“The idea that ISI is a rogue organization is very popular — and even the Pakistanis promote it — but having worked with ISI for the better part of 20 years, I know that ISI is very disciplined and a very able intelligence agency.”
Michael Scheuer — Former CIA Head of the Bin Laden Unit
Lt. General Naveed Mukhtar
December 14 2016 — Pakistan has named a new head of its powerful military Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI). Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“We found something very important to the focus of our mission, something threatening near the building.”
Mike Beck — Former NSA Officer
“This is not your average workers’ compensation claim case, like someone falling while they were working on the roof of a government building. How often is it that a foreign government attacks a federal employee with devastating microwaves?”
Mark Zaid — Former NSA Mike Beck’s attorney
Former NSA officer Mike Beck
December 14 2017 — Mike Beck — a former US National Security Agency officer — believes that a weaponized microwave attack caused the Parkinson’s disease that is now slowly killing him 10 years later. And — to the best of my knowledge — he may very well be right about this! Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Heads should roll because of this. Agents were killed. But to protect people’s careers and egos, we buried counterintelligence problems.”
Former US Senior Intelligence Official
“It’s not just a single flawed system that needed to be fixed. It was a universe of systems.”
Former CIA Officer
“The Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI) is the Agency’s newest Directorate focused on accelerating innovation across the Agency’s mission activities with cutting-edge digital and cyber tradecraft and IT infrastructure. The DDI is the engine of creativity, integration, and rigor that CIA needs in the digital age, ensuring that our culture, tradecraft, and knowledge management across the board are more than equal to the challenges and opportunities of the rapidly changing world in which we operate. From arming our officers with the tools and techniques they need to excel and prevail in the cyber and big data arenas to optimizing our business operations, the DDI is a strong, agile partner with the other Directorates, our Mission Centers, and our Intelligence Community counterparts to deliver the insights our nation requires.”
CIA Website
The CIA’s website says that the agency is wholly in charge of “providing secure communications for CIA assets.” Obviously, this is not true. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“There was a real push in the embassy community to make sure that everybody was aware that there had been a terrorist threat made, and that people flying Western carriers going through Frankfurt should change their tickets.”
Karen Decker — Consular Official at the Moscow US Embassy (Nov. 30 1989)
On December 13 1988, William Kelly, the Moscow US embassy administrative counselor, drafted a memo addressed to “All Embassy Personnel” and posted on the staff notice board the next day. “Sometimes, during the next two weeks, there would be a bombing attempt against Pan Am airliner flying from Frankfurt to the United States.” Pan Am 103 crashed on schedule. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“There is strong and consistent evidence that James Bond has a chronic alcohol consumption problem at the ‘severe’ end of the spectrum. He should seek professional help and try to find other strategies for managing occupational stress.”
Medical Journal of Australia (December 2018)
There could be no James Bond without the “shaken not stirred” thing. That line is iconic. But a new study published in the Medical Journal of Australia casts a shadow on all this booze, saying Bond displayed “severe alcohol use disorder” over the course of six decades and 24 movies. No shit? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!”
William F. Buckley, Jr.
“There have been only two kinds of CIA secret operations: the ones that are widely known to have failed—usually because of almost unbelievably crude errors—and the ones that are not yet widely known to have failed.”
Edward Luttwak
“Intelligence shortcomings, as we see, have a thousand fathers; secret intelligence triumphs are orphans.”
William Saffire — New York Time
How much do you know about spy agencies? Take this quiz to find out your knowledge of the CIA Directors of the ‘National Clandestine Service’. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“Hours after the crash the Islamic Jihad – a Shiite Muslim extremist group – claimed it destroyed the plane to prove [its] ability to strike at the Americans anywhere.”
UPI — Anonymous caller to a French news agency in Beirut
“An in-flight fire that may have resulted from detonations of undetermined origin brought about catastrophic system failures.”
Four (of nine) members of the CASB dissenting Opinion
“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)
The “Silent Witness” Arrow Air Flight 1285 memorial at Gander Lake, with a DC-8 taking off in the background
On the morning of December 12 1985, shortly after takeoff from Gander en route to Fort Campbell, Arrow aircraft 1285 crashed, and burned about half a mile from the runway, killing all 248 passengers and 8 crew members on board. Investigators blamed icing. But many experts think otherwise. Was it really an accident? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The thesis in my books and my writing is that anti-American terrorism arises from the behavior of U.S. foreign policy. It is what the U.S. government does which angers people all over the world.”
William Blum
“William Blum was at the forefront of critical debate and analysis of US foreign policy. He combined honesty and Truth with carefully documented analysis. His important legacy will live.”
Michel Chossudovsky (December 10, 2018)
“The newspapers were filled with pictures of happy relatives of the victims of the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. A Libyan, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, had been found guilty of the crime the day before, January 31, 2001, by a Scottish court in the Hague, though his co-defendant, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, was acquitted. At long last there was going to be some kind of closure for the families. But what was wrong with this picture? What was wrong was that the evidence against Megrahi was thin to the point of transparency.”
William Blum — Everything you know is wrong
Independent journalist and author William Blum died Sunday (Dec. 9 2018) at the age of 85 in Virginia. Blum’s books “Killing Hope” and “Rogue State” were widely praised for their detailed history of recent U.S. foreign policy. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Without PT/35(b), there would have been no indictment.”
Richard Marquise — FBI Agent who led the US side of the Lockerbie investigation
“If this (Intel Today analysis) is correct and the type of copper used in PT/35(b) can be dated 1989 / early 90s, then it adds enormously to the evidence that the fragment was not found by Hayes in May 1989 as claimed. I have consistently claimed this since 2002 but following on from John Ashton’s achievements re the tinning this could be the biggest breakthrough to date.”
George Thomson — Lockerbie Investigator (October 4 2015)
“Once more, careful analysis of tiny bits of evidence and expert opinions appears to show that police and other officials have misrepresented and distorted the facts. It brings us back, yet again, to the question: can all of these misrepresentations of evidence really be adequately explained by stupidity?”
Paul Feeney — British Terrorism Expert
DP/508 A — A magnification (showing the copper tracks) of DP/504 which is a small part cut from the ‘control sample’ DP/347(a) i.e. the Thuring board supplied to MEBO to the investigators
PT/35(b) is a small fragment of a timer circuit that was allegedly found among the debris of Pan Am 103 near the town of Lockerbie. After more than ten years of investigation, I have come to the conclusion that PT/35(b) is a forgery that was planted among the debris to implicate Libya in the bombing of Pan Am 103 and to steer the investigation away from the original suspects.
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I can now explain an old mystery. Why was the watermark (SIB) on the main board of the MEBO MST-13 timer ignored by the CIA expert and read upside down, as “21B”, by the FBI?
According to a well-informed source, THURING AG — the company that supplied the PCB to MEBO — always ordered the Copper Clad Laminates (CCL) from a Swiss branch of ISOLA: Schweizerische Isolawerke AG in Breitenbach (SIB). But scientists had determined early in the investigation that PT/35(b) was not made from a SIB CCL.
That mysterious “mistake” was therefore necessary to ruin the forensic investigation and build the case against Libya. Had the SIB logo been read correctly (instead of the ridiculous “21B”), the case would have collapsed on the spot. I would argue that this establishes quite clearly the “mens rea”. The CIA & FBI investigators involved in these reports were not looking for the truth. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Did President Donald Trump know Michael Flynn talked about sanctions during his conversations a year ago with the former Russian ambassador? Or did the President’s small circle of advisers keep it from him?”
Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak — CNN
December 11 2017 — In this old interview, Dan Fried — the former State Department chief coordinator for sanctions policy — talks about what he heard from colleagues about the eagerness of the Trump administration in its early days to lift sanctions on Russia without condition. The interview is worth watching again considering what we now know about Mike Flynn and Katy McFarland.
Obviously, McFarland was lying. We know that she spoke with Flynn just BEFORE and right AFTER his conversation(s) with the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak on December 29 2016. I would suggest that McFarland was not instructing her boss on what he should say to Kislyak.
Obviously, she was only passing information. Now, the key question is who instructed McFarland about the message that Flynn should relay to the Russian embassador about the US sanctions? Beside Trump himself, that person could only be the Vice-President. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
