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Tag Archives: Crypto AG
Spy Glossary — On the Origin of “GLOMAR Response” [March 18 1975]
“We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the information requested but, hypothetically, if such data were to exist, the subject matter would be classified, and could not be disclosed.” CIA — March 18 1975 March 18 2022 — … Continue reading
Two Years Ago — Crypto AG & The Ghost of Danny Casolaro
“An NSA employee allegedly told a journalist about his involvement in manipulating the Crypto AG devices. This NSA man and the journalist died the same year from non-natural cause.” Minerva Files (Released Feb. 2020) March 10 2020 — The Minerva … Continue reading
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Tagged Crypto AG, Danny Casolaro, NSA Alan D. Standorf
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60 Years Ago — Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld and Why? (September 18 1961)
“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
Posted in Aviation Disasters, Crypto AG, Dag Hammarskjöld, Jan van Risseghem, NSA, UN
Tagged Ban Ki-moon, Belgian Mining company Union Minière, Charles Southall, CIA, Crypto AG, Dag Hammarskjöld, Denzil Dunnett, Dickson Mbewe, Göran Björkdahl, GOSINT, Jan van Risseghem, Moise Tshombe, Ndola, NSA, Operation Celeste, Patrice Lumumba, Richard Goldstone, Sixten Svensson, Susan Williams, UN
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Crypto AG — Was Boris Hagelin Jr. Murdered by the CIA? [UPDATE : The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine]
“Even the vice president of the BND assumed that Boris Hagelin Jr. was not the victim of an accident. It was an intelligence murder.” Intelligence expert Erich Schmidt-Eenboom February 15 2020 — A decade ago, I argued that Crypto AG … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Hagelin, Crypto AG, Erich Schmidt-Eenboom
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Spy Glossary — On the Origin of “GLOMAR Response” [March 18 1975]
“We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the information requested but, hypothetically, if such data were to exist, the subject matter would be classified, and could not be disclosed.” CIA — March 18 1975 March 18 2021 — … Continue reading
One Year Ago — Crypto AG & The Ghost of Danny Casolaro
“An NSA employee allegedly told a journalist about his involvement in manipulating the Crypto AG devices. This NSA man and the journalist died the same year from non-natural cause.” Minerva Files (Released Feb. 2020) March 10 2020 — The Minerva … Continue reading
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Tagged Crypto AG, Danny Casolaro, NSA Alan D. Standorf
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One Year Ago — Crypto AG : The Missing Piece of the Snowden Puzzle
“An attack in Karachi, Pakistan, during which another NSA employee Gary C. Durrell was shot in March 1995 is believed to be related to Crypto AG.” MINERVA — A History March 2 2020 — Why has the Washington Post decided … Continue reading
CRYPTO AG — NSA Historian Tom Johnson dies at 80 [MINERVA Files]
“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.” NSA Historian Tom Johnson January 2 2021 — Tom Johnson, … Continue reading
Spy Glossary — On the Origin of “GLOMAR Response” [UPDATE — John Le Carré’s Lexicon]
“We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the information requested but, hypothetically, if such data were to exist, the subject matter would be classified, and could not be disclosed.” CIA — March 18 1975 March 18 2020 — … Continue reading
HistoCrypt 2021 [September 2021 — Amsterdam, Netherlands]
“A cryptographic system should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.” Auguste Kerckhoffs October 28 2020 — The International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2021) invites submissions of papers to its annual conference … Continue reading
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