Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Russia Frees Israeli Mercenary
November 20th, 2010Via: BBC: Russia has released Israeli mercenary Yair Klein, who was sought by Colombia for his involvement in the training of paramilitary squads, reports say. Klein, a former Israeli army soldier, is on his way to Israel, Interfax news agency reports. In 2001, a Colombian court convicted him in absentia of training right-wing guerrilla groups. […]
Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S.
November 15th, 2010Not news, but… Via: New York Times: A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and […]
Russia Hunts Double Agent Who Betrayed U.S. Cell
November 11th, 2010Via: MSNBC: The head of Moscow’s deep cover spying operations in the United States was a double agent who had betrayed at least 10 compatriots in a major blow to Russian intelligence, a Russian newspaper said on Thursday. Kommersant reported that Colonel Shcherbakov, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service’s department for “illegal” spying operations in […]
No Charges for CIA Tape Destruction
November 10th, 2010Via: Reuters: No CIA personnel will face criminal charges for destroying videotapes of harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. While the decision will spare the CIA and the Obama administration the potential backlash and embarrassment that a trial could have generated, another federal probe continues into possible abuse of […]
Man in Disguise Boards International Flight
November 5th, 2010What do you make of this one? Definitely click through to see the picture. Via: CNN: Canadian authorities are investigating an “unbelievable” incident in which a passenger boarded an Air Canada flight disguised as an elderly man, according to a confidential alert obtained by CNN. The incident occurred on October 29 on Air Canada flight […]
Did Somebody Just Try to Buy the British Government?
November 3rd, 2010Update: Video —End Update— Wow, oh wow. Here’s one for your Double Plus WTF? file folder. It’s in the Lords Hansard. That’s the link. Scroll down to 1 Nov 2010 : Column 1538. Tell me this is simply a case of a codger and too many single malt drinkies. If not, this is the most […]
George Hickenlooper, Director of ‘Casino Jack,’ a Film About Jack Abramoff, Found Dead
November 1st, 2010Natural causes… Via: New York Times: George Hickenlooper, a director whose credits include an Emmy-winning documentary about the making of “Apocalypse Now” and a film starring Kevin Spacey as the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff that is scheduled to open in December, died on Saturday in Denver. He was 47. He was in Denver to spend […]
3D Building Projection
November 1st, 2010This will definitely be old news to many of you, but I just randomly stumbled across this tonight. 3D animated scenes are projected onto building exteriors. The computer generated imagery incorporates the building’s architecture. The effect can be pretty astonishing. Here are several clips of work done by a company called NuFormer. I’ll include one […]
Overall U.S. Intelligence Budget: $80.1 Billion
October 29th, 2010Does the number include all of the special access programs? Via: Los Angeles Times: The U.S. government on Thursday disclosed for the first time in more than a decade what it spent in total on intelligence gathering in the fiscal year that just ended: $80.1 billion. That’s more than the U.S. spent on the Department […]
Congressional Staffers as Stock Pickers
October 27th, 2010The point is that LOTS of people who aren’t corporate insiders know the news before the market does. They buy before the news comes out. This happens every day. —Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets Via: Wall Street Journal: The Journal analysis showed that an aide to a Republican member of the Senate Banking […]
