Monthly Archives: December 2022

Lockerbie — Newly Declassified Doc Reveals True Reason of Trial [UPDATE — Mandela to Blair: “Wrong to hold Libya legally responsible.”]

“His [Gaddafi] readiness to suffer the extended effects of sanctions rather than to hand over the indictees indicated that he must have something personal to fear. But the present strategy would not only call any bluff on his part but … Continue reading

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On This Day — Pan Am Flight 103 disintegrates over Lockerbie (December 21 1988) [UPDATE : Libyan PM : “I will never hand Senussi to the Americans.”]

“Operation El Dorado Canyon (1986) turned out to be a more decisive blow against Libyan-sponsored terrorism than I could ever have imagined. There were revenge killings of British hostages organized by Libya, which I bitterly regretted. But the much-vaunted Libyan … Continue reading

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On This Day — The Good Traitor — Remembering George Blake (November 11 1922 — December 26 2020)

“Communism was an ideal which, if it could have been achieved, would have been well worth it. I thought it could be, and I did what I could to help it, to build such a society. It has not proved … Continue reading

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On This Day — CIA COS Richard Welch Is Assassinated in Athens (December 23 1975)

“The CIA and the Ford White House quickly saw Welch’s murder as a political windfall. At a time when the CIA was under assault from Congress and Bush’s nomination was in peril in the Senate, there was now a dead … Continue reading

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On This Day — Pan Am Flight 103 disintegrates over Lockerbie (December 21 1988) [UPDATE : Plan to hand Senussi aborted at last minute]

“Operation El Dorado Canyon (1986) turned out to be a more decisive blow against Libyan-sponsored terrorism than I could ever have imagined. There were revenge killings of British hostages organized by Libya, which I bitterly regretted. But the much-vaunted Libyan … Continue reading

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On This Day — Pan Am Flight 103 disintegrates over Lockerbie (December 21 1988) [UPDATE : Libyan government to form defense team of Masud]

“Operation El Dorado Canyon (1986) turned out to be a more decisive blow against Libyan-sponsored terrorism than I could ever have imagined. There were revenge killings of British hostages organized by Libya, which I bitterly regretted. But the much-vaunted Libyan … Continue reading

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One Year Ago — Havana Syndrome : Conspiracy Theorists, Truth Deniers, Scientists and Spies [UPDATE : The story of Dr. Leonid Ber]

“It is the role of intelligence to identify and characterize threats to the nation and to sift what is likely true from what is probably false. But the public has gotten very little useful or meaningful information from our intelligence … Continue reading

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LOCKERBIE — Analysis of the New Indictment : Who is Abu Agela Masud? [UPDATE : DoJ Press Release & Timeline]

“Finally, please remember that Agela Masud is NOT an alias for Megrahi. He is/was a real ESO agent.” Intel Today Email to FBI R. Marquise Head of the Lockerbie InvestigationFeb 8 2010 December 27 2020 — On the 32nd anniversary of … Continue reading

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LOCKERBIE — Analysis of the New Indictment [UPDATE : Lockerbie 3rd suspect taken into U.S. custody]

“The urgent imperative now is extraditing Masud here to face swift and sure justice. The two men who earlier stood trial for the murders — in the Netherlands, under Scottish law — escaped full punishment.” Editorial: Justice for Lockerbie January … Continue reading

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On This Day — Did the CIA Kill Father Louis Thomas Merton? (January 31 1915 — December 10 1968) [New Book: Thomas Merton’s Betrayers]

“The very thoughts of a person like me are crimes against the state. All I have to do is think, and immediately I become guilty.” Father Louis Merton —  A Signed Confession of Crimes against the State December 10 2022 — … Continue reading

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