Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Military Gear Bound for Iran, China Traced to Pentagon Surplus Sales
January 16th, 2007The Axis of Weasels. Via: International Herald Tribune: The U.S. military has sold forbidden equipment at least a half-dozen times to middlemen for countries — including Iran and China — who exploited security flaws in the Defense Department’s surplus auctions. The sales include fighter jet parts and missile components. In one case, federal investigators said, […]
British Intelligence Had 7/7 Ringleader Under Surveillance Since 2003
January 14th, 2007Via: Guardian/Observer: The 7 July bombers who killed 52 people in terrorist attacks in London in 2005 were once described by Britain’s security service as ‘clean skins’. The vivid phrase implied that a gang of homegrown terrorists had come from nowhere, without an intelligence trail. But Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director-general of MI5, is bracing […]
Microsoft Vista Developed with Help from U.S. National Security Agency
January 9th, 2007What exactly did NSA do for Microsoft? Well, that can’t be disclosed… Apple, Novell and other companies routinely request and get assistance from NSA… I almost fell out of my chair after I read this one. I was mumbling things. My wife was asking, “What? What’s that, Honey? Microsoft, did what?” Via: Washington Post, full […]
Bush Senior Early CIA Ties Revealed
January 9th, 2007Via Real News: Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former president George Herbert Walker Bush’s oil company emerged from a 1950’s collaboration with a covert CIA officer. Bush has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. […]
World Spy Chiefs Gather in New Zealand
January 5th, 2007This is a few weeks old, but it’s a good one. These are the ECHELON members, by the way. USA Today forgot to mention that. Imagine my shock. Via: USA Today: The CIA director was among the top world spy chiefs visiting New Zealand this week for secret celebrations of the 50th birthday of the […]
18 Secret Armies of the CIA
January 3rd, 2007Via: Canongate: 1. UKRAINIAN PARTISANS 2. CHINESE BRIGADE IN BURMA 3. GUATEMALAN REBEL ARMY 4. SUMATRAN REBELS 5. KHAMBA HORSEMEN 6. BAY OF PIGS INVASION FORCE 7. L’ARMÉE CLANDESTINE 8. NUNG MERCENARIES 9. PERUVIAN REGIMENT 10. CONGO MERCENARY FORCE 11. THE CAMBODIAN COUP 12. KURD REBELS 13. ANGOLA MERCENARY FORCE 14. AFGHAN MUJAHEEDIN 15. SALVADORAN […]
