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Image from Secret Bases website, whose text reads:

US Navy’s Marine Corps Security Force & Naval Criminal Investigative Service
and former GCHQ Eastcote, West London, close-up courtesy of Google Earth

The website entitled Cryptom provides detailed open- source intelligence on a platter for anyone who might care to use it.  Indeed at the very top of their home page is the inscription:

Donate $25 for two DVDs of the Cryptome 12-years collection of 46,000 files from June 1996 to June 2008 (~6.7 GB). Click Paypal or mail check/MO made out to John Young, 251 West 89th Street, New York, NY 10024. The collection includes all files of cryptome.org, jya.com, cartome.org, eyeball-series.org and iraq-kill-maim.org, and 23,000 (updated) pages of counter-intelligence dossiers declassified by the US Army Information and Security Command, dating from 1945 to 1985. The DVDs will be sent anywhere worldwide without extra cost.

It should be noted that, in the intelligence field, they say that 95 percent of intelligence can be obtained via open source (at least in free societies, this is not true in Statist regimes, where even basic information is closely-guarded, punishments for revelations are severe and what information is publicly available if often used as ruse and deception) The other 5 percent, they say, is like a bikini, it’s only covers a small percentage of the nation’s secrets, but it’s a very important five percent.

Like anything security-related, we cannot expect any given secret to be protected by impervious, impregnable protection.  Doors, locks, levels of security classification are founded under the principle at what difficulty or cost they will incur on foreign or hostile intelligence services to breach or obtain.

Why then, make sensitive information available to the Red Chinese, Cuban DGI, North Korea, Libya, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda and any number of hostile groups on a silver platter? 

Taken from the perspective of someone or some organization who wanted to set up surveillance on US government officials, an installation, or transport of sensitive materials, conduct activities related to air transport, with nefarious objectives, Cryptom does a lot of their legwork for free.

For instance, one page details GPS Tracking of Radioactive Material Transport another details the counter surveillance and security, including a detailed look at security personnel and access passes which are then easily faked with the proper color paper and a laser jet printer by anyone, in links entitled Preparing for President Bush at Monticello, VA and Photos of Bush lying at Monticello.

Another page, A Practical Attack on the MIFARE Classic gives detailed methods on defeating security measures, such as MIFARE type security access passes:

Contactless smartcards are used in many applications nowadays. Contactless cards are based on radio frequency identification technology (RFID).... Some target applications of mifare are public transportation, access control and event ticketing.

Other links include such wonders as:

GPS Tracking of Radioactive Material Transport

Israeli Police Stations Eyeball

Storage of Explosives During Transport

Classified National Security Information

Eyeballing US Secret Service Headquarters

We have seen this sort of freelance treason before in the actions of the so-called Institute for Policy Studies

The scandals include federal domestic security investigations during the late 1960s and early 1970s revealing IPS’s more than passing involvement with leaders of the violently revolutionary Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the race hatred of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee(they always have such nice-sounding names, don’t they?). The latter included Ralph Featherstone, who left this world rapidly one evening when the bomb he was holding in his lap exploded before he could plant it at the Maryland courthouse where H. Rap Brown faced charges of incitement to riot. Then there were the investigations of the intimate connections of key IPS members with such hostile foreign powers as Cuba and North Vietnam. There were the investigations of the relationship between prominent IPS associates, the terrorist Weathermen, and Cuba. There was a federal indictment of IPS co-founder Marcus Raskin for draft-evasion conspiracy. And there was the direct involvement of IPS members including Leonard Rodberg in dissemination of the Pentagon Papers stolen by Daniel Ellsberg from the Rand Corporation.

Added to all this were the embarrassing facts made public after the assassination of IPS official Orlando Letelier that the Chilean Marxist-Leninist had for years been spying for the Soviets and working for the Cuban intelligence service, Direccion General de Inteligencia(DGI), as an “agent of influence.”

An expose on the IPS was written by Steven Powell in his book COVERT CADRE which is cited to here:

In the definitive book on the Marxist/CP riddled and funded Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), “Covert Cadre,” 1987, p. 43, author Steve Powell mentioned that the April 24th speakers included PCPJ leader David Dellinger and honorary IPS fellow I.F. Stone, later identified from FBI documents as a one-time CPUSA member and a paid agent of the KGB [see Accuracy in Media’s “AIM Report,” August-B 1994, Vol. XXIII-16]. [Note: For the complete HISC report on the history of the Mobes/PCPJ and the April 24th demonstration, see the Congressional Record, April 21, 1971, “The Second Front of the Vietnamese War: Communist Subversion in the Peace Movement,” which was read into the Record by Congressmen Thompson, Zion and Schmitz. This report was also available, in book form, as “The Viet Cong Front in the United States."]

Doing the legwork for America’s enemies by giving them valuable national defense information is neither innocent nor harmless.  This information can be used by hostile intelligence and terrorist organizations to prepare and conduct attacks on US and allied installations and against key personnel.

It shows the depth of hatred these people have toward America and the clear and present danger they present.  But the question remains: why would a citizen do this against their own country?