Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Longtime CIA Case Officer and Chief Propagandist in Hollywood Claims JFK Was Shot from the Front, and ‘That There Was a Craft from Beyond This World that Crashed at Roswell’
June 27th, 2012In this Coast to Coast interview, longtime CIA employee, Chase Brandon, establishes limited hangouts for conspiracies related to the JFK assassination and the Roswell incident. In case you don’t know what a limited hangout is, this definition is from Wikipedia: A limited hangout, or partial hangout, is a public relations or propaganda technique that involves […]
Mexico City Airport Shooting Suspects Are Police
June 26th, 2012Via: MSNBC: Three policemen died in a shootout with two other officers suspected of drug trafficking at Mexico City’s airport on Monday, as panicked travelers scrambled for cover in the busy facility. The shootout occurred when three federal officers approached the two suspects in the airport’s Terminal 2, which handles international and domestic flights. Two […]
Obama Asserts Executive Privilege on Fast and Furious Documents
June 20th, 2012Via: CNN: President Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege over documents sought by a House committee investigating the botched Fast and Furious gun-running sting, according to a letter to the panel Wednesday from Deputy Attorney Gen. James Cole. The move means the Department of Justice can withhold the documents from the House Oversight Committee, which […]
NSA Claims It Would Violate Americans’ Privacy To Say How Many Of Us It Spied On
June 20th, 2012Via: Network World: How many Americans had their privacy violated via the NSA warrantless wiretap powers granted under the FISA Amendment Act of 2008? The NSA Inspector General said they can’t tell us as that would violate Americans’ privacy.
U.S., Israel Developed Flame Computer Virus
June 20th, 2012Via: Washington Post: The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials with knowledge of the effort. The massive piece of malware secretly mapped and monitored Iran’s computer networks, sending […]
Active CIA Employees Developed Alien Language for Disney Children’s Film
June 18th, 2012[???] Via: Silver Screen Saucers: One of the most eyebrow-raising cases of government involvement in a Hollywood UFO movie in recent years is that of Race to Witch Mountain (2009), which apparently received extensive support from the CIA – albeit in an ‘off the books’ capacity – despite its plot drawing extensively from UFO mythology […]
Flame Uses Sneakernet Functionality Against Targets on Airgapped Networks
June 16th, 2012Via: Forbes: The program known as Flame has fascinated the cybersecurity industry with its sophistication and versatility as a Swiss-Army knife of cyberspying. Now researchers have discovered another unexpected tool in its data-stealing arsenal: You. Malware analysts at the security firm Bitdefender say they’ve found a unique capability within Flame’s code that would potentially allow […]
Could U.S. Cyberspies Have Moles Inside Microsoft?
June 16th, 2012Another possibility is that this is blowback from Microsoft’s recent collaboration with NSA. Via: PCPro: US government officials could be working under cover at Microsoft to help the country’s cyber-espionage programme, according to one leading security expert. The warning comes in the wake of the Flame virus that targeted key computers in the Middle East, […]
What Facebook Knows
June 14th, 2012Via: MIT / Technology Review: If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public, its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world. It would far outstrip any regime past or present in how intimately it records the lives of its citizens. Private conversations, family […]
U.S. Bolsters Ties to Fighters in Syria
June 14th, 2012In other news: Syria: Clinton Admits U.S. On Same Side As Al Qaeda To Destabilize Assad Government. Via: Wall Street Journal: U.S. intelligence operatives and diplomats have stepped up their contacts with Syrian rebels in part to help organize their burgeoning military operations against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, according to senior U.S. officials. As part […]
