Breaking News — Trump Revokes Former CIA Director Security Clearance

“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)

Former CIA Director John Brennan

WASHINGTON (August 15 2018) – Today, U.S. President Donald Trump has revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Colombia — Former Intelligence Director Convicted for Journalist Murder

“Uribe was considered untouchable and all-powerful until yesterday. This marks a very important precedent.”

Colombian lawmaker Ivan Cepeda

“Álvaro Uribe es peligrosísimo.”

“Lo que nos enseñan a los colombianos no tiene nada que ver con las necesidades que tenemos los colombianos”.

Jaime Garzon

Jaime Hernando Garzón Forero (October 24, 1960 – assassinated August 13, 1999 in Bogotá)

On Tuesday August 14 2018, Jose Miguel Narvaez — a former deputy director of the disbanded Colombian intelligence agency the Administrative Department of Security (DAS for its Spanish acronym) — was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of Colombian journalist Jaime Garzon. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Hollywood — Gal Gadot to Play Actress and Inventor Hedy Lamarr

“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”

“American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.”

“If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.”

Hedy Lamarr

“We began talking about the war, which, in the late summer of 1940, was looking most extremely black. Hedy said that she did not feel very comfortable, sitting there in Hollywood and making lots of money when things were in such a state. She said that she knew a good deal about munitions and various secret weapons … and that she was thinking seriously of quitting MGM and going to Washington, DC, to offer her services to the newly established Inventors’ Council.”

 George Antheil — Composer, pianist and inventor

A 1940s shot of Lamarr, ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’

According to Hollywood rumors, Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot is nearing a deal to topline a Showtime limited series from Sarah Treem, co-creator of The Affair. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_Today Continue reading →

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Two Years Ago — TRUMP : “Second Amendment People Could Stop Clinton”

“If she [Hillary Clinton] gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do [about your right to bear arms], folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”

Donald Trump

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The Clintons and Trump: They were good friends in those times….

On this day two years ago, Trump probably crossed a red line when he stated that  “Second Amendment people” could stop Hillary Clinton. What are we supposed to make of this suggestion? It is a tad cryptic but most understood that Trump was actually suggesting violence against Mrs. Clinton and/or Supreme Court Judges who would oppose the right to bear arms. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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On This Day — The Philadelphia Experiment (August 12 1943)

“IT WAS TOTALLY INVISIBLE HOWS THAT POSSIBLE ? THEY USED THE EARTHS MAGNETIC FIELD X THE INFORMATION WAS GATHERED AND TRANSMITTED UNDERGRUUND TO AN UNKNOWN LOCATION X DOES LANGLEY KNOW ABOUT THIS ? THEY SHOULD ITS BURIED OUT THERE SOMEWHERE X WHO KNOWS THE EXACT LOCATION ? ONLY WW THIS WAS HIS LAST MESSAGE X THIRTY EIGHT DEGREES FIFTY SEVEN MINUTES SIX POINT FIVE SECONDS NORTH SEVENTY SEVEN DEGREES EIGHT MINUTES FORTY FOUR SECONDS WEST X LAYER TWO”

KRYPTOS Sculpture (Part II)

“DARPA develops the weapons of the future. It funds everything from basic science to advanced technology, though the ultimate goal is always to develop something that can be used by the military.”

Sharon Weinberger — “The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World.”

On August 12, 1943 — July 22, 1943 and October 28, 1943 are also mentioned in various accounts — the US Navy conducted a test of some sort on the USS Eldridge (DE [Destroyer Escort] 173) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Remembering CIA Molly C. H. Hardy [Dec. 15 1946 – Aug. 7 1998]

“For a small cadre of CIA veterans, the death of Osama bin Laden was more than just a national moment of relief and closure. It was also a measure of payback, a settling of a score for a pair of deaths, the details of which have remained a secret for 13 years. Tom Shah and Molly Huckaby Hardy were among the 44 U.S. Embassy employees killed when a truck bomb exploded outside the embassy compound in Kenya in 1998.”

AP 5/29/2011

“Molly exemplified the valor and compassion that are hallmarks of our finest officers.”

CIA Annual Memorial Ceremony — May 22 2012

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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. There are 129 stars carved into the white Alabama marble wall. At least ten represent women.

The Memorial Wall is a memorial at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. the wall honors CIA employees who died in the line of service. Today, there are 129 stars carved into the white Alabama marble wall. At lest ten represent women. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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CIA & Torture — Gina Haspel Thailand Cables Declassified

“These cables confirm the findings of the Senate Intel report, and show why the release of a nominee’s FULL record before confirmation is absolutely necessary. We shouldn’t rely on restricted & incomplete records to evaluate nominees – whether to the Cabinet or the Supreme Court.”

Senator Dianne Feinstein — Twitter (August 10 2018)

“11 cables withheld during Haspel’s confirmation to be CIA Director reveal the brutal and ineffective torture she oversaw.”

 Marcy Wheeler  (emptywheel) — Twitter (August 10 2018)

“Torture remains an unconscionable act ordered by immoral cowards and carried out by the timid whose wicked souls seek the thrill of power wielded over the defenseless. Torture drains the honor of a nation. Torturers stain the soul of a nation.”

Steven Kleinman — Former Intelligence Officer

Gina Haspel sworn in as Director of the CIA

Newly released cables obtained by the National Security Archive detail torture techniques the CIA used to interrogate Qaeda captives at a secret prison in Thailand. These cables were written by the current CIA Director Gina Haspel who oversaw these interrogations while she was the chief of Station in Thailand. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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CIA Directors [DCI and D/CIA] — Test your “Spy Knowledge” with our Quiz! [2018]

“With the benefit of hindsight and my experience as a senior Agency leader, the enhanced interrogation program is not one the CIA should have undertaken. The United States must be an example to the rest of the world, and I support that.”

Gina Haspel — CIA Director

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How much do you know about spy agencies? Take this quiz to find out your knowledge of the CIA Directors. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Remembering Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 [USTICA – June 27 1980]

“We still hope the truth will come out. We know that very probably the plane was struck down by a missile. Too many people have been keeping this secret for too long but we will not give up until we know everything that happened.”

Daria Bonfietti

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The remains of Itavia Airlines flight 870

When the passenger jet crashed, the immediate theory was that it was a tragic accident caused by some kind of mechanical or structural failure. Then, there was the suggestion that terrorists could have planted a bomb, but that theory was also rejected. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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The Dark Past of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller — The Bulger Gang, Lockerbie, Anthrax… An Exceptional Failure All Round.

“Robert Mueller was chosen as Special Counsel not because he has integrity but because he will do what the powerful want him to do. Mueller didn’t speak the truth about a war he knew to be unjustified. He didn’t speak out against torture. He didn’t speak out against unconstitutional surveillance. And he didn’t tell the truth about 9/11. He is just ‘their man.'”

Coleen Rowley — Retired FBI special agent and division legal counsel

“The wrong guy was the only guy. Worse, all those who failed to name the actual culprits, thanks to incompetence or intent, face no interrogation. Increasingly, Lockerbie resembles a political-management precursor to our manipulated post-11 September, 2001 world: pick your villain, pick your story, then bend your laws, your politics, and your media to fit Democracy.”

Ian Bell — Trust no-one, believe nothing (August 4 2007)

“In respect of the Lockerbie case, a country, a whole people, a justice system, and the truth were sacrificed in order that the status quo between Edinburgh and London (indeed Washington) was preserved and maintained. Not the status quo around the symbolic political union between the two nations, but the status quo inherent at a far deeper level than the superficial, as I say symbolic, distinctions made in public. The UK and the West’s foreign policy, and the historical perceptions created whether with regards to Libya, Iraq or Iran, are as strategic in their political motivations as they are the very essence of our notions of the noble empire and its ‘democracy’.”

‘Eddie’ (McKechnie) —  (August 5 2015)

Robert Mueller was assistant attorney general in the United States in 1991 when indictments were issued for the two Libyan suspects, Megrahi and Al-amin Khalifa Fimah. A young Mueller is explaining the importance of PT/35(b), a small fragment of a circuit timer that was allegedly found among the debris of Pan Am 103 near the town of Lockerbie. Today, we know that PT/35(b) is a forgery that was planted to blame Libya for the tragedy.

MSM commentators systematically describe Robert Mueller as a stellar and credible law enforcement figure. I find it hard to understand how a man who bungled major investigations — from Lockerbie to the 2001 Anthrax Attacks — is hailed for his impeccable character by much of Official Washington, Democrats and Republicans alike. All this mythological nonsense could hardly be further from the Truth. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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