“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
Continue reading“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
Continue reading“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
“However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.”
Christine Keeler
October 6 2020 — On December 4 2017, Christine Keeler, the model embroiled in the 1963 Profumo affair, died aged 75. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
Continue reading“Dr. No is a dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.”
Vatican spokesperson (1962)
“James Bond is the personification of capitalist evil.”
Kremlin spokesperson (1962)
“Fleming found he had a love for espionage, and combined with his support for all things British, provided purpose to his life. But after WWII ended, he found himself at loose ends, and took a job with a newspaper. He hated the drudgery that went with the position, and often found himself daydreaming while admiring a picture of Jamaica near his desk. After several vacations to the island, he decided to move there permanently and, drawing on his family’s income, built a home for himself. He called it ‘Goldeneye.’ Fleming told friends he had always wanted to write a spy novel…and now with time on his hands, he did exactly that.”
Ian Fleming: The Man Behind the Most Famous Spy — CIA Website (May 2018)
James Bond Dr No — Behind-The-Scenes Photos of Sean Connery and Ursula Andress
October 5 2020 — On October 5 1962, Dr. No had its worldwide premiere at the London Pavilion. Fifty years after the release of the film, Eon Productions celebrated “Global James Bond Day” on October 5 2012. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.”
John le Carré
October 5 2020 — During the 1950s and 1960s, David Cornwell — better known by the pen name John le Carré — worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
Continue reading“On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched the Sputnik-1 earth satellite into space—an achievement that stunned the American public and press, but not the U.S. policy and intelligence communities. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reported the advancements that led to this landmark launch to President Eisenhower, providing him with the strategic advantage to guide the U.S. response.”
CIA Website (October 4 2017)
October 4 2020 — On October 4 1957, the Soviet Union launched SPUTNIK-1 into an elliptical low Earth orbit. It was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses.
Its radio signal was easily detectable even by amateurs, and the 65° inclination and duration of its orbit made its flight path cover virtually the entire inhabited Earth. This surprise success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race, a key part of the Cold War. The launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“If the facts are confirmed and if the effects are indeed caused by a physical device, I find the microwave explanation far more likely than a sonic attack. If this is indeed the case, I expect to hear nothing further in the future because the truth would sent a wave of panic through the Telecom industry.”
INTEL TODAY (October 3 2017)
“This happened during the Cold War to personnel stationed in the US embassy in Moscow when the Soviets were bombarding the embassy with microwaves to monitor oral communications in the ambassador’s office.”
Dr Joel Moskowitz — Community health professor at the University of California, Berkeley
“Until the government of Cuba can ensure safety of our people, we will be reduced to emergency personnel.”
US state department official
“In the more distant future, weapons systems based on new principles — beam, geophysical, wave, genetic, psycho physical and other technology — will be developed. All this will, in addition to nuclear weapons, provide entirely new instruments for achieving political and strategic goals. Such high-tech weapons systems will be comparable in effect to nuclear weapons but will be more ‘acceptable’ in terms of political and military ideology.”
Vladimir Putin — 2012
October 3 2017 — US Investigators still don’t know what caused “diplomats” to suffer severe health problems in Cuba. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Your White House, specifically your national security adviser, constructed an operation whereby the free press in this country was going to be used to convey a false story to the world, namely that Qaddafi was planning new terrorist operations.”
New York Times (October 3 1986)
“There is a wonderful book that you might read… And the title of it is from a quote from Winston Churchill: ‘In time of war, the truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'”
Secretary of State George P. Shultz (October 3 1986)
14 March 1986 — Reagan Strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi
October 2 2020 — On October 2 1986, the Washington Post published an extraordinary story written by legendary journalist Bob Woodward: “Gadhafi Target of Secret U.S. Deception Plan”. Under orders from the White House, the US Intelligence Community was planting false information in the US media. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The situation will be under complete control very shortly.”
Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios (Head of Mexican Federal Security) — Message to the CIA (September 26 1968)
“The horrific nature of the Tlatelolco killings was made worse by the fact that, as a policy, it seemed to achieved its aims – the student movement was crushed, hopelessness prevailed, and the PRI had consolidated its power. A key part of this was suppression of the idea that the massacre ever happened at all – the official death toll remained under 30.”
Felix Bazalgette — El Grito: the film banned for revealing the truth about Mexico in 1968
October 2 2020 — 52 years ago on this day, a group of student protesters were gunned down in the middle of a square in Mexico City. At the time, authorities tried to cover up the true scale of what happened, but the Mexican government has now accepted it was a state crime.
In 2002, President Vicente Fox appointed Ignacio Carrillo Prieto to prosecute those responsible for ordering the massacre. In 2006, former President Luis Echeverria was arrested on charges of genocide. However, in March 2009, the genocide charges against Echeverria were dismissed.
Despite the ruling, prosecutor Carrillo Prieto said he would continue his investigation and seek charges against Echeverria before the United Nations International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
