One Year Ago — CIA PALANTIR Sues Early Investor

Posted on September 7, 2017 by L

“[Since 2013] U.S. spy agencies also employ Palantir to connect databases across departments. Before this, most of the databases used by the CIA and FBI were siloed, forcing users to search each database individually. Now everything is linked together using Palantir.”

TechCrunch — January 2015

Alexander Karp: American billionaire businessman, co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies.

Alexander Karp: American billionaire businessman, co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies.

In the filing with the Superior Court of the State of California, the company alleges that early Palantir investor Marc L. Abramowitz “ stole … secrets, engaged in methodical deception of Palantir’ s senior executives, and made false claims to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.” Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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NORTH KOREA Claims to Have Successfully Tested H-Bomb [UPDATE — First estimate of the Yield]

Posted on September 6, 2017 by L

“The institute recently succeeded in making a more developed nuke. Kim Jong-un watched an H-bomb to be loaded into a new ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile).”

KCNA — North Korea State News Agency (September 3 2017)

“Based on the similarity of the seismic data between 3 September 2017 event and North Korea’s previous nuclear tests, we confirm that 3 September 2017 event is a nuclear test in nature. We have determined that North Korea’s 3 September 2017 nuclear test occurred at UTC 2017/09/03 03:30, (2017/09/03 12:00 local time), at the location of (41°17’53.52”N, 129°4’27.12”E), with an estimated yield of 108.3±48.1 kt.”

USTC  — Lianxing Wen’s Geogroup

North Korea said on Sunday (September 3 2017) it has developed a more advanced nuclear weapon that has “great destructive power” and leader Kim Jong Un inspected a hydrogen bomb that will be loaded on a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Considering the magnitude of the event as reported by the US Geological Survey,  I have estimated — in first approximation — the yield of the device at about 126.8 kilotons of TNT equivalent. [A well known Chinese research group has since provided a similar estimate.] However the magnitudes reported by South Korea and NORSAR are much lower. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — NSA Hacked French President’s House [UPDATE]

Posted on September 6, 2017 by L

“Keith Alexander (Director of the NSA) told me he was disappointed because he never thought we would detect them and he even added: You guys are good.”

Bernard Barbier — Director of the DGSE Technical Division

 

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Wormwood — The mysterious death of Cold War-era military scientist Frank Olson [UPDATE]

Posted on September 5, 2017 by L

“To what extent can a democracy lie to its citizens and still, in the end, remain a democracy?

I believe what separates us from dumb animals is that we pursue, maybe we don’t achieve it, but we pursue certainty. It’s a goal. A dream. To deny that importance of that goal or that dream is unspeakable. Where would we be without it? We’d be out in the jungle having various temper tantrums like the president of the United States.”

Errol Morris — Statement about “Wormwood”

Wormwood is based on a true story and explores the mysterious death of Cold War-era military scientist Frank Olson (played by Sarsgaard) and his son’s tireless efforts to uncover the truth. In 1953, Frank Olson was recruited to be part of a secret biological warfare program cryptically referred to as Project MKUltra. The miniseries is blending long-form documentary interview with a dramatic reconstruction of pivotal scenes.

Errol Morris, one of the most acclaimed and influential documentarians of all time, is back with a project unlike anything he has ever done before. Wormwood, told in six parts, deals with CIA mind-control experiments in the 1950s and the infamous death of US Major Frank Olson. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Spooks & The Media

Posted on September 5, 2017 by L

“The CPJ — Committee to Protect Journalists — has demanded that the Turkish authorities release Snell.  We call on the government to end its harassment of reporters crossing the border from Syria.”

Nina Ognianova– CPJ Europe and central Asia programme coordinator

“I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years and I was educated to lie, to betray and not to tell the truth to the public. The truth will come out one day, the truth won’t die.”

Dr. Udo Ulfkotte: German Journalist and Whistleblower

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American freelance journalist Lindsey Snell

The story of the arrest of  US journalist Lindsey Snell by Turkey — for violation of a military zone — is open to interpretation. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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CIA Launches Signature School Program at Baruch College

Posted on September 4, 2017 by L

“Diversity carries special importance here at CIA. Because of our global charter, we need talent from all cultures and backgrounds to accomplish our mission. CIA must be an employer of choice for all Americans who want to serve our country, a place where officers of every description can rise as far as their talent and ambition can take them.”

Mike Pompeo — CIA Director

CIA director Mike Pompeo spoke in a wide-ranging conversation at the 2017 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.

NEW YORK, NY – On August 31 2017, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) launched its Signature School Program at Baruch College, a senior college in The City University of New York system. The program at Baruch College is the CIA’s third Signature School. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — NSA Hacked French President’s House

Posted on September 4, 2017 by L

“Keith Alexander (Director of the NSA) told me he was disappointed because he never thought we would detect them and he even added: You guys are good.”

Bernard Barbier — Director of the DGSE Technical Division

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The NSA hacked the Élysée Palace in 2012, between the two rounds of the Presidential election. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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NORTH KOREA Claims to Have Successfully Tested H-Bomb [First estimate of the Yield]

Posted on September 3, 2017 by L

“The institute recently succeeded in making a more developed nuke. Kim Jong-un watched an H-bomb to be loaded into a new ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile).”

KCNA — North Korea State News Agency

Sunday September 3 2017

North Korea said on Sunday it has developed a more advanced nuclear weapon that has “great destructive power” and leader Kim Jong Un inspected a hydrogen bomb that will be loaded on a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Considering the magnitude of the event as reported by the US Geological Survey,  I have estimated the yield of the device at about 126.8 kilotons of TNT equivalent. However the estimate based on the data reported by South Korea is much lower. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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The KRYPTOS Sculpture — SECTION III: A Transposition Cipher

Posted on September 3, 2017 by L

With trembling hands, I made a tiny breach in the upper left hand corner… widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in… at first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping from the chamber causing the candle to flicker. Presently, details of the room emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues and gold – everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment – an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by – I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand in suspense any longer, inquired anxiously “Can you see anything?”, it was all I could do to get out the words “Yes, wonderful things”.

Howard Carter — The Tomb of Tutankhamen

Diary — November 26 1922

In a previous post, we looked at the inside story of the NSA people who took the challenge to decrypt — part of — the KRYPTOS code. I will tell you later how the NSA people broke Section III but today I will present you a novel and rather unusual solution.

Why? Because I have great doubts that Sanborn — an artist — has used complex mathematical transformation to code Section III. Who cares? Does it matter anyway?

One would think that as long as the solution is correct, the method used to get it is irrelevant. One could be wrong. The devil IS in the details.

PS: This post will soon be updated to explain carefully several technical points. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — CZECH REPUBLIC INTELLIGENCE AGENCY : ANNUAL REPORT 2015

Posted on September 3, 2017 by L

“Since the second quarter of 2014, Europe has been facing a large migration wave from the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa and Maghreb. In 2015, more than a million refugees arrived in Europe. Their arrival had a negative impact on public order and on security and administrative procedures both in countries along the main migration routes and in destination countries. The Czech Republic is located in a heavily transited area of Central Europe and is faced by the same migration threats as France, Belgium and Germany.”

BIS Annual Report 2015

 

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Audi, Vide, Tace. Hear, See, Be silent.

 

The Security Information Service (BIS) (Czech: Bezpečnostní informační služba), is the primary domestic national intelligence agency of the Czech Republic. You can read its Annual Report for year 2015. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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