Lockerbie — CIA’s Adventures in Africa : Senegal Shenanigans [New Evidence]

“They had been trapped by Ahmed Khalifa Niasse, who first led them to Benin, before taking them to Senegal, while keeping us informed at all times.”

President Abu Diouf — Mémoires

November 11 2020 — On February 20 1988, two Libyan citizens were arrested in Dakar. According to the official narrative, they were carrying with them a Swiss timer identical to the one blamed for the Lockerbie bombing. I have long argued that this story is a fabrication. In truth, this event was a sting operation run by the CIA in collaboration with the French DGSE and the office of the President of Senegal. On Saturday (Nov. 7 2020), Sheikh Omar Niasse kindly sent me a key piece of information that corroborates my findings regarding this event. The consequences are far reaching. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day — Western Union Cable Announces Armistice to North Americans (November 10 1918) [2020]

“There had never been a known leak from the Western Union telegraph office on Court Street before that day, but this news was simply too good to keep quiet. As you might guess, they were overjoyed, so that word very quickly leaked into the community and the party was on.”

Richard Rose — Chair of the November 10 commemoration committee with the North Sydney Historical Society

 

The North Sydney Historical Museum houses the telegraph machine that received the oversea message announcing an armistice would be signed on November 11, 1918.

November 10 2020 — On November 10 1918, the Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia received a Morse coded message from Europe stating that all fighting — on land, sea and in the air — would cease the next day. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Three Years Ago — Who Killed Argentina Prosecutor Alberto Nisman? And Why?

“I am not going to speculate because I do not know who killed him but, yes, there are possibly ‘dark forces’ at work in this country.”

Horacio Verbitzky — Argentina’s most prominent journalist and human rights campaigner

 

Alberto-Nisman

November 9 2017 — A political scandal has erupted in Argentina over the mysterious death of special prosecutor Albert Nisman. The 52-year-old was found dead in his apartment on January 18 2015. On the next day, Nisman was scheduled to testify before Congress that Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (along with members of her government) had attempted to cover-up a deal that protected the perpetrators of the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish cultural center.  Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Remembering Actress and Inventor Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) [2020]

“We began talking about the war, which, in the late summer of 1940, was looking most extremely black. Hedy said that she did not feel very comfortable, sitting there in Hollywood and making lots of money when things were in such a state. She said that she knew a good deal about munitions and various secret weapons … and that she was thinking seriously of quitting MGM and going to Washington, DC, to offer her services to the newly established Inventors’ Council.”

 George Antheil — Composer, pianist and inventor

A 1940s shot of Lamarr, ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’

November 9 2020 — Often called “The Most Beautiful Woman in Films,” Hedy Lamarr’s beauty and screen presence made her one of the most popular actresses of her day. It is however much less known that Lamarr was also an inventor who, along with composer George Antheil, patented a frequency-hopping system during World War II that presaged Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_Today

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KRYPTOS 30 Years Anniversary — SECTION III : A Transposition Cipher

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 the candle to flicker. Presently, details of the room emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues and gold – everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment – an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by – I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand in suspense any longer, inquired anxiously “Can you see anything?”, it was all I could do to get out the words “Yes, wonderful things”.

Howard Carter — The Tomb of Tutankhamen (Diary — November 26 1922)

 

November 8 2020 — In a previous post, we looked at the inside story of the NSA people who took the challenge to decrypt — part of — the KRYPTOS code. I will tell you later how the NSA people broke Section III but today I will present a novel and rather unusual solution.

Why? Because I have great doubts that Sanborn — an artist — has used complex mathematical transformation to code Section III. Who cares? Does it matter anyway? One would think that as long as the solution is correct, the method used to get it is irrelevant. One could be wrong. The devil IS in the detail. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This day — James Bond “The World Is Not Enough” Premiere in Los Angeles (November 8 1999) [2020]

“There’s no point living, if you can’t feel alive.”

Elektra King

November 8 2020 — The World Is Not Enough is the nineteenth James Bond movie and the third to star Pierce Brosnan. Its world premiere was November 8 1999 at the Fox Bruin Theater, Los Angeles, USA. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day — Able Archer 1983 : The Brink of Apocalypse (November 7-11, 1983) [2020]

“Information about the peculiar and remarkably skewed frame of mind of the Soviet leaders during those times that has emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union makes me think there is a good chance—with all of the other events in 1983—that they really felt a NATO attack was at least possible and that they took a number of measures to enhance their military readiness short of mobilization. After going through the experience at the time, then through the post-mortems, and now through the documents, I don’t think the Soviets were crying wolf. They may not have believed a NATO attack was imminent in November 1983, but they did seem to believe that the situation was very dangerous. And US intelligence had failed to grasp the true extent of their anxiety.”

Robert Gates — CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence during Able Archer 83

 

November 7 2020 — Able Archer 83 is the codename for a command post exercise carried out in November 1983 by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Coordinated from the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Casteau, Belgium, it involved NATO forces throughout Western Europe. This exercise began on November 7, 1983 and ended on November 11, 1983. Today, many historians believe that the world almost came to a nuclear war on that week. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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KRYPTOS 30 Years Anniversary — SECTION I : A KEYED Vigenère Cipher [And why does the CIA lie so much about it?]

“I have developed much too thick a skin to be surprised, let alone upset, by people telling me how that great CIA tells us the truth. If an organisation accustomed to lying tells you it is telling the truth, where does that leave you?”

Dr Jim Swire — Father of Flora (1965 – Lockerbie December 21 1988)

Letter to INTEL TODAY

 

November 7 2020 — The story of the — partial —  KRYPTOS decoding by CIA David Stein is very beautiful and inspiring. But is it a true story or a fairy tale? It is my opinion that this narrative can simply not be trusted for multiple reasons. Allow me to explain why. The reader will draw his/her own conclusions. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Richard Sorge Executed for Espionage (November 7 1944)

“Richard Sorge’s brilliant espionage work saved Stalin and the Soviet Union from defeat in the fall of 1941, probably prevented a Nazi victory in World War II and thereby assured the dimensions of the world we live in today.”

American writer Larry Collins

November 7 2020 — On October 18, 1941, Richard Sorge was arrested in Tokyo. He was hanged on November 7 1944, at 10:20 Tokyo time in Sugamo Prison. A number of famous personalities — from General Douglas MacArthur to James Bond’s father and former MI6 Ian Fleming — considered him one of the most accomplished spies. Sorge is proof that one spy can alter the History of our world. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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35 Years Ago — Colombia Palace of Justice Under Siege (November 6 1985)

“Colombia has moved on… Colombia has forgotten the Palace of Justice siege.”

Ana Carrigan — “The Palace of Justice: A Colombian Tragedy”

 

November 6 2020 — The Palace of Justice siege (Toma del Palacio de Justicia in Spanish) was a 1985 attack against the Supreme Court of Colombia, in which members of the M-19 Marxist guerrilla group took over the Palace of Justice in Bogotá and held the Supreme Court hostage, intending to hold a trial against President Belisario Betancur.  Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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