On This Day — North Korea Tests H Bomb in “Self-Defence Against US” (January 6 2016) [Why I Started Blogging]

Posted on January 6, 2022 by L

“It is just to have H-bomb as self-defence against the US having numerous and humongous nuclear weapons. The DPRK’s fate must not be protected by any forces but DPRK itself.”

North Korean State Television Broadcast (Jan. 6 2016)

January 6 2022 — On January 6 2016 (at 10:00:01 UTC+08:30), North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear detonation at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, approximately 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of Kilju City in Kilju County. The test was conducted ahead of Kim Jong-un birthday (January 8, 1983). Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day — French Captain Alfred Dreyfus Is Convicted of Treason (January 5 1895) [Politicization of Intelligence]

Posted on January 5, 2022 by L

“Officers new to counterintelligence and overwhelmed by the scope of what they need to learn often ask the same question: ‘Where do I start?’ The best place might be the Dreyfus affair.”

The Lessons for Counter-Intelligence of the Dreyfus Affair — CIA Website

Alfred Dreyfus (January 9, 1859 — July 12, 1935)

January 5 2022 — On January 5 1895, Dreyfus was summarily convicted in a secret court-martial, publicly stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island in French Guiana. Following French military custom of the time, Dreyfus was formally degraded by having the rank insignia, buttons and braid cut from his uniform and his sword broken, all in the courtyard of the École Militaire before silent ranks of soldiers, while a large crowd of onlookers shouted abuse from behind railings. Follow us on twitter: @Intel_Today

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5G Belgium — Chaos Across the Spectrum [UPDATE — Top US phone firms agree delay and no deployment around airports]

Posted on January 4, 2022 by L

“The interferences caused to GSM-R receivers have been a very strong concern for Railway operators over the last years. Several cases of interference have been reported in various Member States, causing non-acceptable operational and even safety issues.”

EU Agency for Railways

May 31 2019 — Belgium’s telecoms regulator, the Belgian Institute for Post and Telecommunications (BIPT), has begun a public consultation to assess interest in using the 26GHz band for 5G services. Amazingly, the document does not say one word about possible interferences with — for instance — very important weather satellites. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day — British Foreign Office urges UK Newspaper to run Fake News about “French Kim Philby” (January 3 1968)

Posted on January 3, 2022 by L

“Tell them Jesus Christ only had twelve, and one of them was a double agent.”

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover — Upon learning that Philby was a spy for the Russians

Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby (January 1 1912 – May 11 1988)

January 3 2022 — On January 23 1963, Kim Philby vanished from Beirut, failing to meet his wife for a dinner party at the home of Glencairn Balfour Paul, First Secretary at the British Embassy. On July 1 1963, the British Government admitted that the former MI6 officer, still described at the time as a former diplomat, had spied for the Soviet Union before defecting to Moscow. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Random Thoughts : NSA Tom Johnson & The MINERVA Files [January 2022]

Posted on January 2, 2022 by L

“Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.”

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

The painting “Random Thoughts” by Sandy Welch

January 2022 — Dear Friends, Today I will launch The 2022 Intel Today ‘Random Thoughts’ page with a couple of questions regarding the Minerva files. NSA Tom Johnson made the following comment about his work: “The fourth volume includes a couple of instances during the 1980s where somebody really made a bad error here and should have been fired. I hope it will come out.” QUESTION — Do you know or can you guess what “bad error” Johnson is referring to? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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2021 Fake News Award — Havana Syndrome — Textbook case of disinformation from Reuters [UPDATE : In Intelligence Matters, Punctuation Really Matters!]

Posted on January 1, 2022 by L

“[CIA Director William] Burns has said there is a ‘very strong possibility’ that the syndrome is intentionally caused and that Russia could be responsible.”

Reuters (September 21 2021)

“[CIA Director William] Burns has said there is a ‘very strong possibility’ that the symptoms had been caused deliberately, and that Russia could be responsible.”

Reuters (October 8 2021)

September 23 2021 — On Monday, CNN and the New York Times reported that a CIA officer who was traveling with CIA director William Burns to India earlier this month reported symptoms consistent with Havana syndrome. Follow us on twitter: @Intel_Today

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Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2021 by L

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards”

Soren Kierkegaard

December 31 2021 — — I wish you all a very Happy New Year! May 2022 be the Year of Truth, Freedom and Justice! Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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Lockerbie — Newly Declassified Doc Reveals True Reason of Trial

Posted on December 30, 2021 by L

“His [Gaddafi] readiness to suffer the extended effects of sanctions rather than to hand over the indictees indicated that he must have something personal to fear. But the present strategy would not only call any bluff on his part but could be a step towards the prosecution of Libya before the International Court of Justice.”

Cabinet Meeting Conclusion (23 July 1998)

December 30 2021 — A document released today reveals why Tony Blair finally accepted the idea of a trial in a neutral country. Basically, Blair thought that Gaddafi was bluffing and would never hand over the two Libyans. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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CIA to Recruit Korean Speakers — Do you know your ABC? [UPDATE — 2021 Duolingo Language Report]

Posted on December 29, 2021 by L

“Fluent in Korean?
US citizen with a 4 yr college degree?
Interested in national security?
Your skills are needed here!”

CIA Directorate of Operations

Twitter (August 17 2018)

August 23 2018 — On May 10 2017, the CIA announced the establishment of a Korea Mission Center. The US Intel agency is now recruiting US citizens — with a college degree — fluent in Korean. Did you know that linguists regard ‘Hangul’ as the most logical alphabet of all? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day — Pan Am 103 Debris Show ‘Evidence’ of Plastic Explosive (December 28 1988) [2021]

Posted on December 28, 2021 by L

“I need not go into the rest of the story and the explosion, except to say that some of us believe that, within hours, the Americans had guessed, at a very high level, what had gone wrong. It is a matter of fact that the American helicopters were on site within an hour and 25 minutes. It began back in December 1988, New Year’s Eve to be precise, when a police officer, a constituent and friend, came to me and said that he was very worried about so many Americans, on the awful site of Lockerbie, searching and rummaging through the wreckage, and possibly destroying important evidence.”

Tam Dalyell — Scottish Labour Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005

December 28 2021 — On December 28 1988, seven days after the Lockerbie tragedy, AAIB inspector Michael Charles announced that two pieces of metal recovered in the wreckage of PA 103 provided ‘convincing evidence’ of a detonating high performance plastic explosive.  Really? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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