Author Archives: L

RUMINT — DCIA Gina Haspel to Step Down After Election. Who will run Biden’s CIA? [UPDATE — “It’s gotten pretty quiet.”]

Posted on January 9, 2021 by L

“A couple of people at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence would have to go, absolutely. Probably Gina Haspel would have to go, too. Gina is a good woman, but she would have to go.” Michael Hayden — … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Takes Many Secrets to His Grave (January 8 2017)

Posted on January 8, 2021 by L

“With what is happening in the U.S. and the possible instability that is going to come in U.S. policy you needed a voice of reason and pragmatism that had some heft to it. He was that voice. Losing that voice … Continue reading →

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Four Years Ago — Russiagate Intel Report Suspiciously Anachronistic

Posted on January 8, 2021 by L

“The newly-released intelligence report describing Russia’s efforts to undermine the US election is a brick short of a load.” General Michael Hayden — Former head of the CIA and National Security Agency (January 7 2017) January 8 2017 — The … Continue reading →

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LOCKERBIE — Analysis of the New Indictment [Intel Today Conclusions]

Posted on January 7, 2021 by L

“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 — President Ronald Reagan announces economic sanctions against Libya (January 7 1986) [2021]

Posted on January 7, 2021 by L

“I cannot rule out that Libya, in some way, is responsible for the ‘La Belle Disco’ bombing. But I must say that such hasty blame regarding Rome and Vienna, for which Libya had immediately been made responsible, did not prove … Continue reading →

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5 Years Ago — North Korea Tests H Bomb in “Self-Defence Against US” (January 6 2016)

Posted on January 6, 2021 by L

“It is just to have H-bomb as self-defence against the US having numerous and humongous nuclear weapons. The DPRK’s fate must not be protected by any forces but DPRK itself.” North Korean State Television Broadcast (Jan. 6 2016) January 6 … Continue reading →

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On This Day — French Captain Alfred Dreyfus Is Convicted of Treason (January 5 1895) [2021]

Posted on January 5, 2021 by L

“Officers new to counterintelligence and overwhelmed by the scope of what they need to learn often ask the same question: ‘Where do I start?’ The best place might be the Dreyfus affair.” The Lessons for Counter-Intelligence of the Dreyfus Affair — … Continue reading →

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LOCKERBIE — Analysis of the New Indictment [The TOSHIBA Radio : First a metamorphosis… Now a vanishing act!]

Posted on January 4, 2021 by L

“I have compared some fragments of electronic circuit board recovered at Lockerbie and marked as item AG/145 with various radio/cassette tape recorders. I am completely satisfied that these fragments originate from a Toshiba brand radio stereo cassette recorder types RT-8016 … Continue reading →

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On This Day — The Assassination of Qassem Soleimani (January 3 2020) [Tensions high on first anniversary]

Posted on January 3, 2021 by L

“If you think the war in Iraq was hard, an attack on Iran would, in my opinion, be a catastrophe. Iranian capacity to wage a series of terror attacks across the Middle East aimed at us and our friends, and … Continue reading →

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CRYPTO AG — NSA Historian Tom Johnson dies at 80 [MINERVA Files]

Posted on January 2, 2021 by L

“The fourth volume includes a couple of instances during the 1980s where somebody really made a bad error here and should have been fired. I hope it will come out.” NSA Historian Tom Johnson January 2 2021 — Tom Johnson, … Continue reading →

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