Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
John Le Carre on Russia, Banking and the Deep State
September 8th, 2010Via: BBC: “I was laughed at, in a way, when the Cold War ended and the wall came down,” he told Today presenter Justin Webb. “‘Poor old Le Carre, what will become of him? Nobody’s spying anymore.’ “The reality is, the budgets have never been bigger, the recruitment has never been more wholesale.” Today’s Russian […]
Pentagon Declined to Investigate Hundreds of Purchases of Child Pornography
September 4th, 2010Via: Yahoo News: A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into the purchase of child pornography online turned up more than 250 civilian and military employees of the Defense Department — including some with the highest available security clearance — who used credit cards or PayPal to purchase images of children in sexual situations. But […]
Police Release Scientist in Miami Airport Scare Who Had Previously Been Involved with Smuggling Plague Samples
September 4th, 2010Via: NBC Miami: A world-renowned Texas scientist specializing in infectious diseases who was once charged with smuggling dangerous samples of plague bacteria into the U.S. was questioned by authorities after a suspicious item found in his luggage caused a massive evacuation at Miami International Airport Thursday night. Dr. Thomas C. Butler, 70, was questioned by […]
Mossad Impersonating U.S. Intelligence Operatives and Trying to Recruit Arab Americans
September 4th, 2010Via: Washington Post: The CIA took an internal poll not long ago about friendly foreign intelligence agencies. The question, mostly directed to employees of the clandestine service branch, was: Which are the best allies among friendly spy services, in terms of liaison with the CIA, and which are the worst? In other words, who acts […]
Blackwater: The Cutout Formed Cutouts
September 4th, 2010Via: New York Times: Blackwater Worldwide created a web of more than 30 shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in American government contracts after the security company came under intense criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, according to Congressional investigators and former Blackwater officials. While it is not clear how […]
JPMorgan Said to End Proprietary Trading to Meet Volcker Rule
September 2nd, 2010Hmm. This is hard to believe. I smell a swindle in here somewhere, but I can’t point to anything specific. Are they really going to roll this up? Note how the article states that they’re firing between 50 and 75 employees. For a firm like Morgan, this means that room fulls of black box developers […]
Karzai’s Brother Calls for U.S. to Shore Kabul Bank as Withdrawals Accelerate
September 2nd, 2010Dear Uncle $ugar, We have replenished our supply of suitcases and we’re ready to fill them up and head to the airport. Send money soon. Love and kisses, The Karzai Clan In other news: Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on CIA Payroll Afghan Drug Trade: “Most of the government officials are involved.” […]
International Center for 9/11 Studies Secures Release of Thousands of Photos and Videos from NIST
September 1st, 2010Via: 911 Blogger: The International Center for 9/11 Studies has secured the release of hundreds of hours of video footage and tens of thousands of photographs used by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for its investigation of the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Building 7. This material is […]
Mystery Over Russian General Found Dead on Turkish Beach
September 1st, 2010Via: Guardian: A mysterious accident in which one of Russia’s most powerful spies was found dead on a Turkish beach has provoked speculation that the deputy head of the country’s foreign military intelligence service had been murdered. The badly decomposed body of Yuri Ivanov washed up last month on the shore of the Mediterranean, and […]
Self-Described CIA Assassin Dies in Gun Accident
September 1st, 2010Alternate headline: Douchebag Juicer Shoots Himself in the Leg. My guess is that my goat is more likely to be a CIA assassin than Roland W. Haas. Read the reviews of his book on Amazon, and the comments. Mr. CIA Assassin doesn’t know what TS-SCI means? Come on. I wasn’t going to post this, but […]
