Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Mafia Money-Laundering Profits Swell in Credit Crisis
July 21st, 2010Via: Bloomberg: The mafia has cranked up money laundering activities in Italy after the credit crunch prompted banks to stop lending, leaving a funding gap that criminal capital has filled, according to the Bank of Italy. “The crisis has given organized crime room to thrive because access to credit has become more difficult,” said Anna […]
Top Secret America
July 19th, 2010Blah. The map doesn’t show the names of the companies. Additionally, according to the fine print on the map: “The locations of company headquarters have been adjusted to appear on the map within a mile of its actual location.” *shaking head* I guess this might deter some under-12-year-olds from figuring out the locations. You can, […]
Columbia University Brain Imaging Center Routinely Injected Mental Patients with Drugs that Contained Potentially Dangerous Impurities
July 18th, 2010The article describes the “impurities” as, “Unknown chemicals that may or may not be related to the tracer itself.” In other words, the victims could have been injected with anything. As usual, the New York Times fails to provide any context for this atrocity du jour, but feel free to build that context on your […]
Pilot in DC9 5.5 Ton Cocaine Bust “Escaped” Custody in Three Separate Countries
July 16th, 2010Via: Mad Cow Productions: The identity of the pilot of the American-registered DC-9 (N900SA) from St. Petersburg FL caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine in Mexico’s Yucatan several years ago, long a mystery, finally saw the light of day recently in Mexico. Carmelo Vasquez Guerra, a Venezuelan, was the DC9’s pilot who was said to […]
NSA Falsified Intercepted Communications in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
July 16th, 2010Via: New York Times: In an echo of the debates over the discredited intelligence that helped make the case for the war in Iraq, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday released more than 1,100 pages of previously classified Vietnam-era transcripts that show senators of the time sharply questioning whether they had been deceived by […]
Former NSA Executive Thomas A. Drake May Pay High Price for Media Leak
July 16th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Throughout 2009, Drake’s attorney appealed to the prosecution to dismiss the case, arguing that Drake had violated no law. But in November, with a new prosecutor at the helm, it became clear that the case would move ahead. That month, Drake ran into Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, in Bethesda. […]
Questions, Questions: Terawatt Research
July 15th, 2010How many “free energy” companies have a former Director of the CIA and FBI on their payrolls? By my math, there’s just one: Terawatt Research, LLC. Here is William Webster’s bio on the Terawatt Research website: Judge William H. Webster (Milbank Tweed Hadley & Mc Cloy) Strategic Advisor William H. Webster was sworn in as […]
Missing Iranian Nuclear Scientist Turns Up in U.S.
July 13th, 2010Update: Iranian Scientist Shahram Amiri Alleges U.S. Torture Via: BBC: An Iranian scientist who claims he was kidnapped by the CIA has said he was subjected to extreme mental and physical torture by the Americans. Shahram Amiri, who has flown from the US to Tehran, also denied being heavily involved in Iran’s nuclear programme. Mr […]
National Security Bullshit Generator
July 8th, 2010I was looking through the Special Access Program (SAP) Policy document hosted over at Cryptome and thought I’d post a section from it because this is just about the most absurd collection of words I’ve ever come across in the English language. It reminded me of the maniac bureaucracies John Saul describes in Voltaire’s Bastards: […]
Since 2007, at Least $3 Billion Has Left Afghanistan by Plane in Boxes and Suitcases
July 6th, 2010Via: Der Spiegel: Billions of dollars are being secreted out of Kabul to help well-connected Afghans buy luxury villas in Dubai. Amid concerns that the money could be the result of corruption, American politicians have temporarily cut off aid to the Afghan government. Brigadier General Mohammed Asif Jabarkhel sits with folded arms in his office, […]
