“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I would regularly bump into a parade of Hollywood types, including Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck. I often wondered why these actors were allowed to walk around a top-secret facility. Because he’s going to be playing a CIA guy in a movie? That’s the criteria now?”
Former CIA Analyst John Kiriakou
While discussing the movie ‘ARGO’, Ben Affleck said that Hollywood is Full of CIA Agents. Of course he would be familiar with the CIA’s Entertainment Liaison Office which works hand in hand with film studios to oversee production of major blockbuster movies.
The CIA has a long history of “spooking the news,” dating back to its earliest days when the legendary spymaster Allen Dulles and his top staff drank and dined regularly with the press elite of New York and Washington, and the agency boasted hundreds of U.S. and foreign journalists as paid and unpaid assets. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“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
“Traitors always finish badly. They usually end up on the streets from booze or drugs.”
Vladimir Putin on Colonel Poteyev
Colonel Aleksandr Poteyev
A year ago… Interfax has reported that “According to certain information, Colonel Poteyev died in the U.S.” To this day, the information has neither been confirmed, nor denied. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“There is a wonderful book that you might read… And the title of it is from a quote from Winston Churchill: ‘In time of war, the truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’ ”
US Secretary of State George P. Shultz (03/10/1986)
Time — really — flies when you’re having fun! Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“There is some concern that ISIS could use Libya as a springboard to go into Europe.”
Michael Maloof — Former Pentagon Official
General Khalifa Haftar
More than five years ago, Libya’s ex-leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was killed by the rebels who pinpointed him in drainage pipes after a NATO air strike hit his convoy outside his hometown of Sirte. Since then, the country has been in chaos. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
