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The Dregs of the Data Mine – Reality TV?

“300” writer Michael Gordon has sold a spooky surveillance project to NBC. The idea was spawned by the controversial U.S electronic eavesdropping apparatus ECHELON, a program that supposedly captures virtually all data signals for analysis at a central hub in West Virginia.

These millions of video, audio and data files are then disseminated to various federal and local law enforcement agencies for further investigation.

Now here’s the twist from the show’s logline: “There is, however, less than 1% of the data that nobody wants to touch. These are the classified video files that seem to have captured the unexplainable.”

The show will center on a fictional team called G.H.O.S.T. (Global Hierarchical Observation Strategy Taskforce) whose assignment it is to investigate this paranormal data. (more)

By on 09/10/2010

Spy Rule-Book Update

The US Army updated its 17-year-old rule book on espionage to specifically require that troops alert authorities if they suspect classified leaks to the media.

The revision seems aimed at the service’s WikiLeaks debacle. Earlier this year, an Army intelligence analyst was charged with providing a classified video to WikiLeaks, an anti-war organisation that describes itself as a government whistleblower. (more)

By on 07/10/2010

Bugs in the Coffin

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. (more)
Note to D.R.: Please start your book.

By on 06/10/2010