#espionage

[opendirectories]

#open directories #comrade kitty #cat #books #kgb #russia #ussr #soviet union #espionage

[liberalsarecool]

Selling out America to our biggest enemies is not an issue for Republicans/Conservatives as long as Trump supports white supremacy and patriarchal fascism.

#cia #espionage #traitor #russia #saudi arabia

[tmblrfuckingsucksass]

Hey lovely - art by jayh.sketch

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#natasha romanoff #black widow #scarlett johansson #peggy carter #captain carter #hayley atwell #marvel #mcu #what if #lesbian #sapphic #women loving women #espionage #intrigue #spy action #pulp cover #girls who like girls #hey lovely #i prefer girls

[dailyflicks]

Mission : Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One (2023) dir. Christopher McQuarrie

#mission impossible #mission impossible dead reckoning #2020s #action #espionage #adventure #thriller #* #by aurore #userbbelcher #filmedit #useranimusvox #usersavana #tuserrachel #tuserrobin #userpayton #userjack #userzo #tusertyler

[gwydionmisha]

U.S. and China race to shield secrets from quantum computers

#U.S. #China #Quantum Computers #Espionage #News

[samedmunds]

East German Hijinks

I've been taking a look at the Cold War Museum in Virginia's digital archive of photos, interviews, and declassified documents from members of the US Military Liaison Mission in East Germany. It's a really weird bit of espionage history where basically each occupying power in Germany granted each other the ability to have stationed a handful of military personnel separate of any embassy or consulate who could just sorta... go places. They called it touring. These guys are sort of diplomatically immune and can go most places in the country outside of certain restricted zones (which the Americans immediately ignored).

Looking at the loosely organized photo gallery from servicemen who were stationed there from the 60s to the late 80s, there were a few commonalities that really stood out, in between family photos, state dinners, and visiting dignitaries. But every. single. person. had at least one photo of their service vehicle (usually a Jeep or a Ford muscle car) in a Situation.

That second to last one there is left for the caption.

They did a lot of off-roading so they could get covert photos of field activities, convoys, rail resupply, and field exercises. I'm particularly fond of The Device here

But there's also a lot of the human element in there (lots of irritated Kommandatura)

and my personal favorites:

And this last one just has incredible vibes:

#history #cold war #cold war history #military #espionage #photography #film photography

[pazzesco]

Mata Hari

"I am ready". Mata Hari faced a firing squad for spying — and refused a blindfold.

Legend has it that as the officers drew their weapons, Mata Hari blew a kiss to her executioners.

Then they fired.

Unbound. No blind fold. A defiant kiss. All seem to mock the authority of the French over her. She denied their authority while alive and would do so in death.

For the past 100 years, Mata Hari has been revered as the ultimate femme fatale — the seductive, glamorous exotic dancer who spied for the Germans during World War I and caused the deaths of thousands of Allied soldiers. She captured the imaginations of people around the world long after she met her fate.

"A harlot? Yes, but a traitoress, never!"

— Phrase attributed to Mata Hari during her trial

#mata hari #colorization #photography #vintage photography #vintage #espionage #spy

[porterdavis]

#trump will die in jail #traitor trump #espionage

[ausetkmt]

don't forget Reality Winner - she was punished for One Page

#reality winner #espionage #stolen documents #donald trump

[useless-catalanfacts]

New unclassified documents show Spain's espionage against Catalan independentists and how Spain's government, police and media worked together to publish fake information to attack Catalan independentists for years

For the last two months, there situation with the political espionage against Catalans, false accusations of all kinds of things against pro-independence politicians and activists, as well as right-wing demonstrations with Spanish supremacist hate speech, Spanish right-wing (though not only) politicians saying once again that Catalans are terrorist to gain votes, etc. have been escalating once again.

I had not made any post about all of that because I am simply too tired of the same thing happening over and over again and the same discussions happening all the time. This blog would be boringly repetitive if I commented on all the cases of diffamations, fear-mongering about inexistent supposed Catalan terrorists, the negotiations for a fake amnesty written so that they can keep as many people in jail as possible, and every new attack against Catalan people's right to use the Catalan language in the Catalan-speaking territories. It's the same old same old that doesn't stop happening in Spain. But I will give an update about what has been proven lately (and which had been known for a long time, but now can't be denied).

It has been known for a long time that the Spanish military intelligence service (CNI), with permission from the Spanish Supreme Court, has been using the Israeli espionage programme Pegasus to illegally spy on dozens of Catalan pro-independence journalists, activists, lawyers, politicians, and their relatives and friends for years. This goes against the human rights of the people who had their personal communications spied on and also against all the independence movement, because nobody is safe and everyone is susceptible of being spied on only for their political ideas.

Now, some of the official documents of the CNI have been declassified, so we know for sure that this espionage was happening, but other documents have not yet been declassified. Catalan politicians are asking the CNI to release the rest of these documents. The answer has been that they will not declassify them because it would "generate a risk and a grave threat for the life and integrity of the sources and collaborators of the CNI". Taking into account how in the last few years there has been many cases of infiltrated Spanish police in the Catalan social movements, including police who were infiltrated and entering long-term romantic relationships with Catalan activists (mostly Catalan women but some men too) and having sexual relations with others while lying to them about their identity, this statement can be understood to accept that there are many more people infiltrated in the movement.

But what have we seen in the documents that were released? That, as expected, the Spanish Government and Police between 2012 and 2016 used fake proof as excuses to spy on Catalans and tarnish their reputation on the press. As it has been released, the Spanish police compiled fake events with made-up proofs about Catalan independentist politicians, then they sent these fake news to the Minister of Interior of the Spanish Government, Jorge Fernández Díaz, who sent them to the Spanish media to be published as manufactured scandals on the front pages. This way, the Spanish media has spent years publishing fake information with the purpose of attacking the reputation and spreading fake ideas about Catalan independentists, including accusing many innocents of corruption, tax evasion, and personal family problems. All of these false accusations were widely talked about in Spanish media and became huge scandals, but when they were proven to be fake, the same media that published it would not include the news that these people had been declared innocents. Other ministers of the Spanish government like María Dolores de Cospedal and the president of Spain Mariano Rajoy were aware of it, and other ministries contributed to sending cherry-picked or false information to the Ministry of Interior for this scheme. All of this, of course, was paid for with public money coming from our taxes.

Nobody is surprised. This is just another day in Spain. The current Spanish Government has continued the espionage with Pegasus.

#actualitat #catalunya #catalonia #spain #european union #espionage #freedom of thought #human rights #minorities #catalan #independence #national minorities #minority rights #coses de la terra #catalan independence

[knithacker]

Hiding Secret Messages In Embroidery: 'What Do Espionage, Embroidery, and Binary Codes Have In Common?' 👉 https://buff.ly/3rGswbm 🧵

#embroidery #espionage

[oldshrewsburyian]

Maybe I’m just missing it, but has anyone brought up the influence of Carol Reed on Scorcese’s Goncharov?

Compare this, for instance, from The Third Man, with the iconic scene in the Galleria Umberto, where both Andrey and the viewer are so acutely aware that the situation might turn deadly. The way Goncharov handles the intimacies of touch and potential betrayal -- whether between lovers or informants/contacts, or between those who might be both -- has, of course, been extensively commented on as one of the things that makes the film almost insistently open to queer readings. But I would also argue that it owes much to The Man Between, particularly the latter’s ice skating scene.

And this is to say nothing of the way Naples (and Moscow, as the phantom city, as grey as Naples is colorful, never seen and yet hardly less powerful in the narrative) functions as a character in the film, in much the same way that Vienna and Berlin do in Reed’s postwar films. The discussion of city as character arguably takes us to a discussion of Goncharov’s influence on Das Leben der Anderen (also underappreciated) but that’s another post.

#film #goncharov #carol reed #espionage #yes i am having far too much fun #cinematography

[mcflymemes]

SPY / ESPIONAGE PROMPTS *  assorted lines from popular spy & action films

how many times has the government betrayed you?

what the hell are you doing?

you were shot.

you're going to ruin this mission.

where'd you get a suit?

you're my bodyguard, not my business partner. just focus on guarding my body.

thanks for the ride.

tell me where the bomb is.

you're the person who caught him, aren't you?

please don't make me go through you.

the blood is on your hands.

if you were in your office right now, we'd be having this conversation face to face.

i don't trust anybody outside of this room.

hold on! how did you get in the helicopter?

i'm gonna get the detonator!

if you ever feel like you've been poisoned, chew one of these.

jesus, you're intense.

they'll kill you for giving me this.

people do all kinds of weird and amazing stuff when they are scared.

what's your source?

who paid you off?

everything you need is in there.

we prefer to keep a low profile.

did you ever choose not to?

how close are we?

my argument is not with you.

you're really good at staying alive.

stay put and secure the premises.

i told you to send me in there instead.

this is a bad idea.

why don't you come with me?

so now you're going to kill me.

how long do i have?

that is how you survive.

by the way, i can see your gun.

i pulled up my file.

i need you to untie me now.

you have no idea what you're into here.

i don't want to do this anymore.

this is where it started for me. this is where it ends.

do you know what? you play it too safe.

they found a body.

you really think you're ready for the field?

it's just a job. no hard feelings.

ten seconds or you're dead.

i think one day you will understand.

how do you like my english accent?

why won't you just die?

i'll figure it out.

he drove off the roof.

he killed our man.

we're in the middle of an operation.

i sent you to be invisible.

these people will kill you if they have to.

i'm a motherfucking spy.

thanks for your weapon.

look at this. look at what they make you give.

so what's the plan? who are we meeting?

we have to stop the sale of a nuclear bomb.

sorry, the other wire.

i told you to come alone.

you haven't slept for a long time now.

there's a body in the streets.

i'm working on it!

all of the systems are state of the art.

this whole operation was a mole hunt.

nobody does the right thing.

oh, stop screaming. you loved it.

i'm jumping out a window!

you do not have the authority.

we have to find the other bomb.

why are you helping me?

everything i found out, i want to forget.

how could i forget about you?

kill everyone? that's your plan?

you start down this path, where does it end?

how long was i out?

the only person allowed in that room has to pass through a series of security checks.

i got enough trouble, okay?

put the gun down.

i knew it was going to end this way.

they knew we were coming.

if i ever feel somebody behind me, there is no measure to how fast and how hard i will bring this fight to your doorstep.

what's going on at the CIA?

i think we lost enough agents for one night.

you're a total goddamn catastrophe.

someone started this, and i'm going to find them.

you're only alive today because he didn't have the guts to kill you.

you don't understand what you're involved in.

every now and then, send up a signal. let me know you're safe.

the greater the suffering, the greater the peace.

we have to evacuate these people!

you move, you die.

i saved your ass again.

my team! my team is dead!

i tried to protect you.

perhaps we can arrange a meet.

he went out the window. why would someone do that?

i work alone, like you.

i don't think that's a decision you can make.

accept it. you've lost this one.

i heard you talking.

why do you have to make things so fucking complicated?

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[en-wheelz-me]

#cars #car #fast car #ford #mustang #ford mustang #muscle car #american muscle #pony car #pony #restorations #fast cars #tuning #customized #restomod #ringbrothers #espionage

[illustratus]

Page from volume 6 of the 15-volume Hokusai Manga (sketches collection)

by Katsushika Hokusai

#katsushika hokusai #hokusai #art #ninja #ninjas #japanese #japan #edo period #manga #sketches #hokusai manga #hokusai's sketches #martial arts #covert #reconnaissance #warfare #feudal japan #mercenary #guerilla warfare #covert agent #siege #infiltration #espionage #ambush #deception #climbing #rope #bodyguard

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I had to send a message, written by Tumblr, in a world of espionage. I failed the task because you guys (the Tumblr users) couldn't decide on what to write, and nobody knew it was me sending the secret message anyway.

#dream #espionage