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Category Archives: NSA
On This Day — Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld and Why? (September 18 1961)
“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
Posted in Aviation Disasters, Crypto AG, Dag Hammarskjöld, Jan van Risseghem, NSA, UN
Tagged Ban Ki-moon, Belgian Mining company Union Minière, Charles Southall, CIA, Crypto AG, Dag Hammarskjöld, Denzil Dunnett, Dickson Mbewe, Göran Björkdahl, GOSINT, Jan van Risseghem, Moise Tshombe, Ndola, NSA, Operation Celeste, Patrice Lumumba, Richard Goldstone, Sixten Svensson, Susan Williams, UN
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Remembering NSA Historian Matthew M. Aid (March 11 1958 – August 20 2018) [UPDATE : The Second Gulf of Tonkin incident (August 4, 1964)]
“One of Mr. Aid’s most significant findings, which became publicly known in 2005, was an NSA cover up of erroneous records related to the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which US officials alleged that North Vietnamese torpedo boats twice … Continue reading
Five Years Ago — Russiagate Intel Report Suspiciously Anachronistic [Has anyone read annex A?]
“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
Posted in CIA, CIA Director, DNC & Podesta Leaks, FBI, GRU, Michael Hayden, NSA, Putin, Russia, Trump
Tagged Aleksei Belan, CIA, DNC & Podesta Leaks, Evgeniy Bogachev, FBI, GRU, Michael Hayden, Michael Smerconish, NSA, OFAC SDN List, Putin, Russia election hacking, Trump
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60 Years Ago — Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld and Why? (September 18 1961)
“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
Posted in Aviation Disasters, Crypto AG, Dag Hammarskjöld, Jan van Risseghem, NSA, UN
Tagged Ban Ki-moon, Belgian Mining company Union Minière, Charles Southall, CIA, Crypto AG, Dag Hammarskjöld, Denzil Dunnett, Dickson Mbewe, Göran Björkdahl, GOSINT, Jan van Risseghem, Moise Tshombe, Ndola, NSA, Operation Celeste, Patrice Lumumba, Richard Goldstone, Sixten Svensson, Susan Williams, UN
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Remembering NSA Historian Matthew M. Aid (March 11 1958 – August 20 2018)
“One of Mr. Aid’s most significant findings, which became publicly known in 2005, was an NSA coverup of erroneous records related to the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which US officials alleged that North Vietnamese torpedo boats twice fired … Continue reading
On This Day — Remembering Navy Cryptanalyst Agnes Meyer Driscoll (July 24, 1889 – September 16, 1971) [2021]
“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 July 24 2019 … Continue reading
Posted in Cryptography, NSA, On This Day
Tagged Agnes Meyer Driscoll, Cryptography, NSA
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On This Day — The First NSA Defection : William H. Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell (June 25 1960) [2021]
“The United States Government is as unscrupulous as it has accused the Soviet Government of being. Our main dissatisfaction concerned some of the practices the United States uses in gathering intelligence information … deliberately violating the airspace of other nations … Continue reading
Posted in NSA, Whistleblowers
Tagged Bernon F. Mitchell, Defectors, NSA, William H. Martin
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Four Years Ago — Russiagate Intel Report Suspiciously Anachronistic
“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
Posted in CIA, CIA Director, DNC & Podesta Leaks, FBI, GRU, Michael Hayden, NSA, Putin, Russia, Trump
Tagged Aleksei Belan, CIA, DNC & Podesta Leaks, Evgeniy Bogachev, FBI, GRU, Michael Hayden, Michael Smerconish, NSA, OFAC SDN List, Putin, Russia election hacking, Trump
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