Murder and Espionage (ATL Engineering Book 1)
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It is not the first time the building has been implicated in revelations about electronic eavesdropping. It was also linked, he said, to an internet exchange named MAE West, a major data hub in San Jose, California, where other companies connect their networks together. Sprint did not respond to a request for comment. Jovelle Tamayo for The Intercept. The gray building is 15 stories tall, with a dozen rows of narrow, blacked-out windows and vents that rise to its peak.
According to public records , it was first constructed in and has reinforced concrete foundations and exterior walls that are supported by a steel frame. Historically, the facility was an important communications switching point in the northwest of the U. Twenty-five miles north of Seattle, there is a major intercontinental undersea cable called Pacific Crossing-1, which routes communications between the U.
The building is a large, concrete, rectangular-shaped facility with few windows, located less than a mile south of the U. Capitol Police has an office located opposite the telecommunications hub, and a large number of police vehicles are usually located around the site. When The Intercept visited the facility to take photographs earlier this year, within a few minutes, several armed police officers arrived on the scene with dogs.
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Dallas Bryan Street. According to the Central Office website , which profiles telecommunications buildings across the U. Los Angeles South Grand Avenue. The foot, story building is beige, rectangular, and mostly windowless. On its roof, there is a large microwave tower, which was originally used to transmit phone calls across a network of antennae.
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It remains in place today as a sort of monument to outdated methods of communication and stands in contrast to the more modern buildings in the vicinity, many of them owned by banks. Defence of the Realm. A reporter investigating an MP 's sex scandal stumbles onto a web of MI5 cover-ups involving murder and nuclear weapons. A mysterious organization busts a Vietnam War vet out of prison for an assassination. Comedy; an innocent investment banker goes on the run from the CIA and a Mexican drug cartel after stumbling onto a money laundering scheme.
Two people are guided by a mysterious and seemingly omnipotent female voice on their phones towards the end result of wiping out most of the U. Presidential line of succession. When a journalist fabricates a story that a prominent right-wing Australian politician is a Nazi sympathizer and this hurts the government, a revenge plot to use the journalist as patsy in a political assassination is conceived. Enemy of the State. An attorney goes on the run from rogue NSA operatives after he is passed a videotape of them assassinating a congressman.
Rogue Pentagon officials sell high-tech arms under the table and eliminate the witnesses with the help of rogue U. A group of right-wing business magnates and mercenary covert ops specialists plot and carry out the John F. A EPA agent battles and investigates a corrupt corporation in Kentucky that is dumping toxic waste in the state's abandoned mine which leads him to the death of his partner and best friend. A Harvard Law graduate from Boston joins a firm in Memphis and discovers that the company murders its associates.
A woman's daughter disappears without a trace aboard an airplane. Two Texas border-patrol men find a Jeep that has been buried for twenty years in the desert.
Spies masquerading as leaders of a peace movement arrange a peace conference and a phony assassination in order to kidnap a diplomat. Comedy; an innocent librarian stumbles onto a bizarre plot to assassinate the Pope. A psychic detective in Victorian era London investigates the Jack the Ripper killings and uncovers a Masonic plot.
An innocent surgeon is framed for his wife's murder and goes on the run to uncover the conspiracy. An unsuspecting investment banker is enrolled in a mysterious "game" as a birthday present and becomes the target of sinister forces, who may or may not want to ruin his life. A ghostwriter for the British Prime Minister investigates the mysterious death of his predecessor, which leads him to uncover the Prime Minister's secret history with the CIA.
Rival Mafia factions compete to use the Vatican Bank for money laundering, leading to the assassination of a reformist Pope.
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An Australian cameraman investigates the link between his father's death several years ago and the British nuclear tests at Maralinga during the s. He discovers a secret which the government is prepared to kill to keep quiet. A union boss gets embroiled with the Mafia and politics and is eventually murdered. Season of the Witch. A small-town doctor discovers that an evil mask-making company owner is plotting to kill millions of American children on Halloween with something sinister inside Halloween masks.
Comedy; a cat burglar is ensnared in an international conspiracy involving a maniacal billionaire , corrupt CIA agents, a Vatican secret society , and alchemy. A human rights investigator and an honest cop investigating the massacre of 23 campesinos in Mexico find links to drug cartels, dirty cops, and a multinational corporation embroiled in a union election. An Italian cop investigating the assassinations of several judges finds that they are part of a neo-fascist " strategy of tension ".
The government responds when a rural town is infected with toxic waste, causing violent and hyper-sexual behavior among the residents. Science fiction ; a team of corporate spies plan the ultimate heist: Big tobacco seeks to cover up the health effects of tobacco and silence a whistleblower. An Interpol agent investigating a shadowy banking cartel discovers money laundering, political corruption, war profiteering , and assassination plots. A United Nations interpreter stumbles onto a plot to assassinate a controversial African head of state on the floor of the General Assembly.
Interview with the Assassin. Faux documentary; a critically ill ex- Marine sniper admits to his next-door neighbor that he assassinated President Kennedy. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Pod people subtly take over a small California town. Pod people subtly take over San Francisco. A veteran Secret Service agent tries to stop a psychotic assassin from killing the President of the United States.
Superhero film; a government-backed think tank controlled by a mad scientist perpetrates false flag terror attacks and schemes to assassinate the President in order to install a puppet ruler. The government performs chemical experiments on unwitting Vietnam soldiers. The District Attorney of New Orleans investigates the Kennedy assassination and prosecutes a co-conspirator. Film noir; a private eye investigates the disappearance of his friend and his connection to a call girl. A private-eye and a football player discover that a team owner is planning to assassinate the U.
Senator who is blocking legalized sports betting. In a dystopian future in which humans live hedonistic lives in a domed city, reproduction is controlled by computer and all humans are executed at age 30, for population control. Logan 5, an enforcer of early termination, struggles to escape his own fate. The Long Kiss Goodnight. An amnesiac housewife learns that she is actually a CIA assassin when her former colleagues come to eliminate her.
A team of rogue foreign spies kidnaps an American couple's son to silence them about a plot to assassinate an important dignitary. The Manchurian Candidate [13]. Communist spies use mind control for a political assassination. An innocent grad student who finds his CIA-agent brother murdered is ensnared in an international Nazi money-laundering plot.
Science fiction; a hacker discovers that the world he inhabits is a virtual reality simulation controlled by sinister artificial intelligence. Science Fiction Comedy; A secret organization covers up all alien activity on Earth , while trying to stop an intergalactic terrorist from assassinating two other intergalactic ambassadors. Science Fiction Comedy; A man who works for a secret organization recruits his former partner and stops an Alien who disguises herself as a model , and plans to destroy Earth and other planets.
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Science Fiction Comedy; A man who works for a secret organization must go back in time to , and save his partner from being killed by an alien who is the last of its species. An NSA official sends assassins to kill an autistic nine-year-old who cracked a state-of-the-art encryption cipher. A "fixer" for a New York City law firm uncovers a web of corruption and intrigue regarding a major client of his firm, an agrochemical corporation. Science fiction; a cop who "solves" murders before they happen with the help of several "precogs" finds himself pursued for a crime-to-be, but he believes he is being set up.
Film noir; a man, recently released from a mental hospital, wins a cake at a carnival and finds himself pursued by spies. An American businessman searching for his " disappeared " son in a South American dictatorship finds evidence that the American government was involved. A secret agent goes on the run when a traitor within his agency frames him for the murders of his team.
Impossible — Rogue Nation. A secret agent goes on the run to uncover the rogue espionage cartel behind a series of disasters and assassinations. A former special forces officer goes on the run after being recruited into a secret assassination squad and framed for the murder of the First Lady. Sherlock Holmes investigates the Jack the Ripper killings and uncovers a Masonic plot.
A white-hat hacker stumbles onto a software company's machinations and goes on the run from cyberterrorists. An innocent African-American Chicago Police hostage negotiator , framed for murder , embezzlement and police corruption , takes the city's police department hostage to uncover the conspiracy. A news network conspires with a revolutionary group to profit from their sensational acts of violence. An innocent accountant 's daughter is kidnapped by mysterious operatives who demand that he assassinate the Governor of California.
Thought Crimes meet Big Brother. An aide to the Secretary of Defense sleeps with the Secretary's mistress, who is subsequently murdered. An innocent advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a spy by foreign operatives and finds that the CIA wants it that way. A retired CIA assassin is pitted against his former colleagues when he seeks to protect a witness to Russian political corruption.
The corrupt owner of an oil company plots to use a new state-of-the art oil platform with sinister intentions that would endanger the people of Alaska and the Eskimos. An American soldier stumbles onto an assassination plot by rogue American and Soviet military officials who wish to prevent the signing of a nuclear disarmament treaty. The FBI seeks to destroy the Black Panther Party by any means necessary, while teaming up with Mafia to keep the blacks down by flooding the ghetto with cocaine and heroin.
The Parallax View [15]. A journalist re-investigates the assassination of a presidential candidate and discovers a mysterious organization that seemingly recruits assassins. An innocent law student goes on the run after writing a paper speculating that a billionaire had two Supreme Court justices assassinated to fix a lawsuit appeal. Comedy; an innocent psychotherapist becomes analyst to the president and goes on the run from operatives of every intelligence agency on Earth.
An innocent hotel manager is trapped aboard an airplane with a ruthless mercenary who threatens to kill her and her father unless she helps with a planned assassination.
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A CIA agent is accused of being a mole by a Russian defector , and goes on the run to prove her innocence. A French fugitive takes refuge with a couple, claiming that he is being pursued by the authorities carrying out a cover-up. An innocent Secret Service agent is framed for plotting to assassinate the President of the United States and goes on the run to uncover the conspiracy. An honest cop works to expose police corruption in the NYPD.
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of killings perpetrated by a seemingly immortal occultist and discovers a plot to conquer the United Kingdom. A Game of Shadows. Sherlock Holmes discovers that a series of bombings and assassinations, supposedly perpetrated by anarchists , are part of Professor Moriarty 's plan to trigger a world war. Marine Scout Sniper is framed for the attempted assassination of the President of the United States and goes on the run to uncover the truth. A journalist hired to investigate a dead body at a gubernatorial campaign event stumbles onto a web of corruption involving the election and a mysterious copper mine.
A college student is threatened after he discovers the sinister true nature of a prestigious campus secret society. A corrupt Atlantic City police detective investigates when the Secretary of Defense is assassinated ringside at a championship boxing event. A team of industrial espionage experts are recruited by NSA agents to steal a mysterious "black box," only to discover too late that their employers are not really with the NSA.
A detective Charlton Heston investigates a murder in a dystopian future beset by overpopulation, global warming , pollution, dying oceans, and poverty, while the populace sustains itself on a mysterious source of food called "soylent green".
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