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III.President Roosevelt and The Military Function of the OSS during WWII President Roosevelt had created a centralized intelligence organization through the OSS, but it began to become clear that the function of spying and monitoring had ceased to have a military function. In this case, Roosevelt assigned William J. Donovan to form the OSS as a way to coordinate intelligence data being collected by the armed forces and the government in 1941. Donovan was the key figure in the unification of the

was very successful at her job, however, to this day women are being portrayed similarly to this character with this sexual depiction. Women worked harder than being remembered for their appearance rather, as mentioned by Tammy Proctor in Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War: In contrast to popular myth, many women who assumed dangerous jobs in the field worked as soldier not seductresses The reoccurring motif of the femme fatal spy has been overdone throughout centuries

April, Vladimir Petrov came to the attention of the Australian Security intelligence organisation to be a soviet spy. Vladmir and Edvoodka Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov was born on the 15th of February 1907. His files expose that he was a member of the Soviet Union’s secret services. Sources also indicate that his “intelligence role in Australia included decoding intelligence instructions from Moscow, creating an illegal network of Australian spies, organising surveillance of Soviet citizens

of sabotage and terrorism. Moreover, I predict, based upon various strings of evidence and particular quotes, that Alex will successfully flee from Major Yu’s grip and will be in the possession of M16 or possibly the Australian Secret Intelligence Service; both intelligence services in which Alex has served for in the past. This prediction is due to the fact that Major Yu remarks about his condition which is known as osteoporosis. Osteoporosis, more commonly known as brittle bone disease, is a type

capabilities of our intelligence agencies and the development of a robust national security policy. The challenge Australia faces is defining our national security priorities in today’s globalised world and creating a national security architecture for the 21st century that can enable the Australian Intelligence Communities (AIC) to adequately protect Australia and Australian interests. In order to combat the increasing aspects of asymmetric and transnational threats the Australian Government needed

Imperial Japanese wireless traffic. This resulted in the formation of 1CSWG in Aug 1944, outside of Victoria, B.C. The secretive nature of the unit, and its participation in the Pacific war remained a secret until 1976, when members of the unit were finally awarded the Pacific Star for their service. Destruction of many of the official records related to the unit have resulted in much of its history being lost. As a result, many Canadians, even in the CAF, are unaware of 1 CSWG’s contributions to

because of their Japanese ancestry. Over 6,000 of the Nisei served in the Armies Military Intelligence Service (MIS). In Japan, the military commanders believed that Westerners were not familiar with the Japanese’s language and would not be able to decipher Japanese’s messages and communications. However, they made a grave mistake with this assumption. The Nisei graduates of the MIS language school became the secret weapon to help win the war in the Pacific. The Nisei were deployed in teams

3) “It was not until after 9/11 that democratic countries introduced legislation that criminalised an ‘act of terrorism’” (O’Hare, 2011) To aid police in their fight against terrorism, the Australian Government has made a significant number of changes to current legislation, as well as introducing a number of new counter-terrorism laws to assist law enforcement in responding to terrorist threats. “The states and territories have referred legislative

has also included efforts to regulate citizens’ communications data by means of collecting and storing information gathered by providers of communication services. These efforts are referred to as data retention measures and would grant law enforcement agencies unlimited access to this data (Clarke, 2014). Early this year (2015), the Australian Government amended its Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act in terms of Data Retention, commonly referred to as ‘metadata’. The term metadata

Terrorist cyber-attacks on national institutions will result in greater devastation than a cyber-crime directed against an individual. At the current rate in which technology is increasing, establishments must constantly upgrade their system’s security. If the national institutions fail to be vigilant to the present day cyber threats, they will become victims of terrorist cyber-attacks. “Our nation's government, military, scientific, commercial and entertainment sectors all operate on the same