The Gates of Hell

A few interesting tidbits for the UFO crowd…

Source: NSA Technical Journal Articles

• Emergency Destruction of Documents - April 1956 - Vol. I, No. 1
• Development of Automatic Telegraph Swithing Systems - July 1957 - Vol. II, No. 3
• Chatter Patterns: A Last Resort - October 1957 - Vol. II, No. 4
• Introduction to Traffic Analysis - April 1958 - Vol. III, No. 2
• Signals from Outer Space - April 1958 - Vol. III, No. 2
• Science and Cryptology - July 1958 - Vol. III, No. 3
• A New Concept in Computing - December 1958 - Vol. III, No. 4
• About NSA - January 1959 - Vol. IV, No. 1
• Antipodal Propagation - January 1959 - Vol. IV, No. 1
• Data Transmission Over Telephone Circuits - January 1959 - Vol. IV, No. 1
• Soviet Science and Technology: Present Levels and Future Prospects - January 1959 - Vol. IV, No. 1
• A Program for Correcting Spelling Errors - October 1959 - Vol. IV, No. 4
• The Borders of Cryptology - October 1959 - Vol. IV, No. 4
• Did Aleksandr Popov Invent Radio? - January 1960 - Vol. V, No. 1
• Book Review: Lost Languages - Fall 1960 - Vol. V. Nos. 3 & 4
• Book Review: Lincos, Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Part 1 - Winter 1962 - Vol. VII, No. 1
• A Cryptologic Fairy Tale - Spring 1962 - Vol. VII, No. 2
• Aristocrat - An Intelligence Test for Computers - Spring 1962 - Vol. VII, No. 2
• Why Analog Computation? - Summer 1962 - Vol. VII, No. 3
• Book Review: Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision - Winter 1963 - Vol. VIII, No. 1
• Soviet Communications Journals as Sources of Intelligence - August 1964 - Vol. IX, No. 3
• Something May Rub Off! - Winter 1965 - Vol. X, No. 1
• Time Is - Time Was - Time Is Past Computes for Intelligence - Winter 1965 - Vol. X, No. 1
• Communications with Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Winter 1966 - Vol. XI, No. 1
• Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Spring 1966 - Vol. XI, No. 2
• The Library and the User - Spring 1968 - Vol. XIII, No. 2
• Mokusatsu: One Word, Two Lessons - Fall 1968 - Vol. XIII, No. 4
• Key to The Extraterrestrial Messages - Winter 1969 - Vol. XIV, No. 1
• Earliest Applications of the Computer at NSA - Winter 1973 - Vol. XVIII, No. 1

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Source: Los Angeles Times

Western anti-terrorism officials are increasingly concerned that Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shiite Muslim militia that Washington has labeled a terrorist group, is using Venezuela as a base for operations.

Linked to deadly attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina in the early 1990s, Hezbollah may be taking advantage of Venezuela’s ties with Iran, the militia’s longtime sponsor, to move “people and things” into the Americas, as one Western government terrorism expert put it.

As part of his anti-American foreign policy, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has established warm diplomatic relations with Iran and has traveled there several times. The Bush administration, Israel and other governments worry that Venezuela is emerging as a base for anti-U.S. militant groups and spy services, including Hezbollah and its Iranian allies.

“It’s becoming a strategic partnership between Iran and Venezuela,” said a Western anti-terrorism official who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the issue’s sensitivity.

Several joint Venezuelan-Iranian business operations have been set up in Venezuela, including tractor, cement and auto factories. In addition, the two countries have formed a $2-billion program to fund social projects in Venezuela and elsewhere in Latin America.

Those deepening ties worry U.S. officials because Iranian spies around the world have been known to work with Hezbollah operatives, sometimes using Iranian embassies as cover, Western intelligence experts say.

In June, Assistant Secretary of State Thomas A. Shannon said Iran “has a history of terror in this hemisphere, and its linkages to the bombings in Buenos Aires are pretty well established.”

“One of our broader concerns is what Iran is doing elsewhere in this hemisphere and what it could do if we were to find ourselves in some kind of confrontation with Iran,” Shannon said.

Fears about the threat from Hezbollah’s global networks intensified after the slaying in February of Imad Mughniyah, a notorious leader of the militia, in Damascus, the Syrian capital. Hezbollah and Iran accused Israel and promised revenge, putting Western authorities on guard against attacks on Israeli or Jewish targets around the world.

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I said this last week, that what we are seeing is the beginning of a new cold war…

Source: FT.com

David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, led a chorus of support for Ukraine on Wednesday as western fears rose of possible Russian attempts to build on its victory in Georgia by threatening other neighbouring states.

Speaking during a visit to Kiev, he called on the European Union and Nato to prepare for “hard-headed engagement” with Moscow following its military action in Georgia. “The Russian president says he’s not afraid of a new cold war. We don’t want one. He has a big responsibility not to start one,” he said.

Mr Miliband’s remarks coincided with warnings from Bernard Kouchner, French foreign minister, Olli Rehn, EU enlargement commissioner, and Carl Bildt, Swedish foreign minister.

They were all speaking after Moscow’s recognition on Tuesday of the independence of the breakaway Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the first effort to redraw international borders in the former Soviet Union since its 1991 collapse.

Source: The Guardian

Russia was last night on another collision course with the west after Russian MPs voted unanimously to back independence for Georgia’s two breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The move - which requires the approval of Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev - gives a strong domestic legal basis for the Kremlin to take control of the areas after Russia’s invasion of Georgia this month.

Russia’s upper house, or Federation Council, voted by 130-0 to call on Medvedev to support South Ossetia and Abkhazia’s independence. The Duma passed the same motion by 447-0. Both houses are known for their slavish loyalty to the Kremlin.

The US and the EU swiftly denounced the vote. George Bush said he was “deeply concerned” by the move, and the White House said the vice-president, Dick Cheney, would visit Tbilisi next week. The EU said the breakaway regions should remain in Georgia. The German government called the move “in no way appropriate to either calming or defusing tensions”.

But there were strong signs last night that Moscow remains unmoved by the threat of western sanctions, which have been growing since Russia invaded Georgia after Georgia’s military incursion into South Ossetia this month.

The US, France, Britain and other EU countries are considering punitive measures. These include ending Nato cooperation with Moscow, freezing Russia’s application to join the World Trade Organisation, and suspending its participation in G8 summits.

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Source: Telegraph

One of the group said he was “going to shoot Obama”, who is in Denver, Colorado, for the Democratic National Convention, “from a high vantage point using a rifle sighted at 750 yards”.

Police said that one of the suspects “was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama. He responded in the affirmative”.

The shooting was planned for Thursday, when Mr Obama is set to accept the nomination as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate for the November election at the 75,000-seat Invesco stadium.

Tharin Gartrell, 28, who was wanted on numerous warrants, was arrested on Sunday after police found two high-powered rifles, boxes of ammunition, a rifle scope, a bullet-proof vest, walkie-talkies and methamphetamine in a rented truck he was driving.

Gartrell then led police to a hotel, where a second man, Shawn Robert Adolph, 33, tried to jump out of a sixth-storey window. After landing on an awning and trying to escape with a broken ankle, Adolph, who had a handcuff ring and was wearing a swastika, according to reports, was eventually arrested.

An associate of Gartrell and Adolph, Nathan Johnson, 32, and his girlfriend, Natasha Gromek, were also arrested. Johnson is understood to have told authorities that the two men “planned to kill Barack Obama at his acceptance speech.”

It is thought the men may have ties to Sons of Silence, an outlaw biker group, with suspected connections with white supremacists. However, federal sources have said that the incident may have had more to do with drugs than with a plot to assassinate Mr Obama, despite local police claims.

The federal officials said that the verbal threats against Mr Obama were made during one of the arrests, but were not considered credible. “It could turn out that these were nothing but a bunch of knuckleheads, meth heads,” a US government source has claimed.

The US Attorney’s Office in Denver has scheduled a press conference to discuss the incident, but Attorney Troy Eid said he did not believe there was a real threat to Mr Obama.

The alleged plot was being investigated by the Secret Service, which is co-ordinating security for the Democratic Party convention, as well as the FBI and the joint terrorism task force.

Mr Obama has been under Secret Service protection for over a year after receiving credible death threats.