Monthly Archives: November 2023

On This Day — THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE (CIA, November 28 1947)

Posted on November 28, 2023 by L

“Armed hostilities between Jews and Arabs will break out if the UN Genral Assembly accepts the plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab States as recommended by the UN Special Committee on Palestine.” CIA (November 28 1947) November 28 … Continue reading →

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Remembering Enrico Fermi (September 29 1901 – November 28 1954) — Think like a Physicist! How many workers were necessary to build Khufu’s pyramid? [Fermi Problems]

Posted on November 28, 2023 by L

“For the making of the pyramid itself there passed a period of twenty years. They worked by a hundred thousand men at a time, for each three months continually.” Herodotus (484 – c. 425 BC) November 28 2023 — A ‘Fermi Question’ asks … Continue reading →

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70 Years Ago — Did The CIA Murder US Army Scientist Frank Olson? And Why? (November 28 1953) [UPDATE — New documents: Frank Olson’s death was connected to a specific program]

Posted on November 28, 2023 by L

“If this would have been a suicide, it would have been very difficult to accomplish. There was motive to kill him. He knew the deepest, darkest secrets of the cold war. Would the American government kill an American citizen who … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Remembering Avianca Flight 203 (November 27 1989) [Politicization of Intelligence]

Posted on November 27, 2023 by L

“No one acts alone without orders in the FBI. We had clear goals which were clearly given to us in every document we received from anyone. If a police organization wished for us to provide them ‘proof’ of guilt, then … Continue reading →

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On This Day — The CIA Book of Honor — Star 79 : Johnny Micheal Spann (March 1, 1969 – November 25, 2001) [First CIA STAR Post 9/11]

Posted on November 26, 2023 by L

“Johnny Micheal Spann led one of our teams into Afghanistan, then under the sway of a dictatorship aligned with global murder.  There, he tracked the authors and allies of terror.  There, while fighting for the future of the American people, … Continue reading →

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20 Years Ago — Dr Gus W. Weiss Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances (November 25 2003)

Posted on November 26, 2023 by L

“If some double agent told the KGB the Americans were alert to Line X and were interfering with their collection by subverting, if not sabotaging, the effort, I believed the United States still could not lose. The Soviets, being a … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s Famous Equation : “E= m c²”. Really? (November 21 1905) [UPDATE : Einstein on Disinformation and Democracies]

Posted on November 21, 2023 by L

“If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2. The fact that the energy withdrawn from the body becomes energy of radiation evidently makes no difference, so that we are led … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Terry Waite Released by Islamic Jihad (November 18 1991)

Posted on November 19, 2023 by L

“Logic and political analysis always affect interpretations of raw intelligence data. It helps determine how you reconfigure the pieces of the puzzle.” November 18 2023 — On November 18 1991, Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland were released by the Islamic … Continue reading →

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On this Day — At Long Last, FBI Admits No Evidence of Foul Play in 1996 TWA 800 Crash (November 18 1997) [Striking Similarities of Pan Am 103 and TWA 800 : No Bomb, No Case.]

Posted on November 18, 2023 by L

“The FBI didn’t want to hear about anything but a missile or a bomb, because otherwise there was no FBI case. Their conduct was disturbing from the very beginning.” Senator Chuck Grassley Chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee on administrative oversight … Continue reading →

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50 Years Ago — US President Richard Nixon : “I am Not a Crook.” (November 17 1973) [UPDATE : 50 Years of Deep Throat]

Posted on November 17, 2023 by L

“And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got … Continue reading →

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