C.I.A. Deaths Prompt Surge in U.S. Drone Strikes – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in January 22nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Deaths, Drone Aircraft, DroneWar, Intensive Series, Khost Afghanistan, Militants, Missile Strikes, Nytimes, Pakistan, Suicide Bombing

Since the suicide bombing that took the lives of seven Americans in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, the Central Intelligence Agency has struck back against militants in Pakistan with the most intensive series of missile strikes from drone aircraft since the covert program began. Beginning the day after the attack [...]

CIA’s Lost Magic Manual Resurfaces | Danger Room | Wired.com

Posted by Matt in December 4th, 2009 | no comment

Published in general, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Cold-War, Concealment, Danger Room, LOST, Magic, Renowned Magician, Signals, Trickery

At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document — and a related paper, on conveying hidden signals — were believed to be destroyed in 1973. But recently, the manuals resurfaced, [...]

‘Afghan quagmire negates US-Iran war’ | Jerusalem Post

Posted by Matt in November 18th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Conflict, Adviser, Afghan War, Afghanistan, Asia Expert, Barack Obama, Brookings Institute, Center Fellow, Cia, Current, Iran, Jerusalem Post, Journalists, Middle East, National Security Studies, Nuclear Program, Political Transitions, quagmire, Saban Center, South Asia, Tel Aviv University

The US is too bogged down in Afghanistan to engage Iran militarily over its nuclear program, an ex-CIA South Asia expert and current adviser to US President Barack Obama said in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
Bruce Riedel, a senior Brookings Institute and Saban Center fellow for political transitions in the Middle East and South Asia, addressed [...]

Armageddon Time – Forbes.com

Posted by Matt in October 23rd, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Iran, Nuclear, Armageddon Time, Bottom Line, Cataclysm, Cia, Dangerous Period, Decades, Forbes, Historian Robert, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Military Historian, Nuclear War, Period Of Time, Robert Baer, Victor Davis Hanson, War In The Middle East

Military historian Victor Davis Hanson and former CIA field officer Robert Baer think there is about a 50% chance that Israel will attack Iran within the next 6 months.
If Israel does attack Iran then I think there is an excellent chance that this could lead to nuclear war in the Middle East. But it might [...]

CIA Knew About Iran’s Secret Nuclear Site for Three Years – TIME

Posted by Matt in October 8th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Cia, Cia Director, European Intelligence Agencies, Iran Nuclear, iranians, Leon Panetta, Presentation, Proof, Qum, tehran, Uranium Enrichment Plant

This summer, as the Obama Administration prepared to confront Iran with proof of its undisclosed uranium-enrichment plant in Qum, CIA Director Leon Panetta ordered his staff to work with European intelligence agencies to compile a comprehensive presentation about the facility. Although the Iranians had taken great pains to keep the facility a secret, building it [...]

CIA and Pentagon Deploy RFID “Death Chips.” Coming Soon to a Product Near You!

Posted by Matt in July 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military Tech, Beacons, Bob Woodward, Chips, Cia, Deploy, Deployment, Drone, Fabric, iraq, Open Literature, Pakistan, Pentagon, Reflectors, Rfid, Rfid Tags, Secret Terror, Secret Weapon, Slew, Strikes, tags, tracking, Urban Myth, Woven Fabric

It is hardly surprising then, that the Pentagon and the CIA have spent “hundreds of millions of dollars researching, developing, and purchasing a slew of ‘Tagging tracking and locating’ (TTL) gear,” Wired reports.
Long regarded as an urban myth, the military’s deployment of juiced-up RFID technology along the AfPak border in the form of “tiny homing [...]

Pakistan’s ‘Existential Threat’ Comes From Within

Posted by Matt in May 6th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Pakistan, Afghanistan, American Foreign Policy, Cia, Interagency Committee, Nightmares, Obama, Pakistan, South Asia

Bruce O. Riedel, a retired CIA expert on South Asia, who chaired a special interagency committee to develop President Obama’s policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, says “the situation remains dire” in the region, and particularly in Pakistan. He says “there is a real possibility of a jihadist state emerging in Pakistan sometime in the future. [...]

U.S. drones widen attack on militants inside Pakistan

Posted by Matt in February 21st, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Pakistan, Cia, Covert War, Drone Aircraft, Drones, Militants, Missile Strikes, Pakistan, Pakistani Government, Training Camps, Unmanned Drone

In the past week, the Obama administration has expanded the covert war run by the CIA inside Pakistan, launching attacks against a militant network seeking to topple the Pakistani government.
The two missile strikes on training camps run by Baitullah Mehsud represent a broadening of the U.S. campaign inside Pakistan, which has been largely carried [...]

Swiss nuclear smuggling suspect claims CIA link

Posted by Matt in January 22nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Nuclear, Centrifuge, Cia, Cia Link, Documentary, Intelligence, Italian Port, Libya, Nuclear Network, Nuclear Weapons Program, Qadeer Khan, Scientist, Sf1, Smuggling, Swiss Man, Taranto, Tv Station, Urs Tinner

A Swiss man suspected of being involved in the world’s biggest nuclear smuggling ring claims he supplied the CIA with information that led to the breakup of the black market nuclear network led by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.
In a documentary airing Thursday on Swiss TV station SF1, Urs Tinner says he tipped off U.S. [...]