Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
DOD and CIA Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Raid Filmmakers
May 24th, 2012Via: Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained records from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding meetings and communications between government agencies and Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award-winning director of The Hurt Locker, and screenwriter Mark Boal. According […]
NSA Running College Programs for Cyber Operators
May 23rd, 2012Via: Reuters: The National Security Agency is trying to expand U.S. cyber expertise needed for secret intelligence operations against adversaries on computer networks through a new cyber-ops program at selected universities. The cyber-ops curriculum is geared to providing the basic education for jobs in intelligence, military and law enforcement that are so secret they will […]
More Facebook IPO Antics
May 23rd, 2012“There is often VERY strong voodoo at work…” —Facebook IPO I don’t want to bore people with too many posts about this, but the stories are getting pretty interesting for being only a few days out from the IPO. Here’s The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO: The analysts cut their estimates […]
Priest Claims Missing Teenage Girl Had Been Kidnapped ‘For Sex Parties by a Gang Involving Vatican Police and Foreign Diplomats’
May 22nd, 2012Via: Telegraph: A teenage girl whose disappearance in Rome has remained a mystery for 30 years was kidnapped for sex parties by a gang involving Vatican police and foreign diplomats, the Roman Catholic Church’s leading exorcist has claimed. Father Gabriele Amorth, who was appointed by the late John Paul II as the Vatican’s chief exorcist […]
FBI Investigates Bomb Threat at Site of New NSA Data Center in Utah
May 22nd, 2012Via: AP: The FBI is investigating a bomb threat that halted construction of a National Security Agency data center at Utah’s Camp Williams. FBI spokeswoman Debbie Dujanovic Bertram tells The Associated Press that agents are searching the site for anything suspicious. Research Credit: KL
Spain’s Intelligence Services Investigating Role of British and American Media in Fomenting Financial Turmoil
May 18th, 2012Via: Guardian: It is the only economy in Western Europe still in recession: property prices are crashing, unemployment has risen to more than 4 million, and some are already muttering that it could end up with a financial crisis worse than Greece’s. But at least Spain now has someone to blame: the country’s intelligence services […]
Italy Deploys 20,000 to Protect Sensitive Targets After Shooting, Letter Bombs
May 18th, 2012Via: AP: Italy increased security Thursday at 14,000 sites, and assigned bodyguards to protect 550 individuals after a nuclear energy company official was shot and letter bombs directed to the tax collection agency. Under the enhanced measures, Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri deployed 20,000 law enforcement officers to protect individuals and sensitive sites. In addition, […]
Syrian Rebels Get Influx of Arms with Gulf Neighbors’ Money, U.S. Coordination
May 17th, 2012I’ll just cut and past my commentary from, Obama Administration Moves to Aid Syrian Opposition: In the piece below, we read that this, “Stops short of providing any direct military assistance to the armed opposition.” If you want to read detailed, voluminous accounts of how the U.S. covertly and illegally provides weapons to any state […]
Violent Criminal on Federal Payroll as Informant
May 14th, 2012Via: Seattle Times: Despite a history of abusing women and violent behavior in prison, Joshua Allan Jackson managed to become a federal informant, trigger a citywide Seattle police alert and hold a 18-year-old woman as his sexual prisoner. … For all of this, the 34-year-old Jackson would be just another habitual criminal except for one […]
California: Large Search for FBI Agent Who Worked in ‘National Security Affairs’
May 13th, 2012Update: Body of Missing FBI Agent Found in Burbank Obviously, temperature and humidity will affect this, but if the hikers smelled the corpse, what does that say about when Ivens died? Via: KABC: The body of missing FBI agent Stephen Ivens has been found in a wooded area in Burbank, police confirmed on Tuesday. Authorities […]
