Two Years Ago — Alan Dershowitz Confirms “October Surprise Conspiracy Theory”

Posted on February 16, 2019 by L

“Mr Karrubi agreed in the second Madrid meeting to cooperate with the Reagan campaign about the timing of any hostage release. In return, he was promised that the Reagan Administration, once in office, would return Iran’s frozen assets and help them acquire badly needed military equipment. (…)During my research, I spoke to several of the former hostages. I was deeply moved by the response of one in particular. After listening to the evidence, he said simply: ‘I don’t want to believe it. It’s too painful to think about it.’ Painful it is. But the rest of us are obliged to think about it. Hard.”

Gary Sick — Retired Naval Captain who served on Ford’s, Carter’s, and Reagan’s National Security Council

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Vice President George H. W. Bush and other VIPs wait to welcome the hostages home

February 16 2017 — Harvard’s Law Professor Alan Dershowitz was explaining the ‘Logan Act’ and how it may apply to Michael Flynn’s discussion of sanctions with a Russian ambassador before taking office. Out of the blue, Professor Alan Dershowitz made an astonishing statement regarding the 1980 US Presidential campaign. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Two Years Ago — Pulitzer-prize winner Tim Weiner : “US Intel Agencies are targeting the top of this government.”

Posted on February 16, 2019 by L

“Mike Flynn has fallen farther faster than any powerful official in any government in the 20th Century, in America.”

 Tim Weiner — Pulitzer-prize winner (February 16 2017)

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Michael Flynn, Trump’s National Security Advisor, and Jill Stein attending the Russian State owned TV Gala as Putin’s guests (December 2015)

February 16 2017 — Journalist Tim Weiner, who won a Pulitzer Prize for investigating the CIA’s “black budget,” said the country is witnessing in real-time “a powerful counterintelligence investigation run by the FBI with the assistance of the CIA and the NSA that is targeting the top of this government.” Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today
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Rwanda — French Investigators Drop Habyarimana Plane Shooting Probe [UPDATE]

Posted on February 16, 2019 by L

“We have to interpret this decision by French judges as a form of resignation faced with a political context which prosecutors did not know how to fight. Rwandan authorities have never sought to help bring the truth to light.”

Philippe Meilhac — Lawyer for Habyarimana’s widow

Presidents François Mitterrand and Juvenal Habyarimana (December 10 1984)

December 28 2018 — French judges have dropped a long-running investigation into the 1994 shooting down of a plane carrying the former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana. His death triggered a genocide. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Sexpionage : Markus Wolf & His Romeo Spies

Posted on February 15, 2019 by L

“The ends did not always justify the means we chose to employ, but, as long as there is espionage, there will be Romeos seducing unsuspecting Juliets with access to secrets. After all, I was running an intelligence service, not a lonely-hearts club.”

Markus Wolf  aka The Man Without a Face

February 15 2018 — Sexpionage is a portmanteau word blending sex and espionage. The job combines the world’s oldest and second-oldest professions. On Valentine’s Day, the CIA posted a long piece about the “amorous arts” that spymasters use to obtain secrets from their targets. So, if you feel depressed because you were single on Valentine’s Day, remember this: things could be worse, a lot whole worse! Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Two Years Ago — International Law and Cyber Warfare. From the Tallinn Manual to a Digital Geneva Convention?

Posted on February 15, 2019 by L

“Moscow’s hacking and dumping of Democratic emails to WikiLeaks is not an initiation of armed conflict. It’s not a violation of the U.N. Charter’s prohibition on the use of force. It’s not a situation that would allow the U.S. to respond in self-defense militarily.”

Michael Schmit– Chairman of the U.S. Naval War College’s International Law Department

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February 15 2017 — Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has said he believes Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election amounted to an act of war. Legal scholars simply disagree. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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On This Day – U.S. Air Force Carpet-Bombs Dresden (February 13-15 1945)

Posted on February 15, 2019 by L

“We don’t carpet bomb civilians.”

Former CIA Director John McLaughlin (February 9 2017)

“Dresden is the largest unbombed city the enemy has got. The intention of the attack is (…) to show the Russians when they arrive what Bomber Command can do.”

RAF Memo (January 1945)

“The Dresden atrocity, tremendously expensive and meticulously planned, was so meaningless, finally, that only one person on the entire planet got any benefit from it. I am that person. I wrote this book, which earned a lot of money for me and made my reputation, such as it is… One way or another, I got two or three dollars for every person killed. Some business I’m in.”

Kurt Vonnegut — About Dresden and his famous novel Slaughterhouse-Five

February 15 2019 — From February 13 to February 15, 1945, during the final months of World War II (1939-45), Allied forces bombed the historic city of Dresden, located in eastern Germany. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Belgium — Counterintelligence Chief Accused of Spying for Russia

Posted on February 15, 2019 by L

“If Clement Vandenborre is proved to have worked for Russia, it would be the biggest spy scandal since Herman Simm, an Estonian defence ministry official, was convicted of Russian espionage in Tallinn in 2009.”

Andrew Rettman — EU Observer (February 15 2019)

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Clement Vandenborre, the head of the counterintelligence department within Belgium’s General Information and Security Service (ADIV) is accused of spying for Russia. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Russia and Estonia Swap Spies [Video]

Posted on February 14, 2019 by L

“The Republic of Estonia and the Russian Federation today exchanged Russian citizen Artjom Zintsenko, found guilty of espionage in Estonia, for Estonian citizen Raivo Susi, found guilty of espionage in Russia. The exchange took place today, on Feb. 10 at 10 a.m., at Koidula Border Crossing Point.”

Estonian Internal Security Service

“Unfortunately, this has to be taken into account by people who might come to the attention of the Russian special services. And it is clear, Estonian counter-intelligence had to take action over such obvious Russian spying in Estonia.”

Harrys Puusepp — Spokesperson for the Estonian Security Police

Masked Russian forces look on as the prisoner exchange gets under way

February 14 2018 — In a scene reminiscent of the Cold-War era, Russia and Estonia carried out a spy swap on a snowy bridge on the border between the two countries. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Two Years Ago — CIA Covert Ops in Italy Lasted Long After the 1948 Elections (National Security Archive)

Posted on February 14, 2019 by L

“Despite rhetoric, Eisenhower was not prepared to intervene militarily to block Communists short of forcible seizure of power.”

Dr. Ronald D. Landa — State Department Office of the Historian

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Clare Boothe Luce, U.S. envoy to Italy from 1953-1956, was as famous for her glamour and blunt speaking as for the distinction of being the first woman to represent the U.S. in a major diplomatic post. (Undated photo from the Carl Van Vechten collection, Library of Congress)

February 14 2017 – CIA covert aid to Italy continued well after the agency’s involvement in the 1948 elections – into the early 1960s – averaging around $5 million a year, according to a draft Defense Department historical study published for the first time by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University.  Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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SEXPIONAGE — From Russia with Love [2019]

Posted on February 14, 2019 by L

“Every westerner who goes to Moscow knows that some girl may get into his bedroom, but people continue to get trapped… It’s human nature, I suppose.”

Phillip Knightley — “The Second Oldest Profession — Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century”

“[The ghost-written book] got me right, it has got me emotionally right. There’s one word I don’t like: ‘Ruining my life may not seem very important to some, considering what I was, just a pretty scrubber…’ I wanted them to change it to ‘tart.’ ‘Scrubber’ implies someone who can’t talk properly and wears horrible clothes, but I always spoke well and had good clothes. I’ve always had a bit of class to me. I’m sure Jack Profumo wouldn’t have gone out with a scrubber. Perhaps they should have written ‘just a pretty nobody.’”

Christine Keeler — Interview by Simon Hoggart about her second autobiography (The Observer – March 13, 1983)

“There was a Sparrow School in Kazan, in the Republic of Tatarstan, in European Russia, during the Cold War, and the use of sexual entrapment and compromise of targets by the Russians is well documented. I don’t know if there still is an operating Sparrow School, but I imagine honey traps are still used.”

Jason Matthews — Former CIA officer and author of Red Sparrow

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Lewis Morley’s 1963 portrait of Christine Keeler became an iconic image of the cold war.

The long, distinguished and surprisingly varied list of known KGB entrapment victims since World War II proves that no category of western resident in Moscow has been immune from the charms of Soviet “swallows” and “ravens”.  “Honey traps” may indeed be a Russian specialty, but let us not forget that, just like hacking, all Intel Agencies are using the old technique. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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