Category Archives: Crypto AG

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

Posted on September 18, 2022 by L

 “It will be necessary to find some way of pulling Hammarskjold up short.” UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (September 13  1961) ***** ***** ***** “Hammarskjöld was at the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said … Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Crypto AG : Was Boris Hagelin Jr. Murdered by the CIA? [UPDATE : The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine]

Posted on September 9, 2022 by L

“Even the vice president of the BND assumed that Boris Hagelin Jr. was not the victim of an accident. It was an intelligence murder.” Intelligence expert Erich Schmidt-Eenboom February 15 2020 — A decade ago, I argued that Crypto AG … Continue reading →

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Two Years Ago — Crypto AG & The Ghost of Danny Casolaro

Posted on March 10, 2022 by L

“An NSA employee allegedly told a journalist about his involvement in manipulating the Crypto AG devices. This NSA man and the journalist died the same year from non-natural cause.” Minerva Files (Released Feb. 2020) March 10 2020 — The Minerva … Continue reading →

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60 Years Ago — Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld and Why? (September 18 1961)

Posted on September 18, 2021 by L

 “It will be necessary to find some way of pulling Hammarskjold up short.” UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (September 13  1961) ***** ***** ***** “Hammarskjöld was at the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said … Continue reading →

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Crypto AG — Was Boris Hagelin Jr. Murdered by the CIA? [UPDATE : The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine]

Posted on September 9, 2021 by L

“Even the vice president of the BND assumed that Boris Hagelin Jr. was not the victim of an accident. It was an intelligence murder.” Intelligence expert Erich Schmidt-Eenboom February 15 2020 — A decade ago, I argued that Crypto AG … Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Crypto AG & The Ghost of Danny Casolaro

Posted on March 10, 2021 by L

“An NSA employee allegedly told a journalist about his involvement in manipulating the Crypto AG devices. This NSA man and the journalist died the same year from non-natural cause.” Minerva Files (Released Feb. 2020) March 10 2020 — The Minerva … Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Crypto AG : The Missing Piece of the Snowden Puzzle

Posted on March 2, 2021 by L

“An attack in Karachi, Pakistan, during which another NSA employee Gary C. Durrell was shot in March 1995  is believed to be related to Crypto AG.” MINERVA — A History March 2 2020 — Why has the Washington Post decided … 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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HistoCrypt 2021 [September 2021 — Amsterdam, Netherlands]

Posted on October 28, 2020 by L

“A cryptographic system should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.” Auguste Kerckhoffs October 28 2020 — The International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2021) invites submissions of papers to its annual conference … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld and Why? (July 29 1905 – September 18 1961) [2020]

Posted on September 18, 2020 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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