“If we were using this animal for spying, do you really think we would attach a mobile phone number with the message ‘please call this number’? We have military dolphins for combat roles, we don’t cover that up.”
Russian Colonel Viktor Baranets
April 30 2019 — FSB officers have recently arrested Norwegian citizen Frode Berg on charges of espionage. But Norwegian authorities have caught a much “bigger fish”. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“For over thirty years, FBI experts testified about comparative bullet lead analysis (CBLA), a technique that was first used in the investigation into President Kennedy’s assassination. CBLA compares trace chemicals found in bullets at crime scenes with ammunition found in the possession of a suspect. (…) Although the FBI eventually ceased using CBLA, the Bureau’s conduct in first employing the technique and then defending it after it was challenged provides an insight into how forensic science sometimes works.”
Paul C. Giannelli
“We cannot afford to be misleading to a jury. We plan to discourage prosecutors from using our previous results in future prosecutions.”
Letter from Dwight E. Adams — then FBI lab Director — to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III
Forensic Analysis: Weighing Bullet Lead Evidence assesses the scientific validity of CABL, finding that the FBI should use a different statistical analysis for the technique and that, given variations in bullet manufacturing processes, expert witnesses should make clear the very limited conclusions that CABL results can support. The report also recommends that the FBI take additional measures to ensure the validity of CABL results, which include improving documentation, publishing details, and improving on training and oversight.
April 29 2018 — Since the 1960s, testimony by representatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in thousands of criminal cases has relied on evidence from Compositional Analysis of Bullet Lead (CABL), a forensic technique that compares the elemental composition of bullets found at a crime scene to the elemental composition of bullets found in a suspect’s possession. Different from ballistics techniques that compare striations on the barrel of a gun to those on a recovered bullet, CABL is used when no gun is recovered or when bullets are too small or mangled to observe striations. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“Even after outside attorneys warned in February 2003 that it must stop payments to the outlaw paramilitary organization, Chiquita continued to pay the AUC for another 16 months. Until that point, Chiquita’s strategy, set forth by senior executives in Cincinnati, was to just let them sue us, come after us.”
The Chiquita Papers collection — National Security Archive — George Washington University
April 29 2017 — Ten years ago, Chiquita Brands International became the first U.S.-based corporation convicted of violating a U.S. law against funding an international terrorist group: the paramilitary United Self-defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“We’re not saying it’s not an injury to the brain. It may be. We do know, for sure, that it’s an injury to the ear and that the brain is affected. (…) These tests that we did cannot be faked.”
Dr. Michael E. Hoffer — Lead author of the report
“We have measurable, quantifiable evidence that something really did happen to the patients. It’s not just hysteria.”
Dr. Carey Balaban
On September 7 2018, SMA (US Department of Defense Strategic Multilayer Assessment) hosted a speaker session presented by Dr. Michael Hoffer (University of Miami), Dr. James Giordano (Georgetown University), Dr. Carey Balaban (University of Pittsburgh), and Dr. Diane DiEuliis (National Defense University) as a part of its SMA General Speaker Series.
In part I of this series, I presented the conclusions of Dr Hoffer in a short documentary using both his PowerPoint slides and his presentation of these slides during the teleconference. In part II, you heard the conclusions of Dr. James Giordano (Georgetown University). In part III, we learned why Dr Carey D. Balaban (University of Pittsburgh) believes that the diplomats have been attacked by a neuro-weapon.
In the final post of this series, Dr Diane DiEuliis concludes the presentation by discussing how neuro-weapons present a diverse threat to a range of potential targets, and argues that neuro-weapons should be treated as “weapons of mass disruption.”
I hope that this series will make it clear that, whatever the cause, these diplomats have suffered real injuries. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The CIA made a lot of mistakes during the Cold War but keeping a list of Soviet jokes was not one of them.”
Dr Gene Zubovich — University of California Berkeley historian
“The US Embassy in Moscow would send in a ‘jokes cable,’ usually annually, listing some of the better jokes that they had picked up. At the end of year, they would do kind of an annual round-up, kind of a holiday gift if you will.”
Peter Clement — Deputy assistant director of CIA for Europe and Eurasia
“The story of Soviet humour isn’t an Orwellian nightmare of social atomisation and the crushing of the individual. It’s a fundamentally human story of survival and community.”
Jon Waterlow — It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! Humour, Trust and Everyday Life under Stalin
Thank God, It is Sunday! The jokes were part of a 13-million-page release of declassified CIA documents. The CIA waited 25 years to release these documents. One can never be too careful after all! Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“As I look back on my first year as Director, I am more in awe of the men and women at CIA than ever be. And I know that Auburn graduates also know a thing or two about serving our country, having made invaluable contributions over the years by signing up for the tough jobs—as warfighters, astronauts, and, of course, as intelligence officers.”
DCIA Gina Haspel (Auburn University – April 18 2019)
On April 18 2019, CIA Director Gina Haspel visited Auburn University in Alabama, where she delivered remarks and participated in a Q&A moderated by retired Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess, Auburn’s chief operating officer and former DIA director. During her short talk, Haspel gave us a very valuable piece of information. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The first conclusions to emerge from Robert Mueller’s report will prove discomfiting to the centrist (…) which blamed Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election defeat on a Russian plot. They will also be a serious affront to most in the US media, which has for two years made ‘Russiagate’ its biggest story.”
Le Monde Diplomatique
April 26 2019 — “Watergate” journalist Bob Woodward told this week’s edition of “Fox News Sunday” that the role the Steele dossier played in the origin of the Trump-Russia investigation is “highly questionable” and “needs to be investigated.” Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Appropriate permits were not submitted to the Belgian Customs.”
Francis Adyns — Spokesperson of the Belgian Federal Public Service Finance
Belgian Finance Minister Johan Van Overtveldt : “The export of the product began in 2010, when it was still legal. They were destined at the time, and also later, for the painting industry.”
April 25 2018 — Three Belgian companies are accused of illegally exporting chemicals to Syria. The goods exported include 168 tons of isopropanol, a common substance that can be used in the production of sarin nerve gas. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“After writing about the “ravers” who regularly turn up at lectures to claim that President Bush/the CIA/the Pentagon/Mossad etc perpetrated the crimes against humanity of 11 September, I received a letter this week from Marion Irvine, who feared that members of her family run the risk of being just such “ravers” and “voices heard in the wilderness”.
Far from it. For Mrs Irvine was writing about Lockerbie, and, like her, I believe there are many dark and sinister corners to this atrocity. I urge anyone who is aware of government lies over Flight 103 to come forward.”
Robert Fisk
“The Myth surrounding Libya and Megrahi now quietly slides into history. Political Expedience rules over Truth.”
Richard C. Fuisz M.D. — Email to Intel Today (December 21 2018)
Mandela visiting Megrahi — aka the ‘Lockerbie bomber’ — in prison. Many thanks to my friend John Ashston who took the picture.
April 24 2017 — The family of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi — the only person ever convicted for the Lockerbie bombing — will launch a bid to appeal against his conviction. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Come! We are waiting. You start this war, but we will finish it.”
Major-General Soleimani — Head of the elite Quds Force
“Iran will continue selling oil. We will proudly break the sanctions.”
Iran President Hassan Rouhani
November 4 2018 — The leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, has responded to US President Donald Trump’s announcement that “Sanctions Are Coming’ with a Game of Thrones inspired meme of his own. But make no mistake. This is no child’s play. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
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