Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
U.S. Faces Global Funding Crisis, Warns Merrill Lynch
July 16th, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. In a recent comment, I wrote: It’s pretty clear that the Fed is more interested in selling out the dollar over time than letting the whole thing come crashing down all at once. They could have just let Freddie and Fannie […]
Leading British Intelligence Official, Alex Allan, Found with “Blood Everwhere,” Now In a Coma, Nothing to See Here, Move Along
July 7th, 2008Slipped on a banana peel, obviously. Accidents happen. Via: Telegraph: Britain’s leading spymaster, who is in a coma after apparently being struck down by a mystery illness, was found covered in blood, according to a tenant. Alex Allan has been described as “very, very seriously ill” and is under police guard in the intensive care […]
CIA Operative Fired for Refusing to Suppress or Falsify Reports That Iran Had Suspended Work on Nuclear Weapon
July 3rd, 2008Via: Washington Post: A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb. The onetime undercover agent, who has been barred by the CIA from using his real name, […]
State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq
July 1st, 2008This is an excellent review of P2OG over the years. Many of the story references will be familiar to Cryptogon readers. Via: Global Research: In 2002, the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board (DSB) conducted a “Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of Countering Terrorism,” portions of which were leaked to the Federation […]
Hersh: Congress Approved Major Escalation of Covert Operations Against Iran; Funding Groups That May Be Described as Al Qaeda
June 29th, 2008Via: New Yorker: Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by […]
Telecom Amnesty Flip-Floppers Got More Telecom Dollars
June 27th, 2008People wonder, “What’s a good investment?” Corporations buy off elected representatives for bum change. It’s not quite something for nothing, but owning an elected representative for a few grand seems pretty close to it. Via: Wired: Democrats who switched from opposing to supporting legal amnesty to telecoms that aided the government’s warrantless wiretapping program received […]
Israeli Police Suicide Causes Panic at Sarkozy Farewell
June 24th, 2008This rates a WTF +10? Via: Telegraph: An Israeli border policeman prompted scenes of panic at a Tel Aviv airport this afternoon by committing suicide at a farewell ceremony for President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and his wife, Carla Bruni. All protocol was dropped as the man’s body fell from a high vantage point and […]
Wayne Madsen Report: Another 9/11 Waiting to Happen
June 18th, 2008This makes for interesting reading, if you don’t mind not being able to verify anything that’s being said about Carnaby. The usual caveats apply to this one, double plus. Via: Rumor Mill News: Roland “Tony” Carnaby, the one-time CIA station chief for the Southeast Region slain by Houston police on April 29, was an advocate […]
British Mercenary to Stand Trial for Attempted Coup in Equatorial Guinea
June 13th, 2008Via: Reuters: British mercenary Simon Mann will go on trial on Tuesday for leading a failed 2004 coup in Equatorial Guinea, the West African state’s public prosecutor said on Friday. Jose Olo Obono said that Mann, arrested in 2004 in Zimbabwe with 70 mercenaries en route for oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, will face three main charges: […]
Two Miami Police Officers Protected Shipments of Cocaine
June 2nd, 2008Via: WSVN: Two veteran Miami police officers were charged Friday with providing protection for purported shipments of cocaine and stolen goods in an eight-month undercover FBI operation. Officer Geovani Nunez and Detective Jorge Hernandez, both 13-year veterans of the Miami Police Department, were paid a combined $39,500 by a man they thought was involved in […]
