One Year Ago — Spymasters: CIA In the Crosshairs

Posted on July 20, 2017 by L

“Without the Camp Bucca, there would be no ISIS today. It made it all, it built our ideology. We could never have all got together like this in Baghdad, or anywhere else. It would have been impossibly dangerous. Here, we were not only safe, but we were only a few hundred metres away from the entire al-Qaida leadership.”

A senior ISIS commander

“The Spymasters: CIA In the Crosshairs” is a 2015 documentary film which covers the experience of the Central Intelligence Agency as seen through the eyes of the twelve living CIA directors, all of whom were interviewed for the film. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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United Nations Report on the Tragic Death of Dag Hammarskjöld — [UPDATE JULY 2017]

Posted on July 19, 2017 by L

“Hammarskjöld was at the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said ‘when they killed him’.”

US President Harry Truman — September 19  1961

Hammarskjold

Dag Hammarskjöld

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Tanzania’s former chief justice Mohamed Chande Othman to lead the new investigation into the circumstances of Dag Hammarskjold’s suspicious death. The Secretary-General urges — once more — Member States to disclose information that they may have regarding the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — US Lockerbie & MH17 Lawyer: “President Vladimir Putin must be held responsible.”

Posted on July 19, 2017 by L

“Some think MH17 must have been a terrible, inevitable mistake of war. I do not think that is the truth. The facts scream intent and motive. It was a calculated military strike as willful as the killing of one more political opponent. You stand as the only man who can set this right.”

Letter to President Putin — Jerome Skinner

US attorney representing victims of flight MH17 from Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and the Netherlands

American aviation lawyer Jerry Skinner is representing five Australian families bereaved by MH17.

The U.S. aviation lawyer who won compensation for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing and is now seeking $330 million from Russia for the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 in 2014, says Russian President Vladimir Putin must be held responsible. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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USS LIBERTY Survivor: “Can you help locating a document?”

Posted on July 18, 2017 by L

“I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my shipmates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.”

USS Liberty Survivors’ Creed

Israeli planes and torpedo boats attacked this U.S. Navy research ship, the USS Liberty, in the Mediterranean Sea near the Sinai Peninsula on June 8, 1967. Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty

The attack on the U.S.S. Liberty by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats on June 8 1967, has almost faded from memory, with a younger generation completely unaware that a United States naval vessel was once deliberately targeted and nearly sunk by America’s “greatest friend and ally” Israel.  Today, a survivor asks for your help. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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CIA Director Mike Pompeo: “We Must Steal Secrets With Audacity!” [UPDATE: CIA Official transcript posted and modified]

Posted on July 18, 2017 by L

“I got a call from the President one afternoon back in April. 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

Mike Pompeo waits to be sworn in as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 23, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

On July 11 2017, CIA Director Mike Pompeo was the keynote speaker at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) dinner, and was afterward interviewed by Charlie Allen, a senior intelligence adviser at INSA. Director Pompeo talked about his goals for the CIA and national security threats, including ISIS, North Korea and Iran. Other topics included Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — 9/11: The “28 Pages” Report

Posted on July 18, 2017 by L

“There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi government. Our report should never have been read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia.”

John F Lehman — Republican member of the 9/11 commission

Prince Bandar

The so-called “28 pages” report suggests a much larger web of connections between al-Qaeda and the Saudi royal family than had previously been known. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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CIA Contractor Denounces Frauds, Massive & Catastrophic Intel Failure. 7 Years later, No Answers…

Posted on July 17, 2017 by L

“I cannot talk about the 2007 incident. It is classified. I risk incarceration. I have a family.”

Former CIA John Reidy

Robert Levinson — On December 12, 2013, the Associated Press reported that their investigations revealed that Levinson had been working for the CIA, contradicting the U.S.’s statement that he was not an employee of the government at the time of his capture.

In 2010, John Reidy submitted a complaint to the CIA’s internal watchdog, the Inspector General’s Office. One issue involved what Reidy alleged was fraud between elements within the CIA and contractors. Another issue involved what he called a “massive” and “catastrophic” intelligence failure due to a bungled foreign operation. Question: What failed CIA op is Reidy alleging to? Follow on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — “Former CIA Terrorism Expert” at Fox News Jailed

Posted on July 17, 2017 by L

“Wayne Simmons is a fraud. Simmons has no military or intelligence background, or any skills relevant to the positions he attained through his fraud.”

Dana Boente — US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Wayne Simmons has appeared on Fox News, as an “expert” on terrorism since 2002. Simmons was portrayed as an “Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Officer” for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 2000. This was simply not true. During these years, the Fox News “terrorism expert” had worked as a nightclub doorman, a bookie, and manager of a rent-by-the-hour hot tub business… Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Remembering the U.S.S. Liberty — June 8 1967 [UPDATE: NSA Transcript]

Posted on July 16, 2017 by L

“There has been a lot of media coverage mostly written by Israelis or American Jews regarding Israel’s ‘victory’ fifty years ago during the so-called Six Days War directed against its Arab neighbors but I have yet to see an account that mentions the fate of the U.S.S. Liberty. Nevertheless, the Liberty is not forgotten.”

Former CIA Analyst Philip Giraldi

Israeli planes and torpedo boats attacked this U.S. Navy research ship, the USS Liberty, in the Mediterranean Sea near the Sinai Peninsula on June 8, 1967. Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty

The attack on the U.S.S. Liberty by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats on June 8 1967, has almost faded from memory, with a younger generation completely unaware that a United States naval vessel was once deliberately targeted and nearly sunk by America’s “greatest friend and ally” Israel.  Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Russia — How to think about Putin

Posted on July 16, 2017 by L

“Putin has become a symbol of national sovereignty in its battle with globalism. That turns out to be the big battle of our times. As our last election shows, that’s true even here [in the US].”

Christopher Caldwell

Vladimir Putin — President of the Russian Federation

Christopher Caldwell has recently penned a very interesting piece — How to Think About Vladimir Putin — which was adapted from a speech he delivered on February 15, 2017, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Phoenix, Arizona. Please, take the time to read this fact-based appraisal of Putin and his times. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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