Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Mexico: Interpol Official Involved with Narcotics Trafficking
November 20th, 2008This reminds me of The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc., which is one of the all-time-must-reads. I managed to find my ancient commentary on that piece. Via: CNN: A vicious turf war between drug cartels and Mexican authorities that has left as many as 4,300 dead so far this year may have caused a breach […]
Federal Reserve Refuses to Identify the Recipients of $2 Trillion Worth of Emergency Loans
November 10th, 2008You gotta prollem wit dat? Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional […]
Bolivian President: DEA Encourages Drug Trafficking
November 10th, 2008Via: AFP: The United States on Friday rejected as “patently absurd” charges by Bolivian President Evo Morales that the US government encouraging drug-trafficking in Bolivia. “The charges that have been made are just patently absurd,” State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood told the daily press briefing in Washington. “We reject them categorically.” In La Paz […]
Fed Hires Bear Stearns Risk Boss
November 4th, 2008Via: Clusterstock: In a move that is sure to put to rest the notion that there are no second acts in American life, former Bear Stearns chief risk officer Michael Alix has landed a job in the office of the Federal Reserve charged with assessing the safety and soundness of domestic banking institutions. We suppose […]
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, […]
