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    Josh Kennelly Mr. Mariano English 9 13 November 2017 Ark Angel Book Report A complex character is a character that has a variety of traits and different sides to their personality. In this story, the complex character I chose was Alex Rider. This is because throughout the story, he does many intriguing, engaging, and critical actions. This is what makes him my complex character. Over the course of the story, Alex learns how to deal with and cope with people trying to kill him. Analytically

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    Australian government takes the form of a representative democracy. Encompassing a political system which allows eligible citizens to vote to elect candidates to govern the nation on their behalf. In conjunction, there are numerous principles Australians consider democracy must embody, if the nation is to be considered a democracy at all. At the heart of Australian democracy are the core defining values of: freedom of election and being elected; freedom of assembly and political participation; freedom

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    their home country. So instead of just providing intelligence support they could also provide operational support as long as those lines of communication and understanding are in place. Potentially the most beneficial advantage to cooperation is that of providing a viable “cover” to mask U.S. actions or interests as local ones and concealing otherwise apparent U.S. behavior in foreign countries. There are also disadvantages to foreign intelligence relationships and liaisons which the United States

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    show it. The importance of espionage in military affairs has been recognized since the beginning of recorded history. The Egyptians had a well-developed secret service, and spying and subversion are mentioned in the Iliad and in the Bible. The ancient Chinese treatise (c.500 B.C.) on the art of war devotes much attention to deception and intelligence gathering, arguing that all war is based on deception. In the Middle Ages, political espionage became important. Joan of Arc was betrayed by Bishop Pierre

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    The beginning of our present day Counter Intelligence (CI) began after WWII with the combined efforts of the U.S. X-2 branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Special Intelligence Services (SIS). These offices gave way to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) responsible for countering activities of foreign intelligence services in the U.S. and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) responsible for coordinating U.S. counterintelligence activities

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    “The Destructors” and “The Lottery” Fiction Essay Introduction Some may say that we are, as human beings, a violent people by nature. We see it in our own history of wars and genocide that the violence in us can grow to extreme proportions. These two stories, “The Destructors” by Graham Greene, and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, show us that some of the violence can be brought on by people simply following blindly. Whether we look at the past or the present, these two short stories, show

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    The Western intelligence agencies worked hard to prevent the Soviet’s expansion. Few factors highlighted the likelihood of destroying Russia. These factors included failed economy and weak Red Army. But the absence of the normal relationship between Soviet Russia and the West, forced Allies to be very careful in their intelligence activities (219). After Cheka’s raids in 1918, the British decided to restore their operation but relocated their bases from Moscow and Petrograd (220). This relocation

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    The 'Secret Intelligence Service ' was derived by the 'Secret Service Bureau ' which was founded in 1909. The bureau was a joint initiative by the Admiralty (authority responsible for the command of the Royal Navy in the UK until 1964) and the War Office (department of the British Government responsible of the Army between the 1700 's - 1964). MI6 was initially founded to oversee activities being conducted by the Imperial German Government at the time. MI6 didn 't play a very big role throughout

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    security working constantly protecting both the land and the borders. 5. Central intelligence agencies. 6. Defense 7. Energy 8. Environmental protection agency and the nuclear regulatory agency are the major key federal bodies working to protect the American citizens at the hour of need. These Counter terrorism agencies work in a way analyzing the threat, sharing the information, managing the national intelligence and finally through the strategic operational planning. The assistance offered to

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    British Secret Intelligence: MI6 Introduction “Hello Mr. Bond.” The character, James Bond, usually comes to mind when one thinks of the British agency MI6. An agency that enables its agents to have a license to kill, enabling them to do anything, at any cost to achieve the greater good, with the head of the agency M sitting behind a desk giving orders. This sounds like an agency that anyone would love to work for. In reality, it is an agency that has been through several wars and has evolved

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