The Black-Market Battleground
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/10/17/the_black_market_battleground_syria_iraq_isis
“What we have from the satellite imagery is that there is industrial-scale looting all over Syria,” said Danti, a leader of an American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) project that in August received U.S. State Department funding to document cultural heritage threats in Syria. During the U.N. General Assembly meeting in September, Secretary of State John Kerry personally thanked Danti in a speech at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the project expanded into Iraq.
It’s often difficult to definitively determine who is responsible for an instance of looting. Both the Syrian government and rebel groups have taken part, as have locals in both Syria and Iraq whose livelihoods have been disrupted by the conflict. Satellite images and informants on the ground often can’t keep up with the pace of looting and of the exchange of territory between various groups.
Nonetheless, it’s clear that the scale of the Islamic State’s destruction, looting, and profits from antiquities trafficking is “unprecedented,” Danti said.
ASOR’s Syrian Heritage Initiative uses satellite images such as these, taken at a site in Syria on January 2012 and March 2014, to understand where and on what scale looting is taking place. Click on each photo to see a larger version.
Just How Far Will the Empire Strike Back ?
▻http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/08/28/just_how_far_will_the_empire_strike_back
j’ai justement évoqué cette possibilité [de continuité territoriale] dans un post seenthis un peu plus tôt ce matin [et foreign Policiy parle ici d’axe d’expansion...]
Throughout the crisis in eastern Ukraine, a persistent mystery has complicated efforts to resolve a standoff that has erupted into open warfare: What does Russian President Vladimir Putin want?
In the last two days, Russian troops have attempted to relieve pressure on their separatist allies in Donetsk and Luhansk by opening what amounts to a third front south of the two breakaway cities. On Wednesday, Ukrainian troops, who had been steadily advancing on separatist forces in the east, beat a hasty retreat from Novoazovsk, where they were routed by troops and armor streaming across the Russian border. Novoazovsk lies a mere 20 miles from the southeastern port city of Mariupol, a city of 500,000.
Exploited in the Southern Sun
After fleeing their homes and surviving a perilous Mediterranean crossing, African migrants in Italy are falling prey to labor gangs.
#asile #migration #travail #Italie #exploitation #travail #agriculture #réfugiés #emploi
You Can’t Kill Hamas, You Can Only Make It Stronger
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/07/14/cant_kill_hamas_make_it_stronger_protective_edge_israel_gaza
You Can’t Kill Hamas, You Can Only Make It Stronger
Experts and insiders say that Israel’s military offensive will only further radicalize the Palestinian population — and alienate frustrated friends in the United States.
#gaza
There Is No al-Sham
►http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/06/17/there_is_no_al_sham_iraq_isis_syria_levant_maps
Over the past few years, as Syria has dissolved into warring fiefdoms and Iraq has struggled to emerge from its disastrous civil war, American commentators have listed the many failings of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, upon which the Middle East’s state system was based. The 1916 arrangement divided the Ottoman Empire’s dominions in the Arab world into British and French “zones of influence,” laying the foundation for the region’s modern borders. The intense criticism of Sykes-Picot has provoked a backlash of sorts, as some analysts have suggested that piling blame on the agreement has distracted from what has really ailed the Middle East in the post-colonial period.
Somali Remittances Still Flowing, for Now
▻http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/06/09/somali_remittances_still_flowing_for_now
Companies that send money back to East Africa from immigrants living in the United States may soon have to close up shop because they can’t find U.S. banks willing to wire the money for them. As Foreign Policy first reported last month, one the few remaining banks working with the small money transmitters, Merchants Bank of California, still plans to shut accounts, just not immediately. Instead of closing the accounts on June 20, they will be closed July 31.
A propos du clan Aliev : The Corleones of the Caspian
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/06/10/the_corleones_of_the_caspian_azerbaijan_lobbying_baku_aliyev
J’aime beaucoup le titre et la photo
In Oct. 9, 2012, the American subsidiary of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) purchased a five-story, 23,232-square-foot mansion in the heart of Washington, D.C., for the purposes of “expand[ing] its operations in the United States,” as the Washington Business Journal put it. Oil is the one thing Azerbaijan has plenty of, and it’s the one thing the United States is most interested in, so SOCAR’s “operations” are bound to be extensive.
Long et intéressant article.
Présentation détaillée des relais aux É.-U. et auprès des institutions européennes. Rien, hélas, sur les relais en France, nombreux et actifs.
Nouveau maillot du RC Lens,
Remise de la croix d’officier de la légion d’honneur (octobre 2011)
Monsieur le Président,
Madame, vous êtes née à Bakou. Etant le meilleur ambassadeur d’Azerbaïdjan, vous êtes en même temps la meilleure modèle pour toutes les femmes du monde. Il est connu, que vous avez reçu l’éducation supérieure à Moscou, et vous êtes spécialiste dans le domaine d’ophtalmologie. Vous menez une activité abondante dans les intérêts de Votre pays, et aussi vous travaillez activement au Parlement. Votre décision concernant le passage du poste du président du groupe d’amitié États-Unis— Azerbaïdjan au poste du président du groupe d’amitié France— Azerbaïdjan a été pour nous un grand honneur. C’était un très bon choix stratégique. Avec cela, vous participez personnellement à l’encouragement de la diversité culturelle. Vous êtes un grand ami de la France. Vous faites un travail important. La Fondation dont vous êtes président, a beaucoup fait pour le soin aux enfants. Cette Fondation contribue à la conservation de l’héritage culturel universel. Ainsi, je voudrais remettre à la Première dame d’Azerbaïdjan la plus haute décoration de notre pays, République Française.
Chère madame Mehriban Aliyeva, au nom de la République Française, je vous remets l’Ordre de l’« Officier de la Légion d’Honneur ».
Inauguration de l’aile Art islamique du Louvre (à laquelle la Fondation Heydar Aliyev, présidée par Mehriban Aliyeva, a contribué) (septembre 2012)
Sans parler de notre mission parlementaire pour les élections d’octobre 2013 (diplomatie du caviar au sens propre…)
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Note : sur Gg:StreetMap, le charmant pavillon était encore à vendre.
▻https://maps.google.fr/maps?q=1319+18th+Street+Northwest,+Washington,+District+de+Columbia,+%C3
Tu as raison, il y a un beau matériel pour un article qui deviendrait assez drôle au fur et à mesure que l’on s’enfoncerait dans le ridicule.
La vidéo de la décoration à Bakou de Mehriban par Nicolas était un improbable machin, l’impression confuse que cette cérémonie était improvisée et honteuse.
Je l’ai en dur là, mais je ne la retrouve plus sur le net, c’était AzTv, on voyait Sarkozy accompagné d’un gendarme, Aliyev sa femme et un tapis, et le gouvernement un peu plus loin. La loose se lisait sur le visage de Niko.
Mais le top serait d’inclure une enquête sur toutes les officines qui « œuvrent au rapprochement de la France et de l’Azerbaïdjan ».
Comme les relations entre Dati, Goulet & co. cela sent surtout l’eau de cologne cheap et l’after shave de Franprix. Emballé dans du Chanel quand même.
#politique #complaisance
Introuvable en français…
Dans la foulée du Louvre, à Reims en octobre 2012
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Sgp9qc-EY
Et les thuriféraires locaux,…
Reims adopte les Azerbaïdjanais - L’union l’ardennais
▻http://www.lunion.presse.fr/article/marne/reims-adopte-les-azerbaidjanais
La greffe a pris entre Reims et l’Azerbaïdjan.
Et s’ils sont mal vus, c’est parce qu’il y a des méchants…
À tort ou à raison, l’Azerbaïdjan est facilement décrié par les membres d’une diaspora arménienne particulièrement bien établie en France.
Il y a des compétences internet qui me font encore défaut, bien joué.
Dans la brochette de mecs en gris, de gauche à droite le très grand est l’ambassadeur (sympa), on reconnaît Mammadov (pas sympa) en renard argenté très chevelu, le chauve un peu balladurien est le ministre des affaires étrangères avec à sa gauche notre plus beau traître tragique Éric Besson. Le moment « regard de biche walt disney » de Mehriban est épique.
Merci pour le lien.
High Tea With a Spot of Racism
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/05/12/high_tea_with_spot_of_racism_ukip_britain
High Tea With a Spot of Racism
Britain’s almost comically right-wing Tea Party clone is on the rise — but if it ends up kingmaker in Westminster, that’s no laughing matter.
The Looming #Robotics Gap
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/05/05/the_looming_robotics_gap_us_military_technology_dominance
#Google did not purchase the maker of the WildCat to penetrate the military world, but rather to expand into what it thinks will be the even more lucrative commercial robotics market. Even in areas such as agriculture, the demand for robotics is growing, with a report by WinterGreen Research suggesting that the market will reach $16.3 billion by 2020.
The issue is that there is no clear line between commercial and military developments in robotics. Just as with electronics and communications, many technological advances in robotics will be usable in both worlds. For example, the commercial sector is leading the way in developing automated driving technology, and the software that governs a self-driving car might well facilitate the design of a remotely driven tank. As off-the-shelf robotics become increasingly advanced, it will become easier for foreign militaries to close the gap in capabilities with the United States.
#silicon_army #robotisation via @reka
Preparing for a Very Cold War
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/31/preparing_for_a_very_cold_war
In March, over 16,000 soldiers from 16 countries traveled to the Arctic Circle to participate in Exercise Cold Response. Led by the Norwegian Armed Forces, this series of "high-intensity" combat operations emphasizes “extreme cold-weather” training in Norway’s wintry weather, with temperatures dropping as low -13 degrees Fahrenheit. Among the participating countries were the United States, France, Britain, Germany, and France, among others. These joint-training exercises have been conducted since 2006, training that includes tanks, airplanes, helicopters, ships and submarines, live-fire exercises, night patrols, and intensely realistic medical evacuation drills.
MH370 and the Secrets of the Deep, Dark Southern Indian Ocean
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/26/mh370_and_the_secrets_of_the_deep_dark_indian_ocean
n 1900, Jules Verne published The Castaway of the Flag, an adventure novel in the shipwreck fantasy subgenre. To put his Swiss Family Robinson in an excessively remote spot beyond hope of rescue, he plonked them on New Switzerland, an imaginary island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Then, as now, the region’s main features were its remoteness and isolation — capable of hiding an entire island, or simply vanishing a Boeing 777 in its untrafficked vastness.
On March 24, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that the missing Malaysia Airlines fight, which took off March 8 from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing and hasn’t been heard from since, “ended in the Southern Indian Ocean.” The loss of MH370 has for the first time turned the entire world’s attention to this region: Big enough to contain Russia twice, the southern Indian Ocean has been condemned to obscurity by its emptiness and inhospitality. The ongoing search for the wreckage — none of the 239 people on board is believed to have survived — is frustrated by the extreme remoteness and the harsh climate of the presumed crash zone, in the words of Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott, “as close to nowhere as it’s possible to be.”
Exclusive : U.S. Boycotts U.N. #Drone Talks
▻http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/03/19/exclusive_us_boycotts_un_drone_talks
Pakistan is trying to push a resolution through the United Nations Human Rights Council that would trigger greater scrutiny of whether U.S. drone strikes violate international human rights law. Washington, though, doesn’t want to talk about it.
The Pakistani draft, which was obtained by Foreign Policy, urges states to “ensure transparency” in record-keeping on drone strikes and to “conduct prompt, independent and impartial investigations whenever there are indications of any violations to human rights caused by their use.” It also calls for the convening of “an interactive panel discussion” on the use of drones.
The Geneva-based human rights council held its third round of discussions about the draft on Wednesday, but the Obama administration boycotted the talks.
The White House decision to sit out the negotiations is a departure from the collaborative approach the administration promised to take when it first announced plans to join the Human Rights Council in March 2009.
Adding Fuel to the Fire
Flooding the market with American shale gas is the best way out of the Ukrainian crisis.
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/06/adding_fuel_to_the_fire
Voilà une bonne idée !
With every passing hour, Ukraine seems to move closer to the brink of disaster. The causes are multifaceted, but a key driver of the crisis has been Ukrainian — and European — dependence on Russian natural gas. In the short term, U.S. officials are understandably scrambling to keep events from spiraling out of control in Crimea, where Russian troops have taken control of much of the peninsula. In the long term, however, the United States may be able to tip the balance against President Vladimir Putin, using the American shale-gas boom to weaken Russia’s geopolitical leverage in Ukraine.
U.S. considers how to use natural gas resources in Ukraine crisis: top official
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/06/us-ukraine-crisis-usa-lng-idUSBREA251X220140306
It is not clear what exactly the U.S. government could do in the short-term to help, since new projects to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the country’s vast new shale fields are still years away.
Natural Gas as a Diplomatic Tool
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/opinion/natural-gas-as-a-diplomatic-tool.html
In response to the crisis in Ukraine, some American lawmakers and energy companies are urging the United States to export natural gas to Europe in an effort to undercut Russia’s influence over the Continent. The Obama administration should move to increase exports, which would help allies like Germany, Turkey and Britain, but the effects of such exports would likely be modest and wouldn’t be realized for several years.
(...)
The department could speed up its review of export applications, and Congress could help by easing restrictions on exports to American allies. But even if the government approved more exports, setting up more facilities to liquefy and ship gas would take years and cost billions of dollars. Moreover, unlike Mr. Putin, American officials will not be able to dictate to energy companies where they sell their gas and at what price. (Energy companies would prefer to sell gas to countries like Japan, China and India because natural gas is more expensive in Asia than in Europe.)
Dear Kremlin: Careful with Crimea
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/02/26/dear_kremlin_careful_with_crimea
Russia seems to have made a bad bet in Ukraine. Its foreign policy, tactically agile as ever, was strategically unsound. It was certainly possible, as Russia proved in November, to bribe Ukraine’s then-President Viktor Yanukovych not to sign an association agreement with the European Union. It was also possible to promise a $15 billion loan in return for a policy of repression in Ukraine. After accepting the money in principle, Yanukovych illegally forced a package of legislation through parliament that was closely modeled on similar laws in Moscow restricting freedom of speech and assembly. Right after the Kremlin freed up a $2 billion tranche of the promised loan, the Yanukovych regime gave orders for the mass shooting of protesters.
The Human Rights That Dictators Love
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/02/26/the_human_rights_that_dictators_love
Watch out. Kobe Bryant may be violating your human rights.
Farida Shaheed, the U.N. special rapporteur on cultural rights, recently announced that she’s launching a new study aimed at addressing “whether advertising and marketing practices affect cultural diversity and the right of people to choose their way of life.” The announcement bears a photo of a larger-than-life U.S. basketball advertisement (featuring star player Kobe Bryant) looming over a Chinese playground.
Red in the Face - By Kalev Leetaru | Foreign Policy
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/14/mapping_obamacare_outrage_media
Yet, what we are able to see in the crisp mathematical precision of the computerized graphs and maps above is just how vast and intense the negative coverage really is. As a result, we can move beyond anecdotes like “It’s getting a lot of coverage” to precise statements like “More than 80 percent of all television news shows are talking about it.”
We can also gaze through the eyes of the news media and literally map the deep pessimism towards the law as it spreads across the nation. This by itself is a key finding: just how much the media has been covering Obamacare and, in particular, how key the GOP’s tying of Obamacare to the government shutdown was in bringing it to the forefront. Indeed, while Republicans may have lost in their attempt to defund Obamacare through their shutdown showdown, they succeeded in making it a national news item, and thus setting the stage for the media to eagerly pounce on the first hints of a problem with the new website.
A month after the government shutdown, more than 60 percent of American television news programming still discusses Obamacare, while a vast array of critical foreign policy issues struggle for coverage amongst this deluge. Of course, this is simply what the news media does — across the world, it reports on the freshest stories that are likely to win the most readers. Even with the potentially infinite virtual space of the online world, there is still a fixed amount of real estate on the front page, fixed number of reporters, and a fixed amount of time in the day to cover all the stories competing for attention. Still, the sheer magnitude of the shift inwards caused by the Obamacare debacle and the attendant loss of political capital and public approval have real implications for the administration’s flexibility in tackling future foreign policy issues.
Long et passionnant article sur le traitement médiatique de la politique d’Obama, avec le constat, étayé sur des analyses quantitative détaillées et géolocalisées des différents médias (presse, télé, internet). Avec un constat accablant : concentration sur l’échec de l’Obamacare et un impact désastreux, à la fois sur la popularité d’Obama et la place des affaires internationales et donc la capacité à agir sur celles ci.
Parmi les nombreux graphiques.
Traitement par les infos télévisées
Localisation de la « tonalité » des médias vis-à-vis d’Obama (une carte pour chaque mois de juin à octobre)
Stasi Style ! - An FP Slideshow | Foreign Policy
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/07/26/stasi_style_photos_east_german_secret_police?page=0,0
During its heyday, the Stasi had more agents in its employ than either the KGB or the CIA, relative to overall population size. Nazi hunter Simon Weisenthal ominously declared that the Stasi were worse than the Gestapo. When East Germany collapsed in 1989, the Stasi had 102,000 employees.
Les chiffes de Simon Wiesenthal sont légèrent erronnés si on veut bien croire cette statistique
On peut se poser la question, à quelles activités se livraient les fonctionnaires stasi pendant leurs journées de travail. Quand on regarde la structure de l’administration l’impression s’impose que la quasi totalité de leur temps était consommée par des activités de gestion de leur propre structures.
▻http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Struktur
Minister für Staatssicherheit
- Abteilung 26 – Telefonüberwachung und Abhörmaßnahmen, konspiratives Eindringen in Objekte
- Abteilung Bewaffnung und Chemische Dienste (BCD)
- Abteilung Finanzen
- Abteilung Nachrichten – Sicherstellung des Nachrichtenwesens
- Abteilung X – Internationale Verbindungen
- Abteilung XI – ZCO, Zentrales Chiffrierorgan der DDR
- Abteilung XIV – Zentrale Gefängnisverwaltung, Sicherung der Untersuchungshaftanstalten in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen und am Sitz des Ministers in Berlin-Lichtenberg, Beaufsichtigung der Untersuchungshaftanstalten der 15 Bezirksverwaltungen des MfS
- Abteilung XXIII – Terrorbekämpfung und Spezialaufgaben, ab 1989 Integration in die HA XXII, zuvor AGM/S, gegliedert in Kampf-, Sicherungs- und Flugsicherungsbegleit-Kommando, sowie ein spezialisiertes Kommando mit Tauchern und Fallschirmspringern[47]
- Arbeitsgruppe Bereich Kommerzielle Koordinierung (AG BKK), zuständig für die Kommerzielle Koordinierung von Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski.[48]
- Arbeitsgruppe des Ministers (AGM) – Mobilmachung, Schutzbauten
Sondereinheiten AGM/U
- AGM/S – „militärisch-operative Spezialaufgaben“ (z. B. bewaffnete Flugbegleitung) Zentrale Spezifische Kräfte, wurde noch 1989 in die HA XXII integriert, zuvor Umbenennung in Abteilung XXIII.[47]
- Wachregiment Feliks Dzierzynski
- Arbeitsgruppe E beim Stellvertreter des Ministers, Generaloberst Mittig (AG E) – Außensicherung militärischer Schwerpunktobjekte, Entwicklung technischer Abwehrmittel gegen gegnerische automatische Aufklärungssysteme
- Arbeitsgruppe XVII – Büro für Besuchs- und Reiseangelegenheiten (BfBR) in Berlin (West)
- Büro der Leitung (BdL) – Innere Objektsicherung des MfS, Kurierdienst.
- Büro der Zentralen Leitung der Sportvereinigung Dynamo
- Hauptabteilung I (HA I) – Überwachung und Absicherung der NVA, des militärischen Nachrichtendienstes und der Grenztruppen (NVA-interne Bezeichnung der HA I: Verwaltung 2000 oder Büro 2000) In diesem Bereich gab es die höchste Durchdringung mit IMs (Verhältnis eins zu fünf !).
- Hauptabteilung II (HA II) – Spionageabwehr
- Hauptabteilung III (HA III) – Spionageabwehr im Bereich Fernmelde- und Elektronische Aufklärung (Funkabwehr), grenzüberschreitende Telefonüberwachung
- Hauptabteilung VI (HA VI) – Passkontrolle, Tourismus (z. B. Interhotels), Sicherung des Transit- und Reiseverkehrs (Autobahnraststätten, Transitparkplätze etc.)
- Hauptabteilung VII (HA VII) – „Abwehr“ im Ministerium des Innern (MdI) und der Deutschen Volkspolizei (DVP)
- Hauptabteilung VIII (HA VIII) – Beobachtung, Ermittlung. Sicherung des Transitstraßenverkehrs, Observation von Militärverbindungsmissionen (MVM). Die HA VIII war eine Querschnittsabteilung und wurde regelmäßig von anderen HAs angefordert, mit Ausnahme der HA II und der HVA, die über eigene entsprechende Struktureinheiten verfügten.
- Hauptabteilung IX (HA IX) – Zentrale Ermittlungsabteilung, zuständig für Ermittlungsverfahren in allen Fällen mit politischer Bedeutung. Die HA hatte in den Gerichtsverhandlungen direkten Einfluss auf Verlauf und Urteilsfindung. Minister Mielke unterstrich die Bedeutung der HA IX durch seine Mitgliedschaft in deren SED-Grundorganisation.
- Hauptabteilung IX/11 – „Aufklärung und Verfolgung von Nazi- und Kriegsverbrechen“[49]
- Hauptabteilung XV – Ehemaliger Name der Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung vor der Ausgliederung, später als HVA-Dependance unter der Bezeichnung Abteilung XV in den Bezirksverwaltungen.
- Hauptabteilung XVIII (HA XVIII) – Absicherung der Volkswirtschaft, Sicherung der Einrichtungen der Rüstungsforschung und Rüstungsproduktion, Kontrolle der Industrie-, Landwirtschafts-, Finanz- und Handelsministerien sowie der Zollverwaltung der DDR, Aufklärung und Bestätigung von Nomenklaturkadern, Auslands- und Reisekadern, Militärbauwesen, HO-Spezialhandel mit der GSSD
- Hauptabteilung XIX (HA XIX) – Verkehr (Interflug, Deutsche Reichsbahn und Binnen- und Seeschifffahrt), Post- und Fernmeldewesen, Aufklärung und Bestätigung von Kadern
- Hauptabteilung XX (HA XX) – Staatsapparat, Kultur, Kirche, Untergrund. Sicherstellung militärischer Fernmeldetechnik und der Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST)
- Hauptabteilung XXII (HA XXII) – „Terrorabwehr“
- Hauptabteilung Personenschutz (HA PS)
- Hauptabteilung Kader und Schulung (HA KaSch)
(Juristische) Hochschule des MfS
- Zentraler Medizinischer Dienst (ZMD)
- Operativ-Technischer Sektor (OTS)
- Verwaltung Rückwärtige Dienste (VRD)
- Zentrale Arbeitsgruppe Geheimnisschutz (ZAGG)
Zentrale Auswertungs- und Informationsgruppe (ZAIG)
- Abteilung XII – Zentrale Auskunft/Speicher. - Archiveinheit, verantwortlich für zentrale Nachweisführung und Auskünfte über erfasste Personen und registrierte Akten
- Abteilung XIII – Zentrale Rechenstation
- Abteilung M – Postkontrolle
- Abteilung PZF (1962–1983), Kontrolle von Päckchen, Paket- und Streifbandsendungen sowie westliche Druckerzeugnisse, ab 1983 fusioniert mit der Abteilung M
- Rechtsstelle
- Zentrale Koordinierungsgruppe (ZKG) – Bekämpfung von Flucht und Übersiedlung
- Zentraler Operativstab (ZOS)
Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung – Auslandsspionage (HVA)
Il faut noter qu’une partie du MfS (l’abbréviation officielle du ministère Stasi) échappait à cette gestion superflue, onéreuse et inefficace : C’était la légendaire Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung – Auslandsspionage (HVA), le service secret à l’étranger le mieux informé du monde.
Le reste du MfS après avoir été une véritable machine de la terreur dans les années Staline s’est transformé dans un monstre bureaucratique inerte et incompétent. Résultat : avec un peu de ruse tu faisais tout ce que tu voulais en RDA. Le plus grand ennemi de ta liberté était le voisin envieux, une espèce qui survit très bien dans chaque biotope provincial.
L’article dans Foreign Policy nous propose des clichés pris dans un livre de formation d’espions. Ces personnages nous paraissents ridicules aujourd’hui et ils l’étaient déjà au moment de la prise de vue.
P.S. L’Allemagne de l’Est ne disposait pas d’un système de vérification des entrées et sorties du territoire en temps réel. Ses agents étaient obligés d’ouvrir lettre á la main chaque lettre dont ils voulaient controler le contenu. Le manque d’efficacité et de connaissances qui en étaient la conséquence poussaient ses agents à des mises en scène exagérées frôlant le ridicule déjà à l’époque.
Tiens ça me rappelle ça !
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/134025
▻http://static2.seenthis.net/local/cache-vignettes/L114xH180/ddr-stasijpg855b-9a828.jpg
C’est les mêmes clichés on dirait
The NSA Can’t Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner - By Shane Harris | Foreign Policy
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/27/the_nsa_cant_tell_the_difference_between_an_american_and_a_foreigner
The National Security Agency has said for years that its global surveillance apparatus is only aimed at foreigners, and that ordinary Americans are only captured by accident. There’s only one problem with this long-standing contention, people who’ve worked within the system say: it’s more-or-less technically impossible to keep average Americans out of the surveillance driftnet.
“There is physically no way to ensure that you’re only gathering U.S. person e-mails,” said a telecommunications executive who has implemented U.S. government orders to collect data on foreign targets. “The system doesn’t make any distinction about the nationality” of the individual who sent the message.
While it’s technically true that the NSA is not “targeting” the communications of Americans without a warrant, this is a narrow and legalistic statement. It belies the vast and indiscriminate scooping up of records on Americans’ phone calls, e-mails, and Internet communications that has occurred for more than a decade under the cover of “foreign intelligence” gathering.