Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Official Cover Espionage Bust in Russia
May 15th, 2013Update: Activity Possibly Linked to Boston Bombing Via: USA Today: The U.S. diplomat expelled for allegedly spying for the CIA was trying to recruit a senior Russian intelligence officer involved with fighting terrorism in the North Caucasus, the region linked to the suspects in the Boston bombing case, the Russian newspaper Kommersan reported, quoting Russian […]
Former Dictator Efraín Ríos Montt Convicted of Genocide in Guatemala
May 11th, 2013“President Ríos Montt is a man of great personal integrity and commitment. … I know he wants to improve the quality of life for all Guatemalans and to promote social justice.” —U.S. President Ronald Regan, 1982 Via: Independent: Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt’s conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing […]
FBI Documents Suggest Feds Read Emails Without a Warrant
May 11th, 2013Via: ACLU: New documents from the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ offices paint a troubling picture of the government’s email surveillance practices. Not only does the FBI claim it can read emails and other electronic communications without a warrant—even after a federal appeals court ruled that doing so violates the Fourth Amendment—but the documents strongly suggest […]
Afghanistan: ‘U.S. Kicks Drug-War Habit, Makes Peace With Afghan Poppies’
May 10th, 2013You’ll love this one. Via: Wired: Because of the poppies, the raw material for most of the world’s heroin, the list of things 1st Lt. Christopher Gackstatter and his 2nd Platoon can’t do in Sartok is far longer than the list of things they can. Marching into the mud-walled village in this sun-baked district of […]
‘And – you’re going to laugh – he said he was in the CIA.’
May 9th, 2013Update: Ariel Castro Found Hanged in His Ohio Prison Cell And that’s that. Via: USA Today: Ariel Castro, who was convicted last month on charges related to the capture and imprisonment of three women in Cleveland, has been found hanged in his prison cell, according to various sources. Castro, 52, was being held at the […]
Alex Rovt, The Fertilizer Baron Of Manhattan
May 6th, 2013This is from 2012, but it’s a keeper. Would someone out there please email this story to Joel and Ethan Coen? This could make Miller’s Crossing look like Sunday School. Via: Bloomberg: Everyone looking to unload overleveraged or overpriced property, another broker who dealt with Rovt told me, is now chasing a stereotype: the Ukrainian […]
Former FBI Agent: U.S. Government Recording All Telephone Calls, Internet Activity; ‘There’s a Way to Look At Digital Communications in the Past… No Digital Communication Is Secure’
May 5th, 2013Well, Cryptogon readers have only been aware of this for about a decade. Via: Guardian: The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy. But a seemingly […]
Coincidence: Alleged Bomber’s Widow Is Granddaughter of Skull & Bones Member
May 5th, 2013Ok, I tried to verify this, because none of the sources that mention it cite references to link it all up. But, yes, I think it’s true. Let’s take it from the top: 1. Richard W. Russell (Katherine Russell’s grandfather), is mentioned on Eric Samuelson’s Skull & Bones membership list, which might be a list […]
‘Uncle Ruslan’ Aided Terrorists from CIA Official’s Home
May 5th, 2013Via: Mad Cow Productions: The uncle of the accused Boston Marathon bombers incorporated, in 1995, a company called the “Congress of Chechen International Organizations.” Even as the company was sending aid to Islamic terrorists in Chechnya, its listed address was in the home of former top CIA official Graham Fuller. Ruslan Tsarni was listed as […]
Guantanamo Attorney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
May 2nd, 2013The piece indicates that Hart had an eleven-year-old daughter. I couldn’t find any other original coverage of his death. All of the sources that I found link back to this Truthout piece. Via: Truthout: An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide. […]
