“Leslianne received a star on the CIA Memorial Wall in 1996 and was posthumously awarded the Agency’s Exceptional Service medallion. Her name was unveiled in the Book of Honor in 2012.”
CIA Website — Remembering CIA’s Heroes
“Leslianne Shedd—a young, courageous, highly successful CIA operations officer serving in East Africa—was a passenger on an Ethiopian Airlines flight when it was hijacked and then crashed into the Indian Ocean on November 23, 1996, killing 125 people, including Leslianne. Survivors said that Leslianne spent her final moments comforting those around her.”
CIA Tweet (November 23 2016)
“When my sister Leslianne Shedd, ’90, was killed in the 1996 crash of a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane, my family not only went into mourning. We also continued to keep a secret: Leslianne didn’t work for the U.S. State Department, as she told everyone. She worked for the CIA, fighting terrorism in Africa. When Lesli (right) was killed, there was a private memorial ceremony at CIA headquarters at Langley. Then in May of the following year, she was given an anonymous star on the CIA Wall of Honor. The CIA told us that at some point, we would be able to talk about her.”
Corinne Collie
The Memorial Wall is a memorial at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It honors CIA employees who died in the line of service. There are 129 stars carved into the white Alabama marble wall. At least ten represent women.
Leslianne Shedd was killed on November 23, 1996. She was a passenger on a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoro Islands. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“The fact that representatives of the special services and the military openly intervene in the coalition negotiations that have not yet ended is a wake-up call. Because, given the role of the Reichswehr and the special services in the end of the Weimar Republic and Hitler’s rise to power, the principle of their submission to civil authorities was strictly observed in modern Germany, at least on paper. Today this tradition has been broken.”
Peter Schwarz — Linke Zeitung
November 22 2017 — The head of BND, known for traditionally avoiding publicity, spoke very harshly about the ‘Russian threat’ recently. BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s spy chief has warned that Russia should be seen as a “potential danger” rather than as a partner in building European security and said its big military exercise in summer showed an alarmingly high level of modernisation in its armed forces. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
“From the first, it was clear that all the main stakeholders — Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Chief of the General Staff Valeri Gerasimov, and the GRU hierarchy itself — favored the promotion of one of Sergun’s depties: Vyacheslav Kondrashev, Sergei Sizunov, Igor Lelin, and Igor Korobov. Of them all, Korobov, head of the Strategic Intelligence Directorate (USR: Upravlenie strategicheskoi razvedky) was clearly the front-runner.“
Mark Galeoti– 9 February 2016
“The loving memory of this wonderful person, a true son of Russia, a patriot of the Fatherland Colonel-General Igor Valentinovich Korobov will always be in our hearts.”
Russia Ministry of Defence (November 22 2018)
Lieutenant-General Igor Korobov — Head of the GRU
January 9 2017 — Lieutenant-General Igor Valentinovich Korobov is the current Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Russian Federation. UPDATE — Korobov died on Wednesday after “a serious and long illness”, the Russian defense ministry said on Thursday, hailing him as a “true son of Russia.” Follow us on Twitter: Intel_TodayContinue reading →
“Bollier had more ‘get out of jail free cards’ than a Monopoly game!”
Richard Marquise — Head of the FBI investigation into the Lockerbie bombing
“It turned out that the CIA was ‘fortunately’ in possession of such a MST-13 timer (also known as K1) which had been allegedly brought back to the US by some US Government employees following a visit to Togo in the fall of 1986. (…)
If the CIA wanted to frame Libya, Bollier was the perfect ‘target’ and PT/35(b) — the infamous fragment of a MST-13 timer found at Lockerbie — was the perfect ‘evidence’ to plant. I believe that this is exactly what happened.”
INTEL TODAY — The Fairy Tale of the Togo Timers
“If we were going to libel him [Edwin Bollier] we would have done so, these issues have been considered. The decision not to include him as a co-conspirator is not a recognition that he has nothing to do with the matter. The extent of his involvement is yet to be developed in evidence. It may be he has involvement in what occurred, but unless the Crown is able to adduce evidence that places him in the conspiracy, it is not appropriate to libel him as a co-conspirator.”
Alan Turnbull QC — Prosecuting Counsel at the Lockerbie Trial
“Of course, I still care about this appalling miscarriage of justice [Lockerbie]. My view is that Bollier was a CIA agent. That is still my view based on my personal experience.”
Paul Harris — Email to Intel Today (November 16 2017)
As a discouragement to the prosecution, Bollier is alleged to have let it be known before the start of the trial that if he were to be charged for the PA 103 bombing he would call some high-ranking and controversial witnesses to appear, for example: former United States President George H. W. Bush, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Gerrit Pretorius, private secretary to South Africa’s former foreign minister Pik Botha. [Wikipedia]
On Wednesday (November 21 2018), I posted a piece regarding the mysterious story of the MEBO MST-13 timers which appeared in Togo during an attempted Coup in the fall of 1986. The story prompted a disturbing comment from Edwin Bollier, the owner of the MEBO company which produced and delivered these timers to Libya. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
“The mention of my friend’s name had an extraordinary effect upon the little man. The look of anger passed in an instant from his face. His features became tense and alert.”
Dr. Watson — The Adventure of the Dying Detective (1913)
Amateur criminologist William Roughead published his Trial of Oscar Slater, highlighting flaws in the prosecution. The book convinced many influential people included Sir Edward Marshall Hall, Ramsay MacDonald, Viscount Buckmaster; and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1912, Conan Doyle published The Case of Oscar Slater, a plea for a full pardon for Slater. Following years of campaigning and investigating from Conan Doyle, the Secretary of State for Scotland authorised Slater’s release on November 8, 1927
The Adventure of the Dying Detective is a short story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Collier’s magazine on November 22 1913 (US) and in The Strand Magazine in December 1913 (UK). Follow us on Twitter; @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
“The projections suggest China’s gross domestic product will stand at US$26 trillion in 2030, up from US$14.1 trillion today. The U.S. meanwhile will see its GDP rise more slowly to US$25.2 trillion from US$20.4 trillion.”
Bloomberg News (September 25 2018)
“GDP, after all, is just population times productivity. The U.S. has long been the No. 1 economy with the No. 3 population because the productivity of our labor and capital has been so enormously greater than productivity in China or India. What’s happening, simple yet profound, is that other countries are catching up to our productivity. China and India still have a very long way to go, but obviously they needn’t match us to exceed our GDP; with populations over four times ours, they only need to achieve one-quarter of our productivity. That’s what they’re in the process of doing.”
Fortune (February 2017)
“Unlike the Cold War, it’s about who is going to be the global leader – first with the biggest economy, and out of that will come political influence. But then secondarily – who is the most innovative economy and creating the industries of the future. Ultimately it’s an economic and technological competition.”
Michael Vickers — Former Head of Pentagon Intelligence (November 21 2018)
China is on course to be the world’s biggest economy by 2030, according to analysis made by economists at HSBC Holdings Plc in a new study of 75 nations published in September 2018. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
“The signatory states of the Metre Convention represent about 98% of the world’s economy, so the SI is the very basis of international trade, constituting a global measurement quality infrastructure through the national metrology institutes.”
Nature — The new system of units (January 7 2016)
The SI system after the redefinition: Dependence of base unit definitions on physical constants with fixed numerical values and on other base units that are derived from the same set of constants.
On November 16 2018, the 26th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) voted unanimously in favour of revised definitions of the SI base units. The new definitions will come into force on May 20 2019. Have you noticed that in the “great Western democracies”, important decisions are almost never debated and very seldom reported by the media? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
“It clearly shows that most of the increase in GBM [glioblastoma multiforme] occurred in just two regions of the brain, the temporal and frontal lobes. There’s no reason to believe that better diagnosis would favor one part of the brain over another. I’m not saying it’s necessarily mobile phones, but surely that’s the most obvious possibility. After all, the temporal and frontal lobes are exposed to the most radiation when a phone is held up to the ear. I can’t think of anything else to account for what we are seeing. What else is there?”
Alasdair Philips
“William Broad, a veteran science reporter, would have us believe that he tailored his write-up to tell people what they want to know. But the NTP story was not that the rats got brain cancer or even that they got malignant tumors in their hearts. The key finding was that they got cancer. A responsible headline would have read, Cell Phone Radiation Causes Cancer.”
Microwave News (November 20 2018)
“We don’t smoke that shit. We just sell it. We reserve the right to smoke for the young, the poor, the black and stupid.”
R.J. Reynolds executive’s reply when asked why he didn’t smoke according to Dave Goerlitz, lead Winston model for seven years for R.J. Reynolds. [1]
November 11 2018 — Some American diplomats — and their doctors — have growing concerns that the U.S. government is trying to downplay whatever happened to them. I am afraid they are entirely correct. Actually, I predicted this cover-up more than a year ago! Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
“Your White House, specifically your national security adviser, constructed an operation whereby the free press in this country was going to be used to convey a false story to the world, namely that Qaddafi was planning new terrorist operations, and that we were going to hit him again, or we might hit him again – full well knowing that this was not true. Now, if that’s the case, then the press is being used, and we will in the future not know when we’re being told information from the White House whether it’s true or it’s not.”
President Reagan’s interview — White House (Oct 2 1986)
“However desirable it may be to get rid of this unstable, dangerous dictator, the chosen technique was worthy of the KGB. To the Reagan Administration’s shame, the disinformation worked all too well, but only here in the land of the free. (…) There is no place in America for those who envy the Communists their deceptions. There is no place in America for disinformation.”
“Lies Wound America, Not Libya” — New York Times (October 1986)
“I was shown a large amount of military vehicles and hardware that had been seized by the Togo Government following this attempted Coup, but saw that what the perpetrators had intended to use were flash timers, which bear absolutely no relation to MST-13 Timers.”
DI Watson McAteer — Lockerbie Investigator
“You are right on the button with this splendid explanation. I have in my possession one of the original ‘pageboy’ timers which were being used in the briefcase bombs. The USA AUTHORITIES WERE WELL AWARE YEARS BEFORE Lockerbie that MEBO was supplying this kind of circuitry to LIBYA and that knowledge allowed them to act in the manner described in your article. Very well done thank you.”
Lockerbie Investigator George Thomson — Email to Intel Today (Nov 27 2016)
MST-13 Timer recovered in Togo
November 21 2018 — PT/35(b), a small fragment of a timer circuit board found among the debris of Pan Am 103 at Lockerbie, was the critical piece of evidence that pointed the investigation towards Libya.
As FBI agent Richard Marquise — the man who led the US side of the investigation under the direction of Robert Mueller — himself said: “Without PT/35(b), there would have been no indictment.”
PT/35(b) may very well have been necessary to “solve the case”, but it was certainly not sufficient. It was also necessary to match PT/35(b) to the MST-13 timers which had “solely” been supplied by the Swiss company MEBO to Libya.
It turned out that the CIA was “fortunately” in possession of such a MST-13 timer (also known as K1) which had been allegedly brought back to the US by some US Government employees following a visit to Togo in the fall of 1986.
The story of the two Togo timers is weird and murky. And the fact that this occurred during a well documented disinformation operation against Gaddafi can only add to our suspicion.
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“I think some people think we’re stupid. We’re not stupid people. We think about these things a lot. When you have this responsibility, how do you not think about it?”
Air Force General John Hyten — Commander of the US Strategic Command (Stratcom)
“The siren howled. But I just sat there for a few seconds, staring at the big, back-lit, red screen with the word ‘launch’ on it.”
Colonel Stanislav Petrov (September 26 1983)
“Information about the peculiar and remarkably skewed frame of mind of the Soviet leaders during those times that has emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union makes me think there is a good chance—with all of the other events in 1983—that they really felt a NATO attack was at least possible and that they took a number of measures to enhance their military readiness short of mobilization. After going through the experience at the time, then through the post-mortems, and now through the documents, I don’t think the Soviets were crying wolf. They may not have believed a NATO attack was imminent in November 1983, but they did seem to believe that the situation was very dangerous. And US intelligence [SNIE 11–9-84 and SNIE 11–10–84] had failed to grasp the true extent of their anxiety.”
Robert Gates — CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence during Able Archer 83
November 20 2017 — Top nuclear commander General John Hyten said that he wouldn’t carry out an ‘illegal’ nuclear strike order from President Donald Trump. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAYContinue reading →
