Tasmania, Australia –
An overnight break-in in which burglars ransacked Aurora Energy’s Hobart head office has puzzled police and company chiefs.
Only the second-floor commercial section of Aurora was targeted by the thieves, who cracked a secret safe and stole a small sum of cash.
Computers were accessed and documents strewn across the office…
Police have not ruled out corporate espionage as a possible reason for the break-in, which occurred either late on Monday night or in the early hours of yesterday…
Professor John McFarlane, from the Australian National University’s Centre for Excellence in Policing and Security, said yesterday industrial espionage was not uncommon in the business world. “There have been very few prosecutions in Australia for this sort of activity, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening,” Prof McFarlane said. (
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Canada – At the time of his kidnapping by the FLQ, Pierre Laporte was being monitored by the police as part of a probe into the Montreal Mafia that went as far as planting a microphone in his coffin after his murder, according to stunning revelations by a retired SĂ»retĂ© du QuĂ©bec wiretapping expert.
Claude LavallĂ©e, who pioneered wiretapping techniques in Quebec in the late 1960s, said in a book to be released Wednesday (RĂ©vĂ©lations d’un espion de la SQ / Revelations of an SQ Spy – ISBN 13: 9782761927048) that the murder of the Liberal minister in October 1970 by the Front de LibĂ©ration du QuĂ©bec put an end to the investigation.
The author even claims that
wiretaps caught a leading organized crime figure offering the Mafia’s help in finding Mr. Laporte before he was killed. (
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Note to D.R.: Please start your book.
Hi Folks,
I am off to the Espionage Research Institute annual convention in Washington, DC this week and will be speaking on SDR (Software Defined Radio) as it applies to counterespionage and eavesdropping detection.
This is the one time each year when eavesdropping detection specialists from all over the world gather to trade knowledge and socialize. It should be fun and I will report “the latest” next week when I return.
In the meantime, entries into Kevin’s Security Scrapbook may be lean. Hang in there. It should be worth the wait. Have a cup of coffee.
Be seeing you,
Kevin
