CIA Memorial Wall — STAR 0 : Jane Wallis Burrell (Paris, France – January 6, 1948) [New Evidence: Jane Wallis Was on Mission — Not on Vacation — in Brussels]

Posted on May 9, 2026 by L

“Jane Burrell was never a candidate for a star on the CIA’s Memorial Wall because the Wall commemorates Agency employees who died in specific circumstances, and deaths from commercial plane crashes have generally not qualified.”

The Mystery of Jane Wallis Burrell:
The First CIA Officer To Die in the Agency’s Service

CIA publication
(July 13 2016)

Jane Burrell in Beuerberg, Germany. June 30, 1945.

January 6, 2025 — Jane Wallis Burrell died on January 6, 1948, an Air France DC-3 from Brussels crashed on approach to the Le Bourget airport near Paris, France. Burrell is the first CIA officer to die while employed by the Agency. Burrell worked in the SCU (Special Counterintelligence Unit) 105 alongside Charles Michaelis and Lord Victor Rothschild. As part of the team, she played a pivotal role in interrogating and later recruiting SS-Sturmbannführer Friedrich Paul Schwend, a key figure in Nazi financial operations.

During the interrogations, Schwend confessed to the location of the immense fortune in gold he had amassed during the war. Following his cooperation, he was employed as an informant for the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC). However, all documentation regarding his interviews has mysteriously disappeared. Ultimately, Schwend escaped to Peru via one of the notorious post-war ratlines, networks used by fleeing Nazi officials. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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Lockerbie DNA Evidence Turns Upcoming Trial into a Soap Opera [UPDATE — Lockerbie Hearing: Super Witness 2.0 Brings Back Memories]

Posted on May 6, 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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CIA Memorial Wall — STAR 1 : Douglas S. Mackiernan (Tibet – April 29, 1950)

Posted on April 29, 2026 by L

“This particularly adventuresome and resourceful CIA officer should have been remembered from his death in 1950 as a hero and inspiration to generations of CIA operations officers. Instead, he was simply forgotten, even within the Far East (later East Asia) division. His own division chief at the time of Mackiernan’s death, in writing up a classified history of relevant operations 20 years later, mentions him only in passing — and gets both his name and his date of death wrong.”

CIA Historian Nicholas Dujmovic
Amnesia to Anamnesis
Commemoration of the Dead at CIA
(September 2008)

April 29, 2026 — Douglas Seymour Mackiernan (April 25, 1913 — April 29, 1950) was the first officer of the Central Intelligence Agency to be killed in the line of duty. Mackiernan was working in China under cover of the State Department. While trying to escape from China, he was shot, and beheaded, by Tibetan border guards. To this day, no attempts have been made to find and repatriate his remains. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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CIA Memorial Wall — Star 29 : Wilbur M. Greene (Thailand – April 28, 1972)

Posted on April 28, 2026 by L

“His exceptionally strong leadership and organizational skills, extensive military experiences, perseverance under harsh conditions, and ability to train others helped him navigate the complicated political environment during his assignments in Southeast Asia.”

Remembering CIA’s African American Heroes
CIA website

Earliest known photo of the Book of Honor (33 stars) — The three 1972 stars were anonymous in the original book.

April 28, 2026 — Wilbur M. Greene passed away from complications following a gallbladder operation at Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base on April 28, 1972. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY.

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CIA Memorial Wall — STAR 15 : Eugene `Buster’ Edens (Edwards Air Force Base, California – April 26, 1965)

Posted on April 25, 2026 by L

“Several lieutenants assigned to my flight were talented pilots, but my assistant flight commander, 1st Lt Buster E. Edens (called ‘Snede,’ Edens spelled backwards), was a superb fighter pilot.”

Lloyd R. ‘Dick’ Leavitt
Lieutenant General, USAF, Retired

April 26, 2026 — Eugene ‘Buster’ Edens was one of the original U-2 pilots. By 1965, Edens was a highly experienced pilot, accumulating over 1,000 flight hours in U-2 aircraft. He died on April 26,1965, when his U-2 spiraled to the ground near Edwards Air Force Base in California. The cause of the crash is unknown. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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On This Day — Remembering CIA Officer Monique N. Lewis (Oct. 29, 1946 – Apr. 18, 1983) [UPDATE: Did Mossad Know? The Ostrovsky Allegations Revisited]

Posted on April 18, 2026 by L

“We gather here today in recognition of Women’s History Month.  At this time, it seems only fitting that we remember our own.We honor today four of our women who made that supreme sacrifice: Barbara A. Robbins, Phyllis Nancy Faraci, Monique N. Lewis, and Deborah Marie Hixon.”

Tribute to Women Who Have Died
STUDIES IN INTELLIGENCE

The Memorial Wall is a memorial at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It honors CIA employees who died in the line of service. There are 140 stars carved into the white Alabama marble wall. Eleven represent women.

April 18, 2026 — Monique Lewis was just hours into her first day as a CIA officer when a suicide bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983. Her husband, James Lewis, a paramilitary officer there, was also killed. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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65 Years Ago — Remembering the Bay of Pigs (April 17–20, 1961) [Debunking the ‘No Air Cover’ CIA Excuse]

Posted on April 17, 2026 by L

“I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”

President John F. Kennedy
(April 20, 1961)

The CIA coin was created anticipating a victory, but the operation was a “perfect failure.” The Bay of Pigs victory coin features an outline of Cuba with a rebel invader advancing past a fallen member of Castro’s military in the foreground.

April 17 2026 — The Bay of Pigs invasion, launched on April 17, 1961, was a failed CIA-backed attempt by Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro’s communist government in Cuba. Roughly 1,400 exiles, trained and armed by the United States, landed at Playa Girón on Cuba’s southern coast, expecting to ignite a popular uprising against Castro. But the plan quickly unraveled: Cuban intelligence had anticipated the attack, the invading force was outnumbered and outgunned, and Kennedy-approved U.S. air support was miscoordinated. Within three days, Castro’s forces had crushed the invasion, capturing or killing most of the exile fighters and dealing the U.S. a major Cold War embarrassment. The CIA quickly blamed the lack of air cover for the invasion’s failure, and this explanation has been widely accepted — even by the families of the American volunteers who died during the mission. But this is not the truth. A simple time zone mix-up between Nicaragua (where the CIA-backed forces were launching) and Cuba resulted in U.S. air support arriving too late to effectively assist the invasion forces. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day — Mike Pompeo : “I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole.” (April 15 2019) [PT/35(b) — The Most Expensive Forgery in History]

Posted on April 15, 2026 by L

“What’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It’s – it was like – we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.”

Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo
Texas A&M University
(April 15, 2019)

Remarks at Texas A&M University – The Impact of Diplomacy on Daily Life

April 15 2026 — On this day two years ago, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo participated in a Q&A discussion at Texas A&M University. Pompeo could not resist telling his audience how proud he is to have served as Director of the CIA. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_Today

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40 Years Ago — Operation El Dorado Canyon (April 14 1986) [Timelines, Conspiracy Theories, and the Myth of Syrian Involvement in Lockerbie]

Posted on April 14, 2026 by L

“President Ronald Reagan didn’t seek congressional approval when he bombed Libya [April 14 1986] in retaliation for a bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland [December 21 1988].”

Amber Phillips
Washington Post
(April 7 2017)

April 14 1986 — Reagan Strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi

April 14 2026 — In a piece published by the The Washington Post on April 7, 2017, Amber Phillips wrote that President Ronald Reagan’s April 14, 1986 bombing raid on Tripoli and Benghazi was carried out in retaliation for the December 21, 1988 attack on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. The quote quickly went viral, as many readers noticed that the timeline was plainly impossible.

But beyond the humor, this episode offers a useful reminder: the importance of studying, researching, and carefully analyzing the facts. Whatever subject I investigate, I always begin the same way — I build the most accurate timeline I can. This is a theory of mine: no lie, no matter how polished — even a CIA lie — can survive a well-constructed timeline. Yet building a reliable timeline is no simple task. And one can easily attribute the wrong date to a piece of information. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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CIA Memorial Wall — STAR 26 (CLASSIFIED): Hugh Francis Redmond (Shanghai prison, China — April 13, 1970)

Posted on April 13, 2026 by L

“Alerted by doctrine and success against another local CIA operation, Shanghai’s security apparatus moved cautiously against Redmond’s network, obtaining evidence that made the guilty verdict of 1954 inevitable. To Chinese intelligence practitioners, the case provides an exemplary example of how counter-espionage work against the US should proceed in the 21st century.”

David Ian Chambers
Chinese retrospectives on the Hugh Redmond case

The Herald Statesman, Yonkers, N.Y. – November 5, 1962

April 13, 2026 — Hugh Francis Redmond was a CIA officer and former U.S. Army paratrooper who spent nearly 20 years as a prisoner in China after being captured during a CIA mission. The details of his involvement with the CIA remain largely classified to this day, adding to the mystery surrounding his case. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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