Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
‘Berlin’ Is Revealed as Kryptos Clue
November 23rd, 2010Via: Wired: “Berlin” is the highly anticipated clue from artist Jim Sanborn that’s meant to help crypto sleuths unlock the cipher to his enigmatic Kryptos sculpture. The clue was revealed Saturday in a New York Times article. Sanborn gave the newspaper six letters from the remaining 97 letters that have yet to be solved in […]
Insider Trading: Criminal Charges, Fines Against Large Number of Wall Street Executives and Investors
November 22nd, 2010Upstarts get busted in an attempt to maintain appearances while public menaces Goldman Sachs and AIG are allowed to slip from the headlines. Via: Los Angeles Times: Federal investigators in New York are wrapping up an extensive investigation into allegations of insider trading and other stock-trading irregularities that could bring criminal charges or monetary fines […]
Into the Abyss: The Diving Suit That Turns Men Into Fish
November 21st, 2010I had thought that the liquid breathing system depicted in The Abyss was purely fictional. According to the developer of the system in the piece below, U.S. Navy SEALs were using such a system in the 1980s. Via: Independent: Humans have proven themselves remarkably adept at learning to do what other animals can do naturally. […]
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 […]
