“Numbers read on state radio may be cold war-era method of sending coded messages to spies in South Korea – or an attempt to wage psychological warfare.”
Last year (2016), North Korea reactivated its ‘numbers station’. And now, V15 transmits on FM! Follow us on Twitter: Intel_Today Continue reading
“The best way to think of Daphne Caruana Galizia is as a one-woman WikiLeaks, crusading against untransparency and corruption in Malta, an island nation famous for both. To John Dalli, a former European commissioner whom she helped bring down in a tobacco lobbying scandal, Galizia is a terrorist. To opposition MPs, she’s a political force of nature, one who fortunately has her guns aimed at the other side of the aisle. She single-handedly brought the government to the verge of collapse.”
Denise Nestor — POLITICO
Daphne Caruana Galizia — 26 August 1964 – 16 October 2017
VALLETTA – Daphne Caruana Galizia — Malta’s best-known investigative journalist — was killed on Monday (October 16 2017) when a powerful bomb blew up her car. Galizia was 53 and leaves a husband and three sons. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“But it’s worse than that. This training is also bad security policy, since the most dangerous and effective counterintelligence or terrorist threats are unlikely to telegraph their views openly. Those who are on the lookout for outspoken critics of U.S. foreign policy based on this training are likely to miss them entirely.”
Steven Aftergood — Secrecy expert at the Federation of American Scientists.
A new version of a computer-based cyber-security training course from the Pentagon is available online. This post was published on February 26 2017. Its popularity was certainly not expected.
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“The Islamic movement has now gotten to a point where they have put Europe into chaos. Chaos in the Netherlands. There are cars being burned, there are politicians that are being burned. And yes, there are no-go zones in the Netherlands.”
Pete Hoekstra — 2015
Pete Hoekstra and Donald Trump during the campaign
In an interview with a Dutch reporter, US Ambassador to the Netherlands Peter Hoekstra denied a comment he made in 2015 about the “Islamic movement,” calling it fake news. Then he denied his denial. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“I got a call from the President one afternoon back in April [2017]. He wanted to talk about some disturbing images that were coming in from Syria. I’m sure you saw many of them yourselves — scenes of innocent civilians writhing in agony, the apparent victims of a chemical weapons attack.”
CIA Director Mike Pompeo
“This perversion of principles – twisting information to fit a desired conclusion – became the modus vivendi of American politics and journalism. And those of us who insisted on defending the journalistic principles of skepticism and evenhandedness were increasingly shunned by our colleagues, a hostility that first emerged on the Right and among neoconservatives but eventually sucked in the progressive world as well. Everything became “information warfare.”
Robert Parry — Consortium News
CIA Director Mike Pompeo joined Face the Nation host John Dickerson to discuss the Trump administration’s policies towards North Korea, Iran, and Pakistan. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Multiple sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the CIA and FBI were discussing this episode, along with many others, as they assessed Flynn’s suitability to serve as national security adviser. The Cambridge meeting was part of a wider pattern of maverick behaviour which included repeated contacts with Russia.”
The Guardian
Svetlana Lokhova
Long before his nomination as Trump’s National Security Advisor, US and UK Intelligence officials were troubled by Lieutenant-General Michael Flynn’s relationship with a Russian woman.
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This post was published in April 2 2017. On December 1 2017, General Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI in January 2017. There was no charge regarding his contacts with Mrs Svetlana Lokhova.
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“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
Professor James Lin
Two months ago, 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’. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“My father worked for the CIA selling cocaine to finance the fight against Communism in Central America.”
Juan Pablo Escobar
“In a new book, Pablo Escobar’s son claims that his father worked for the CIA.” This post was published on February 24, 2017. I believe that it is rather obvious why this post attracted many readers. The dubious suicide of Gary Webb, the absolutely devastating evidence of the “Chiquita papers”, the obviously faked statistics on current cocaine production and the now documented false accusation against Pablo Escobar regarding the AVIANCA Flight 203 tragedy can only leave people with the feeling that “the true story” has not been told yet. Few people knew — before reading this post — that the US DIA once regarded the former president of Colombia as a narco-terrorist. And saddly, even fewer seem to remember that the current Colombian president was the defense minister at the time of the ‘Falsos Positivos’ scandal.
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“The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.”
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)
The report, released Friday (January 6 2017), outlines how Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed to hurt Hillary Clinton and help President-elect Donald Trump by using by “an influence campaign” which included hacking Democratic groups and figures. The ’25-page’ Intel Report per se is in fact 5 pages long and the document contains 7 pages of information related to the 2012 US election! Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today
“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.”
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, is embarking on a new program, called RadioBio, to determine whether cells are able to exchange information with EM signals and, if so, what the cells are saying and how they do it. This new initiative seems very close to the once TOP-SECRET “PANDORA Project”.
UPDATE January 7 2017 — This post was published on february 22 2017. At first, few people were interested. So, why did this post become so popular later on?
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