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AFI Research provides up-to-date information on current security concerns and can develop bespoke intelligence projects
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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.
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, from 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 the world's intelligence and security services 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!
Clues to secret office block are given away on e-Borders website
NEW! Secret location of e-Borders NEW! National Border Targeting Centre
Electromagnetic Pulse
EMP protected
high security data
servers in 3 metre thick
concrete blast proof bunker
Click on thumbnails!
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TV Appearance
Watch Secret Bases author Alan Turnbull appear as the special guest on a talk show called Rich Planet Starship on Sky Channel 200 Wednesday 21st April 2010 6.00pm View Online Now!
TV Appearance
Watch Secret Bases author Alan Turnbull appear as the special guest on a talk show called Rich Planet Starship on Sky Channel 200 Wednesday 21st April 2010 6.00pm View Online Now!
Coming later in 2010
At last – the truth behind an infamous
UK conspiracy theory surrounding a
legendary underground storage base
finally revealed in a new television
documentary on Sky Channel 200
The astonishing facts are even
stranger than the wild stories! Full details to follow
BBC Radio 4 "On the Map"
Episode 7, Tuesday 30 March 3.45pm Author of Secret Bases is interviewed in a new documentary about suspicious deletions from Ordnance Survey maps Recorded at a secret nuclear bunker
UKCMRI
UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation biocontainment laboratory to be built next to St. Pancras International Eurostar Terminal Local residents fear 28 Days Later and The Hot Zone biohazard leaks and bioterrorism
British Press Awards 2010
The Secret Bases exclusive "MI6 Chief blows his cover on Facebook" for the Mail on Sunday is nominated for
"Scoop of the Year"
Forest of Terror
Google Earth imagery reveals
expansion programme at
SAS Counter–Terrorism
training facility hidden in a
forest clearing in Herefordshire
Google Gotcha!
Nicked! Street View camera cars
are caught red-handed
breaking the law
and the evidence is
on Google's own pictures!
Spy Search
A dedicated customised
Google-powered
search facility where you can
easily find what you're
looking for on Secret Bases
Google Earth
Download the official
placemark file to accompany
Secret Bases
or simply view here on Google Maps
Created and regularly maintained
by the author of this website
Spooks Googled
MI5's £20M HQ at Loughside,
Palace Barracks, Holywood, Belfast
On new Bird's Eye aerial photos
and Google Earth ...
... and now Street View!
Islanders Ahoy!
Counter-terrorism
spy planes
spotted circling over London
intercepting communications
Project Lennox
New US Embassy
in London
Planning application
case files galore!
Trigger Happy
Comparing versions of
aerial photography
to reveal new £5 million
Indoor Weapons Firing Range at
Thames Valley Police Training HQ
Joint Warrior – October 2010
Royal Navy and Royal Air Force
War games off Scotland's coast Exercise JW 102 04 – 22 Oct 2010 Exercise JW 101 12 – 23 Apr 2010 Exercise JW 092 05 – 23 Oct 2009 Exercise JW 091 11 – 21 May 2009
A funny thing
happened on the way
to the GCHQ Doughnut
An astonishing, comical true story
about the perils of outsourcing
spook recruitment
NATO's Felix Centre
International Training School for
IEDD Improvised Explosive Device
Disposal in the
English countryside
Watch on YouTube!
B-2 Stealth Bomber
Top Secret training mission
to a UK bombing range
Exclusive high quality photo of
B-2 Spirit of Nebraska on the ground
at RAF Fairford
Pilot's Eye Views
A gallery of stunning
aerial photos of
Secret Bases
from my contributor
with a private pilot's licence
Upper Echelon
RAF Menwith Hill's
$31M extension to
Building 1045
codenamed
Steeplebush II
GCHQ Bude
New exclusive
Pilot's Eye aerial photo
of NSA Echelon
signals intercept station
on the Cornish coast
Spy? Och Aye!
UK's smallest and
most sensitive
spy base at the end
of a Scottish farm track
hidden since 1942
HMGCC – BBC Radio 4
documentary
MI6 Century in the Shadows
Secret Vault archive location
Plus exclusive aerial photo
reveals new £30M building
Rendition? Extraordinary!
CIA jets caught on Google Earth
UKMFTS–EFT–AJT
New secret HQ under armed guard
Ascent Flight Training joint venture
in 25-year multi-billion pound
UK Military Flying Training System
for Elementary Flying Training and
Hawk 128 Advanced Jet Trainer
War on Terror
Plans reveal massive upgrade of a
former nuclear command and
control bunker into an ultra secure
Internet data server centre
to protect high profile clients
Giant Voice
Architect plans reveal military
base terrorism attack early
warning system upgrade at
secret CIA transmitter site
within disused airfield
in English countryside
What on earth is this
and where is it?
There's something
suspiciously familiar
about it!
Project MENSA
Architect plans of new
Main Processing Facility (MPF)
for nuclear warhead assembly at
Atomic Weapons Establishment
GCHQ Test Facility
To be hidden in
a forest clearing
Plans and location
maps revealed!
Fighting the Taliban
New UK mock-up
FIBUA facility
Fighting In Built-up Areas
Afghanistan rural village in Norfolk
Secret Bunker
hidden in hillside is store
for official supplier of
weapons and ammo to
UK Police Forces and MoD
Skynet 5
Ariane rocket launches
military satellite
Locations of all UK
ground terminals and telemetry
control stations revealed here
GCHQ Yoo Hoo!
Spy centre's
cryptography
expert
reveals all
on his own website!
Cameras never lie
MoD announces official closure
of RAF signals unit ...
... but new aerial photos reveal
massive computer upgrade
to hardened bunker
Project HYDRA
The many heads of
SOCA – "the British FBI"
Serious Organised Crime Agency
and the regional
Airwave communications
control centres
Gosh – it's GOSCC!
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
UK Trident Missiles
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
Son of Star Wars
Ballistic Missile
Defence programme
Did a Google Earth update
reveal a new military satellite
calibration test pattern
at a USAF base in the UK?
Real Spooks Spooked
Hacking
attempt
on official MI5
website exposed
Oh Mercy — she's back!
Dominatrix Dungeon!
From MI5 surveillance officer's
wife Michelle in Milton Keynes to
Max Mosley's Mistress Abi
but now
Mistress Kiera
Shut that door!
All the secrets
hidden inside
GCHQ's Room C3301
accidentally revealed
Typhoon Eurofighter
Weapons arming complex
on some aerial photos
but not others ...
... and not maps
Loophole
MoD exploits
planning law loophole
for "secret" depots in the
Government Pipelines and
Storage System (GPSS)
Question raised in Parliament
CCC
Official UK Parliament
documents finally reveal
the truth about the legendary
Corsham Computer Centre (CCC)
SAS Training Base
Courses in
defensive driving and
close protection
in a not-so-sleepy
English country village
Burlington Bertie
Government declassifies
former Top Secret plans
of Corsham's
Burlington Bunker
Shurely a mishtake
What was a
British-designed
Integrated Weapons Complex (IWC)
doing in Basra, Iraq
and now bombed-out?
ITV News
Appearance as
"expert commentator"
on story of terrorists using
Google Earth to plot attacks
Northwood Hills
NATO
Permanent Joint Headquarters
PJHQ Command and
Control Bunker
New Bird's Eye aerial photo
Works Access Only
Where does that mystery
M4 slip road go?
Why aren't you allowed to use it?
Secret Motorway Junctions
Bunker For Sale
Symantec Corporation
computer anti-virus company's
Security Operations Centre (SOC)
Underground bunker is abandoned
Project PRIDE
"Building 0101"
Programme to Rationalise
and Integrate the
Defence Intelligence
Staff (DIS) Estate
RAF UNITER
Hardened
communications bunkers
Locations revealed in
close–up aerial photos
Fort Halstead
Forensic Explosives Laboratory
where London and Glasgow
terrorist attack vehicles
were sent for analysis
