The media professional's first choice AFI RESEARCH ISDB – INTERNATIONAL SECURITY DATABASE The expert information resource for the world's news media aimed at researchers, journalists, editors, producers, publishers and academics in charge of departmental budgets AFI Research provides expert worldwide coverage with a network of Research Associates based in the UK, USA, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Bahrain, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, China, Australia, Nigeria and South Africa AFI Research was first established in 1968, with the ISDB being added in 2001 by journalist, author and broadcaster Richard Bennett and edited by his journalist daughter Katie, along with an international team of dedicated researchers Since Spring 2005 the ISDB has been available for media and official use only The ISDB contains more than 100 million words and is expanding rapidly It covers Intelligence Services, National Security, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Satellite Intelligence (SATINT), Communications Security (COMSEC), Defence Intelligence, Internal Security and Paramilitary Forces, Secret and Security Police, Counter-Terrorism and Special Forces A second major Database covers Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), Conventional Weapons and Defence ORBAT In its current greatly expanded form, the ISDB now covers over 200 countries and concentrates (though not exclusively) on the period 1945 to the present AFI RESEARCH ISDB MEDIA CONTACT To request further information about this important media research resource use the button below to contact David McKenzie or Frank Hayes at AFI Research INVESTIGATIONS If you have information on any matters that you believe should be further investigated and would like to bring them to the attention of AFI Research then please use the button below and a researcher will contact you All information is treated as confidential and all sources will have their anonymity protected unless / until otherwise authorised In association with   www.secret-bases.co.uk   Website created: August 2003 Page last updated/modified:  12th May 2008    COPYRIGHT © 2003 - 2008, Alan Turnbull   Pagliacci Productions Limited Emmerdale  •  "Secret Bases"  •  Research Tools  •  "Secret Bases" Index  •  Media Hysteria  •  Scotland  •  Pilot's Eye Views Trident Missile Storage Base  •  CIA Rendition Flights Eye Spy  •  Eye Spy UK Secrets 1  •  Eye Spy UK Secrets 2  •  Eye Spy UK Secrets 3  •  Eye Spy Secret Britain  •  Home  •  Contact Me You've probably visited my popular "Secret Bases" Page at www.secret-bases.co.uk, in which I make use of Internet-based research tools - maps and aerial photos - to reveal the locations of the UK Government's "hidden" MoD laboratories and military sites. Maybe you've read the major feature in the December 2004 issue (Number 30) of Eye Spy Magazine, describing all the Media Hysteria it generated in June 2004. Eye Spy is the world's leading magazine serving the global intelligence community and is also read by Government departments. In the classified adverts section of Eye Spy Magazine, you can find every spy gadget you could ever want, from miniature hidden cameras for covert surveillance, to remote controlled microphones posing as mobile telephones used for eavesdropping. Perhaps you checked out my Eye Spy Magazine "UK Secrets" series, specially commissioned by the magazine's editor:- Eye Spy UK Secrets 1: "TEMPEST and QinetiQ" - Electronic eavesdropping counter-measures Eye Spy UK Secrets 2: "Watching the Watchers" - Where does MI5 get its cars serviced? Eye Spy UK Secrets 3: "Testing Trade Tools" - Where Britain tests its tools of the war trade Eye Spy "Secret Britain" 2007 Special Feature - GCHQ's new facility is refused planning permission! You may also have been fascinated by my exclusive gallery of Pilot's Eye Views of Secret Bases – special high resolution close-up oblique aerial photos, courtesy of my regular contributor with a private pilot's licence! After all that, you're sure to be interested in this new media research tool – the AFI Research ISDB. Learn all about the internal structures of GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 and how they liaise to provide eavesdropping capabilities for espionage and target surveillance. Discover which unassuming locations hide secret listening devices. Find out which departments develop all those miniature spy microphones, phone tapping bugs and covert cameras! Click on thumbnails! < NEWS EXCLUSIVES NEWS EXCLUSIVES > Click on thumbnails! Caught on Camera Spy planes circling over London Quite Extraordinary! Rendition? Google Earth shows UK CIA flights As seen in the Mail on Sunday Project HYDRA The many heads of SOCA – "the British FBI" Serious Organised Crime Agency and the regional Airwave communications control centres Exercise Joint Warrior and Neptune Warrior Royal Navy and Royal Air Force War games off Scotland's coastline 19 April – 2 May 2008 Ballistic Missile Defence "Son of Star Wars" programme Did a Google Earth update reveal a new military satellite calibration test pattern at a USAF base in the UK? GCHQ Yoo Hoo! Spy centre's cryptography expert reveals all on his own website! MoD announces official closure of RAF signals unit ... ... but new aerial photos reveal massive computer upgrade to hardened bunker Bird's Eye imagery reveals NATO's new IEDD International Training School for Improvised Explosive Device Disposal in Warwickshire countryside New Bird's Eye imagery of nuclear warhead assembly bunkers at Atomic Weapons Establishment AWE Burghfield UK Trident Missile nuclear warhead storage and handling facilities in Scotland on new close-up high resolution aerial photography Watching the Watchers! Where does MI5 get its cars serviced? Secret Garages New Bird's Eye aerial shots Lockerbie Pan Am Flight 103 Secret scrapyard storage site is sold to leisure company for £25M to be developed into holiday homes Spymaster Alex Allan new head of Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) posts highly sensitive personal information on his own website Ariane rocket launches Skynet 5B military satellite Locations of all UK ground terminals and telemetry control stations revealed here Real Spooks – Spooked! Hacking attempt on official MI5 website exposed Watching the Watchers! MI5's £20M HQ at Loughside, Palace Barracks, Holywood, Belfast On new Bird's Eye aerial photos and Google Earth MI5's Rogue Spooks BBC consult me as filming locations researcher on "Spooks: Code 9" new spin-off drama series Corsham's Secrets Exposed Council publishes MoD architect's hi-res blueprints for Basil Hill Barracks and new GOSCC – Global Operations and Security Control Centre RAF Fairford's upgraded facilities for B-2 Stealth Bomber New hangars, fuel depot and anti-radar coating maintenance dock on Google Earth – CENSORED Secret SAS Training Base gives courses in defensive driving and close protection in a not-so-sleepy English country village All the secrets hidden inside GCHQ's Room C3301 revealed Typhoon Eurofighter weapons arming complex on some aerial photos but not others ... ... and not maps MoD exploits planning law loophole for "secret" depots in the Government Pipelines and Storage System (GPSS) Question raised in Parliament Official UK Parliament documents finally reveal the truth about the legendary Corsham Computer Centre (CCC) GCHQ's proposed new research facility Revealed with maps, technical drawings and photos Government declassifies former Top Secret plans of Corsham's Burlington Bunker What was a British-designed Integrated Weapons Complex (IWC) doing in Basra, Iraq and now bombed-out? Appearance on ITV News as "expert commentator" on story of terrorists using Google Earth to plot attacks Click on thumbnails! < MORE HIGHLIGHTS MORE HIGHLIGHTS > Click on thumbnails! Pentagon officials ban Google from military bases after Fort Sam Houston, Texas appears on Street View ... ... but it's in glorious detail on MS Virtual Earth Bird's Eyes Block Phorm now! Stop the ISP Spies Sign the Number 10 Downing Street petition Northwood NATO Permanent Joint Headquarters PJHQ Command and Control Bunker New Bird's Eye aerial photo Where does the M4 "Works Access Only" slip road go? Why aren't you allowed to use it? Secret Motorway Junctions Pilot's Eye Views! A gallery of stunning aerial photos of Secret Bases from my regular contributor with a private pilot's licence Fort Halstead Forensic Explosives Laboratory where London and Glasgow terrorist attack vehicles were sent for analysis Symantec Corporation computer anti-virus company's Security Operations Centre (SOC) Underground bunker is abandoned and put up for sale SAS counter–terrorism mock–up jet hidden in a forest clearing in Herefordshire Revealed in hi–res Google Earth imagery RAF UNITER hardened communications bunkers Locations revealed in close–up aerial photos Exclusive aerial photo reveals new £30M building at Her Majesty's Government Communications Centre HMGCC Hanslope Park www.aerodata.biz A quantum leap forward in databases for aviation enthusiasts with over 1.3 million civil and military airframes listed   COPYRIGHT © 2003 - 2008, Alan Turnbull   Pagliacci Productions Limited