Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on CIA Payroll
October 28th, 2009Via: New York Times: Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials. The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a […]
The Big Picture: 2009 UN World Drug Report
October 23rd, 2009Oblivion. Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture: (WARNING: Graphic content.) The 2009 United Nations World Drug report, released earlier this year, notes that 2009 marks “the end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909)”, and that the illicit drug market worldwide has now become a $320 billion-per-year industry. […]
So Many Threats to Federal Officials that Secret Service May Curtail Investigations Into Financial Crimes
October 20th, 2009Wow, the Internet Tuff Guys are out in force on this one, leaving stupid comments all over the place—perfect for COINTEL purposes. Via: Boston Globe: The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of antigovernment fervor threaten to overwhelm the US Secret Service, according […]
U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
October 20th, 2009Via: Wired: America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part […]
India: Chartered U.S. Aircraft Forced to Land at Mumbai Airport; “Confusion About Its Call Sign”; 205 Marines Aboard
October 18th, 2009Via: Times of India: A US aircraft with 205 American marine commandos on board was on Sunday made to land at Mumbai airport for allegedly violating the Indian airspace. The chartered plane was on its way from Fujiriah in UAE to Bangkok, an airport official said. The aircraft was using a civilian call sign, officials […]
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 […]
