Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Jeffrey Epstein: Billionaire Pedophile Kept Secret Journal Which Listed Under-Aged Victims, Celebrity Guests He ‘Entertained’
March 6th, 2011Update: FBI to Reopen Case It was a honeypot. Via: Daily Mail: The FBI is to reopen its investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein following Mail on Sunday revelations about his sexual exploitation of teenage girls and his links with high-profile individuals, including Prince Andrew. The Bureau wants to interview Esptein’s former personal ‘masseuse’, Virginia […]
ATF Memo On Operation That Allowed Weapons Shipments To Mexican Drug Cartels: Fortunately, Coverage By Mainstream Media, “Seems To Have Fizzled”
March 6th, 2011Via: CBS News: As CBS News investigates “gun walking” allegations — that ATF let thousands assault rifles and other weapons get into the hands of criminal suspects — ATF bosses have remained largely silent. We’ve had ongoing requests for information and on camera interviews with both ATF and the Department of Justice since prior to […]
Strange NRO Mission Patches
March 4th, 2011I’ve seen a lot of weird military patches, but I think that this one might take the cake. It’s related to the NRO satellite that was launched back in January, USA-224, also known as NRO Launch 49 (NRO L-49). The Latin means something like, “First Heavy from the West,” or “First Heavy from the Sunset.” […]
Computer Expert Says U.S. and Israel Behind Stuxnet Worm
March 4th, 2011For your news-not-news file folder. Via: AFP: A German computer security expert said Thursday he believes the United States and Israel’s Mossad unleashed the malicious Stuxnet worm on Iran’s nuclear program. “My opinion is that the Mossad is involved,” Ralph Langner said while discussing his in-depth Stuxnet analysis at a prestigious TED conference in the […]
ATF Let Hundreds of U.S. Weapons Fall into Hands of Suspected Mexican Gunrunners
March 4th, 2011Keep in mind, there just happens to be a whistleblower in this particular case. Via: Center for Public Integrity: Hoping to score a major prosecution of Mexican drug lords, federal prosecutors and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives permitted hundreds of guns to be purchased and retained by suspected straw buyers with the […]
CENTCOM Tries to Pull the ‘Persona Management Software’ Fat Out of the Fire
March 3rd, 2011Mmm hmm. Via: Washington Post: The U.S. Central Command says its new “Persona” social media “infiltration” software is designed to cozy up to extremist bloggers overseas, not law-abiding Americans chatting on Facebook or similar sites. Earlier this month, the Web buzzed with a report that the software was designed to “manage ‘fake people’ on social […]
Former Goldman Sachs Director Charged with Insider Trading
March 3rd, 2011Via: Globe and Mail: On the afternoon of September 23, 2008, in the midst of some of the darkest days in American financial history, a handful of people dialled into a conference call and learned a piece of good news. Legendary investor Warren Buffett was about to invest billions in Goldman Sachs Group Inc., a […]
Lawyer Says Sirhan Sirhan Was Brainwashed
March 2nd, 2011Via: ABC News: A lawyer for Sirhan Sirhan, the confessed assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, plans to present new evidence at a parole board hearing suggesting that he did not act alone, was potentially brain washed and cannot remember anything about the 43-year-old shooting. “There is no question he was hypno-programmed,” lawyer William F. Pepper […]
Congo Gold Smuggling Ring’s Big Texas Ties
March 2nd, 2011Via: Mad Cow Productions: A Dallas-based Gulfstream V luxury jet seized for gold smuggling last month by authorities in the war-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is also under investigation for drug running by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The Gulfstream implicated in gold trafficking in Goma was on the DEA’s […]
U.S. Helicopters, Colombian Money Laundering
February 28th, 2011Via: Colombia Reports: To get a sense of just how interconnected the formal and illicit dimensions of international political economy are, take a peek at this brief cable from the U.S. Embassy in Bogota published by WikiLeaks Sunday. The cable details then-Ambassador William Woods’ hunt for two missing helicopters that had originally been sold to […]
