Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
WikiLeaks: Afghanistan War Logs; Massive Leak, Over 90,000 Files
July 26th, 2010More Interesting Reading: TF 373 and OGA TF 373 refers to Task Force 373, which is a U.S. death squad. OGA is Other Government Agency. According to Salon, “In military lingo, OGA stands for ‘other government agency’ and denotes clandestine operations conducted independent of the military chain of command.” —End Update— Update: Searching for Heroin […]
Pentagon Workers Tied to Child Porn
July 24th, 2010Via: Boston Globe: Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material, according to investigative reports. The investigations have included employees of the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance […]
Joint Special Operations University: Blogs and Military Information Strategy
July 21st, 2010Via: U.S. Special Operations Command / Hosted at Cryptome (PDF): In this regard, information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of prominence already within the target nation, group, or community to pass the U.S. message. In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of […]
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 […]
