Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing
October 5th, 2012Via: MIT Technology Review: Inside a blocky building in a Vancouver suburb, across the street from a dowdy McDonald’s, is a place chilled colder than anywhere in the known universe. Inside that is a computer processor that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the CIA’s investment arm, In-Q-Tel, believe can tap the quirks of quantum mechanics […]
‘So, who does gain from the drugs trade?’
October 3rd, 2012The private prison scam is a key component of this as well. Via: Al Jazeera: Clearly a small number of criminals make significant sums from the trade. But most people are working for little more than subsistence wages, from the peasants growing coca plants in the Andes or opium poppies in Afghanistan to the dealers […]
New Details Emerge on How the U.S. Government Armed Mexican Drug Cartels
October 1st, 2012Via: ABC / Univision: On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez. Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and […]
Air Force Might Move X-37B Operations to Florida
September 30th, 2012Via: Florida Today: The military’s mysterious mini-shuttle operations might be consolidated on Florida’s Space Coast, and the upcoming third flight of the Air Force vehicle might land at Kennedy Space Center’s three-mile shuttle runway. In what could be an economic boon for an area still reeling from the 2011 retirement of the U.S. shuttle fleet, […]
Big Sis Doesn’t Use Email
September 29th, 2012Via: National Journal: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who is a key player in national cybersecurity efforts, said on Friday she doesn’t use e-mail. “Don’t laugh, but I just don’t use e-mail at all,” she said during a discussion at a Cybersecurity Summit hosted by National Journal and Government Executive. She didn’t explain what communications […]
Virginia: Family Killed, Husband and Wife Both Had Direct Links to Black World Contractors
September 28th, 2012Update: ‘He said he wanted to expose something at work’ Where did Albert Peterson work after he left Northrop Grumman? Update/Answer: BAE Cryptogon reader Alma Verdad found his Linkedin page which indicates that he was a, “Senior Subcontracts Administrator at BAE Systems Information Technology.” Via: Daily Mail: Mr Peterson, also mentioned pressures at work that […]
Secret Cold War Aerosol Experiments on Poor, Minority Communities in St. Louis
September 27th, 2012Make sure to stick with this video to the end and notice what the government did with the building where many of the the people (test subjects/victims) lived. Via: Proquest / University of Missouri: The Manhattan-Rochester Coalition, research on the health effects of radioactive materials, and tests on vulnerable populations without consent in St. Louis, […]
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key Apologizes to Kim Dotcom for Illegal Surveillance
September 27th, 2012Via: New Zealand Herald: Prime Minister John Key says he apologises to Kim Dotcom for what he has described as “basic errors” by the Government Communications and Security Bureau, but that has not stopped opposition parties from calling for a more detailed independent inquiry. In a media conference after the release of the report into […]
Living Under Drones
September 26th, 2012Via: Guardian: The CIA’s programme of “targeted” drone killings in Pakistan’s tribal heartlands is politically counterproductive, kills large numbers of civilians and undermines respect for international law, according to a report by US academics. More: Living Under Drones
New Zealand Government Communications Security Bureau Illegally Targeted Kim Dotcom, Bram van der Kolk and Their Families
September 24th, 2012Update: “A High Court judge is “concerned” about how Government spies could have failed to realise the residency status of internet mogul Kim Dotcom. — Via: New Zealand Herald: An inquiry into unlawful bugging by the Government’s foreign intelligence arm relates to intercepted communications by Kim Dotcom himself and his co-accused Bram van der Kolk, […]
