Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Italian Banks Upset with Level of Cash Use; Underground Economy 22% of GDP
January 4th, 2011Via: Reuters: The Italian Banking Association has declared “war on cash” in a country where credit-card usage is less than half the European Union average, according to the Bank of Italy. The association, known by its Italian acronym ABI, says it costs banks and companies as much as 10 billion euros ($13.3 billion) a year […]
John P. Wheeler III: Former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Member of Council on Foreign Relations, Consultant to Mitre Corporation Found Dumped in Landfill
January 3rd, 2011Update: Wheeler’s Widow Thinks it Was Assassination; “Sounds Like a Pro to Me” Via: Salon: The silence strengthens a hunch Klyce has had since the beginning: That Wheeler’s death wasn’t random. “I think perhaps no one has been on the reward because they’ve already been paid,” she said. Then there’s the way Wheeler’s body was […]
Ivory Coast on the ‘Brink of Genocide’
January 1st, 2011A few terms that don’t appear in the story below: Oil, diamonds, cobalt, gold, iron, manganese and nickel. Cocoa, however, is mentioned. Via: Guardian: Ivory Coast is on the “brink of genocide” and the world must take urgent action, the country’s new ambassador to the UN has warned. Youssoufou Bamba also claimed that some houses […]
Letter from Poland
December 30th, 2010Via: Letter from Poland / YouTube:
One Tip Now Enough to Put Name on Terrorist Watch List
December 30th, 2010Oh, well, “As long as it is deemed credible.” But of course. This is The Land of the Free. We don’t just add people to the Magic 8 Ball shit list for Whistling Dixie. Who helped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab board Northwest Airlines Flight 253? Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane […]
California Woman Charged with Insider Trading; Selling Secret Information for Over $200,000
December 30th, 2010International Criminals Launder Billions of Dollars Through U.S. Financial Institutions, and Invest Profits in Publicly Traded Companies Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets They Made a Killing: The Use of Knowledge of Covert Operations in the Stock Market Rest assured: This is the chicken feed. Via: AFP: US prosecutors have charged a California woman […]
Operators of the World’s Most Successful Atomic Smuggling Ring Worked for CIA
December 24th, 2010Via: New York Times: A seven-year effort by the Central Intelligence Agency to hide its relationship with a Swiss family who once acted as moles inside the world’s most successful atomic black market hit a turning point on Thursday when a Swiss magistrate recommended charging the men with trafficking in technology and information for making […]
MI6 Spy Gareth Williams: Keys Found Under Body, Inside Bag
December 22nd, 2010Via: Telegraph: Detectives investigating the death of the MI6 spy Gareth Williams have disclosed that keys to the padlock on the sports bag were found inside the North Face holdall, underneath Mr Williams’s naked body. An expert on rescuing people from confined spaces has told investigators that it would be impossible to lock the bag […]
Ted Kaczynski and the CIA?
December 21st, 2010This is pretty flimsy so far, but it’s Part 1. Maybe the story will get more interesting. Via: Times Union: Was my brother, Ted Kaczynski (AKA “the Unabomber”), a sort of “Manchurian candidate” – programmed to kill by our government in a CIA-funded thought-control experiment gone awry? … The Harvard study my brother participated in […]
We Briefly Interrupt the Rubber Hose Beatings…
December 17th, 2010Court Rebuffs Obama on Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment Context: The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE Mark Klein on AT&T/NSA Domestic Surveillance Program: “The NSA is Getting Everything.” Ship of Fools by Ted Kaczynski
