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Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who compiled a dossier on Donald Trump(Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images)
“CNN did the right thing. Classy move. Apology accepted. Everyone makes mistakes. Moving on.”
Anthony Scaramucci — Senior Trump advisor
Anthony Scaramucci
CNN has accepted the resignations of three journalists involved in a story about a supposed investigation into a pre-inaugural meeting between an associate of President Donald Trump and the head of a Russian investment fund. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
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Anthony Scaramucci
“Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was ‘civis romanus sum’. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’ … All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!'”
U.S. President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin — June 26 1963
Kennedy’s ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech was watched by West Berliners
The speech is considered one of Kennedy’s best, both a notable moment of the Cold War and a high point of the New Frontier. It was a great morale boost for West Berliners, who lived in an enclave deep inside East Germany and feared a possible East German occupation. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The death of Yuri Ivanovich is a great, irreplaceable loss for his relatives, colleagues, friends, for all who knew and appreciated this remarkable man and a true patriot.”
President Vladimir Putin
General Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov
Legendary KGB General Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov has died at the age of 91. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
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“We’re both just shocked. It was like hearing the verdict read all over again, for me. I really don’t understand it. There was absolutely no proof.”
Holly Sterling
Jeffrey and Holly Sterling
On Thursday (June 22 2017), a three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit upheld all but one of Sterling’s convictions. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
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“One reason for the Russian message to Washington about the intended target was to ensure that any CIA asset or informant who had managed to work his way into the jihadist leadership was forewarned not to attend the meeting. I was told that the Russians passed the warning directly to the CIA.”
Seymour M. Hersh
President Donald Trump ignored important intelligence reports when he decided to attack Syria after he saw pictures of dying children. Seymour M. Hersh investigated the case of the alleged Sarin gas attack. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The United States Government is as unscrupulous as it has accused the Soviet Government of being. Our main dissatisfaction concerned some of the practices the United States uses in gathering intelligence information … deliberately violating the airspace of other nations … intercepting and deciphering the secret communications of its own allies … Perhaps United States hostility towards Communism arises out of a feeling of insecurity engendered by Communist achievements in science, culture and industry.”
William H. Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell — The first NSA whistleblowers
NSA defectors William H. Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell at the Moscow press conference announcing their defection, July 1, 1960.
The National Security Agency faced a terrible crisis in the summer of 1960 when two cryptologists disappeared on vacation. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
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