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“Silent Stars: The Fallen Heroes of the CIA” — New Book Now Available on Kindle!

“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.”John F. KennedySpeech at Amherst College Convocationin honor of poet Robert Frost(October 26, 1963) (December 14, 2024) — I’m … Continue reading

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“Silent Stars: The Fallen Heroes of the CIA” — Book Review by ChatGPT

“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.”John F. KennedySpeech at Amherst College Convocation in honor of poet Robert Frost (October 26, 1963) December 5, 2024 … Continue reading

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Top Cold Cases for Kash Patel to Re-Open as FBI Director

“A brilliant roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor, to ultimately return our agencies and departments to work for the American People… We will use this blueprint to help us take back the White House and remove these Gangsters from all of … Continue reading

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New Book — Silent Stars: The Fallen Heroes of the CIA

“Whoever fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche November 25 2024 — “Silent … Continue reading

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Bay of Pigs — The Enduring Myth of the No Air Cover Excuse

“I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”President John F. Kennedyfollowing the failed Bay of Pigs invasion(April 1961) November 20, 2024 — The CIA quickly blamed the lack of air cover for the … Continue reading

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On This Day — The Genesis of the Havana Syndrome (July 27 2016) [UPDATE — Get Ready for Season II : The Long Road from Lockerbie to Havana Syndrome]

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” Donald TrumpPresidential candidate July 27 2016 July 27 2023 — On July 27 … Continue reading

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KRYPTOS Week — Introduction : Sculpture Dedication Ceremony at the CIA (November 3 1990)

“Maybe you’re mistaken–maybe this first part of the Kryptos code is really not a polyalphabetic Vigenere Tableau after all — maybe it’s a different type of code entirely. Or maybe it is a Vigenere code, but it’s been double or … Continue reading

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70 Years Ago — Hemingway Wins Nobel Prize (October 28 1954) [Was Hemingway pushed to suicide by the FBI?]

“Hemingway may have said ‘yes’ to the Soviet recruitment pitch, but unless there is some additional trove of material in the NKVD archives that argues otherwise, it is clear Hemingway was never a productive Soviet agent.” CIA website — Intelligence … Continue reading

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The CIA Memorial Wall : David Lee Konzelman (October 24, 1940 — October 24, 1971)

“I heard one day that one of our local operations had gone awry, that a helicopter had been forced to make an emergency landing, hurting someone in the process. It turned out to be much worse than that. Dave had … Continue reading

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On This Day — Soviet Union Launches SPUTNIK (October 4 1957)

“On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched the Sputnik-1 earth satellite into space—an achievement that stunned the American public and press, but not the U.S. policy and intelligence communities. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reported the advancements that … Continue reading

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