CIA — 71 Years of Torture, Narco Trade & Regime Change

Posted on September 23, 2018 by L

“The Eagle = vigilance, a symbol of our nation. The Defense Shield = intelligence as our nation’s first line of defense. The 16-Point Compass Rose = information coming in from all points of the globe & being brought together at one central place.”

CIA Tweet — September 18 2018

“I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency. At least, I would like to submit here the original reason why I thought it necessary to organize this Agency during my Administration, what I expected it to do and how it was to operate as an arm of the President. (…) We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.”

US President Harry Truman (December 22, 1963)

On September 18 2018, the CIA has tweeted a GIF marking its 71st birthday. Some folks took the opportunity to express their sincere thanks to the intelligence agency for the work it does. Many were not so kind. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius : “DGSE Agents Sank the Rainbow Warrior” (September 22 1985)

Posted on September 22, 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 September 22 1985, French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appeared on TV to confess that agents of the DGSE — French Foreign Intelligence Service — had sunk the Rainbow Warrior. They acted on orders. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Belgian Policeman Arrested for Complicity in Brussels Attacks

Posted on September 22, 2018 by L

“Over the past year, according to police documents, the police have been piecing together Mr. [Yassine] Atar’s role in the network. He is a cousin of the brothers Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui, who on March 22, 2016, carried out the Brussels attacks by setting off suicide bombs at an airport and in a subway station. (…) The Belgian authorities suspect that a brother of Mr. Atar, Oussama Atar, was a leader of the Brussels network. Oussama Atar remains at large.”

Milan SCHREUER — NYT (June 2 2017)

“With the usual reservations, it seems to indicate that Oussama Atar is dead and, importantly, that the judicial investigation continues. It is essential to continue to try to shed light on this dark affair.”

Georges Dallemagne — Belgian Federal representative (February 28 2018)

“If not for the request by different organizations … Oussama Atar would still be in Iraqi prison.”

Jawad Al-Hindawi — Iraqi Ambassador to Belgium

Yassine Atar, brother of Oussama Atar, one of the main suspects in the March 22 2016 terror attacks in Brussels

September 22 2017 — A Belgian policeman from Brussels was arrested on Monday (September 18 2017) for violating professional secrecy and passive corruption. The policeman had been in contact with Yassine Atar, brother of Oussama Atar, one of the main suspects in the March 22 2016  terror attacks in Brussels. The readers of INTEL TODAY will not be surprised a bit… Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Colombia — UNODC Report 2018 : Cocaine Production Hits New Record

Posted on September 22, 2018 by L

“There are troubling early signs that cocaine availability is on the rise in the US for the first time in nearly a decade.”

US State Department — February 2017

“The old conventional wisdom of this being a conspiracy theory survived even if the evidence is now incontrovertible. So even NARCOS wants to avoid the issue and pretends it did not happen.”

American Journalist Robert Parry

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September 19 2018 — Colombian cocaine production hit record levels in 2017, according to newly released UN statistics. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says production rose about 31% year on year to some 1,400 tonnes, cultivated on 171,000 hectares. It is estimated that the potential production of cocaine has a value of 2.7 billion dollars in the local market. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Belgium — State-Owned Telecom Giant Hacked by British Intelligence on Behalf of the US

Posted on September 21, 2018 by L

“We will take the appropriate steps if the high-level involvement of a foreign country is confirmed.”

Elio di Rupo — Then Belgian Prime Minister (September 2013)

“Meanwhile the prosecutor’s office is reported to have advised the minister that the case has to be dropped, since there is a lack of admissible evidence to be able to make criminal accusations against particular individuals. Other political or diplomatic moves are a matter for the two governments, and are unlikely ever to be made public.”

Alan Hope — The Brussels Times (September 21 2018)

BRUSSELS (September 20 2018) – A confidential report by Belgian investigators has concluded that British intelligence services hacked state-owned Belgian telecom giant Belgacom (Today renamed PROXIMUS) on behalf of Washington. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_Today Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — New York Times vs. CIA : “An Old Debate Wrapped in New Clothes”

Posted on September 20, 2018 by L

“Because it’s a military operation, I don’t think we can completely treat the people who run it purely as intelligence operatives. It moves into a different realm in the discussion as far as I’m concerned. It’s not like you’re exposing a wide undercover operation in Afghanistan. You’re writing about something that is generally done by the military, which I think means that the cloak of secrecy that usually we all allow for the CIA is a little more complicated.”

Dean Baquet — Executive Editor of the New York Times

“As the nation’s dominant news organization, The Times deserves, and gets, intensive scrutiny for how it has handled that story. The grades, clearly, are mixed. Its role in the run-up to the Iraq War has been rightly and harshly criticized. (…) But it’s certainly a healthy sign that The Times’s top editor and some of its key reporters are not only grappling with these issues, but are willing to do so publicly. In an era in which “trust us” — on the part of both the government and the media — hasn’t worked out too well, this discussion couldn’t be more important for American democracy and for We the People.”

Margaret Sullivan — Former Public Editor of The New York Times

“The Obama administration accidentally revealed the name of the CIA’s top official in Afghanistan [Greg Vogle] in an email to thousands of journalists during the president’s surprise weekend trip to Bagram Air Field.”

WASHINGTON (AP)

September 20 2017 — Amy Fiscus — the NYT national security editor —  has just explained why The Times published the name of a C.I.A. official last month. The story is obviously reigniting an old debate. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Who Killed Pierre Goldman? And Why? (June 22, 1944 – Assassinated September 20, 1979)

Posted on September 20, 2018 by L

“In my crib were hidden tracts and arms.”

Pierre Goldman — Dim memories of a Polish Jew Born in France

“Marseille boys members of GAL killed him with Maïone, who also talked about a commandant, former member of the SDECE [French secret service], without revealing me his identity.”

Libération (April 2006)

“Goldman combinait tous les traits de l’homme à abattre : juif, aimant les Noirs, révolutionnaire, taulard, écrivain, et surtout, pire que tout, l’homme qui avait échappé à la peine de mort pour un crime qu’il niait, une accusation terrible dont la justice l’avait acquitté. A sa manière Pierre Goldman avait le visage d’un portrait-robot. Il ressemblait à tout ce que haïssent les imbéciles.”

Serge July — French journalist

Pierre Goldman (June 22, 1944 – Assassinated September 20, 1979)

Who killed Goldman? Of course, I am not talking about the French singer — Jean-Jacques — who is one of the most loved personalities in France. I am talking about his brother Pierre, a French left-wing intellectual who was convicted of several robberies and mysteriously assassinated on September 20 1979. The case has never been solved. By the way, although Jean-Jacques never spoke about his brother, many believe that the song “Puisque tu pars” is about Pierre. I left a couple of messages for JJ Goldman knowing full well that he would not reply. I hope that he will speak about his brother one day, but not too late. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Key Lockerbie Witness Admits Perjury (September 15 2007)

Posted on September 19, 2018 by L

“Hans Köchler, a United Nations observer, called the trial ‘a spectacular miscarriage of justice,’ words echoed by Mr. Mandela. Many legal experts and investigative journalists challenged the evidence, calling Mr. Megrahi a scapegoat for a Libyan government long identified with terrorism.”

New York Times — May 20 2012

“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

South Africa Nelson Mandela visiting Megrahi — aka the ‘Lockerbie bomber’ — in prison. Many thanks to my friend John Ashston who took the picture

A recent tweet from Professor Black — AKA the Lockerbie trial Architect — reminded me that I had posted my first report on the Lockerbie scandal this week a decade ago. The story was not well written and many parts need improvements and corrections. But my heart was at the right place and, with whatever brain I had left,  I kept on investigating this extraordinary scandal in modern history. After countless interviews of high-ranking officials — including two heads of State — I believe more than ever that the Lockerbie verdict against Megrahi is a ‘Grand Monument to Human Stupidity’. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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On This Day — Remembering UTA Flight 772 (September 19 1989)

Posted on September 19, 2018 by L

“It is striking to note the similarity of the ‘scientific’ evidence discovered by the FBI’s Tom Thurman in both the Lockerbie and UTA cases. Of the tens of thousands of pieces of debris collected at each disaster site, one lone piece of printed circuit was found and, miracle of miracles, in each case the fragment bore markings that allowed for positive identification: MEBO in the Lockerbie case and TY in the case of UTA Flight 772. Despite the common findings of the DCPJ, the DST and the Prefecture of Police crime laboratory, Judge Bruguière chose to believe Thurman, the expert in fabricating evidence.”

Pierre Péan — African Manipulations

“This is — of course — US/UK pure propaganda. Libya has nothing to do with Lockerbie whatsoever! Only an imbecile would buy this utter nonsense. Imbeciles… And US lawyers, of course! But I repeat myself.”

Intel Today (September 19 2017)

Rescuers stand near the wreckage of the French UTA DC-10 flight 772 in the Tenere desert, on September 22, 1989

It has been called the greatest murder investigation in French history. When a suitcase bomb destroyed French Airlines UTA Flight 772, killing all 170 passengers and crew on board, it triggered a decade long search for accountability. Where are the French journalists? Have you all given up on finding the truth? For God sake, wake up and do your job! Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Historian Webster Tarpley : Nixon Was Ousted By The CIA

Posted on September 19, 2018 by L

“Kissinger served as Nixon’s de facto intelligence adviser and it was Kissinger, not the CIA, whom Nixon counted on to help him keep informed about global events. In part, Kissinger did this each day by sending Nixon a memorandum prepared at the White House Situation Room, to which the PDB was appended, that consisted of Kissinger’s take of what developments were important for Nixon to keep in mind.”

National Security Archive

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President Richard M. Nixon meeting with national security adviser Henry A. Kissinger in the Oval Office, n.d. (Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, Photo collections, Master Print File with Staff Individuals)

September 19 2017 — As a contribution to the ongoing discussion about the role of the PDBs in the Nixon White House, the National Security Archive today publishes together for the first time the six Kissinger daily briefing memoranda from 1969 through 1973 that have been declassified so far. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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