Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Secret Power by Nicky Hager Available as Free eBook
May 26th, 2009Nicky Hager’s Secret Power should be on every Cryptogon reader’s list. Doubly so if you’re a Kiwi Cryptogon reader. Secret Power gives us a heretofore unprecedented look at how the UKUSA surveillance machine is really run. This was published in 1996, and when I read it back then I couldn’t believe what I was holding […]
Afghanistan: U.S. Forces Seize Almost 15 Tonnes of Narcotics Including Opium, Heroin and Morphine
May 22nd, 2009The commentary for this has already been written. See Blackwater Worldwide Changes Its Name to Xe; Same Mercenaries, but Now with More “Aviation Support” and The Invisible Hand of the Market: British Troops Seize £50 Million of Afghan Opium. Via: Reuters: Afghan and U.S. forces have killed 34 militants, almost half of them in air […]
After Major Florida Bank Fails, Carlyle Swoops In as a Buyer
May 22nd, 2009Via: Washington Post: Florida-based BankUnited collapsed yesterday, the largest bank failure so far this year, as a new federal investigation revealed that the bank’s regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision, allowed the firm to cover up its financial weakness. A consortium of investors, including District-based private-equity giant Carlyle Group, agreed to buy and recapitalize BankUnited, […]
Satellites to Streamline U.S. Intelligence Agency Narcotics Trafficking Operations
May 21st, 2009That’s not a misleading headline for those of us who have been paying attention. But then again, how many people have ever of SEASPRAY? This looks like an updated version of SEASPRAY, which is part of how Barry Seal was able to move tons of drugs into the U.S. It’s helpful to make sure that […]
“For Years,” the Taliban Has Been Fighting the U.S. with Arms that the U.S. Shipped to Afghanistan
May 20th, 2009We get by with a little help from our friends. Via: AFP: Pentagon munitions have leaked from Afghan forces to Taliban militants, enabling them to fight an insurgency for years against materially superior US and Afghan forces, The New York Times reported. According to a Times study of ammunition markings, of 30 rifle magazines removed […]
The Case of the Missing H-Bomb: The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons
May 18th, 2009Via: Alternet: Things go missing. It’s to be expected. Even at the Pentagon. Last October, the Pentagon’s inspector general reported that the military’s accountants had misplaced a destroyer, several tanks and armored personnel carriers, hundreds of machine guns, rounds of ammo, grenade launchers and some surface-to-air missiles. In all, nearly $8 billion in weapons were […]
Chart of the Day: S&P 500 Earnings Plunge
May 18th, 2009Via: Chart of the Day: While the stock market is up sharply since early March, the economy as well as corporate earnings continue to suffer. Today’s chart helps provide some perspective as to the magnitude of the current economic decline. Today’s chart illustrates that 12-month, as-reported S&P 500 earnings have declined over 90% over the […]
Detainee Who Gave False Iraq Data Dies In Prison in Libya
May 15th, 2009Via: Washington Post: A former CIA high-value detainee, who provided bogus information that was cited by the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq war, has died in a Libyan prison, an apparent suicide, according to a Libyan newspaper. A researcher for Human Rights Watch, who met Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi at the Abu Salim […]
President of Pakistan: CIA and ISI Created Taliban
May 13th, 2009Via: Times of India: In a new revelation, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the CIA of the United States and his country’s ISI together created the Taliban. “I think it was part of your past and our past, and the ISI and CIA created them together,” Zardari told the NBC news channel […]
‘Well-Placed Informers’ in Constant Contact with Pirates by Satellite Telephone
May 13th, 2009Via: Guardian: The Somali pirates attacking shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean are directed to their targets by a “consultant” team in London, according to a European military intelligence document obtained by a Spanish radio station. The document, obtained by Cadena SER radio, says the team and the pirates remain in contact […]
