Paris attacks — Belgium formally charges Yassine Atar

“Over the past year, according to police documents, the police have been piecing together Mr. [Yassine] Atar’s role in the network. He is a cousin of the brothers Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui, who on March 22, 2016, carried out the Brussels attacks by setting off suicide bombs at an airport and in a subway station. (…) The Belgian authorities suspect that a brother of Mr. Atar, Oussama Atar, was a leader of the Brussels network. Oussama Atar remains at large.”

June 2 2017)

Telephone data links Yassine Atar to the Paris attacks

BELGIUM — A man has been formally charged in connection with the deadly attacks in Paris of November 2015, the federal prosecutor says. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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INTEL TODAY DIARY — JUNE 5 2017

Belgium formally charges man in connection with Paris attacks — James Comey Senate testimony: America braces for a historic political moment — CIA Agent Ayatollah Mike’s Face Revealed: Iran’s View — Synthetic Biology and the Chem/Bio Threat

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Former FBI James Comey to testify publicly about Trump confrontations

“Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to testify as early as next week before a Senate committee that President Donald Trump asked him to back off the investigation of former national security adviser Mike Flynn, according to a person familiar with the matter.”

Del Quentin Wilber — WSJ (May 31 2017)

FBI Director James Comey

According to the WSJ, the  Former FBI director will say President Trump asked him to back off the Flynn investigation. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_Today Continue reading →

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The Glorious Amateurs: OSS Turns 75!

“The CIA owes a debt of gratitude to the OSS and to Donovan, the charismatic leader and moving force behind it.”

CIA Official website — June 1 2017

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is the precursor of today’s CIA. Created on June 13, 1942, just after America’s entry into WWII, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed William “Wild Bill” Donovan, a highly decorated WWI officer, as Director of the OSS.

Throughout the month of June, the CIA website will highlight a different OSS officer every day. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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INTEL TODAY DIARY — June 4 2017

C.I.A. Names the ‘Dark Prince’ to Run Iran Operations, Signaling a Tougher Stance — World heading towards ‘permanent cyber war’, France warns — Kabul blast: Deadly explosions at protest victim’s funeral — Jared Kushner’s redemptive mission threatened by tangled Russian web

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump make their way to board Air Force One before departing from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

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New Details on Russian Banker Who Met With Kushner

“This bank [Vnesheconombank] is, in essence an arm of the FSB and the KGB. Gorkov is a former KGB officer. Everything he does, he reports to the KGB.”

Robert Baer — Former CIA Officer

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Sergey N. Gorkov, the chief of Vnesheconombank, in Moscow in February.

Sergey Gorkov — the Russian banker Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner met with in late December — is viewed by U.S. intelligence as a “Putin crony” and a graduate of a “finishing school” for spies who was often tasked with sensitive financial operations by Putin. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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INTEL TODAY DIARY — June 3 2017

How the Trump administration’s secret efforts to ease Russia sanctions fell short — CNN analyst blows up at ex-CIA chief for blaming Kushner’s Russian back-channel on Obama — Turkish Government Conspiracy Theory: Gulen Tied to CIA, Other ‘Intelligence Agencies’ — C.I.A. Names the ‘Dark Prince’ to Run Iran Operations, Signaling a Tougher Stance

 

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Paris & Brussels attacks: Lies, lies and more lies — UPDATE: Oussama Atar’s Brother Charged

“If not for the request by different organizations … Ousama Atar would still be in Iraqi prison.”

Jawad Al-Hindawi — Iraqi Ambassador to Belgium

Ousama Atar, a Belgian of Moroccan descent, is believed to be the mastermind of the Paris and Brussels attacks. Question: why was he living freely when he should have been kept in a Iraqi jail? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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Zbigniew Brzezinski: “An exceptional failure all round.”

“This will require a review of our policy toward Pakistan, more guarantees to it, and, alas, a decision that our security policy toward Pakistan cannot be dictated by our nonproliferation policy.”

Zbigniew Brzezinski — Letter to US President Jimmy Carter (December 26, 1979)

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski — a US policy adviser and academic born on March 28 1928 — died on May 26 2017. Patrick Armstrong — a former analyst in the Canadian Department of National Defence specializing in the USSR/Russia — just posted a realist analysis of his legacy. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

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INTEL TODAY DIARY — June 2 2017

Germany strengthens its Cyber Defense — James Comey due before Senate next week — Vladimir Putin has suggested “patriotic” Russian citizens might be engaged in hacking — Russia escalates spy games after years of U.S. neglect

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