“When it comes to American politics specifically and European politics in general, there is nothing like playing the Russia card. If there is something wrong or there is something you don’t like, simply blame Vladimir Putin. That is exactly what the CIA is doing.”
Former CIA officers Ray McGovern, Philip Giraldi and former US Diplomat James Jatras discuss the current hysteria about the so-called “Hacking” of the US election. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“Neither of the leaks (from the Democratic National Committee or Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta) came from the Russians. The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.”
Former UK Ambassador Craig Murray
Former UK Ambassador Craig Murray
The New York Times and other big news outlets are reporting as flat fact that Russia hacked the Democratic email accounts and gave the information to WikiLeaks. [ConsortiumNews] Not everyone agrees. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.”
Henry Kissinger [1]
Washington D.C., December 14, 2016 – Operation Condor, the trans-border, multinational effort by Southern Cone secret police services to track down and “liquidate” opponents of their regimes in the 1970s, targeted officials of Amnesty International as well as other human rights groups, and planned overseas missions in Paris and London, according to a comprehensive CIA report on Condor operations just released by the Obama administration. [National Security Archive — GWU] Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The idea that ISI is a rogue organization is very popular–and even the Pakistanis promote it—but having worked with ISI for the better part of 20 years, I know that ISI is very disciplined and a very able intelligence agency.”
Former CIA Michael Scheuer — (Head of the Bin Laden Unit)
Lt. General Naveed Mukhtar
Pakistan has named a new head of its powerful military Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI). Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“We have evidence that cyber-attacks are taking place that have no purpose other than to elicit political uncertainty. The perpetrators are interested in delegitimising the democratic process as such, regardless of who that ends up helping. We have indications that [the attacks] come from the Russian region.”
Bruno Kahl — BND President
The BND (German: Bundesnachrichtendienst) is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinated to the Chancellor’s Office. Its headquarters are in Pullach near Munich, and Berlin (planned to be centralised in Berlin by 2016, with about 4,000 people). Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
“We are currently under contract for $170m to help determine the capabilities of these complex military aircraft that serve the unique requirements of the president of the United States. We look forward to working with the US Air Force on subsequent phases of the programme, allowing us to deliver the best planes for the president at the best value for the American taxpayer.”
Boeing spokesman Todd Blecher
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to cut government costs by cancelling the order for new planes to carry the American president. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“We have evidence that cyber-attacks are taking place that have no purpose other than to elicit political uncertainty.”
Bruno Kahl -BND Head
Bruno Kahl, president of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, has warned that next year’s general election could be targeted by Russian hackers. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
“Dark Alliance, the San Jose Mercury News’s bombshell investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s Contra rebels, and African American neighborhoods in California, remains one of the most explosive and controversial exposés in American journalism.”
The Intercept
On December 10, 2004 investigative journalist Gary Webb died of two .38 caliber gunshot wounds to the head. The coroner ruled the death a suicide. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“The risks at stake are profound and represent a fundamental threat to our sovereignty. They should be a concern to all those who share democratic values.”
Alex Younger – MI6 Head
MI6 Director Alex Younger
Alex Younger, the new head of MI6 , says that the scale of the terrorism threat to the UK is unprecedented. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
“We had operational successes, most importantly regarding Pretoria’s nuclear capability. My sources collectively provided incontrovertible evidence that the apartheid government had in fact tested a nuclear bomb in the South Atlantic in 1979, and that they had developed a delivery system with assistance from the Israelis.”
CIA clandestine service officer Tyler Drumheller
U.S. Vela satellite
Washington, D.C., December 8, 2016 – A CIA-sponsored panel of well-respected scientists concluded that a mysterious flash detected by a U.S. Vela satellite over the South Atlantic on the night of 22 September 1979 was likely a nuclear test, according to a contemporaneous report published today for the first time by the National Security Archive and the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading
