Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
The Man Who Paid the Men Who Stare at Goats
October 17th, 2009Via: Madcowprod: The man who owned the flight school that taught Mohamed Atta to fly got rich selling his insurance company, we have learned, to the man who PAID “The Men Who Stare at Goats.” Wally Hilliard’s links to American intelligence go back (at least) to November of 1981, when his insurance company, Wisconsin Employer’s […]
Benito Mussolini Was British Intelligence Asset
October 14th, 2009Via: Guardian: History remembers Benito Mussolini as a founder member of the original Axis of Evil, the Italian dictator who ruled his country with fear and forged a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany. But a previously unknown area of Il Duce’s CV has come to light: his brief career as a British agent. Archived documents […]
An “Embarrassing Affair”: German Ship Transporting Arms for Iran
October 12th, 2009Via: Spiegel: US troops boarded a German-owned freighter in early October and found eight containers full of ammunition, allegedly headed to Syria from Iran. The shipment is in violation of a UN weapons embargo and has become a source of chagrin in Berlin. An “embarrassing affair,” is how one German diplomat described it. The official […]
Prosecutor: CIA Kidnapping in Italy Too Grave to Cover Up
October 6th, 2009Via: AP: The kidnapping of a terror suspect is too grave a crime to be covered up just to protect government secrets, a prosecutor declared Wednesday in the trial of 26 Americans and seven Italians charged in the abduction of an Egyptian cleric. Prosecutor Armando Spataro gave his closing arguments in a trial that is […]
Afghanistan: Massive Election Fraud
October 5th, 2009“This was an important step forward in the Afghan people’s effort to take control of their future… The United States did not support any candidate in this election. Our only interest was the result fairly, accurately reflecting the will of the Afghan people…” —Barack Obama on Afghan Election Via: Times Online: The head of the […]
FBI Releases Edited OKC Bombing Tapes
September 28th, 2009Via: AP: Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday. “The real story is what’s missing,” said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney […]
AIG May Not Repay Its Taxpayer Tab
September 23rd, 2009Mmm hmm. Via: ABC News: One year after the biggest corporate bailout in the country’s history, a government watchdog office Monday warned that American taxpayers may not recoup the full $182 billion given to embattled insurance giant American International Group. “AIG’s ability to restructure its business and repay the government is unclear at this time,” […]
Iraq Emerging as Drug Transshipment Point
September 20th, 2009Via: Al Jazeera:
HERE WE GO AGAIN: U.S. AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATE $100 BILLION BOND SEIZURE IN ITALY
September 19th, 2009This isn’t the incident from June. This is a new one. Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. Secret Service is examining more than $100 billion of U.S. government bonds confiscated in northern Italy in August, just two months after $134 billion of allegedly fake securities were seized in a nearby town. The Secret Service is analyzing whether […]
The Venice Airport: “50 Years of Covert Ops. No Film at Eleven.”
September 17th, 2009Via: Mad Cow Productions: A fierce war being waged for control of the Venice Municipal Airport has led to the discovery of covert CIA and military operations, dating back to at least 1959, which go well beyond what was previously known to have taken place there. Operations at the Venice Airport have involved individuals whose […]
