Two Years Ago — CIA PALANTIR Sues Early Investor

“[Since 2013] U.S. spy agencies also employ Palantir to connect databases across departments. Before this, most of the databases used by the CIA and FBI were siloed, forcing users to search each database individually. Now everything is linked together using Palantir.”

TechCrunch — January 2015

Alexander Karp: American billionaire businessman, co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies.

Alexander Karp: American billionaire businessman, co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies.

In the filing with the Superior Court of the State of California, the company alleges that early Palantir investor Marc L. Abramowitz “ stole … secrets, engaged in methodical deception of Palantir’ s senior executives, and made false claims to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.” Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Golda Meir Orders Operation Wrath of God (September 7 1972)

“There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.”

Golda Meir

“Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.”

Movie Quote from Munich (2005) – Golda Meir

September 7 1972 — Two days after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, Israel retaliated by bombing ten PLO bases in Syria and Lebanon. Prime Minister Golda Meir also created Committee X –a small group of government officials tasked with formulating an Israeli response — with herself and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan at the head.

General Aharon Yariv was appointed as her advisor on Counterterrorism issues. The committee X came to the conclusion that, in order to deter future violent incidents against Israel, they needed to assassinate those who had supported or carried out the Munich massacre, and in dramatic fashion. Mossad Director Zvi Zamir took the principal role in directing the ensuing operation codenamed “Wrath of God”.  Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Microwave Attacks — Havana, Beijing… And Where Else?

“There’s been some other locations [where] we’ve had similar situations. We’re still working on it. I think if it was an intelligence-based operation, it’ll be hard to attribute.”

William Evanina  — Director of the US National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center

In 2016, two dozen of US diplomats — most of them actually spies — based in Havana suffered a range of symptoms including hearing loss, tinnitus, headaches and dizziness. Later, US diplomats in Beijing experienced the same symptoms. US experts now consider “microwave weapons” as the prime suspect. On September 5 2018, William Evanina — Director of the US National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center — made two extraordinary revelations. Firstly, similar events have occurred elsewhere. Secondly, the effects are believed to be the consequences of an intelligence operation.

Since the beginning of this story, I have argued that the symptoms were related to an exposure to microwave radiation. Today, there appears to be a consensus on this issue among US experts investigating the case.

In this post, I bring you three additional pieces of information. I believe that similar events have occurred in Brussels, possibly before the recorded and disclosed attacks in Havana. I also suspect, as Evanina suggests, that the primary purpose of these microwave attacks was to gather intelligence, not to hurt the US diplomats. Finally, I have some very good reason to suspect one country: China. I believe that it is highly unlikely that such operation could have been set up without the complicity of Belgian administrators, and possibly politicians. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — NORTH KOREA H-Bomb : First estimate of the Yield

“The institute recently succeeded in making a more developed nuke. Kim Jong-un watched an H-bomb to be loaded into a new ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile).”

KCNA — North Korea State News Agency (September 3 2017)

“Based on the similarity of the seismic data between 3 September 2017 event and North Korea’s previous nuclear tests, we confirm that 3 September 2017 event is a nuclear test in nature. We have determined that North Korea’s 3 September 2017 nuclear test occurred at UTC 2017/09/03 03:30, (2017/09/03 12:00 local time), at the location of (41°17’53.52”N, 129°4’27.12”E), with an estimated yield of 108.3±48.1 kt.”

USTC  — Lianxing Wen’s Geogroup

September 4 2017 — North Korea said on Sunday (September 3 2017) it has developed a more advanced nuclear weapon that has “great destructive power” and leader Kim Jong Un inspected a hydrogen bomb that will be loaded on a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Considering the magnitude of the event as reported by the US Geological Survey,  I have estimated — in first approximation — the yield of the device at about 126.8 kilotons of TNT equivalent. A well-known Chinese research group has since provided a similar estimate. However the magnitudes reported by South Korea and NORSAR are much lower. UPDATE (September 6 2017)  — At this point, there seems to be a consensus that the magnitude (Mb) of the event is at least 6.0 and possibly as high as 6.4. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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UK — PM Statement on the Salisbury Investigation (September 5 2018)

“There is sufficient evidence to charge two Russian nationals named as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov with offences including conspiracy to murder over the Salisbury nerve agent attack.”

Scotland Yard – CPS Joint Statement

Alexander Petrov, right, and Ruslan Boshirov are suspected of poisoning former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

Here is the full text of statement by UK PM Theresa May to Parliament alleging that Russian military intelligence (GRU) assassins flew to the UK to kill former GRU double agent Sergei Skripal with a Novichok nerve poison applied to his front door handle. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Russian Defector Viktor Belenko Lands MiG-25 in Japan (September 6 1976)

“Americans have tolerance regarding other people’s opinion. In certain cultures, if you do not accept the mainstream, you would be booted out or might disappear. Here we have people, you know, who hug trees, and people who want to cut them down — and they live side by side!”

Viktor Ivanovich Belenko — Informal Interview (2000)

Viktor Belenko — Soviet military identification photo

On 6 September 1976, Viktor Ivanovich Belenko successfully defected to the West, flying his MiG-25 “Foxbat” jet fighter to Hakodate, Japan. George H. W. Bush, the Director of Central Intelligence at the time, called the opportunity to examine the plane up close an “intelligence bonanza” for the West. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Wormwood : The Mysterious Death of Cold War Era Military Scientist Frank Olson

“Frank was viewed as a dissident. You understand that in 1953 if you thought somebody was detrimental to the war against the Russians, you have no problem dealing with them. It wouldn’t be a question of saying you just have to leave the agency (laughs…) tell me about that, think about that somebody who has secrets, I mean are you kidding me.  Frank was, was out there. He was letting them know that he was marching to a different drummer and you couldn’t do it back then. He was a man who was profoundly, profoundly distressed about what he was learning……..and he was dangerous, that I can tell you.”

Seymour Hersh — Pulitzer Prize winner

“While the court must limit its analysis to the four corners of the complaint, the skeptical reader may wish to know that the public record supports many of the allegations [in the family’s suit], farfetched as they may sound.”

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg — Frank Olson Case

“To what extent can a democracy lie to its citizens and still, in the end, remain a democracy?

I believe what separates us from dumb animals is that we pursue, maybe we don’t achieve it, but we pursue certainty. It’s a goal. A dream. To deny that importance of that goal or that dream is unspeakable. Where would we be without it? We’d be out in the jungle having various temper tantrums like the president of the United States.”

Errol Morris — Statement about “Wormwood”

Wormwood is based on a true story and explores the mysterious death of Cold War-era military scientist Frank Olson (played by Sarsgaard) and his son’s tireless efforts to uncover the truth. In 1953, Frank Olson was recruited to be part of a secret biological warfare program cryptically referred to as Project MKUltra. The miniseries is blending long-form documentary interview with a dramatic reconstruction of pivotal scenes.

September 5 2017 — Errol Morris — one of the most acclaimed and influential documentarians of all time — is back with a project unlike anything he has ever done before. Wormwood, told in six parts, deals with CIA mind-control experiments in the 1950s and the infamous death of US Major Frank Olson. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — Ludwig Boltzmann Ends His Life (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906)

“Bring forward what is true, Write it so that it is clear, Defend it to your last breath!”

“The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.”

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann

Boltzmann’s grave in the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, with bust and entropy formula

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms determine the physical properties of matter. Boltzmann invented the concept of entropy and derived the entropy equation, which was later used by Claude Shannon to build the foundations of information theory. Follow us on Twitter @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Belgian Diplomat Accused of Helping Russia : “Stirred, not Shaken” — UPDATE : Guilty; 12 Months Sentence

“During one of the phone calls we listened to, he (Oswald Gantois) said himself that he had played too much James Bond but that every diplomat must be a bit of a spy.”

Ann Fransen — Belgian federal prosecutor

‘I never accepted money … I never disclosed state secrets. I am right with myself and that is enough. This case has destroyed my life. In the eyes of the investigators I was guilty right from the start.”

Belgian diplomat Oswald Gantois

Belgian diplomat Oswald Gantois likes to compare himself to James Bond. His resemblance to MI6 OO7 agent is not however immediately apparent.

A senior Belgium diplomat has allegedly helped Russian spies for over 25 years. UPDATE — On June 13 2018, a court found Gantois guilty of espionage. Brussels is a nest of spies with the highest density of foreign spooks anywhere in Europe, and quite possibly in the world. I find it hard to believe that they could not find a bigger fish to fry. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Two Years Ago — NSA Hacked French President’s House

“Keith Alexander (Director of the NSA) told me he was disappointed because he never thought we would detect them and he even added: You guys are good.”

Bernard Barbier — Director of the DGSE Technical Division

NSAFrench

September 4 2016 — The NSA hacked the Élysée Palace in 2012, between the two rounds of the Presidential election. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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