Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
They Made a Killing: The Use of Knowledge of Covert Operations in the Stock Market
October 30th, 2008Let’s first take a quick look at, Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets: I had always assumed the entire business of the markets to be a massive criminal enterprise that allowed public participation simply because it made a few people extremely wealthy. But, I wondered, when do the fewest people make the most money […]
Abu Nidal, Notorious Palestinian Mercenary, ‘Was a U.S. Spy’
October 28th, 2008Via: Independent: Iraqi secret police believed that the notorious Palestinian assassin Abu Nidal was working for the Americans as well as Egypt and Kuwait when they interrogated him in Baghdad only months before the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Hitherto secret documents which are now in the hands of The Independent – written by Saddam Hussein’s […]
Cybercrime Supersite Was FBI Honeypot
October 14th, 2008Via: Wired: DarkMarket.ws, an online watering hole for thousands of identify thieves, hackers and credit card swindlers, has been secretly run by an FBI cybercrime agent for the last two years, until its voluntary shutdown earlier this month, according to documents unearthed by a German radio network. Reports from the German national police obtained by […]
The Mystery of the Missing Opium
October 10th, 2008Ask MI6 where it is. Via: BBC: It’s a mystery that has got British law enforcement officials and others across the planet scratching their heads. Put bluntly, enough heroin to supply the world’s demand for years has simply disappeared. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) describes the situation as “a time bomb […]
Yemen Seizes ‘Israel-Linked’ Cell
October 9th, 2008Via: BBC: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said the security forces have arrested a group of alleged Islamist militants linked to Israeli intelligence. Mr Saleh did not say what evidence had been found to show the group’s links with Israel, a regional enemy of Yemen. The arrests were connected with an attack on the […]
Reports Link Karzai’s Brother to Afghanistan Heroin Trade
October 6th, 2008Captain Obvious strikes again. Via: New York Times: When Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of heroin hidden beneath concrete blocks in a tractor-trailer outside Kandahar in 2004, the local Afghan commander quickly impounded the truck and notified his boss. Before long, the commander, Habibullah Jan, received a telephone call from Ahmed Wali Karzai, […]
FBI Prevents Agents from Telling ‘Truth’ About 9/11 on PBS
October 2nd, 2008You can almost guess the wording on the memo, after these J Edgars stumbled onto something they weren’t meant to see. Blah, blah, national security assets. Blah, blah, active intelligence operation. Blah, nothing to see here. Ignore. Blah, blah. The same memos have been sent to the DEA for decades. Via: CQPolitics: The FBI has […]
Buckingham Palace Butler ‘Ran Paedophile Sex Ring While Working for the Royal Family’
October 2nd, 2008Via: Daily Mail: A former Buckingham Palace butler has been unmasked as a sexual predator who ran a paedophile ring while serving the Royal Family. Bachelor Paul Kidd, 55, groomed at least one of his teenage victims for sex by taking him for tea with the Queen Mother at Clarence House, it has emerged. To […]
Few Limits Proposed for Paulson in Aftermath of Economic 9/11
September 22nd, 2008Dems squealing flaccidly, as usual. Via: Wall Street Journal: If the Bush administration has its way, anyone harmed by the Treasury Department’s handling of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout might have no remedy. Draft legislation proposes sweeping powers for Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to buy and sell mortgage-related securities however he sees fit. Aside […]
Russia: Satanic Ritual Murder
September 16th, 2008Via: Telegraph: The eight suspected Satanists, aged 17 to 19, allegedly lured the four youths to parties on the forested edge of Yaroslavl’s city limits, before inducing them to drink and then chopping up their bodies. Police found the victims’ arms and legs in a pit dressed with Satanic symbols, and investigators say each victim […]
