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[[Sunday Times]] | [[Gibraltar Killings - 6 March 1988]] | [[United Press International]] | [[Foreign Affairs]] | [[Council on Foreign Relations]] | [[iDefense]] | US [[National Security Agency]] (Advisory Board)
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[[Sunday Times]] | [[Gibraltar Killings - 6 March 1988]] | [[United Press International]] | [[Foreign Affairs]] | [[Council on Foreign Relations]] | [[iDefense]] | US [[National Security Agency]]<ref>Frontline, [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/interviews/adams.html Interview with James Adams], Frontline, Accessed 12-December-2009</ref> (Advisory Board)
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Revision as of 21:12, 12 December 2009

James Adams is a former journalist with the Sunday Times, well known for acting as a conduit for official and intelligence leaks.

He was involved in the controversy over the Sunday Times's reporting of the killings in Gibraltar in March 1988, in which three unarmed Irish Republican Army (IRA) members were shot dead by undercover members of the Special Air Service (SAS).

The following is Adams's biography on the Powell's Books website:

James Adams is the Chief Executive Officer of United Press International. Formerly the Washington Bureau Chief, managing editor, and defense correspondent for the London Sunday Times, he has reported on American politics and international relations, with special interest in terrorism and intelligence, and is also the author of twelve previous books, both fiction and nonfiction. He lives in Cabin John, Maryland.[1]

In 2001 Adams published an article in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations. The introduction to the article described him as Co-founder and Chairman of iDefense, a cyber-intelligence and risk-management firm, and as serving on the National Security Agency Advisory Board.[2].

Adams is also the CEO of the Ashland Institute for Strategic Studies, a research based think tank. Adams was quoted in an interview with USA Today commenting on potential cyberterrorist attacks, he said:

"Al-Qaeda doesn't see cyberterrorism as achieving significant military goals. They see the world in a rather old-fashioned way, where bombings and shootings have direct impact and scare people." He went on to say that "There are a large number of threats: hackers, cybercriminals, other countries," says Amit Yoran, director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division. "It goes beyond al-Qaeda.[3]."



Affiliations

Sunday Times | Gibraltar Killings - 6 March 1988 | United Press International | Foreign Affairs | Council on Foreign Relations | iDefense | US National Security Agency[4] (Advisory Board)

Notes

  1. Author Biography in Review of James Adams, Next World War Computers Are the Weapons, Powell's Books website, accessed 22 Sept 2009
  2. James Adams, Virtual Defense, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2001, accessed 22 Sept 2009
  3. Jon Swartz, Cyberterror impact, defense under scrutiny, USA Today, 2-August-2004, Accessed 12-December-2009
  4. Frontline, Interview with James Adams, Frontline, Accessed 12-December-2009