Lockerbie Victim’s Father : “Lockerbie Trial Was a Parody of Justice.”

Posted on October 7, 2018 by L

“In our sad search we have also uncovered material showing that the Government of the day had ample accurate warnings in advance of what was about to happen, but raised not a finger to prevent it happening.”

Dr Jim Swire (October 7 2018)

“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  (ABC, Nov. 30 1989)

“I regard the Lockerbie verdict against Megrahi as a ‘Grand Monument to Human Stupidity’.  Indeed, the written opinion of the Lockerbie judges is a remarkable document that claims an ‘honoured place in the history of British miscarriages of justice.’ If the [SCCRC] Commission accepts the application for a full review, the infamous Zeist verdict doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of surviving.”

INTEL TODAY — July 5 2017

Dr Herbert ‘Jim’ Swire

Today (October 7 2018), Dr Jim Swire published a Letter in the Scottish edition of the Mail on Sunday. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya (October 7 2006)

Posted on October 7, 2018 by L

“Who killed Anna and who lay beyond her killer remains unknown. Her murder robbed too many of us of absolutely vital sources of information and contact. Yet it may, ultimately, be seen to have at least helped prepare the way for the unmasking of the dark forces at the heart of Russia’s current being.”

Jon Snow — News anchor for UK Channel 4

“Anna Politkovskaya paid the ultimate price for her bravery in investigating and reporting on human rights violations. Achieving justice and establishing the truth about her murder must become a top political priority. This is owed first and foremost to her family and the general public, but is also an important obligation to uphold media freedom and safety of journalists.”

Council of Europe (October 5 2018)

Anna Politkovskaya (August 30, 1958, New York City — Assassinated: October 7, 2006, Moscow)

On October 7 2006, Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed in front of the elevator of her apartment building in Moscow. After several arrests, releases and retrials over eight years, five people have been jailed for her murder. However, it has still not been established who ordered the murder. Twelve years later, the murder’s organiser is still free. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Remembering Cubana de Aviacion Flight 455 (October 6 1976)

Posted on October 6, 2018 by L

 “The CIA created and unleashed a Frankenstein.”

Peter Kornbluh — Head of the National Security Archive’s Cuba project

“Luis Posada Carriles  died without having paid for this crime nor the many other terrorist acts that are a feature of his criminal record.”

Cuban government website Cubadebate — May 23 2018

“A15 — CIA code name for Posada — is not a typical kind of ‘boom and bang’ individual. He is acutely aware of the international implications of ill-planned or overly enthusiastic activities against Cuba.”

Former CIA handler Grover Lythcott

“Our confidential source ascertained (…) that the bombing of the Cubana Airlines DC-8 was planned, in part, in Caracas, Venezuela, at two meetings attended by Morales Navarrete, Luis Posada Carriles and Frank Castro.”

“A confidential source all but admitted that Posada and [Orlando] Bosch had engineered the bombing of the airline.”

FBI Declassified reports

Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) — nicknamed Bambi — is a Cuban exile militant and former Central Intelligence Agency agent. Carriles is considered a terrorist by the Government of Cuba, among others; he is widely considered responsible for the bombing of Cubana flight 455, which killed 73 people.He was a long-time member of the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations described by the FBI as “an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization”.

Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed.

Several CIA-linked anti-Castro Cuban exiles and members of the Venezuelan secret police DISIP were implicated by the evidence. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — James Bond Dr. No Worldwide Premiere at the London Pavilion (October 5 1962)

Posted on October 5, 2018 by L

“Fleming found he had a love for espionage, and combined with his support for all things British, provided purpose to his life. But after WWII ended, he found himself at loose ends, and took a job with a newspaper. He hated the drudgery that went with the position, and often found himself daydreaming while admiring a picture of Jamaica near his desk. After several vacations to the island, he decided to move there permanently and, drawing on his family’s income, built a home for himself. He called it ‘Goldeneye.’ Fleming told friends he had always wanted to write a spy novel…and now with time on his hands, he did exactly that.”

Ian Fleming: The Man Behind the Most Famous Spy — CIA Website (May 2018)

James Bond Dr No — Behind-The-Scenes Photos of Sean Connery and Ursula Andress

On October 5 1962, Dr. No had its worldwide premiere at the London Pavilion. Fifty years after the release of the film, Eon Productions celebrated “Global James Bond Day” on October 5 2012. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Netherlands — MIVD Director : “GRU Hacked OPCW Wi-Fi Network”

Posted on October 4, 2018 by L

“We, as you understand, have abilities to receive confidential information. And as this information concerns questions of life and death, we won’t keep this information secret.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (April 14 2018)

MIVD director Onno Eichelsheim

Dutch military intelligence service MIVD Director Onno Eichelsheim said his service interrupted a GRU attempt to hack the WiFi network of the OPCW. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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German Court Rejects Request to Release Swiss Suspected Spy — [UPDATE-3]

Posted on October 4, 2018 by L

“When someone in Switzerland uses illegal methods in Switzerland to steal state or business secrets, that is espionage, and we have the task to fight that.”

Swiss Federal Intelligence Service Director Markus Seiler

“The scandal reaches new proportions when spies sign up informers in the finance administration, in order to spy on successful NRW [North Rhine-Westphalia ] tax investigators and play into the hands of people who make billions in profit at the expense of society. It’s hard to believe that such a spy thriller took place not on the screen but on our own doorstep.”

NRW Finance Minister Norbert Walter-Borjans

Daniel M

Daniel M.

On June 27 2017, a German court rejected a request to release Daniel M. — a Swiss man being held on suspicion of spying. The alleged Swiss spy was arrested in a Frankfurt hotel on May 5 2017 .

On Thursday November 9 2017,  Daniel M. was found guilty of spying on German tax authorities at a hearing in Frankfurt. The defendant was handed a suspended sentence of 22 months.

On October 2 2018, the Swiss Federal Council said that the decision to send Daniel M. to snoop on tax authorities in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia was taken in a different political context, and its outcome was impossible to predict. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Soviet Union Launches SPUTNIK (October 4 1957)

Posted on October 4, 2018 by L

“On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched the Sputnik-1 earth satellite into space—an achievement that stunned the American public and press, but not the U.S. policy and intelligence communities. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reported the advancements that led to this landmark launch to President Eisenhower, providing him with the strategic advantage to guide the U.S. response.”

CIA (October 4 2017)

On October 4 1957, the Soviet Union launched SPUTNIK-1 into an elliptical low Earth orbit. It was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses.

Its radio signal was easily detectable even by amateurs, and the 65° inclination and duration of its orbit made its flight path cover virtually the entire inhabited Earth. This surprise success precipitated the American

Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race, a part of the Cold War. The launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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October 2 — International Wrongful Conviction Day

Posted on October 3, 2018 by L

“63% of the 513 people exonerated by members of the Innocence Network are people of color. This Wrongful Conviction Day, the Innocence Network is standing up to help fix the criminal justice system by raising awareness about the role that racial bias plays in wrongful convictions.”

Wrongful Conviction Day

“Since 31 January 2001 — the day the guilty verdict against Abdelbaset Megrahi was announced by the Scottish Court at Camp Zeist — I have made no secret of my belief in his innocence. His conviction, on the evidence led at the trial, was nothing short of astonishing. It constitutes, in my view, the worst miscarriage of justice perpetrated by a Scottish criminal court since the conviction of Oscar Slater in 1909 for the murder of Marion Gilchrist.”

Professor Robert Black — October 26 2008

October 2 2018 — Today marks the 5th anniversary of Wrongful Conviction Day. The most common reasons for wrongful convictions are mistaken eyewitness accounts, false confessions, official misconduct, and false accusation. Those who are known to have been wrongfully convicted have spent an average of 10.7 years in prison. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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50 Years Ago — The Tlatelolco Massacre (October 2 1968)

Posted on October 3, 2018 by L

“The situation will be under complete control very shortly.”

Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios (Head of Mexican Federal Security) — Message to the CIA (September 26 1968)

“The horrific nature of the Tlatelolco killings was made worse by the fact that, as a policy, it seemed to achieved its aims – the student movement was crushed, hopelessness prevailed, and the PRI had consolidated its power. A key part of this was suppression of the idea that the massacre ever happened at all – the official death toll remained under 30.”

Felix Bazalgette  — El Grito: the film banned for revealing the truth about Mexico in 1968

Fifty years ago, a group of student protesters were gunned down in the middle of a square in Mexico City. At the time, authorities tried to cover up the true scale of what happened, but the Mexican government has now accepted it was a state crime.

In 2002, President Vicente Fox appointed Ignacio Carrillo Prieto to prosecute those responsible for ordering the massacre. In 2006, former President Luis Echeverría was arrested on charges of genocide. However, in March 2009, the genocide charges against Echeverria were dismissed.

Despite the ruling, prosecutor Carrillo Prieto said he would continue his investigation and seek charges against Echeverria before the United Nations International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — US Spies & the Havana Syndrome

Posted on October 3, 2018 by L

“If the facts are confirmed and if the effects are indeed caused by a physical device, I find  the microwave explanation far more likely than a sonic attack. If this is indeed the case, I expect to hear nothing further in the future because the truth would sent a wave of panic through the Telecom industry.”

INTEL TODAY (October 3 2017)

“This happened during the Cold War to personnel stationed in the US embassy in Moscow when the Soviets were bombarding the embassy with microwaves to monitor oral communications in the ambassador’s office.”

Dr Joel Moskowitz — Community health professor at the University of California, Berkeley

“Until the government of Cuba can ensure safety of our people, we will be reduced to emergency personnel.”

US state department official

“In the more distant future, weapons systems based on new principles  — beam, geophysical, wave, genetic, psychophysical and other technology — will be developed. All this will, in addition to nuclear weapons, provide entirely new instruments for achieving political and strategic goals. Such high-tech weapons systems will be comparable in effect to nuclear weapons but will be more ‘acceptable’ in terms of political and military ideology.”

Vladimir Putin — 2012

October 3 2017 — US Investigators still don’t know what caused “diplomats” to suffer severe health problems in Cuba. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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