On This Day — Pan Am Flight 103 disintegrates over Lockerbie (December 21 1988) [UPDATE — Relatives still seek the truth]

Posted on December 22, 2024 by L

“Operation El Dorado Canyon (1986) turned out to be a more decisive blow against Libyan-sponsored terrorism than I could ever have imagined. There were revenge killings of British hostages organized by Libya, which I bitterly regretted. But the much-vaunted Libyan counter attack did not and could not take place. There was a marked decline in Libyan-sponsored terrorism in succeeding years.”

Margaret Thatcher
The Downing Street Years
(Memoirs 1993, pp 448-9)

December 21 2021 — On December 21 1988, N739PA — the Boeing 747 aircraft operating the transatlantic leg of Pan Am Flight 103 — broke up in flight over Scotland. All 243 passengers and 16 crew died as well as 11 residents of Lockerbie. This horrific crime has been called the world’s biggest unsolved murder. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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Silent Stars – The Fallen Heroes of the CIA : John W. Kearns (Star 31 – Laos – December 15, 1972)

Posted on December 16, 2024 by L

“As a paramilitary operations officer, John’s role was to work behind enemy lines, supporting local pro-government forces and engaging in special missions to disrupt the activities of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Vietcong.”

CIA website

Earliest known photo of the Book of Honor (33 stars)

December 15, 2024 — John Wesley Kearns III was a CIA officer who served as a paramilitary operations officer on contract in Laos during the Vietnam War. He was killed in action on December 15, 1972, at the age of 30. Silent Stars is now available on Kindle. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY.

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“Silent Stars: The Fallen Heroes of the CIA” — New Book Now Available on Kindle!

Posted on December 14, 2024 by L

“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.”

John F. Kennedy

Speech at Amherst College Convocation
in honor of poet Robert Frost
(October 26, 1963)

(December 14, 2024) — I’m thrilled to announce that my new book, Silent Stars, is now live and available for purchase in the Kindle Store! Stay updated and join the conversation by following us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY.

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On This Day — Remembering our Heroes : Trappist Monk Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) & Investigative Journalist Gary Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004)

Posted on December 10, 2024 by L

“The truth is always more powerful than lies. It’s just harder to get people to believe it. When you write the truth, you better have a thick skin. But truth is what journalism is supposed to be about. Journalism is the art of conveying the truth, even if it hurts. The job is to hold power accountable.”

Gary Webb
Investigative Journalist
(Aug. 31, 1955 – Dec. 10, 2004)

December 10, 2024 — Today, I will spend most of my time meditating and praying in remembrance of two men who profoundly influenced my life: Trappist Monk Thomas Merton and Investigative Journalist Gary Webb. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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Four Years Ago — BELGIUM : €10bn Missing From Gaddafi Frozen Accounts [UPDATE : Top Belgian Politician Didier Reynders Suspected of Money Laundering]

Posted on December 9, 2024 by L

“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

February 20 2018 — 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

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“Silent Stars: The Fallen Heroes of the CIA” — Book Review by ChatGPT

Posted on December 5, 2024 by L

“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.”

John F. Kennedy

Speech at Amherst College Convocation
in honor of poet Robert Frost

(October 26, 1963)

December 5, 2024 — I am excited to announce that “Silent Stars: The Fallen Heroes of the CIA” will be available as an eBook on Amazon Kindle later this month—just in time for the Winter Solstice, which coincides with the anniversary of the Lockerbie tragedy. This morning, I asked ChatGPT for a full review of the book, and the results were incredible. Stay updated and join the conversation by following us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY.

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Top Cold Cases for Kash Patel to Re-Open as FBI Director

Posted on December 1, 2024 by L

“A brilliant roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor, to ultimately return our agencies and departments to work for the American People… We will use this blueprint to help us take back the White House and remove these Gangsters from all of Government!”

Donald J. Trump

December 1, 2024 — Donald Trump has tapped Kashyap “Kash” Patel to be FBI Director, nominating a loyalist and outspoken “deep state” critic to lead the federal law enforcement agency, which the president-elect has long criticized as corrupt. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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New Book — Silent Stars: The Fallen Heroes of the CIA

Posted on November 25, 2024 by L

“Whoever fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

November 25 2024 — “Silent Stars: The Fallen Heroes of the CIA” will be available as an eBook on Amazon Kindle next month, just in time for the Winter Solstice, which also marks the anniversary of the Lockerbie tragedy. I am making this announcement today in memory of CIA paramilitary officer Mike Spann, a member of the CIA’s ALPHA Team, who was killed on November 25, 2001, during an uprising at Qali-Jangi prison in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. The title of my book is inspired by his nickname: “Silent Mike.” Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day — Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s Famous Equation : “E= m c²”. Really? (November 21 1905) [UPDATE : Einstein on Disinformation and Democracies]

Posted on November 21, 2024 by L

“If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2. The fact that the energy withdrawn from the body becomes energy of radiation evidently makes no difference, so that we are led to the more general conclusion that the mass of a body is a measure of its energy-content; if the energy changes by L, the mass changes in the same sense by L / 9 × 10^20, the energy being measured in ergs, and the mass in grammes. It is not impossible that with bodies whose energy content is variable to a high degree (e.g. with radium salts) the theory may be successfully put to the test.”

Albert Einstein
“Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?”

(Manuscript received on September 27 1905)

November 21 2024 — On this day in 1905, the physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?” Contrary to popular belief, the equation E = m c² does not appear in this paper. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Bay of Pigs — The Enduring Myth of the No Air Cover Excuse

Posted on November 20, 2024 by L

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

President John F. Kennedy
following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion
(April 1961)

The CIA coin was created anticipating a victory, but the operation was a “perfect failure.” The Bay of Pigs victory coin features an outline of Cuba with a rebel invader advancing past a fallen member of Castro’s military in the foreground.

November 20, 2024 — The CIA quickly blamed the lack of air cover for the Bay of Pigs invasion’s failure, and this explanation has been widely accepted, even by the families of the American volunteers who died during the mission.This is not the truth. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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