The U.S. government has a long history of manipulating drug trafficking charges to advance geopolitical agenda. From 1975 to the late 1980s, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was on the CIA payroll. U.S. intelligence knew that Noriega permitted the Colombian cartels to ship cocaine through his country in return for huge cash payments. His drug activities...
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Fact Free: Michael Flynn’s Lawyer Spins a Story about the Ex-DIA Chief
So here’s how the a bogus story gets traction. Michael Flynn is the disgraced former National Security Adviser who lasted a mere 24 days in the job. A former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Flynn had taken money from the Russian and Turkish governments without disclosing the payments as required by the U.S. law...
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NSA Cites Women in American Cryptology
Straight from the National Security Agency, we have The Legacy of Women in American Cryptology. It’s the story of five women who have held senior positions at NSA. It’s a small but interesting group. Maureen Baginski, for example. had a leading role in NSA’s response to 9/11. Ms. Baginski held the position of SIGINT director...
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White Supremacists Look to Weaponize COVID-19
From the Cipher Brief In late February, the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service circulated an intelligence briefing to state and local law enforcement agencies which highlighted that white supremacists had discussed the possibility of using coronavirus as a bioweapon to be directed against its enemies, to include the FBI and non-white communities. Interest...
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Why Did the CIA Wiretap My Father, Journalist Paul Scott?
This true story comes from the Annapolis (Md.) Gazette. My father Paul Scott was a nationally syndicated reporter whose column appeared in 300 newspapers from the 1950s-1970s. He and his partner Robert Allen were illegally wiretapped by the CIA for three months in 1963. The CIA acknowledged this activity in the publication of its Family...