Author Archives: L

On This Day — US Surgeon General Report Links Tobacco and Cancer (January 11 1964) — Disinformation : Why does it work? [UPDATE : Sugaring Wikipedia]

Posted on January 11, 2023 by L

“Global cigarette use seems to have peaked at about 6 trillion cigarettes sometime after the turn of the new millennium, but the deadly effects of this epidemic will still be felt for decades — even if global use continues to … Continue reading →

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Emanuela Orlandi — Vatican Bone Fragments Could Hold Clue to 35 Year Old Mystery [UPDATE — Vatican reopens investigation]

Posted on January 10, 2023 by L

“The disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi has been widely linked either to organised crime or to an attempt to force the release from prison of Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in … Continue reading →

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20 Years Ago — Ana Montes Is Arrested (September 21 2001) [UPDATE : Montes released early from prison]

Posted on January 9, 2023 by L

“I believe that the morality of espionage is relative. The activity always betrays someone, and some observers will think that it is justified and others not, in every case.” Ana Montes Private letter to a friend September 21 2021 — Ana … Continue reading →

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On This Day — President Ronald Reagan announces economic sanctions against Libya (January 7 1986) [UPDATE : Just a Timeline…]

Posted on January 7, 2023 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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On This Day — North Korea Tests H Bomb in “Self-Defence Against US” (January 6 2016) [Why I Started Blogging]

Posted on January 6, 2023 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 (January 6 2016) January 6 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on January 5, 2023 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 — Newly Declassified Doc Reveals True Reason of Trial [UPDATE — Mandela to Blair: “Wrong to hold Libya legally responsible.”]

Posted on December 30, 2022 by L

“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.”]

Posted on December 28, 2022 by L

“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)

Posted on December 26, 2022 by L

“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)

Posted on December 24, 2022 by L

“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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