Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by rexbuton: 2:37pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Does Nigeria have foreign secret agents like the CIA, FSB and ISI? |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by Nobody: 2:41pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
rexbuton: Does Nigeria have foreign secret agents like the CIA, FSB and ISI? NIA |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by rexbuton: 2:46pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
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Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by Nobody: 2:56pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
rexbuton:
with covert operations ? I suppose |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by andresia(m): 3:04pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Yes |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by Decibel: 3:10pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Obiagelli:
NIA Which spy are you talking about? You mean that yeye agency with "suwegbe" intelligence. 2 Likes |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by Decibel: 3:13pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
@Obiagelli, there are alot of foreign spies littering all over MDAs and various organs of government in zoogeria even in our institutions as students and researchers; the worst is that most of them are Zoogerians |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by Nobody: 3:17pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Decibel: @Obiagelli, there are alot of foreign spies littering all over MDAs and various organs of government in zoogeria evenin our institutions as students and researchers; the worst is that most of them are Zoogerians You have been listening to radio biafra? 4 Likes |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by Decibel: 3:20pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Obiagelli:
You have been listening to radio biafra? What is radiobiafra? There are high profile spy handles even here on Nairaland but... |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by staymore: 3:26pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Nigeria only spy on opposition, just like APC and PDP. |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by Nobody: 4:26pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Decibel: What is radiobiafra? There are high profile spy handles even here on Nairaland but... i hear you |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by Decibel: 4:30pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Obiagelli:
i hear you You may be laughing that's gud...but it's the reality on ground. Sai Buhari!! |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by tpiander: 4:31pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
staymore: Nigeria only spy on opposition, just like APC and PDP. true that. |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by tpiander: 4:31pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
rexbuton: Does Nigeria have foreign secret agents like the CIA, FSB and ISI? No, not in the same sense. why do you ask, btw. |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by Decibel: 4:41pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
This is espionage!! Spies, sleepers and hitmen: how the Soviet Union’s KGB never went away Vladimir Putin’s background as a Soviet spy means there can be little surprise at the blatant resurgence of an aggressive surveillance state in modern Russia Vladimir Putin was never an especially distinguished spy. In the 1980s, the KGB dispatched him not to a glamorous western capital but to provincial East Germany. It was here, in Dresden, that he sat out the collapse of the Soviet Union, an event that filled him with horror and rage. For a brief moment in the 90s, the KGB – now re-branded as the FSB, the Federal Security Service – was on the back foot. Since becoming president in 2000, however, Putin has transformed Russia into a giant spy state. He has brought back many of the cold war espionage techniques he first learned as a young recruit in Leningrad’s KGB spy school. Not that they ever quite went away. FSB spies are a paranoid, conspiratorial and deeply xenophobic bunch. They see themselves as the direct descendants of the Cheka, Lenin’s feared, terrifying secret police. They are obsessed, as in cold war times, with finding and defeating Russia’s “enemies”. Some of these so-called “enemies” are foreign, some are homegrown. In the 70s, the KGB employed a wide repertoire of operational tricks. Typically, they would eavesdrop on western diplomats, harass British and American journalists (slashing the tyres of their cars was a favourite) and carry out break-ins and buggings. Writing about Soviet dissidents or Jewish emigration got you into trouble When I got to Moscow in 2007 as the Guardian’s correspondent I was surprised to discover that such ancient KGB practices were back. For reasons that are still mysterious, the FSB decided that I was one of its enemies. Unpromising young men in black leather jackets trailed me round Moscow’s icy streets. This time, the reporting taboos were Putin’s money, top-level Kremlin corruption and the vicious war in the north Caucasus. As well as demonstrative surveillance – always more Inspector Clouseau than John le Carré – Putin’s spies made it clear that they were listening to my calls. They pulled the plug, for example, whenever I made a joke about Russia’s president. Like other despots, Putin doesn’t have a sense of humour (though he can do sardonic repartee). The FSB also revived another old KGB/East German Stasi tactic: what the exasperated American ambassador in Moscow calls “house intrusions”. Over a period of nearly four years FSB agents frequently broke into the Moscow flat where I lived with my wife and two small children. They left a series of ridiculous clues to show that they had been there. These included open windows, central heating wires cut, family photos deleted from laptops, and – most amusingly – a sex manual in Russian, helpfully left beside my bed. The British embassy politely advised us that our flat was bugged. There was little we could do about it, it said. The same low-level psychological techniques are used against British and US diplomats in Moscow, as well as against Russian embassy staffers, opposition activists, and many others. In 2011, I was chucked out of Moscow. This was another tactic used repeatedly by the Soviet Union against troublesome western correspondents who annoyed the state, or tried to dodge censorship, from the Bolshevik 1920s onwards. The FSB’s special wrath, however, is directed not at foreigners but at Russians it regards as fifth columnists and traitors. In 2006, an alleged KGB hit squad murdered the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in London. It poured radioactive polonium-210 into his tea. He died in agony three weeks later. The British government believes that only a Russian state agency could have got hold of polonium, a rare and unstable isotope. The row over Litvinenko’s death plunged London and Moscow into a very cold war stand-off, with a tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats. US diplomatic cables leaked in 2010 reveal that Whitehall is deeply concerned about the number of Russian spies – formal and informal – now based in London. When the west was preoccupied with 9/11, al- Qaida and the Middle East, Putin stealthily ramped up the number of Russian agents working abroad. They included the glamorous Russian US-based sleeper agent Anna Chapman, exposed and later swapped. Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, the SVR, keeps close tabs on Russian exiles in London. It also seeks to influence British politicians. Some observers, meanwhile, have expressed surprise at Moscow’s takeover of Crimea and its covert invasion of eastern Ukraine. In fact, the “little green men” – undercover Russian soldiers who seized Crimea – come straight from the KGB playbook. Putin’s actions in Ukraine follow a classic KGB doctrine known as “active measures”. The phrase encompasses disinformation, propaganda, political repression and subversion. The goal, then as now, is to weaken the west, create divisions between Nato member states, and to undermine the US in the eyes of the world, especially the developing world. These days, Russian propaganda comes in the shape of the English- language channel Russia Today and via an army of Kremlin online trolls who post comments on western newspaper websites, including the Guardian’s. The production values are modern, but the thinking entirely Soviet. Russian television is under the Kremlin’s thumb; one of the lessons of the Ukraine crisis is that propaganda, as in Soviet times, is highly effective. There are a few differences. In the USSR, the KGB was under the direct control of the Communist party. It was subordinate to the Politburo. Now, however, the FSB is subordinate to nobody; it operates with impunity according to its own secret rules. It has become Russia’s most powerful and unaccountable institution. On the eve of becoming president in 2000, Putin – then head of the FSB – gave a speech to his colleagues. “A group of FSB operatives, dispatched undercover to work in the government of the Russian Federation, is successfully fulfilling its task.” Like most of Putin’s “jokes”, this one was mostly true. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/19/spies-spooks-hitmen-kgb-never-went-away-russia-putin |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by Nobody: 4:42pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
rexbuton:
with covert operations ? Which kind covert operation NIA operatives sabi apart from patronizing different beer parlors & oloshos in Abuja every night and gossiping about their superior's girlfriends instead of them to infiltrate Boko Haram & neutralize Biafra's Nnamdi Kanu on his London waterbed, making it look like an accident. |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by Decibel: 4:51pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Zoogeria operating a kindergarteen espionage Newest cyber threat will be data manipulation, US intelligence chief says US intelligence chiefs are warning Congress that the next phase of escalating online data theft is likely to involve the manipulation of digital information. A “cyber armageddon”, long imagined in Washington as a catastrophic event of digitally triggered damage to physical infrastructure, is less likely than “cyber operations that will change or manipulate data”, the US director of national intelligence, James Clapper, told the House intelligence committee on Wednesday. More on this topic CIA to make sweeping structural changes with focus on cyber operations Clapper, backed by the director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Michael Rogers, said that while such efforts had yet to manifest themselves, US business and governmental agencies had entered an era of persistent “low-to- moderate level cyber-attacks from a variety of sources”. Yet both indicated that US digital networks are currently threatened by wide-scale data theft, like the recent intrusion into the networks of the Office of Personnel Management, not destruction or compromise. Rogers and Clapper warned that a mutated phase of malicious digital penetrations would undermine confidence in data stored and accessible on US networks, creating an uncertainty that could jeopardize US military situational awareness. “I believe the next push on the envelope is going to be the manipulation or the deletion of data which would of course compromise its integrity,” Clapper told the House panel. Rogers testified that while the NSA and its military conjoined twin, US Cyber Command, had clear rules for protecting US networks, its authorities to engage in offensive action online were murkier. In 2013, the Guardian published a secret directive on US digital offensive capabilities and a framework for their use, thanks to the whistleblower Edward Snowden. There is “still uncertainty about what is offensive and what is authorized”, Rogers said. “That’s a policy decision.” While noting that offensive cyber attacks were “an application of force” akin to conventional military conflict, Rogers suggested that NSA or Cyber Command require a freer hand, warning: “A purely defensive strategy is not going to change the dynamic we find ourselves in now.” Rogers also urged new international norms that would prohibit “extracting mass personally identifiable data”, although the Snowden document hoard demonstrates that to be the NSA’s practice worldwide. Nor should the global community accept data destruction as a national practice, Rogers said – a cyber practice the US and Israel arguably inaugurated by allegedly creating the Stuxnet worm that hijacked and damaged industrial controls for Iranian nuclear centrifuges. The FBI director, James Comey, joined by Rogers, reprised his plea for surreptitious access into end-to- end encrypted data. Comey argued that technologists had not truly tried to find a mathematical solution that would allow the US government access without subjecting sensitive data to increased insecurity. Though leading cryptographers have likened Comey’s effort to “magical thinking”, Comey said: “My reaction to that is, really? Have we really tried?” Clapper testified that there was no consensus within the intelligence agencies as to the ultimate culprit in the mass exfiltration of federal employees’ data at the Office of Personnel Management. Rogers said the NSA had provided the office with “19 specific recommendations” to forestall a future hack, but did not indicate why the US agencies tasked with protecting government networks did not spot the vulnerabilities before 4 million personnel records were stolen, reportedly by China. “I don’t think anyone is satisfied with the environment we find ourselves in right now,” Rogers said. www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/10/cyber-threat-data-manipulation-us-intelligence-chief |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by rexbuton: 6:31pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
tpiander:
No, not in the same sense.
why do you ask, btw.
I'm gathering Intel for Mossad just kidding maybe.. .we have nationals in almost all continents, some of these could be utilized as assets and sleepers, especially these Igbo businessmen with good blending skills but as a developing world power Nigeria should have foreign agents to assist in protecting her foreign economic interests and give timely advice to our foreign missions. The biggest problem facing our security operatives is Heineken |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by mensdept: 6:50pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
They have their spies in Owerri aka Okorocha, in Benin aka Oshiomole, in Port Harcourt, Calabar, Warri, and even in Jos. 1 Like |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by Adminisher: 1:05am On Oct 04, 2015 |
Nigeria clearly has spies in Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Benin, Mali, UK, S. Africa and US. |
Re: Does Nigeria Have Spies In Other Countries? by tpiander: 1:07am On Oct 04, 2015 |
Adminisher: Nigeria clearly has spies in Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Benin, Mali, UK, S. Africa and US. proof? |