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On This Day — Key Lockerbie Witness Admits Perjury (September 15 2007)

Posted on September 19, 2018 by L

“Hans Köchler, a United Nations observer, called the trial ‘a spectacular miscarriage of justice,’ words echoed by Mr. Mandela. Many legal experts and investigative journalists challenged the evidence, calling Mr. Megrahi a scapegoat for a Libyan government long identified with … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Remembering UTA Flight 772 (September 19 1989)

Posted on September 19, 2018 by L

“It is striking to note the similarity of the ‘scientific’ evidence discovered by the FBI’s Tom Thurman in both the Lockerbie and UTA cases. Of the tens of thousands of pieces of debris collected at each disaster site, one lone … Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Historian Webster Tarpley : Nixon Was Ousted By The CIA

Posted on September 19, 2018 by L

“Kissinger served as Nixon’s de facto intelligence adviser and it was Kissinger, not the CIA, whom Nixon counted on to help him keep informed about global events. In part, Kissinger did this each day by sending Nixon a memorandum prepared … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld and Why? (July 29 1905 – September 18 1961)

Posted on September 18, 2018 by L

“I continue to have a strong feeling that Hammarskjold’s death was not an accident.” Richard Goldstone “There is a significant amount of evidence from eyewitnesses that they observed more than one aircraft in the air, that the other aircraft may … Continue reading →

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Two Years Ago — Dr A. Q. Khan : The Bomb, the Swiss and the CIA

Posted on September 18, 2018 by L

“If you put the [A. Q. Kahn] puzzle together, you get the whole picture.”  Swiss magistrate Andreas Müller “If the Swiss can safeguard billions in hundreds of thousands of numbered accounts, they can guard a few CDs. The destruction of the documents … Continue reading →

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The KRYPTOS Sculpture — The NSA Solution for Section III

Posted on September 17, 2018 by L

With trembling hands, I made a tiny breach in the upper left hand corner… widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in… at first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping from the chamber causing … Continue reading →

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Havana Syndrome — What Are the Frequencies Used by US Intel for Microwave Spying?

Posted on September 17, 2018 by L

” [LOUDAUTO is] extremely useful for picking up room audio. It can pick up speech at a standard, office volume from over 20′ away. (NOTE: Concealments may reduce this distance.) It uses very little power (~15 uA at 3.0 VDC), … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Remembering Navy Cryptanalyst Agnes Meyer Driscoll (July 24, 1889 – September 16, 1971)

Posted on September 16, 2018 by L

“Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.” “We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.” Agnes Meyer Driscoll “In her thirty-year … Continue reading →

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On this Day — The Wall Street Bombing (September 16 1920)

Posted on September 16, 2018 by L

“Almost in front of the steps leading up to the Morgan bank was the mutilated body of a man. Other bodies, most of them silent in death, lay nearby. As I gazed horror stricken at the site, one of these … Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Under pressure from the CIA, Harvard rescinds Chelsea Manning’s visiting fellowship

Posted on September 16, 2018 by L

“[However] we are withdrawing the invitation to her to serve as a visiting fellow – and the perceived honour that it implies to some people – while maintaining the invitation for her to spend a day at the Kennedy School … Continue reading →

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