The KRYPTOS Sculpture — An Introduction

“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”

“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”

“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.”

“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

“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

“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!]

“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

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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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One Year Ago — Spymasters: CIA In the Crosshairs

“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]

“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

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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.”

“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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