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The SS built a secret army after WWII

The notorious Waffem-SS continued their military activities after the Second World War. They built on a secret army in West Germany, starting in 1949. Their aim was to fight off a Russian invasion. Since Germany wasn’t allowed to have an army, they wanted to filled the gap left by the demise of… Read full history →

11 May 2014 by Jan Huisman in Espionage, Modern, News, War / No Comments
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MI5 created a fake nazi spy-network during WW2

The British secret service MI5 ran a large network of nazi-sympathizers in Britain during the Second World War. Hundred of people who were willing to spy for nazi Germany were exposed this way. Several secret intelligence documents revealing this were made public today. Secret agents got into contact with know… Read full history →

28 February 2014 by Jan Huisman in Espionage, News / No Comments
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NSA’s long history of illegal eavesdropping

As Edward Snowden showed the world to what extent the American National Security Agency has been tracking emails and phone-calls, a worldwide public outcry for more privacy protection followed. It is likely that most political leaders (friend or foe) were surveyed by the NSA’s Prism Program, as were all major companies. Moreover, public… Read full history →

02 November 2013 by Jan Huisman in Espionage, Modern, News, Scrutinized / 1 Comment
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Case closed on Katyn massacre

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has dismissed allegations made by relatives of the victims of the Katyn massacre in 1940. In April and May of that year, the Soviet secret service (NKVD) killed around 6000 members of the Polish intelligentsia in the Katyn forests. Twelve victims of the… Read full history →

21 October 2013 by Jan Huisman in Espionage, Modern, News, War / No Comments
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Book Review: Cold Case Kennedy

The assassination of John F. Kennedy still stirs the minds of historians and conspiracist alike, given the amount of publications on the matter. The murder on that faithful 22th of November 1963 still echoes strongly in our collective memory, while many believe the 35th president of the United States would… Read full history →

13 September 2013 by Jan Huisman in Espionage, Modern, News, Review / 1 Comment
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CIA says Josip Broz Tito was a Russian

Thats wat the Serbian newspaper Blic Monday bases on a released document of in the U.S. secret intelligence agency CIA. In this four pages long document an analysis is made of Tito’s use of the Serbo-Croatian language during a speech held in 1977 by the former president of Yugoslavia. According… Read full history →

20 August 2013 by Jan Huisman in Espionage, Modern, News / No Comments
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