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Intel Today — Knowns & Unknowns of the 2020 Intelligence Calendar

Posted on January 8, 2020 by L

“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.”

United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld —
news briefing (February 12, 2002)

January 8 2020 — The year will bring lot of surprises as we know full well that there are plenty known unknowns and unknown unknowns. Here are a few known dates regarding stories that Intel Today is following: General Michael Flynn, Dag Hammarskjold, Lockerbie, Kryptos and… James Bond 25. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Three Years Ago — Russiagate Intel Report Suspiciously Anachronistic

Posted on January 8, 2020 by L

“The newly-released intelligence report describing Russia’s efforts to undermine the US election is a brick short of a load.”

General Michael Hayden — Former head of the CIA and National Security Agency (January 7 2017)

“The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.”

Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)

January 8 2017 — The report, released Friday (January 6 2017), outlines how Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed to hurt Hillary Clinton and help President-elect Donald Trump by using by “an influence campaign” which included hacking Democratic groups and figures. The ’25-page’ Intel Report per se is in fact 5 pages long and the document contains 7 pages of information related to the 2012 US election! Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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On This Day — President Ronald Reagan announces economic sanctions against Libya (January 7 1986) [2020]

Posted on January 7, 2020 by L

“I cannot rule out that Libya, in some way, is responsible (for the ‘La Belle Disco’ bombing ). But I must say that such hasty blame regarding Rome and Vienna, for which Libya had immediately been made responsible, did not prove to be correct.”

Christian Lochte — Head of the Hamburg Branch of the BfV (April 1986)

“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)

On April 14th 1986, Ronald Reagan ordered a series of bombings directed against Libya under “Operation El Dorado Canyon

January 7 2020 — On January 7 1986, President Ronald Reagan announced economic sanctions against Libya and called on the European allies to join with the U.S. in isolating Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi. This story is a good reminder that playing dirty didn’t start yesterday. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Australia — Is Wang Liqiang a Chinese Spy or a Fraudster? [UPDATE]

Posted on January 6, 2020 by L

“Wang obviously is not a Chinese secret agent. Wang’s lies are grossly unprofessional and demonstrated an extremely shallow understanding of the Chinese intelligence establishment.”

Weng Yanqing — Former deputy director of Taiwan’s Military Intelligence Bureau

“Since school, Wang Liqiang has deceived his friends, schoolmates and then me and now foreigners abroad. All this proves that Wang is a 100 percent natural fraudster.”

Wang’s last employer in China

December 18 2019 — In November 2019, Wang Liqiang sought political asylum in Australia. Wang claims to be a spy who was involved in the People’s Republic of China’s intervention in the affairs of Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan (ROC). Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — North Korea Tests H Bomb in “Self-Defence Against US” (January 6 2016) [2020]

Posted on January 6, 2020 by L

“It is just to have H-bomb as self-defence against the US having numerous and humongous nuclear weapons. The DPRK’s fate must not be protected by any forces but DPRK itself.”

North Korean State Television Broadcast (January 6 2016)

On January 6 2016 (at 10:00:01 UTC+08:30), North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear detonation at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, approximately 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of Kilju City in Kilju County. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — French Captain Alfred Dreyfus Is Convicted of Treason (January 5 1895) [2020]

Posted on January 5, 2020 by L

“I swear that I am innocent. I remain worthy of serving in the Army. Long live France! Long live the Army!”

Alfred Dreyfus (January 5 1895)

“Officers new to counterintelligence and overwhelmed by the scope of what they need to learn often ask the same question: ‘Where do I start?’ The best place might be the Dreyfus affair.”

The Lessons for Counter-Intelligence of the Dreyfus Affair — CIA Website

“The Dreyfus affair was not only the first modern Counter-Intelligence case, but it was also the first modern Counter-Intelligence disaster — that is, not just an investigative and legal error, but one that spilled over from the intelligence world into the sphere of mass politics, with consequences for culture and society as well.”

John Ehmman

Alfred Dreyfus (January 9, 1859 — July 12, 1935)

On January 5 1895, Dreyfus was summarily convicted in a secret court-martial, publicly stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island in French Guiana. Following French military custom of the time, Dreyfus was formally degraded by having the rank insignia, buttons and braid cut from his uniform and his sword broken, all in the courtyard of the École Militaire before silent ranks of soldiers, while a large crowd of onlookers shouted abuse from behind railings. Follow us on twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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On This Day — The Assassination of Qassem Soleimani (January 3 2020)

Posted on January 4, 2020 by L

“If you think the war in Iraq was hard, an attack on Iran would, in my opinion, be a catastrophe. Iranian capacity to wage a series of terror attacks across the Middle East aimed at us and our friends, and dramatically worsen the situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and elsewhere is hard to overestimate.”

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (March 2012)

“Soleimani joined his martyred brothers, but we will take vigorous revenge on America.”

Former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezaee (January 3 2020)

January 4 2020 — General Qassem Soleimani was assassinated on 3 January 2020 around 1 am local time (22:00 UTC on 2 January), after missiles shot from American drones targeted his convoy near Baghdad International Airport. This attack raises dozen of questions, and none can be answered today. But one thing is certain. Iranians will never forget General Qassem Soleimani. 2020 is going to be a very dangerous year for American people all over the world. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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2020 — Happy New Year! Truth, Freedom and Justice!

Posted on January 1, 2020 by L

“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”

Oscar Wilde

January 1st 2020 — I wish you all a very Happy New Year! May 2020 be the Year of the Truth, Freedom and Justice! Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Saddam Hussein is Executed (December 30 2006) [2019]

Posted on December 31, 2019 by L

“No one can know what would have happened to Iraq had Saddam stayed in power. With that question unanswerable, many Iraqis look back at the death and destruction of the past 15 years, and in a haze of nostalgia for the stability of dictatorship, believe they would have been better off with Saddam.”

Jane Arraf — NPR (April 2018)

“In a now famous interview with the Iraqi leader, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam, ‘[W]e have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait.’ The U.S. State Department had earlier told Saddam that Washington had ‘no special defense or security commitments to Kuwait.’ The United States may not have intended to give Iraq a green light, but that is effectively what it did.”

Foreign Policy (2003)

Following his capture on December 13 2003, the trial of Saddam took place under the Iraqi Interim Government. On November 5 2006, Saddam was convicted by an Iraqi court of crimes against humanity related to the 1982 killing of 148 Iraqi Shi’a, and sentenced to death by hanging. Saddam Hussein was executed on December 30 2006. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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