Happy International Cat Day (August 8, 2026) — Remembering CIA Operation Acoustic Kitty

Posted on August 8, 2026 by L

“They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna. They made a monstrosity. They tested him, and tested him. They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that. Finally, they are ready. They took it out to a park bench and said: ‘Listen to those two guys. Don’t listen to anything else – not the birds, no cat or dog – just those two guys!’ (…) They put him out of the van, and a taxi comes and runs him over. There they were, sitting in the van with all those dials, and the cat was dead.”

Victor Marchetti
Special assistant to the CIA Deputy Director

August 8 2026 — Next to the wolf, the cat is one of humanity’s oldest pets. On International Cat Day, the world celebrates the most popular pet on the planet. Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s blue-eyed Persian is probably the most famous kitty in spy history. Less well known is the true story of the CIA US$ 20 million cyborg acoustic kitty. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_TODAY

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Lockerbie DNA Evidence Turns Upcoming Trial into a Soap Opera [UPDATE — Lockerbie Hearing: Alleged Confession Allowed as Evidence]

Posted on August 7, 2026 by L

“All but one of the DNA components which make up that profile are present in [RARDE Forensic Expert] Allen Feraday’s DNA profile. (…) This component is unsuitable for interpretation purposes since a large number of individuals from any population might be expected to match it.”

SCCRC
Report on Lockerbie

Lockerbie evidence: PI/449 and PK/206

July 1, 2025 — Some so-called “Lockerbie experts” — including former FBI officials — have hailed the recent DNA evidence as a major forensic breakthrough. In reality, it is nothing of the sort. In CIA parlance, this case has just gone from SNAFU to full-blown FUBAR — and fast. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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On This Day — From Victory to Atrocity : Remembering the War Crimes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Posted on August 6, 2026 by L

 “I voiced to him [U.S. Secretary of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a nuclear weapon.”

General Dwight Eisenhower

August 10, 2026 — Eight decades have passed since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945). The true motivations behind these attacks remain fiercely debated among historians. What is certain is that prominent U.S. military leaders — including General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Admiral William D. Leahy — opposed their use. Recently declassified documents suggest that, much like the unnecessary devastation of Dresden, the atomic bombings were driven less by military necessity than by a desire to send a chilling warning to the Soviet Union. As grim as it is to acknowledge, that may be the closest we have to the truth. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Conspiracy Theories — A Night in August (August 5 1962) [Marilyn Monroe & Nelson Mandela]

Posted on August 5, 2026 by L

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
(July 18, 1918 – Dec. 5, 2013)

August 5 2026 — Marilyn Monroe died of a barbiturate overdose late in the evening of Saturday, August 4, 1962, at her 12305 Fifth Helena Drive home in Los Angeles, California. Her body was discovered before dawn on Sunday, August 5. On the same day, Nelson Mandela was arrested in Durban, South Africa. Almost everyone has heard the conspiracy theory about Monroe being murdered by the CIA. Sadly, almost no one knows that the arrest of Nelson Mandela was made possible by a tip-off from the CIA. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day –The August 4 2020 Beirut Explosion : Debunking the FBI Conspiracy Theory [UPDATE : Six Years On: The Explosion Is Physically Explained — But Not Institutionally Resolved]

Posted on August 4, 2026 by L

“The amount of ammonium nitrate that blew up at Beirut port last year was one fifth of the shipment unloaded there in 2013, the FBI concluded after the blast, adding to suspicions that much of the cargo had gone missing.”

Reuters
(July 30 2021)

August 10 2021 — FBI forensic scientists have estimated that around 552 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded on August 4 2020 in the Port of Beirut, much less than the 2,754 tonnes that arrived on a Russian-leased cargo ship in 2013. Reuters, The Guardian, and other MSM are reporting this nonsensical junk-science report without even consulting scientific experts. Let me be very clear. This is total nonsense. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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110 Years Ago — Remembering Sir Roger Casement (September 1 1864 – August 3 1916) — [UPDATE : Beyond the Myth: The True Role of Punctuation in Casement’s Execution]

Posted on August 3, 2026 by L

“If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.”

Sir Roger Casement

 

Roger Casement attempted to smuggle weapons from Germany for the Easter Rising, an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week of April 1916.

August 3, 2020 — Sir Roger David Casement (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916) was an Irish nationalist who worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat and later became a humanitarian activist, poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations”, he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in Peru.

In April 1916, Roger Casement attempted to smuggle weapons from Germany for the Easter Rising, an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week. He was arrested, convicted and executed for high treason. But sometimes, even a death sentence can be ridiculously hilarious. Roger Casement himself wrote that he was to be “hanged on a comma”, leading to the well-used epigram. Follow us on twitter: @Intel_Today

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2025: The Year of Intelligence 2.0 ? — 50 Years from the Church Committee to Russiagate Investigation [UPDATE: From TWA 800 to Russiagate: How the FBI Shaped False Narratives]

Posted on August 1, 2026 by L

“There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny… the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”

Senator Frank Church
(1975)

July 24, 2025 — In 1975, the Church Committee exposed two decades of covert abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies. Half a century later, 2025 is shaping up to be a sequel few expected—and no one dares to name. With newly declassified documents from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a Justice Department probe, and mounting claims that the intelligence community manipulated the 2016 election narrative for political ends, Washington is once again reckoning with the power of the spy apparatus at home.

Back then, it was wiretaps, blackmail, assassinations, and secret wars. Today, it’s the weaponization of intelligence—FISA warrants, cyber surveillance, and information warfare. Once again, the trust between citizens and the “deep state” is fractured. The tools have changed, but the questions are hauntingly familiar: Who holds the intelligence agencies accountable? And once again, we the people are forced to ask: Who watches the watchers? Follow us on X (formerly Twitter): @Intel_Today

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10 Years Ago — The Genesis of the Havana Syndrome (July 27 2016)

Posted on July 27, 2026 by L

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

Donald Trump
Presidential candidate
July 27 2016

July 27 2026 — On July 27 2016, Donald Trump crossed the Rubicon when he called on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails. From that instant on, Trump was at war with the CIA. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day (July 26, 2007): The Day I Exposed CIA Edits on Wikipedia [Inside the first skirmishes of the disinformation age — and the fight for digital truth.]

Posted on July 26, 2026 by L

“This story is demented and broken on so many levels (…) An excellent Wikipedia administrator [Linda Mack] has been victimized by lunatic conspiracy theorists.”

Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia co-founder
(July 26 2007)

July 26, 2026 — On July 26, 2007, I published an article highlighting suspicious edits made to certain Wikipedia entries. The date was not chosen at random. Exactly sixty years earlier, on July 26, 1947, President Harry S. Truman had signed the National Security Act, which established the Central Intelligence Agency. Almost two decades later, the questions raised by that story remain just as urgent. In an era globally defined by disinformation, that investigation now appears as an early warning of a much larger struggle: the battle over who shapes the information environment itself. Make no mistake: the battle for AI supremacy has begun. Control over the most powerful AI systems may become a form of control over knowledge, memory, and ultimately history itself. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Remembering French Investigative Journalist Pierre Péan (March 5 1938 – July 25 2019) | Pierre Péan’s Legacy: Truth Is Rarely the Official Story]

Posted on July 25, 2026 by L

“It is striking to note the similarity of the ‘scientific’ evidence discovered by the FBI’s Tom Thurman in both the Lockerbie and UTA cases. Of the tens of thousands of pieces of debris collected at each disaster site, one lone piece of printed circuit was found and, miracle of miracles, in each case the fragment bore markings that allowed for positive identification: MEBO in the Lockerbie case and TY in the case of UTA Flight 772. Despite the common findings of the DCPJ, the DST and the Prefecture of Police crime laboratory, Judge Bruguière chose to believe Thurman, the expert in fabricating evidence.”

Pierre Péan
African Manipulations

July 25 2026 — Today marks the 7th anniversary of the passing of Pierre Péan (1938–2019), one of France’s most fearless and principled investigative journalists. I suspect that Pierre Péan would feel both satisfied and saddened by recent events in French politics — satisfied that some long-contested questions may finally receive judicial scrutiny, but saddened by what he would likely consider the declining standards of French investigative journalism. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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