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One Year Ago — CIA Releases Controversial “Bay of Pigs” History

Posted on November 1, 2017 by L

“After more than twenty years, it appears that fear of exposing the Agency’s dirty linen, rather than any significant security information, is what prompts continued denial of requests for release of these records. Although this volume may do nothing to modify that position, hopefully it does put one of the nastiest internal power struggles into proper perspective for the Agency’s own record.”

Tom Blanton — National Security Archive Director

Washington, D.C. October 31, 2016 – The CIA today released the long-contested Volume V of its official history of the Bay of Pigs invasion, which it had successfully concealed until now by claiming that it was a “draft” and could be withheld from the public under the FOIA’s “deliberative process” privilege. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Trump Adviser George Papadopoulos Pleads Guilty — Who Is “The Professor”?

Posted on October 31, 2017 by L

“One obvious question for ‘the professor’ is why he told the [Washington] Post he had ‘absolutely’ no contacts with Russian officials when on-line material suggests he has.”

Mother Jones — October 30 2017

“Let me tell you, you take on the [US] Intelligence Community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, Trump is being really dumb to do this.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — January 3 2017

Professor Mifsud (second from the right) and Alexey Klishin (center)

George Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty. Will he help bring down more Trump Administration officials? Trump himself? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

Posted in Trump-Russia Investigation, Uncategorized | Tagged George Papadopoulos, Joseph Mifsud, Trump-Russia Investigation | 1 Comment

Suspicious Aviation Tragedies — Overview

Posted on October 31, 2017 by L

“Governments lie. They do it all the time. And, much as we’d like to believe otherwise, the US government is no exception. There were times when we may have believed otherwise. But after Vietnam and Watergate, we know better.”

Ted Koppel, “The USS Vincennes: Public War, Secret War.” — July 1, 1992, ABC News

Pan Am 103 — Lockerbie — 21 December 1988

The tragedies of Malaysian Airlines Flights MH-370 and MH-17 have been the source of much speculation. This is not a new phenomenon, even if the Internet makes it easier for the information – correct or false – to quickly spread over cyberspace. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

Posted in Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 (USTICA), Avianca Flight 203, Aviation Disasters, Cuban Flight 455, Iran Flight 655, Korean Airlines Flight 007, Lockerbie, Swissair 330, UTA Flight 772 | Tagged Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 (USTICA), Arrow Air Flight 1285, Avianca Flight 203, Cubana de Aviacion Flight 455, Iran Flight 655, Korean Airlines Flight 007, Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash, Pan Am 103 (Lockerbie), Suspicious Aviation Tragedies, Swissair Flight 330, UTA Flight 772 | Leave a comment

Former CIA Director Wanted $10 million to blame Gulen for Turkey Coup

Posted on October 30, 2017 by L

“Ambassador Woolsey and his wife have been in communication with the FBI regarding the Sept. 19, 2016 meeting Ambassador Woolsey was invited to attend by one of Gen. Flynn’s business partners. Ambassador Woolsey and his wife have responded to every request, whether from the FBI, or, more recently, the Office of the Special Counsel.”

Woolsey spokesman Jonathan Franks

Former CIA director James Woolsey

Former CIA director James Woolsey pitched a $10 million contract to two Turkish businessmen to help discredit a controversial U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gülen. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

Posted in CIA, Fethullah Gülen, James Woolsey, Michael Flynn | Tagged CIA Director James Woolsey, Fetulhah Gulen, General Mike Flynn | Leave a comment

One Year Ago — Lockerbie : Key Witness Is Dead

Posted on October 29, 2017 by L

“I personally hope that Tony is in a better place and that he is now at peace because he must have led a tortured life knowing that he had jailed an innocent man for money.”

George Thomson — Lockerbie Investigator

Tony Gauci, the Maltese man who determined the outcome of the Lockerbie trial, has died, Times of Malta is informed.

Tony Gauci (6 April 1944 – 29 October 2016) was one of the many proprietors of Mary’s House, a clothes shop in Tower Road, Sliema, Malta. Gauci was the most important witness in the Lockerbie trial.

In 2008 the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC Ref 23:19) found that US$2 million had been paid to Tony Gauci and US$1 million to Paul Gauci under the US Department of Justice “Rewards for Justice” programme.

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The Los Alamos Primer — The Bethe – Feynman Equation [Nukes & Secrecy]

Posted on October 29, 2017 by L

“I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. (…) I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth. (…) I would see people building a bridge, or they’d be making a new road, and I thought, they’re crazy, they just don’t understand, they don’t understand. Why are they making new things? It’s so useless.”

Richard Feynman

The Bethe – Feynman formula is a physics equation used to estimate the efficiency of an atomic weapon. This equation is widely misunderstood and surrounded by an aura of mysticism. In this post, I will thus take the time to explain how to obtain this formula from elementary ‘undergraduate’ physics. This approach is not discussed by Serber in his Los Alamos primer and, apparently, remains ‘classified’ to this day. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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UN REPORT — External Attack Probably Caused Dag Hammarskjold’s Plane to Crash

Posted on October 28, 2017 by L

“There is a significant amount of evidence from eyewitnesses that they observed more than one aircraft in the air, that the other aircraft may have been a jet, that SE-BDY was on fire before it crashed, and/or that SE-BDY was fired upon or otherwise actively engaged by another aircraft. In its totality, this evidence is not easily dismissed.”

Judge Mohamed Chande Othman — UN Report

“The finding by Judge Mohamed Chande Othman, a senior Tanzanian jurist who was asked by the United Nations to review both old and newly uncovered evidence, gave weight to a longstanding suspicion that Mr. Hammarskjold may have been assassinated.”

New York Times — October 25 2017

25 October 2017 – A new United Nations-mandated report has found it “appears plausible” that an external attack or threat may have led to the fatal plane crash that killed former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

Posted in Dag Hammarskjöld | Tagged CIA, Dag Hammarskjöld | 4 Comments

Belgium — Operation GLADIO & the “Crazy Killers Gang”

Posted on October 27, 2017 by L

“It has become clear to me that a series of investigative strategies had not yielded any satisfactory results, that there have been attempts to manipulate the investigation, while the victims and their relatives have made me understand that they have not been sufficiently heard in the past. It is possible that the killings of Walloon Brabant also targeted the state.”

Koen Geens — Belgian justice minister (October 24 2017)

“I understand that questions arise. And society — especially the victims and their families — is entitled to obtain answers. But I find it too easy to establish links with the way the police forces function today.”

Jan Jambon — Security and Interior Deputy Prime Minister (October 24 2017)

The deathbed confession of a former policeman could end a series of unresolved murder cases which have baffled Belgian police for decades. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

Posted in Operation Gladio | Tagged Belgium, Christiaan Bonkoffsky, Crazy Killers Gang, Jan Jambon, Koen Geens, Operation Gladio | Leave a comment

IRAN — Belgium University Professor Death Sentenced

Posted on October 26, 2017 by L

“A scientist performing important humanitarian work has been sentenced without public trial and is looking at the death penalty. This is an outrageous violation of universal human rights, against which we should react decisively.”

Rector Caroline Pauwels — VUB [Vrije Universiteit Brussel]

“I have never acted against my country, I have never spied for Israel or any other country. My only fault is that I did not accept to use the trust of my colleagues and universities in EU to spy for Iran’s intelligence services.”

Professor Ahmadreza Djalali

Professor Ahmadreza Djalali

Professor Djalali was convicted of espionage following a trial led by Abolqasem Salavati, a judge in Iran’s revolutionary court, and sentenced to death on October 21 2017. Djalali has 20 days to appeal against the sentence. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Former CIA Jeffrey Sterling : News Conference (VIDEO)

Posted on October 25, 2017 by L

“The Jeffrey Sterling Case is an absolute travesty of Justice.”

Thomas Drake — Former senior executive at the National Security Agency

“The Obama administration has presided over the most draconian crackdown on National Security and Intelligence whistle-blowers in US History.”

Jesselyn Radack –Head of the Whistleblower and Source Protection Program (WHISPeR) at ExposeFacts.

Jeffrey Alexander Sterling is an American lawyer and former CIA employee who was arrested, charged, and convicted of violating the Espionage Act for revealing details about Operation Merlin to journalist James Risen.

In May 2015, Sterling was sentenced to 3½ years in prison and thus set for release in 2018. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

Posted in CIA, Jeffrey Sterling, Ray McGovern | Tagged Delphine Halgand, GOSINT, Jeffrey Stirling, Jesselyn Radack, Ray McGovern, Thomas Drake | Leave a comment