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Robert Levinson — Forensic Analysis of Audio File Could Reveal Clues

Posted on April 2, 2020 by L

“I need the help of the United States Government to answer the requests of the group that has held me for three and a half years. And please help me at home. Thirty three years of services to the United States deserve something. Please help me.”

Former FBI Robert Levinson — Proof of life (c. Sept. 2010)

“In the fields of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind.”

Louis Pasteur — University of Lille, France (December 7, 1854)

April 02 2020 — On December 9 2011, the Levinson’s family released a hostage video they had received in November 2010. A forensic analysis of the Audio could reveal clues about his location at the time. Do you feel like playing real-life Sherlock Holmes today? You could be the one person who notices a sound no one else has recognized previously. So, let us get started! Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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CIA Whistleblower “LULU” Wins 2020 Sam Adams Award

Posted on April 1, 2020 by L

“Lulu began to show signs that she wasn’t interested in detecting explosive odors. She was acting lazy, guessing where the odors are, and just showing a general disregard for whatever she was being taught. We made the decision to drop her from the program.”

CIA — Press Release (October 18 2017)

“I cannot talk about the 2016 incident. It is classified. I risk incarceration. I have a family. If you are contemplating whistleblowing … you’re going to sit there and say, ‘If I go through that system, it will not end well for me. I’m going to lose my career and I’m going to be financially devastated.’”

Former CIA K9 officer LULU — Email to Intel Today (April 1st 2020)

“On March 30 [2016], the CIA was notified that the explosive training material was found when the [school] bus was undergoing routine maintenance. CIA coordinated closely with local authorities and recovered the training material. To prevent such incidents from happening again, CIA has taken immediate steps to strengthen inventory and control procedures in its K-9 program. CIA will also conduct a thorough and independent review of CIA’s K-9 training program.”

CIA — Press Release (March 31 2016)

2020 Sam Adams Award Laureate LULU

April 1st 2020 — In October 2017, the CIA issued a Press Release to announce that one of their youngest officers, only known as LULU, had been fired from the Agency after a poor performance review. In truth, LULU was a dedicated case-officer who bravely denounced the criminal incompetence of the CIA K9 hierarchy. Today, the truth can finally be told. We are glad to report that LULU is the laureate of the prestigious 2020 Sam Adams Award. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — UN Security Council Nominates Dag Hammarskjöld for Secretary-General (March 31 1953) [2020]

Posted on March 31, 2020 by L

“With strong feeling personal insufficiency I hesitate to accept candidature but I do not feel I could refuse to assume the task imposed on me should the [UN General] Assembly follow the recommendation of the Security Council by which I feel deeply honoured.”

Dag Hammarskjöld (April 1, 1953)

“It will be necessary to find some way of pulling Hammarskjold up short.”

UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (September 13 1961)

“Hammarskjöld was at the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said ‘when they killed him’.”

US President Harry Truman (September 19 1961)

Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold (July 29, 1905, Jönköping, Sweden — September 18, 1961, Ndola, Zambia)

On 31 March 1953, the Security Council voted 10-0-1 to recommend Hammarskjöld to the General Assembly, with an abstention from Nationalist China. Shortly after midnight on 1 April 1953, Hammarskjöld was awakened by a telephone call from a Stockholm journalist with the news, which he dismissed as an April Fool’s Day joke. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Remembering CIA Barbara A. Robbins (July 26, 1943 – March 30, 1965) [The Enduring Mystery of the Anonymous 1965 Star]

Posted on March 30, 2020 by L

“To this day, Barbara Robbins is the youngest officer memorialized on our Wall. She was the first American woman to die in Vietnam and the first woman in our Agency’s history to make the ultimate sacrifice. Nine women since then have fallen in service to our mission. Today we remember them all, with great love and great admiration.”
CIA Director Leon Panetta — Memorial Ceremony (May 23 2011)

March 30 2021 –Officially, the first female CIA officer to die in the line of duty and receive a star on the Memorial Wall was Barbara Robbins. On March 30 1965, two years after joining the Agency, she was killed in a car bombing of the US Embassy in South Vietnam. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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

Posted on March 29, 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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CIA — The “fake scrotum” Radio Kit

Posted on March 29, 2020 by L

“What I see when I look at the [CIA] rectal tool kit is a great example of problem solving. Technology is designed to fixed hard problem.”

Dr. Vince Houghton — Historian and curator of the International Spy Museum

“You just look at it, and you just say, ‘Oh, my God.’”

Jackie Eyl — Director of Youth Education at the International Spy Museum

“This artefact speaks to the creative and out-of-the-box problem-solving Tony [Mendez] used to solve challenges that came his way. As goofy as it may look, at the same time, this sort of item could have saved lives.” — International Spy Museum Spokeswoman

March 29 2020 — Thank God, it is Sunday! The CIA’s fake scrotum concealment device, developed to be worn on the human body. was designed to conceal a miniaturized escape radio. The object is now on display at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — The Greatest False Flag Attack of All Time (The Saint Nazaire Raid – March 28 1942) [False Flag Ops & International Humanitarian Law]

Posted on March 28, 2020 by L

“It’s very painful… I see a lot of poverty. I see a lot of spiritual poverty. This is a nation that has been deceived and abused. And you can’t be a happy people when your reality is based on deception… we’re causing incredible harm to countries like Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan… but the other side of the sword is cutting us.”

Christopher Lee Bollyn

“The disparity between historical reality and the description of history in books and newspapers can lead our youth only to lack of belief, to cynicism, whereas we need belief, but real belief can be based only on the truth.”

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko — Open Letter (New York Times – February 17 1974)

“Governments lie. They do it all the time. And, much as we’d like to believe otherwise, the US government is no exception. There were times when we may have believed otherwise. But after Vietnam and Watergate, we know better.”

Ted Koppel, “The USS Vincennes: Public War, Secret War.” — July 1, 1992, ABC News

The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot

March 28 2020 — The St Nazaire Raid — also known as Operation Chariot — was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France during the Second World War. The operation — often called The Greatest Raid of All — was undertaken by the Royal Navy and British Commandos under the auspices of Combined Operations Headquarters on March 28, 1942. 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) [UPDATE : Message from FBI Director Christopher Wray- March 26, 2020]

Posted on March 27, 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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Biography — Boris Hagelin (July 2 1892 — September 7 1983) [Crypto AG] — Part II : Family

Posted on March 27, 2020 by L

“The Story of the Hagelin Cryptos could never have been written if Russia after the revolution had become a democratic republic. The expected defeat of the Bolshevik minority and the return of a moderate government would have caused me to remain an employee of the Nobel Brothers Oil Production Company, and there would have been no CRYPTO-AG.”

Boris Hagelin — The Story of Hagelin Cryptos (1981)

“Om jag berättade vad jag gjort i livet, vilket jag inte kan – skulle du tycka att jag var århundradets spion!”

[“If I could tell you what I did in my life — which I cannot — you would think that I am the greatest spy of the century.”]

Boris Hagelin — Private discussion with (brother-in-law) Sixten Svensson

Sixten Svensson is a retired Swedish journalist and the brother-in-law of the late Boris Hagelin. Sixten has been my primary source of information on Boris Hagelin and Crypto AG over the last 15 years. His book — The Boris Project — is a magnificent piece of research.

March 27 2020 — If you read his Wikipedia page, Boris Hagelin appears to have been a rather ordinary businessman who established a very successful company in Switzerland. But appearances can be deceptive. Boris Hagelin was one of the greatest US spies of the 20th century. Bits of his extraordinary life have begun to emerge recently but much is still classified. 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) [UPDATE : Statement from the Levinson Family – March 25, 2020]

Posted on March 26, 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)