Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
U.S. Kindle Users Can Now Borrow E-Books from Local Libraries
September 22nd, 2011DISCLOSURE: Cryptogon is an Amazon affiliate. This whole Kindle thing moved so fast that I didn’t really have a chance to form my nonspecific sense of doom about it into much besides, Amazon is Tracking the Most-Highlighted Kindle Passages. And now, people will be signing into their Amazon accounts to borrow ebooks from public libraries. […]
SSL Broken
September 21st, 2011SSL… that’s ok for buying a book online, but no tinfoiler in his right mind would bet his life on SSL. —Cryptogon, 2007 Turns out, the part about it being ok for buying a book online was too optimistic. Haha. Via: Register: Researchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the […]
Lloyd’s Insurer Sues Saudi Arabia for ‘Funding 9/11 Attacks’
September 19th, 2011Well, well, this could meander into all sorts of interesting areas. Update: Lawsuit Withdrawn That didn’t take long. Via: Insurance Journal: Lloyd’s London’s Syndicate 3500 filed a notice on Monday, Sept. 19, to voluntarily dismiss its federal lawsuit against Saudi Arabia over 9/11 claims. The lawsuit, first filed on Sept. 8, had asserted that Saudi […]
U.S. Unable to Account for 36k Pounds of Its Own Weapons Grade Uranium and Plutonium
September 15th, 2011This is madness. Via: Business Insider: Under special nuclear cooperation agreements, the United States sent 38,580 pounds of enriched uranium and plutonium to more than two-dozen foreign agencies and is unable to account for 36,000 pounds of the material. The Government Accountability Office report says these 27 cooperation agreements, set up to facilitate cross border […]
NRO Will Display Ancient Spy Satellites
September 15th, 2011Via: The Space Review: Later this week the National Reconnaissance Office is going to reveal information on two of its Cold War era satellite programs, HEXAGON and GAMBIT, and publicly unveil hardware that has been classified for decades. GAMBIT was started in 1960, with a first launch in 1963. HEXAGON started in 1966, with a […]
Swissair Crash May Not Have Been an Accident
September 15th, 2011Via: CBC: An investigator looking into the crash of Swissair Flight 111 near Peggys Cove, N.S., says he was prevented by senior RCMP and aviation safety officials from pursuing his theory that an incendiary device might have been the cause. “There was sufficient grounds to suspect a criminal device on that plane,” retired RCMP sergeant […]
Rogue Trader Cost UBS $2 Billion
September 15th, 2011If UBS lost $2 billion, who wound up with it? Via: Reuters: Swiss bank UBS said a trader had lost it around $2 billion in unauthorized deals, and police in London arrested 31-year-old Kweku Adoboli in connection with the case. Adoboli — a director of exchange traded funds and “Delta 1” working in the bank’s […]
Conspiracy of Silence
September 13th, 2011Via: YouTube: Related: The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska by John W. DeCamp
CIA Wants Court to Invoke Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) in Case Involving Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla
September 13th, 2011Via: Narco News: The fingerprints of the CIA have surfaced in a controversial federal criminal case pending in Chicago against Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, an alleged kingpin in the Sinaloa “drug cartel.” US government prosecutors filed pleadings in the case late last week seeking to invoke the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), a measure designed […]
Post-September 11, NSA ‘Enemies’ Include Americans
September 13th, 2011Bamford mentions the new NSA facility in Utah, but he doesn’t mention the other new one in Texas. Ironically, he’s quoted in this piece about the new facility in San Antonio: Surrounded by barbwire fencing, the anonymous yet massive building on West Military Drive near San Antonio’s Loop 410 freeway looms mysteriously with no identifying […]
