“Do I look like I give a damn?”
James Bond — Casino Royale (2006)
“Shaken, not stirred” is a catchphrase of Ian Fleming’s fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond and describes his preference for the preparation of his martini cocktails. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“For over thirty years, FBI experts testified about comparative bullet lead analysis (CBLA), a technique that was first used in the investigation into President Kennedy’s assassination. CBLA compares trace chemicals found in bullets at crime scenes with ammunition found in the possession of a suspect. (…) Although the FBI eventually ceased using CBLA, the Bureau’s conduct in first employing the technique and then defending it after it was challenged provides an insight into how forensic science sometimes works.”
Paul C. Giannelli
“Yet nearly a decade after the National Academy of Sciences report, little new work has been done to establish whether bloodstain-pattern analysis is actually a reliable forensic discipline. Few peer-reviewed studies exist, and research that might determine the accuracy of analysts’ findings is close to nonexistent. Meanwhile, experts with limited training continue to testify.”
Pamela Colloff
Forensic science used in criminal trials can be surprisingly unscientific. Maybe a new television procedural could help change the public perception. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“In some ways, I do think [leaking has] accelerated. I think there is a phenomenon, the worship of Edward Snowden, and those who steal American secrets for the purpose of self-aggrandizement or money or for whatever their motivation may be, does seem to be on the increase.”
CIA Director Mike Pompeo — June 24 2017
June 29 2017 — Mike Pompeo, the director of the CIA, blames the “worship” of leakers such as Edward Snowden for a rise in the public disclosure of US intelligence. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Today, the Iranian Quds Force conducts covert assassination operations in the heart of Europe.”
Mike Pompeo — US Secretary of State (May 21 2018)
“It’s unlikely to be true. There is no evidence to back the claim that currently they are carrying out such operations in Europe.”
Iraj Mesdaghi — Sweden-based Iranian political activist
Mohammad Reza Kolahi Samadi
Mike Pompeo’s claim that the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is carrying out “assassination operations in the heart of Europe” [See video below at the 9:28 mark] has bewildered security experts and Iranian exiles, who are unaware of any evidence. Of course, Pompeo could be lying as he did repeatedly when he was CIA Director. But, in this case, we do not even know what story he has been spinning? Explanation. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“Of course, I still care about this appalling miscarriage of justice [Lockerbie]. My view is that Bollier was a CIA agent. That is still my view based on my personal experience.”
Paul Harris — Email to Intel Today (November 16 2017)
Paul Harris alongside the Radio North Sea International (1971)
Paul Anthony Harris was born on July 22 1948 at Bexleyheath in Kent. He died on May 24 2018. Paul Harris has been the co-founder of a pirate radio station, a journalist, a writer and a publisher.
Harris reported not only from the Balkan conflict, but from war zones in Asia and Africa, filing stories from more than 50 countries. He also worked as an analyst on global insurgency and terrorism for Jane’s Intelligence Review. He was awarded the David Blundy Award certificate for work in Croatia and Bosnia at the 1992 British Press Awards.
He was also a former MI6 agent. And therefore, not surprisingly, Harris had a keen life-long interest in the Lockerbie Affair. He was convinced that this case was a spectacular miscarriage of justice. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was ‘civis romanus sum’. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’ … All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!'”
U.S. President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin — June 26 1963
Kennedy’s ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech was watched by West Berliners
The speech is considered one of Kennedy’s best, both a notable moment of the Cold War and a high point of the New Frontier. It was a great morale boost for West Berliners, who lived in an enclave deep inside East Germany and feared a possible East German occupation. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The United States Government is as unscrupulous as it has accused the Soviet Government of being. Our main dissatisfaction concerned some of the practices the United States uses in gathering intelligence information … deliberately violating the airspace of other nations … intercepting and deciphering the secret communications of its own allies … Perhaps United States hostility towards Communism arises out of a feeling of insecurity engendered by Communist achievements in science, culture and industry.”
William H. Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell — The first NSA whistleblowers
NSA defectors William H. Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell at the Moscow press conference announcing their defection, July 1, 1960.
The National Security Agency faced a terrible crisis in the summer of 1960 when two cryptologists disappeared on vacation. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that’s why we’re called private individuals.”
Glenn Greenwald
“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
Edward Snowden
“The NSA is correct, 1984 is now.” ― Michael Gurnow, The Edward Snowden Affair: Exposing the Politics and Media Behind the NSA Scandal
In 2011, the National Security Agency wanted to ban the sale of T-shirts and mugs that parody the Agency as “the only part of government that actually listens.” Eventually, the NSA was forced to admit that such parody merchandise does not violate any laws. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“The legislation ultimately will harm, not help, our national security interests (…) If left to stand, it will curtail legitimate journalistic scrutiny of a particularly important and sensitive area of government, creating the possibility that wrongdoing or wrong-headedness could flourish in that area, unchecked by public awareness.”
Sen. Joseph R. Biden (D) of Delaware — Member of the US Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence (April 6, 1982)
June 23 1982 — President Reagan tells a good Irish joke before signing the IIPA at the CIA Headquarters
On June 23 1982, President Reagan visited the CIA Headquarters for the signing of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Whether or not a microwave weapon was the culprit, this stealth technique may be a weapon of the future. I would not be surprised if some military establishment around the world invests or has already been engaged in such a program.”
Professor James Lin — UIC
“My gut is that this has been going on for a while. The NSA has revealed to me in an unclassified setting that a foreign power has used a microwave weapon against people.”
Mark Zaid — Washington DC attorney with a practice focus on national security law
Professor James Lin
In October 2017, I suggested than a microwave weapon — and not sonic attacks — may be the cause of the “Havana syndrome”. Professor James Lin just published a paper on the possibility that the Havana syndrome might indeed be explained by a secret microwave weapon. Professor Lin has kindly agreed to review the known facts about this case and compare them to our current knowledge of ‘microwave weapons’.
Update (June 22 2018) — Mark Zaid, a US lawyer who specializes in national security cases, has been hired by eight of the victims. Zaid believes that these US diplomats have been injured by microwave weapons. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
