On This Day — Che Guevara Is Executed (October 9 1967) [2020]

“The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”

“The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.”

Che Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967)

 

A 1960 photo taken by Alberto Korda of Guevara in a beret became iconic and has since appeared on countless posters and T-shirts.

October 9 2020 — On this day in 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was killed by the Bolivian army. He was 39. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading

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Spy Quotes — Helen Mirren [#5]

“The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It’s a world that needs women.”

Helen Mirren

October 9 2020 — Dame Helen Lydia Mirren (born Mironoff on 26 July 1945) is an English actor. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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One Year Ago — The Fifth Estate : Investigating what made the diplomats sick [Havana Syndrome Documentary]

“Do the results known to me fully support that the signs / symptoms occurring in US embassy personnel were solely due to cholinergic neurotoxicity? No, not completely.”

James Giordano PhD — Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry Georgetown University — Email to Intel Today (September 20 2019)

October 8 2019 — For four decades, The Fifth Estate has been Canada’s premier investigative documentary program. In this latest episode, Jayme Poisson investigates the possible causes of the Havana Syndrome. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading

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75 Years Ago — Raytheon files US patent application for microwave cooking process (October 8, 1945)

“My grandfather was watching a microwave testing rig, and he realized that the peanut-cluster bar in his pocket started to melt — it got quite warm.”

Rod Spencer — Inventor and grandson of Percy Spencer
Percy Spencer — Inventor of microwave oven

October 8 2020 — The origins of the microwave oven can be traced to World War II. Scientists in Britain had developed the magnetron, a tube that produces microwaves, as part of a radar system to spot Nazi warplanes. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Russia Hoax — Declassified CIA Memo Reveals Clinton Role

“All of this underscores that the great scandal of 2016 wasn’t Russian collusion. It was the unleashing of America’s premier law enforcement agency against a presidential campaign based on Russian disinformation midwifed and financed by the Clinton campaign. The public is finally getting the truth about the FBI’s malfeasance, and Messrs. Barr and Durham deserve credit for exposing it.”

Wall Street Journal (September 26 2020)

“At my direction, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has now provided almost 1,000 pages of materials to the Department of Justice in response to Mr. Durham’s document requests. I will continue to ensure the Intelligence Community’s responsiveness to the DOJ’s requests. We also look forward to supporting the DOJ in further declassifications consistent with their investigation. As the President has made clear, we must be appropriately transparent with the American people and give them the confidence that the extraordinary work of Intelligence professionals is never misused or politicized.”

DNI Statement on Support to Durham Investigation (October 7 2020)

October 8 2020 — John Ratcliffe — The head of the U.S. intelligence community — has declassified a referral sent from the CIA to FBI Director James Comey in September 2016. The short memo speaks volumes. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Spy Quotes — Edward Luttwak [#4]

“There have been only two kinds of CIA secret operations: the ones that are widely known to have failed—usually because of almost unbelievably crude errors—and the ones that are not yet widely known to have failed.”

Edward Luttwak

October 8 2020 — Edward Nicolae Luttwak (born 4 November 1942) is a strategist and historian known for his works on grand strategy, geoeconomics, military history, and international relations. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day — The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya (October 7 2006) [2020]

“She was brave, she was bold, and she was beautiful. In her fearless quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian State, Anna Politkovskaya inspired awe in some and fear in countless others. Hers was a lonely voice, yet loud enough for the entire country to hear. It was too loud. At age 48 she was assassinated for simply doing her job.”

A Bitter Taste of Freedom

Anna Politkovskaya (August 30, 1958, New York City — Assassinated: October 7, 2006, Moscow)

October 7 2020 — On October 7 2006, Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed in front of the elevator of her apartment building in Moscow. After several arrests, releases and retrials over eight years, five people have been jailed for her murder.  Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading

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Spy Quotes — Kurt Vonnegut [#3]

“Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.”

Kurt Vonnegut — Mother Night

October 7 2020 — Kurt Vonnegut Jr (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, bestselling novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Lockerbie Appeal 2020 — Appeal Date set to November 24 2020

“It is important to observe in limine that, although they explored a number of avenues of potential appeal, the SCCRC have referred only two grounds for the court’s consideration. In broad terms these are, first, that no reasonable court could have found Mr Megrahi guilty in so far as its verdict was based on the testimony of Antonio Gauci. This testimony was held: (i) to be an identification of Mr Megrahi as the purchaser of clothing, which was later identified in the debris from Pan Am flight 103, from a shop in Malta; and (ii) to fix the date of that purchase as at 7 December 1988. The second ground is based upon the failure of the Crown to disclose a number of documents which could have had a material effect on Mr Gauci’s evidence and hence the verdict. Although the SCCRC were asked to, and did, consider the significance of a failure to disclose two Protectively Marked Documents (PMDs), the SCCRC have not referred the case on the basis of any significance attaching to those documents.”

OPINION OF THE COURT delivered by LORD CARLOWAY, the LORD JUSTICE GENERAL (August 26 2020)

October 6 2020 — On March 11 2020, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission [SCCRC] decided to refer the Lockerbie case back to the High Court of Justiciary for determination. As a result of the Commission’s decision, Mr. Megrahi’s family was therefore entitled to instruct an appeal against his conviction. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Remembering Cubana de Aviacion Flight 455 (October 6 1976) [2020]

 “The CIA created and unleashed a Frankenstein.”

Peter Kornbluh — Head of the National Security Archive’s Cuba project

“Luis Posada Carriles  died without having paid for this crime nor the many other terrorist acts that are a feature of his criminal record.”

Cuban government website Cubadebate — May 23 2018

“A15 — CIA code name for Posada — is not a typical kind of ‘boom and bang’ individual. He is acutely aware of the international implications of ill-planned or overly enthusiastic activities against Cuba.”

Former CIA handler Grover Lythcott

“Our confidential source ascertained (…) that the bombing of the Cubana Airlines DC-8 was planned, in part, in Caracas, Venezuela, at two meetings attended by Morales Navarrete, Luis Posada Carriles and Frank Castro.”

“A confidential source all but admitted that Posada and [Orlando] Bosch had engineered the bombing of the airline.”

FBI Declassified reports

Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) — nicknamed Bambi — is a Cuban exile militant and former Central Intelligence Agency agent. Carriles is considered a terrorist by the Government of Cuba, among others; he is widely considered responsible for the bombing of Cubana flight 455, which killed 73 people.He was a long-time member of the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations described by the FBI as “an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization”.

October 6 2020 — Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed.

Several CIA-linked anti-Castro Cuban exiles and members of the Venezuelan secret police DISIP were implicated by the evidence. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading

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