Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Venezuela Arrests U.S. “DEA Agent”
May 30th, 2008Uh, when DEA isn’t operating in Venezuela? And “the DEA agent” was carrying Canadian and French passports… Via: Reuters: Venezuela said on Thursday it arrested a man who identified himself as a U.S. anti-drugs agent, which if confirmed could inflame tensions between the United States and one of its biggest oil suppliers. President Hugo Chavez […]
Chilean Judge Orders Arrest of Pinochet-Era Soldiers and Secret Police
May 27th, 2008See: The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability by Peter Kornbluh Via: Guardian: A Chilean judge has ordered the detention of almost 100 former soldiers and secret police officers from General Augusto Pinochet’s regime as part of investigations into human rights abuses, according to reports. Among the 98 held are former employees […]
Indictment for Former #3 Spook Over Hookers, Bribery
May 22nd, 2008You know, the usual. Via: AP: A new indictment of a former top CIA official alleges that he received bribes in the form of “sexual companionship” in exchange for helping a friend get an edge in landing multimillion-dollar contracts from the agency. Federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday obtained a superseding indictment against Kyle […]
MI5 Linked to Max Mosley Sex Scandal
May 19th, 2008Oh my my my. What a shocking Coincidence! Full text follows. Via: Times Online: An MI5 officer has been forced to resign after admitting that his wife was a prostitute who took part in a notorious “Nazi-style orgy” with Max Mosley, the Formula One racing chief. The intelligence officer, who cannot be named for security […]
The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE
May 18th, 2008In my case, there’s no way the programs I want to talk to Congress about should be public ever, unless maybe in 200 years they want to declassify them. You should never learn about it; no one at the Times should ever learn about these things. —Russell Tice, Former NSA SIGINT Officer I’m going to […]
U.S.-Trained Forces Reportedly Helping Mexican Cartels
May 15th, 2008Imagine my shock. Via: Houston Chronicle: As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday. The renegade members of Mexico’s elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, […]
Drug Pilot, Election Machine Executive Killed on CIA Plane
May 9th, 2008Via: Mad Cow Productions: One week after the crash outside Caracas, Venezuela of a twin-engine Piper Navajo (N6463L), an air of intrigue surrounds almost everything about the flight, including the plane’s ownership, passengers, and pilot. Woven into one small story about a plane crash in Venezuela that killed seven people are visible threads from two […]
U.S. Marines Ignore Opium to Not Upset Afghan Locals
May 8th, 2008Britain in Secret Talks with the Taliban Afghanistan: Planned British Covert Operation Included Training in “Farming and Irrigation Techniques” for Taliban Fighters Narco Aggression: Russia Accuses the U.S. Military of Involvement in Drug Trafficking Out of Afghanistan NATO Forces Supplied Food, Water and Arms to Taliban Forces in Southern Afghanistan Via: AP: The Marines of […]
Roland Carnaby
May 4th, 2008This post is in a raw, data dump format right now. Everywhere that I’ve seen this story being discussed on the Internet, there are a lot of anonymous comments saying that Roland Carnaby made it all up; that he just imagined that he was in the CIA, Photoshopped himself into a picture of the lobby […]
‘Retired’ Goldman Sachs Executive to Head Trading for Merrill Lynch
April 28th, 2008What we have here isn’t some, “unseen hand of the market.” It’s more like a bunch of tentacles. Henry Paulson is the United States Treasury Secretary. He’s also a former CEO of Goldman Sachs. Joshua Bolten is the current White House Chief of Staff. He served as Goldman’s executive director for legal and government affairs […]
