35 Years Ago — West German Spy Chief Defects to East (August 23 1985)

Posted on August 23, 2020 by L

“Naturally I am a traitor, I cannot deny that.”

Hans Joachim Tiedge

August 23 2020 — The West German spy chief’s defection was made public by the East German authorities on August 23 1985. Follow us on Twitter; @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — J. Edgar Hoover Becomes FBI Deputy Director (August 22 1921) [2020]

Posted on August 22, 2020 by L

“I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.”

“Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.”

J. Edgar Hoover

“Ernest Hemingway’s relationship with the Federal Bureau of Investigation would charitably be described as ‘strained’. Hemingway would tell anybody who’d listen that he thought the Bureau were a bunch of Nazi mediocrities … and the FBI in turn dismissed Hemingway as a drunken phony. As his file shows, however, all of that changed when Hemingway finally did something the Bureau agreed with: he died.”

Muckrock — ‘Ernest Hemingway’s death significantly improved his relationship with the FBI’

August 22 2020 — Though never elected to any office, for nearly 50 years J. Edgar Hoover’s power was unmatched. As head of the FBI, he knew what everyone else wanted to keep hidden. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Lockerbie Appeal — Fiction, Half-Truths and Downright Lies

Posted on August 21, 2020 by L

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.”

Leo Tolstoy — The Kingdom of God Is Within You

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Albert Einstein

Good Friends! Alex Salmond and Aamer Anwar…

August 21 2020 — Today, the first procedural hearing took place before five judges of the High Court of Justiciary. Sadly, Amer Anwar — the lawyer for Megrahi’s family — is repeating all the old mistakes that brought us this spectacular miscarriage of justice, including a grandiose press release, that is rid with nonsensical, erroneous, illogical, and counter-productive statements. I strongly believe that the legal battle for the TRUTH is already lost. In the end, this appeal will do more harm than good. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — US Marine Clayton J. Lonetree Convicted in Sexpionage Case (August 21 1987) [2020]

Posted on August 21, 2020 by L

“[Lonetree’s motivation] was not treason or greed, but rather the lovesick response of a naive, young, immature and lonely troop in a lonely and hostile environment.”

 General Alfred M. Gray — Commandant of the Marine Corps

“They wanted to kill him. We had individual Marines volunteering to be on the firing squad. We know the jury thought they were being lenient when they gave him a 30-year sentence.”

Michael Stuhff — Lonetree’s attorney

August 21 2020 — On August 21 1987, US Marine Clayton J. Lonetree was convicted of espionage in a military court in Quantico, Virginia. The “sex for secrets” scandal led to the recall of the entire 28- member contingent of Marine guards from the Moscow embassy.  Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Alexander Yuk Ching Ma — Former CIA Officer Accused of Spying for China

Posted on August 20, 2020 by L

“The charges announced today are a sobering reminder to our communities in Hawaii of the constant threat posed by those who seek to jeopardize our nation’s security through acts of espionage. Of particular concern are the criminal acts of those who served in our nation’s intelligence community, but then choose to betray their former colleagues and the nation-at large by divulging classified national defense information to China. My office will continue to tenaciously pursue espionage cases.”

U.S. Attorney Price

“Some intelligence officials still suspect [Jerry Chun Shing] Lee is responsible for the collapse of the CIA’s spy network in China, when assets began dying or defecting to the Chinese en masse. But there are some who think there may be another explanation for how the CIA’s covert communication system was breached, and law enforcement was unable to prove otherwise.”

Washington Post (November 2019)

“The conspiracy began with three days of meetings in a Hong Kong hotel room with at least five Chinese intelligence officials in March 2001, during which the two former CIA officers provided information to the Chinese foreign intelligence service about the CIA’s operations, including the cover used by CIA officers and their identities.”

The Guardian (August 2020)

August 20 2020 — Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, was arrested on August 14, 2020, on a charge that he conspired with a relative of his who also was a former CIA officer to communicate classified information up to the Top Secret level to intelligence officials of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).  The Criminal Complaint containing the charge was unsealed on Monday (August 17 2020). Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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On This Day — The Iranian Coup d’État (August 19 1953 – CIA Operation TP/AJAX) [2020]

Posted on August 19, 2020 by L

“Yes, my sin — my greater sin and even my greatest sin is that I nationalized Iran’s oil industry and discarded the system of political and economic exploitation by the world’s greatest empire. This at the cost to myself, my family; and at the risk of losing my life, my honor and my property. With God’s blessing and the will of the people, I fought this savage and dreadful system of international espionage and colonialism.”

Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh — Defending himself against a treason charge (December 19, 1953)

August 19 2020 — Mohammad Mosaddegh (16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an author, administrator, lawyer, and parliamentarian, who was elected as the prime minister of Iran in 1951. His administration introduced a wide range of progressive social and political reforms, notably the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control since 1913 through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. His government was overthrown in a coup d’état orchestrated by the British MI6 and the American CIA. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Lockerbie — Who Is The Mysterious GOLFER? — Part III : Unmasking the Devil [UPDATE — Who Paid GOLFER for His Lies?]

Posted on August 18, 2020 by L

“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”

Charles Baudelaire — “Le Joueur Généreux” (1864)

 

June 21 2019 — According to the information disclosed in the SCCRC Report, GOLFER is a former Strathclyde Detective Sergeant  who was on the witness list at the Zeist trial. In my last post, I explained how I had managed to ‘read’ a redacted sentence which indicates that, during his first interview, GOLFER told the SCCRC investigators that he had worked in Germany. The list of all police officers who worked in the Liaison Office in Germany is known. Therefore, one would think that the identification of Golfer would be an easy task. One could be wrong. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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4 Years Ago — The FAREWELL DOSSIER

Posted on August 18, 2020 by L

“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

“If some double agent told the KGB the Americans were alert to Line X and were interfering with their collection by subverting, if not sabotaging, the effort, I believed the United States still could not lose. The Soviets, being a suspicious lot, would be likely to question and reject everything Line X collected. If so, this would be a rarity in the world of espionage, an operation that would succeed even if compromised. Casey liked the proposal.”

Gus W. Weiss

“So the accomplishments of FAREWELL, in summary, are enormous. It was a major — major — accelerator to the end of the Cold War. (…) It was a critical and heroic accomplishment by President Mitterrand and his government, whatever the intentions may have been at the time…”

Richard V. Allen — President Ronald Reagan’s Former National Security Advisor

03 Jun 1982, Paris, France --- Original caption: Paris: President Francois Mitterrand greets President Ronald Reagan arriving at the Elysee Palace for lunch and meeting. President Reagan is France to attend the Economic Summit at Versailles. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

On July 19 1981 President Ronald Reagan met with French President Francois Mitterrand in Ottawa, Ontario at an economic summit. Mitterrand informed Reagan about the “Farewell Dossier”.

August 18 2016 — Not everyone will agree with Ed Luttwak’s analysis which is undoubtedly a tad unfair. There is no doubt that the Farewell Operation was an extraordinary successful operation. And yet everyone suspected everyone of lying about it. It just seemed too good to be true. Follow us on Twitter:@INTEL_TODAY  Continue reading →

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On This Day — The Crash of PAK-1 (August 17 1988) [2020]

Posted on August 17, 2020 by L

“Of all the violent political deaths in the twentieth century, none with such great interest to the U.S. has been more clouded than the mysterious air crash that killed president (and Army Chief General) Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan in (August) 1988, a tragedy that also claimed the life of the serving American ambassador and most of Zia’s top commanders”.

Barbara Crossette — New York Times South Asia bureau chief from 1988 to 1991

“As a general rule, complex international cases are hard to solve, and nothing about the process of investigating them ever seemed to be straightforward. This was especially true in this crash investigation, where a confluence of suspects and a dearth of information made an already challenging job that much more difficult.”

Fred Burton — Former deputy chief of counterterrorism at the Diplomatic Security Service

“It was the steering mechanism, is the way he described it to me. (…) I had always thought C130s were the workhorses of the air. I was quite surprised when the Air Force described to me what they had discovered.”

Mrs Ely-Raphel — Wife of US States Ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Lewis Raphel 

August 17 2020 — On 17 August 1988, General Zia-ul-Haq, the President of Pakistan and Chief of Army Staff (COAS), died in a mysterious C-130 Hercules plane crash. The case — it seems — was never solved. Really? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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CIA Dr Richards J. Heuer: “Information Collection vs Analytical Methods” [Quick Update]

Posted on August 16, 2020 by L

“Do You Really Need More Information? The US Intelligence Community invests heavily in improved intelligence collection systems while managers of analysis lament the comparatively small sums devoted to enhancing analytical resources, improving analytical methods, or gaining better understanding of the cognitive processes involved in making analytical judgments.”

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis — Richards J. Heuer

“We all tend to overlook evidence that contradicts our views. When confronted with new data, our pre-existing ideas can cause us to see structure that isn’t there. This is a form of confirmation bias, whereby we look for and recall information that fits with what we already think. It can be adaptive: humans need to be able to separate out important information and act quickly to get out of danger. But this filtering can lead to scientific error.”

How scientists can stop fooling themselves over statistics — Dorothy Bishop (Nature August 3 2020)

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Richards J. Heuer

August 21 2017 — Accurate intelligence judgments do not solely rely on the abundance and accuracy of the information. Indeed it has long been known that rigorous analysis of the information is at least as important as the gathered material in order to reach accurate intelligence estimates. Follow us on Twitter:@INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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