Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Largest Ever West Coast Rocket Launch Carried National Reconnaissance Office Satellite Into Space
January 21st, 2011Update: Some Guesses Mentioned on CNN Just to clarify what’s being said below: It’s not a KH-11, which hasn’t been produced since 1990. See the Wikipedia page for “KH-12”: “KH-12” is an unofficial designation of the successor to the KH-11 KENNAN (“Crystal”) spy satellite. A system with the official designation KH-12 does not exist because […]
Blackwater’s Prince Building Mercenary Force with Apartheid-Era ‘Hit Squad’ Officer
January 21st, 2011Via: Raw Story: According to news reports published Thursday, Prince has partnered with an African-based security company, Saracen International, to win security contracts from the Somali government that would see the mercenaries fight the on-land part of the war against Somali high-seas pirates, and would also go after al-Shabab, the Islamist militant group that has […]
Former Dictator ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier Back in Haiti
January 17th, 2011Did he arrive on a Blackwater plane? Via: Time: In the past 12 months, Haiti — already the western hemisphere’s economic basket case — has suffered an epic earthquake that according to latest estimates killed more than 250,000 people and leveled the country’s infrastructure, a cholera epidemic that has claimed thousands more lives and a […]
New York Times on Stuxnet: Israelis Tested it at Dimona, Developed with Help from Siemens, Worm Sends Fake Data to Plant Operators Indicating Normal Centrifuge Operations as the Machines Destroy Themselves
January 16th, 2011Via: New York Times: The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. Over the past two years, according to intelligence and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a […]
Missouri: Concrete “Home” of Overwatch Systems CTO Is One of the Largest in the U.S.
January 14th, 2011Overwatch is wholly owned by defense giant Textron. This is from the Overwatch homepage: Overwatch delivers multi-source intelligence (multi-INT), geospatial analysis and custom intelligence solutions to the Department of Defense, national agencies and civilian organizations. Our solutions enable analysts to integrate and leverage multiple intelligence sources to improve situational understanding and deliver actionable intelligence in […]
IBM’s Watson: How About, “We’re Fucked” for $100, Alex
January 14th, 2011Update: Watson Won Via: PC World: Wrapping up a three-day run on the Jeopardy game show, IBM’s Watson computer has beaten two former champions in a historic match of man versus machine. —End Update— Ah, don’t worry. Surely, the regime will use this for good. *sigh* Via: Boston Globe: IBM recently created a supercomputer named […]
CIA Asset Susan Lindauer Blows the Whistle on 9/11, Iraq
January 10th, 2011Via: Truth Jihad: Susan Lindauer, author of Extreme Prejudice, is the first CIA asset to have spoken out, under her own name and for the record, on Israeli complicity in 9/11, the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center, and the specific, detailed foreknowledge of the time, target, and means of the 9/11 attacks held […]
How the U.S. Let al-Qaida Get Its Hands On an Iraqi Weapons Factory
January 8th, 2011This piece makes absolutely perfect sense, as long as you know that al-Qaida is run by CIA, and that one of the main objectives in any U.S. led war is to keep it going for as long as possible. My guess is that this operation was a top to bottom CIA production, maybe using some […]
Ex-CIA Officer Indicted for Revealing that ‘Flawed’ Intelligence Operation May Have Helped Iran Gain Nuclear Technology
January 7th, 2011Via: New York Times: The former officer, Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, who worked at the C.I.A. from 1993 until he was fired in 2002, was arrested Thursday in St. Louis. He was indicted Dec. 22 on charges that he disclosed restricted information to a journalist about a clandestine program intended to impede the progress of unnamed […]
Construction of NSA’s $1.5 Billion Data Center in Utah Is Underway
January 6th, 2011Via: Desert News: Officially named the Utah Data Center, the facility’s role in aggregating and verifying dizzying volumes of data for the intelligence community has already earned it the nickname “Spy Center.” Its really long moniker is the Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative Data Center — the first in the nation’s intelligence community.
