On This Day — Remembering UTA Flight 772 (September 19 1989) [UPDATE : Gaddafi strong man Abdullah Senussi wanted Sarkozy pardon for UTA 772. Now, he is in the US cross-hairs for Lockerbie.]

“Raufer established three new facts, all of them pointing — for the first time — to Libya as the culprit of both Pan Am 103 and UTA 772. These facts are false. (…) If that story gains credibility in the media and becomes the ‘new truth’, we will be forced to revisit our position regarding Libya and Gaddafi.”

French Intelligence (DST)
Note to French President Francois Mitterrand 
(June 1991)

Rescuers stand near the wreckage of the French UTA DC-10 flight 772 in the Tenere desert, on September 22, 1989

September 19 2020 — It has been called the greatest murder investigation in French history. When a suitcase bomb destroyed French Airlines UTA Flight 772, killing all 170 passengers and crew on board, it triggered a decade long search for accountability. At the conclusion of the investigation, the French investigative magistrate judge — Jean Louis Bruguiere — determined that the Libyan State was directly responsible for the bombing of UTA Flight 772. Case closed?

Not everyone is convinced. Pierre Péan, one of the greatest French investigative journalists, came to the conclusion that Thomas Thurman — a Federal Bureau of Investigation explosives expert — fabricated false evidence against Libya in the investigations of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772 . Péan is certainly not alone to suspect foul play. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Lockerbie DNA Evidence Turns Upcoming Trial into a Soap Opera [UPDATE — Lawyers Argue Confession Inadmissible]

“All but one of the DNA components which make up that profile are present in [RARDE Forensic Expert] Allen Feraday’s DNA profile. (…) This component is unsuitable for interpretation purposes since a large number of individuals from any population might be expected to match it.”

SCCRC
Report on Lockerbie

Lockerbie evidence: PI/449 and PK/206

July 1, 2025 — Some so-called “Lockerbie experts” — including former FBI officials — have hailed the recent DNA evidence as a major forensic breakthrough. In reality, it is nothing of the sort. In CIA parlance, this case has just gone from SNAFU to full-blown FUBAR — and fast. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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On This Day — Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld and Why? (September 18 1961) [The Truth is Out There: Secrets Behind the Ndola Crash]

 “It will be necessary to find some way of pulling Hammarskjold up short.”

UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan 
(September 13  1961)

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“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)

ndola
The wreckage of Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane near Ndola, now Zambia.

September 18 2020 — On September 18 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 closed? Not so fast. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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CIA Memorial Wall — STAR 6 : Howard Carey (West Germany – September 17, 1956)

“On Sept. 17, 1956, pilot Howard Carey took off from Lindsey Air Force Base in Wiesbaden, Germany. His U-2 mysteriously disintegrated in mid-air.”

Heroes — Agency Pilots in the U-2 Program
Central Intelligence Agency

September 17, 2025 — Howard Carey, a former Air Force pilot, was recruited by the CIA to fly U-2 spy missions over the Soviet Union. The circumstances of his death remain a mystery to this day. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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Remembering Robert Redford’s lessons from Three Days of the Condor

“Listen. I work for the CIA. I am not a spy. I just read books! We read everything that’s published in the world. And we… we feed the plots – dirty tricks, codes – into a computer, and the computer checks against actual CIA plans and operations. I look for leaks, I look for new ideas… We read adventures and novels and journals. I… I… Who’d invent a job like that?”

Joe Turner
(Robert Redford)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)

September 17, 2025 – Robert Redford’s passing marks the end of an era. He died peacefully on September 16, 2025, at his home in Sundance, Utah, at the age of 89. Redford was a towering figure in American cinema, known for iconic roles such as Bob Woodward in All the President’s Men, where he portrayed one of the Washington Post journalists who uncovered the Watergate scandal. But it won’t surprise my readers that Three Days of the Condor remains my personal favorite. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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CIA Memorial Wall — The powerful ending of “13 HOURS” is DEAD WRONG ! [Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods — Benghazi, Libya – September 12, 2012]

“Also being twice in that great building, I was drawn to the Memorial Wall both times. On Friday, I realized that the last two stars were Tyrone and Glen. I would like to end the film with a wide shot of the wall, including the flags on either side, and then cut on a close up of the last two stars, and fade out.”

Michael Bay
Email to the CIA
(March 2015)

September 12, 2025 — 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (also known simply as 13 Hours) is a 2016 American biographical action-thriller film directed and produced by Michael Bay and written by Chuck Hogan. The script is based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s 2014 book of the same name. The film’s historical accuracy has been disputed. Today, I will not weigh on this issue, but I can ensure you that the ‘powerful end scene’ is DEAD WRONG. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Lockerbie DNA Evidence Turns Upcoming Trial into a Soap Opera [UPDATE — US DoJ Heading Toward Approximate Truth]

“All but one of the DNA components which make up that profile are present in [RARDE Forensic Expert] Allen Feraday’s DNA profile. (…) This component is unsuitable for interpretation purposes since a large number of individuals from any population might be expected to match it.”

SCCRC
Report on Lockerbie

Lockerbie evidence: PI/449 and PK/206

July 1, 2025 — Some so-called “Lockerbie experts” — including former FBI officials — have hailed the recent DNA evidence as a major forensic breakthrough. In reality, it is nothing of the sort. In CIA parlance, this case has just gone from SNAFU to full-blown FUBAR — and fast. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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On This Day (July 26, 2007): The Day I Exposed CIA Edits on Wikipedia [UPDATE — US Congressional Probe into Wikipedia Disinformation]

“This story is demented and broken on so many levels (…) An excellent Wikipedia administrator [Linda Mack] has been victimized by lunatic conspiracy theorists.”

Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia co-founder
(July 26 2007)

July 26, 2025 — On July 26, 2007, I published an article highlighting suspicious edits made to certain Wikipedia entries. The date was not chosen at random. Exactly sixty years earlier, on July 26, 1947, President Harry S. Truman had signed the National Security Act, which established the Central Intelligence Agency. Two decades later, the questions raised by that story remain just as urgent. In an era globally defined by disinformation, this moment marked an early warning. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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40 Years Ago — French government Denies Knowledge of Attack on Rainbow Warrior (August 26 1985)

“The truth is cruel… Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”

French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius
  (September 22 1985)

August 26 2020 — On August 26 1985, the French government denied any knowledge of the attack on Rainbow Warrior. A month later, the French Prime Minister confessed the role of the DGSE, the French Foreign Intelligence agency. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day — J. Edgar Hoover Becomes FBI Deputy Director (August 22 1921) [UPDATE : FBI Confidence Remains Low Amid Controversial Leadership]

“Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.”

J. Edgar Hoover

August 22 2025 — Though never elected to any office, for nearly 50 years J. Edgar Hoover’s power was unmatched. As head of the FBI, he knew what everyone else wanted to keep hidden. Hoover kept the world’s largest collection of pornographic materials which he used for his own pleasure and to blackmail anyone he did not like. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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