On This Day — Allen Dulles Becomes First Civilian Director of Central Intelligence (February 26 1953) [2020]

Posted on February 26, 2020 by L

“President Dwight Eisenhower, named Allen Dulles CIA Director. Dulles’ forte was overthrowing governments and he was quite good at it. With coups in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) under his belt, Dulles was riding high in the late Fifties and moved Cuba to the top of his to-do list.”

Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern

“I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind.”

President John F. Kennedy (ca. April 20 1961) [1]

February 26 2020 — Allen Welsh Dulles was an American diplomat and lawyer who became the fifth, but first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest-serving director to date. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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The CIA Book of Honor — Star 121 : Mark S. Rausenberger (November 7, 1967 – May 23, 2016)

Posted on February 25, 2020 by L

“There are now 125 stars on our Memorial Wall, each representing a life that is dear to us, and will be for all time. We remain forever devoted to them, as they were to us. And we will strive to make them proud of us, as we are of them.”

CIA Director Mike Pompeo — May 22 2017

“During the time I wrote this diary, I was a Sergeant and a Medic in the U.S. Army. My main function in the military was as a Medic and a Treatment NCO. This is a multi task job. I was certified to suture, do inor surgeries, dispense medication, triage patients, and a lttle bit of everything else. I worked the medical side of the house as well as leading and supervising other medics.”

A Somalia Journal — Mark S. Rausenberger (1995)

On May 22 2017, the Central Intelligence Agency held its 30th annual memorial ceremony. The ceremony began in 1987 and is attended each year by hundreds of employees, retirees, and family members of those who died in service with the CIA. Eight stars were added to the Memorial Wall in 2017, bringing — at the time — to total number to 125.  Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Dag Hammarskjöld — US, UK and South Africa still withholding crucial information [UPDATE : Will the UN finally investigate Crypto AG?]

Posted on February 24, 2020 by L

“Information of the type requested is the missing link that makes the present picture incomplete, and its conspicuous absence from the record means that conclusions about the cause of the crash cannot yet be reached. South Africa, the UK and the US must be almost certain to hold important undisclosed information.”

Tanzanian lawyer Mohamed Chande Othman — UN Report (October 8 2019)

Dag Hammarskjold

October 10 2019 — In a report released on Monday (October 7 2019) by current secretary-general António Guterres, Tanzanian lawyer Mohamed Chande Othman wrote that he will need more time to finish his review of the case because US, Britain and SA  are not responding to his questions.  Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Book Review — The Coldest Warrior [Dr Frank Olson]

Posted on February 23, 2020 by L

“The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface.”

CIA assassination manual (1953)

“In other words, the Memorandum of Understanding, in your judgment, gave authority to the CIA to make decisions to give immunity to individuals who happened to work for the CIA for all kinds of crimes, including murder.”

Question from Senator Bella Abzug to CIA general counsel Lawrence Houston (1975)

“He was letting them know that he was marching to a different drummer and you couldn’t do it back then. He was a man who was profoundly, profoundly distressed about what he was learning… And he was dangerous. Back then, if you thought somebody was detrimental to the cold war, you had no problem dealing with them.”

American journalist Seymour Hersh

February 23 2020 — In his new book, acclaimed espionage author Paul Vidich tells the story of a CIA officer tasked to investigate a cold case from the 50s: the mysterious death of Dr. Charles Wilson, an Army bio-weapons scientist. Does the plot ring a bell? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Face Trial For Corruption [UPDATE : Date set for October 5 2020]

Posted on February 22, 2020 by L

“Sarkozy has to give back the money he accepted from Libya to finance his electoral campaign. We financed his campaign and we have the proof… The first thing we’re demanding is that this clown gives back the money to the Libyan people.”

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi — March 2011

March 29 2018 — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to face trial for corruption and influence peddling. “Rien ne va plus” for Nicolas Sarkozy. Hard evidence of Libyan funding are quickly piling up. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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50 Years Ago — Remembering Swissair Flight 330 (February 21 1970)

Posted on February 21, 2020 by L

“330 is going down. Goodbye everybody.”

Co-pilot Armand Etienne — February 21 1970 1:34

“Bern threw a ‘cloak of silence’ over the case.”

Swiss Investigator Robert Akeret

“The secret deal was ‘immoral’ and in breach of legal principles, but it was justified for strategic reasons. This might be absolutely shocking, but the reward was that there were no more attacks.”

Pr. Jean Ziegler

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Wreckage from the Swissair plane that crashed in a forest in Würenlingen

On 21 February 1970 — a cold and wet Saturday — Swissair Flight 330, bound for Tel Aviv, crashed shortly after take-off from Zürich. 38 passengers and nine crew died in the tragedy. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day — CIA Aldrich Ames Arrested by FBI in Arlington, Virginia (February 21, 1994) [2020]

Posted on February 21, 2020 by L

“I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counter-espionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.”

Former CIA Aldrich Hazen Ames

Aldrich Ames is arrested outside his home in Virginia

On February 21 1994, CIA officer Aldrich Hazen Ames was arrested by the FBI in Arlington, Virginia on espionage charges. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Crypto AG — Belgium Intelligence Committee Launches Investigation

Posted on February 20, 2020 by L

“Als de ene blinde de andere leidt, vallen ze beiden in de gracht.”

[“When one blind man leads another, they both fall into the ditch.”]

Dutch proverb

“The ADIV is aware of the Rubicon affair and is currently investigating the possible extent of the eavesdropping practices reported.”

BELGA News

The Blind Leading the Blind — Painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1568)

Belgian newspapers Knack and Le Soir report that the Intelligence Committee (which oversees the Belgian intelligence services) has launched an investigation into the Crypto AG affair. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — BELGIUM : €10bn Missing From Gaddafi Frozen Accounts

Posted on February 20, 2020 by L

“There remains a little less than 5 billion euros on the four accounts opened at Euroclear Bank SA.”

Denis Goeman — Spokesman from Brussels’ prosecutor’s office

“Making the interest and other earnings freely available to the Libyan Investment Authority is in non-compliance with the sanctions regime. Furthermore, considering the instability in the country, the disputes over the authority of the Libyan Investment Authority and the lack of an oversight mechanism, doing so could lead to the misuse and misappropriation of funds.”

UN Report

“Nobody is preoccupied with the question of where the funds have gone and who benefitted from them. What is surprising is that nobody wanted to see what was going on and everyone is shutting their eyes at a political level … This is an extremely serious problem as it could uncover a real state scandal.”

Robert Wtterwulghe — Law professor at UC Louvain University

Brussels, Belgium — After Gaddafi’s death in 2011, the U.N. passed a resolution to freeze his wealth, with the idea that it would be held in trust for the Libyan people until the war-shattered country stabilizes. Four separate accounts opened for the Libyan Investment Authority and Libyan Foreign Investment Company in the Euroclear bank held about 16 billion euros when they became ‘frozen’ under UN sanctions in September 2011. Today, there remains about 5 billion euros on these accounts. So the question is rather simple: Where did the €11 billion vanish to? Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Crypto AG — China FM : “United States is a Hacker Empire”

Posted on February 19, 2020 by L

“Gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail.”

Henry L. Stimson — US Secretary of State

“The program had limits. America’s main adversaries, including the Soviet Union and China, were never Crypto customers. Their well-founded suspicions of the company’s ties to the West shielded them from exposure …”

The intelligence coup of the century — Greg Miller (Washington Post – Feb. 11 2020)

February 19 2020 — China’s Foreign Ministry has accused the United States of being a “hacker empire”. The statement comes in the wake of the Crypto AG scandal. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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