Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader to U.S. Intelligence is Assassinated
June 24th, 2009Via: Prison Planet: A whistleblower who defected from the Pakistani Taliban has been assassinated just days after he claimed that the group was working with US intelligence to destabilize the country. Qari Zainuddin, a tribal leader of the South Waziristan region in Pakistan was shot dead on Tuesday by a gunman said to be loyal […]
And Now… Mark Sanford Found in Argentina; Needed a Recharge
June 24th, 2009The bullshit meter just exploded and now I must crawl to safety. In the meantime, fill in the blank with what this is actually about: __________________ Via: Reuters: South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford returned to the United States on Wednesday from a secret private trip to Argentina, ending days of speculation over his whereabouts and […]
Allen Stanford Surrenders to FBI
June 19th, 2009Via: Washington Post: R. Allen Stanford, under investigation in an alleged $8 billion fraud involving sales of certificates of deposit through his Antiguan bank, surrendered to federal agents yesterday, his attorney said. The case is one of the largest alleged financial frauds in U.S. history and comes just months after New York financier Bernard L. […]
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 […]
