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129 2020.Pdf THETHE COVERTCOVERT WORLDWORLD OFOF ESPIONAGEESPIONAGE ® INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE £4.25 NUMBER 129 2020 •MOSSAD & UNIT 8200 •EDWARD SNOWDEN • COZY BEAR CYBER MENACE •UAE-ISRAEL ACCORDS •RUSSIA INTERFERENCE •MI9 WWII OPERATIONS •WEAPONISING SPACE •FBI COUNTER-ESPIONAGE STING •IRAN SPY GAMES THE MI6 SPYMASTER COVID-19 VACCINE 13 GRU Cyber Group APT28 - Cozy Bear - in Worldwide Hunt for Advanced Research 18 Richard Moore CHASING THE HOLY GRAIL UK Foreign Intelligence Service - New Chief EXTREME PREJUDICE HOUSE OF SPIES 48 26 New Novichok Sanction Intelligence hands behind attempted CHINA INTEL FOCUS assassination of Kremlin critic Navalny WIZARDS OF FEAR 52 56 THE A-Z LANGUAGE OF SPIES The secret Kremlin intel programme targeting US troops in Afghanistan EDWARD SNOWDEN THE INSPECTOR White House 71 Opens Gateway to America for NSA Leaks More rogue Russian satellite activity Man monitored by West 31 2 EYE SPY INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE 129 2020 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ “Russia poses the greatest military and geopolitical threat to European EYE SPY 129 security. China is increasingly authoritarian and assertive. It poses the greatest threat to world order...” ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ VOLUME XVII NUMBER ONE 2020 (ISSUE 129) Lt. General Hockenhull, UK Chief of Defence Intelligence ISSN 1364 8446 publication date: SEPT/OCT 2020 FRONT COVER MAIN IMAGE: GETTY CHINA AND RUSSIA: ESPIONAGE, INFLUENCE & PROPAGANDA Established December 2000 Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause major disruption, distress and sorrow around the world, the great game of espionage is still being played. Intelligence is a 24-hour-a-day highly specialised field that for a multitude of reasons will always remain active, though here too agencies have had to alter work practices and put a hold on planned operations - though not all. Alternatively, the coronavirus has opened new MAJOR CONTENT GUIDE opportunities for some rogue agencies, spies, and sadly terrorists. 4 THE CIA OFFICER AND HARRY DUNN Eye Spy examines the burgeoning activities of the world’s biggest spy network controlled by China’s Ministry of State Security. From the United States to Australia, UK and US establish new agreement in wake of accident which countries have been impacted by operations launched by China, this as Beijing seeks killed civilian Harry Dunn and CIA officer’s claim of immunity to expand its global prowess. From stealing technology to influencing political players, 6 JULIAN ASSANGE the MSS is rarely out of the news. In recent months, its military activities in the South The extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange China Seas has led the CIA to submit reports that conflict is now a real possibility. begins in London as “suicide fears” referenced Not far behind China is Russia. Its recent spy operations resulted in numerous expul- 10 CHARLIE HEBDO sions of ‘diplomats’ from Europe and elsewhere. And sadly, one agency, according to Fourteen people accused of involvement in the 2015 Charlie highly placed intelligence sources, has again engaged in an incident involving the deadly Hebdo newspaper attack go on trial in Paris Novichok nerve agent. Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was the target in this case, but by good fortune and expert medical treatment in Berlin, he survived. 12 VIENNA SPY GAMES Austria has accused Turkey’s intelligence agency MiT of Staying in Russia, there are rumours circulating aplenty that the White House is seeking running a network of spies in the country to open a gateway for the return of whistleblowing NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who resides in Moscow. President Trump has said that Snowden’s actions are not as 13 MI6 APPOINTS NEW ‘C’ bad as those of some former senior intelligence officials. Interesting months lie ahead. Britain’s foreign intelligence service has appointed experienced Richard Moore as new ‘C’, dashing hopes of first female Chief In other intel theatres, the Abraham Accords signed by the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain 16 CODENAME MADELEINE and Israel to normalise relations in the Middle East has been hailed as a “game changer.” So too the nearing peace agreement between the Taliban and Afghan Government. A blue plaque honouring the WWII work of SOE operative Indian Muslim Noor Inayat Khan is erected in London MARK BIRDSALL, MANAGING EDITOR 22 BRENTON TARRANT Right-wing terrorist Brenton Tarrant who killed over 50 people in Christchurch is jailed for life with no possibility of parole 24 THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS The United Arab Emirates, Israel and Bahrain sign historic agreement as embassies and ambassadors to be assigned 28 THE CORE 6 16 22 35 British Intelligence advice leads to U-turn by Government over use of Huawei technology in country’s 5-G network HEADLINERS 36 MOSSAD AND UNIT 8200 Israeli intelligence accused of engaging in new operations in Iran as tensions rise in the Gulf 44 THE RUSSIAN REPORT An intelligence report is released on Russian influence and propaganda operations in Britain 48 EXTREME PREJUDICE 48 68 69 72 Russia’s GRU accused of attempting to kill Putin opponent Alexei Navalny in new Novichok attack •6 Julian Assange •16 Noor Inayat Khan •22 Brenton Tarrant 56 THE WIZARDS OF FEAR •35 Peter Dzibinski Debbins •48 Alexei Navalny •68 Lars Findsen The CIA investigate claims Russia and Iran have been paying •69 Jimmy Lai •72 Sergei Surovikin rogue Taliban groups to kill US servicemen in Afghanistan INTELLIGENCE CHOICE 67 FBI STING OPERATION Undercover FBI agents trap former CIA officer who was A MAJOR PLAYER IN WWII ESPIONAGE supplying China with key intelligence istorian Helen Fry presents an engaging and 68 SIDELINED H indepth new overview of the work of WWII Denmark has suspended its spy chief Lars Findsen and two British intelligence agency - MI9. This extremely other officers for unauthorised surveillance important organisation assisted the escape of many prisoners of war, but unbeknown to most, it also played a 69 CHINA ARRESTS KEY MEDIA MAN key role in intelligence collection, distribution and Police in Hong Kong have arrested the territory’s main media espionage, which has rarely been recognised... until now. opponent to tough new security laws - Jimmy Lai EYE SPY is published eight times a year by Eye Spy Publishing Ltd. All rights A truly fresh appraisal using previously classified files and reserved. No part of EYE SPY may be reproduced by any means wholly or in part, information sourced from many key people and without the prior permission of the publisher. Not to be resold, lent, hired out or organisations. disposed of by trade at more than the recommended retail price. Registered Company No. 4145 963 Registered for VAT. ISSN 1473-4362 •73 MI9 ESCAPE AND EVASION EYE SPY INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE 129 2020 3 AMAZON AND NSA EX-NSA DIRECTOR APPOINTED BY INTERNET GIANT mazon has appointed former National Security A Agency Director Keith Alexander to its board of directors. Alexander will serve on the company’s Audit Committee, the web-based retail giant said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Keith Alexander Alexander was at the helm of the Agency when NSA contractor Alexander, a retired four-star US Edward Snowden leaked thou- Army general, served as NSA sands of secret documents in Director from 2005 until his June 2013. These revealed retirement in 2014. A few months numerous intelligence later he moved into private programmes and how data is cybersecurity and became collected from around the world. President and co-CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity. Snowden tweeted about Amazon’s announcement, As for Snowden, rumours INTELLIGENCE claiming Alexander was ‘person- continue to circulate that President ally responsible for the unlawful Trump is considering granting him REVIEW•NEWS•DIGEST mass surveillance programmes a pardon. See page 31 - Edward that caused a global scandal’. Snowden - Gateway to USA? BEHIND CLOSED DOORS UK AND USA AGREE TO END ‘EXTENDED’ IMMUNITY nne Sacoolas, the CIA Charlotte and Timothy, were told extradition order submitted by the officer who killed UK by the Director of Public Prosecu- Home Office was rejected by US A civilian Harry Dunn, tions that Anne Sacoolas “did not Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. 19, by dangerous have diplomatic immunity,” and driving last August, could still face that the suspect should not have In July, a change of law to end trial. Sacoolas returned to the been allowed to leave the country. anomalies involving diplomatic United States a few weeks after immunity came after UK Premier Harry Dunn the incident claiming diplomatic In December 2019, Sacoolas was Boris Johnson and Foreign Pompeo in London. Raab immunity. She has rejected charged by British Police, but an Secretary Dominic Raab met with welcomed the decision: “This has previous calls to appear before a closed the anomaly that led to the UK court in person, but Attorney denial of justice in the heartbreak- General Suella Braverman is ing case of Harry Dunn.” considering trying her in absentia. The move was revealed by Justice A US State Department spokes- Secretary Robert Buckland, who man said the change, “reflects our said senior law makers are especially close relationship with discussing the option. the UK.” Interestingly, the law change is not retrospective. Sacoolas’s husband (also an intelligence officer) worked at a A legal official told Eye Spy that if USAF listening station at RAF the incident involving Harry Dunn Croughton in Northamptonshire, happened today, the accused and held a diplomatic post, thus at would be liable to arrest by police. the time was allowed to extend his immunity to his spouse. This The Dunn’s actually met with agreement was considered President Trump at the White “secret,” according to some 21 July 2020. UK Prime Minister and US Secretary of State Mike House last October. However, they sources. However, on 10 Pompeo in the gardens of Downing Street. The case of Harry Dunn declined his offer to meet with September 2020, Dunn’s parents, and a law change to immunity was discussed and agreed upon Anne Sacoolas on US soil.
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