‘Stasi: Shield and Sword of the Party’ 2008

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NB. THIS PAPER WILL BE UPDATED REGULARLY AND FREQUENTLY, SOMETIMES ON A DAILY BASIS. IF YOU WISH TO BE INFORMED OF ANY UPDATES AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, PLEASE TELEPHONE Mobile 07799 775262 OR EMAIL TIMOTHY ROBARTS AT THIS EMAIL ADDRESS.

http://www.robarts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=150

I am the publisher and Website Manager of the Robarts.com website and more specifically, of the Intelligence History section of that website. If you would care to click on these two links, your browser should take you to this website and to this section of this website. You should also see that within this section there is an area which is devoted to the promotion of another book about the East German Foreign Intelligence Service (aka. Stasi). The purpose of my approach to you and the purpose of this online presentation of a book or indeed a bibliography on this and other intelligence-related matters is to establish the Robarts.com Intelligence History section as an online source of reliable information about non-fiction books which are being published from time-to-time around the World. It is also to be hoped that this website will also promote interest within the ‘intelligence’ community in books and other ‘open source’ published information sources about the ‘intelligence’ community worldwide.

The Robarts.com website offers a suite of digital online and telecommunications facilities which are not to be found on many (nor any, as far as I am aware) websites which focus on the book publishing industry. One feature of this website will be a section which is devoted to the presentation of an author in person and in the context of his published work. Two examples of this approach will be found in the list of links below. ‘Nazis On The Run’ is a link to a YouTube video presentation by the author in person which provides a brief overview of this book about the search for Nazi war criminals after the end of the Second World War in May 1945. ‘David Pryce-Jones – Treason of the Heart’ is similarly a YouTube link to a recorded interview between the author of a recently published book about people who commit treason out of a sense of personal idealism and Andrew Marr who is a well-respected TV. journalist here in the UK.

The following two link are to an audiofile of an interview with the author of a book entitled ‘Exorcising Hitlet’. This is a book about the denazification of Germany and Western Europe during the years immediately following the end of the Second World War, the impact of the Nuremburg Trials and the onset of the Cold War stand-off with the Soviet Union in Berlin at that time. This is an excellent example of exactly what I have in mind to create and to make available to the ‘intelligence’ community in order to promote interest in your book about the Stasi.

http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/display_product_info.jsp?isbn=9781408812112
http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/extracts/052_taylor_exorcising_hitler.mp3

The attached file – 38.mp3 – is a recording of a recent telephone conversation with a person who emailed me with details of a cryptography conference and who wished me to circulate details of the conference to members of my email distribution list. The purpose of sending you this recording is to demonstrate what can be done to record a telephone conversation from anywhere in the World about any subject of your own choice, to download the recorded .mp3 audio file, to post it either into an email attachment or into the appropriate section of my website at Robarts.com and then to make the recording available to whoever may be interested in what the Robarts.com website has to offer.

The Robarts.com website offers a Blog facility which is available to anyone who wishes to use it to make a contribution to the website itself. A Discussion Forum is also available for anyone who wishes to take a more detailed interest in the subjects which are indicated by the Subject Headings of each section. YOU MUST REGISTER IF YOU WISH TO ACCESS THE DISCUSSION FORUM. Your registration will be screened by the Webmaster to ensure that there exists no possibility that spammers, lurkers, conspiracy theorists and other members of the World Wide Web lunatic fringe are allowed to register themselves on the website. Spamming and other abusive postings have caused websites in the past to become choked with so much rubbish that they have had to be closed down altogether. This is not going to be allowed to happen with Robarts.com. That is why we must insist on a registration process being followed in respect of the Discussion Forum.

I would very much appreciate it if we could have the opportunity to speak by telephone. I would be pleased to telephone you at any time of your own choosing anywhere in the World where you may happen to be. If you would please email me with a telephone number where I can telephone you, I will do so at any time which you indicate as being convenient for you. I would like to discuss with you the purpose and function of the Robarts.com website and its usefulness to a published author. A telephone interview or a series of telephone interviews on the subject of your book and also on the subject of yourself as a published author with any details of the amount of time and effort which went into the research and the writing of the book would be of great interest to the audience of ‘intelligence’ literati and professional historians whose attention will be drawn to your book and to any future books which you may have in mind for the future by receiving an email from this website.

This virtual community will be updated by means of regular and frequent email updates. The Robarts.com website also offers the option of a web / telephone conferencing communications suite so that everyone involved in it can keep in contact with each other. In combination with an audio podcast and the email distribution list, we hope to be able to encourage many other people to take an intelligent and well-informed interest in your book and in you as a published author. We also hope that the archived files on the website will be useful to any other book authors who are researching the subject of the Stasi for the purpose of writing books of their own.

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‘SENSEMAKING – A STRUCTURE FOR AN INTELLIGENCE REVOLUTION.’

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SENSEMAKING. A STRUCTURE FOR AN INTELLIGENCE REVOLUTION.

http://www.ndic.edu/press/pdf/PCN23353.pdf

The author can be contacted via email at david.t.moore@ugov.gov

David T. Moore is a senior intelligence professional and educator.
He teaches critical thinking and structured techniques for intelligence
sensemaking and his research focuses on developing multidisciplinary
approaches to facilitate intelligence sensemaking. His most recent posting
was to the School of Leadership and Professional Development at the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Formerly he served as a technical
director at the National Security Agency where he advocated and mentored
best practices in intelligence sensemaking. He is an adjunct faculty member
of the National Cryptologic School; has taught at Trinity University, Washington,
DC; and lectures at the National Defense Intelligence College and
the National Defense University. He received a Master of Science of Strategic
Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College in 2002.

Re Robarts.com Podcasting & Teleconferencing Facility.

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Thank you for calling me back after I called you earlier today. I hope that we can get together to put in place a functional podcast facility which can be combined with a teleconferencing option to encourage a wide literary audience to take an interest in books which are featured on our website at www.Robarts.com. As you rightly point out, the success of this approach to podcasting will depend on our own ability to attract and to maintain the interest of our audience in the subject matter of the website. We hope and expect any number of book authors and book publishers to take an active interest in what this aspect of the Robarts.com website has to offer the literary public.

The idea is to combine your established expertise in producing professional-quality podcasts with our own ability to assemble an audience for the online material by means of sending out to our email and / or text distribution network members invitations to join a web / telephone conference which is being held online at a given address at a given time. Those who may be unable to attend this online presentation while it is in progress, will be able to review it by receiving an audio-visual file of the proceedings by email and may be able to join an online text chat facility which would be set up to accommodate their own contributions.

How often has a viewer of a television programme or even a YouTube transmission watched something which is of great interest to him and then said, “What a pity I was not able to communicate my own views, opinions, thoughts, suggestions and questions to the other people who were involved in the making and the broadcasting of that programme?”. That viewer might also well say that he or she wished that they had been able to retain a copy of the TV. or YouTube presentation on their own computer files for research purposes and for future reference. This combination of podcasting and online telephone conferencing is intended to address this matter in the way in which we have suggested. We hope that the www.Robarts.com website will be able to provide a well-informed, actively-interested and well-motivated audience which will be able to communicate with each other as well as with a book author whose cooperation the Website Manager will also do all possible to secure.

The following two links should provide you with an online audiovisual presentation of a telephone recording which has been converted into a podcast.

http://www.robarts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=144
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQsQr2ijywc

There do seem to us to be some possible applications for this approach in the directory publishing industry and the trade fair industry as well as other more specialised areas such as international crisis management and renewable energy.

I shall be most grateful to you if you would send me the microphone which you mentioned when we spoke today. I shall also be interested in the recording software which you also mentioned when we spoke. My address in London is as follows :-

Timothy Robarts
57 Yeoman’s Row
London SW3 2AL

I am much looking forward to meeting you in person in early-September 2011 as we have agreed and to continuing our discussion of how to develop the mutual interests of our businesses.

‘Rip Tide’ by Stella Rimington (18 July 2011)

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Stella Rimington – ‘Rip Tide’

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/stella+rimington/rip+tide/8130031/
Synopsis
When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London’s Thames House. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how and why a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do family in Birmingham and end up onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean, armed with a Kalashnikov. After an undercover operative connected to the case turns up dead in the shipping office of an NGO in Athens it looks like piracy may be the least of the Service’s problems. Liz and her team must unravel the connections between Pakistan, Greece and Somalia, relying on their wits – and the judicious use of force – to get to the truth. And they don’t have long, as trouble is brewing closer to home: the kind of explosive trouble that MI5 could do without …Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5, returns with a tense and heart-stopping spy thriller where the stakes are high and the enemy is always just out of sight.

Book details
Published
18/07/2011

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

ISBN
9781408811122

Letter re ‘Skylark’ Podcast recordings.

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Ø http://robarts.com/blog/
SKYLARK. This section will provide you with all the information which you will need to know how this website is intended to serve the interests of those who write books about the Intelligence Community. It should indicate that the recorded telephone conversations which can be made between the Website Manager and the book author or reviewer can be posted to an appropriate section of the website for the information of anyone who has access to the Discussion Forum. It will be necessary for you to register yourself into the Discussion Forum in order for you to be able fully to use it as it is designed to be used. Our telephone conversation(s) can be posted as an audio update to an appropriately named section of the website and the link to this section can be circulated to those who are listed on the Email Distribution List in my computer files for their immediate attention. Any contribution which members of this audience may wish to make may be made by posting an individual Reply or by applying for an audio or online chat web conference which can be made available on this website by emailing a request to the Website Manager.

Ø http://twitter.com/#!/9839
This Twitter page will provide you with links to those sections of the Robarts.com Communications Network which are focused, amongst other matters on published books about the Intelligence Community worldwide. There is a link on this Twitter page which will take you to a section which is specifically about your own book about the Canadian Foreign Intelligence Service. The Twitter page is very similar to the Blog on the Robarts.com website.

Ø http://www.robarts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=136
This link will take you directly to that part of the Robarts.com website which is focused specifically on your own book about the Canadian Foreign Intelligence Service. This is the link which will be circulated to all those people who are in the Email Distribution List in my computer files. This is intended to ensure that the attention of professional writers and Intelligence authors is drawn to your book and that the MP3 audio updates of our telephone conversations will available. This will provide a well-informed background to the published work which may well develop into a new facet of the book publishing industry.

Ø http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HxDBr-qrnU
David Pryce-Jones – ‘Treason of the Heart’ – an example of what can be done with an online book presentation.

This link will take you to a YouTube.com presentation of an interview between published author David Pryce-Jones, television presenter Andrew Marr and several other individuals who are interested in David Pryce-Jones’s recently published book about treason and the political philosophies of those people in history who have committed this offence. This YouTube presentation is an excellent illustration of what I intend to achieve with the Robarts.com Communications Network.

I would like to suggest that I could obtain a copy of this book and study it in as much details as is necessary fully to understand your thesis. When I have done this, I would be grateful to you if you would allow me to telephone you at a time and place of your own choice and convenience. We could then discuss all that has contributed to the writing of the book as well as any future intentions you may have in respect of writing additional books especially about the foreign intelligence service. Having discussed with you the professionalism and the qualifications of some well-known authors who have written ‘spy’ books, fiction and non-fiction, I feel sure that we will be able to publish a website about the writing of your book which will avoid the two extremes often found in this genre of writing. I refer to the extremely negative presentation which was favored by John Le Carre as well as the absurdly melodramatic which has been a characteristic by the books and the movies about James Bond. Our recorded telephone interview would then be posted to an appropriate section of the website and the link could be circulated to the one hundred-odd people in the Email Distribution List in my computer files and then elsewhere in the bookselling / literary community.

I hope that we will be in contact in the near future. I will email you and / or telephone you from time-to-time, if I may to update you with any developments which affect this web publishing project. It may be possible to develop it so that an author can collect and publish information about a subject very quickly, possibly in close to real time. This may be helpful to an author like yourself who is faced with the an overwhelming accumulation of information on a subject and who has difficulty in keeping abreast of developments in his chosen field of research. This must certainly be a problem for anyone who writes about or who works in the field of collecting and evaluating foreign intelligence.