Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Wikileaks Stratfor Emails
February 27th, 2012Via: Wikileaks: Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence […]
Statements by James Blackheath, House of Lords, 16 February 2012
February 18th, 2012Also see: Did Somebody Just Try to Buy the British Government? Record $6 Trillion of Fake U.S. Bonds Seized in Mafia Probe Via: Lords Hansard: 16 Feb 2012 : Column 1016 5.20 pm Lord James of Blackheath: My Lords, I hope the minute that that has taken has not come off my time. I do […]
Record $6 Trillion of Fake U.S. Bonds Seized in Mafia Probe
February 17th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Italian anti-mafia prosecutors said they seized a record $6 trillion of allegedly fake U.S. Treasury bonds, an amount that’s almost half of the U.S.’s public debt. The bonds were found hidden in makeshift compartments of three safety deposit boxes in Zurich, the prosecutors from the southern city of Potenza said in an e-mailed […]
Major Obama Donors Are Tied to Pepe Cardona, Mexican Fugitive
February 7th, 2012So, Cardona is the Obama regime’s version of Jack Abramoff? Something like that. Fuggetaboutit. Via: New York Times: Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and donors for President […]
Egypt Will Prosecute 19 Americans on Charges Related to Financing of Resistance Groups
February 6th, 2012Via: New York Times: Egypt’s military-led government said Sunday that it would put 19 Americans and two dozen others on trial in a politically charged criminal investigation into the foreign financing of nonprofit groups that has shaken the 30-year alliance between the United States and Egypt.
2010 Attack on VeriSign Just Recently Disclosed
February 2nd, 2012Via: Reuters: VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world’s websites, has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the leading Internet infrastructure company. The previously unreported breaches occurred in 2010 at the Reston, Virginia-based company, which is ultimately responsible for the integrity of […]
LAPD Chief William Bratton: LAPD Works with CIA
January 26th, 2012Via: current.com: “In dealing with information intelligence as it relates to terrorism, the CIA has a lot of information that is appropriate for use by American police forces,” Bratton says. At the LAPD, “We had interactions with the CIA in the sense of meeting from them from time to time, certainly, just in order to […]
Google Admits It Will Track Everything Its Users Do, No Opt Out
January 25th, 2012In other words, Google now admits doing things that Cryptogon readers have known it has been doing for about a decade: Tracking everything. Via: Washington Post: Google said Tuesday it will follow the activities of users across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a shift in strategy that is expected to invite greater scrutiny of […]
Former CIA Officer Charged with Leaking Classified Information
January 24th, 2012Via: Chicago Tribune: A former CIA officer is facing decades in prison after being charged Monday with disclosing classified information to journalists, the latest in an unprecedented Obama administration crackdown against national security leaks. John Kiriakou, who made news in 2007 when he became one of the first CIA operatives to speak publicly about water […]
The Roots of Bain Capital in El Salvador’s Civil War
January 22nd, 2012Via: Salon: A significant portion of the seed money that created Mitt Romney’s private equity firm, Bain Capital, was provided by wealthy oligarchs from El Salvador, including members of a family with a relative who allegedly financed rightist groups that used death squads during the country’s bloody civil war in the 1980s Bain, the source […]
