Monthly Archives: October 2020

RUMINT — DCIA Gina Haspel to Step Down After Election [Biography]

Posted on October 26, 2020 by L

“I wrote a letter to the CIA on my manual college typewriter. I mailed it to CIA with my résumé. I didn’t have an address. So I just put: CIA. Washington, D.C. And here I am.” DCIA Gina Haspel — … Continue reading →

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Spy Quotes — “Journalists for Hire : How the CIA Buys the News”

Posted on October 26, 2020 by L

“I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years and I was educated to lie, to betray and not to tell the truth to the public. The truth will come out one day, the truth won’t die.” Dr. Udo Ulfkotte — … Continue reading →

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On This Day — James Bond “Die Another Day” Premiere in London (November 18 2002) How Jamaica inspired James Bond [UPDATE : “My Name is Bond. Jane Bond.”]

Posted on October 25, 2020 by L

“I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, and ‘James Bond’ was much better than something more interesting, like ‘Peregrine Carruthers.’ Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure — an … Continue reading →

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Spy Quotes — Former CIA John Kiriakou

Posted on October 25, 2020 by L

“That Mark Zaid is involved in this case leads me to believe that the CIA whistleblower is either an idiot who has no idea what he’s gotten himself into or he’s been directed to make his ‘disclosure’.” Former CIA officer … Continue reading →

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Exclusive Q&A with Carla Ortiz from Ghouta, Syria [UPDATE – Chomsky: “OPCW cover-up of Syria probe is shocking”]

Posted on October 24, 2020 by L

“I can say the following very confidently. Many officials in our Western governments have really no knowledge of the truth! This is what is so scary. Our decision-makers have been deceived either by misinformation or lies provided by their Intelligence Agencies regarding this conflict.” Carla … Continue reading →

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On This Day — The Beirut Barracks Bombings (October 23, 1983) [2020]

Posted on October 23, 2020 by L

“Though he never said so explicitly, he [President Ronald Reagan] ended America’s military commitment to a strategic mistake that was peripheral to America’s interests. Three-and-a-half months after the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. military … Continue reading →

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Spy Quotes — Leon Theremin & “The Thing”

Posted on October 23, 2020 by L

“Theremin did some of his best scientific work while imprisoned by one of the most repressive regimes of the 20th century. This brilliant scientist crossed path with the CIA more than once — to our detriment.” Benjamin R. Fisher — … Continue reading →

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On This Day — El Aro Massacre (Colombia – October 22 1997) [2020]

Posted on October 22, 2020 by L

“There are repeated accusations that the recordings were made by the British agency MI6, friends of Juan Manuel Santos, in a ruse against me.” Former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe “A cada cerdo le llega su San Martín.” (Every pig will … Continue reading →

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On This day — Aldous Huxley Writes to George Orwell (October 21 1949)

Posted on October 21, 2020 by L

“My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power.” Aldous Huxley — Letter to George Orwell (October 21 1949) October 21 2020 — On this … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Pablo Neruda Awarded Literature Nobel Prize (October 21 1971) — Was Neruda a KGB Agent? [2020]

Posted on October 21, 2020 by L

“And you’ll ask: why doesn’t his poetry speak of dreams and leaves and the great volcanoes of his native land? Come and see the blood in the streets.” Pablo Neruda — I explain a few things   October 21 2020 … Continue reading →

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