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

Posted on August 22, 2025 by L

“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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Remembering CIA Psychologist Richards “Dick” J. Heuer, Jr. (July 15 1927 – August 21 2018) [The Legacy of ACH and the Eight-Step Process]

Posted on August 21, 2025 by L

“Do You Really Need More Information? The US Intelligence Community invests heavily in improved intelligence collection systems while managers of analysis lament the comparatively small sums devoted to enhancing analytical resources, improving analytical methods, or gaining better understanding of the cognitive processes involved in making analytical judgments.”

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
Richards J. Heuer

August 21 2025 — Former CIA veteran Richards “Dick” J. Heuer died on August 21st 2018 at Carmel Valley Manor. Dr. Heuer was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency during its early years. Throughout his career he worked in numerous areas of the intelligence field. He was the recipient of multiple honors from the Central Intelligence agency, the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts and the International Association for Intelligence Education. Follow us on Twitter:@INTEL_TODAY

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60 Years Ago — CIA Memorial Wall — STAR 17 & 18 : Edward Johnson & Louis O’Jibway (Laos – August 20, 1965)

Posted on August 20, 2025 by L

“In his free time while stationed overseas, Louis O’Jibway often helped the local communities, especially the homeless and leper camps, by providing food and resources. He was a man of deep religious faith and believed in helping those less fortunate. Those who knew him talk most of his kindness and empathy.”

CIA website

Edward Johnson (STAR 17) and Louis O’Jibway (STAR 18)


August 20, 2025 — CIA paramilitary officers Edward Johnson (STAR 17) and Louis O’Jibway (STAR 18) were killed when their helicopter crashed into the Mekong River on August 20, 1965. However, the official account of the incident conflicts with the findings later established by historians. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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Sunday Jokes — How Mango Parrot Ratted Out the Coke Shark, His Vixen and 15 Zoo Monkeys [When Reality Beats Jokes!]

Posted on August 17, 2025 by L

“A joke is a very serious thing.”

Winston Churchill

Sunday August 17, 2025 — In Blackpool, England, a pet parrot named Mango inadvertently assisted authorities in dismantling a significant drug trafficking operation. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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CIA Memorial Wall — STAR 24 : Wayne J. McNulty (Laos – August 15, 1968)

Posted on August 15, 2025 by L

“As of 15 August 1968, McNulty was in charge of an Air America helicopter on a mission to a forward area in Laos. His mission was to contact and brief a battalion engaged in a major offensive operation aimed at retaking a strategic location near Muong Phalane, Laos.”

CIA Website


August 15, 2025 — Wayne J. McNulty was a CIA paramilitary officer serving in the Special Operations Division of the Directorate of Plans (now known as the Directorate of Operations). He was killed on August 15, 1968, in Muong Phalane, Laos, after being struck by sniper fire. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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Revisiting Havana Syndrome: Moscow Death Ray vs. CIA Hoax [UPDATE : Declassified Emails Reveal Clapper’s Push for “Team Sport” ICA on Russia]

Posted on August 14, 2025 by L

“Agency heads at the time created a politically charged environment that triggered an atypical analytic process around an issue essential to our democracy.”

CIA Director John Ratcliffe
(July 2, 2025)

July 6, 2025 — This week, the CIA concluded a critical internal review casting serious doubts on the integrity of past intelligence narratives—highlighting strong circumstantial evidence that former CIA Director John Brennan played a central role in shaping, and possibly fabricating, key political allegations. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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80 Years Ago — From Victory to Atrocity : Remembering the War Crimes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Posted on August 10, 2025 by L

 “I voiced to him [U.S. Secretary of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a nuclear weapon.”

General Dwight Eisenhower

August 10 2025 — Eight decades have passed since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945). The true motivations behind these attacks remain fiercely debated among historians. What is certain is that prominent U.S. military leaders — including General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Admiral William D. Leahy — opposed their use. Recently declassified documents suggest that, much like the unnecessary devastation of Dresden, the atomic bombings were driven less by military necessity than by a desire to send a chilling warning to the Soviet Union. As grim as it is to acknowledge, that may be the closest we have to the truth. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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On This Day –The August 4 2020 Beirut Explosion : Debunking the FBI Conspiracy Theory [UPDATE : The FBI’s Silent Error: How Bad Science Shaped a Political Narrative]

Posted on August 4, 2025 by L

“The amount of ammonium nitrate that blew up at Beirut port last year was one fifth of the shipment unloaded there in 2013, the FBI concluded after the blast, adding to suspicions that much of the cargo had gone missing.”

Reuters
(July 30 2021)

August 10 2021 — FBI forensic scientists have estimated that around 552 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded on August 4 2020 in the Port of Beirut, much less than the 2,754 tonnes that arrived on a Russian-leased cargo ship in 2013. Reuters, The Guardian, and other MSM are reporting this nonsensical junk-science report without even consulting scientific experts. Let me be very clear. This is total nonsense. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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On This Day — Remembering Sir Roger Casement (September 1 1864 – August 3 1916) — [UPDATE : Beyond the Myth: The True Role of Punctuation in Casement’s Execution]

Posted on August 3, 2025 by L

“If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.”

Sir Roger Casement

 

Roger Casement attempted to smuggle weapons from Germany for the Easter Rising, an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week of April 1916.

August 3 2020 — Sir Roger David Casement (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916) was an Irish nationalist who worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat and later became a humanitarian activist, poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations”, he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in Peru.

In April 1916, Roger Casement attempted to smuggle weapons from Germany for the Easter Rising, an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week. He was arrested, convicted and executed for high treason. But sometimes, even a death sentence can be ridiculously hilarious. Roger Casement himself wrote that he was to be “hanged on a comma”, leading to the well-used epigram. Follow us on twitter: @Intel_Today

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2016 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE JUAN MANUEL SANTOS — Does Anyone Remember ‘Los Falsos Positivos’? [BREAKING — Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Sentenced to 12 Years]

Posted on August 2, 2025 by L

“We can call them ‘false positives’ or ‘extrajudicial executions’, but really these were cold-blooded murders. They were meticulously planned and carried by all ranks.”

Blind Obedience
in Fictitious Battlefields

October 8 2016 — Juan Manuel Santos was appointed Minister of Defence on July 19, 2006, under President Álvaro Uribe Vélez. He served in that role until May 2009, during the height of the government’s so-called “democratic security” policy — a period now infamous for the false positives scandal, in which thousands of civilians were extrajudicially killed by the military and falsely reported as guerrillas to inflate combat kill statistics. Members of the armed forces, who carried out these executions to boost body counts, could then claim promotions, leave, and other rewards from the government. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

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