Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA
April 8th, 2016Via: The Intercept: KINCENTIAL SCIENCES, a company with an innovative line of cosmetic products marketed as a way to erase blemishes and soften skin, has caught the attention of beauty bloggers on YouTube, Oprah’s lifestyle magazine, and celebrity skin care professionals. Documents obtained by The Intercept reveal that the firm has also attracted interest and […]
CIA Leaves Explosives on School Bus After Training Exercise
April 1st, 2016Via: AFP: A Virginia school bus ferrying students to and from classes this week had explosives under the hood after the CIA accidentally left them following a training exercise, the intelligence agency said. “Last week, a CIA K-9 unit conducted a routine training exercise with law enforcement officials in Loudoun County, VA,” the CIA said […]
Paul Le Roux, International Criminal… Creator of TrueCrypt
March 29th, 2016TrueCrypt is actually just a tiny pimple on the larger story of Paul Le Roux. But if you thought the situation surrounding the genesis of such a program would be weird, you have no idea: “The Mastermind” is a story about a new kind of internet-enabled cartel and its machinations, from murder in the Philippines, […]
In Syria, Militias Armed by the Pentagon Fight Those Armed by the CIA
March 29th, 2016Via: Los Angeles Times: Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the […]
Binney: NSA Is So Overwhelmed with Data, It’s No Longer Effective
March 23rd, 2016On the contrary, I think it’s remarkably effective, as long as effective means being able to use retroactive surveillance and parallel construction to secretly build criminal cases against anyone the state wants to disappear into its private/for-profit gulags. Furthermore, most “terrorist” attacks are very obviously false flag operations. So tune away on the Magic 8 […]
Former Israeli Intel Operatives Run Security at Brussels Airport
March 23rd, 2016But wait, there’s more. Via: sott.net: The aviation and general security services firm ICTS handles security operations at Brussels airport, the scene of a bomb attack yesterday morning. … This will not, however, be the first time that ICTS has come under scrutiny for possible security lapses leading to a ‘Muslim terror attack’. As the […]
Harper’s Magazine, Where ‘Legalize It All’ Means More Taxes and State Control of Drugs
March 21st, 2016In the piece below, there’s no mention of the fact that the CIA has been in the narcotics trafficking business for decades, which is an interesting tidbit to leave out of an article about disastrous drug policies. With that elephant in the room, let’s all gasp in shock with the author about the Nixon administration […]
Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos
March 19th, 2016Woh. Via: Stanford:
We Choose the Nominee, Not the Voters: Senior GOP Official
March 16th, 2016It’s the same with the Democrats. With regard specifically to Trump, I’m going with the same guess as I’ve had all along. Trump becomes the candidate for the Republicans, and Hillary becomes President. Alternate scenario, the Republicans shit the bed over Trump, some manner of a third party candidate situation results, and—that’s right—Hillary becomes President. […]
NSA Intercepts for Law Enforcement
March 16th, 2016I said it back in 2013 when we learned about parallel construction. It’s NSA’s infrastructure. The cat was completely out of the bag back then. Via: Privacy SOS: The wall separating “foreign” intelligence operations from domestic criminal investigations has finally, fully collapsed. The FBI now plans to act on a rule change initiated by the […]
