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3•6 Paul Nakasone • Sergei Skripal •22 Mohammad Ali Jafari
•26 Bashar al-Assad •31 Gina Haspel •49 Benjamin Netanyahu
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VOLUME XV NUMBER THREE 2018 (ISSUE 115)
ISSN 1364 8446 publication date: MAY 2018
FRONT COVER MAIN IMAGE: MOD/CROWN COPYRIGHTINTELLIGENCE CHOICET
14 PARLIAMENT SPIES
A historical focus on several spies who penetrated the inner
workings of Parliament
IRAN’S QUEST FOR THE ULTIMATE WEAPON21 LONG ARM OF THE MOSSAD
Israel held responsible for the assassination of a Hamas UAV
expert in Kuala Lumpur2222
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(^26) SYRIAN WMD STRIKE
US, UK and France respond with missile strikes following an
alleged Syria gas attack on civilians
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LOCK-ON
A look at how the PIRA and Libya opened secret routes to
transport weaponry during The Troubles
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24 LANGLEY’S NEIGHBOURS
A fascinating story from inside the CIA of two women who were
allowed to live on the grounds of Langley
he Mossad is a legendary spy organisation feared for its prowess and
willingness to engage in the dark arts, but also respected for its ability
to perform operations beyond the scope of most
EYE SPY INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE 115 2018
4 ALL CHANGE AT MI5 AND MI
Britain’s foreign intelligence service set to appoint its first
female Chief as more women recruited by spy agencies
6 THE FOUR HORSEMEN
NSA appoint new director as communication and listening
agency focus on more cyber intelligence threats
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KOREAN ENCOUNTER
The CIA’s remarkable operation to bring together the two
Koreas and stop the North’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb
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(^22) IRAN CYBER CELL
FBI indicts several Iranian cyber specialists as US Intelligence
penetrate and dismantle electronic spy cell
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THE RUSSIAN ASSASSINATION LIST
30 ALL CHANGE AT LANGLEY
The CIA appoints its first-ever Director, but controversy ensues
following her links to Extraordinary Rendition Black Sites
45 INVISIBLE ARMS RACE
How quantum computing is changing the way electronic
intelligence is collected and analysed
52 SPY EXCHANGE
Eye Spy examines the covert world and methodology behind
spy exchanges - 10 classic examples
BURN AFTER READING
Foreign Office instructions secretly dispensed to various
departments reveal a history of spy encounters
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(^41) POISON DEDUCTION
A look at various methods used by assassins in the
intelligence world to eliminate adversaries and opponents
THE DECEPTIVE FACTOR PART 12
Mike Finn examines interrogation methods and Human
Intelligence (HUMINT) in the intelligence cycle
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Sergei Skripal: “The measures we have taken will
fundamentally degrade Russian Intelligence capability
in the UK for years to come...” Prime Minister Theresa May
I’ve often been asked, ‘does the Russian List really exist?’ My
response has always been in the affirmative, though this does not
necessarily mean the file, which we learned of five years ago, is not a
one-off document. Eye Spy was the first publication to reference the
document which surfaced in the former Yugoslavia. We were told it
contained the names of around 100 spies, politicians, businessmen,
entrepreneurs and others working in financial arenas who were
regarded as ‘enemies of the state’. Some lived in Russia, but many
were based outside the country, including a fair number in the UK
and United States.
We could not prove the list was authentic or produced by a state agency in Russia, but
gradually our interest increased as the number of deaths and attempted assassina-
tions linked to the file grew. Thus did it surprise anyone in the intelligence business
when a former KGB man and MI6 spy was targeted in southern England? Not really.
However, the circumstances surrounding the targeting of Sergei Skripal were
extraordinary and could have affected so many innocent civilians.
Relevant to all of this, spy organisations in the UK and USA have joined forces to
probe what we were told, is a ‘Russian List’ that can be added to or amended
accordingly. A clue to the authenticity that such a list exists can be found in an under-
reported official US document which surfaced earlier this year in Washington DC, and
is discussed in our extensive investigation and summary of the Skripal Sanction.
Also of much interest to the planners of intelligence operations, though both very
different, the CIA’s carefully crafted back-channel which paved the way for a meeting
between the two Koreas, and the Mossad’s daring raid on a warehouse in Tehran
containing its nuclear secrets. Both are examined by Eye Spy specialists.
MARK BIRDSALL, MANAGING EDITOR
(^49) DECEPTION AND LIES
Israel presents evidence of Iran’s covert nuclear weapons and
a Mossad operation which defies belief
intelligence services.
And in 2016, it embarked upon one of the most audacious
journey’s ever undertaken by The Institute. In this case
agents surveilled the comings and goings at a non-descript
warehouse in Tehran. Here it learned Iran stored its nuclear
secrets - away from the prying eyes of inspectors. In early
2017, operatives broke into the building and secured over
100,000 papers which many believe is proof Iran
continues to seek a nuclear bomb...