Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
U.S. Sent $4 Billion in Cash to Baghdad Before Handover
February 7th, 2007Oh sure. And in other news, Lieberman wants a war on terror tax. Tell me another one. Via: Reuters: The U.S. Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than $4 billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes shortly before the United States gave control back to Iraqis, lawmakers said on Tuesday. […]
Germany Issues CIA Arrest Orders
February 1st, 2007Via: BBC: Germany has ordered the arrest of 13 suspected CIA agents over the alleged kidnapping of one of its citizens. Munich prosecutors confirmed that the warrants were linked to the case of Khaled al-Masri, a German national of Lebanese descent. Mr Masri says he was seized in Macedonia, flown to a secret prison in […]
IRAQ CRASH KILLED KEY U.S. OFFICERS
January 28th, 2007In the wake of U.S. Soldiers Killed by English Speaking “Insurgents†Who Were Armed with American Made Weapons and Driving Black SUVs, I decided to take a closer look at other recent U.S. military deaths in Iraq. What I found was astonishing. I didn’t know a helicopter could carry so much brass. Among the dead […]
U.S. Soldiers Killed by English Speaking “Insurgents” Who Were Armed with American Made Weapons and Driving Black SUVs
January 27th, 2007Oh, yeah, the man leading the attack had blond hair. And what’s the story with the non sequitur about “the computer” mentioned about 2/3 of the way down? But just wait, you haven’t heard the best part. According to the story: This was the work of Iranian intelligence agents. * pause * The full text […]
EEstor: More Clues Emerge
January 23rd, 2007In Pay No Attention to the General as “Liberals” Launch Green Energy Fund, I attempted to show that EEstor is a “connected” front for the release of military technology into the private sector. Now, in the following MIT Technology Review article, we learn that EEstor’s CEO previously worked for TRW. Although TRW has been sold […]
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 […]
