On This Day — French Government Denies Knowledge of Attack on Rainbow Warrior (August 26 1985)

Posted on August 26, 2018 by L

“The truth is cruel.. Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”

French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius  (September 22 1985)

Governments lie. They do it all the time. And, much as we’d like to believe otherwise, the US government is no exception. There were times when we may have believed otherwise. But after Vietnam and Watergate, we know better.”

Ted Koppel : “The USS Vincennes: Public War, Secret War.” —  ABC News (July 1, 1992)

On August 26 1985, the French government denied any knowledge of the attack on Rainbow Warrior. A month later, the French Prime Minister confessed the role of the DGSE, the French Foreign Intelligence agency. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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HUMOR — “And Ye Shall Know the Truth”

Posted on August 26, 2018 by L

“And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”

John 8:32

“Truth is not truth.”

Rudy 8:19

On August 19 2018, during an appearance on Meet the Press, President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Chuck Todd that he sees a credibility gap between President Trump and Special Counsel Mueller. “Truth isn’t truth,” he insisted during the interview. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Two Years Ago — Former CIA Robert Baer: “We Deserve The Truth” [The “28 Pages” Report]

Posted on August 25, 2018 by L

“There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi government. Our report should never have been read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia.”

John F Lehman — Republican member of the 9/11 commission

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Former CIA Robert Baer

August 25 2016 — The so-called “28 pages” report suggests a much larger web of connections between al-Qaida and the Saudi royal family than had previously been known. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Happy Birthday Sean Connery! (25 August 1930)

Posted on August 25, 2018 by L

“You eckshpect me to talk?”

“No, Mr Bond, I expect you to DIE!”

Goldfinger (1964)

“More than anything else, I’d like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.”

Sean Connery

“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)

Sean Connery, the sexiest man on earth and the only real James Bond in many people’s eyes, has said a lot of things over the years. Here are 15 memorable quotes from the legendary Scotsman. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEAN!  Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Navy Seal Admiral : “Revoke my security clearance, too, Mr. President”

Posted on August 25, 2018 by L

“In SEAL training there is a bell. A brass bell that hangs in the center of the compound for all the students to see. All you have to do to quit—is ring the bell. Ring the bell and you no longer have to wake up at 5 o’clock. Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the freezing cold swims. Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the runs, the obstacle course, the PT—and you no longer have to endure the hardships of training. Just ring the bell. If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell.”

 Naval Admiral William H. McRaven — Ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command

“It’s astounding how often you fail to live up to minimum standards of decency, civility, & probity. Seems like you will never understand what it means to be president, nor what it takes to be a good, decent, & honest person. So disheartening, so dangerous for our Nation.”

Former CIA Director John Brennan (August 14 2018)

“I have decided to revoke the security clearance of John Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.”

US President Donald Trump (August 15 2018)

Retired Navy admiral William H. McRaven, who oversaw the Navy SEAL raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, has issued a fiery open letter to President Donald Trump over his revoking the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, comparing his tactics to those who led communist witch hunts in the 1950s. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — France Becomes 5th Thermo-Nuclear Power [Canopus Test] (August 24 1968)

Posted on August 24, 2018 by L

“I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. (…) I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth. (…) I would see people building a bridge, or they’d be making a new road, and I thought, they’re crazy, they just don’t understand, they don’t understand. Why are they making new things? It’s so useless.”

Richard Feynman — Physics Nobel Prize

Canopus (also Opération Canopus in French) was the code name for France’s first two-stage thermonuclear test, conducted on August 24, 1968, at Fangataufa atoll. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Two Years Ago –Trump and the Attempted Coup in Turkey : “13 CIA senior officers helped in Failed Coup”

Posted on August 24, 2018 by L

“I’ve got fresh evidence 13 CIA senior officers helped in Turkey failed Coup. I will divulge the names in the coming days.”

Donald Trump — 15 August 2016

“I have not set foot in or even near Turkey in five years. […] The night of the coup attempt in Turkey I happen to have been addressing a group of 100 people or so right here in the town in western Canada where I have been living for the last 15 years.”

Graham Fuller — December 2 2017

“Just think a moment about what is happening right now.  In 25 years, your children and grandchildren will read [about this coup], as now people read about the 1953 overthrow of Prime Minister of Iran Mohammed Mossadegh. Does it not seem to you at some point that this can happen in Caracas and Kiev, or actually in Ankara, Damascus and Baghdad?”

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson — Chief of staff of  US Secretary of State Colin Powell

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A Turkish criminal court issued an arrest warrant for Muhammad Fethullah Gülen

August 24 2016 — In a message posted on August 15 2016, Trump claimed that he had evidence that the CIA was involved in the July 15 2016 attempted coup. Two years later, there is no still evidence whatsoever that the CIA was involved in the attempted coup. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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The CIA in China

Posted on August 24, 2018 by L

“To give our compromise context, the U.S. communications infrastructure was under siege. Once we understood this compromise several of the mysteries we encountered in our operations came sharply into focus. Our operational interests were known. The damage did not stop with the identification of our humint assets. It was a recipe for disaster. We had a catastrophic failure on our hands that would ensnare a great many of our sources.”

John Reidy — Letter to the CIA Inspector General’s Office (2010)

Between 2010 and 2012, the government of China arrested — and executed — several dozens CIA sources, crippling the Agency’s ability to collect information within the country. How did this happen and why are MSM silent on this story? Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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On This Day — West German Spy Chief Defects to East (August 23 1985)

Posted on August 23, 2018 by L

“Naturally I am a traitor, I cannot deny that.”

Hans Joachim Tiedge

The West German spy chief’s defection was made public by the East German authorities on August 23 1985. Follow us on Twitter; @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Two Years Ago — TRUMP & the CIA Briefings

Posted on August 23, 2018 by L

“There were so many things I did not know when I became President.”

US President Harry Truman (1952)

“By his words and his actions, Mr Trump is putting our national security and our collective futures at grave risk.”

Former CIA Director John Brennan (August 2017)

August 23 2016 — When asked by Fox News if he trusts the US Intelligence Community, Trump responded : “Not so much from the people who have been doing it for our country.” Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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