One Year Ago — CIA’s Strategy in the Face of Emerging Challenges

Posted on July 25, 2017 by L

“Whether in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, or Latin America, the United States faces security threats on a number of fronts and by an array of actors, including extremist networks, rogue states, and emerging powers. The Central Intelligence Agency is charged with understanding these ongoing security challenges to the United States while also identifying emerging issues that will affect the nation’s security in the future.”

Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence

John Brennan

On July 13 2016, the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence hosted the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John O. Brennan for an address on the emerging threats facing the United States and the CIA’s strategy for meeting those challenges. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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CANADA — Statement from CSIS Director on Allegations of Harassment

Posted on July 24, 2017 by L

“These are all exceptional employees of CSIS. They’re the people that we need on the ground dealing with national security issues, representing minority populations that are so important. And it’s a catastrophe for Canadians that we aren’t able to keep these people in place.”

John Phillips — Lawyer

David Vigneault

Five employees of Canada’s spy service have launched a C$35m lawsuit against their employer, seeking damages after years of alleged bullying in a workplace. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — James Jesus Angleton: Beneath the Lie of “National Interests”

Posted on July 24, 2017 by L

“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.”

James Jesus Angleton

“Was Angleton ever invited to address the only logical conclusion to his thesis, before alcohol and a last overdose of madness got the better of him – namely to close down the entire Western intelligence apparatus before the Russians led us over the cliff? I doubt it.”

John Le Carré — The Pigeon Tunnel

James Jesus Angleton

Paul Craig Roberts just told an amazing anecdote. James Jesus Angleton, head of CIA counterintelligence for three decades, once explained to him that “Intelligence Agencies create stories inside stories, each with its carefully constructed trail of evidence, in order to create false trails as diversions.”

In his Memoir “The Pigeon Tunnel”, John le Carré (AKA David Cornwell) describes James Jesus Angleton as a “delusional alcoholic”. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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The KRYPTOS Sculpture — An Introduction

Posted on July 23, 2017 by L

“Maybe you’re mistaken–maybe this first part of the Kryptos code is really not a polyalphabetic Vigenere Tableau after all–maybe it’s a different type of code entirely. Or maybe it is a Vigenere code, but it’s been double or triple encoded–or maybe it was encoded backwards or maybe ….”

David Stein — CIA analyst (Directorate of Intelligence)

Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. Of the four parts of the message, the first three have been solved. The last part of the message remains as one of the most famous unsolved code in the world. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Radio Pyongyang Resurrects “NUMBERS STATION”

Posted on July 23, 2017 by L

“It is one thing for North Korea to have a missile that could harm the United States and another for it to have an arsenal of such weapons. Things could be done to narrow its capacity to develop a stockpile. I am hopeful that we will find a way to separate that regime from its nuclear capabilities.”

CIA Director Mike Pompeo — July 2017 ASPEN SECURITY FORUM

The broadcast on July 15 2016 was the first number sequence aired by Pyongyang in over 16 years. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Ex CIA Robert Levinson — “Fox News Fake News”

Posted on July 22, 2017 by L

“After ten years, Bob is still not home, and despite repeated promises, Iran has yet to cooperate in any meaningful way. Iran is responsible — if Iranian officials don’t have Bob, they know where to find him. Bob’s return is an urgent humanitarian issue.”

US Lawmakers Letter to President Trump — July 11 2017

“Well, there hasn’t been progress in the sense that we don’t have him (Levinson) back. But to suggest that we’ve abandoned him or anybody has abandoned him is simply incorrect and not helpful. The fact is that I have personally raised the issue, not only at the highest level that I have been involved with, but also through other intermediaries.”

US Secretary of State John Kerry — December 15, 2013

Levinson is pictured with his daughters in 2006, about seven months before his kidnapping.

On Tuesday (July 11 2017), a delegation of lawmakers — led by U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. — penned a letter to Trump, calling on the administration to “re-engage” with Iran over Levinson, a Florida native who was last seen in 2007 on Iran’s Kish Island. Fox News reports that Levinson was working as a private investigator. This is simply not factual as it is known that he was working for the CIA, despite numerous denials by the US Government.

On January 21, 2014, in an interview with CNN, Levinson’s family disclosed that they had known for some time that he was working for the CIA. They accused the US government of failing to do enough to find Levinson. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Former US Secretary chief of staff: “The CIA knew about the coming coup.”

Posted on July 22, 2017 by L

“Just think a moment about what is happening right now.  In 25 years, your children and grandchildren will read [about this coup], as now people read about the 1953 overthrow of Prime Minister of Iran Mohammed Mossadegh. Does it not seem to you at some point that this can happen in Caracas and Kiev, or actually in Ankara, Damascus and Baghdad?”

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson — Chief of staff of  US Secretary of State Colin Powell

Lawrence Wilkerson believes that the CIA played a role in the attempt of a military coup in Turkey. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Aspen Security Forum 2017 — CIA Director Mike Pompeo Full Interview

Posted on July 21, 2017 by L

“WikiLeaks wants to take down America and will work with anyone to do so. We now need to understand that threats come from different sources like them.”

CIA Director Mike Pompeo

CIA director Mike Pompeo spoke in a wide-ranging conversation at the Aspen Security Forum, an annual gathering of intelligence and national security officials and experts in Aspen, Colorado. Bret Stephens, columnist for The New York Times, moderated the discussion. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Former CIA Valerie Plame – Wilson’s Long Fight to Publish Memoir

Posted on July 21, 2017 by L

“It was a long journey – personally and professionally. At some times, it felt like I had fallen down Alice’s rabbit hole, where white is black and black is white. Very disorienting. The idea of the memoir was quite selfish – to take stock of the whirlwind my husband and I had just been through and to finally use my voice.”

Former CIA NOC Valerie Plame Wilson

“The concern is that publication of the manuscript as submitted would cause additional damage to operations and would affect the agency’s ability to conduct intelligence activities in the future.”

CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield

Ambassador Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame arrive at the premier of Fair Game in LA in 2010.

When Valerie Plame Wilson reported that her husband had found no evidence of the sale of uranium from Niger to Iraq, it marked the first event in the protracted and well-documented saga that led to the illegal release of Valerie Plame-Wilson’s classified identity by former State Department official Richard Armitage and the conviction of former Vice President Chief of Staff Scooter Libby. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Suspicious Aviation Tragedies: 1961 — Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash [UPDATE: The New York Times wakes up!]

Posted on July 20, 2017 by L

“We saw a plane fly over Chifubu but did not pay any attention to it the first time. When we saw it a second and third time, we thought that this plane was denied landing permission at the airport. Suddenly, we saw another aircraft approach the bigger aircraft at greater speed and release fire which appeared as a bright light. The plane on the top turned and went in another direction. We sensed the change in sound of the bigger plane. It went down and disappeared.”

Dickson Mbewe — Eyewitness

ndola

The wreckage of Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane near Ndola, now Zambia.

On 18 September 1961, the Ndola United Nations DC-6 crashed, killing Dag Hammarskjöld — the second Secretary-General of the United Nations — and 15 others died. Hammarskjöld’s death occurred en route to cease-fire negotiations.

 A British-run commission of inquiry blamed the crash in 1961 on pilot error. A later UN investigation rubber-stamped its findings. Case close? Not so fast… Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading →

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