Intel Today

Crypto AG — The Ghost of Danny Casolaro

Posted on March 10, 2020 by L

“An NSA employee allegedly told a journalist about his involvement in manipulating the Crypto AG devices. This NSA man and the journalist died the same year from non-natural cause.”

Minerva Files

“With an incomplete investigation, uncooperative agencies, and numerous outright lies, the journalist’s death remains a mystery.”

Emma Best — Muckrock (March 15 2018)

“The Inslaw story alone is enough to drive a sane man to madness. If they ever make a movie of the Inslaw suit, it could be called Mr. and Mrs. Smith Go to Washington and Meet Franz Kafka.”

Ron Rosenbaum — “The Strange Death of Danny Casolaro” (Vanity Fair, December 1991)

March 10 2020 — The Minerva Files mention at least five suspicious deaths: Boris Hagelin Jr., CIA/NSA employee Gary C. Durrell, and a German employee of Crypto AG, Werner Graf. But the files do not name an NSA whistleblower and a journalist. Who are they? And why is their identity kept secret to this day? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Former FBI Robert A. Levinson Vanishes in Iran (March 9 2007)

Posted on March 9, 2020 by L

“My husband served this country tirelessly for decades. He deserves better from all of us and from our government. He deserves our endless pursuit to bring him home, to fight day and night and leave no stone unturned.”

Christine Levinson

“We share our deepest sympathy with his family which has suffered from his absence for over a decade. We will not rest until the Levinson family is whole again. Iran committed to cooperating with the United States to assist us in bringing Robert Levinson home and we call on Iran to fulfill this commitment.”

Heather Nauert — State Department Press Secretary (March 9 2018)

“The Iranians responded with a startling offer. In return for Tehran’s assistance in recovering Levinson, they wanted Washington to reveal the location of Ali Reza Asgari, an Iranian general who vanished in Turkey in 2007, just one month before Levinson’s disappearance.”

YEGANEH TORBATI and JOEL SCHECTMAN — America’s unending hostage crisis with Iran — Reuters (August 1 2018)

March 9 2020 — Today marks the thirteen-year anniversary of Robert Levinson’s disappearance from Kish Island, Iran. The FBI has offered a $5 million reward for any information that could lead to his safe return. On November 4 2019, the Trump administration announced a major increase in reward money ($20 million) for information on the whereabouts of Robert Levinson. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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25 Years Ago — Remembering CIA Jacqueline K. Van Landingham (1962 – March 8 1995) [Why was Gary Durrell not honored with a Star?]

Posted on March 8, 2020 by L

“African Americans have long made critical contributions to our Agency’s mission, taking the risks and bearing the sacrifices that intelligence work often demands. We at CIA join our fellow citizens in remembering the immeasurable sacrifice, strength, and courage of African Americans in building a more free and just society. It is a cause they nobly advanced, and one that we all must carry forward to this day.”

CIA Director John Brennan — February 26 2014 CIA’s Black History Month Celebration

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. Today, there are 133 stars carved into the white Alabama marble wall. At least ten represent women.

March 8 2020 — Jacqueline K. Van Landingham joined the CIA in July 1985 as a clerk-typist, working in the Directorate of Operations (now the National Clandestine Service), Near East (NE) Division, Logistics Branch. She was gunned down on March 8, 1995 in Karachi, Pakistan. On May 22, 2012, her name was added to the Book of Honour. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Crypto AG — What is Wrong with WP Reporter Greg Miller?

Posted on March 7, 2020 by L

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. I will add that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.”

Thomas Jefferson — Letter to John Norvell (1807)

“Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.”

Goethe — The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.”

Albert Einstein

March 7 2020 — Greg Miller — Washington Post — forgot to tell his readers that the Minerva Files contain disturbing information about a series of suspicious deaths. One should “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” However, in his following piece and during an interview with NPR, Greg Miller clearly distorts the facts about Crypto AG in such a way that one can no longer ignore malice. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Operation Flavius [Death on the Rock] (March 6 1988)

Posted on March 6, 2020 by L

“For the government to claim the right to kill British people, based on highly unreliable secret intelligence and a secret declaration of legality, is so shocking I find it difficult to believe it is happening even as I type the words. Are we so cowed as to accept this?”

Craig Murray — Former UK Embassador

March 6 2020 — On March 6 1988, three unarmed members of the IRA were shot dead on the territory of Gibraltar by British Special Air Service (SAS) troops. The killings of Sean Savage, Daniel McCann, and Mairéad Farrell sparked two weeks of increasingly macabre happenings in the trio’s native Belfast. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — The Skripals Drama Begins (March 4 2018) [2020]

Posted on March 5, 2020 by L

“This is a carefully constructed drama as part of the propaganda campaign that has been building now for several years in order to justify the actions of NATO [the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation], Britain the United States, towards Russia. That’s a fact. The whole role of Porton Down has been integral to the Cold War apparatus of this.”

“And this is so dangerous, with Russia being effectively pushed into a corner with these accusations, it’s part of a propaganda campaign. I can tell you that, I’m a journalist who has spent almost all my career working in the mainstream [media] in Britain. This is a propaganda campaign promoted specifically in the media and in the Government.”

Journalist John Pilger

“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’”

St. Antony the Great

March 4 2019 — No one who has looked into the case in any detail can possibly be satisfied that the account given by the UK Government and The Metropolitan Police is correct. The narrative put out by the Metropolitan Police is not simply questionable, it is plain impossible. I believe that this affair is a carefully constructed drama to push Russia in a corner and justify Western foreign policies in various places such as Ukraine, Iran and Syria. Who really tried to assassinate Sergei Skripal? And why? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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15 Years Ago — Remembering SISMI General Nicola Calipari (June 23, 1953 – March 4, 2005)

Posted on March 4, 2020 by L

“Out of the 30 cars that came to the blocking position, why was this the only car fired upon that night?”

Mel Sembler — US Embassy in Rome (May 5 2005)

March 4 2020 — Nicola Calipari (June 23, 1953 – March 4, 2005) was an Italian major-general and SISMI military intelligence officer. Calipari was killed by American soldiers while escorting a recently released Italian hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, to Baghdad International Airport. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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OSS Society : “Don’t believe the BS from The Good Shepherd.” [Joke] // UPDATE

Posted on March 3, 2020 by L

“Don’t believe the BS from ‘The Good Shepherd.’ Donovan recruited lots of first- and second-generation Americans like himself. He said no country in the world had more citizens with knowledge of other countries. The best example are the OSS Operational Groups, predecessors to SF.”

The OSS Society — Tweet (February 25 2020)

Sunday March 1 2020 — Thank God, It is Sunday! There is no doubt that the recent tweet from the Office of Strategic Service [OSS] Society is a about a very serious issue: the diversity of the CIA workforce. I promise to (seriously) discus this topic soon. But we have been a bit too serious in recent weeks, and it is time to return to our tradition of Sunday jokes, parodies and animal spy stories. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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US Whistleblowers 2020 — Test Your Spy Knowledge With Our Quiz!

Posted on March 3, 2020 by L

“It is Snowden who decided, at great risk, to honor his oath to defend the Constitution against ALL enemies foreign and domestic – and NOT the timid politicians whose cowardice Snowden exposed. Naïve souls still inclined to give credence to congressional “overseers” (“overlookers” is a better word) and to a constitutional-lawyer-in-chief who lies outright about his sweeping power to pardon, are now asked to believe that Snowden was/is a Russian spy. At long last, have you no sense of decency?”

Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern

March 3 2020 — How much do you know about spy agencies? Take this quiz to find out your knowledge of American whistleblowers. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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