“It is possible that it (the explosion) was caused by negligence or by external action, with a missile or a bomb.”
Lebanese president Michel Aoun (Friday August 7 2020)
“This is negligence from the ruling elite. An atomic bomb was there for years, and not a single leader or ruler did anything about it.”
Beirut resident
On August 4 2020, a devastating explosion in the Port of Beirut killed about 150 people and injured more than 1500. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna. They made a monstrosity. They tested him, and tested him. They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that. Finally, they are ready. They took it out to a park bench and said: ‘Listen to those two guys. Don’t listen to anything else – not the birds, no cat or dog – just those two guys!’ (…) They put him out of the van, and a taxi comes and runs him over. There they were, sitting in the van with all those dials, and the cat was dead.”
Victor Marchetti — Special assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA
“The environmental and security factors in using this technique in a real foreign situation force us to conclude that for our (intelligence) purposes, it would not be practical.”
CIA Project Acoustic Kitty — Final Report
August 8 2020 — Next to the wolf, the cat is one of humanity’s oldest pets. On International Cat Day, the world celebrates the most popular pet on the planet. Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s blue-eyed Persian is probably the most famous kitty in spy history. Less known is the true story of the CIA cyborg acoustic kitty. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_TODAY Continue reading
“Following the reported revelations in the Clinton emails, Amiri was executed for spying. In the Iranian judiciary’s mind, it’s a necessary signal to the US that Iran is aware of their activities in Iran and that this is what is done to those who help the enemy. It’s a textbook spying case.”
Dina Esfandiar — MacArthur fellow at the centre for science and security studies at King’s College London
“This person had obtained top-secret information and established contacts with our number one sworn enemy, America, and passed on our country’s most crucial intelligence to the enemy.”
Tasnim News Agency
Shahram Amiri (8 November 1978 – 3 August 2016) was an Iranian Kurdish nuclear scientist who disappeared from Iran during 2009–2010 under disputed circumstances, and was subsequently executed by Iran
August 8 2016 — Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri was executed on Wednesday August 3 2016. He was buried in the western city of Kermanshah. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“For a small cadre of CIA veterans, the death of Osama bin Laden was more than just a national moment of relief and closure. It was also a measure of payback, a settling of a score for a pair of deaths, the details of which have remained a secret for 13 years. Tom Shah and Molly Huckaby Hardy were among the 44 U.S. Embassy employees killed when a truck bomb exploded outside the embassy compound in Kenya in 1998.”
AP (5/29/2011)
“Molly exemplified the valor and compassion that are hallmarks of our finest officers.”
CIA Annual Memorial Ceremony (May 22 2012)
The Memorial Wall is a memorial at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It honors CIA employees who died in the line of service. There are 133 stars carved into the white Alabama marble wall. Eleven represent women.
August 7 2020 — The Memorial Wall is a memorial at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The wall honors CIA employees who died in the line of service. Today, there are 133 stars carved into the white Alabama marble wall. Eleven are known represent women. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender.”
US Admiral William Leahy
“I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a [nuclear] weapon.”
General Dwight Eisenhower
“I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. (…) I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth. (…) I would see people building a bridge, or they’d be making a new road, and I thought, they’re crazy, they just don’t understand, they don’t understand. Why are they making new things? It’s so useless.”
Richard Feynman — Nobel Prize in Physics (1965)
August 6 2020 — Seven decades after the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the real reasons behind the decision still divide historians. Recently declassified documents from the time suggest the nuclear strikes may have been performed not out of military necessity but to intimidate the USSR. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 – December 5, 2013)
August 5 2020 — Marilyn Monroe died of a barbiturate overdose late in the evening of Saturday, August 4, 1962, at her 12305 Fifth Helena Drive home in Los Angeles, California. Her body was discovered before dawn on Sunday, August 5. On the same day, Nelson Mandela was arrested in Durban, South Africa. Almost everyone has heard the conspiracy theory about Monroe being murdered by the CIA. Sadly, almost no one knows that the arrest of Nelson Mandela was made possible by a tip-off from the CIA. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“There are repeated accusations that the recordings were made by the British agency MI6, friends of Juan Manuel Santos, in a ruse against me.”
Former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe
“A cada cerdo le llega su San Martín.”
(Every pig will get his Saint Martin)
“The investigation involving Álvaro Uribe has serious implications for the independence of Colombia’s justice institutions, as well as the ongoing efforts to uncover the full truth about the powerful political networks that backed paramilitary death squads during Colombia’s decades-long conflict.”
Open Democracy (October 21 2019)
Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe is being investigated for his alleged participation in the ‘El Aro’ massacre which took place in the Department of Antioquia while he was governor.
October 22 2018 — The El Aro massacre (Spanish: Masacre del Aro) was a massacre in Colombia which occurred on October 22, 1997 in the municipality of Ituango, Department of Antioquia. 15 individuals accused of being leftist supporters of FARC were massacred by paramilitary groups with support from members of the Colombian Army. Perpetrators also raped women, burned down 43 houses, stole cattle and forcibly displaced 900 people. Former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe is investigated due to his alleged participation in the massacre that took place in the Department of Antioquia while he was governor. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“It’s not a war. The way the response to the coronavirus has been characterized isn’t only unnecessary and wrong, it’s also very dangerous. The danger is that an incorrect analogy leads to incorrect decisions.
A virus has its own rules. Israel’s government had a duty to explain to the public that until there’s a vaccine or treatment, we’ll have to change our way of life for an unknown period of time.
In the absence of an understanding of the implications of labeling the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, the government created the illusion that flattening the curve would achieve the goal needed to handle the virus.”
Former MOSSAD Director Tamir Pardo (July 2020)
August 4 2020 — Former MOSSAD Director Tamir Pardo is very worried about the impact of the crisis on society. Pardo believes it was dumb to call this crisis a war. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today. Continue reading
“Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no dominion over others. Ireland is treated today among other nations of the world as if she was a convicted criminal. If it be treason to fight against such an unnatural fate as this, then I am proud to be a rebel and shall cling to my rebellion with the last drop of my blood.”
“If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.”
Sir Roger Casement
“After his death Casement became one of the best-remembered of the 1916 sixteen, perhaps because two controversies kept his memory alive: the campaign for his body to be returned to Ireland and the ‘Black Diaries. His connections with Ulster also raised his profile during the anti-partition campaign of the late 1940s/early ‘50s. In 1953 the GAA named its stadium in Belfast, Casement Park. Casement’s body was returned to Ireland in 1965 – a goodwill gesture by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson – on condition that he was buried in Dublin, and not at Murlough Bay in Antrim as he had wished. President Eamon de Valera, who had named a son (Ruairí) after him, marched proudly to Glasnevin Cemetery despite the freezing weather. But it was only in recent years that Casement’s career as a humanitarian has been fully acknowledged in Ireland and the two strands of his remarkable career have been integrated.”
Mary E. Daly — Emeritus Professor of History at UCD and President of the Royal Irish Academy
Roger Casement attempted to smuggle weapons from Germany for the Easter Rising, an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week of April 1916.
August 3 2020 — Sir Roger David Casement (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916) was an Irish nationalist who worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat and later became a humanitarian activist, poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations”, he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in Peru.
In April 1916, Roger Casement attempted to smuggle weapons from Germany for the Easter Rising, an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week. He was arrested, convicted and executed for high treason. But sometimes, even a death sentence can be ridiculously hilarious. Roger Casement himself wrote that he was to be “hanged on a comma”, leading to the well-used epigram. Follow us on twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“History is a set of lies that people have agreed upon.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
August 3 2020 — Over the last two decades, I have written over a hundred pieces about the tragedy of Pan Am Flight 103. This year I have decided to summarize my research in a short book: Lockerbie — Three Decades of Lies: J’Accuse…!
Robert Black QC FRSE — Professor Emeritus of Scots Law in the University of Edinburgh and best known as the “Architect of the Lockerbie Trial” – has written: “The Lockerbie trial is the most disgraceful miscarriage of justice in Scotland for 100 years. Every lawyer who has read the judgment says ‘this is nonsense’. It is nonsense.”
Pr. Black is hardly alone in thinking that the Lockerbie verdict against Megrahi is a ‘Grand Monument to Human Stupidity’. From Chomsky to Mandela, I have collected more than 100 quotes from scholars, former diplomats, Intelligence officers and politicians who think likewise.
This book brings together, with solid evidence, most of the really stupid and unlikely elements of the Libya case: Gauci’s identification of Megrahi, the clothing from Malta, especially the Slalom shirt, and the infamous fragment of a timer: PT/35(b). When collected together, these elements of the case show the conviction of Megrahi is indeed utter nonsense.
My research also breaks the frame of current thinking. Until now, there were two widely accepted theories about Lockerbie: Libya OR Iran/PFLP-GC. This new book explores and demonstrates that another theory is available and provable.
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