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History :

• James Bond, Jason Bourne and Austin Powers: Spies infiltrate Hollywood
  "Take a look at secret agents who have captivated moviegoers through the ages."
  - PHOTOS
  (washingtonpost.com)

  

• In pictures: A century of MI5
  100 years of MI5 revealed in first official account
  (BBC)
  
  
  

  MI5
  "The Security Service commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of the intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6), Government Communications Headquarters(GCHQ) and the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS)."
  (Wikipedia)

• Personal Space Invaders
  The top science-and-tech privacy threats of 2007.
  "It's been another big year for scientific and technological encroachments on individual privacy.
  For good or ill, governments and businesses are finding new ways to enter what used to be considered personal space.
  Here are this year's top 10 highlights."
  1. Surveillance cameras. 2. The war on smoking. 3. The war on junk food. 4. The war on salt.
  5. Pedestrian cell-phone use. 6. Naked body scanners. 7. Phone-surveillance ads. 8. Human chip implants.
  9. Mind-reading. 10. Manipulating sexual orientation.
  (slate.com)

  

• Spies and Spymasters - biographies (spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk) :
  George Blake - Guy Burgess - William Colby - John Le Carre - Somerset Maugham -
  Ian Fleming - Graham Greene - Kim Philby - J. Edgar Hoover...
  
  
  

Facts :

• CYBER ESPIONAGE :

  U.S. says China, Russia active in cyber espionage - 3 November 2011
  "China and Russia are using cyber espionage to steal U.S. trade and technology secrets to bolster their own economic development and that poses a threat to U.S. prosperity and security, an intelligence report said on Thursday..."
  (m.ibtimes.com)

  U.S. Takes Hard Line on Chinese Economic Cyberspying
  " U.S. intelligence officials estimate that U.S. companies suffered losses of about $50 billion in 2009 from their research and development efforts.
  This loss represents trade secrets and intellectual property that have been seized through cyber-attacks, piracy and company insider thefts.
  American businesses and their intellectual property are aggressively being targeted by Chinese and Russian intelligence entities, resulting in the
  loss of billions of dollars, according to a report released today entitled: “Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace.”..." 
  (abcnews.go.com)

• 6 Real World Spy Gadgets Straight Out of the Movies (cracked.com)

• Miniature spy helicopter used to hunt pirates
  "It is only seven foot long and weighs just 49lbs but it is the latest weapon in the war on piracy in Africa...
  A remote-controlled mini-helicopter, which can fire tasers, grenades and shotgun shells, is being used to track pirates off the Horn of Africa and enforce law on the streets in the US...
  The discreet Shadowhawk UAV is proving an effective crime-fighting solution for both police forces and private companies."
  ARTICLE + VIDEO
  (telegraph.co.uk)

  

• CIA reveals invisible ink recipes used by WWI spies
  "World War I spies engraved messages on toe-nails and used lemon juice to write invisible letters, classified documents released by the CIA reveal."
  (BBC)

  

   

• The secrets of Anna Chapman - An article + a video
  "Russia's Anna Chapman captured the media world's attention last year when she was deported from the US, accused of being a spy.
  The BBC's Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg investigates "Russia's most glamorous secret agent"."
  (BBC)

  

• Is CCTV creeping too far ?
  "For the last 25 years CCTV has proliferated into public spaces across the UK, but is it going too far to use cameras to give parking tickets and enforce bus lane rules?"
  (BBC)
  
  
  
  

  Drive-by Spies - The growing phenomenon of the CCTV Smart Car
  (bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)
  

  
  
  

  Big Brother Watch 
  "is a libertarian British pressure group founded in 2009 to "fight injustice and campaigns to protect our civil liberties and personal freedoms".
  The group campaigns on a variety of issues including the rise of CCTV, the database state, ID cards and airport body scanners."
  (Wikipedia)

• Wikileaks suspect Bradley Manning's health 'declining'
  "Pte Manning, a US soldier, is being held in solitary confinement in a high-security military prison at Quantico marine base, Virginia."
  CONDITIONS :
  "frazzled / confined to his cell 23 hours a day and is not allowed to exercise or have access to media /
  checked upon every five minutes / light kept in his cell / heavy and uncomfortable blankets / very weak"
  (BBC)

  
  
  
• Wikileaks' Julian Assange tells of 'smear campaign'
  (smear campaign = "campagne de diffamation")
  "Mr Assange is staying at a house in Bungay, Suffolk, after being freed on bail by the High Court in London while awaiting extradition proceedings...
  Mr Justice Ouseley ordered Mr Assange be bailed on payment of £240,000 in cash and sureties.
  The judge imposed strict bail conditions including wearing an electronic tag, reporting to police every day and observing a curfew.
  Mr Assange must also reside at a manor home on the Norfolk-Suffolk border owned by Vaughan Smith, a Wikileaks-supporting journalist and owner of the Frontline Club in London.  "
  + AUDIO
  (BBC)

  "Julian Assange sur les marches de la haute cour de Londres, le jour de sa libération conditionnelle, le 16 décembre 2010."  (20minutes.fr)

  "Julian Assange devant le manoir dans lequel il réside près de Norwich, en Grande-Bretagne, depuis sa libération sous caution, le 17 décembre 2010."  (20minutes.fr)

  
  
  
• Wikileaks' Assange arrested in UK - 7 December 2010
  "Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is due in court in London for an extradition hearing over sexual assault allegations in Sweden...
  A Wikileaks spokesman said Mr Assange's arrest was an attack on media freedom but it would not stop the release of more secret files. "
  (BBC)

  

• At a glance: Wikileaks cables - 3 December 2010
  "Read key revelations and quotes from Wikileaks' release of thousands of US embassy cables."
  (BBC)

• Profile: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange + audio + a video
  "To his fans, Julian Assange is a valiant campaigner for truth.
  To his critics, though, he is a publicity-seeker who has endangered lives by putting a mass of sensitive information into the public domain."
  (BBC)
  
  

• Wikileaks diplomatic cables release 'attack on world' - with a VIDEO
  "US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has denounced the release of classified diplomatic cables as an "attack on the international community".
  (BBC)

• Spying from Space: U.S. Launches World’s Largest Satellite
  "Its mission will be to gather intelligence for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office."
  (mashable.com)

  

• The Top Secret Network of Government and its Contractors - interactive
  45 government organisations in Top Secret America - A Washington Post Investigation
  "Top Secret America" is a project nearly two years in the making that describes the huge national security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."
  (projects.washingtonpost.com)

  

• CIA and FBI sent on museum course to 'refresh sense of inquiry'
  "They are among groups of law enforcement officials, also including New York police officers and members of the US Secret Service, who have attended classes at the city's Metropolitan Museum of Art."
  "There's more to a picture than meets the eye."
  "Don't just look at a picture and see a picture. See what's happening."
  (telegraph.co.uk)
  
  

• The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) - UPDATED
  "is a British intelligence agency responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the UK government and armed forces.
  Based in Cheltenham, it operates under the guidance of the Joint Intelligence Committee."

  
  "A model of GCHQ headquarters in Cheltenham,
  commonly nicknamed "the doughnut"

• White House gatecrashers to be subpoenaed
  "The US Congress has voted to subpoena two White House gatecrashers to answer questions about how they got into a state dinner without an invitation...
  The incident drew a rare public apology from the US Secret Service. Three of its officers were placed on administrative leave over the breach."
  (BBC)

• Date Check
  "Simply enter a name, phone number or email address and instantly get
  accurate and comprehensive results. With features like Sleaze Detector, Compatibility, Net Worth, Interests and Living Situation you can be
  in the know on the go. "Look up before you hook up."
  (intelius.com)
  Intelius Date Check  (YouTube) - UPDATED

  
  

   

• BIG BROTHER BINS

  

  Tagging technology to track trash
  "The ebb and flow of thousands of pieces of household rubbish are to be tracked using sophisticated mobile tags...
  It is hoped that making people confront the final journey of their waste will make them reduce what they throw away...
  In order to monitor how the pieces of rubbish move around the cities and beyond, the MIT team has developed a small mobile sensor that can be attached to individual pieces of waste. ..
  Everything will be traceable. "
  - with a VIDEO
  (BBC)

• From pet poo problem .... to CCTV debate - Is it right to be spied on?   
  
  Pet poo problem
  (sabironlangues.typepad.fr)

• China bans foreigners from new spy museum
  "Popular attraction features guns disguised as pens, wire-tapping displays"
  (msnbc.msn.com)

   

• Jane Bond ? British recruiters seek female spies
  "Britain's secret spy agency, home to the very white and very male 007, is hunting for women and minorities to tackle global terrorism..."
  (Associated Press)

  
  
  

• Secret Intelligence Service (Wikipedia)
  "The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6 (originally Military Intelligence Section 6),
  or the Secret Service or simply Six, is the United Kingdom's external security agency."
  

  

• The Security Service, usually called MI5,
  " is the British counter-intelligence and security agency....
  It is mainly concerned with internal security, whilst the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) looks after external security."
  (Wikipedia)

  

• Organization - Security Service MI5 (fas.org)

  

• CIA Homepage for Kids (cia.gov):
  K-5th Grade Homepage - Who We Are & What We Do - The CIA Seal - Operation History - Intelligence Book List - CIA Canine Corps - Aerial Photography Pigeons - Games - Say No To Drugs - Spy-Fi Archives - Other Government Kids Pages
  Tout sur la CIA avec des jeux et le "World Fact Book".
  
  
  
  

• FBI - Kids Page (fbi.gov)
  About the FBI - Safety - Working Dogs - Games
  
  

• Federal Bureau of Investigation (Wikipedia)
  
  

  1 Overall mission 2 History 3 Organization 3.1 BOI and FBI Directors 3.2 Hiring process 4 Publications 5 Crime statistics 5.1 Uniform Crime Reports 5.2 National Incident Based Reporting System 6 Media portrayal 7 Criticism 8 See also 9 Further reading 10 References 11 External links

  
  

• List of intelligence agencies (Wikipedia)

• James Bond (Wikipedia)
  
  

Vocabulary :

• Military fact file: Drones
  "To the military, they are UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) or RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems).
  However, they are more commonly known as drones...
  Those used by the United States Air Force and Royal Air Force range from small intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance craft, some light enough to be launched by hand, to medium-sized armed drones and large spy planes."
  (BBC)
  

  MQ-1B Predator / MQ-9 Reaper

  
  
  See Unmanned aerial vehicle (Wikipedia)

• Tools of Tradecraft: The CIA’s Historic Spy Kit
  "From mosquito drones to couture cameras, the CIA had its agents' needs covered.
  Some of these devices are now displayed in the CIA's museum, located at the agency's Langley, Virginia, headquarters...
  Recently the CIA launched a Flickr stream with images of some of its declassified historic spy tools. "
  (wired.com)

  

   

  Tools of Tradecraft: More Spy Gear From the CIA, Others
  "We've expanded the rogue's gallery of ingenious spy gadgets with a raft of devious tricks from the former Soviet bloc and other countries,
  including a lipstick gun, shoe bug..."
  (wired.com)

  

• to keep tabs on somebody = 'avoir ou tenir quelqu'un à l'oeil'

• INTELLIGENCE   / LE RENSEIGNEMENT
  (english-for-techies.net)

  

• Wiretapping (static.howstuffworks.com)

  

  "Telephone tapping (or wire tapping/wiretapping in the US) is the monitoring of telephone and Internet conversations by a third party, often by covert means."
  (Wikipedia)

• Glossary (mi5.gov.uk)

• A surveillance camera (howstuffworks.com)
  See TECHNOLOGY
  
  

Listening :

• SIS - Career profiles - UPDATED
  AUDIO + SCRIPT
  (sis.gov.uk)

• The Real James Bonds - with the script (BBC)
  "In this programme we meet two real James Bonds, officers who work for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)...
  Do real agents have a licence to kill? Does 'M' exist? What about gadgets? Find out the answers in this programme."

INTERACTIVE activities :

• Spies - interactive activity
  "Spies need gadgets, or special tools, to help them do their work - for example, a backpack that they can also use as a parachute.
  If you want to be a spy, you need to know what gadgets can do!
  On the left you'll see some pictures of gadgets that a spy might use.
  On the right you'll see some sentences - these tell you what a spy can use the gadgets for. Can you guess what the gadgets can do?
  Match the pictures with the descriptions. Can you guess correctly? Could you be a spy?"
  (British Council)

  

• More activities about spies (British Council) - UPDATED

• The Secret Service - interactive (manythings.org)

Activities TO PRINT :

• Wikileaks: quiz on leaked State Department cables discussing world leaders
  "The leaked State Department cables publish by Wikileaks disclose a wide-range of opinions about world leaders.
  Test your knowledge on who was described what."
  (telegraph.co.uk)

  

• Stormbreaker trailer - a worksheet + Questions
  sent by Beatrice Sauderais (Ac. Nantes)
  + The trailer.
  (YouTube)
  
  

• Brevet 2004 - My name is Bond! - PDF (limousin.iufm.fr)

Lesson plans :

• WikiLeaks Founder Hiding From “Superpower” (4th December, 2010) - a lesson plan
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

  

  Julian Assange
  (Wikipedia)

• Russian Spy Wants to Stay in USA (4th July, 2010) - a lesson plan
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

• PROJECT JAMES BOND (Madie - Ac. Paris)
  TASK 1 * TASK 2 * TASK 3 * TRANSLATE * DICTIONARY * SYNONYMS
  
  
  

Webquests :

• SAFE or TRAPPED ? - a webquest (about Biological Identification, Technological Devices and Surveillance)
  Niveau : 4ème - 3ème
  

  
  
  Après la webquest :

  Imprimer les images sur un transparent afin de faire parler les élèves,
  l'objectif étant de retrouver les connaissances acquises lors de la webquest.

  

   

• The CIA (niveau 3ème)
  - with crosswords
  
  

Videos :

• US advances in drone development - 29 December 2011
  "Private companies are developing smaller, more sophisticated unmanned military drones to be used for air strikes or reconnaissance missions."
  (BBC)

  

• 'Hummingbird' Spy Drone Takes Flight - Newsy Video
  "After years of development the hummingbird drone is in flight, and now there's speculation on how Uncle Sam will use it." View transcript >>
  (jeffreyhill.typepad.com)

  

   

  Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
  "No, it's the army's latest $4million spy drone disguised as a hummingbird, measuring just 16 centimetres."
  - with a VIDEO
  (dailymail.co.uk)
  

• Mark Zuckerberg Named TIME's 'Person of the Year' + the TRANSCRIPT
  "Some in the media say Zuck deserves it- others say- Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange- was robbed..."
  (newsy.com)

• Wikileaks Christmas Song 2010
  "Dan and Dan blow the whistle with their Wikileaks Christmas Song 2010.
  Looking for Christmas gift ideas? Worried about freedom of speech?
  Why not combine the two! Are they really going to expose all those Christmas lies?"
  (YouTube)

  

• Wikileaks keeps on publishing despite arrest - UPDATED
  (YouTube)

  

• WikiLeaks Starting an All-out Cyber War?
  "Online hackers are extracting revenge against financial websites supporting a crackdown on  WikiLeaks.
  The hacks are forcing the websites to crash."
  (jeffreyhill.typepad.com)
  See transcript >> (newsy.com)

  

• Newsy Video: WikiLeaks—Where Should Journalists Draw the Line?
  "As the WikiLeaks document dump makes news around the world, some are blaming news organizations for working with the whistleblower website.  Read transcript >> "
  (jeffreyhill.typepad.com)

  

• Stormbreaker 
  "is a 2006 British spy film based on Anthony Horowitz's novel of the same name...
  Alex Rider ... is a fourteen year-old orphan, who lives with his uncle Ian Rider ... and their housekeeper Jack Starbright...
  Ian is supposedly a bank manager and is, much to Alex's regret, often away from home. One day Alex is told that his uncle has died in a car crash. Alex subsequently discovers that Ian Rider was in fact a spy working for MI6 and that he was killed by famed assassin..."
  (Wikipedia)
  
  

  Watch the trailer.
  "Alex Rider (Alex Pettyfer) is a normal teenager who lives with his uncle, a nondescript bank manager... or so it seems until his uncle—Ian Rider
  (Ewan McGregor)—disappears under mysterious circumstances. Alex soon learns that his uncle was a spy for Britain's secret intelligence service MI6, and he is recruited to take on a dangerous mission for the British secret service to infiltrate the organization of a sinister billionaire
  (Mickey Rourke).  Within days he's gone from schoolboy to super spy —but will Alex's first assignment be his last?"
  (YouTube)
  
  Stormbreaker trailer - a worksheet + Questions
  sent by Beatrice Sauderais (Ac. Nantes)

• Inside a spy shop
  "Spencer Kelly takes a look around a spy shop at some of the products available to help keep tabs on people.
  These include a watch, a box of tissues and a pen that all contain hidden cameras."
  (BBC)
  to keep tabs on somebody = 'avoir ou tenir quelqu'un à l'oeil'

• Pigeon : impossible
  "A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training:
  what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase."
  (YouTube)

  

• Intelius Date Check  (YouTube) - UPDATED

  
  

  Date Check
  "Simply enter a name, phone number or email address and instantly get
  accurate and comprehensive results. With features like Sleaze Detector, Compatibility, Net Worth, Interests and Living Situation you can be
  in the know on the go. "Look up before you hook up."
  (intelius.com)

• Tortured Logic - an animation by Mark Fiore
  (markfiore.com)

  

• Aye, Spy! - Animation de Mark Fiore
  (markfiore.com)

  

• Surveillance - Pizza Palace (aclu.org)
  "The government and corporations are aggressively collecting information about your personal life and your habits.
  They want to track your purchases, your medical records, and even your relationships..."
  (adcritic.com)
  
  

Cartoons :

TV series :

• The Prisoner
  "a British 1960s television series starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan which combines spy fiction with elements of science fiction,
  allegory and psychological drama."
  (Wikipedia)
  
  

Cinema :

• J. Edgar
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  "is a 2011 English-language thriller film directed by Tomas Alfredson, from a screenplay by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan based on the 1974 novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré...
  Set in London in the 1970s, the story follows the hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service."
  See Variations from the novel
  (Wikipedia)
  
  

• Spy films (Wikipedia)
  
  

• James Bond, Jason Bourne and Austin Powers: Spies infiltrate Hollywood - PHOTOS
  "Take a look at secret agents who have captivated moviegoers through the ages."
  (washingtonpost.com)