Indian intelligence Agencies : News & Updates
- Thread starter Ashwin
- Start date
-
- Tags
- intelligence bureau r&aw
Japan and India join 'Five Eyes' alliance to demand backdoor access to encrypted apps
The alliance wants tech firms to add functionality to their apps for governments to view encrypted messaging; but tech giants argue that any such system could be exploited
www.computing.co.uk
The dead professor and the vast pro-India disinformation campaign
A Harvard icon and fake media have been used in a global campaign to serve Indian interests, research reveals.
www.bbc.com
Indian intel agencies hard at work.
They were doing it for 15 years and they found that out now? Seriously. Its like after 15 years you get to know your wife is actually a man!The dead professor and the vast pro-India disinformation campaign
A Harvard icon and fake media have been used in a global campaign to serve Indian interests, research reveals.www.bbc.com
I think its the other way around seems BBC has been compromised by some vested interest. The very idea that western agencies would give Indians a free run and pakistan would not raise any issue about it yeah thats very much plausible in la-la land. To top that there were 100's of fake newspapers and no body took notice of it. It more or less looks like a pakistani accusation of India being behind every attack in pakistan since Independence. You give them a ear they will eat your whole body.
Oh common dont flatter yourself. BBC reported that yesterday without any proof or evidence but some loose names , no arrests or complaint nothing. Then al jazeera picked it up and published it , dont you see the bloody pattern? This is what they are doing right now ! They are doing the very same thing which they accuse others of. Dont fall for it.Indian intel agencies hard at work.
EU NGO report uncovers Indian disinformation campaign
EU DisinfoLab’s report a ‘deep dive into a 15-year operation targeting the EU and UN to serve Indian interests’.
Indian intelligence infiltrated Islamic State ring to track, arrest Afghan suicide bomber sent to hit Delhi
In an audacious counter-intelligence operation, unprecedented in its scale and scope, Indian security agencies infiltrated an Islamic State ring to thwart a bid by an IS Afghan suicide bomber to strike New Delhi. The operation included the Indian “plant” supplying the IS operative with...
www.strategicfront.org
China luring Tibetan refugees in India to work as its spies, Intelligence Bureau warns
IB issues alert that many refugees settled in northeast India are being paid and offered jobs by China in exchange for strategic information. New Delhi: Amid rising India-China tensions along the Line of Actual Control, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has issued a string of alerts warning that...
www.strategicfront.org
Another officer honeytrapped? Army's Lt Colonel posted in Jabalpur detained by counter intelligence wing
New Delhi/Jabalpur: Days after an IAF group captain was arrested for leaking defence secrets allegedly to Pakistan after he was honeytrapped, an Army officer of a Lt Colonel rank was on Wednesday detained in Jabalpur in another honeytrap case. The officer is working in the Jabalpur workshop and...
www.strategicfront.org
40,000 Rohingyas trying to settle down in West Bengal, warn intelligence agencies
New Delhi: Amid a global outcry over the Rohingya crisis, intelligence agencies have now warned of a conspiracy to settle down thousands of Rohingyas in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas districts respectively. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority...
www.strategicfront.org
India busts Malaysia-based outfit’s terror attack plot | India News - Times of India
India News: The Indian intelligence establishment is learnt to have intercepted crucial financial transactions with links to wanted Islamic preacher Zakir Naik su
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
This is one excellent thread, a treasure-trove of valuable, interesting & meaningful information that all concerned Indian citizens should be aware of.
Very interesting discussion.
This guy is desperate to sell his book & either Taklu here is a bigger fool than I thought for believing gori chamdi ( that's fair skin for you Eshwin ) or is desperate for an exclusive.
If we're expected to believe Indian & Paxtani intelligence / NSAs trade messages thru freelance stringers instead of US or Gulf states or Track 2 , Track 3 all the way to infinity , assuming all lines of communication were down , I don't know who's the bigger fool here ?
Btw - isn't this speculation too , going exclusively by your exalted standards or does Gupta Uncle get a free pass for rambling on & on .
This here is a wonderful award winning documentary about the Shin Bet the Israeli counterpart of IB ( IB is restricted only to Intelligence Gathering & Surveillance whereas the Shin Bet is also charged with espionage & counter espionage within Israel apart from the functions the IB undertakes ) charged with much more responsibilities & hence much more powerful including having a say in National Security.
The conversation between Adrian Levy & S Gupta above veered around to the topic of The Gatekeepers & reminded me of this documentary I'd seen a long time ago . Don't miss it !!
MI6, CIA chiefs and Russia’s Security Council secretary make beeline for India
MI6, CIA chiefs and Russia’s Security Council secretary make beeline for India
The visits came against the backdrop of the old guard of the Taliban tightening its grip on power in Afghanistan a little more than two weeks after the group marched into Kabul on August 15, following the chaotic collapse of the Ashraf Ghani government.
What is ‘Five Eyes’, the intelligence alliance US wants South Korea, India, Japan to be part of
New Delhi: The United States of America seeks to invite South Korea to join the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence-sharing alliance, according to a report in The Korea Herald.This comes days after a US House of Representatives panel approved the National Defense Authorisation bill for fiscal year 2022, on 2 September, before the House of Representatives votes on it.
First introduced on 2 July by Representatives Adam Smith and Mike Rogers, the bill is primarily meant to officially authorise funding for American military activities & the armed forces for the next fiscal year. This also includes the potential of continued support for intelligence sharing operations with US allies, including member nations of the Five Eyes.
The Five Eyes alliance found mention in the congressional Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations’ report reviewing Smith and Rogers’ draft bill.
“The committee believes that, in confronting great power competition [from China and Russia], the Five Eye countries must work closer together, as well as expand the circle of trust to other like-minded democracies”, the report said. Along with Korea, three other countries — Japan, India and Germany — were proposed as possible new members.
If passed by the US House of Representatives and the Senate, and signed by President Joe Biden, the National Defense Authorisation bill for fiscal year 2022 will lead to the official expansion of the ‘Five Eyes’ to the ‘Nine Eyes’.
However, the South Korean government is yet to express its “official stance” on a potential expansion of the Five Eyes and cited that the level of discussions in the US remain “nascent”, The Korea Herald report says.
‘Five Eyes’
The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance consisting of the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The origins of the Five Eyes can be traced back to the informal meetings between the US and UK code-breakers during the Second World War.In 1941, British and American intelligence members began engaging in secret meetings before signing the Atlantic Charter that August, which listed global objectives for the two countries beyond the conclusion of the war.
According to the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), this Charter paved the way for the Britain-USA agreement, and later the UKUSA agreement, which was signed in 1946.
Declassified UKUSA intelligence documents confirm that the agreement was expanded to include Canada in 1948, and Australia and New Zealand in 1956, thereby creating the Five Eyes alliance, partly due to past shared Commonwealth heritage.
Five Eyes & Cold War
The alliance was created during the Cold War that was fought between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies.Throughout the Cold War, covert intelligence operations were commonplace, and often the main currency for the parties involved. As such, alliances needed to share sensitive information regarding their adversaries on all possible fronts available.
In the case of Five Eyes, Political Science professor Andrew O’Neil says the alliance members engaged in “ocean surveillance, covert action, human intelligence collection and counterintelligence”, as well as the ECHELON surveillance programme since the 1960s.
The Five Eyes countries also frequently shared intelligence with other allied nations in Europe and Asia, also known as “third parties”, during the Cold War.
For instance, Japan shared military signals with the United States from the 1969 Sino-Soviet conflict as well as the 1979 Soviet-led invasion of Afghanistan, Japanese historian Ken Kotani said in the East Asia Forum.
Push to include other countries
Following the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the strategic objectives of the Five Eyes changed, with the war on terror and later the perceived threats of China and Russia emerging as points of intelligence and spheres of influence.As such, the potential to expand the Five Eyes beyond the Anglosphere has been repeatedly talked about in recent years.
For instance, US lawmakers in 2013 requested the then president Barack Obama to include Germany in the alliance, according to a report by Deutsche Welle.
In 2019, a US Congressional Committee led by Representative Adam Schiff pushed for the integration of India, Japan and South Korea at par with ‘Five Eyes’ for intelligence sharing so as to maintain peace in the Indo-Pacific region.
In 2020, India and Japan had joined the Five Eyes nations in a joint appeal to tech companies to permit “backdoor access” to encrypted applications on smartphones.
What is 'Five Eyes', the intelligence alliance US wants South Korea, India, Japan to be part of
The Five Eyes is an intelligence-sharing alliance consisting of the US, UK, Australia, Canada & New Zealand. The origins of the Five Eyes can be traced back to WWII.
theprint.in