65 Years Ago — Hounded by the FBI, Nobel Prize Ernest Hemingway Ends His Life (July 2, 1961)

Posted on July 2, 2026 by L

“The FBI’s surveillance substantially contributed to his anguish and his suicide.”

A. E. Hotchner — Hemingway’s friend and collaborator over the last 13 years of his life

American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) working at a portable table while on a big game hunt in Kenya, September 1952. (Photo by Earl Theisen/Getty Images)

July 2 2021 — On October 28 1954, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ernest Miller Hemingway “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.” On July 2 1961, Ernest Hemingway was found dead of a shotgun wound in the head. Hemingway was aware of his long surveillance by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, who were suspicious of his links with Cuba, and it has been argued that this surveillance may have pushed him to the brink. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day — Kim Philby Revealed as Cambridge Five Member (July 1 1963) [UPDATE : A Cold War Mystery: The 1947 CIG Flight to Addis Ababa]

Posted on July 1, 2026 by L

“Tell them Jesus Christ only had twelve, and one of them was a double agent.”

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
— Upon learning that Philby was a spy for the Russians

Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby (January 1 1912 – May 11 1988)

January 23 2021 — On January 23 1963, Kim Philby vanished from Beirut, failing to meet his wife for a dinner party at the home of Glencairn Balfour Paul, First Secretary at the British Embassy. On July 1 1963:, the British Government admitted that the former MI6 officer, still described at the time as a former diplomat, had spied for the Soviet Union before defecting to Moscow. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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June 30 — International Asteroid Day [Tunguska — June 30 1908]

Posted on June 30, 2026 by L

“We really need an internationally agreed and coordinated strategy for the development of asteroid litigation technology and very importantly the implementation of procedures for an emergency deflection scenario.”

Alan Harris

June 30 2019 — Asteroid Day (also known as International Asteroid Day) is an annual global event which is held on the anniversary of the Siberian Tunguska event that took place on June 30, 1908, the most harmful known asteroid-related event on Earth in recent history. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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The Holy Grail — The CIA Wall, The KRYPTOS Sculpture, & The Lockerbie Tragedy — Part I : Getting started [The STAR of William Francis Buckley (May 30, 1928 – June 3, 1985)]

Posted on June 29, 2026 by L

“Despite a government-wide rescue effort, Bill died in captivity on June 3, 1985. The CIA that year held a memorial service and honored him with a star on the Memorial Wall and with the Distinguished Intelligence Cross, the CIA’s highest honor.”

William F. Buckley
CIA website

June 29, 2026 — Over the last three decades, I have devoted much time to several distinct stories: the CIA Memorial Wall (and the associated Book of Honor), the KRYPTOS sculpture, and the Lockerbie tragedy. In my wildest dreams, I never expected that these stories would one day come together. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Lockerbie — BBC and Netflix release first-look pictures of new documentary [UPDATE : The Bombing of Pan Am 103 Will Finally Premiere on Netflix on July 30, 2026]

Posted on June 24, 2026 by L

“Cretton [Real name : Swiss Inspector Hans Knaus] expressed his concerns (…) The first was that the CIA had planted the chip [PT/35(b)] in the wreckage found at Lockerbie. [Detective Superintendant (SIO) Stuart] Henderson and I told him this thought had also crossed our minds. Neither of us believed the CIA or any government official would do such a thing, but we had discussed the possibility.”

FBI Agent Richard Marquise

Dick Marquise (Patrick J Adams); DS Ed McCusker (Connor Swindells); Tom McCulloch (Kevin McKidd) (Image: Mark Mainz/BBC/Netflix)

March 28 2025 — The BBC and Netflix have released first-look pictures of The Bombing of Pan Am 103, the forthcoming drama based on the “true story of the bombing of a passenger flight over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988” and the quest to bring the perpetrators to justice. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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The Holy Grail — The CIA Wall, The KRYPTOS Sculpture, & The Lockerbie Tragedy

Posted on June 22, 2026 by L

“Nothing is more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

June 22, 2026 — Over the last three decades, I have devoted much time to several distinct stories: the CIA Memorial Wall (and the associated Book of Honor), the KRYPTOS sculpture, and the Lockerbie tragedy. In my wildest dreams, I never expected that these stories would one day come together. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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CIA Memorial Wall — Star 27 : Paul C. Davis (Vietnam – June 21 1971)

Posted on June 21, 2026 by L

“Among the more than fifty-eight thousand Americans who gave their lives [to thwart the advance of communism in Southeast Asia] were eighteen members of the Central Intelligence Agency, their sacrifices marked by stars carved into CIA’s Memorial Wall.”

CIA and the Wars in Southeast Asia (1947–75)
Studies in Intelligence (2016)

June 21, 2026 — Paul Claude Davis served as a paramilitary officer in the CIA. He was killed in Vietnam on June 21, 1971, when he stepped on a landmine. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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From the ashes of Lockerbie to the Brussels Attacks [PT/35(b) fight turns procedural as court weighs key expert limits]

Posted on June 18, 2026 by L

“We used to look at them as kind of discrete events, not tied to each other, and seen in a vacuum. But from a distance, I think we can see more of a pattern.”

CIA Vincent Cannistraro

The timer’s logo SIB stands for Schweizerische Isolawerke Breitenbach. This alone discredits the Libya case as it is known that the fragment’s laminate was not made by ISOLA. The FBI looked the other way and read: “21B.”

March 22, 2026 — God acts in mysterious ways… Yesterday, Robert Mueller passed away, and today people commemorate the 10th anniversary of the horrendous Brussels attacks. Synchronicity is the illusion historians record — after the devil has erased his fingerprints. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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70 Years Ago — CIA Memorial Wall STAR 4 : William Pierce Boteler (Cyprus – June 16, 1956)

Posted on June 16, 2026 by L

“Only a month after arriving, Bill was killed by bombs that two young boys tossed into a café. He was not the intended target. A promising young officer, a promising young life, taken in error. Taken because Bill Boteler was ready to go to a place of hazard for his country. He is one of the original 31 stars.”

Heroes –
William Pierce Boteler
(CIA Website)

June 16, 2026 — William P. Boteler was fatally injured by a bomb blast at the `Little Soho’ restaurant in Nicosia, Cyprus. He succumbed to his injuries a few hours later, at the age of 26. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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35 Years Ago — Remembering Mount Pinatubo (June 15 1991)

Posted on June 15, 2026 by L

“For 250 years most of the world suffered major economic and political unrest which could be directly or indirectly attributed to the climate of the neo-boreal era. Another Little Ice Age would cause hundreds of millions of deaths around the world and cause massive social unrest.”

CIA REPORT (1974)

Mount Pinatubo (June 15 1991)

June 15 2026 — 35 years ago, the volcano exploded in the second-largest volcanic eruption on Earth in the 20th century. About 15 million tons of sulfur dioxide were injected into the stratosphere, and dispersal of this gas cloud around the world caused global temperatures to drop temporarily (1991 through 1993) by about 1°F (0.5°C). Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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