Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
NSA Intercepts of the Private Telephone Calls and E-Mail Messages of Americans Are Broader Than Previously Acknowledged
June 17th, 2009In the New York Times piece below, we learn that an email database used by the NSA is called PINWALE. Back in 2006, William M Arkin, a Washington Post blogger, published a list of hundreds of terms that were allegedly associated with NSA projects. Along with the list, he wrote: I could write volumes about […]
BBC Video from Iran
June 15th, 2009I’m not coming down on any side here. While my gut feeling is that CIA/Mossad/MI6 are throwing gasoline on the fire, I can’t point to any evidence of that. The past doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the present, but being familiar with how the U.S. has screwed with Iran in the past, it’s […]
TWO JAPANESE CITIZENS CARRYING $134 BILLION WORTH OF UNDECLARED, POSSIBLY COUNTERFEIT U.S. BONDS DETAINED IN ITALY WHILE TRYING TO ENTER SWITZERLAND; ITALIAN AUTHORITIES ARE TRYING TO DETERMINE IF THE BONDS ARE AUTHENTIC
June 11th, 2009UPDATE: 11: New York Times Finally Reports That the Japanese Men Were Released This article contradicts itself. “…Although the Guardia di Finanza suspected the bonds were false…” STOP. The Japanese men should then be in custody. Let’s continue: Italian law does not call for the criminal arrest of persons found to be taking funds without […]
GM’s New Chairman: “I Don’t Know Anything About Cars”
June 10th, 2009That’s ok, because when the spooks say to jump he asks, “How high?” Via: Bloomberg: Edward E. Whitacre Jr. built AT&T Inc. into the biggest U.S. provider of telephone service over a 43-year-career. By his own admission, he becomes chairman of General Motors Corp. knowing nothing about the auto industry. The 6-foot-4-inch Texan nicknamed “Big […]
The Ascendancy of Black World Participants Continues at GM
June 9th, 2009First Kent Kresa, and now Edward Whitacre. What’s the big deal? Edward Whitacre looks like every other old, pink faced fat bastard that slithers from board room to board room, but let’s take a quick walk down memory lane. From 2006, in NSA Collected Phone Records in U.S., we learn: The U.S. National Security Agency […]
Key Figures in Global Battle Against Illegal Arms Trade Lost in Air France Crash
June 8th, 2009Via: Sunday Herald: Argentine campaigner Pablo Dreyfus and Swiss colleague Ronald Dreyer battled South American arms and drug trafficking. AMID THE media frenzy and speculation over the disappearance of Air France’s ill-fated Flight 447, the loss of two of the world’s most prominent figures in the war on the illegal arms trade and international drug […]
Mysterious ‘Chip’ is CIA’s Latest Weapon Against al-Qaida Targets Hiding in Pakistan’s Tribal Belt
June 2nd, 2009The ‘chip’ is a bit less mysterious to Cryptogon readers since the DARPA program was mentioned here months ago: Continuous Clandestine Tagging, Tracking and Locating (CTTL). Via: Guardian: The CIA is equipping Pakistani tribesmen with secret electronic transmitters to help target and kill al-Qaida leaders in the north-western tribal belt, in a tactic that could […]
The Black World Has Black Fiber; Cut It and Black SUVs Show Up Within Minutes
May 31st, 2009You have to read to the end of the article to find out that the incident happened in 2000. Via: Washington Post: This part happens all the time: A construction crew putting up an office building in the heart of Tysons Corner a few years ago hit a fiber optic cable no one knew was […]
CIA Briefers Regularly Mislead Hill Intelligence Panels, Ex-Spy Charges
May 27th, 2009This has only been standard operating procedure for about the last 62 years. Via: Congressional Quarterly Politics: A former deep-cover CIA operative says the spy agency’s congressional briefers routinely shade the truth or hide facts altogether from congressional overseers. “They mumble, they dissemble, and there’s a lot of ‘on the one hand . . .’” […]
CIA’s In-Q-Tel invests in Sonitus Medical: Device Transmits Sound to Via Teeth
May 27th, 2009Via: Washington Business Journal: Sonitus Medical Inc., a business working on a hearing aid that uses the teeth, got an investment from In-Q-Tel, an investment firm started by the CIA. San Mateo, Calif.-based Sonitus didn’t say how much money In-Q-Tel invested. Led by CEO Amir Abolfathi, Sonitus is making an in-the-mouth hearing aid that transmits […]
