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FSB

Focuses primarily on domestic security, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and border guard control within Russia. Purely foreign civilian intelligence was split off into the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), while military intelligence falls to the GRU. However, the FSB still conducts select cross-border operations and surveillance in neighboring states.

SIS Norway background to the Vemork hydroelectric plant

In July 1941, other than some intermittent communications from Skylark B, all the Norwegian section could report was the early stages of four additional operations, three of which aimed to provide ship-watching reports from along the coast. During 1941 a series of operations identified by Greek code-names were initiated. Most of these emanated from suggestionsFortsätt läsa ”SIS Norway background to the Vemork hydroelectric plant”

SAAB going up as Ukraine is being exterminated

Russia continues to bomb Kiev. The company SAAB, which produces weapons exported to Ukraine, is hiring more staff. The United Nations wants peace. Vladimir Putin wants to restore the Soviet Union and does so by exterminating an entire people. SAAB’s business has never been better than it is now.

Kurt von Schleicher – Biography – IMDb

Kurt von Schleicher. German Army Gen. Kurt von Schleicher was born in 1882 in Brandenburg, Germany (then Prussia), the son of an officer in the Prussian army. He himself enlisted in the Prussian army, soon graduating from officer training school with the rank of lieutenant. In 1909 he attended the Prussian Military Academy, where heFortsätt läsa ”Kurt von Schleicher – Biography – IMDb”

The Sumerians

Sumerian culture flourished in Mesopotamia 3000 BC. Life between the rivers was characterized by their capricious behavior, usually they were an inexhaustible source of fertile soil, but sometimes they could flood with devastating results. When the rivers overflowed each year, the water was diverted using canals that led to basins where the water was savedFortsätt läsa ”The Sumerians”

The I.G. Farben trial in 1947

The I.G. Farben Trial, the sixth subsequent Nuremberg proceeding, was tried by the Military Tribunal VI, which had been created by the U.S. Military Government for Germany on August 8, 1947. An indictment was filed on May 3 naming twenty-four defendants, all in the IG Farben industrial concern, and listing five counts: the planning, preparation,Fortsätt läsa ”The I.G. Farben trial in 1947”

Silk road

Silk Road, also called Silk Route, ancient trade route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China. Silk went westward, and wools, gold, and silver went east. China also received nestorian Christianity and Buddism (from India) via the Silk Road.