“In testing one month prior to the 2005 Italian Grand Prix, Juan Pablo Montoya of the McLaren-Mercedes F1 team recorded a record top speed of 372.6 km/h (231.5 mph).”
Wikipedia
Belgium – September 30 2018 — A man has been summoned to court to answer the charge that he was driving at 914 km/h on a small road in Auderghem, a tiny city in Brussels. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2. The fact that the energy withdrawn from the body becomes energy of radiation evidently makes no difference, so that we are led to the more general conclusion that the mass of a body is a measure of its energy-content; if the energy changes by L, the mass changes in the same sense by L/9 × 1020, the energy being measured in ergs, and the mass in grammes. It is not impossible that with bodies whose energy content is variable to a high degree (e.g. with radium salts) the theory may be successfully put to the test.”
Albert Einstein (September 27 1905)
On this day (Sept. 27 1905), the physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the ‘infamous’ equation E=mc².
UPDATE (Sept. 30 2018) — This week has not been an easy one and we could use a good joke. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“What do Molenbeek’s failures reveal about the deep dysfunction in the Belgian state? That Molenbeek has been allowed to become a breeding-ground for jihadism says some damning things about formal and informal structures in Belgium, and in particular Brussels.”
“Belgium is a Failed State” – POLITICO
Two persons, pretending to be plumbers, illegally entered my appartement in Brussels this week. This was no ordinary burglary. They were looking for specific documents. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2. The fact that the energy withdrawn from the body becomes energy of radiation evidently makes no difference, so that we are led to the more general conclusion that the mass of a body is a measure of its energy-content; if the energy changes by L, the mass changes in the same sense by L/9 × 1020, the energy being measured in ergs, and the mass in grammes. It is not impossible that with bodies whose energy content is variable to a high degree (e.g. with radium salts) the theory may be successfully put to the test.”
Albert Einstein (September 27 1905)
On this day (Sept. 27 1905), the physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the ‘infamous’ equation E=mc². Follow us on Twitter:@INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The Americans wanted to know why the Guptas are interested in mining uranium and where they intend sending their product. Naturally we were interested as well.”
Njenje — Former Head of the SA National Intelligence Agency
“Mrs Thatcher was relentlessly hostile to all those who sought to overthrow the apartheid regime by force or undermine it through economic sanctions. The ANC was unacceptable not only because of its association with communism… but above all because of its refusal to renounce the use of violence… which inevitably meant that she regarded it as a terrorist organisation of the same stamp as the PLO or the IRA. Mrs Thatcher adamantly opposed the imposition of further economic sanctions… South Africa’s role as a bulwark of the West against Soviet expansion was not just a rhetorical ploy but was believed implicitly by Ronald Reagan as well as by Mrs Thatcher.”
The Challenge of Apartheid — Patrick Salmon (FCO official historian)
Ajay and Atul Gupta
According to MSM, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) flagged the Guptas’ dubious activities as far back as 2009, resulting in an investigation by South African intelligence agencies that concluded that the family was a threat to national security. Seriously? Did the CIA and European Intel agencies really care about SA illegal uranium transactions during the Apartheid? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Further evidence suggesting that the Crypto AG machines were compromised was revealed after the assassination of former Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar in 1991.”
Intel Today Researcher (December 29 2007)
“The different versions of the report make clear Friedman – described as special assistant to the director, NSA – went with a proposal agreed not just by US, but also British intelligence. Friedman offered Hagelin time to think his proposal over, but Hagelin accepted on the spot.”
BBC Gordon Corera (July 28 2015)
“Hammarskjöld was at the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said ‘when they killed him’.”
US President Harry Truman (September 19 1961)
A decade ago, I suggested that Crypto AG had been actively working with the British and US Intelligence Agencies. Specifically, I argued that Crypto AG had rigged equipment used by diplomats around the world to allow the NSA and GCHQ to decode in real-time their messages. These claims were vindicated by US government documents declassified in 2015. End of the story? Not quite. Sixten Svensson — brother-in-law of the late Boris Hagelin who founded Crypto AG and collaborated with the NSA — told me that the CX-52 used by UN Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld during his visit to Congo was one of the rigged machines. The UN is currently investigating the possibility that Hammarskjöld was assassinated. Several countries — US, UK and Belgium — still refuse to collaborate with the investigation. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“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
Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel for the Soviet Air Defence Forces, is credited with correctly recognizing a false alarm while manning an early-warning missile defense system, thereby averting a Soviet retaliatory strike and nuclear war.
On 26 September 1983, just three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to five more.
Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm and his decision is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in large-scale nuclear war. Investigation later confirmed that the Soviet satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“My first son was my 1993 World Trade Centre bombing baby. I call my second son my “Khobar Towers baby” (born shortly after the 1996 bombing of a military housing complex in Saudi Arabia); my third child, a daughter, is my “African embassy bombing baby” (she arrived a few weeks before the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania); and my fourth, another son, is my “9/11 baby”. My fifth child, a girl, was my “Fallujah baby”.”
Gina Bennett –Veteran CIA analyst
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. Today, there are 129 stars carved into the white Alabama marble wall. At least ten represent women.
Jane Wallis Burrell was in the OSS from 1943-1945, and was a case officer in X-2 in France and Germany. She segued into the SSU, the CIG, and then the CIA, and was recognized as the first CIA officer to have died while in service. A declassified CIA document — released in 2003 — indicates that Burrell was part of a team hunting for the NAZI gold. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“In a now famous interview with the Iraqi leader, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam, ‘[W]e have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait.’ The U.S. State Department had earlier told Saddam that Washington had ‘no special defense or security commitments to Kuwait.’ The United States may not have intended to give Iraq a green light, but that is effectively what it did.”
Foreign Policy (2003)
Adopted on 25 September 1990, United Nations Security Council resolution 670 was the ninth to condemn Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait. The resolution was approved by 14 votes to one vote against, from Cuba, and no abstention. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Among my greatest pleasures as director are my relationships with foreign counterparts who come to visit. And I made it a tradition that when … foreign heads of service visit Langley, Virginia, and sit with me in my office, I send them away with a bottle of very fine Kentucky bourbon. And we are moving through a number so far.”
CIA Director Gina Haspel — University of Louisville (Sept. 24, 2018)
CIA Director Gina Haspel addresses the audience at the University of Louisville, Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, in Louisville, Ky.
Monday September 24 2018 — CIA Director Gina Haspel gave a speech at her Alma Mater — the University of Louisville — in which she made clear the new direction the agency will head into under her tenure. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
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