Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Again: Minot B-52 Nuclear Weapons Story
October 10th, 2007Via: Star Telegram: Last month, six W80-1 nuclear-armed AGM-129 advanced cruise missiles were flown from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana and sat on the tarmac for 10 hours undetected. Press reports initially cited the Air Force mistake of flying nuclear weapons over the United States in violation of Air Force […]
“Its My Party and I’ll Bust Who I Want To”
October 9th, 2007Via: Madcowprod: Seventeen months after an American-registered DC9 airliner was busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine, a major international scandal is brewing over a second drug trafficking incident in Mexico’s Yucatan involving an American-registered jet owned by a dummy front company of the kind usually associated with the CIA. A weekend visit to “Donna Blue […]
Slain Soldier Told Family to Investigate if She Died; She Was Found Dead on Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan
October 5th, 2007Massachusetts National Guard Spc. Ciara Durkin told her family that something might happen to her after discovering, “something she didn’t like,” and she, “had raised concerns that had annoyed some people.” She was in a finance related unit. Afghanistan produces 95% of the world’s opium. Coincidence? I wonder if she connected the information to a […]
Big Traders Dive Into Dark Pools
October 4th, 2007It’s absolutely fascinating that these institutional players have had to form private networks to run their rackets. How this is allowed is a mystery to me. It makes no sense from a simple supply and demand standpoint! You know, the basic principal of a “free market.” These guys are essentially able to hide their real […]
Congressman: State Department Official Threatened Investigators
September 29th, 2007Via: McClatchy: Aides to State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard threatened two investigators with retaliation this week if they cooperate with a congressional probe into Krongard’s office, the chairman of a House of Representatives panel and other U.S. officials said Friday. The allegations are the latest in a growing uproar surrounding Krongard. Current and former […]
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 […]
