Shannon Kent was one of four Americans killed in a suicide bombing in Syria last month. The New York Times profiles her work as cryptological technician who worked linked the National Security Agency to the Syrian battlefront. She was an intelligence officer. Cryptology is code breaking; sigint is signals intelligence, like intercepting and interpreting phone calls and...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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Rules of ‘Regime Change’: The CIA in Iran
In Truthdig Joel Whitney has an excellent recap of the CIA’s coup in Iran in 1953 and its continuing impact on the world we live in today. How is that possible? Read on: As relations between the U.S. and Iran again take on a hostile tone, it’s worth untangling the intricate braid of CIA claims...
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Power Play: NSA Leaks Implicate MBS in Khashoggi Assassination
The New York Times reports that a wide variety of sources are sharing information about top secret National Security Agency intercepts of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. The story is less interesting for what it tells us about MBS’s complicity in the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi last October. MBS’s role is well-established. What this...
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The Only Intelligence Chief Who Didn’t Contradict Trump Has Retired
Robert Cardillo has retired as the chief of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGA is the most obscure $5 billion a year organization that you never heard and the departing Cardillo has a knack for avoiding the news. Cardillo, almost alone among the U.S. intelligence chiefs who testified on Capitol HIll this week, did not contradict...
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Report: Turkey’s MIT Enabled ISIS Militants to Enter Syria
Turkey’s autocratic president Recep Erdogan has a two track mind. Erdogan proclaims he is fighting (Kurdish) terrorism and while his government empowers ISIS to advance his geopolitical agenda. New details emerge in this detailed (but uncorroborated) report in The Investigative Journal. Citing wiretap evidence collected in investigation of the 2015 Ankara train station bombing, author...