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-Caveat Lector- From http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001582581,00.html }}}Begin TUESDAY DECEMBER 18 2001 Guard tried to sell secrets to Russia BY SAM LISTER, MICHAEL EVANS AND HELEN STUDD A SECURITY guard was facing prison last night after an attempt to sell military secrets for almost £1million. Rafael Bravo hoped to cash in from the Russians for secrets he stole while working for British Aerospace. The papers marked UK eyes only and Nato secret detailed top-level defence surveillance systems for Apache helicopters and Harrier jump-jets. But the unassuming Bravo was trapped by a classic MI5 sting when he attempted to pass the stolen documents to British security service agents, believing they were Russians. Bravo stole documents from BAE systems in Stanmore, northwest London, while working as a night guard employed by Crusader, a private security firm. The disappearance of the files sparked a security alert and suspicion fel l on Bravo, who was placed under surveillance. He was phoned at his home in Willesden, West London, by a man posing as a Russian agent. Bravo was arrested during a rendezvous at the White House Hotel in Central London when the Russians revealed themselves to be Brit ish agents. At the Old Bailey yesterday Bravo, 30, admitted six offences under the Official Secrets Act and five under the Theft Act relating to the stealing of documents between June and August this year. Among the documents he obtained, which all related to front-line defence systems, was the design specification for Prophet Asic, a state-of-the-art electronic warfare surveillance system classified a Nato secret. Another document contained data on a DLH ship electronic warfare system, a radar designed to fool enemy anti-ship missiles and considered essential to the defence of UK shipping. A third document detailed secrets relating to the Apache WAH64 attack helicopter, while a fourth was the latest draft of the Zeus MDD, a system information device for anti-aircraft missile protection for Harrier jump-jets . The two further counts to which Bravo confessed related to a document concerning monopulse radar, another top secret security system. Watched by his parents and brother in the gallery, Bravo spoke only to enter his pleas of guilty to obtaining four documents for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, and in one case useful to an enemy under the 1911 Official Secrets Act. Dressed in a grey suit and blue shirt, he showed no emotion throughout the hearing, save for the occasional rearrangement of his glasses and short-cropped hair as he entered his pleas before the Recorder of London, Judge Michael Hyam. Aftab Jaferjee, for the prosecution, said: This case concerns a security guard at British Aerospace in Stanmore, who abused his position of trust by stealing security documents in the course of his night-time patrols. He embarked on an enterprise to sell secrets to a foreign power in this case, the Russians. Rock Tansey, QC, for the defence, said that Bravo was in no way politically motivated in his actions. Mr Tansey described his client as a man of previous good character who came from a very hard- working and decent fam ily. The judge adjourned the hearing for pre-sentence reports and Bravo, who is in custody, will appear in court again on February 1 next year. Neighbours near Bravos bedsit in Willesden, where he had lived since 1998, yesterday expressed their shock at his guilt. They described the security guard as one of the most ordinary people they had ever met. He is understood to have moved there after splitting up from his girlfriend, with whom he has a young child. Jeremy Clifford, manager of SRB Letting Agency in Willesden Green, said: He came from a nice family. Within days of Bravos arrest on August 22, his mother had gone round to the flat to clean it for the next set of tenants. Mr Clifford added: He never seemed the type of bloke you would call a spy. He did not appear clever enough. I would have thought he was an opportunist rather than a cunning thief. Last night Crusader and BAE Systems refused to comment on the case, which has caused considerable embarrassment for both. In 1993 Michael Smith, a GEC Marconi electronics engineer, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for selling secrets to the Russians after pleading not guilty to four charges under the Official Secrets Act. High-tech systems that jam enemy radar were the target THE documents that Rafael Bravo hoped to sell to the Russians were all connected to sophisticated electronic warfare and radar systems (Michael Evans writes). One detailed a US Army programme called Prophet Asic (Application Specific Integrated Circuit). It is developing an electronic warfare system to be fitted to military vehicles, which would locate and jam enemy radars. Ver sions could also be fitted to unmanned air vehicles or drones. The
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-Caveat Lector- From www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : Religion Vatican beatifies anti-Semitic Pope By Peter Reydt 19 September 2000 Back to screen version The beatification of Pope Pius IX has again revealed the deeply ingrained anti- Semitism within the Catholic Church. Pope Pius IX, who reigned from 1846 to 1878, was one of two former pontiffs beatified by Pope John-Paul II on September 3 in a ceremony attended by thousands of pilgrims in St Peter's Square. Beatification is the last step before bestowing sainthood. It was carried out despite widespread criticism by Jewish organisations and liberal Catholics of Pius IX's anti-Jewish record. On the eve of the ceremony hundreds of Rome's Jews and Catholics protested against the beatification in a candlelight vigil. Pius IX was renowned for his frequent anti-Semitic speeches. In one address, he is said to have called Jews dogs of which there are too many present in Rome, howling and disturbing us everywhere. In 1848 Pius IX forced the Jews of Rome back into the old ghetto to which they had been confined for centuries, and in the following year, he enacted racial laws against them. Jews were banned from public hospitals, prevented from giving evidence against Christians in papal courts and excluded from all institutes of secondary and higher education. Israeli historians say that these laws were the forerunners of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's race policies. Leading British church scholar Professor Owen Chadwick said that the nineteenth- century pontiff's record verges on the criminal. In one case, which caused an international outcry at the time, Pius IX personally ordered the forced kidnap and baptism of a six-year-old Jewish boy, Edgardo Levi Mortara in 1858. Pius IX was known for his extreme conservatism. He condemned 80 propositions as erroneous, including socialism, liberalism, communism, rationalism, progress and modern civilisation in general. Catholic conservatives say that Pius IX, who had the longest reign of any Pope, should be celebrated for his heroic values in standing up against the creation of a secular Italy and as a model of Christian life. The decision to proceed with Pius IX's beatification comes after the Catholic Church was forced to suspend that of Pope Pius XII, known as Hitler's Pope. According to John Cornwell, a former seminarian and research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge and author of Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pope Pius XII, the wartime Pope displayed a secret antipathy towards the Jews. Cornwell spent six years researching information in the Vatican archives on Eugenio Pacelli, as Pius XII was known before his election. He had originally intended his book to defend Pope Pius XII against criticism that he had not done enough to stop the Holocaust. Instead he had uncovered evidence that amounted to a wider indictment. As the papal envoy in Munich in 1932, prior to his becoming Pope in 1939, Pacelli considered the Jews to be part of a Bolshevik plot to destroy Christendom and agreed to sanction the Vatican-German Concordat of 1933 that aided Hitler's rise to power. In doing so, he cleared the way for Hitler's Final Solution to continue. He was Hitler's pawn. He was Hitler's Pope, said Professor Cornwell. Although the Vatican was forced to quietly suspend plans for Pius XII's sainthood due to widespread opposition from Jewish groups and others, the Catholic Church has defended his record. During a television interview about Pius XII's wartime role, Archbishop Sambi said that the Vatican had taken the view that public condemnation of the Holocaust would only have made matters worse. I am convinced that a strong condemnation would have increased Hitler's persecution of the Jews. I justify totally what he did to save many Jews. At the end of the war, the Vatican aided the escape of hundreds of Nazis from Europe by issuing them with false Red Cross passports. The so-called rat line involved a network of European monasteries used to harbour war criminals. These were spirited out of Germany and the former Nazi occupied territories to Latin America. Mass murderers like Adolf Eichmann, Klaus Barbie and Ante Pavelic were delivered to the port of Buenos Aires disguised as priests. As in the case of Barbie, some went on to become expert advisers to Latin American dictatorships in techniques of repression and torture perfected by the Third Reich. Last year the Pope had designated the new millennium as a year of purification for the Church. The Vatican issued a 14-page document, We Remember, A Reflection on the Shoah, meant as an act of repentance for its wartime record. During the papal pilgrimage to Israel in March, the Pope had placed a note in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, asking God's forgiveness for the past sins of his Church, and committing Catholics to future brotherhood with Jews. French bishops issued an apology for the Church's support for the collaborationist Vichy
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-Caveat Lector- "The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 B.C. Sound familiar? Especially the line which reads: "...the arrogance of public officials must be moderated and controlled." (Ok. This is the cue for some of you more intellectually pretentious members to get out your history books and explain the prevailing socio-political atmosphere at the time of this quote as if you were writing it off the top of your heads. But first, you may have to look up the word "pretentious." You shouldn't have to, though, for it's a much more commonly used word than, say, "synecdoche." I love me; I'm SO funny!) Verify the lie, HOFFA DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- I loved John F. Kennedy - did you ever see him look down his nose at the American people - while fun was made of his Harvard accent, he never used his genius against the public. Today he is being accused of associating with the very element that caused his assassinaiton. If there was ever a bore, it is Buckley - in his own arrogant manner, he uses the King's english to perfection; butt he could never replace John F. Kennedy's charm, good looks. Buckley hated Kennedy above all, for his intelligenceand I believe, his sense of humor. If you look to some of these arrogant, self-serving albatross on the back of the public at large, remember, its your taxdollrs placing them in these elevated positions where some, prefer to look down at the Americn people rather thn look up to them as their benefactors. See to inform, not impress. John F. Kennedy was my President. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
