Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA) Marine Corps Midrange Threat Estimate: 2005-2015, written at the For Official Use Only level, 104 printed pages.
Countries covered:
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On May 29, 2006 the world’s fastest growing mud-volcano, “Lusi”, formed in East Java. The volcano burried the surrounding land in mud 10m deep, rendering nearly 40,000 Indonesians homeless. Damage was reported at $3bil.
The mud volcano was almost certainly caused by the oil company Lapindo, which had been drilling nearby.
The two confidential files in this series were obtained by Al Jazeera in the course of producing a formidable report into the causes of the volcano.
The files are geological reports into the causes of the volcano.
Both reports attribute the probable cause to the drilling.
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Haraz press releases NATO report on civilian deaths
A confidential NATO report from January reveals that civilian deaths from the war in Afghanistan have increased by 46% over the past year.
The 12 page report was authenticated and released in full today by Wikileaks.
The report shows a dramatic escalation of the war and civil disorder. Coalition deaths increased by 35%, assassinations and kidnappings by 50% and attacks on the Kabul based Government of Hamid Karzai also more than doubled, rising a massive 119%.
The report highlights huge increases on attacks aimed at Coalition forces, including a 27 % increase in IED attacks, a 40%. rise in rifle and rocket fire and an increase in surface to air fire of 67%.
According to the report, outside of the capital Kabul only one in two families had access to even the most basic health care, and only one in two children had access to a school.
The disclosure follows the unrelated arrest of Colonel Owen McNally earlier this month for passing older civilian death toll figures to Human Rights Watch analyst and former BBC radio reporter Rachel Reid. Human Rights Watch published a report based around that data, which covered 2006-2007, last September.[1]
The London Times, stated that American military officials were “seething” over the leaks.
A UK Ministry of Defence source reportedly told the Daily Mail:
Wikileaks legal spokesperson Jay Lim stated “We deplore the arrest of Colonel McNally for revealing civilian death figures. It is clear that Col. McNally’s actions are of the highest moral calibre. His example has encouraged others to step forward.”
NATO is not likely to find Wikileaks’ source so readily. The site uses state of the art anonymization technologies, and the identity of its sources are protected under the Swedish Press Freedom Act.[3]
In January Wikileaks quashed a South African Government investigation after warning it would seek to have the prosecutors charged and extradited to face trial before Swedish courts.[4][5].
United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (UN OIOS) 27 Feb 2006 report titled “Investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and abuse of authority by a former staff member [ID Case No. 0098-05]” relating to the Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East. The report runs to 21 printed
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Secret Israeli database reveals full extent of illegal settlement
In late January, WikiLeaks released a 186 page secret Israeli Ministry of Defense database, which showed the full extent of illegal Israeli settlements in Gaza and the West Bank. A version of the document had first been obtained by the well regarded Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The leak made headlines, but its global political impact was limited by its presentation in Hebrew.
Subsequently the United States commissioned the Central Intelligence Agency’s Open Source Center to translate the leak to English. The translation was not released by the CIA, but a copy was obtained by Stephen Aftergood, editor of the US based Federation of American Scientist’s Secrecy News and is presented here.
According to Haaretz, “An analysis of the data reveals that, in the vast majority of the settlements – about 75 percent – construction, sometimes on a large scale, has been carried out without the appropriate permits or contrary to the permits that were issued,”, and “The database also shows that, in more than 30 settlements, extensive construction of buildings and infrastructure (roads, schools, synagogues, yeshivas and even police stations) has been carried out on private lands belonging to Palestinian West Bank residents.”
US Transportation Security Administration unredacted manual for flight and other screening procedures. This TSA manual was released by the TSA in an incompetantly redacted form—cut and paste the blacked out regions revealed the redacted text. The previously redacted regions were highlighed and sent to the New York based anti-secrecy site Cryptome.org. The TSA removed the manual from public access on December 7, 2009.
British Army briefing document, released to all personnel, detailing the actions taken by the MoD, following the inquiry into unlawful killings of three soldiers at Deepcut Barracks.
Note that the MoD continues to oppose a public inquiry.
From: Thomas Harding (Telegraph)[1]
In a breach of its own security the MoD was left embarrassed after its advice on keeping information out of the hands of Russian and Chinese spies, investigative journalists and “curious members of the public” was posted online.
The Defence Manual of Security describes methods of countering the threat from “subversive or terrorist organisations” and investigative journalists.
It also sets out tactics for preventing Chinese and Russian intelligence services from using blackmail or gadgets to obtain sensitive information.
The three-volume, 560,000-word guide – marked “Restricted” – was released on the Wikileaks website, which campaigns for freedom of information.
“The consequences of leaks of official information are considered serious when they undermine government policy or cause embarrassment to the government,” it said.
It comes as the latest figures show almost 700 MoD laptops and 200 memory sticks have been lost or stolen in the past four years with the most recent containing personal details of 600,000 military recruits.
The manual warned of “disaffected staff” leaking information to journalists or information getting out “simply by accident or carelessness”.
The document branded Chinese intelligence activity “widespread”, with a “voracious appetite for all kinds of information”.
While China was “at least a generation behind the West” in key military areas, it was trying to “acquire illegally the technology that will enable them to catch up”.
“The real danger is that they will then produce advanced weapons systems which they will sell to unstable regimes.”
The document also warned against “sexual involvement” should be avoided to avoid blackmail when officers are working abroad.
The Chinese were described as “expert flatterers”, who were “well aware of the ‘softening’ effect of food and alcohol”.
“Under cover of consultation or lecturing, a visitor may be given favours, advantageous economic conditions or commercial opportunities.
“In return they will be expected to give information or access to material.”
On the Russian intelligence threat, the manual said: “We know it sounds like a spy movie, but as well as having wide networks of agents and informers, the FSB (Russian security service) makes extensive use of sophisticated technical devices.
“In the main hotels all telephones can be tapped and in some rooms visual or photographic surveillance can be carried out, if necessary using infrared cameras to take photographs in the dark.”
The MoD said the manual was an “old” paper dating from 2001.
“The document is marked ‘Restricted’ as current MoD policy is to keep our security policies and procedures private but the publication of an old version of this document does not raise significant security concerns,” a MoD spokesman said.
5th July 2010 5:00 PM EST has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related details.
The document collection is available on a dedicated webpage.
The reports cover most units from the US Army with the exception of most US Special Forces’ activities. The reports do not generally cover top secret operations or European and other ISAF Forces operations.
We have delayed the release of some 15,000 reports from the total archive as part of a harm minimization process demanded by our source. After further review, these reports will be released, with occasional redactions, and eventually in full, as the security situation in Afghanistan permits.
The data is provided in HTML (web), CSV (comma-separated values) and SQL (database) formats, and was rendered into KML (Keyhole Markup Language) mapping data that can be used with Google Earth. Please note that the checksums will change.
This classified CIA analysis from March outlines possible PR strategies to shore up public support in Germany and France for a continued war in Afghanistan. After the Dutch government fell on the issue of Dutch troops in Afghanistan last month, the CIA became worried that similar events could happen in the countries that post the third and fourth largest troop contingents to the ISAF mission. The proposed PR strategies focus on pressure points that have been identified within these countries. For France it is the sympathy of the public for Afghan refugees and women. For Germany it is the fear of the consequences of defeat (drugs, more refugees, terrorism) as well as for Germany’s standing in NATO. The memo is a recipe for the targeted manipulation of public opinion in two NATO ally countries, written by the CIA. It is classified as Confidential/No Foreign Nationals.
