Der Spiegel: “Are you going to pardon Edward Snowden?”
POTUS Barack Obama: “I can’t pardon somebody who hasn’t gone before a court and presented themselves, so that’s not something that I would comment on at this point.”
President Obama interview with German Magazine Der Spiegel
November 26 2016 — Mike Pompeo, Trump’s nominee for the CIA post, considers that Snowden is a traitor who should be put to death. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“I do not believe that our military, our diplomats around the world or here at home are safe. Because this weapon system is creating havoc.”
“We heard a very high-pitched sound in Catherine’s bedroom. And we heard a very low, pulsing sound in the living room. Our heads would pulse. You would feel like you would want to regurgitate. You could become instantly paralyzed, instantaneously fatigued.”
Laura Hughes — Mother of Catherine Werner
“Whether or not a microwave weapon was the culprit, this stealth technique may be a weapon of the future. I would not be surprised if some military establishment around the world invests or has already been engaged in such a program.”
Professor James Lin — UIC
“My gut is that this has been going on for a while. The NSA has revealed to me in an unclassified setting that a foreign power has used a microwave weapon against people.”
Mark Zaid — Washington DC attorney with a practice focus on National Security Law
Catherine Werner returned to the U.S. from her diplomatic post in China after reporting symptoms and experiences similar to those of State Department employees evacuated from Cuba.
Laura Hughes, an Air Force veteran, says her daughter Catherine Werner is struggling with the effects of traumatic brain injury after experiencing strange sounds and sensations at her apartment in Guangzhou, where Werner was a foreign trade officer until being medevaced out earlier this year. She’s calling on the US State Department to do more to solve the mystery that has eluded investigators since U.S. diplomats and spies starting getting sick in Cuba in late 2016. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“With trembling hands, I made a tiny breach in the upper left hand corner… widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in… at first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping from the chamber causing the candle to flicker. Presently, details of the room emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues and gold – everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment – an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by – I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand in suspense any longer, inquired anxiously ‘Can you see anything?’, it was all I could do to get out the words ‘Yes, wonderful things’.”
Howard Carter — The Tomb of Tutankhamen (Diary – November 26 1922
“May your spirit live, may you spend millions of years, you who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness.”
Howard Carter’s epitaph — Quotation taken from the Wishing Cup of Tutankhamun
November 26 2018 — Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. Of the four parts of the message, the first three have been solved.
Section III of the KRYPTOS code is a paraphrased quotation from Howard Carter‘s account of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun on November 26, 1922, as described in his 1923 book The Tomb of Tutankhamun.
The question with which it ends is asked by Lord Carnarvon, to which Carter (in the book) famously replied “wonderful things”. In the November 26, 1922 field notes, however, his reply was, “Yes, it is wonderful.”
The last part of the message remains as one of the most famous unsolved code in the world. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”
Fidel Castro
“I joined the people; I grabbed a rifle in a police station that collapsed when it was rushed by a crowd. I witnessed the spectacle of a totally spontaneous revolution … That experience led me to identify myself even more with the cause of the people. My still incipient Marxist ideas had nothing to do with our conduct – it was a spontaneous reaction on our part, as young people with Martí-an, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and pro-democratic ideas.”Fidel Castro on the Bogotazo (2009)
Fidel Castro (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016)
The man in charge of protecting Castro claims that he dodged 638 CIA plots to assassinate him. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Intelligence shortcomings, as we see, have a thousand fathers; secret intelligence triumphs are orphans. Here is the unremarked story of ‘the Farewell dossier’: how a C.I.A. campaign of computer sabotage resulting in a huge explosion in Siberia — all engineered by a mild-mannered economist named Gus Weiss — helped us win the cold war. (…) Gus Weiss died from a fall a few months ago. Now is a time to remember that sometimes our spooks get it right in a big way.”
William Safire — NYT
“If some double agent told the KGB the Americans were alert to Line X and were interfering with their collection by subverting, if not sabotaging, the effort, I believed the United States still could not lose. The Soviets, being a suspicious lot, would be likely to question and reject everything Line X collected. If so, this would be a rarity in the world of espionage, an operation that would succeed even if compromised. Casey liked the proposal.”
Gus W. Weiss
“So the accomplishments of FAREWELL, in summary, are enormous. It was a major — major — accelerator to the end of the Cold War. (…) It was a critical and heroic accomplishment by President Mitterrand and his government, whatever the intentions may have been at the time…”
Richard V. Allen — President Ronald Reagan’s Former National Security Advisor
November 25 2018 — Dr Gus W. Weiss was a White House policy adviser on technology, intelligence and economic affair and worked primarily on national security, intelligence and concerns on technology transfer to communist countries. Weiss died on November 25, 2003 under what the UK newspaper The Independent has characterized as “mysterious circumstances”. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Those present discussed sending Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim leader who Erdogan has accused of being behind a failed military coup to overthrow him, back to Turkey to face charges — possibly outside the legal US extradition system. (…) There was at least some strong suggestion by one or more of the Americans present at the meeting that we would be able — the United States would be able, through them — to be able to get hold of Gulen.”
Former CIA Director James Woolsey
November 24 2017 — Mike Flynn, the former National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump and his son Mike Flynn Jr., would have been paid up to $15 million for delivering Fethullah Gulen to the Turkish government, according to sources familiar with the investigation who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The Constitutional Court’s ruling is a blow for any clarification on the activities of the BND and the NSA and for the entire parliamentary monitoring of secret services.”
Anna Biselli — Digital research organization Netzpolitik
November 24 2016 — Last Tuesday, the German Federal Constitutional Court rejected a request by the Bundestag Committee of Inquiry into NSA Activities that the German government release the US National Security Agency “Selector List” of spy targets in Germany. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Pizano drank from a bottle of water on his father’s desk and was dead from cyanide poisoning within minutes.”
Colombia’s Attorney General
“My father was receiving help from the U.S. because his life was in danger.”
Pizano’s daughter
November 24 2018 — Jorge Enrique Pizano, a witness in one of Latin America’s biggest corruption cases, died on November 8 at his home near the Colombian capital Bogotá. Colombian media reported that he had died of a heart attack. His son, Alejandro Pizano Ponce de Leon, died three days later from cyanide poisoning after returning from Barcelona to attend his father’s funeral. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“General Hayden is receiving expert medical care for which the family is grateful. As he begins the healing process, the family requests that their privacy be respect. The General and his family greatly appreciate the warm wishes and prayers of his friends, colleagues, and supporters.”
George Mason University’s Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security
General Michael Hayden, a former CIA and National Security Agency director, was rushed to hospital this week after suffering from a stroke. Hayden may survive but he is definitely out of the picture. This is very sad news. Hayden is no angel. But I consider him as the most intelligent/honest critic of the system. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The evidence suggests that the only credible explanation is, in one way or another, that the Russian state is involved in Litvinenko’s murder.”
Scotland Yard lawyer — Court hearing in London (2015)
Aleksandr Litvinenko
On November 1st 2006, Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalised in what was established as a case of poisoning by radioactive polonium-210. He died from the poisoning on November 23 2006. He became the first known victim of lethal polonium 210-induced acute radiation syndrome.
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