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Daily Mail, Monday, July 2, 2007
By Nicola Tallant

Dublin 'now a spy hub'

The capital is 'like Berlin during the Cold War' - a world centre of industrial espionage, claims a former CIA agent.

. A former senior CIA agent has claimed that Dublin has become a world centre of industrial espionage where top corporations can buy secret information on their rivals.
. Bob Baer, whose life inspired the spy movie Syriana starring George Clooney, says Dublin is now 'just like Berlin during the Cold War'.
. In an interview for the new RTE radio series, Highway 101, Baer says that the capital has built up its reputation over the past ten years and is now the location of choice for organisations requiring solutions to problems with the Russian Mafia.
. 'It has become a centre for commercial spying.' he told broadcaster Myles Dungan, the Highway 101presenter.
. 'If I want to know about you, if I want cell phone records for example, I get your land line and can do a data search to get your cell number in Ireland very easily' said Baer.
. 'If I want to know everyone you have talked to in the last six months, there is a service in Dublin where I can go to and buy that information,' he added, sounding like a character from a spy novel.
. '[Dublin] is just like Berlin during the Cold War because you have Russians coming through an the police sort of turn a blind eye.
. 'If a big corporation is having a problem with the red mafia they might go to Ireland because there are security companies there that will help look into it', he continued, though he sounded vague on why Dublin was chosen.
. 'Don't ask me how it ends up in Dublin ... I just know it does. That is where people go for answers.'
. But they also look to the North, he explained.
. 'There is also a lot of telephone data available in the North. You can check out people worldwide through Dublin and the North. You can get all their telephone records within 30 minutes. It will cost a lot of money but it is about industrial espionage and I know it exists.'
. Baer, who was based in the Middle East for almost two decades, says that before he quit in 1997, Ireland was never a strategic target for United States intelligence gathering.
. 'Ireland was never a strategic target for United States. Instead, he said 'the Irish looked the other way. Even on Iran contra the looked the other way. I think our chief of station in Iran had an Irish passport.
. 'The Irish were very co-operative. They were on our side in the Cold War,' he said.
. 'If there was a particular Russian they would give him to us. I think it was the Special Branch co-operating. I have never worked with the Irish so I don't know. The CIA never had any problems doing anything they wanted to do in Ireland. We couldn't do crazy stuff but when it was spy versus spy, that was fine.'
. However, he stressed that things have changed in the last decade and now Ireland is a hub for undercover commercial spying.
. In the interview Baer also recounted how he had to undergo though training at the notorious CIA camp nicknamed 'The Farm' before being posted as an undercover agent.
. Since quitting the CIA, he has worked as an author and documentary maker, re-married and is set to adopt two Czech children over the coming months.
. 'I have a totally normal life now. I have a garden and dogs,' he said.
. Highway 101 will be broadcast on RTE Radio 1 next Saturday morning at 9.10 and runs for nine weeks.

[Mr.Val]

ето нужно поместить в рубрику "само приползло.."

[YellowMan]

Да нет - мужик прав.
Тут действительно слишком много европейских филиалов корпораций и слишком большой градус общего раздолбайства чтобы не привлечь сюда подобных дел.
Другое дело что а нам-то что от этого?

[octopus]

"Вспоминается ставший уже классическим пример, когда в конце сороковых годов на почве антисоветизма американский министр обороны Д. Форрестол попал в психушку. Конец его был и вовсе печальным: бедолага окончательно тронулся умом и выпрыгнул в окно с криком "Русские идут!".

[Mr.Val]

согласен-филиалов и раздолбайства здесь много....но кто сказал что за коммерческим шпионажем стоит только русская мафия....по моему етим может заниматься кто угодно...в первую очеред товарисчи из CIA...ужо больно они хотят все проблемы на русских свалить

[YellowMan]

"Русская мафия" - это товарный знак, этакий франчайзинг.
Вот если татарин и еврей вместе воруют из ИБМ для Тошибы, делая копии для ЦРУ и ФСБ - русская ли это мафия?
Ясное дело что русская

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Сообщение от octopus

"Вспоминается ставший уже классическим пример, когда в конце сороковых годов на почве антисоветизма американский министр обороны Д. Форрестол попал в психушку. Конец его был и вовсе печальным: бедолага окончательно тронулся умом и выпрыгнул в окно с криком "Русские идут!".

Ну если антисоветизмом называть знание реального положения дел и перспектив развития ситуации (что Форрестолу было положено по должности), то вы правы.