Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Value Afghan Opium Yield Rose 133 Percent from 2010
January 14th, 2012Via: AFP: Production of opium and the illicit crop’s value soared in Afghanistan last year, the United Nations said in a report released Thursday. According to the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime, farmer income derived from Afghanistan’s opium crop in 2011 was $1.4 billion (1.09 billion euros), representing nine percent of GDP. “Opium is […]
Mossad Operatives Posed as CIA Operatives
January 14th, 2012Via: AFP: Agents with Israel’s Mossad agency posed as American CIA agents in operations to recruit members of the Pakistani militant group Jundallah, a report in Foreign Policy magazine said Friday. Using American dollars and US passports, the agents passed themselves off as members of the Central Intelligence Agency in the operations, notably in London, […]
Flashback 2002: 9/11 Hijackers Passports Were Issued by the CIA – U.S. Consulate Whistleblower
January 11th, 2012Click through for several links related to U.S. State Department whistleblower Michael Springman. Via: YouTube – Michael Springman, National Press Club, June 10, 2002:
U.S. Claims Immunity from Lawsuit Brought by Victims of Medical Atrocities in Guatemala
January 11th, 2012Via: CNN: The United States has rejected the grounds of a lawsuit stemming from experiments involving sexually transmitted diseases and human subjects in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948. At the same time, the government announced increased aid to Guatemala to fight STDs. In its first response to the class-action lawsuit filed last March by the […]
Mexican Drug Cartels Have Their Own Radio Communications Networks
December 29th, 2011Via: AP: When convoys of soldiers or federal police move through the scrubland of northern Mexico, the Zetas drug cartel knows they are coming. The alert goes out from a taxi driver or a street vendor, equipped with a high-end handheld radio and paid to work as a lookout known as a “halcon,” or hawk. […]
Who Is Behind Mystery Spy Devices Dropped Over Syria?
December 26th, 2011Via: intelnews.org: On December 14, residents of a small town in northern Syria reported seeing unidentified aircraft circling overhead, and dropping several small items attached to mini-parachutes. Two days ago, one local resident, Adnan Mustafa, posted on Facebook several photographs of some of these items, which were found scattered around the area. The gadgets, pictured […]
Former Mexican Govrnment Officials Work for U.S. Intelligence
December 19th, 2011Via: AFP: At least 80 former Mexican government officials are currently working as informants for US intelligence agencies, the daily La Jornada reported, citing senior Mexican officials. Most of them are gathering information for the US Drug Enforcement Agency, the prestigious daily reported. Senior officials in the attorney general’s office and the interior ministry said […]
Austrian Makes Formal Request for All Personal Information Facebook Keeps on Him
December 14th, 2011Via: ThreatPost: Be careful of what you ask for. That’s a lesson that Max Schrems of Vienna, Austria, learned the hard way when he sent a formal request to Facebook citing European law and asking for a copy of every piece of personal information that the world’s largest social network had collected on him. After […]
Blackwater, Xe, ACADEMI
December 13th, 2011Via: AFP: The US security firm formerly known as Blackwater, which was barred from Iraq over a deadly 2007 shooting, has renamed itself a second time. USTC Holdings, the investor consortium that acquired ex-Blackwater firm Xe Services in December 2010, announced ACADEMI as the new name and brand for Xe Services. The rebranding came as […]
Multimillion Dollar Crowdturfing Industry Growing Exponentially
December 13th, 2011Incredibly, laughably, this piece doesn’t mention things like the U.S. Military’s desire to develop persona management software or Team Themis (HBGary Federal, Palantir and Berico): After having spent several months studying those emails and otherwise investigating the industry depicted therein, I have revealed my summary of a classified US intelligence programme known as Romas/COIN, as […]
