Tag Archives: CIA

On This Day — Did The CIA Murder US Army Scientist Frank Olson? And Why? (November 28 1953) [US biological weapons in the Korean war]

Posted on November 28, 2022 by L

“If this would have been a suicide, it would have been very difficult to accomplish. There was motive to kill him. He knew the deepest, darkest secrets of the cold war. Would the American government kill an American citizen who … Continue reading →

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On This Day– Remembering CIA Leslianne Shedd (September 15 1968 – November 23 1996)

Posted on November 23, 2022 by L

“When my sister Leslianne Shedd was killed in the 1996 crash of a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines plane, my family not only went into mourning. We also continued to keep a secret: Leslianne didn’t work for the U.S. State Department, as … Continue reading →

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US National Whistleblower Day (July 30 2021) — “I, John Reidy, Declare…” [CIA Debacle in Iran & China] [UPDATE : Intel Today Story completely vindicated by New Evidence]

Posted on October 17, 2022 by L

“I cannot talk about the 2007 incident. It is classified. I risk incarceration. I have a family. If you are contemplating whistleblowing … you’re going to sit there and say, ‘If I go through that system, it will not end … Continue reading →

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On This Day — The VELA Incident (September 22 1979)

Posted on September 22, 2022 by L

“Now, 40 years later, there is a scientific and historical consensus that it was a nuclear test and that it had to be Israeli.” Avner Cohen (September 22 2019) September 22 2022 — A CIA-sponsored panel of well-respected scientists concluded … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld and Why? (September 18 1961)

Posted on September 18, 2022 by L

 “It will be necessary to find some way of pulling Hammarskjold up short.” UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (September 13  1961) ***** ***** ***** “Hammarskjöld was at the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said … Continue reading →

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Five Years Ago — Wormwood : The Mysterious Death of Cold War Era Military Scientist Frank Olson [Poll]

Posted on September 5, 2022 by L

“Frank was viewed as a dissident. You understand that in 1953 if you thought somebody was detrimental to the war against the Russians, you have no problem dealing with them. It wouldn’t be a question of saying you just have … Continue reading →

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Three Years Ago — Former DCI Admiral Stansfield Turner Dies (January 18 2018) [UPDATE : From the torture of Nosenko to the downing of IR 655]

Posted on August 23, 2022 by L

“Turner’s most disturbing discovery was the harsh questioning and illegal imprisonment that the Agency’s Counterintelligence Staff had imposed for several years on Soviet defector Yuri Nosenko. This convinced him that CIA could be a dangerous organization if not kept closely … Continue reading →

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On This Day — CIA Operation TP/AJAX : The Iranian Coup d’État (August 19 1953)

Posted on August 19, 2022 by L

“Yes, my sin — my greater sin and even my greatest sin is that I nationalized Iran’s oil industry and discarded the system of political and economic exploitation by the world’s greatest empire. This at the cost to myself, my … Continue reading →

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One Year Ago — Afghanistan : America’s war ends in humiliating debacle

Posted on August 15, 2022 by L

“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.” Rudyard Kipling — The … Continue reading →

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Remembering CIA Molly C. H. Hardy (Dec. 15 1946 – Aug. 7 1998)

Posted on August 7, 2022 by L

“For a small cadre of CIA veterans, the death of Osama bin Laden was more than just a national moment of relief and closure. It was also a measure of payback, a settling of a score for a pair of … Continue reading →

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