One Year Ago — UN REPORT : “External Attack Probably Caused Dag Hammarskjold’s Plane to Crash”

Posted on October 28, 2018 by L

“There is a significant amount of evidence from eyewitnesses that they observed more than one aircraft in the air, that the other aircraft may have been a jet, that SE-BDY was on fire before it crashed, and/or that SE-BDY was fired upon or otherwise actively engaged by another aircraft. In its totality, this evidence is not easily dismissed.”

Judge Mohamed Chande Othman — UN Report

“The finding by Judge Mohamed Chande Othman, a senior Tanzanian jurist who was asked by the United Nations to review both old and newly uncovered evidence, gave weight to a longstanding suspicion that Mr. Hammarskjold may have been assassinated.”

New York Times — October 25 2017

October 28 2017 – A new United Nations-mandated report has found it “appears plausible” that an external attack or threat may have led to the fatal plane crash that killed former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.  Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Plamegate : Lewis Libby Is Indicted (October 28 2005)

Posted on October 28, 2018 by L

“It was a long journey – personally and professionally. At some times, it felt like I had fallen down Alice’s rabbit hole, where white is black and black is white. Very disorienting. The idea of the memoir was quite selfish – to take stock of the whirlwind my husband and I had just been through and to finally use my voice.”

Former CIA NOC Valerie Plame Wilson

“The concern is that publication of the manuscript as submitted would cause additional damage to operations and would affect the agency’s ability to conduct intelligence activities in the future.”

CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield

Ambassador Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame arrive at the premier of Fair Game in LA in 2010.

When Valerie Plame Wilson reported that her husband had found no evidence of the sale of uranium from Niger to Iraq, it marked the first event in the protracted and well-documented saga that led to the illegal release of Valerie Plame-Wilson’s classified identity by former State Department official Richard Armitage and the conviction of former Vice President Chief of Staff Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Hemingway Wins Nobel Prize (October 28 1954)

Posted on October 28, 2018 by L

“The FBI’s surveillance substantially contributed to his anguish and his suicide.”

AE Hotchner — Hemingway’s friend and collaborator over the last 13 years of his life

“Ernest Hemingway’s relationship with the Federal Bureau of Investigation would charitably be described as ‘strained’. Hemingway would tell anybody who’d listen that he thought the Bureau were a bunch of Nazi mediocrities … and the FBI in turn dismissed Hemingway as a drunken phony. As his file shows, however, all of that changed when Hemingway finally did something the Bureau agreed with: he died.”

Muckrock — ‘Ernest Hemingway’s death significantly improved his relationship with the FBI’

“Hemingway may have said ‘yes’ to the Soviet recruitment pitch, but unless there is some additional trove of material in the NKVD archives that argues otherwise, it is clear Hemingway was never a productive Soviet agent.”

CIA website — ‘Intelligence in Literature and Media’

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)

American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) working at a portable table while on a big game hunt in Kenya, September 1952. (Photo by Earl Theisen/Getty Images)

On October 28 1954, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ernest Miller Hemingway “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.” Hemingway was aware of his long surveillance by J Edgar Hoover’s FBI, who were suspicious of his links with Cuba, and it as been argued that this surveillance may have pushed him to the brink. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Libya — Muammar Gaddafi, Rendition and the West [Documentary]

Posted on October 28, 2018 by L

“I congratulate you on the safe arrival of [Belhaj]. This was the least we could do for you and for Libya.”

Letter from Sir Mark Allen, then head of MI6 counterintelligence, to Moussa Koussa. then head of Libyan intelligence

“Right now, as we speak, in Yemen, the United Arab Emirates is running black sites in which detainees are tortured and in which rape is used as a technique of torture; and these are people with whom the US and the UK are in coalition.”

Human rights lawyer Cori Crider

Although the British government has apologised for rendering Abdelhakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar to Libya, former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and the former head of counter-intelligence at MI6, Sir Mark Allen, have not accepted any personal responsibility or admitted any wrong-doing in the case. Furthermore, in October 2011, the former head of Libyan intelligence, Moussa Koussa, publicly denied any complicity in the torture of political detainees or in the 1996 massacre at Abu Salim Prison and has since continued to do so. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Belgium University Professor Death Sentenced in Iran

Posted on October 27, 2018 by L

“A scientist performing important humanitarian work has been sentenced without public trial and is looking at the death penalty. This is an outrageous violation of universal human rights, against which we should react decisively.”

Rector Caroline Pauwels — VUB [Vrije Universiteit Brussel]

“I have never acted against my country, I have never spied for Israel or any other country. My only fault is that I did not accept to use the trust of my colleagues and universities in EU to spy for Iran’s intelligence services.”

Professor Ahmadreza Djalali

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Professor Ahmadreza Djalali

October 26 2017 — Professor Djalali was convicted of espionage following a trial led by Abolqasem Salavati, a judge in Iran’s revolutionary court, and sentenced to death on October 21 2017. Djalali has 20 days to appeal against the sentence. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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F-35 — Quick Note on the Corruption of NATO Governments

Posted on October 27, 2018 by L

“Any Norwegian citizen with a brain needs to know, that if Norway is buying the F-35,  then someone — politician or bureaucrat — has been bribed to make that possible. Okay!”

Robert David Steele — Former CIA Analyst

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

On Thursday (October 25 2018), the Belgian government approved the purchase of 34 F-35 Lightning II combat planes, produced by the American group Lockheed Martin, for a total of €3.8 billion.  Why would any NATO Defense Force purchase the Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike fighter — aka “The Flying Turd” —  at a meager cost of $110 million each? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Fake News & Disinformation — A New and Suspicious Definition from the UK Government

Posted on October 27, 2018 by L

“There is a wonderful book that you might read… And the title of it is from a quote from Winston Churchill: ‘In time of war, the truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’”

U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz (October 3 1986)

“[The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Fifth Report is] an ill-informed, amateurish attempt to establish that there should be an official version of news… And that we should all believe that version without question. I think the report and response are silly attempts to restore popular faith in the BBC, the MSM and UK government information, but I think it is too late for that.”

Paul Feeney  — Independent researcher in politics and terrorism(Email to Intel Today – October 26 2018)

Over the past few years there’s been a lot of talk in the media about “Fake News” and “Disinformation”. But what is “Disinformation” exactly? How is it defined? Well, the UK government has just provided its own definition. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Operation Autumn Leaves (October 26 1988)

Posted on October 26, 2018 by L

“Following the arrest of Dalkamoni and others […], it is possible to conclude that at least the core of the cell structure has been removed. It is not possible to say that all persons involved in the terrorist activities had been arrested.”

Germany — BKA Report (October 1988)

“Marwan khreesat and I had the first room on the right as you you come in the front door of Abassi flat and used it for work room for preparing the electronic appliances. Under my supervision and responsibility, Khreesat modified into bombs one Toshiba radio recorder, two tuners and one screen.”

Haffez Dalkamoni  — Interrogation by BKA officers (October 27 1988)

“I can not give you any further details regarding my involvement.”

Marwan Khreesat – Interrogation by BKA officers (October 27 1988)

“Having considered the evidence concerning these matters and the submission of counsel we accept that there is a great deal of suspicion as to the actings of Abu Talb and his circle, but there is no evidence to indicate that they had either the means or the intention to destroy a civil aircraft in December 1988.”

The Lockerbie Verdict, § 81

On this date in 1988, the German police arrested seventeen men at Neuss in operation “Autumn Leaves” (Herbstlaub). The bomb-maker of this terrorist cell had prepared several IEDs, including one hidden inside a Toshiba radio-cassette, which has never been recovered.

Some journalists — such as the late Private Eye’s Paul Foot — and several PA 103 relatives — including Dr Jim Swire — believe that it is too stark a coincidence for a Toshiba cassette radio IED to have downed Pan Am 103 just eight weeks after the arrest of the PFLP-GC cell in Frankfurt.

Here is a timeline of this operation which I compiled ten years ago to mark the 20th anniversary of the Lockerbie tragedy. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Khashoggi Murder — CIA Director Gina Haspel Travels to Turkey

Posted on October 25, 2018 by L

“They assured me they will conduct a complete, thorough investigation of all of the facts surrounding Mr. Khashoggi and will do so in a timely fashion. And that his report itself will be transparent.I told President Trump this morning that we ought to give them a few more days to complete that.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

“Do this (torturing Khashoggi) outside; you’re going to get me in trouble.”

 Saudi consul general Mohammed al-Otaibi — (As reportedly heard on the audio)

“It certainly sounds like they have in their possession sensitive collection from a Saudi diplomatic facility on their territory. To put it bluntly, they were spying on the Saudi consulate, and doing so quite effectively. It puts the Turks in a tough situation.”

Ned Price — former Central Intelligence Agency analyst and a National Security Council staffer

“If CIA Director (and documented torturer) Gina Haspel is being sent to Istanbul, it’s not to help the Turkish government with its investigation into the killing of Khashoggi. It’s to deliver a message very privately to Erdogan.”

Dr Jeffrey Kaye

October 25 2018 — CIA Director Gina Haspel has travelled to Turkey in order to investigate the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Reuters reported that  Haspel has sought to hear a purported audio recording of his torture and murder. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — CIA : Lulu got fired… Would rather play than sniff bombs

Posted on October 24, 2018 by L

“Sometimes, even after testing, our pups make it clear being an explosive detection K9 isn’t for them.”

CIA — Twitter (October 2017)

“Lulu just… wasn’t into it.”

October 23 2017 — Lulu got fired from the CIA because she would rather play than sniff bombs. Nevertheless, officials at the C.I.A. wished her all the best in the future. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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