mossad's recruitment of the Iranian dissident group Mujahdin-e-Khalq to target and kill Iranian nuclear scientists; the current 11-nation large-scale amphibious wargame (Operation "Bold Alligator") involving 20,000 troops being conducted off the beaches of Camp LeJeune in North Carolina (topographically similar to Iran's beachfront along the Straight of Hormuz); Iran's threats to blockade oil in the Straight of Hormuz...a risky and curious combination of events. 

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OSINT News feels that Iran's intelligence services can and will continue to use gangsters and local mercenaries inside Azerbaijan, and elsewhere, as proxies to further their aims to kill Israeli’s and Westerners. The ethnic-Iranian community of Azeri, which rests on Iran’s western border, has deep roots with Iran and offers the CIA recruitment opportunities. We can create a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. The CIA, Mossad and other Western intelligence agencies have an opportunity to use this region as a corridor to infiltrate the Iranian society and its institutions. Iran has an embassy in Baku and a consulate-general in Nakhchivan City; likewise, Azerbaijan has an embassy in Tehran and a consulate-general in Tabriz. Besides the Iranian ubiquitous discrimination of Azerbaijani-Iranian citizens, a seething tension and mistrust exists between the two countries. True, both have had diplomatic relations since 1918, but it’s interesting that Azerbaijan has a visa-free agreement with Turkey, where all visa requirements for Turks entering Azerbaijan have been lifted... but not so for Iranian citizens. In short, Azerbaijan does not trust Iran.

This latest assassination-attempt incident creates opportunities for the CIA to recruit Azerbaijani's. Men from Iran were detained by the Azerbaijan Ministry of National Security for planning attacks on Israelis school children and teachers in Baku, adding to Azerbaijan's distrust of Iran. It was Iranian agents who smuggled weapons and equipment to their paid thugs in Azerbaijan.

 

No visa-free agreement with Iran! Rightfully so, for Azberbaijani diplomats fear an open-border with Iran will trigger a massive influx of Iranian ethnic Azeri refuges into Azberbaijan. Not so with Turkey, thus the gap in Azerbaijani's visa privileges.

The CIA can take advantage of Iran's political and economic 

instability, their despise of the Azberbaijan culture, and Azerbaijan's complete lack of trust in Iran's intentions.  As Wafa Guluzade, a political commentator close to the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyey, warned, "…planning the murder of prominent foreign citizens in Azerbaijan by a band of terrorists, one of whom [Dadashov] resides in Iran, amounts to 'hostile activity' against our country."

Iran threatened to cut off a critical supply line between Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic if the visa requirements weren’t lifted. The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic could be another excellent corridor for the CIA, Mossad and other Western intelligence services to infiltrate Iran. It is a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan and borders Iran to the south and west. The Azerbaijani people have been divided between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan for more than 150 years, yet they have retained their ethnic identity.OSINT News proposes that the CIA elicit the help of U.S. college students of Azerbaijani heritage to work for them when they return to their native country. They can be offered extended schooling in America to become future Azerbaijani-American political leaders and partners. It would enhance their country's self-identity and solidify their attachment to the West, which would indirectly make them less dependent on Iran. Also, there are Azerbaijani communities throughout the U.S. and Canada- the CIA could find recruitments among them, to further enhance their self-identity as a sovereign nation.

Robert Morton, M.Ed., Ed.S. is a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and writes about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). A portion of this site's ad revenues is donated to the AFIO. The views expressed on this site do not represent those of any organization he is a member of. We're always looking for different perspectives regarding the Intelligence Community- got a thought, article or comment you'd like to submit? Contact us on the Secure Contact Form

OUTSIDE OPPOSITION FIGHTERS MAY TOPPLE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT

Syria has been an unrelenting obstacle in the Middle East peace process and a thorn in Washington's side when it comes to forging strategic alliances with powers in the region. After 9/11 and Syria's opposition to the War in Iraq, we tried to pressure President Bashar al-Asad's regime to change its policies and bring Syria into the Western political orbit.

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According to RT News and other foreign newspapers, the tyrannical Syrian government faces a real threat. Over 10,000 Libyans are reportedly being trained in a closed-off zone in Jordan, and they will shortly sneak into Syria to fight for the opposition. This army is allegedly paid around $1,000 a month by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The ­Jordan-based AlBawaba news website says most of the gunmen who are being trained are actually part of the Libyan armed opposition, who have not had the chance to lay down arms following the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.

The allegations of funding from Riyadh and Doha were not attributed to anyone, but AlBawaba news media did draw attention to the fact that both Saudi Arabia and Qatar actively support the Syrian opposition.

At the same time, several Iranian news sources report that some 50 Turkish officers arrested in Syria last week have confirmed that they were trained by the Israeli Special Forces to carry out insurgent acts against the Syrian government and President Bashar al-Assad.

The arrested officers also, according to Iran’s Fars news agency, admitted to initiating contact with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, inadvertently lending support to the countries’ involvement in the ongoing conflict in Syria.

British MI6 agents have entered the Syrian ground, their Ministry said on Friday. This is the first time such a declaration has come from a ministry. The media have been  full of reports about foreign Special Forces training the Syrian opposition since November.

The Israeli DEBKA outlet reported that British and Qatari commandos are instructing the Syrian opposition and supplying them with arms. The French weekly Le Canard Enchaine and Turkish daily Milliyet revealed the presence of French intelligence in the region, also instructing the Free Syrian Army in urban guerrilla techniques. These camps were located in Libya’s Tripoli, southern Turkey and northern Lebanon, read the reports.

The Syrian government has also to deal with Jihadists flocking to the country from neighboring Iraq. According to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, the insurgents are smuggling weaponry across the border to support anti-Assad movement.

The foreign assistance has every chance of going beyond supply and training, analysts say. The Arab League has blocked the initiative that would be most productive to resolve the Syrian crisis peacefully. The League has suspended the observing mission even despite Assad’s approval to extend it. Many connect the League’s decision with the final report provided by the mission head, Sudanese General Mohammed al-Dabi. Al-Dabi dubbed the events in Syria as “violence on both sides” and “active insurgency” instead of “a popular anti-regime uprising.” This might have struck Qatar, which is currently chairing the League, as a bit too pro-Assad.

If you want to learn much more about U.S./Syrian relations and how they evolved over the years, read the book "In The Lions Den" by author Andrew Tabler.  

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Tabler was both a witness to and participant in the events of this covert conflict between Syria and the U.S. No other Western journalists were based in Damascus during the time he was there; Tabler was not only watched and censored, but courted by the Syrian government in an attempt to influence his stories to the international community. He gained unique access to the upper echelons of power like no other journalist before him, even accompanying the Syrian president on a state visit to China.

OSINT News recommends "In the Lion's Den" because Tabler captures behind-the-scenes experiences as well as the story of Syria itself post-9/11 and Washington's attempts to craft a "New Middle East." He examines the effects of the the Bush administration's strategy, asking what went wrong, what went right, and where Washington needs to go from here to deal with this volatile Middle Eastern country.

Robert Morton, M.Ed., Ed.S. is a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and writes about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). A portion of this site's ad revenues is donated to the AFIO. The views expressed on this site do not represent those of any organization he is a member of. We're always looking for different perspectives regarding the Intelligence Community- got a thought, article or comment you'd like to submit? Contact us on the Secure Contact Form

INSTANT INTELLIGENCE ON EVERY SPY AGENCY ON EARTH!

OSINT News is gradually creating a Spy agency Info-Network on every intelligence agency on earth. Here's how to use it:

1. Scroll down the right margin to "TODAY'S HEADLINES ABOUT ANY INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ON EARTH- UPDATED DAILY!".  There you'll find an alphabetically-listed number of "COUNTRIES WITH SPY AGENCIES." Each country is assigned a number. Scroll further down the right margin and find that country via its assigned number.

2. All intelligence services operating for that particular country are listed.


3. Click on the intelligence service and... PRESTO! DAILY newspaper, journal, and magazine articles about that country's spy agency appear. These resources are updated daily!

Note: Translator services- Scroll to earth photo in right margin to "TRANSLATE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SPY NEWS TO ENGLISH". Most of the Spy agency resources are written in English; however, some are not. Simply cut and paste the article text into the Translator if it is written in an unfamiliar language, to be translated into English or other languages.

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Here's the countries we have thus far with their assigned number:
(1) ARGENTINA


(18) AUSTRALIA


(2) BELGIUM


(3) BRAZIL


(4) BULGARIA


(6) CANADA


(7) CZECH REPUBLIC


(8) DENMARK


(9) ESTONIA


(10) FINLAND


(11) GERMANY


(5) GREAT BRITAIN (MI-5 and MI-6)


(12) GREECE


(13) HUNGARY


(19) IRAN


(14) ISRAEL


(15) ITALY


(16) JORDON


(23) NORTH KOREA


(20) SYRIA


(22) TURKEY


(17) ZIMBABWE


Note: More countries are added each week

Robert Morton, M.Ed., Ed.S. is a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and writes about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). A portion of this site's ad revenues is donated to the AFIO. The views expressed on this site do not represent those of any organization he is a member of. We're always looking for different perspectives regarding the Intelligence Community- got a thought, article or comment you'd like to submit? Contact us on the Secure Contact Form

"PAPERLESS ARCHIVES" GREAT OSINT RESOURCE

OSINT News nominates Paperless Archives as another great data and intelligence-gathering site. However, much of the documents are sold in DVD format and are not for free. The site offers access to once-secret documents, recordings, photos, video and audio on a number of topics, but we use it specifically for in the areas of Historical Figures and Events, Organized Crime, Politics, Military Operations, Famous Crimes, Intelligence Gathering and Espionage. You can also obtain information about Civil Rights, Serial Killers, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and more.



Paperless Archives gather their information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Secret Service, National Security Council, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Justice, National Archive Records Administration, and the Presidential Libraries.

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A Spy's Guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque
New - In this fascinating guide, former CIA agent E. B. Held uses declassified documents from both the CIA and KGB, as well as secondary sources, to trace some of the most notorious spying events in United States history occurring in New Mexico.

  


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MURDER OF CIA OFFICERS RIGHTFULLY AVENGED

When triple-agent Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi was driven to the CIA’s secret outpost in eastern Afghanistan, no one deduced that he would be carrying 30 pounds of explosives in a suicide vest. But, he was.

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He blew himself up along with seven CIA employees and the Jordanian intelligence officer who drove him there. Balawi, age 36, was a doctor from the town of Zarqa, Jordon. Zarqa is a dreary industrial town north-east of Amman, Jordon’s capital. It is a town that spawns slaughterers, like the self-appointed killer who mowed down a British tourist and wounded five other members of a tour group in Amman in 2006. It is the hometown of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, who was killed by a US air strike in 2006. Jordanian intelligence arrested him a year before due to extremist sympathies, but he agreed to support the US in fighting al-Qaida after his arrest. The Jordanians thought Balawi had reformed and handed him over to the CIA so he could infiltrate al-Qaida in Afghanistan. He was driven to the CIA outpost offering urgent information to help locate Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s deputy. Upon arriving, he wasn’t searched for arms or bombs.
 

OSINT News is pleased with the CIA’s minimal amount of finger-pointing and basic search for causation, coupled with its unremitting and rock-hard mission of revenge for four of their murdered officers, including the base’s female chief and three contract security guards. This was the second biggest CIA loss of life since the 1983 bombing of their Beirut station, which killed 17 CIA case officers.

The CIA may have been partially duped, but they're getting the last laugh. Due to the "Whispering Campaign", few al-Qaida lieutenants sleep in their bedrooms at night, but chose to curl up outside, away from the drone’s watchfulness. The caginess of increasing HUMINT on the ground coupled with drone elusiveness checkmates Balawi-type suicide bombers. When all is said and done, in the aftermath of the CIA murders at their Forward Operating Base Chapman, the agency has conducted its counterterrorism mission well.

True, tactical slip-ups will crop up on this global battleground now and then, but no deep strategic flaw exists in the CIA’s battle against al-Qaida. Just ask Anwar al-Awlaki et al. There has been, and will continue to be, a dramatic increase in the use of Predator and Reaper drones in Yemen, Somalia, and in NW Pakistan. Drone killings of radical Islamists will be on-going at an increasing rate.

Robert Morton, M.Ed., Ed.S. is a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and writes about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). A portion of this site's ad revenues is donated to the AFIO. The views expressed on this site do not represent those of any organization he is a member of. We're always looking for different perspectives regarding the Intelligence Community- got a thought, article or comment you'd like to submit? Contact us on the Secure Contact Form

GLOBAL RESEARCH GOOD SOURCE OF OSINT INFORMATION

Global Research is an independent research and media group of writers, scholars, journalists and activists based in Montreal. It offers a left-skewed voice, but it is, indeed, a good source of OSINT information.

CONSIDER A CIA CAREER

A friend of mine knew I write about the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), so he told me about his son. He said, "My computer-whiz son attends a small college in Ohio and wants to work with the IC, particularly the CIA. How do you know so much about the IC and what will it be like for him to join?"

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I told him that I'm a member of the Association Of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) and am privy to their seminars and get-togethers in the Washington, D.C. area. Through the AFIO, I have met many patriotic men and women who served their country well, including CIA case officers like Valerie Plame and Antonio Mendez. Mendez (left photo) risked his life to smuggle six US diplomats out of Iran during the President Carter years. As a career intelligence officer in the murky field of espionage, Antonio moved the CIA's most sensitive agents clandestinely through international borders in daring top secret exfiltration operations utilizing his skills in the art of deception and illusion, and creative use of disguise.

I learned from Mendez, at one small-group AFIO gathering in Cleveland, how CIA operatives use hi-tech devices and elaborate strategies to cross borders and infiltrate countries to extract and rescue agents, US citizens, or diplomats undected.

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Likewise, Valerie Plame (Wilson) testified under oath to congress that she was, indeed, a covert CIA case officer, served overseas within the last 5 years, worked undercover and oversaw WMD issues in Iraq. She also testified under oath that she had nothing to do with sending her husband (Wilson) to Niger. It is well-documented in the movie "Fair Game".

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I further advised my friend that his son will need a college degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA. I recommended that he pursue his computer technology interest in college, for behavioral, physical or computer science grads are in high demand by the Intelligence Community (IC). Unlike Hollywood's "Spy Movie" portrayal, few CIA employees are like James Bond (Britain's MI-6) or Plame and Mendez, who both worked in the CIA's Clandestine Services branch. Most CIA careers are a bit more mundane than seen on TV and in the cinemas. A career in the Clandestine Service branch can offer experiences as exciting as some of Jennifer Garner's action scenes (photo left) in the "Alias" TV series. By the way, in Alias, she was recruited on campus during her senior year. The CIA is visiting college campuses, so I told the father to have his son go for an interview.

Yes, most CIA careers are not as exciting as many think, but all are critical in protecting America from harm! For example, if an NRO spy satellite (photo lower right) picks up a conversation from a terrorist training camp that's spoken in the Dari Pashtu language, the CIA can press a computer key and locate fluent Pashtu speakers on their payroll to immediately decipher it.

America will be at war with global terrorism for quite some time, according to the experts. This new war will be comparable to the long-lasting Cold War era. The CIA and the other 16 agencies comprising the IC want technology-savvy young people who grew up with the Web. All analytic and tech jobs in the IC will be critical in protecting America from harm. Hiring data remains classified, but many of the CIA's young recruits forfeited lucrative private sector jobs to work for the CIA at a lower salary. That's patriotism!

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