Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
DARPA Tested Hypersonic Glider Related to Quick-Response Global Strike System, and Then Claims to Have Lost Contact with It
April 24th, 2010There has been a lot of coverage of the launch of the X-37b, but as the right hand was waving at us, did you notice what the left hand was up to? The same day, the U.S. launched a Minotaur rocket that reportedly carried a Hypersonic Test Vehicle, which is a test platform for the […]
Facebook Steps Up Lobbying, Deepens Ties with Intelligence Agencies, FTC
April 23rd, 2010Here’s my (one sentence) guess about what this is actually about: Facebook is a CIA cutout that’s frantically lobbying for privacy legislation to remain lax so that it can continue to run its various intelligence operations on the platform. Via: Venture Beat: Facebook has been gradually boosting its profile in Washington D.C. over the past […]
“Lehman Was the Leading Purveyor of Liar’s Loans in the World” — Incidents of Fraud at 90% — “Lehman Sold This to the World”
April 23rd, 2010I also handled issues for the used-car-salesman-type ‘account executives’. Just before I left, the company switched loan origination systems. The people writing these loans were pissed because they were no longer able to get loans approved for people with fraudulent social security numbers. They would actually complain because the system was telling them that the […]
IEEE: Build Backup Routes for Undersea Communications Infrastructure “Before we have to learn the hard way”
April 21st, 2010Cryptogon Flashback to 2002: Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won’t In the years since I wrote that, I started to think that a massive attack on the physical network infrastructure would make increasing sense to the elite if the financial scams became totally untenable, and the perpetrators needed a distraction […]
Feds Indict Ex-Blackwater President
April 17th, 2010Via: AP: The former president of Blackwater Worldwide was charged Friday with using straw purchases to stockpile automatic weapons at the security firm and filing false documents to cover up gifts given to the King of Jordan. The federal indictment charges Gary Jackson, 52, who left the company last year in a management shakeup, along […]
Venice Was a Quiet Mena
April 16th, 2010Via: Mad Cow Productions: “Venice was a kind of quiet Mena (Arkansas),” stated a former drug pilot for The Company. “Jackson Stephens built this huge headquarters next to the airport. And he was in charge. But I do remember seeing Porter Goss around the airport a lot.” The airport where three of the four terrorist […]
Ex-NSA Worker Charged in Classified Leak Case
April 16th, 2010Hmm. I’m throwing a tick in COINTELPRO because it strikes me as bizarre that someone at such a high level in the NSA allowed himself to get burned like this. Via: AP: A former senior executive at the National Security Agency was charged Thursday with lying and obstruction of justice in an investigation of leaks […]
Washington Mutual Created ‘Mortgage Time Bomb’
April 13th, 2010Perhaps the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act should be related reading for this story: The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (commonly referred to as RICO Act or RICO) is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an […]
Lehman Channeled Risks Through Cutout
April 13th, 2010Some of this, the MO in particular, will seem very familiar to long time Cryptogon readers… Via: New York Times: It was like a hidden passage on Wall Street, a secret channel that enabled billions of dollars to flow through Lehman Brothers, Louise Story and Eric Dash write in The New York Times. In the […]
Italian Aid Workers Arrested Over Afghan Assassination Plot
April 12th, 2010Via: Al Jazeera: Nine people, including three Italian medical workers, have been arrested in Afghanistan for allegedly plotting to kill a provincial official. Gulab Mangal, who is the governor of Helmand, said those held were planning attacks in Lashkar Gah, the province’s main city, “and the number one target was myself”. He said that the […]
