“The imam did, in fact, stay in Belgium, but he was not known to the judicial authorities.”
Thierry Werts — Spokesman of the Office of the Public Prosecutor
According to the Belgium’s Office of the Public Prosecutor, there is no link between Imam Abdelbaki Es Satty and the attacks perpetrated on 22 March 2016, in Brussels. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Mr Anderson’s report demonstrates how the bulk powers contained in the Investigatory Powers Bill are of crucial importance to our security and intelligence agencies. These powers often provide the only means by which our agencies are able to protect the British public from the most serious threats that we face.”
Prime Minister Theresa May
“The UK now has a surveillance law that is more suited to a dictatorship than a democracy. The state has unprecedented powers to monitor and analyse UK citizens’ communications regardless of whether we are suspected of any criminal activity.”
Jim Killock — Executive director of Open Rights Group
David Anderson Q.C. — Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation–has just published the : “REPORT OF THE BULK POWERS REVIEW”. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“Do You Really Need More Information? The US Intelligence Community invests heavily in improved intelligence collection systems while managers of analysis lament the comparatively small sums devoted to enhancing analytical resources, improving analytical methods, or gaining better understanding of the cognitive processes involved in making analytical judgments.”
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis — Richards J. Heuer
Richards J. Heuer
Accurate intelligence judgments do not solely rely on the abundance and accuracy of the information. Indeed it has long been known that rigorous analysis of the information is at least as important as the gathered material in order to reach accurate intelligence estimates. Follow us on Twitter:@INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“I have developed much too thick a skin to be surprised, let alone upset, by people telling me how that great CIA tells us the truth. If an organisation accustomed to lying tells you it is telling the truth, where does that leave you?”
Dr Jim Swire — Father of Flora (1965 – December 21 1988)
Letter to INTEL TODAY
The story of the — partial — KRYPTOS decoding by CIA David Stein is very beautiful and inspiring. But is it a true story or a fairy tale? It is my opinion that this narrative can simply not be trusted for multiple reasons. Allow me to explain why. The reader will draw his/her own conclusions. PS: This post will soon be updated to explain carefully several technical points. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“So the accomplishments of FAREWELL, in summary, are enormous. It was a major — major — accelerator to the end of the Cold War. (…) It was a critical and heroic accomplishment by President Mitterrand and his government, whatever the intentions may have been at the time…”
Richard V. Allen — President Ronald Reagan’s Former National Security Advisor
On July 19 1981 President Ronald Reagan met with French President Francois Mitterrand in Ottawa, Ontario at an economic summit. Mitterrand informed Reagan about the “Farewell Dossier”.
“Farewell” was the codename of Vladimir Vetrov, a KGB officer who delivered to France in the early 80s, over the course of less than a year, approximately 4,000 documents related to the systematic theft of Western technology by the USSR. This gathered intelligence opened the door to “Star Wars,” forcing the USSR to transition to perestroika and give up its last stronghold, Berlin. With the end of the Cold War, a new era began: the era of globalization. Is there a link between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the information disclosed by Farewell? In a rare testimony, Richard V. Allen discusses — from a historical perspective — the main points of the FAREWELL operation. Allen also analyses its indirect geopolitical consequences on the end of the Cold War. Follow us on Twitter:@INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Then Baghdadi asked each commander to bring in some of his fighters. Abu al-Atheer, the MSM commander, invited Belgian, Dutch, and French fighters who were under his command to the occasion.”
Foreign Policy — August 16 2016
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Three Belgian citizens — all from the city of Vilvorde — attended the April 2013 meeting during which ISIS was created. According to Belgian Newspapers — quoting the mayor of Vilvorde — these individuals were known as radical elements since 2012. The mayor said that one is dead and a second is rumored to be dead. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“The scandal reaches new proportions when spies sign up informers in the finance administration, in order to spy on successful NRW [North Rhine-Westphalia ] tax investigators and play into the hands of people who make billions in profit at the expense of society. It’s hard to believe that such a spy thriller took place not on the screen but on our own doorstep.”
NRW Finance Minister Norbert Walter-Borjans
On Tuesday (June 27 2017), a German court rejected a request to release Daniel M. — a Swiss man being held on suspicion of spying. The alleged Swiss spy was arrested in a Frankfurt hotel on May 5 2017 . He is suspected of monitoring German tax investigators. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“While the court must limit its analysis to the four corners of the complaint, the skeptical reader may wish to know that the public record supports many of the allegations [in the family’s suit], farfetched as they may sound.”
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg — Frank Olson Case
‘StrangerThings’
The Guardian just published the plot of season one of ‘Stranger Things’. Sometimes reality is truly stranger than fiction. The story of the CIA program MK-ULTRA is definitely one of these truly bizarre episodes of the cold war. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“Watching Michael Morell respond to those softball pitches from Charlie Rose on Monday, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that glibness, vacuousness and ambition can get you to the very top of U.S. intelligence in the Twenty-first Century – and can also make you a devoted fan of whoever is likely to be the next President. (…) Looking back at his record, it was not hard to see all this coming, as Morell rose higher and higher in a system that rewards deserving sycophants.”
Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern
In a recent post, INTEL TODAY brought to your attention the fact that former acting CIA Director Michael Morell wanted to kill Russians and Iranians in Syria. This comment did not go unnoticed. A few former CIA analysts reacted, starting in the process a chain of events still unfolding to this day. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The increasing surveillance capabilities on journalists is a clear threat to media freedom. This draft law runs counter to the very core of fundamental freedoms such as media freedom and freedom of expression.”
Dunja Mijatovic — OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
The draft law makes distinctions between journalists from EU countries and journalists from non-EU countries.Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
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