Tag Archives: FBI

MLK Day — Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King (January 15 1929 – Assassinated April 4 1968) [The FBI Suicide Letter]

“The debate over how much the government should know about our private lives has never been more heated. Should intelligence agencies be able to sweep our email, read our texts, track our phone calls, locate us by GPS? Much of … Continue reading

Posted in FBI | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

On This Day — Did Richard Nixon Frame Alger Hiss? [December 6 1948 – The Pumpkin Papers]

“As to whether Nixon would actually have gone as far as to frame Hiss, the later record includes disquieting instances of forgery or planting false information.” The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon Anthony Summers December 6 2022 … Continue reading

Posted in Alger Hiss, Edgar Hoover, FBI, Richard Nixon | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

On This Day — 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

Posted in Hemingway | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

On This Day — 1,000 Boeing 747 Jumbo Plane Produced (September 10 1993) [Update : Why I ruled out the Lockerbie bomb theory]

“There was a single primary return received (…) 16 seconds before SSR returns were lost. […] No explanation can be offered for its presence.” Pan AM 103 AAIB September 10 2020 — Boeing has delivered more than 1,500 of these … Continue reading

Posted in Boeing 747 | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

101 Years Ago — J. Edgar Hoover Becomes FBI Deputy Director (August 22 1921)

“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 … Continue reading

Posted in FBI | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Two Years Ago –The August 4 2020 Beirut Explosion : Debunking the FBI Conspiracy Theory [UPDATE : Lebanon marks grim anniversary of Beirut explosion]

“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.” … Continue reading

Posted in 2020 Beirut Explosion | Tagged , | 1 Comment

LOCKERBIE — The Genesis of the Tehran Conspiracy Theory

“Intelligence Agencies create stories inside stories, each with its carefully constructed trail of evidence, in order to create false trails as diversions.” James Jesus Angleton Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence from 1954 to 1975 April 23 2022 — For … Continue reading

Posted in Lockerbie | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

On This Day — Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King (January 15 1929 – Assassinated April 4 1968) [Did J. Edgar Hoover Order the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?]

“The debate over how much the government should know about our private lives has never been more heated. Should intelligence agencies be able to sweep our email, read our texts, track our phone calls, locate us by GPS? Much of … Continue reading

Posted in FBI | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

April Fool — Beware : The FBI has no sense of humor! [UPDATE — “A republic, if you can keep it.”]

“You would think those [FBI] idiots would understand that [April Fool] letter. They are really nuts.” William M. Kunstler — US most famous civil‐rights attorney April 1 2022 — In its 1970 April Fool’s issue, The Spectator — Columbia University’s … Continue reading

Posted in April Fool, FBI | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Sunday Jokes — The Cultural Differences among US Intel Agencies [Unclassified Summary of Assessment on COVID-19 Origin]

“Variations in analytic views largely stem from differences in how agencies weigh intelligence reporting and scientific publications, and intelligence and scientific gaps.” Unclassified Summary of Assessment on COVID-19 Origin — ODNI (August 27 2021) March 20 2022 — Thank God, … Continue reading

Posted in Cartoon, CIA, FBI, John Brennan, MollyHale | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment