The Secret Services : dedicates many chapters on the need, methods & goals of the secret service & how to build then use a network of spies that work for the state. Its goal is to test the integrity of government officials, spy on cartels & population for conspiracy, monitor hostile kingdoms suspected of preparing for war or in war against the state, check spying & propaganda wars by hostile states, destabilize enemy states, get rid of troublesome powerful people who could not be challenged openly.
... ion for a conviction. All the winning cards in the game are in the hands of the bureaucracy in such a trial. They can command the best legal knowledge in the country, they have a detective and secret service system which for political purposes is popularly supposed to be second only in its elaborateness to the Russian, they have their own servants sitting on the bench to try a case in which they are... trial was started. Had it been honestly intended to deal only with the Editor, whoever he might turn out to be, the proceedings against Aurobindo Ghose would have been given up, but the police made no secret of the fact that it was this one man who was wanted and that no other, whatever the evidence against him, would be thought worth capture. Even when the case for the prosecution was complete without ...
... remained a mystery in spite of all kinds of speculations and rumours”, writes Gilbhard. “There are several unproved versions of his destiny, especially those originating in circles of the German secret service which were active in the Orient during the Second World War.” Herbert Rittlinger, biographer of Rudolf von Sebottendorff, alleges “without producing any proof that Sebottendorff was pulled dead... office. The title attracted attention, in the first place of the Bavarian political police. There is little doubt that Sebottendorff wrote the book to present Hitler with the bill of formerly rendered services, and that he thought he might claim his share in the success of the movement he had aided to launch. Soon after the Munich Republic of Councils, when the Thule had been at its most active and several ...
... maintain, and it is this that got them into a dilemma. From A.B. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1978) 149-50. In July 1912 some secret service men threw a tin containing seditious literature into the well of V.V.S. Aiyar's house. As the British agents could not openly act in French territory, they employed Mayuresan, a French Indian,... harassment that the political refugees had to undergo. Page 69 From Government of India. Foreign & Political Dept., General, Conf. B. 1914. No. 2, 1-3, 12-13. SECRET. CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICE. NOTE ON PONDICHERRY. Mr. Ashe, Collector of Tinnevelly District, was shot at Maniyachi, a railway junction in the district, about midday on June... evidence therefore suggested that they came from the same source. Again the second leaflet was all about the Abhinav Bharat (New India) Society. This was the name given by V.D. Savarkar to the secret revolutionary society started by him in Nasik and continued in London and Paris. When it is remembered that Aiyar was V.D. Savakar's right hand man in London and Paris the inference is that the leaflet ...
... this double identification discovers the "secret of Thy sovereign oneness.” This divine commerce between the Transcendent and the Immanent, between the ordaining and initiating Spirit and the actualising Matter through the medium of the surrendered and emancipated human individual, is what the Mother means by true service. Aspiration for Service Once we are convinced that our... in thyself the torch of the eternal splendour which does not waver, and by associating with them, it is this thou wilt carry into their midst”. And in words which give the right clue to the secret of service and the significance of the Mother's role in the world, the Divine says, "Hast thou any need to enjoy this light so long as it spreads from thee ? Is it necessary that thou shouldst feel my love... neglectful sterilization of our creative faculties, and service becomes the watch-word of our spiritual progression. Delight, power, peace, purity, all grow in service, for it is the most spontaneous, concrete expression of our love and devotion for the Divine. And when this initial, preparatory service culminates in what the Mother calls the true service, there is only a beatific interchange of love between ...
... that the police had often found them trfcre, in the circumstances a little suspicion seemed not unnatural. A witness from Midnapore - whom the accused persons from Midnapore however described as a secret service agent — said that he had seen Hemchandra Sen of Sylhet, lecturing at Tamluk. Now Hemchandra had never seen Tamluk with his mortal eyes, yet his shadow-self had rushed from Sylhet to Midnapore and... content without knowing the whereabouts of Drona's bomb? So he asked again: 'What do you mean by that? Tell me what exactly he did.' The witness gave many answers, but in none was Dronacharya's life's secret unravelled as Norton would have liked it. "He now lost his temper and started to shout. The witness too joined the game. An advocate smilingly expressed the doubt that perhaps the witness did ...
... advice was sought on all kinds of subjects religious, moral, political, and personal. The source of its information remains a Page 82 mystery; if it relied upon a secret service, the secret was efficiently kept. The only "natural" explanation of its reply about Socrates is that it was well aware of his true character and ideals and thoroughly approved of them. 11... activities political appointments, secret societies, party organisations which go on in our city; I thought that I was really too strict in my principles to survive if I went in for this sort of thing. So instead of taking a course which would have done no good either to you or to me, I set myself to do you individually in private what I hold to be the greatest possible service: I tried to persuade each one... I think that any person is not wise, I try to help the cause of God by proving that he is not. This occupation has kept me too busy to do much either in politics or in my own affairs; .in fact, my service to God has reduced me to extreme poverty. Page 56 There is another reason for my being unpopular. A number of young men with wealthy fathers and plenty of leisure have deliberately attached ...
... was the supreme authority whose advice was sought on all kinds of subjects — religious, moral, political, and personal. The source of its information remains a mystery; if it relied upon a secret service, the secret was efficiently kept. The only "natural" explanation of its reply about Socrates is that it was well aware of his true character a and ideals and thoroughly approved of them. ... — political appointments, secret societies, party organisations — which go on in our city; I thought that I was really too strict in my principles to survive if I went in for this sort of thing. So instead of taking a course which would have done no good either to you or to me, I set myself to do you individually in private what I hold to be the greatest possible service: I tried to persuade each one... I think that any person is not wise, I try to help the cause of God by proving that he is not. This occupation has kept me too busy to do much either in politics or in my own affairs; in fact, my service to God has reduced me to extreme poverty. There is another reason for my being unpopular. A number of young men with ! wealthy fathers and plenty of leisure have deliberately attached themselves ...
... calibre, the case had all the more taken on the proportions of a play." 16 There were, then, among the numerous "minor characters" the different categories of witnesses: the police and the secret service men; the men eager to please the police; and the people dragged unwillingly to give evidence. The method of examination and cross-examination followed by Norton struck Sri Aurobindo as very perverse... Himself in the form of the Compassionate Mother. He who sees the Lord in all men, in all nations, in his own land, in the miserable, the poor, the fallen and the sinner and offers his life in the service of the Lord, the Lord comes to such hearts... 21 Subjected to a thousand indignities, privations, jeers, insults, was it not surprising that the prisoners could yet find restful sleep at night:... poet's defence, put away from him "all other thoughts and abandoned all his practice" and had for months overworked himself and ruined his health 46 - but it was a great cause and it was heroic service of the Mother as well. Not Sri Aurobindo, but the Mother's great and unique son. Her conscience made manifest, Her flaming heart and radiant soul - these were under trial. It was the Divine's working ...
... other persons. V. V. S. Aiyar being implicated in revolutionary activity came in the year 1912. The British government, in consequence, increased the number of its secret agents, C. I. D. men, in Pondicherry. In July 1912 some secret service men threw a tin containing seditious literature into the well of V. V. S. Aiyar's house. As the British agents could not openly act in French territory, they employed... identified himself in a letter as the man with the shaven head. If the new man inquired about Biren, the fact of their being secret agents would perhaps become known! When Moni got his head shaved, Biren felt sure that all the inmates staying with Sri Aurobindo knew him to be a secret agent, because otherwise Moni would not have shaved his head in spite of his attempt to dissuade him. From that day he... but did not come about deserves to be mentioned in order to give an idea of the atmosphere and the difficulties of those days. There was one Nand Gopal Chetty whose family, which provided stevedore service to steamers touching not only Pondicherry but also Madras, Nagapattam, etc., was rich and influential. Nand Gopal was taking a prominent part in the politics of French India. He seems to have agreed ...
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