Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
American Intelligence Officials Created a ‘Safe Haven’ in the United States for Certain Nazis
December 12th, 2010Via: New York Times: After World War II, American counterintelligence recruited former Gestapo officers, SS veterans and Nazi collaborators to an even greater extent than had been previously disclosed and helped many of them avoid prosecution or looked the other way when they escaped, according to thousands of newly declassified documents.
A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives
December 12th, 2010Via: New York Times: On the third Wednesday of every month, the nine members of an elite Wall Street society gather in Midtown Manhattan. The men share a common goal: to protect the interests of big banks in the vast market for derivatives, one of the most profitable — and controversial — fields in finance. […]
Madoff Trustee Launches $19.6 Billion Lawsuit
December 11th, 2010Via: CBS News: As Saturday’s deadline looms to file claims in the recovery of assets from Bernard Madoff’s massive fraud, the trustee seeking money for the swindler’s victims has sued an Austrian banker, claiming she masterminded a 23-year conspiracy that facilitated Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and funneled billions of dollars into her “deliberately Byzantine” network of […]
FAA Loses Track of 119,000 Aircraft; Situation Could Facilitate Terrorism and Drug Trafficking
December 10th, 2010Oh the humanity. *chortle* Even more shocked than me would be Daniel Hopsicker, who covers CIA drug running (and the tail number boogie) full time. Via: AP: The Federal Aviation Administration is missing key information on who owns one-third of the 357,000 private and commercial aircraft in the U.S. — a gap the agency fears […]
Anonymous Running Attacks on Anti-Wikileaks Sites with Low Orbit Ion Cannon
December 9th, 2010LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon): LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) is a network stress testing application, written in C# and developed by “praetox”. It attempts a denial-of-service attack on the target site by flooding the server with TCP packets, UDP packets, or HTTP requests with the intention of disrupting the service of a particular host. […]
This Is No Ordinary Bank
December 9th, 2010Via: Ventura County Star / AP: This is no ordinary bank: The ATMs are in Latin. Priests use a private entrance. A life-size portrait of Pope Benedict XVI hangs on the wall. Nevertheless, the Institute for Religious Works is a bank, and it’s under harsh new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led […]
Shell Claimed it Inserted Staff Into Main Ministries of Nigerian Government
December 9th, 2010Standard operating procedure. Via: Guardian: The oil giant Shell claimed it had inserted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government, giving it access to politicians’ every move in the oil-rich Niger Delta, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. The company’s top executive in Nigeria told US diplomats that Shell had seconded […]
Explosive-Laden California Home To Be Destroyed
December 7th, 2010I don’t know what category to use here. Via: AP: Neighbors gasped when authorities showed them photos of the inside of the Southern California ranch-style home: Crates of grenades, mason jars of white, explosive powder and jugs of volatile chemicals that are normally the domain of suicide bombers. Prosecutors say Serbian-born George Jakubec quietly packed […]
List of Facilities Vital to U.S. Security Leaked
December 6th, 2010If you look at the State Department document, notice how many times the phrase, “undersea cable landing,” appears? I stopped counting after 50. This goes all the way back to one of my core assumptions on here: If “The Terrorists” were real, this show would have been down long ago. It would take no special […]
Spooks at the Cup
December 6th, 2010Via: New Zealand Herald: Laws allowing spies to intercept text messages, snoop on computers and track people online will be pushed through Parliament before next year’s Rugby World Cup. The move has brought accusations that the Government is passing laws behind closed doors. But Prime Minister John Key says the bill must be passed before […]
