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DEMOLITION DAYS, PART 82

Continuing
“Um, yeah,” I say, “Look Leo. Maybe we all got off on the wrong foot. Dinner’s going so go ahead and get your camp set. There’s cold beer and hot coffee if you like, some vodka if you care to partake. We’ll be eating in about an hour.
“Very well,” he says, spins on his heel and stomps off.
“Oh, good,” I think, “that went real well.”
Back at the campfire, Chuck and Al already have their tents set up and their gear in their tents; as I had their tents in the back of my truck.
They were still fuming, but already on their second beer.
“Well, so much for orientation tonight,” I say. “We’ll do dinner and afterward have a little powwow and let Leonard know just how the cow ate the cabbage.”
We sit around and tend to the lovely bison flank roast. It smells delectable.
Over beers and vodka, Chuck and Al are mellowing out slightly. The smells of the imminent dinner push out the last of their exasperations.
They help me maneuver my worktable over as it will now serve double duty as a dinner table. All the mugs, plates and utensils are set out. I bring the roast over and let it rest a while whilst I refresh my drink.
The camp potatoes are done to a turn. The corn on the cob is roasted to perfection. I busy myself making my signature mixed-berry cobbler a la Dutch Oven for dessert.
I even have a few cans of store-bought whipped cream. A special treat.
I tell Chuck and/or Al to call Leonard over to dinner.
I busy myself with service.
Chuck, Al and I dig in. Leonard’s nowhere to be seen.
I throw a paper towel over my food, get up, and go off over to Leonard’s tent.
Holy fuckbuckets. He’s got a huge canvas cabin tent. It’ll last forever out here. That is until the first gust of wind over 5 K/h blows through.
“Leonard,” I say, “Chow time.”
“It will just have to wait.” He replies, “I have to finish with my tent and get my supplies moved in.”
“Food’s ready now!,” I say, “This isn’t a fucking cafeteria y’know, Sonny Jim.”
I turn and walk back to my dinner.
I sit and grab some sourdough bread to sop up the lovely bison flank roast gravy.
“Parcel post?” I say to Chuck and Al. “He doesn’t rate fourth-class.”
We are all finished with dinner, even with Whortleberry cobbler with fresh, canned whipped cream. There’s a considerable pile of dishes. We’re all sitting around with our post-prandial drinks and smokes.
“Guys,” I say, “Can you please do the dishes tonight? It’s his first night. “
Al and Chuck say no problem. Then they ask about Leonard.
I sit and think, then I get a bit peeved. I’m running this show. I’m not used to nor allow anyone to push me around.
I growl to the guys, “Damn it all to hell, I can tolerate arrogance. I can tolerate self-importance. But this insolence, and everything on his schedule. This shit is going to stop now.”
I stand up and loudly yell: “LEONARD! Front and center, NOW!”
Leonard slouches over some minutes later.
“You going to eat?” I ask.
“Well,” he says exasperated, “After your display at my tent, I went ahead and ate what I bought for myself.”
“OK, Chuckles,” I say, “Grab a seat. We’re havin’ a ‘Come to Jesus’ meeting, right fucking now.”
Leonard rolls his eyes skyward and grudgingly accepts a seat from Al who stands back to watch the fireworks.
“OK,” I begin, “Number one: lose the attitude. This is not a colloquium, or a day at the club, or your private vacation. This is serious work.”
He looks at me through bored eyes.
“Secondly,” I add, “I’m the hookin’ bull around here. The boss man. What I says, goes; or you do. Got that? I’m not one for sugar coating anything, just ask Chuck and Al.”
Chuck and Al look at Leonard and emphatically shake their heads yes.
“Third,” I continue, “I don’t give a blinkered albino rat fuck who you were back in the world or what you think you are here. You are my field hand. That’s it. Pure and fucking simple. You will listen and heed every fucking little bit of what I tell you and you will fucking–A rightly comply. Either you do that or you leave. Don’t listen to me and choose to stay and you may end up finding yourself dead.”
He looks at me like I just kicked Grandmama down a particularly steep flight of stairs.
“Yeah,,” I say, “Dead. Finito. Breathe no more. Joined the choir invisible. Shuffled off this mortal coil. Why? Because you don’t listen to what I’m teaching and you pick up that rock that had a scorpion hiding under it. You pick up that fuzzed blasting cap and lose a hand or eye or worse. You wander into a death gulch in a mine and take one final breath. This ain’t no pleasure tour, me old mucker. This is work. Hard work. Dangerous, potentially deadly work. Listen to me and learn, you’ll be fine. Ignore me at your eternal peril. We green, mister?”
“Green?” he scoffs.
Al pipes up, “That means you understand and comply Chuckles?”
Leonard looks like he’s just pissed on an electric cattle fence.
“Oh. Very well,” he stoops to answer.
“Right,” I keep going, “Now that’s all sorted, you’re not here alone. We’re all responsible for each other. We all depend on what the other knows, that he knows what the fuck he’s doing, and isn’t too stupid or afraid to do carry it out. We are a team. As such, we work, eat, play, and sleep together. And wipe that smirk off your face, you little shit, you know I don’t mean that last part literally.”
He sighs and just stares at me.
“OK,” I finish up, “You either accept these conditions or we drive your happy ass back to Reno tomorrow. No pay, no credits, and a big, black splotch on your fucking permanent fucking Colorado School of Fucking Mines record. Makes no never mind to me. We did it before without you, and if you really don’t want to be here, we’ll do fine without you again. Your choice.”
He sits and ponders that last bit of information.
“Oh. Very well,” he says, “I accept your terms and conditions. May I leave?”
“Right after you do the damn dinner dishes,” I say, get up, and put fire to a new heater.
Mr. Leonard trudges over and grudgingly stares at the pile of dinnerware, pots, pans, utensils, and Dutch Ovens in the pre-washbasin.
We have separate washbasins for dinner plates, silverware and the like. They get Fairy Lotion, the Lemon Scented type. It really cuts the grease.
We use Grandma NaOh’s® brand lye-enhanced soap in the washbasins for the Dutch Ovens. It removes char, tar, and other stains.
He angrily, splashily pitches everything into the lye water basin after I’ve already informed him, emphatically, what goes where.
I stop, turn, stomp back and am ready to soak someone’s head for them.
“Look you dopey bastard! I’m not telling you again! This goes here, that goes there!”
No job is worth all this aggro…
I wander off with Charles and Albert to heavily refresh our beverages.
Early the next morning, I’m feeling a bit more felicitous, and in a cooking mood. I’m fixing eggs to order, flapjacks, grilled leftover lovely bison flank roast strips, camp kringle, and camp coffee.
It’s early, still right around 0700. I tend to run a loose camp, but I break out the air horn, give three quick blasts and holler “Breakfast”.
I hear “FIRE IN THE HOLE!” from Chuck and Al’s tents as they come running.
My eggs to order are the stuff of legend.
Leonard’s nowhere to be seen or heard.
We decide to eat, and afterward, I wander over to Leonard’s tent.
“Wakey, wakey,” I say brightly.
No reply.
I ‘knock’ on the tent, rattling it. Leonard’s snoring like a chainsaw in his goose down sleeping bag, perched upon his blow-up air mattress.
I swear the damned sleeping bag is monogrammed. Silk probably. I stand there, just shaking my head.
I pull the air horn out of my vest pocket and aim it directly at his tent.
“BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!” reports the air horn.
Leonard sits bolt upright. He looks like he’s about to shit himself.
“Why hello there, bright eyes,” I say, “Breakfast is now being served in the dining car.”
"Argle-bargle morble whoosh?" Leonard articulates.
“Yes. Now.” I say, as I turn and walk back to my coffee.
Back at camp, I rewarm my coffee, pull out a cigar, and savor my morning cuppa.
“Where’s Leo?” Chuck asks.
“Probably trying to order room service or changing his drawers, “ I say, “Even money bet either way.”
Chuck and Al clean up the breakfast dishes. It’s now a full hour since I announced chow.
“Well,” I grouse, “Looks like he missed breakfast. Al, get me a postage meter.”
Chuck and Al both laugh.
Leonard wanders over a while later.
“Leonard,” I say, “You missed breakfast. Is this going to be a common occurrence?”
“Well,” he huffs, “After your rude awakening, I had to wash up, get dressed, brush my teeth. I don’t know about the likes of you, but it takes me some time in the morning to prepare for the day’s activities.”
“How about that?” I say, “Well, Leonard, here’s a newsflash. Breakfast from here on out is at 0630 sharp; plan accordingly.”
“Thanks, asshole,” Chuck and Al growl lowly.
“Well, after my morning coffee, I must go brush my teeth and wash up. Going to be a long day, I fear.” I say to all present.
“Right after my morning cigar,” I say, chuckling.
“OK, then,” I add, “Weapons detail in a half hour. Meet over by that outcrop of ferruginous sandstone to the west.”
I leave to grab some supplies and wander over to my improvised shooting range.
I set up a quick range with a series of old, rusty cans. They’re always in abundance around old mine sites. They are not considered artifacts.
Chuck and Al wander up with their Glocks. I, of course, have my Casull.
“Where’s Leo?” I ask.
“Surprisingly, he’s coming.” Al says, “Said he needed something out of his tent first.”
“Marvelous,” I mumble.
Leonard walks up with his Pith helmet, in his field-finest; sporting a very expensive pair of yellow Glare-No-More Ray Ban shooter’s shades. 450 buck sunglasses. I’m not terribly impressed.
“Very trendy,” I say as he walks up. “You do know we work mostly underground, don’t you?”
“Yes. So?” he haughtily replies.
“Not a lot of sunshine in a subsurface mine” I reply.
Whatever.
I go over the reasons why we need to carry sidearms. The usual. Snakes, scorpions, spiders, signaling…pests.
Leonard looks on, uninterested.
I pass out three pairs of earplugs, I already have my noise-cancellers installed.
“Chuck,” I say, “Send a postcard home.”
Five shots, five holed cans.
I guess our many target practice sessions have helped.
“Highest marks, Mr. Charles,” I say, “Mr. Albert?”
He draws his Glock. Five shots, four holed cans.
“Rock,” he protests, “These are hotter loads than the last ones. I fizzed the first shot. You didn’t tell me.”
“Let that be a lesson to you.,” I replied, “Good thing that one you missed wasn’t a pissed-off Western Diamondback Rattlecan.”
Al smiles at my little joke.
“Leonard,” I ask, “Do you have any shooting experience?”
He blows a sigh. “Of course. I am highly proficient in both trap and skeet shooting.”
“Well, that’s just dandy.” I say, “Any firearms experience that applies to this situation?”
He looks at me like a deer in the headlights.
“OK,” I say, “Pistol practice for Mr. Leonard. Al, would you show him the ins and outs of the Glock Model 40 10mm semi-automatic pistol?”
Al gives Leonard a crash course in this particular firearm. Luckily, the magazine was out and the chamber cleared when Leonard stood there, fumbling the gun over and over in his hands.
I grab the pistol, and shout, “Treat every firearm as if it’s loaded, you imbecile! If that pistol was loaded, you could have shot one of us! Use your head for something other than a fucking hat rack!”
“But I didn’t shoot anyone,” Leonard adds under his breath.
“Do we need a refresher course from last night?” I ask him. “We have two vehicles here, either one can get you back to Reno in record time.”
“No,” he quietly replies.
“No WHAT?” I yell. I was beginning to lose my patience with this pile of dirty laundry.
“No, Doctor Rocknocker,” he says, defiantly.
“Fine,” I say, “Gents, mind your ears.”
I snap to and mail five downrange. Five rusty old cans spontaneously convert themselves to metallic confetti.
Chuck and Al knew better, they had their hand over their ears.
Leonard is standing there trying to stop the ringing in his ears, gawping at the destruction downrange.
“Mawp! Mawp!” he mawps.
I look right at Leonard.
“That’s real pretty now, ain’t it?” I ask, give Al back his sidearm and walk away, back to camp.
I’m back at the campfire which I had restored to life. I put the coffee pot on the fire. I need caffeine to grease the wheels, lube the gears and get the mental cogs all harmonized and all rolling straight and true.
Al and Chuck wander over because my camp coffee brings the boys from miles around. The secret is in the eggshells and just a pinch of gunpowder.
“Guys,” I say, savoring a cup of campfire Joe, “Am I missing something here?”
Chuck and Al look at me and shake their heads in the negative.
“Rock,” Al continues, “There are just some people not cut out for certain jobs. I think it’s pretty clear that Mr. Leonardo here just isn’t designed for fieldwork.”
“Al,” I reply, “I don’t know. I’ve read his packet. He applied for this position. His major professor gave him high, but not the highest, marks. He knew beforehand what this all entailed. So, why go through all that bother to finally show up and do his best horse’s ass imitation?”
Chuck replies, “Y’know, Rock. There are a whole lot more horse’s asses in this world than horses.”
“That’s true,” I reply, “I’m going to give him one last chance. Let’s savor our coffee, and then we’ll have mine-access gear checkout. This is his chance to shine or wash out.”
I take my cigar and coffee over to Leonard’s tent.
“Leonard?” I call.
No answer.
“Knock, knock,” I try it again.
I know he’s in there.
“Leonard! Front and center!,” I holler.
He slowly emerges from his tent.
“Oh, most terribly sorry,” he apologizes insincerely, “My ears are still ringing. I didn’t hear you.”
“Yeah, right,” I replied coldly, “Can you hear well enough to muster at my truck in 20 minutes for mine-access gear checkout? Or shall I alert your chambermaid?”
“No,” he replies slowly, “I guess I can be there.”
I flick the ash on my cigar. I slurp some coffee. In reality, I’m just doing a slow 10-count.
“Leonard,” I ask, “You really don’t want to be here, do you?”
“Oh?,” he snottily replies, “Whatever makes you say that, Doctor?”
“Because,” I calmly reply, “You are playing up at being the most determined jackass with whom I’ve ever had the displeasure of association. You’re arrogant, disrespectful, insolent; the whole Megilla. I can handle that in a person; if they’re exceptional at what they do. But it’s your gross incompetence I cannot forgive. Altogether, you’re just too damned dangerous a person to have around. You don’t know jack shit and you just don’t give a fuck. That’s a potential powder keg right there. I’ve got two able and capable field geologists already that want to broaden their education and experiences. I don’t have time to nursemaid…whatever the fuck it is you think you are.”
Leonard stood there, lower lip a-wobble, but he didn’t say anything. I could tell I just put 5 more in the orange; bulls-eyes each.
“Nothing?,” I ask.
Silence save for some post-nasal sniffs.
“OK,” I say, “You leave me no choice. Pack up your shit. You’re gone. Hasta luego. I’ll get Al or Chuck to drive you back to Reno. We don’t have time for posers nor time-wasters, we have a lot of serious work to do. Da svidonya.”
With that, I stomped back to my truck. Chuck and Al were laying out their mine-access gear; three sets.
“Gentlemen,” I announce, “Newsflash! You only need two sets of gear. I need a favor from one, or both, of you. I need y’all to drive back to Reno and drop someone at the bus or train station, a taxicab stand or parcel-post pickup place. Then stop by the liquor store and bring me a couple of new bottles of expensive vodka”
“No shit?” they both gasp in unison.
“No shit,” I reply, “He’s finally crossed the Rubicon with me. He pushed all the wrong buttons. I bounced his ass. While you’re road tripping, I need to write up my incident report. After that, I’ll get into that mine for initial recon. We’ve already wasted enough time fucking around with this Bozo. I tell you what though when Sam reads my personnel report, I wouldn’t want to be in Mr. Leonard’s funky field shoes. Hell of a way to start a Thursday. Or a fledgling career.”
“Rock,” Al and Chuck say, “Say the word. One, both, whatever you want. We’ll handle Mr. Leonard.”
“Thanks, guys,” I reply, “I really wish it hadn’t come to this. I hate seeing someone washout like this. It’s going to haunt his entire career. It’s not like he wasn’t warned beforehand. We all tried to help him along; he just refused everything, every time. I guess the old adage is true; you just can’t make a chicken salad out of chicken shit.”
“Whoa,” Al recoils, “that’s a bit harsh.”
“Al,” I shake my head, “No harsher than me putting him or one of you two in a body bag because someone wouldn’t, couldn’t, or didn’t listen to instructions. That is something I simply cannot tolerate. We’re not playing jacks here, gentlemen. This shit,” I point to the trailer and my truck, “is grim and harsh reality.”
Chuck and Al blink and shake their heads in agreement.
“But first,” I say, “Let’s just take a breather. The day’s schedule is fucking hosed anyway. Chuck, please go into the cab of my truck, under the passenger seat of which is a tin of my wife’s signature rum balls. Let’s savor a cuppa, a few confections, then get on with our day’s unpleasant duties.”
“Gotcha, Doctor,” Chuck grins.
“Y’know. There’s always room for two.,” I smirk back.
Over coffee and my wife’s delightful rum ball cookies, we’re chatting like old times. The camaraderie that had marked this expedition to date has returned in force. We’re back to being a solid team.
I pat myself down, looking for my cigar case.
“Ah! Hellfire and Dalmatians,” I grouse, “I dropped my bloody cigar case somewhere.”
I heard someone clearing their throat. Leonard is standing there, my cigar-case in hand.
“Rock,” he says meekly, “I think you dropped this.”
“Much obliged,” I reply frostily, and take back my property.
“Umm…Doc…ahhh…Rock,” Leonard stammers, “Can we talk? Alone?”
I put the fire to a new cigar and puff it into life.
“Yeah. Sure. We can talk. I like to talk. We all do.,” I reply glacially, “But anything you can say to me, you can say to the team. See? We’re a team here. We all work together. We divvy-up burdens. You’re a lot to share.”
“Ah, I’d really prefer,” he stammers, “to speak with you in confidence.”
“Y’know something, Leo?,” I reply, “I don’t give a bright red goddamned hoot in hell what the fuck you prefer. Go pack your shit and get the fuck out of here. I don’t have time for monks resisting the carnival.”
Let him chew over that last reference for a while.
“Sorry. My deepest apologies.,” he capitulates, “May I sit?”
“I suppose. Just not on the fire, if you please.” I reply.
“Doctor…Rock…,” he begins, “Oh, wow. This is hard.”
“So is returning to Mines in disgrace and ignominy,” I reply.
“Umm, yeah,” he continues. Al and Chuck are stone silent, taking in every word. “I guess I need to first seriously apologize.”
I sit, puffing away, but listening.
“I was out of line,” he says.
“Out of line?” I reply, “Buster, you were completely non-linear. Also, address the team, if you please.”
“OK, sir. Yes, this I know,” he continues, “See, I was rather coerced into all this.”
“No, I don’t see.” I note, “Explain.”
“I just wanted to be an engineer,” he says, “I was content letting others, like you three, do the grunt work out in the field. I felt I was destined for greater things, bigger things.”
“Uh, ha.,” I say, “I think I’m beginning to see part of the problem here. A bad case of warped perception.”
“Ah, yes,” he replies, “I’ve had some tiffs at university with people who actually liked working in the field. It’s caused some backlash and has had a negative effect on my academic career.”
“Umm, Mr. Leonard,” I add, shaking my head, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
“Yes,” he gulps, “To my shame and dismay, I fear you are correct.”
“Even when you’re groveling, do you have to be a horse’s ass?” I ask.
“My father pressured me,” he rebounds.
“Oh, boo fucking hoo,” I think.
I was going to cut him off as I’ve heard this story countless times before. Instead, I give Chuck and Al the high sign to listen up and take mental notes.
“Yes?” I ask.
“Well,” he begins, “He is an engineer. A very successful engineer. He has a string of consulting companies, he’s done very well. VERY well. He always expected me to follow his path, but my interests lie elsewhere. He is a design engineer, buildings, towers, estates. I was more interested in geological engineering. Damns, Mines. Tunnels.”
“Nothing I haven’t heard before Mr. Leonard. Do continue though.” I say.
“Well,” Leonard pushes on, “That was the start of our differences. We finally came to an agreement that he’d continue to fund my studies to completion as long as I was the best at what I did. Therein lies the problem.”
“I’ve already seen several, but do continue,” I reply.
“In order to obtain my degree, I must acquire both field and extracurricular credits. Without them, I won’t receive my degree,” he explains, “and without that, I’ll be cut off. Disinherited, probably. No future with Father’s firm. This was my final hope. Now you’re tossing me aside. It’s all such a sordid muddle.”
I sit there smiling like a Lewis Carroll cat.
“OK,” I say, “Let me get this straight. You’re a child of extreme privilege. Given everything you could possibly desire without the least amount of effort. Am I correct so far?”
“…yes…” he replies sheepishly.
“I see,” I say, and slurp some more camp coffee, “Now it’s nut cuttin’ time and your future is in the hands of a group of folks, who, by your own admission, are ‘lower caste’. Correct?”
“…yes..” he bleats forlornly.
“I don’t know,” I say, “Perhaps it’s really not your fault. It might be genetic, some people simply aren’t cut out for this groundbreaking and pioneering work. Some would rather just content themselves by harvesting the fruits of other’s efforts. Am I wrong?”
“No,” he replies. “You are not.”
“Damn skippy,” I say, “Let me appeal to your more economic side. What do you offer to this team in way of means and ability that counteracts and overwhelms your deficiencies? Simple risk : reward analysis. Balance sheet stuff. You savvy?”
“Yes, Doctor,” he replies, this time without the usual hint of malice. “I can assure you I have the highest GRE [Graduate Record Exams] scores in my class …”
“GRE scores?” I laugh, “First, I doubt you’d have the highest GRE scores in this camp. But that’s irrelevant. What about your field abilities? Your abilities to think on your feet? Your abilities to adapt and improve? Your abilities to work with limited data and come up with solutions? Your ability to live without a maid, driver and wet nurse? So far, all I’ve heard from you is plaints and whines. What about your abilities to do work?”
“Well,” he stammers, “I did design a new spillway for that dam in Ghana. Helped a lot of people. Saved them from the annual floods. Provided water for irrigating their crops.”
“Yeah,” I say, “I was wondering when that would crop up. See, I’ve read your CV and prospectus. That was then, this is now. Continue?”
“Doctor, guys,” the false facade finally fails, “OK, I admit it, I’m a child of privilege. I’m also a good engineer. But I admit that I’m lacking in social skills.”
Chuck and Al can’t help but emit a low whistle.
“But, I need this,” he whines, “You’re my last hope. I barely made it through my field camp. My father actually went to Dr. Abstoßen personally to get me on your team. He might have even bribed him, I don’t know. But my father looked into the program when the circular came around school. He thought it might just be the thing I need; whatever he meant by that. After he researched you and your program, he ran to Dr. Abstoßen and almost begged him to write me a letter of recommendation. Look, Doc…er…Rock, this is all very painful for me.”
“They say confession is good for the soul,” I remind him.
“Rather,” he continues, “Rock, I need this. Desperately. Can you find it in your heart to forgive me and let me have another chance? I promise I’ll change. Well, I can’t actually promise, but I’ll damn sure try.”
“Damn?,” I recoil, “Why Mr. Leonard. Profanity? That’s just so ‘lower caste’.”
“See?,” I’m trying already.” He says.
“You’ve been trying from the beginning.,” I reply, “But it’s not up to just me. Unless you haven’t been listening, I’m only the leader of this little rat pack. You not only have to convince me, but you also have to convince them, your potential teammates, as well.”
Chuck and Al look like they’ve just been tossed a live grenade.
“Gentlemen?,” I ask.
Chuck snorts, “Well…he is a monumental pain in the ass. That’s a given. Although, I suppose we could always use another hand, especially after dinner. Still…I’m not sure. Whaddya think, Al?”
Al snorts as well, “Yeah, he’s a real piece of work, ain’t he? But that’s just this near geology Ph.D.’s ‘lower caste’ member noting that. However…it would be nice to have someone slower than me if a grizzle bear attacks...”
“Mr. Leonard,” I chuckle, “It appears you might have just passed muster with your potential teammates. Guess that leaves it up to me. Doctor Rocknocker, the Motherfucking Pro from Dover. Yeah, that’s how I’m known in both academia and industry. I didn’t achieve that status by sitting on my hands, being coy, or worrying about people’s feelings. I go to where the job requires, and actually do the necessary work to get the fucking job done. Period, end of sentence. Full stop. You diggin’ me, Beaumont?”
Leonard looks very, very puzzled.
Al breaks the spell, “That’s just one of Rock’s weird turns of phrase. He’s got millions of ‘em. If you hang around, you’ll get used to them. Maybe.”
“The question still remains. We green?” I ask.
“I will yield to your wishes.,” he replies.
“Oh, no, no, no.,” I say, “No. No. No. It’s not like that. I say ‘jump’, you say ‘how high’? I say ‘shit’, you say ‘what color’?”
Leonard smiles slightly for the very first time.
“Mr. Leonard,” I continue, “I’m serious as stage-4 liver cancer. Your attitude changes right this second or it’s the old highway home for you. You heard me correctly; my way or the highway. We are not on a pleasure cruise, nor a camping holiday. We’re working in fucking dangerous old, abandoned mines. We carry sidearms for personal defense. We use high explosives. We swear, we stink, we smoke, we drink. We’re in an inhospitable and dangerous land that’d kill you just as much like to shake your hand. We might run up against deadly animals. Deadly diseases. Deadly atmospheres. Deadly people. You 100% committed to this? This is your final chance. You say ‘yes’, and still fuck off; you’ll spend the next month in the backseat of a Land Cruiser, twiddling your thumbs.”
“Oh, thanks Rock,” Al laughs.
I smirk and continue, “This is no charade. This is reality at its grim realest. It’s not always pretty, it’s not always comfortable, and it’s often not what we want. But that’s the way it is. You in or out? You agree to everything I’ve said, will say, and tell you to do, or not to do? You will become a functioning, valuable part of this team, not just an individual contributor. No exceptions. None. That’s it. Final offer is on the table for the next 30 seconds.”
He furtively looks to Al. Then he looks to Chuck. They’ve gone all Iron Eyes Cody at this point.
He looks to me and shakes his head. He stands up, I have no idea if he’s going to walk, accept, or have a seizure.
“Rock,” he says as he sticks out his hand, “Teach me. Instruct me. Make me learn. Make me into a better industrial scientist and person.”
“Shit,” I say, shaking his hand, “That’s a tall order.”
If it wasn’t so early in the day, it’d be Miller Time.
“One final thing, Mr. Leonard,” I say, “It’s Rock. It’s Al. It’s Chuck. And it’s Leo. We green?”
“Green as Tivoli in summer.” He smiles back.
I take it that he agrees.
“OK,” I say, “Now that’s settled, back to the project at hand. Fall out in 10 for mine-ingress equipment check out. My truck. See you there.” I freshen up my coffee.
It is the gunpowder that makes it special.
Chuck and Al help Leo get kitted out for his first mine adventure. They’re getting good at all this.
They go over the use of the NORM badge. How the noxious gas monitors work. The care and feeding of the Scott air pack SCBA apparatus. the utility of Self Rescuers. All the climbing gear; harnesses to pitons. Accessories such as camera, hip chain, sheath knife, hammer, sample bags, air, and water dye packs, beef jerky, canteen, sidearm (none for Leo at present), rucksack, hardhat, electric miner’s lamp, torches, battery packs, spray paint and paint capsules…
Leo looks like a festive mudball. All his expensive field clothes, he actually had some long pants along, his tan shirt and ever-present towel.
Can’t actually fault him for that.
But…
“Leo,” I say, “C’mere.”
He walks over.
“Those field ‘boots’ you got there hard-toed?” I ask.
“Well, they’re supposed to provide protection from falling rocks and…” he says.
“Mind if I stomp on your toes with my Vasque Trakkers?” I ask.
“Um, I’d really rather that you didn’t,” he replies.
“OK,” I tell him, “We’re going to lose those lightweight boots you’ve got. We've got a spare couple of pairs in the back of my truck. My size 16’s certainly won’t fit you, but one of Chuck’s or Al’s might. Get after it.”
“But these are all broken in,” he begins to protest.
“As will be your foot if you take a misstep over a loose, rotted board, or catch a rusted nail. Do we need to review our agreement?” I ask.
A few minutes later I tell Leo to take it easy in the back of my truck.
“I’ve got breakables back there.” Fer Christ’s sake.
He finds a pair that will work. I tell him I’ll call the Bureau with his shoe size and have them send a pair out to some town where we’ll next make landfall.
“Gentlemen,” I bellow. “Mine access. We green?”
“GREEN! Doctor,” came the reply.
“Marvelous,” I mutter.
After securing camp, we walk up to the mine adit. I explain the mine’s plan and what we hope to accomplish with our recon.
“It’s a fairly simple mine layout,” I note, holding up the last schematic from the mine.
“Central sloping tunnel. Numerous lateral drifts. A gob of ore chutes up raises, so be careful, they’re probably still full of the last mine run. They’re always dicey. Single level, no shafts or multi-level raises of any size. Since it’s been abandoned for so long, be mindful of critters. OK?”
“Ready, Rock,” they say.
“Marvelous.”
We make our initial entry.
I have a little surprise along for all my charges. I brought along an old miner’s carbide lamp and a can of calcium carbide.
Back in the day, they used carbide lamps for illumination. Add water to CaC2, or calcium carbide, and you get acetylene gas, C2H2. This would collect in the lamp on the miner’s hardhat and once lit, would sustain a reaction as long as the gas evolved.
They would carry tins of calcium carbide into the mine and leave them just about everywhere for instant refills. This alone is a danger not often noted. Rusty carbide cans and water leave puddles of acetylene. It could provide quite the shock if it spontaneously ignites.
It burns with a sooty flame, in fact, old-time miners used them to mark the mine wall or leave graffiti with them.
In the main gallery, which is about 30 feet across, this was a serious mine, I begin my demonstration.
“OK, guys,” I smile, “Just the way I like it, Old School.”
I show them the carbide tin and lamp. I explain its use and a bit of its history.
To be continued.
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Summary of the FOOTBALL LEAKS (biggest leak in sports history)

Hi guys, I just read all the Football Leaks articles on Spiegel so far and made a bit of a summary, since I am sure most of you don't want to read everything (the summary is still long, but way shorter than the articles, believe me).
So for who is not informed, German newspaper and investigators Spiegel, together with lots of other newspapers did investigate and research the (second part of the) documents they received from Football Leaks, a portuguese hackergroup. This is 3,4TB of data which means about 70 million documents. They published the first articles, but there are many more to come in the next few weeks. More coming also on the topics doping, betting fraud and racism.
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Man City:
In 2013 former French President Nicolas Sarkozy tried to raise money with the help of ManCity president Khaldoon Al Mubarak. A year later when ManCity was investigated by UEFA for FFP violation, Al Mubarak asked Sarkozy for help, who spoke with FIFA president Infantino. In the last 7 years Abu Dhabi has injected €2.7 billion into ManCity. In 2016 Infantino chose to directly negotiate an agreement with ManCity, and therefore bypassing the investigating chamber of UEFA. Between 2009 and 2011 ManCity has made a loss of €451M. ManCity threatened to take legal action against UEFA, if they would make them pay a penalty. 2014 the president of the investigating company of the UEFA recommended to exclude ManCity from the Championsleague. Infantino intervened and negotiated with City manager (and ex Barça VP) Ferran Soriano. Infantino actually told Soriano that he should make a proposal for the fine they would have to pay, so that it looks like FFP is still intact. In the end they settled on a $60m fine, which then Al Mubarak refused to pay. Infantino intervened again to make the fine drop to 20m, which UEFA investigating chamber initially refused to agree to. PSG was angry that ManCity's fine would be lowered, so the UEFA president promised PSG that their fine would also go down to 20m, while lying to Abu Dhabi that PSG's fine would be much higher than theirs. Since that agreement ManCity have spent €700m on new players. ManCity Secretary General Simon Cliff wrote after the death of one of the investigation chamber members in an email "one has fallen, there are six left."
EDIT (05.11.18): Additional Info
The year FFP was introduced, ManCity spent 9.9M pounds too much, apparently because of the termination of Mancini's contract. The only solution according to an Email where Chief Financial Officer Jorge Chumillas wrote "an additional amount of Abu Dhabi sponsorship revenues, that covers this gap". CEO Ferran Soriano suggested having sponsors pay the amounts they have to pay for the victory of the FA cup, even though ManCity had not won the FA cup. Ten days later many different apparently according to City "fully independent" sponsorship deals were adjusted, Etihad paying 1.5M more, Aabar 0.5M more, and the tourism authority 5.5M more than the deals they negotiated at the begin of the season. When Chumillas asked Simon Pearce if the dates of the sponsorship deals could be modified the answer was "of course, we can do what we want". Already in 2010 ManCity made a 15M deal with Aabar, who according to an email from Simon Pearce would only pay 3M, the rest comes from quote "his highness" (the sheikh). In December 2013 Pearce wrote that Etihad's (mainsponsor) contribution is 8M. According to the contract it should have been 35M. In 2015 Etihad officially had to pay 67.5M pounds per year, but inoficially they were still paying just 8M, the rest coming from the Abu Dhabi United Group, who give companies like Etihad the money to then give it to ManCity, so that everything appears in order.
Edit (06.11.18): Additional info from a new article
Another plan get Abu Dhabi money to the club was called "Project Longbow" (because the English used longbows to beat the French [in this context UEFA president Platini] at Crecy and Agincourt). This meant using parallel companies like Fordham to outsource the cost of image rights. 2013 ManCity sold the image rights of the players to the company that would later be called Fordham Sports Image Rights, which is attached to a company in the British Virgin Islands. This way money from Abu Dhabi could be injected. Officially Fordham paid players, without receiving anything themselves which UEFA investigators found suspicious, ManCity claimed that Fordham is an independent company and they don't know their business plan but agreed to the deal because it came at a good price. ManCity have recently stopped selling the image rights of their players, but Fordham still exists and has made in 2017 total losses 75M pounds.
Edit (07.11.18): Additional info
Pep Guardiola signed the contract with ManCity already in October 2015, 2 months after his last season with Bayern started. His salary in his first season with ManCity was 13.5M pounds, in his second it is 16.75M. Several weeks later a journalist from Sunday Mirror wrote that Guardiola has met with ManCity director of football Txiki Begiristain in Barcelona to discuss a possible deal. At this moment the deal was already long signed. ManCity then said this is wrong information and told the newspaper to remove the article. ManCity also compiled a riskreport on a potential sponsor called Arabtec, who have a terrible human rights record in UAE. Their marketing team advised them to not accept the deal, because it would let City appear in a bad light, but they went through with the deal anyways, but made it only a regional deal, in those countries were democratic values and human rights are not always a priority.
Edit (10.11.18): Another part
Since 2010 Manchester City has invested over a million euros a year in the so called "Right to Dream Academy" which has it's locations in African countries like Ghana. These children get a good education, but have also to work and travel a lot, and some around the age of 10 for example said that they have only time to call their parents on weekends, because their training schedule is so packed. Manchester City documents are referring to that invested money as "venture capital". The main point is not to have them at some point play for Manchester City's first team, but to loan and sell them, to make profit. After FIFA implemented new years in the last years, ManCity had to make changes at that academy, for example the Academy leader has taken control over a Danish team called FC Nordsjaelland, so that the academy players from Ghana can come to Europe through that club. There is an agreement that the Danish club can't sell Right to Dream Academy players without ManCity's permission. For being the third party club in that affair, they get 25% of the transferfee.
Edit (10.11.18): Now this should be the last part about ManCity
In 2015 City tried to get De Bruyne for 50M, but VW Wolfsburg didn't want to sell, because Volkswagen doesn't need the money. ManCity were pressuring them and ultimately they sold him for 75M. A year later they both Bayern and ManCity tried to get Sané, but ManCity offered to 20 year old a salary of 24.5M pounds over 3 years. Spending money like that was possible because they were able to increase and back-date sponsoring contracts with companies from Abu Dhabi at will. Also the TV money helps, last year they received €170M from the league, which is for example 75% higher than what FC Bayern gets. This helps making it possible paying salaries like €11M/year for Gündogan or >18M for Aguero.
Already in 2009 they were studying how to make the most profit and came to the conclusion that it's not enough to own just one club, but instead create a global network of subsidiaries which makes it easier to bring in profits. Back then Roberto Mancini signed 2 contracts on the same day: as coach for ManCity and as "adviser" to the Al Jazira Sports and Cultural Club in the Arabian Gulf League, both clubs owned by Sheikh Mansour. ManCity paid him a salary of 1.45M pounds, but the Abu Dhabi club paid him an even higher salary extra of 1.75M per year.
To create such a network, they not only own Manchester City, New York City and Melbourne City but have also stakes in league teams in Uruguay, Spain and Japan. Also they have cooperation agreements with clubs in Scandinavia and with an African Youth academy. Uruguay because there are many quality footballers & the local teams have limited budgets, also they didn't need to pay any taxes on the profits from player transfers. The investment in Girona is so that ManCity's academy players can develop and play in competetive men's football.
In 2008 City was bought for 100M pounds, in 2015 a Chinese media company bought 13% of the stakes of the City Football Group for 265M pounds, which shows that the value of ManCity has increased by a factor of atleast 10 in the last 7 years and Sheikh Mansour believes that there can be created a way higher value from football than what has been established until now.
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PSG:
PSG received in total €1.8 billion from Qatar. They were also close to being excluded from UCL, but Platini and Infantino covered it up. Nicolas Sarkozy told Emir of Qatar Tamim Al-Thani in a meeting in 2010 that if he bought PSG & launched a sports channel in France (BeIN Sports), that he would instruct Michel Platini to award Qatar the 2022 World Cup.
Edit (07.11.18): Mbappé's transfer to PSG
Contract details about Mbappé at PSG are revealed. In the summer 2017 he nearly signed for Real Madrid, who offered €180M. His father was worried about the competition he would have at Madrid with forwards such as Ronaldo, Benzema, Bale. At the beginning of August he then told Monaco he would sign for PSG, who also agreed to pay 180M. The contract demands were 5M upfront and a salary of a total of 50M net over 5 years. Also he would receive an extra 30k/month to pay for his personal staff. He also demanded that in case he would win the Balon d'Or, his salary would rise so far, that he is the highest paid PSG player (more than Neymar). PSG refused. In case PSG would be excluded from UCL because of FFP, Mbappé's family wanted a monetary compensation. Monaco's owner received €124M out of the deal. The strange thing is that portoguese superagent Jorge Mendes (who is not Mbappé's agent) also received atleast 7.25M out of the deal. Spiegel are not exactly sure, but they say documents hint, that it might be for playing up the speculation that he would sign for Real Madrid, to increase his price.
Edit (10.11.18): Racism at PSG's scouting department
PSG had a recruitment policy which lasted from 2013 until Spring of this year, which discriminated against ethnic minorities at youth academy level. An example is when a talent called Yann Gboho was 13, PSG did not make an offer, only because he is black. The scout rated him highly, but he wasn't signed by the club after a meeting between people working at PSG's academy, because of his skin color. Until Spring 2018 the scouts had in their scouting documents to note the "origin" of players between the 4 categories: French, Maghrebi, West Indian and Black African. A PSG scout agreed to Mediapart that it should say white rather than French, because all the players they scout are French. PSG doesn't want them to sign players born in Africa, because you can't be sure of their date of birth, he said.
Note: After this was leak was published PSG made a comunicado, confirming the use of these scouting forms with illegal contents which were instituted on the personal initiative of the head of this department. They condemn all forms of discrimination and racism and already made an internal investigation at the beginning of last october to understand how such practices could exist and to decide on the necessary measures to take.
General:
In the coming weeks they will reveal the positive doping tests (note: plural) of a worldclass player who won the Championsleague multiple times. (Note: not many fit that criteria except Real Madrid players and some Barça players). Also the tax avoidance models of some EPL titans.
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European SuperLeague:
The developments of a possible European Super League are more advanced than we thought. There is a binding term sheet thought to be signed this month. Started was this project by Bayern president Rumenigge. This would include 16 clubs. Bayern did already make research if the law made it possible to leave Bundesliga to join a Super League and also if they could forbid their players to play for the nationalteam. This would mean that these clubs wouldn't be part of Championsleague or National Leagues like La Liga anymore, and have every week a game against another European giant. This would totally mess up the balance between big and small teams in Football, and would overall be a disaster for Football. UEFA obviously trying to avoid this is heavily pressured and even blackmailed by ECA and the top clubs, which did lead to a reform, which allots greater revenues to those clubs that have found success in the last 10 years in the Champions League and Europa League. This means that there is less money for Europaleague and therefore smaller clubs .The reform also gave the ECA 4 director slots in a company joined with UEFA (one of which ex Barça board member Raul Sanllehi will fill), which will oversee all deals the UEFA makes. Bayern director Gerlinger who was the most essential person in all of this says the Super League was a possibility but is "as far away as ever". Meanwhile Real Madrid received on Octover 22 an email titled "Draft of an Agreement of the 16", which included the binding term sheet to create the Super League, which would be a breakaway from UEFA and the national leagues. This draft includes 11 founders (Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Manchester United, Juventus Turin, FC Chelsea, FC Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester City, FC Liverpool, AC Milan and Bayern Munich) who have secured membership for 20 years, and 5 guests (which would initially be Atlético Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Olympique Marseille, Inter Milan and AS Roma). The competition would have two phases: a group round and a knockout round. A company in Spain would be registered to make this possible. Shares of this company would be distributed: Real Madrid holding 18.77 percent, Barcelona 17.61 percent and Manchester United 12.58 percent. Bayern Munich would be the fourth largest shareholder at 8.29 percent.
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More about Infantino:
Infantino also was vital that half of the money FIFA made would be distributed to the Associations in advance, without any control about what they would do with it (so that he would get reelected). In 2017 the investigators investigating Infantino were replaced by María Claudia Rojas, who has no experience in investigating, and is a good friend to the notoriously corrupt president of the columbian federation. She immediately cleared Infantino and did say that there are no investigations against him. After that also the FIFA code of ethics was changed (for example the word corruption disappearing). Rinaldo Arnold, a Swiss public prosecutor, is also a good friend with Infantino, who called him capo ("boss") in an email and who assured Infantino that the investigations wouldn't be against him and even offered to have the attorney general to publicly state that.
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Edit: Added information from a new Article on 05.11.18
International Champions Cup (ICC):
A confidential document between Relevent Sports (note: the company organizing ICC and also want to have the Barça Girona game in the US) and FC Barcelona reveals how much money teams to play these friendlies: $3.25M per game. For the game against ManU there was a bonus of 750k, and for the Clásico in the USA a bonus of $6.5M. That's nearly $14M net for a week playing in the US with 3 games. In that contract were clauses: "if Messi didn't play for atleast 45min, Barça would receive 750k less, if Neymar didn't play 600k less, for Suárez 450k less".
According to Spiegel the chairman of Relevent Sports, Stillitano, has been trying for years to convince the biggest European clubs to play in a league, in which the best play against eachother. His goal is also to create a Superleague and lure them by showing them how big and plentiful the global revenues are.
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Edit: Added information from a new article on 05.11.18 (info by Mediapart via @GFFN)
AS Monaco:
Apparently the AS Monaco owner and Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev attempted to hide a massive, illegal amount of funding into the team with a fictitious marketing contract and through the involvement of a series of offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong. Over the time of 2 years he invested a total of €326M, which does violate the FFP. In 2014 a marketing deal was agreed to, that was in reality a yearly sum of €140M by Rybovlev. This deal did then later fell through, because the Dutch head of Swiss-based sports marketing agency had a disagreement with him and threatened to reveal the scam to UEFA. The Investigatory Chamber of UEFA did find some disturbing things, when going through Monacos finances, but the head of UEFA's FFP program Andrea Traverso did agree to help prepare the club for their Investigatory Chamber hearing.
By 2014 Monaco had made losses of €170M over 3 years. Because of their tiny city, they did not receive much money from ticket sales and sponsorship deals. Monaco's marketing director suggested to the president to build a close relationship with Platini, without "giving the slightest indication" that Monaco is violating FFP. Monaco made a marketing deal with AIM, which gave the agency the right to manage sponsorship and marketing for the club, but if Monaco did not make €140M per year revenue, AIM would have to pay the difference. The year before this deal Monaco had a total income (without TV money) of €14.4M, which would mean AIM has to pay €126M, which obviously is an absurd deal to make for AIM. This made Monaco have an income of 11m instead of losses of 116m like the year before. A company registered in the British Virgin Islands called City Concept Ventures "surprisingly" agreed to invest in AIM €140m for 10 years, exactly what they would have to pay to Monaco. The agency of AIM founder de Roos did receive €2.2M for participating in the scheme. This way the Monaco owner was able to put money into the club, through sponsorship contracts. This deal then later fell through, because Rybolovlev had fallen out with Prince Albert of Monaco and decided to stop investing into the club and therefore selling their players. UEFA never discovered this attempted scam.
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Edit (06.11.18): Added information
Russian Clubs
Zenit St Petersburg, Dynamo Moscow & Lokomotiv Moscow all artificially inflated sponsorship contracts in order to avoid FFP sanctions & UEFA were complicit in this practice.
Edit (07.11.18): Added from a theblacksea.eu article
Zenit is owned by Gazprom, who pumped €113M into the club in 2012. UEFA was investigating in this. Zenit told them, that Russia's league has not the ability to generate revenues like European leagues and if they would have to comply with FFP, they would need to sell their best players. This would be very bad for Russia ahead of the world cup in 2018. UEFA seemed to accept that argument, because 6 months later they closed the case without excluding Zenit from the UCL. Similar things happened to Rubin Kazan, FC Lokomotiv Moscow and FC Dynamo Moscow. In the past 5 years the state Russia has injected over €1.65 billion into these clubs.
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Edit (10.11.18): New article
"Superagent" Pinhas Zahavi and his involvement in deals like Neymar to PSG
Let's start this with a quote by him to the investigative journalist meeting him: "So, listen: I did the biggest transfers in the history of world football. There isn't a big deal in the world where I'm not involved," the agent said. "There's no place in international football where I don't have influence and power."
The Israeli playeragent Pinhas Zahavi is one of the most powerful agents in world football, who is already way longer involved in football transfers than agents such as Mendes or Raiola, he already was part of transfers in the 1970s. He is known to position footballers against their colleagues, coaches and club bosses, and trying to forcefully push for a move to a new club. As an agent he is nearly invisible. He normally doesn't speak to press and does only "appear in the shadows". No one knows how much money he has floating around or which channels it is floating through. Many of the companies he owns or works for are located in tax heavens such as Gibraltar, Cyprus, Malta, British Virgin Islands. He engages law firms in Brazil and Israel to provide him legal support. He often joins forces with other superagents such as Mendes, or Ramadani. There were investigations against him, but never was anything illegal proven. Officially he is paying his taxes in Israel. Many of his companies have their business accounts at banks in Switzerland.
Last summer Lewandowski asked him for help, so that he could leave Bayern. Zahavi spoke with Lewandowski's agent Barthels, who told him that Bayern wouldn't agree to let him leave. He then went to the German newspaper Bild and openly told them that Lewandowski wants to leave and Bayern are aware of it, which made it on the frontpage. However he did not succeed with his plan to have Lewandowski leave Bayern.
However he was a vital part of the Neymar to PSG deal. He was noted as second agent, apart from Neymar Sr. and was due to receive €10.7+2M from that deal. Zahavi wanted that this would be paid to one of his companies in either Switzerland or Cyprus, but PSG didn't agree to it and after some angry emails he accepted that the money would be paid to his accounts in Israel.
His commissions are negotiated on a deal-by-deal basis and always by mobile phone, so there are often no concrete documents, which makes it harder to track it. Also his companies in tax paradises are often buying the transferrights of young (often underage) talents, for example Markovic to Liverpool of which Zahavi's company had half the transferrights.
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Edit (10.11.18): Article was behind a paywall on Mediapart, so I used the summary of someone of soccer, hope everything is correct
More about Neymar's move to PSG and also the "loyalty-bonus"
PSG had to pay each of his agents – his father Neymar Senior and Israeli agent Pini Zahavi – a commission sum of 10.7M + 8.7M for Santos. Total price of his transfer: €252M. Zahavi received a 1.5M payement the first year + 2M/year the next 4 years conditional on Neymar remaining with the club. His father received 6M the first year + 3M the following year. The operation to bring Neymar to Paris was codenamed “Gold”. Over a period of five years, the 25-year-old will cost PSG a total of 528 million euros. PSG first proposed a salary of 25M per year, but Neymar would succeed in obtaining 30M/year, free, for him, of social charges and tax. Means 54.7M/year for PSG. PSG were unable to reach an agreement that Neymar would not enter into deals with sponsors who were rivals of the club’s sponsors. PSG lacked the funds to meet the huge cost of the transfer. Information gained by the EIC suggests it was Qatar Sport Investment (QSI), owner of the club, which paid the entire amount.
Neymar wanted to make sure he was paid a bonus payment promised by Barça. This was a bonus sum of 64M agreed when he prolonged his contract exactly one year earlier. He had been paid 21M, but their remained a further 43 million euros that FC Barcelona was committed to pay him by midnight on July 30th 2017 at the latest. On the morning of July 31st, the money transfer had still not been made. FC Barcelona informed Neymar that the 43 million euros had been deposited with a solicitor and will be released to him only if the player certifies that he will remain with the club. Since then, a legal battle continues. The player is still demanding payment of the 43M, FC Barcelona are demanding that the player pays the club 73M representing a total refund of the bonuses that were offered to him for prolonging his contract. On August 22nd 2017, Tebas lodged his complaint against PSG with UEFA, accusing the French club of violation of the European football associations’ ruling body’s financial fair play rules, and ten days later UEFA opened its investigation into the matter. The probe was opened against a backdrop of not only the pressure of La Liga, but also the anger against PSG of other enemies, including German club Bayern Munich.
According to documents obtained from Football Leaks, paying off of the cost of Neymar’s transfer plus the player’s salary would amount to a total of 528 million euros up until 2022, equivalent to 105 million euros per year. That meant that PSG would have to attract more than 100 million euros in extra revenue each year, or sell players to compensate for the difference. Including Mbappe the number rises to 166M. PSG asked Nike for a sponsorship deal worth 100 million euros per year. Nike declined because the contract with PSG, which they paid just more than 20 million euros per year, was not due to expire until 2022.
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“Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development” lock step

SS This is an archive of “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development” by the Rockefeller Foundation. This was a report released in 2010 seeking to make narratives about the future based on factors likely to affect a particular set of challenges and opportunities, and to find solutions to those problems. For this archive i'm focusing on the first scenario which is called lock step
In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years nally hit. Unlike 2009’s H1N1, this new in uenza strain—originating from wild geese—was extremely virulent and deadly. Even the most pandemic-prepared nations were quickly overwhelmed when the virus streaked around the world, infecting nearly 20 percent of the global population and killing
8 million in just seven months, the majority of them healthy young adults. The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and of ce buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers.
The pandemic blanketed the planet—though disproportionate numbers died in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America, where the virus spread like wild fire in the absence of official containment protocols. But even in developed countries, containment was a challenge. The United States’s initial policy of “strongly discouraging” citizens from ying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the U.S. but across borders. However, a few countries did fare better—China in particular. The Chinese government’s quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing off of all borders, saved millions of lives, stopping
the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a swifter post- pandemic recovery China’s government was not the only one that took extreme measures to protect its citizens from risk and exposure. During the pandemic, national leaders around the world exceed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets. Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified. In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems—from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty—leaders around the world took a rmer grip on power.
At first, the notion of a more controlled world gained wide acceptance and approval. Citizens willingly gave up some of their sovereignty—and their privacy—to more paternalistic states in exchange for greater safety and stability. Citizens were more tolerant, and even eager, for top-down direction and oversight, and national leaders had more latitude to impose order in the ways they saw it. In developed countries, this heightened oversight took many forms: biometric IDs for all citizens, for example, and tighter regulation of key industries whose stability was deemed vital to national interests. In many developed countries, enforced cooperation with a suite of new regulations and agreements slowly but steadily restored both order and, importantly, economic growth.
Across the developing world, however, the story was different—and much more variable. Top-down authority took different forms in different countries, hinging largely on the capacity, caliber, and intentions of their leaders. In countries with strong and thoughtful leaders, citizens’ overall economic status and quality of life increased. In India, for example, air quality drastically improved after 2016, when the government outlawed high- emitting vehicles. In Ghana, the introduction
of ambitious government programs to improve basic infrastructure and ensure the availability of clean water for all her people led to a sharp decline in water-borne diseases. But more authoritarian leadership worked less well—and in some cases tragically—in countries run by irresponsible elites who used their increased power to pursue their own interests at the expense of their citizens.
There were other downsides, as the rise of virulent nationalism created new hazards: spectators at the 2018 World Cup, for example, wore bulletproof vests that sported a patch of their national flag. Strong technology regulations staled innovation, kept costs high, and curbed adoption. In the developing world, access to “approved” technologies increased but beyond that remained limited: the focus of technology innovation was largely in the developed world, leaving many developing countries on the receiving end of technologies that others consider “best” for them. Some governments found this patronizing and refused to distribute computers and other technologies that they scoffed at as “second hand.” Meanwhile, developing countries with more resources and better capacity began to innovate internally to ll these gaps on their own.
Meanwhile, in the developed world, the presence of so many top-down rules and norms greatly inhibited entrepreneurial activity. Scientists and innovators were often told by governments what research lines to pursue and were guided mostly toward projects that would make money (e.g., market-driven product development) or were “sure bets” (e.g., fundamental research), leaving more risky or innovative research areas largely untapped. Well-off countries and monopolistic companies with big research and development budgets still made significant advances, but the IP behind their breakthroughs remained locked behind strict national or corporate protection. Russia and India imposed stringent domestic standards for supervising and certifying encryption-related products and their suppliers—a category that in reality meant all IT innovations. The U.S. and EU struck back with retaliatory national standards, throwing a wrench in the development and diffusion of technology globally.
Especially in the developing world, acting in one’s national self-interest often meant seeking practical alliances that fit with those interests—whether it was gaining access to needed resources or banding together in order to achieve economic growth. In South America and Africa, regional and sub-regional alliances became more structured. Kenya doubled its trade with southern and eastern Africa, as new partnerships grew within the continent. China’s investment in Africa expanded as the bargain of new jobs and infrastructure in exchange for access to key minerals or food exports proved agreeable to many governments. Cross-border ties proliferated in the form of social security aid. While the deployment of foreign security teams was welcomed in some of the most dire failed states, one-size- fits-all solutions yielded few positive results.
By 2025, people seemed to be growing weary of so much top-down control and letting leaders and authorities make choices for them.
Wherever national interests clashed with individual interests, there was conflict. Sporadic pushback became increasingly organized and coordinated, as disaffected youth and people who had seen their status and opportunities slip away—largely in developing countries—incite civil unrest. In 2026, protestors in Nigeria brought down the government, fed up with the entrenched cronyism and corruption. Even those who liked the greater stability and predictability of this world began to grow uncomfortable and constrained by so many tight rules and by the strictness of national boundaries. The feeling lingered that sooner or later, something would inevitably upset the neat order that the world’s governments had worked so hard to establish
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Very Long List of Intelligence Agencies (for when you run out of ideas on what to search for)

Ballistice Missile Defense Organization (BMDO)
(DEA) Intelligence
(DGIA) – Direcția Generală de Informații a Apărării
(USAF/DOE/CIA) Base)
2nd Section of the National Defense Intelligence Staff (SEDENA S-2 – Seccion 2da: Inteligencia del Estado Mayor)
Abwehramt (AWA): Military Protective Office
ADIV / SGRS (ADIV/SGRS) (General Intelligence and Security Service, military intelligence)
Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (Uprava za bezbednost i kontrarazuznavanje) (Police Agency)
Aerojet (Genstar Corp.)
Aeronautics Intelligence Center (CIA) (Air Force Intelligence)
Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (ABW) (Internal Security Agency)
Agencja Wywiadu (AW) (Foreign Intelligence Agency)
Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna (AISE): "Agency for External Information and Security" (foreign intelligence agency).
Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Interna (AISI): "Agency for Internal Information and Security" (domestic intelligence agency).
Air Force Electronic Security Command
Air Force Intelligence Bureau (semi-dependent, military intelligence)
Air Force Intelligence Departament (DIFA) – Dirección de Inteligencia de la Fuerza Aérea
Air Force Intelligence Directorate
Air Force Intelligence Service (SIFA) – Servicio de Inteligencia de la Fuerza Aérea
Air Force Office of Space Systems
Air Force Special Security Service
Air Intelligence Wing (JASDF)
Airport Security Police Intelligence – Inteligencia de la Policía de Seguridad Aeroportuaria
Al-amn al-Watani (GHS) (General Homeland Security)
Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD) (General Intelligence and Security Service)
Alkotmányvédelmi Hivatal (AH) (Constitution Protection Office)
Aman (Military intelligence)
Anti-Crime & Anti-Terrorism (ACAT)
Anti-Money Laundering Committee (AMLC) - اللجنة الدائمة لمكافحة غسل الاموال
Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF)
Antrasis operatyvinių tarnybų departamentas (AOTD) prie Krašto apsaugos ministerijos (AOTD) (Second Investigation Department under Ministry of National Defence)
Aquarius Group
Area 51/Groom Lake
Argentine Federal Police Intelligence – Inteligencia de la Policía Federal Argentina
Argentine National Gendarmerie Intelligence (SIGN) – Inteligencia de la Gendarmería Nacional Argentina
Argentine Naval Prefecture Intelligence (SIPN) – Inteligencia de la Prefectura Naval Argentina
Armed Forces Intelligence Center (CIFAS)
Army Intelligence Bureau (semi-dependent, military intelligence)
Army Intelligence Center (CIE)
Army Intelligence Center (Hærens Efterretningscenter (HEC)).
Army Intelligence Departament (DINE) – Dirección de Inteligencia del Ejército
Army Intelligence Service (SIE) – Servicio de Inteligencia del Ejército
Army Ranger Wing (ARW) Intelligence Section
AT&T
Attorney General of Mexico (PGR)
Attorney General's Crime-Combat Planning, Analysis and Information Center ( CENAPI / PGR – Centro de Planeación, Análisis e Información para el Combate a la Delincuencia )
Attorney General's Office for Special Investigations on Organized Crime (SEIDO / PGR )
Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO)
Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS)
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)
Australian Signals Directorate (ASD)
Aviation Research Centre
Badan Intelelijen Keamanan (BAINTELKAM) (Security Intelligence Agency)
Badan Intelijen Negara (BIN) (State Intelligence Agency)
Badan Intelijen Strategis (BAIS) (Strategic Intelligence Agency)
BDM Corporation
Bechtel Corporation
Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN)
Brigada de Investigación Tecnológica (BIT)
Buenos Aires Police Intelligence (SIPBA) (Buenos Aires Police Intelligence) – Inteligencia de la Policía Bonaerense
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV): Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung (BVT): Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter-Terrorism
Bundeskanzleramt: Federal Chancellery
Bundesministerium des Innern (BMI): Federal Ministry of Interior
Bundesministerium für Inneres (BMI): Federal Ministry of the Interior
Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung und Sport (BMLVS): Federal Ministry of Defence
Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND): Federal Intelligence Service
Bundeswehr: Federal Defense Force
Bureau Central d'Investigations Judiciaires (BCIJ) (Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations)
Bureau of Defense Policy
Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)
Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) – (Internal Intelligence Agency)
Bureau Of Special Investigation (BSI)
Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center (CSICE)
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
Canadian Forces Intelligence Command (DND)
Canadian Forces National Counter-Intelligence Unit (DND) operated by the Canadian Forces Military Police Group
Canadian Security Intelligence Service – Service Canadien du Renseignement de Sécurité (CSIS/SCRS)
Carabineros Intelligence Departament (DIPOLCAR) – Dirección de Inteligencia de Carabineros
CENAREF (National Financial Intelligence Unit)
Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ; Direction centrale de la Police judiciaire) – Organised crime intelligence.
Central Economic Intelligence Bureau
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Central Intelligence Directorate – Holovne Upravlinnya Rozvidky (HUR)
Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)
Centralne Biuro Antykorupcyjne (CBA) (Central Anticorruption Bureau)
Centro de Informações e Segurança Militares (CISMIL) (Military Intelligence and Security Service)
Centro Intelligence Interforze (CII): "Center for Interforce Intelligence" (Military Intelligence).
Chief Government Security Office (CGSO)
CIA self-financing
CIA's Directorate for Science and Technology
CIA's Special Security Office
CIRO (Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office)
Coast Guard Intelligence (CGI)
Coast Guard Intelligence Bureau (semi-dependent, military intelligence)
Comisaría General de la Información (CGI)
Comitato Interministeriale per la Sicurezza della Repubblica (CISR): "Inter-ministerial Committee for the Security of the Republic" (a joint intelligence supervision committee).
Communications and Information Services Corps (CIS) SIGINT Section
Communications Security Establishment (CSE)
Consejo de Seguridad Pública y Defensa Nacional (CSPDN) (security, defense and intelligence main government entity)
Corruption Eradication Commission
Council of Political and Security Affairs (CPSA) - مجلس الشؤون السياسية والأمنية
Council on Foreign Relations
Counter-Intelligence Directorate
Counter-intelligence Section – Research and Information Division of Public Security Police Force of Macau
Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD)
Crime & Security Branch (CSB)
Crime Intelligence Division, South African Police Service
Crime Investigation Department (CID)
Crime Suppression Division (CSD) and the Special Branch of the Royal Thai Police
Criminal Intelligence Bureau (CIB) of the Hong Kong Police Force
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC) which is led by the (RCMP)
Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, PNP
Criminal Investigation Department (CID)
Criminal Investigative Department (CID) – (Ghana Police)
Customs Surveillance Service (SVA)
Cyprus Intelligence Service (CIS) (Κυπριακή Υπηρεσία Πληροφοριών)(ΚΥΠ), (former Central Intelligence Service-KYP)
Da’irat al-Mukhabarat al-’Ammah (GID) (General Intelligence Department)
Danish Defence Intelligence Service (Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE)).
Danish Security and Intelligence Service (Politiets Efterretningstjeneste (PET)).
Davlat Xavfsizlik Xizmati, Служба государственной безопасности (СГБ) (State Security Service)
Defence Force Intelligence Branch (DFIB)
Defence Intelligence – Military intelligence analysis.
Defence Intelligence Agency
Defence Intelligence Agency (Military Intelligence)
Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO)
Defence Staff Intelligence Division
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Defense Electronic Security Command
Defense Industry Security Command
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – 국방정보본부
Defense Intelligence Command (DIC) – 정보사령부
Defense Intelligence Departament (DID) – Dirección de Inteligencia de la Defensa
Defense Intelligence Division (DID)
Defense Intelligence Headquarters (DIH)
Defense Investigative Service
Defense Nuclear Agency
Defense Science Board
Defense Security Support Command (DSSC) – 군사안보지원사령부
Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones (DNI) (National Department of Investigations)
Département de Surveillance et de Sécurité
Département du Renseignement et de la Sécurité
Department Directorate Of Secret Service (Nigeria)
Department of Energy Intelligence
Department of Intelligence of the Armed Forces of Armenia
Department of Justice self-financing
Department of Special Investigation, (DSI) Ministry of Justice
DGFI – Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (Intelligence branch of Bangladesh Armed Forces)
Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza (DIS): "Department of Information for Security" (classified data management, personnel training for both AISI and AISE).
Dirección de Información para la Defensa (DID) (Directorate of Information for Defense)
Dirección de Inteligencia (DGI) (Directorate of Intelligence)
Dirección de Inteligencia de la Policía Nacional (DIPOL)
Direccion de Investigacion Judicial (DIJ)
Direccion General de Analisis e Inteligencia Estrategica (DGAIE)
Dirección General de Contrainteligencia Militar (DGCIM) – Military Intelligence
Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DINI) (National Directorate of Intelligence)
Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DNI)
Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) (Directorate of Territorial Surveillance)
Direction Generale pour l'Etude et la Documentation (DGED) (Directorate of Research and Documentation)
Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI)
Directorate General of Information and Internal Protection (DGIPI) – Direcția Generală de Informații și Protecție Internă, Common name- Doi și-un sfert
Directorate of Air Intelligence (India)
Directorate of Economic Enforcement
Directorate of General Information ( Congolese National Police PNC)
Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DISS)
Directorate of Judicial Surveillance (DOJ) – Dirección de Observaciones Judiciales
Directorate of Military Intelligence
Directorate of Military Intelligence (DRM; Direction du renseignement militaire) – Military intelligence.
Directorate of Military Intelligence (G2)
Directorate of Naval Intelligence
Directorate of Protection and Defense Security (DPSD; Direction de la protection et de la sécurité de la défense) – Foreign intelligence relating to national security.
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence
Directorate of Signals Intelligence
Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE; Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure) – Foreign intelligence relating to national security.
Directorate-General of Air Intelligence (DGAI)
Directorate-General of Intelligence and Investigation (DGII)
Directorate-General of Military Intelligence (DGMI)
Directorate-General of Naval Intelligence (DGNI)
Domestic Branch (SSA)
Domestic Police Intelligence (Garda Síochána)
Domestic Undercover Police (المباحث)
Državna Agencija za Istrage i Zaštitu (State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA)
E Division – Intelligence Division
Economic Intelligence
Economic Intelligence & Securities
Economic Intelligence Council
Edgerton, Germhausen & Greer Corporation
Edwards AFB, CA
Electronic and Technical Intelligence Directorate
Electronics and Technical Services
Estonian Internal Security Service (KaPo) (Kaitsepolitseiamet)
Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS)
Etterretningstjenesten (NIS) (Norwegian Intelligence Service)
European Action Group
External Intelligence
External Operations Directorate
External secret agencies (ESC)
FBI Counter Intelligence Division
Federal Board of Revenue (FBR)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Counternarcotics Service (SEFECONAR) – Servicio Federal de Lucha contra el Narcotráfico
Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports
Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) – Agencia Federal de Inteligencia
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)
Federal Penitentiary Service Intelligence – Inteligencia del Servicio Penitenciario Federal
Federal Police Agency Intelligence
Federal Police Department (DPF) (counterintelligence agency)
Federal Protective Service (FSO) – Федеральная служба охраны
Federal Reserve System
Federal Security Service (FSB) – Федеральная служба безопасности
FEMA
Fiji Intelligence Services
Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA)
Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-Ind)
Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)
Financial Intelligence Unit (Sri Lanka)
Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) – Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera
Financial Monitoring Unit (FMU)
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
Finnish Defence Intelligence Agency — Puolustusvoimien tiedustelulaitos (PVTIEDL) / Försvarsmaktens underrättelsetjänst
Finnish Security Intelligence Service (Supo) — Suojelupoliisi / Skyddspolisen
Fiscale Inlichtingen- en Opsporingsdienst-Economische Controledienst (FIOD-ECD) (Fiscal Intelligence and Investigation Service-Financial Control Service)
Fleet Intelligence Command (JMSDF)
Force Intelligence Bureau(FIB) (Intelligence Arm of The Nigerian Police Force)
Foreign & Domestic Military Intelligence (Defence Forces)
Foreign Branch (SSA)
Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) – Serviciul de Informații Externe
Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) – Служба Внешней Разведки
Foreign Intelligence Service (Välisluureamet)
Foreign Intelligence Service (Xarici Kəşfiyyat Xidməti)
Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine – Sluzhba Zovnishnioyi Rozvidky Ukrayiny (SZR or SZRU)
Forsvarets sikkerhetstjeneste (FOST) – Norwegian Defence Security Service (NORDSS)
Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Bureau (unofficially, as JİTEM) (semi- dependent, military law enforcement) (2005–present, officially, as JİT (Gendarmerie Intelligence Organization))
General Administration of Financial Investigations (GAFI) - الادارة العامة للتحريات المالية
General Counterintelligence Office
General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI; Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure) – Domestic counter-terrorism and counter-espionage intelligence.
General Directorate of General Security
General Directorate of Public Security (GPS) - مديرية الأمن العام
General Electric Corporation
General Intelligence ["al-Mukhabarat al-'Amah" – "المخابرات العامة"] (tasked with collection of information and security for Palestinian diplomatic missions abroad)
General Intelligence Agency of Mongolia (GIA)
General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) – رئاسة الاستخبارات العامة
General Security Directorate (GSD) (Internal security agency)
General štab SV – Sektor za obveščevalne zadeve – J2 (GŠSV-J2) ([3] (General Staff SAF – Section for intelligence matters – J2)
General Staff of Military intelligence (ex-DEMIAP)
General Strategy
Georgian Armed Forces
Georgian Intelligence Service (GIS) − საქართველოს დაზვერვის სამსახური
Gihaz al-Mukhabarat al-Amma (GID) (General Intelligence Directorate)
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) Bureau of Intelligence Analysis and Security and Bureau of Economic Intelligence
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)[24] – Signals intelligence gathering and analysis.
Government Communications Security Bureau[9]
Greiningardeild Ríkislögreglustjóra (GRLS) (National Security Agency) (formerly Eftirgrennslanadeild Lögreglunnar and Útlendingaeftirlitið)
Greiningardeild Varnarmálastofnunar Íslands (GVMSÍ) (Military Intelligence Service) (formerly: Icelandic Intelligence Service (IIS))
Haut Commissariat de la Sécurité Extérieure / Héichkommissariat fir auswäerteg Sëcherheet (HCSE, High Commission for External Security, i.e. the Foreign Intelligence Service)
Heeresnachrichtenamt (HNA): Army Intelligence Office
Hellenic National Defence General Staff
Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR
Hughes Aircraft
Idaho National Engineering Laboratories
Idarat al-Mukhabarat al-Harbyya wa al-Istitla (OMIR) (Office of Military Intelligence and Reconnaissance)
Image Processing and Analysis Centre
Indonesian Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center
Indonesian National Armed Forces
Indonesian National Police
Információs Hivatal (IH) (Information Office)
Information and Security Service (SIS) – Serviciul de Informații și Securitate"
Information Division of Macau Security Force
Information Network Security Agency (INSA)
Intelligence Agency (Agencija za Razuznavanje) (Civilian Agency)IA
Intelligence and Analysis Service (IAS)
Intelligence and National Security Department (DIS) – Direccion de Inteligencia y Seguridad Nacional
Intelligence and Reconnaissance Directorate (J-2) – Управа за обавештајно-извиђачке послове
Intelligence and Security Bureau
Intelligence and Security Command
Intelligence and Security Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs
Intelligence Branch
Intelligence Bureau (IB)
Intelligence Center for Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO)
Intelligence Department of the Joint General Staff of the Armed Forces (J-2)
Intelligence Directorate of the Lebanese Army
Intelligence Division (Finland) — Pääesikunnan tiedusteluosasto (PE TIEDOS) / Huvudstabens underrättelseavdelning)
Intelligence Division of the Federal Police (Division de Inteligencia – CNS / Policia Federal)
Intelligence Office (UNDK) – Underrättelsekontoret
Intelligence Organization of IRGC
Intelligence Protection Organization of General Staff of the Armed Forces
Intelligence Protection Organization of Iranian Army (SAHEFAJA)
Intelligence Protection Organization of Iranian Police (SAHEFANAJA)
Intelligence Protection Organization of IRGC (SAHEFASA)
Intelligence Protection Organization of Ministry of Defence (SAHEFAVEDJA)
Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP)
Intelligence unit (military)
Intelligence-Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (OSA)
Intelligence-security Service
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
Interior Ministry (SEGOB)
Internal Security
Internal Security Department (Brunei)[2] (internal)
Internal Security Department (ISD)
Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) under the Office of the Prime Minister
Iranian Security Police (PAVA)
Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) (Foreign intelligence and special operations)
Jamaica Defence Force Intelligence Unit
Jefatura de Inteligencia Aérea (JIA)
Jefatura de Inteligencia Militar (JEIMI)
Jefatura de Inteligencia Militar Conjunta
Jefatura de Inteligencia Naval (JINA)
Joint Chief of Staff Intelligence Bureau (GENKUR-İDB) (semi-dependent, military intelligence and special operations)
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Cipher Bureau
Joint Financial Intelligence Unit (JFIU) of the Hong Kong Police Force and the Customs and Excise Department
Joint Intelligence Committee
Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO)[16] – Joint intelligence analysis.
Joint Sigint Cyber Unit (JSCU)
Joint Task Force X
Katonai Nemzetbiztonsági Szolgálat (KNBSZ) (Military National Security Service)
Komitet Natsional'noi Bezopasnosti – KNB (Комитет Национальной Безопасности – КНБ РК) (Ultyq Qaupzizdyq Kamitetti) (National Security Office, covers anti-terrorism, drug enforcement, counter-espionage)
Kosovo Intelligence Agency (AKI)
Kuwait National Security Bureau (جهاز الأمن الكويتي)
Lahav 433 (Police intelligence)
Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz (LfV): (semi-independent) State Authority for the Protection of the Constitution for every single state
Landesministerium des Innern: State Ministry of the Interior (different denominations from state to state)
Lawrence Livermore
Lear Aircraft Company
Lebanese State Security
Lembaga Sandi Negara (LEMSANEG)
Lockheed-Martin Corporation
Los Alamos National Laboratories
Mabahith (GDI) – المباحث العامة
Main article: List of Ghanaian Intelligence agencies
Main article: List of intelligence agencies of France
Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) – Главное Разведывательное Управление
Malaysian Special Branch, a Special Branch
Maldives National Defence Force (Defence Intelligence Service)
Maldives Police Service (Internal Intelligence Department)
Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA)
McDonnell-Douglas Corporation
Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD) (Military Intelligence and Security Service)
Militārās izlūkošanas un drošības dienests (MIDD) (Defence Intelligence and Security Service)
Militärischer Abschirmdienst (MAD): Military Counterintelligence Service
Military Intelligence – National Defense Ministry (Inteligencia Militar – SEDENA / Ejercito y Fuerza Aerea)
Military Intelligence (MI)
Military Intelligence (MI)
Military Intelligence (Vojenské zpravodajství, VZ)
Military Intelligence ["al-Astakhabarat al-'Askariyah" – "الاستخبارات العسكرية"] (tasked with the collection of external military intelligence)
Military Intelligence Agency ( الاستخبارات العسكرية )
Military Intelligence Agency (VOA) – Војнообавештајна агенција
Military Intelligence Bureau, General Staff Headquarters, Ministry of National Defense
Military Intelligence Centre of Estonian Defence Forces (Kaitseväe Luurekeskus)
Military Intelligence Collection Center (CRIM) – Central de Reunión de Inteligencia Militar
Military Intelligence Command (JGSDF)
Military Intelligence Corps (MI)
Military Intelligence Corps (Sri Lanka)
Military Intelligence Department
Military Intelligence Service
Military Intelligence Service (MND) – Militärischer Nachrichtendienst
Military Intelligence Service (SHIU) – Shërbimi Informativ Ushtarak
Military Intelligence Unit (MIU)
Military Intelligence Unit (MIU) – (Ghana Armed Forces)
Military Police ["al-Shurta al-'Askariyah" – "الشرطة العسكرية"] (tasked with policing national security personnel and enforcing laws. It is supervised by the Military Intelligence.
Military Security Agency (VBA) – Војнобезбедносна агенција
Military Security General Corps, General Staff Headquarters, Ministry of National Defense
Military Service for Security and Intelligence (Voena služba za razuznuvanje i bezbednost) (Military Agency) [1]
Ministère de l'Armement et des Liaisons générales
Ministry of Citizen Protection
Ministry of Customs, Customs Enforcement (Gümrük Muhafaza) (dependent, customs protection)
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defense
Ministry of Economy
Ministry of Finance, Financial Crimes Investigation Unit (MASAK) (semi-dependent, financial monitoring)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Forestry, Forest Conservation (Orman Muhafaza) (dependent, environmental protection)
Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affair – 행정자치부
Ministry of Intelligence (VAJA)
Ministry of Interior
Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice – 법무부
Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB)
Ministry of National Defence
Ministry of National Defense – 국방부
Ministry of National Security (KNB)
Ministry of Public Security (Vietnam)
Ministry of State Security (MSS)
MISS (formerly DMI - Defense Military Intelligence) now Military Intelligence Security Services
Money Laundering Prevention Administration – Управа за спречавање прања новца
Mossad (Foreign Intelligence and Special Operations)
Nachrichtendienst des Bundes (NDB) Federal Intelligence Service as of 1 January 2010, created by merger of Strategic Intelligence Service (SND) – Strategischer Nachrichtendienst and
Analysis and Prevention Service (DAP) – Dienst für Analyse und Prävention
Nacionalni Preiskovalni urad (NPU)
Narcotics Control Bureau
Národný bezpečnostný úrad (NBÚ) (National Security Bureau)
NASA Intelligence
NASA's Ames Research Center
Nasjonal sikkerhetsmyndighet (NSM) (National Security Authority)
National Accountability Bureau (NAB)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Agency for Combating Terrorism
National Anti-Narcotics Agency
National Assessments Bureau
National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NBIS)[20] – Illegal firearms intelligence analysis.
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) — Keskusrikospoliisi / Centralkriminalpolisen
National Commission for Security (CNS)
National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA)
National Crime Agency (NCA) – Organised crime intelligence gathering and analysis.
National Crises Management Cell (NCMC)
National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) – Försvarets Radioanstalt
National Directorate of Criminal Intelligence (DNIC) – Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia Criminal
National Directorate of Security
National Directorate of Strategic Military Intelligence (DNIEM) – Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia Estratégica Military
National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU) – Domestic counter extremism and public disorder intelligence gathering and analysis.
National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) – Economic crime intelligence gathering and analysis.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
National Guard Intelligence Agency (وكالة استخبارات الحرس الوطني)
National Guard Intelligence Commission - هيئة الاستخبارات بالحرس الوطني
National Intelligence Agency (ANI) – Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia
National Intelligence Agency (ANR)
National Intelligence Agency (Foreign Intelligence and Counterintelligence)
National Intelligence Agency (NIA)
National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA)
National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) – Jihaaz Al Amn Al Watani Wal Mukhaabaraat
National Intelligence Bureau
National Intelligence Centre (CNI)
National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA)
National Intelligence Directorate
National Intelligence Organization (MİT) (semi-dependent (main), foreign intelligence, counter espionage and special operations)
National Intelligence Organization (NIO)
National Intelligence School (ENI) – Escuela Nacional de Inteligencia
National Intelligence Service (NIS) – 국가정보원
National Intelligence Service (ΕΥΠ) – Εθνική Υπηρεσία Πληροφοριών
National Intelligence Service formerly known as National Intelligence Bureau
National Investigation Agency (NIA)
National Investigation Department (NID) Formerly known as Nepal Guptachar vibhag
National Police Agency
National Police Agency (NPA) – 경찰청
National Police Agency, Ministry of Interior
National Police Intelligence Directorate (DNIP) – Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia Policial
National Program Office
National Public Safety Commission
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
National Reconnaissance Organization
National Security Agency
National Security Agency (ANB)
National Security Agency (NSA)
National Security Agency/Central Security Service
National Security and Investigation Center (CISEN)
National Security Bureau, National Security Council
National Security Council
National Security Council (Ghana) (Centre of National Security)
National Security Council (MGK) (umbrella organization)
National Security Council and Classified Information Protection Office – Канцеларија Савета за националну безбедност и заштиту тајних података
National Security Department (DSN)
National Security Service (NSS)
National Surveillance Unit (NSU)
National Technical Research Organisation
Nationale Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid (NCTV) (National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security), used for analysis of threats and coordination of counterterrorism measures
Naval Intelligence – Navy Ministry (Inteligencia Naval – SEMAR / Marina Armada )
Naval Intelligence Service (SIN) – Servicio de Inteligencia Naval
Naval Investigative Service
Navy Intelligence
Navy Intelligence Bureau (semi-dependent, military intelligence)
Navy Intelligence Center (CIM)
Navy Intelligence Departament – Direccion de Inteligencia de la Armada
Nemzetbiztonsági Szakszolgálat (NBSZ) (Special Service for National Security)
NESA – National Electronic Security Authority (NESA)
NI - Naval Intelligence (Intelligence branch of Bangladesh Navy)
North American Aerospace Defense Command
Northrop Corporation
NPA Security Bureau
NSA's Central Security Service
NSI – National Security Intelligence - জাতীয় নিরাপত্তা গোয়েন্দা
Obveščevalno Varnostna Služba (OVS) ([2] Intelligence and Security Service of Slovenian Ministry of Defence)
OCAD / OCAM (Coordination Unit for the Threat Assessment)
Office for Foreign Relations and Information (Úřad pro zahraniční styky a informace, ÚZSI)
Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) – Counter terrorism and protecting critical national infrastructure.
Office for Special Acquisition (KSI) – Kontoret för särskild inhämtning
Office of Intelligence and Analysis
Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)
Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI)
Office of National Assessments (ONA)
Office of National Security Intelligence
Office of National Security Intelligence (ONSI)
Office of Naval Intelligence
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI)
Oghab 2 – Nuclear facilities security
Palestinian Interior Ministry – Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Palestinian Interior Ministry – National Security Forces (NSF)
Palestinian Preventive Security ["Al-'amn al-wiqa'i" – "الأمن الوقائي"] (internal intelligence organization tasked with protecting the internal security of the State of Palestine)
People's Liberation Army
People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force, particularly the 3rd department ("3PLA")
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)
Philippine National Police Intelligence Group
Phillips Air Force Laboratory
Police Intelligence Bureau (semi-dependent, law enforcement)
Police Intelligence Department – Jefatura de Inteligencia Policial
Police Station
Political Security Directorate
Political Warfare General Bureau, Ministry of National Defense
Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste (PST) (Police Security Service)
Prefectural Police Department Security Bureau
Presidency of State Security (PSS) – رئاسة أمن الدولة
Project Aquarius
Project Cobra Mist
Project Code EVA
Project Cold Empire
Project Cold Witness
Project Deep Water
Project MILSTAR
Project Paperclip
Project Snowbird
Project Tacit Rainbow
Project Timberwind
Protection and Guard Service (SPP)-
PSI-TECH Corporation
Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA)
Public Security Section
Public Security Section
Puntland Intelligence Agency (PIA)
Qatar State Security
Radio Research Centre
RAND Corporation
Rapid Response Unit (RRU)
Reconnaissance General Bureau[10]
Research and Analysis Wing
Research Department Unit – Research Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (External Intelligence Agency)
Research Division of the Prime Minister's Department (Malaysian External Intelligence Organization)[8]
Revolutionary Armed Forces Intelligence
Reynolds Electronics Engineering
Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) – Serviciul Român de Informații
Royal Barbados Police Force Special Branch (SB)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) -assisting other intelligence agencies but former intelligence role of their Security Service has been transferred to CSIS
Royal Intelligence Corps (Kor Risik DiRaja), Military intelligence, Malaysian Armed Forces
S-4 (Papoose Lake Base)
Satversmes aizsardzības birojs (SAB) (Constitution Protection Bureau)
Saudi Arabia Border Guards Intelligence Directorate - استخبارات حرس الحدود
Saudi Arabia Ministry of Defense (MOD) - وزارة الدفاع
Saudi Arabia Ministry of Interior (MOI) - وزارة الداخلية
Saudi Arabia National Guard (SANG) - الحرس الوطني السعودي
Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) - مؤسسة النقد العربي السعودي
Saudi Royal Guard (SRG) - رئاسة الحرس الملكي
Saudi Royal Guard Intelligence Commission - هيئة استخبارات الحرس الملكي السعودي
SB – Special Branch (Intelligence branch of Bangladesh Police)
Science Applications International Corp.
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)/MI6[22] – Foreign intelligence gathering and analysis.
Sécurité militaire
Security and Exchange Commission Pakistan (SECP)
Security and Intelligence Branch (SIB)
Security and Intelligence Division (SID)
Security council of Kurdistan Region
Security Information Service (Bezpečnostní informační služba, BIS)
Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) – Безбедносно-информативна агенција
Security Intelligence Directorate
Security Office (SÄKK) – Säkerhetskontoret
Security Service of Ukraine – Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny (SBU)
Security Service/MI5[17] – Domestic counter terrorism and counter espionage intelligence gathering and analysis.
Service d'Intelligence National (SIN) (National Intelligence Service)
Service de Renseignement de l'Armée Luxembourgeoise / Noriichtendéngscht vun der Lëtzebuerger Arméi (SRAL, Luxembourgish Army Intelligence Service, i.e. the Military Intelligence Service)
Service de Renseignement de l'État Luxembourgeois / Lëtzebuerger Staatlëchen Noriichtendéngscht (SREL, Luxembourg State Intelligence Service, i.e. the Homeland Intelligence Service)
Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia (SEBIN) – Bolivarian Intelligence Service
Servicio de Información de la Guardia Civil (SIGC)
Servicio de Inteligencia y Contraespionaje del Estado – State Intelligence and Counterespionage Service[25][better source needed]
Servicio Nacional de Inteligencia y Seguridad (SENIS)
Serviciul de Protecţie şi Pază, abbreviated SPP
Serviciul de Telecomunicații Speciale (STS)-
Serviço de Informações de Segurança (SIS) (Security Intelligence Service)
Serviço de Informações Estratégicas de Defesa (SIED) (Defense Strategic Intelligence Service)
Shin Bet (Internal Security Service)
Signals Intelligence
Signals Intelligence Directorate (SİB)
Sigurnosno-obavještajna agencija (SOA) (Security and Intelligence Agency)
Sistema de Informações da República Portuguesa (SIRP) (Intelligence System of the Portuguese Republic)
Skattrannsóknarstjóri Ríkisins (National Tax Investigation Police)
Slovenská informačná služba (SIS) (Slovak Information Service)
Slovenska Obveščevalno-Varnostna Agencija (SOVA) (Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency)
Służba Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego (SKW) (Military Counter-intelligence Service)
Służba Wywiadu Wojskowego (SWW) (Military Intelligence Service)
Sluzhba Ohrany Prezidenta SOP (Presidential security service)
South African National Defence Force Intelligence Division (SANDF-ID)
Special Branch of Jamaica Constabulary Force
Special Communications Service of Russia – Служба специальной связи и информации
Special Detective Unit (SDU)
Special Forces self-financing
Special Intelligence Department (Special Branch)
Special Services Bureau
Special Telecommunication Service, abbreviated STS
Sri Lanka Armed Forces
Staff Department of Intelligence (S2), Air Force Command
Staff Department of Intelligence (S2), Army Command
Staff Department of Intelligence (S2), Navy Command
Stanford Research Institute, Inc.
State Intelligence Service
State Intelligence Service (SHISH) – Sherbimi Informativ Shteteror
State Security Department[11]
State Security Service (Dövlət Təhlükəsizliyi Xidməti)
State Security Service (Internal Security)
State Security Service (SSSG) − სახელმწიფო უშიშროების სამსახური
State Service for Financial Monitoring – (Financial Intelligence Unit)
Strategic Analysis Directorate
Strategic Defense Initiative Office
Supreme Prosecutors' Office of the Republic of Korea (SPO) – 검찰청
Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST) – Militära underrättelse- och säkerhetstjänsten
Swedish Security Service (Säpo) – Säkerhetspolisen
Syrbar – Syrtqy Barlau Qizmetti (General Intelligence Office)
Tavistock Institute of Public Relations
Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service
Team Criminal Intelligence (TCI) National Police and Royal Marechaussee criminal intelligence Units
Terrorelhárítási Központ (TEK) (Counter Terrorism Centre)
The Air Defense Forces Intelligence and Security Commission - هيئة استخبارات وأمن قوات الدفاع الجوي
The Air Forces Intelligence and Security Commission - هيئة استخبارات وأمن القوات الجوية
The Armed Forces Intelligence and Security Commission - هيئة استخبارات وأمن القوات المسلحة
The Bilderberg Group
The Information Branch
The Jason Group
The Land Forces Intelligence and Security Commission - هيئة استخبارات وأمن القوات البرية
The Ministry of Defense (وزارة الدفاع),
The Ministry of Interior (وزارة الداخلية),
The National Cyber Security Commission[14] (NCSC) - الهيئة الوطنية للأمن السيبراني
The National Guard (الحرس الوطني),
The Naval Forces Intelligence and Security Commission - هيئة استخبارات وأمن القوات البحرية
The Postal Service and Telecommunications Surveillance (UPF) – Überwachung Post- und Fernmeldeverkehr
The Strategic Missile Force Intelligence and Security Commission - هيئة استخبارات وأمن قوة الصواريخ الاستراتيجية
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau
Tổng cục An ninh (Tổng cục I) (General Department of Security or First General Department)
Tổng cục Tình báo Công an (Tổng cục V, or TC V) (General Department of Public Security Intelligence or Fifth General Department)
Tổng cục Tình báo Quân đội (Tổng cục 2, or TC2) (General Department of Military Intelligence or Second General Department)
Tonopah Test Range
Tri lateral Commission
Twenty-Fifth Air Force (25 AF)
U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations
U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence
U.S. Space Command
U.S. Special Forces Command
UAE State Security
Undersecretariat of Public Order and Security (KDGM) (semi-dependent, internal security service)
United Nuclear Corporation
United States Department of Energy
United States Department of Homeland Security
Valsts drošības dienests (VDD) (State Security Service)
Valstybes Saugumo Departamentas (VSD) (State Security Department)
Vojenské spravodajstvo (Military Intelligence)
Vojna sigurnosno-obavještajna agencija (VSOA) (Military Security and Intelligence Agency)
VSSE (State Security Service)
Wackenhut Corporation
Walsh Construction Company
Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
Държавна агенция „Разузнаване“ (DAR) (State Intelligence Agency) – oversees intelligence gathering service under the supervision of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria
Държавна агенция за национална сигурност State Agency for National Security (DANS) – national security service under the supervision of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria
Камітэт дзяржаўнай бяспекі / Комитет государственной безопасности (KDB/KGB) (State Security Committee)
Кумитаи давлатии амнияти милли (КДАМ), in Russian: Государственный комитет национальной безопасности (ГКНБ), in English: State Committee on National Security (SCNS)
Служба "Военна информация" (CVI) (Military Intelligence Service) – under Ministry of Defence supervision
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