...reflecting the United States government with the court of Salem, people who were accused and arrested for being a Communist, in addition to fear with how scare tactics impacted societies. The Red Scare influenced the book “The Crucible” by reflecting the United States government with the Court of Salem. During the Red Scare, the United States government and the communist Soviet Union became engaged in a series of largely political problems with economic clashes. Both the Soviet Union and the United States’ intense rivalry caused tension between these two superpowers which raised concerns in the United States that communists were inside America might have been working as Soviet spies. These Soviet spies were said to perhaps, pose a threat to the U.S security. As for the Court of Salem, a group of young girls claimed to be...
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...Global Strategy Mike Dresser MGT 536 March 11, 2013 Cyber espionage is quickly becoming one of the most feared tactics around the world, but most recently, the computer spy game between China and the United States has been elevated to new levels. Just within the last few days, The New York Times broke a story pin pointing Coca Cola as one of the main targets of a Chinese sponsored cyber attack. Many believe this was largely due to discussions that Coca Cola had with China Huiyuan Juice Company regarding a potential acquisition. If it had gone through, this would have been the largest acquisition of a Chinese company by a foreign corporation. However, due to an elaborate Chinese cyber spy operation, they attempted to hack into Coke’s files to find information about Coca Cola’s negotiating strategy, and the deal was ultimately terminated because of deceptive practices. This is only the tip of the iceberg as cyber spy attacks are becoming more and more prevalent across the globe with no signs of slowing down. Mandiant, a cyber security company, also made front page news this past week when they published a full detailed report that traced a series of cyber attacks on a variety of U.S. companies, as well as many of our government agencies, such as the Department of Defense, NASA, and the Department of Commerce. Mandiant specifically identified a Shanghai based operation known as the People’s Liberation Army...
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...George Orwell’s novel “1984” compares to Hitler’s German Nazi Party through control of their thoughts and using their values to corrupt other people’s minds. Not only did he use tactics such as corruption, but he also used group thinking as a way to expand ideas. Along with group thinking came infallibility. Both Big Brother and Hitler thought of themselves as “infallible”. Along with the thought of themselves being “infallible”, both Big Brother and Hitler ruled with a Totalitarian form of government. Both men discouraged private life and always wanted to know every area of the people’s lives. They took advantage of the Totalitarian government by implementing fear into society, but they did so by different means. Big Brother used tactics such as thought police and telescreens or microphones, while Hitler made use of concentration camps. Prejudice was also a big part of Big Brother’s and Hitler’s reign of terror. Big Brother was prejudice against people of intelligence, while Hitler was prejudice against the Jews and anyone that wasn’t a part of his so called superior race. Both men wanted a perfect or ideal race of people, and they both strove to achieve their “perfect” race through forms of control and torture. If the people didn’t conform Big Brother implemented “doublethink” or would vaporize the people. Hitler would put people into concentration camps, they would be abolished. People would just disappear, their entire lives erased like they never existed. Big Brother...
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...the world today. Even though Oceania was a totalitarian government some of the tactics used to control its citizens are being used currently. The themes of 1984 occur in the present. Orwell wrote 1984 to give an example of what totalitarian country would be like in the future. At the time during World War II where dictatorship governments were all around the globe. Some of the things that the government did actually happens today. For example, Oceania used telescreens to spy on the citizens. In America there are cameras anywhere there are buildings and stop lights. Oceania also controlled what news and history the citizens were supposed to know about. Americas government...
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...marked as a period of mass fear of Communism. American fears of internal communist infiltration reached Its highest point since the First Red Scare of the 1920-30s. Government organizations investigated millions of americans, “asking what books and magazines they read, what unions and civic organizations they belonged to, and whether they went to church” (Gilder Lehrman). This time period was also marked by the major shift and blacklisting of celebrities primarily in show business. One of the people who took full advantage of the mass hysteria was Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin. McCarthy began his crusade by giving a speech at the Women’s Republican Club of Wheeling, in West Virginia, where he stated that he had a list of over 220 confirmed communists living in the US. The numbers of this statement dropped over the years as people began to watch him more closely. However this didn’t stop him from rising to more power, after the Republicans regained a majority in the senate, McCarthy took control of a subcommittee, and performed investigations on government agencies. Other Cold War “activists” consisted of Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey, union leader Walter Reuther, men who spoke out against McCarthy's tactics, but still agreed with a lot of his core beliefs. While this led to a divergence of tactics between activists, it still led to a growth in Anti-Communist sentiments through “Public Education” films and propaganda to increase the fear in the people of the new...
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...Assignment on NSA Edward Snowden Revelations and Congress reaction By ABC Date; NSA Edward Snowden Revelations and Congress reaction 1. NSA Edward Snowden Revelations The first bombs hell story was published on the basis of the top secret documents. This was related to the national security agency who spy on the American citizen. When the story was leaked, it was not mentioned that the treasure trove is based on NSA documents and source was not come in front. After three days, the person has leaked his identity. When the identity was leaked, it is revealed that he is “Edward Snowden”. Some of revelations were in queue and in coming years, explosive stories started to trickle the documents. Some of revelations are following: 1. Sweeping...
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...Japanese spy Amleto Vespa's account of his espionage activities in Manchuria emphasized the cynicism, corruption and savagery of the Japanese army's colonial rule in China, suggesting “It is in their nature to be false” and “espionage and secret propaganda are arts in which they excel”.This gives value to the revisionists perspective as it indicates the lack of evidence could be interpreted as a demonstration of how carefully planned and processed...
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...information-oriented companies must accept. That's why in China, if you type the words "Tiananmen Square" or "Dalai Lama" into Google (or Baidu, the country's leading search engine), you will find mostly blocked sites. At the same time, China has been busily developing the world's most elaborate apparatus devoted to cyber-spying and cyberattacks. Chinese hacking has ramped up over the past few years, directed not only at human-rights organizations, but, importantly, at foreign businesses and governments. Many, if not most, such attacks originate from China; former National Security Agency director William Studeman has called them the "biggest single problem" facing the U.S. national-security establishment. Great powers spy on each other, but China's efforts appear to be unusually intense. They are also new. U.S. officials who have served in the People's Republic say that only a decade ago, they didn't need to sweep the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for bugs because the Chinese government would never spy on America so blatantly, for fear of the loss of face it would suffer if discovered. The most significant shift that might be taking place in Beijing...
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...Counterintelligence and Chinese wave of spies INTL 408 B001 SPR 15 Professor John Dolan June 29, 2015 Introduction China has set a goal for itself to become a global power; having full dominance in the Pacific region. (Secretary’s International Security Advisory Board ISAB) It wants to dominate the region and the United States with its economy growth, military domination, and technological advancement. To achieve their strategic goal, Chinese leadership is trying to modernize every aspect of their economy and military. On the economic arena this means accelerated growth through technological development. (ISAB) On the military side, it means modernizing its military from a manpower-based land army to a technology advanced and proficient army on a world scale. (ISAB) In order to achieve this level of modernization and growth, China uses every effort and means possible. That means buying new technologies from the West, but it also means using espionage to acquire secret corporate and military intelligence. China utilizes its intelligence security services in these efforts, but also has called upon Chinese immigrants/expats with ties to Chinese heritage that hold key access at important industries such as naval and aviation. This creates an insider threat for United States’ security. Secret data on U.S. military technology is being stolen by a long-term Chinese insider threat that is being...
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...The Dublin Castle stepped up against the United Irishmen infiltrating the organization and punished people of the society harshly. Due to the United Irishmen's huge numbers, it was easy for the government to infest the organization with spies and informants. Samuel Turner, one of Britain’s most important spies, became a senior conspirator for the United Irishmen. The Dublin Castle also strengthened their defense forces in order to prevent the Irish from receiving outside help from he French. By 1798, it seemed that aid for the rebellion was not a possibility for the...
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...of us we can still recall a time when it didn’t exist. Eavesdropping has been a complex endeavor and has been evolving over the years from placing a listening device which had a built in microphone and a short distance transmitter. Now it is complex algorithms that can when completely decrypted give a person or an organization complete information on a person and allow them access into a private life. I say private life when in all actuality we seem to be more responsive to sharing everything with everyone in fact it is a lack of anonymity and of a global pandemic of sharing information that when dissected may not or maybe should not be shared. The prospect of this paper is to look at the intrusiveness from not just companies but government organizations into our lives. Now in a couple of instances I can see how and why these organizations are conducting their business and intrigue into our lives. Now some will claim that this is all for the...
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...COUNTERINTELLIGENCE O F F I C E O F T H E N A T I O N A L C O U N T E R I N T E L L I G E N C E E X E C U T I V E October 2011 Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................ i Scope Note ........................................................................................................................................... iii US Technologies and Trade Secrets at Risk in Cyberspace.....................................................................1 The Appeal of Collecting in Cyberspace................................................................................. .....1 Security and attribution ....................................................................................................... 1 Faster and cheaper .............................................................................................................. 2 Extra-territoriality ................................................................................................................ 2 Large but Uncertain Costs........................................................................................................... 3 Pervasive Threat from Intelligence Adversaries and Partners ...............................................................4 China: Persistent Collector..............................................................................................
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...During WWII many women for the first time held jobs and responsibilities outside the house. Following the war though women were forced out when the men returned. The tactic used against them were pressuring them and even government interference. Even though it worked for the most part, most women continued to work and defy the attacks. During the 1950’s though most women couldn’t land a job, according to Mix book, “In the 1950's women could barely ever land a job. Unfortunately, they held less than 40% of the professional positions”) ("How has Life for Women Changed from the 1920's to the 50's to Now? - Education Photo Book"). Many women even if qualified for jobs in the 50’s would usually lose the job to a male counterpart. Many women during this time would join local groups of women to fight the...
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...Eisenhower picked up right where Truman left off and visited Korea to end the war, which was the same policy as his predecessor. In Vietnam, when Communist forces started to gain power, Eisenhower had a very similar approach to Truman in Korea, with Vietnam being divided along the 17th parallel and Eisenhower aiding the anticommunist south. Similarly to Truman in Greece and Turkey, Eisenhower lended US military and economic aid to the Southern Vietnamese. This also held true with the Eisenhower Doctrine, which spread US aid to countries fighting communism in the Middle East. A new tactic of Eisenhower’s that was something Truman-esque was the use of covert action in South America. By using US spies (the CIA) Eisenhower was able to stop or at least slow the advancement of communism in South America, which was something that went along with Truman’s containment policy. During this time, the federal government started treating African-Americans better than they ever had. With Brown v. Board, significant legislation was passed that would not only allow for better education of African-American children, but also a monumental moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The decision of Brown overturned a the hideously racist case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which had been tormenting African-Americans for decades. Furthermore, the resistance against this case actually showed more improvement in Civil Rights. In the case of Little Rock Central High School, president Eisenhower sent federal guard to protect...
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...Philip Zelikow Terrorism is not a new phenomenon. The use of terror tactics as a means of coercion, dates back to the 1st and 14th centuries AD. The first documented instance of terrorism that most resembled modern day terrorist tactics is attributed to the Zealots of Judea. This “terrorist” group showed many if not all the characteristics of modern day terrorists; being politically/religiously motivated, the organization of their group, and ultimately their goal, which was to strike fear into not only the current leaders or governing authority but into anyone who they felt agreed with the current state of politics. In short, though, their endeavor was ultimately unsuccessful, “the fact that they are remembered hundreds of years later, demonstrates the deep psychological impact they caused” (terrorism-research, 2013, n.p). Though terrorism is often associated with physical acts of violence, the ever increasing globalization of the world, and the increasing dependency on technology has given way to a new tactic that can be destructive to property, finances, and media. Cyber-terrorism is a new occurrence but is highly effective, and until recently the United States had no formal “cyber-protection” in the private sector. The beginning of the cyber-defense initiative is debatable. However, there is one event in recent history that often been described as the beginning of cyber warfare. The US/Chinese Spy Plane incident was not an event that garnered much media attention. However...
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