Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
CIA Jet Used for “Rendering” Suspects Crashes with Four Tons of Cocaine on Board
September 29th, 2007Just another day at the office. Full text follows. Via: McClatchy: U.S. authorities are assisting the Mexican government in the investigation of an American business jet that crashed near Cancun this week with four tons of cocaine on board, officials said Thursday. One of the men listed as the registered owners of the plane, Joao […]
U.S. War on Drugs Outsourcing Contract Worth $15 Billion
September 28th, 2007Security for the CIA’s private opium plantation? Via: CNN: The U.S. Defense Department has invited five contractors to bid on elements of a new, multibillion dollar effort to combat the global flow of illegal drugs allegedly used to finance terrorism. Awarded by the Pentagon’s Counter-Narcoterrorism Technology Program Office in Dahlgren, Va., the contract vehicle has […]
Feds Investigating Blackwater USA for Selling Weapons to Iraqi Insurgency
September 23rd, 2007Imagine my shock. But keep in mind, Blackwater is a CIA cutout that got so big that it just happened to become a household name. They’re just doing what Uncle tells them to do. Remember these? Pentagon Arms its Enemy’s Enemies in Iraq What Did $19 Billion Buy? U.S. “Loses” 190,000 Weapons in Iraq If […]
Making a Killing: How Private Armies Became a $120 Billion Global Industry
September 21st, 2007Note: Someone emailed and said that there are no privately owned Apache helicopters. As far as I know, that’s true. Furthermore, Apache helicopters don’t carry troops at all. The Apache is an attack helicopter—a flying weapons platform—with no personnel transport capacity. Via: Independent: In Nigeria, corporate commandos exchange fire with local rebels attacking an oil […]
Minot Air Force Base Airman Died While on Leave
September 14th, 2007UPDATE: Scroll Down for More Minot Air Force Base Deaths – – – – – Remember the one about the B-52 bomber that, according to legend, had six nuclear weapons loaded onto it by accident, which, of course, could not have happened—by accident—for a dozen different reasons, or more. Airman 1st Class Todd Blue was […]
Did 22 SDI Researchers Really ALL Commit Suicide?
September 5th, 2007Glad to see this one making the rounds again. Via: fiu.edu: With his death, Beckham’s name was added to a growing list of British scientists who’ve died or disappeared under mysterious circumstances since 1982. Each was a skilled expert in computers, and each was working on a highly classified project for the American Star Wars […]
Bill Clinton ‘Shocked’ Hillary Donor Was a Fugitive
September 3rd, 2007Bill Mena Airport Clinton was shocked by the revelations… Via: Newsday: Former President Bill Clinton said he was “shocked” by revelations that a top fundraiser for his wife is a fugitive from justice and claimed he didn’t even know what “HillRaiser” Norman Hsu did for a living. “You could have knocked me over with a […]
Military Whistleblowers on Fraud Facing Penalties: “It Was a Wal-Mart for Guns”
August 25th, 2007I post a lot of stories on Cryptogon, but read this one a bit slower than usual and let this sink in. Then check out the related stories below. Via: Forbes: One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, […]
NASDAQ to Open Unregulated Private Stock Exchange for Investors with a Minimum of $100 Million in Assets
August 15th, 2007I’m sure that this has nothing to do with money laundering, and the fact that Afghanistan now supplies virtually all of the opium in the world. Via: Washington Post: Nasdaq is set to launch tomorrow what its executives are calling one of the most significant developments on Wall Street in decades — a private stock […]
Italy Probe Unearths Huge Iraq Arms Deal
August 12th, 2007What is it about Italy and weird arms deals involving Iraq? Remember, Iraqi Insurgents Carrying Covert Ops Bump Guns? Via: Yahoo / AP: In a hidden corner of Rome’s busy Fiumicino Airport, police dug quietly through a traveler’s checked baggage, looking for smuggled drugs. What they found instead was a catalog of weapons, a clue […]
