The tag 'CIA' is associated with 367 posts.

Droning On: Interesting Timing in the Middle East

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 10, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

COMMENT: The appar­ent cap­ture and down­ing by Iran of a U.S. drone air­craft raises a num­ber of inter­est­ing ques­tions.
If the account pre­sented in “Debka” can be believed, the pos­si­bil­ity of some sort of “inside job” is one to be care­fully con­sid­ered. (“Debka” is an intel­li­gence newslet­ter spe­cial­iz­ing in Mid­dle East­ern and Israeli national security [...]

No Surprise Here, Either: DEA Laundering Profits from Mexican Cartels

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 7, 2011 ⋅ One comment

COMMENT: No one famil­iar with the long his­tory of com­plic­ity of ele­ments of CIA and other intel­li­gence ser­vices will be sur­prised at this.
Are they actu­ally work­ing to fur­ther the cause of jus­tice or the cause of “Just Us”?
Are they actu­ally track­ing the funds for the pur­pose of even­tual inter­dic­tion or to shore up the finan­cial sys­tem?
“U.S. Drug [...]

Sirhan Sirhan’s Lawyers Moving to Reopen the Case

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ December 4, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

COMMENT: Attor­neys for Sirhan Sirhan have moved to reopen his case, con­tend­ing (among other things) that a bul­let was switched at his trial, inval­i­dat­ing his con­vic­tion.
Ear­lier this year, Sirhan’s defense team rein­forced the “girl in the polka-dot dress” anec­do­tal infor­ma­tion fol­low­ing a hyp­no­sis ses­sion with their client.
Any­one famil­iar with the [...]

Thompson Agonistes: The Dissent and Subsequent Disappearance of A CIA Officer

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

COMMENT: Younger readers/listeners might be puz­zled by dis­cus­sion of a “lib­eral” CIA offi­cer. Before the trans­for­ma­tion of the CIA into a huge para­mil­i­tary force, Jim Thomp­son worked for the Agency and its World War II pre­de­ces­sor the Office of Strate­gic Ser­vices. Imbued with the ideals of the Roo­sevelt admin­is­tra­tions and the war against fascism, [...]

Addendum to FTRs 721, 731

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 4, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

COMMENT: In FTR #721, we exam­ined the devel­op­ment of West­ern intel­li­gence uti­liza­tion of Islamists and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in par­tic­u­lar. Much of the pro­gram cen­tered on Ger­hardt von Mende, a Third Reich intel­li­gence oper­a­tive who used his Third Reich Islamists on behalf of the Fed­eral Repub­lic of Ger­many.
In A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA [...]

FTR #747 Bringin’ It All Back Home

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 4, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

GOP doing to Obama what CIA did to Allende in Chile; Repub­li­cans appear ready to destroy U.S., global economies to gain power; Bush admin­is­tra­tion deficits delib­er­ately struc­tured to force end of New Deal social pro­grams; Tea Party fas­cists pro­vid­ing “boots on the ground” for this effort.

18 1/2 Minute Gap in Watergate Tape to Remain Mystery

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 21, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

COMMENT: It turns out that the high-tech efforts by inves­ti­ga­tors to restore the mate­r­ial lost in an 18 1/2 minute gap in one of Nixon’s Water­gate tapes have failed. We will never know, for sure, what was in that sec­tion of tape.
One of the cen­tral con­sid­er­a­tions in ana­lyz­ing Water­gate is the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy–what [...]

FTR #743 Interview (#8) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 6, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

The Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column–the media that should inform us deceive on behalf of those they should expose; Insti­tu­tion­al­ized power dimin­ishes the pub­lic­ity for “Fam­ily of Secrets.” The Inter­net allows cit­i­zens to fight back.

In Your Facebook, Part 2

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 11, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

COMMENT: In FTR #718, we noted the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity and right-wing ide­o­logues inex­tri­ca­bly linked to the wildly pop­u­lar Face­book social net­work­ing site.
Here’s the lat­est “oops” dis­clo­sure from the Face­book folks.  Appar­ently, a bug has been giv­ing ~100,000 Face­book apps the abil­ity to read pri­vate info and even post mes­sage from pri­vate user accounts.  This has apparently [...]

Sirhan Sirhan and the “Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 7, 2011 ⋅ One comment

COMMENT: Any­one famil­iar with the facts of Robert F. Kennedy’s assas­si­na­tion knows that the offi­cial ver­sion of Sirhan Sirhan as a “lone nut” assas­sin is unten­able. (Lis­ten­ers are invited to exam­ine AFA #9, detail­ing RFK’s mur­der, as well as FTR #582, sup­ple­ment­ing that analy­sis.)
Inves­ti­ga­tors have long believed that Sirhan was a vic­tim of mind control, [...]

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