Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
The History of the Honey Trap
March 16th, 2010Via: Foreign Policy: MI5 is worried about sex. In a 14-page document distributed last year to hundreds of British banks, businesses, and financial institutions, titled “The Threat from Chinese Espionage,” the famed British security service described a wide-ranging Chinese effort to blackmail Western businesspeople over sexual relationships. The document, as the London Times reported in […]
The Lehman Brothers Swindle
March 15th, 2010Defense Department Official Established Network of Private Contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to Help Track and Kill Suspected Militants
March 15th, 2010Via: New York Times: Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. The official, Michael D. Furlong, hired contractors from […]
Mexico: Three People Connected to the U.S. Consulate in Juarez Executed in Front of Their Children
March 15th, 2010All governments routinely run covert operations out of their embassies and consulates. I have no good reason to believe that this incident had anything to do with covert operations, however, multiple articles quote family members and neighbors who don’t know what Lesley A. Enriquez did at the consulate. “Officials” in Washington also don’t know what […]
Guns in Two Mass Shootings Came from Memphis Police and Court System
March 14th, 2010Via: AP: Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn. Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that both guns were once seized in criminal cases in Memphis. The officials described how […]
French Bread Spiked with LSD in CIA Experiment
March 11th, 2010Via: Telegraph: A 50-year mystery over the ‘cursed bread’ of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment. In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and […]
NSA Communication System Interfering with Garage Door Openers?
March 11th, 2010Via: San Antonio Express News: If the first complaints to City Councilman Ray Lopez’s office had come anywhere close to the truth, they probably wouldn’t have gotten much attention. I mean, “My garage door opener’s not working and I think the government’s involved”? That’s tinfoil hat territory. But the calls kept coming, and soon Lopez […]
CIA Waterboarding Guidlines
March 9th, 2010Via: Salon: Interrogators pumped detainees full of so much water that the CIA turned to a special saline solution to minimize the risk of death, the documents show. The agency used a gurney “specially designed” to tilt backwards at a perfect angle to maximize the water entering the prisoner’s nose and mouth, intensifying the sense […]
60 Years of Drug Trafficking at the Venice Municipal Airport
March 8th, 2010Via: Mad Cow Productions: An investigation into suspicious circumstances surrounding the sale of the former Huffman Aviation has unearthed an explosive secret at the heart of an otherwise unremarkable aviation facility. Almost since its inception, the specter of heroin trafficking has hung over the airfield which would later become the Venice Municipal Airport. During World […]
Narus Develops a Scary Sleuth for Social Media
March 4th, 2010This is a jewel encrusted Magic 8 Ball. It looks like they used some of my paranoid ramblings for inspiration, then smoked a pound of crack and channeled Lavrentiy Beria with a Ouija board to devise the feature set. Via: Computerworld: Narus is developing a new technology that sleuths through billions of pieces of data […]
