One Year Ago — Meet Trump’s New Iran Man : CIA Michael D’Andrea

Posted on June 4, 2018 by L

“Michael D’Andrea has been revealed to be the Chief of the CIA’s Counter Terrorism Center for the last many years. He replaced Robert L. Grenier as head of CTC in 2006. He is well known as the originator of the CIA’s ‘Signature Strike’ drone operations around the world. He is depicted in the film — Zero Dark Thirty — as The Wolf.”

Cryptocomb — April 17 2014

“A formidable adversary for the Iranians, therefore – as well as the Syrians – but it’s very odd we haven’t heard any more about him [Michael D’Andrea] for all these months. Isn’t he taking a serious interest in the latest events in Iran? Surely he is. That’s his job, isn’t it? But why this silence? Are we unable to connect any threads here? Is there perhaps, maybe, by chance alone, nudge-is-as-good-as-a-wink, some link between the “intelligence services” about whom poor old Khamenei waffles in Tehran and the “intelligence services” run by Michael D’Andrea, the man who must start “carrying out President Trump’s views”? I’m not at all sure that “the world is watching”. But it should be.”

Robert Fisk (January 2018)

Michael D’Andrea was the basis for a character known as “The Wolf” — played by Fredric Lehne — in the movie “Zero Dark Thirty”.

Michael D’Andrea, akso known as the Dark Prince or Ayatollah Mike, oversaw the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the American drone strike campaign. But from now on, the very controversial CIA officer will be running the C.I.A.’s Iran operations. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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CIA Recruiting ‘AN US’ — Russian Speaking — Citizen [Humor]

Posted on June 4, 2018 by L

“Are you an US citizen with a college degree?
Seriously CIA?”

Sujai Shukla @sujaishukla

“Seriously?? I think your first order of business should be to hire a proofreader. You made yourselves look like fools. Are you still concerned with the Russians? You have bigger problems than Russians. I find you so amusing, I have for over 25 years.”

FUKTWYTTER @Yousucktwytter

“Can I work part-time ? I’m working for [Russia] FSB currently but have some free time for CIA too.”

Aлкаш Татарстана  @tat_alkash

The CIA — also known as the CYA (Cover your Ass) — is recruiting AN US CITIZEN. Think twice before you take this job! Then again, it may be a Freudian slip? That kind of thing happens when the new boss has spent too much time force-feeding prisoners through the wrong end of their pipe.

On the other hand, if the Agency is really looking to hire a new bunch of [REDACTED], feel free to send them — — your own recommendations. Follow us on twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Zbigniew Brzezinski: “An exceptional failure all round.”

Posted on June 3, 2018 by L

“This will require a review of our policy toward Pakistan, more guarantees to it, and, alas, a decision that our security policy toward Pakistan cannot be dictated by our nonproliferation policy.”

Zbigniew Brzezinski — Letter to US President Jimmy Carter (December 26, 1979)

“Zbigniew Brzezinski should have paid more attention to Newton’s Third Law of Diplomacy: If you push countries around, they will push back. An exceptional failure all round.”

Patrick Armstrong — Former analyst in the Canadian Department of National Defence

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski — a US policy adviser and academic born on March 28 1928 — died on May 26 2017. Patrick Armstrong — a former analyst in the Canadian Department of National Defence specializing in the USSR/Russia — just posted a realist analysis of his legacy. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Animal Spies & Warriors — WWII : British Hawks vs Nazi Pigeons

Posted on June 3, 2018 by L

“But the sad truth is that the only pigeons they [the MI5 British hawks] managed to kill were British ones because hawks don’t have a friend or foe identification system. An MI5 report at the end of the war noted that the hawks did not bring down a single enemy bird, probably because there never were any.”

The Telegraph (May 31 2018)

“There is scarcely a book of mine that didn’t have ‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ at some time or another as its working title. Its origin is easily explained. I was in my mid-teens when my father decided to take me on one of his gambling sprees to Monte Carlo.

Close to the old casino stood the sporting club, and at its base lay a stretch of lawn and a shooting range looking out to sea. Under the lawn ran small, parallel tunnels that led in a row to the sea’s edge. Into them were inserted live pigeons that had been hatched and trapped on the casino roof.

Their job was to further their way along the pitch-dark tunnel until they emerged in the Mediterranean sky as targets for well-hunched sporting gentlemen who were standing or lying in wait with their shotguns. Pigeons who were missed or merely winged then did what pigeons do. They returned to the place of their birth on the casino roof, where the same traps awaited them.

Quite why this image has haunted me for so long is something the reader is perhaps better able to judge than I am.”

John Le Carré — The Pigeon Tunnel (January 2016)

This is the story of the ‘Battle of England’ you never heard of. During WWII, the Director-General of MI5 approved the creation of a falconry unit to ‘search and destroy’ Nazi pigeons. Once again, the operation was hardly a success.

The British hawks did not bring down a single enemy bird. Maybe, the spooks were watching for the wrong birds. Perhaps, they should have asked for the help of a professional bird-watcher: James Bond. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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UK — Is the Father of the Manchester Bomber a MI6 Asset? (UPDATE: Blair hints there is more to the story)

Posted on June 2, 2018 by L

“The revelation that the British government likely had contacts with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and the 17 February Martyrs Brigade during the 2011 war in Libya – groups for which the 2017 Manchester bomber and his father reportedly fought at that time – raises fundamental questions about the UK’s links to terrorism. Indeed, a strong case can be made for a devastating conclusion: that the UK is itself a de facto part of the terrorist infrastructure that poses a threat to the British public.”

Mark Curtis — Historian and analyst of UK foreign policy

“The Libyan Fighting Group (…) has been recruiting Libyan and Muslim youth in the UK and Europe and sending them to Libya and other countries to deliver terrorism and death. The previous British government has been pressuring in every way possible the prevalence of these groups and their control of Libya.”

General Khalifa Haftar –Tobruk-led Libyan Government

Astonishingly, despite suspicions that he was a high-level al-Qaeda operative, al-Liby was given political asylum in Britain and lived in Manchester until May of 2000 when he eluded a police raid on his house and fled abroad. The raid discovered a 180-page al-Qaeda ‘manual for jihad’ containing instructions for terrorist attacks.”

The Guardian (November 2002)

“To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as “random” acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public—in whose name the intelligence agency acted—are unaware of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them.”

Chalmers Johnson — The Nation (September 2001)

Ramadan Abedi — The Manchester bomber’s father fought against Gaddafi regime with the LIFG terrorist group

Is Ramadan Abedi — the father of Salman Abedi aka the Manchester Arena bomber — a MI6 asset? Specifically, is he the Libyan person known to MI6 as ‘Tunworth’ to whom they once paid large amounts of money to assassinate Gaddafi in 1996? Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Wikipedia & the Spooks — The Remake? [Update : ‘Philip Cross’ Identified?]

Posted on June 2, 2018 by L

“This story is demented and broken on so many levels, it is quite difficult to know where to begin, even. Here we have an excellent Wikipedia administrator [‘SlimVirgin’ aka Linda Mack] who has been victimized by lunatic conspiracy theorists, a private person who has absolutely no relation to the wild stories that this article promulgates. Slashdot, you have been trolled.”

Jimmy Wales — Wikipedia co-founder (July 26 2007)

“I cannot confirm that the traffic you cite came from agency computers.”

CIA Spokesperson (15/08/2007)

“The strange thing about this story is that this was proven to be true. And there was no denying it. Then later on, a few people started to deny it and claim that it was merely a rumor. Wikipedia has no excuse to hide this.”

Anonymous [Wikipedia user Blissyu2]

“Participants in the discussion were able to prove from the records of Wikipedia that certain administrators, contrary to their own rules, had completely removed editing evidence. Jimmy Wales had to admit that yes, this is sometimes done.”

Computerra Magazine

Someone going by the name “Philip Cross”  has not had one single day off from editing Wikipedia in almost five years. According to former UK ambassador Craig Murray, “Philip Cross” has edited every single day from 29 August 2013 to 14 May 2018. Including five Christmas Days. That’s 1,721 consecutive days of editing. 133,612 edits to Wikipedia have been made in the name of “Philip Cross” over 14 years!

I trust that Craig Murray, George Galloway and others will identify the person or, as it is more likely, the organization that hides beyond that name. In this post, I will just offer them a few words of advice. Indeed, I played a key role in a similar story 10 years ago.

In July 2007, I concluded that a person — using the ‘SlimVirgin’ pseudonym — was editing sensitive information on Wikipedia. ‘SlimVirgin’ real name was Linda Mack, a person who had been strongly suspected of being an agent or an informant of a Western Intelligence Agency.

Two weeks later, I provided incontrovertible evidence that several Intel Agencies, including the CIA, had indeed edited ‘Intelligence related’ information on Wikipedia.

In an interview with George Galloway (Watch video at the end of this post), journalist Neil Clark explains that ‘SlimVirgin’ is back and teaming up with ‘Philip Cross’. That is subtle or what? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Phone transcripts between Blair and Gaddafi (25 February 2011)

Posted on June 1, 2018 by L

“The evidence that the Committee has taken so far in this inquiry suggests that western policy makers were rather less perceptive than Gaddafi about the risks of intervention for both the Libyan people and the western interests.”

Crispin Blunt MP — Chair of the Committee

May 31 2017 — The Foreign Affairs Committee has published the transcripts of two telephone conversations between Tony Blair and Colonel Gaddafi which took place on 25 February 2011. In the aftermath of the Manchester bombing, these documents are worth reading once more. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Fake News & Disinformation — Ukraine Condemned for Faking Arkady Babchenko’s Murder

Posted on June 1, 2018 by L

“Reporters Without Borders expresses its sharp indignation on learning of the Ukrainian secret service’s manipulation carried out as part of an information war. It is always very dangerous for states to play with facts and especially on the backs of journalists.”

Christophe Deloire — Head of ‘Reporters Without Borders’

“Next time a journalist is killed in Ukraine (and, unfortunately, it seems certain that there will be a next time), even the least cynical observers, the kinds of people who wept all night over Babchenko’s supposed death, will likely wonder whether they should believe in a tragic death until they’ve inspected the corpse themselves. Conspiracy theories thrive on this kind of corrosive scepticism. Some Ukrainian commentators have been crowing that no one will be able to smear the Ukrainian security services after this brilliant victory. In fact, the Ukrainian authorities have done a magnificent job of smearing themselves.”

Sophie Pinkham — Author of Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine

“I would have thought it was impossible to come up with a “frame Putin” story more implausible than the Skripals. But Christ, have they managed it with Babchenko fake death!”

Former UK Ambassador Craig Murray

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (left) met Arkady Babchenko at the News Conference

May 31 2018 — Ukrainian authorities are being sharply criticised for faking the murder of a Russian dissident journalist in Kiev.  This irresponsible stunt has totally undermined Ukraine’s credibility. The hoax is an insult to the memory of all great journalists who were assassinated. By engaging in a disinformation war, the Ukrainian authorities have gravely and irreversibly harmed the credibility of information. How will the public react next time a journalist is reported murdered? Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Egypt — Who Tortured Giulio Regeni to Death? And Why?

Posted on May 31, 2018 by L

“On 7 January 2016, just a month after the union meeting, Mohamed Abdallah denounced Regeni to the authorities (…) because his questions were not about street vendors … and had other intentions. The Egyptian government placed Regeni under investigation, but decided after a few days that his research was of no interest to National Security.”

The Guardian (October 4 2016)

“What also has become clear is that Giulio had for months attracted the attention of Egypt’s state apparatus, which continued in an increasingly pressing way until 25 January.”

Rome prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone (January 25 2018)

giulio-regeni

Giulio Regeni

The death of this young man shocked and outraged Italians. Giulio Regeni was an Italian student who went missing in Cairo after speaking to trade union and opposition activists. His mutilated body was later found on the side of the road. He appeared to have been horribly tortured. Why was he murdered? Why a botched investigation? Was he a spy? For whom? Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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Fake News & Disinformation — Murdered Kremlin Critic Feeling Good

Posted on May 30, 2018 by L

“I can understand perfectly how the report of my illness got about, I have even heard on good authority that I was dead. James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.”

Mark Twain — Letter (May 31 1897)

“I am confident that the Russian totalitarian machine did not forgive him [Arkady Babchenko] his honesty and principled stance.”

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman

May 30 2018 — Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko, who was reported to have been shot dead, has appeared reasonably alive at a news conference today. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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