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The Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO: Activists Mark 50th Anniversary of Daring FBI Break-in. This is a rush transcript.

The Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO: Activists Mark 50th Anniversary of Daring FBI Break-in

Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Fifty years ago this week, a group of activists staged one of the most stunning acts of defiance of the Vietnam War era. On March 8th, 1971, eight activists, including a cab driver, a daycare director, two professors, broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every document they found.

They wanted to document how FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was spying on citizens and actively suppressing dissent. Soon after stealing the documents, the activists, calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, began leaking shocking details about FBI abuses to the media. The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody: The Woman Who Helped Avert a Nuclear War. On the morning of Sunday, October 14, 1962, Juanita Moody exited the headquarters of the National Security Agency, at Fort Meade, Maryland, and walked the short distance to her car, parked in one of the front-row spaces reserved for top leadership.

The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody: The Woman Who Helped Avert a Nuclear War

The sky was a crystalline blue, “a most beautiful day,” she recalled later. Moody had just learned that the U.S. Air Force was sending a U-2 spy plane over Cuba to take high-altitude photographs of military installations across the island. The once-classified tale of Juanita Moody and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Juanita Moody dropped out of college in 1943 to serve in the US Signal Intelligence Service, decoding encrypted messages during World War II.

The once-classified tale of Juanita Moody and the Cuban Missile Crisis

She stayed on after the war, rising in the ranks of the SIS despite being both a woman and a civilian, until she was in charge of intercepting data from most of the world. By the 1960s, that included Cuba. The SIS had by then become the NSA, charged with data collection which was then handed over the CIA for analysis. That became an issue when it came to the Soviet buildup of arms in Cuba, as the White House wanted to be kept up-to-date with any new information, and Moody's boss Louis Tordella was wary of skipping over the CIA. Impressed by her expertise, alarmed by what she had to say, and perhaps concerned that no one was providing the White House with this level of detail about an aggressive military buildup in Cuba, [assistant secretary of defense Edward] Lansdale asked Moody to write up her findings. Air Force Secretly Acquires Russian Missile System: Pantsir S-1. Russian Defence MinistryGetty Images The U.S.

Air Force Secretly Acquires Russian Missile System: Pantsir S-1

Air Force scooped up a Russian-made surface-to-air missile system in June 2020, flying it out of Libya in a C-17 transport. Libyan government forces captured the Pantsir S-1 weapon system and turned it over to the Americans.Pantsir is a truck-mounted, low-altitude air defense system used in Syria, Libya, and other war zones. Last summer, a secretive U.S. military flight to Libya spirited away one of Russia’s most modern air defense weapon systems. The Search for Walt Ray's A-12 Article #125. By Jeremy Krans I would like to say this all started in late 97 or early 98 when I read a story by Tom Mahood on his now defunct Bluefire web page.

The Search for Walt Ray's A-12 Article #125

In truth it started much earlier than that. The story of a secret CIA spyplane, a long-hidden crash, and the man who had to find it. Gina Haspel Hangs on at CIA, With Little Support. Central Intelligence Agency Director Gina Haspel is a rarity in the Trump administration’s national security apparatus: a career professional who has beaten the odds and survived repeated personnel purges.

Gina Haspel Hangs on at CIA, With Little Support

The president is on his fourth director of national intelligence and sixth national security adviser, including all the “acting” officials to hold those positions. But while he traffics in conspiracy theories about the so-called deep state and often says the U.S. intelligence community is out to get him, Trump has never fired a CIA director. Still, Haspel’s hold on her job now appears tenuous. Until recently, in fact, several current and former government officials suggested that Trump was likely to fire her sometime before the election, adding that Haspel privately shared those fears.

Earlier this summer, Haspel confided to a former colleague that she wouldn’t be surprised if Trump replaced her by September, according to the person who spoke with her. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. New 'Wind of Change' podcast looks at CIA ties to an '80s pop hit. Hagelin and Friedman: The Gentlemen’s Understanding Behind “The Intelligence Coup of the Century” Document 01 Director of Logistics Memorandum "Issue of Converter M-209 to Foreign Nations.

Hagelin and Friedman: The Gentlemen’s Understanding Behind “The Intelligence Coup of the Century”

" February 17, 1949. Secret. Source: NSA/CSS Archives. Did the CIA’s Dr. Frank Olson Jump to His Death or Was He Pushed? Making of a martyr: how Qassem Suleimani was hunted down. For Qassem Suleimani, the 62-year-old head of Iran’s Quds Force, and one of the most powerful men in the Middle East, the short flight from Damascus to Baghdad late on Thursday was routine.

Making of a martyr: how Qassem Suleimani was hunted down

Travelling by private charter, the architect of Tehran’s strategic efforts from Lebanon through Syria and Iraq to Yemen would have avoided all formalities at one of the world’s most securely guarded airports. As his plane touched down just after midnight on Friday morning after reportedly disappearing from commercial flight trackers shortly before landing, two cars were waiting to greet the burly general at the aircraft steps. The Hick From Indiana Who Nailed Master Spy Kim Philby. On the surface, it seemed strange that Bill Harvey had been chosen to take over the Berlin Operations Base, one of the CIA’s most important and prestigious installations.

The Hick From Indiana Who Nailed Master Spy Kim Philby

He spoke no German, or any other foreign language, and he had no service overseas—he had never even been overseas. Unlike so many of his CIA colleagues, Harvey had not served with the OSS during the war, and had no dashing stories of time behind enemy lines. Harvey did not look the type either. The former FBI G-man from Indiana was nothing like his more refined colleagues, with their boarding school pedigrees, Ivy League connections, and easy grace. Some were amused and more than a few appalled by Harvey, a blue-collar gumshoe who did not even own a trench coat. Just under six feet, with a bullet-shaped head and bulbous, pear-shaped body that was big and getting bigger, Harvey looked like a flatfoot from a Raymond Chandler novel.

From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets. Glass shattered high above Seventh Avenue in Manhattan before dawn on a cold November morning in 1953.

From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets

Seconds later, a body hit the sidewalk. Secretive U.S. Air Force Spaceplane Breaks Record With 719 Straight Days in Orbit. The American Historical Review. We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website.By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. <a href=" Find out more</a> Skip to Main Content Sign In Register Close Advanced Search Article Navigation Volume 124 Issue 3 June 2019 Article Contents.

Operation Midnight Climax. Operation Midnight Climax was an operation initially established by Sidney Gottlieb and placed under the direction of Federal Narcotics Bureau in Boston, Massachusetts with the officer George Hunter White under the pseudonym of Morgan Hall for the CIA as a sub-project of Project MKULTRA, the CIA mind-control research program that began in the 1950s.[1] Before the programs were shut down, hundreds of scientists would work History[edit] The project that started in 1954 consisted of a web of CIA-run safehouses in San Francisco, Marin, and New York City. It was established in order to study the effects of LSD on unconsenting individuals. Sex Workers on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were surreptitiously plied with a wide range of substances, including LSD, and monitored behind one-way glass. The Operation Midnight Climax program was soon expanded, and CIA operatives began dosing people in restaurants, bars and beaches.[2] See also[edit]

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The CIA’s House of Horrors: Frank Olson’s Fatal Trip. Frank Olson Legacy Project. U.S. soldier in Niger ambush was bound and apparently executed, villagers say. NIAMEY, Niger — The body of Sgt. La David Johnson, one of four U.S. soldiers killed in an ambush by Islamist militants in Niger last month, was found with his arms tied and a gaping wound at the back of his head, according to two villagers, suggesting that he may have been captured and then executed. Adamou Boubacar, a 23-year-old farmer and trader, said some children tending cattle found the remains of the soldier Oct. 6, two days after the attack outside the remote Niger village of Tongo Tongo, which also left five Nigerien soldiers dead. The children notified him. When Boubacar went to the location, a bushy area roughly a mile from the ambush site, he saw Johnson’s body lying face down, he said.

The back of his head had been smashed by something, possibly a bullet, said Boubacar. FBI informant blocked from telling Congress about Russia nuclear corruption case, lawyer says. Film: The Tiny West Virginia Town Haunted by an NSA Secret. Russian Hacking: Barack Obama Undisclosed Election Day Plan. President Obama’s White House quietly produced a plan in October to counter a possible Election Day cyber attack that included extraordinary measures like sending armed federal law enforcement agents to polling places, mobilizing components of the military and launching counter-propaganda efforts. Obama’s secret struggle to retaliate against Putin’s election interference - Washington Post.

The easy trail that led the feds to Reality Winner, alleged source of NSA leak. Government contractor charged for leaking top-secret document Federal contractor Reality Leigh Winner was arrested on June 3 and charged with sending top-secret information to a news organization after taking classified documents from a NSA facility in Georgia. Reality Leigh Winner was charged with sending top-secret information to a news organization after taking classified documents from a NSA facility. Intelligence community publishes all classified material online to stop leakers. DNI James Clapper argues that classifying material is bullshit. Culture - Was modern art a weapon of the CIA? In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, something exciting happened in the art world in New York.

Classic Who: US Government Experiments on Americans — LSD and MK-ULTRA. Continuing our exploration of secret government experiments on American citizens, we now re-publish an article I wrote in 1999 about the CIA and LSD experiments. JFK Lancer - President John F. Kennedy Assassination Latest News and Research. How the CIA Writes History. Government Mind Control Agent Talks. That Time the CIA Secretly Dosed Americans with LSD. US Gov’t, NGOs Behind ‘Panama Papers’ Data Dump. Washington is behind the recently released offshore revelations known as the Panama Papers, WikiLeaks has claimed, saying that the attack was “produced” to target Russia and President Putin.

Project Bluebird. The CIA and Nazi War Criminals. Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report. Soviet Politburo Discussed CIA Billion Dollar Spy Adolf Tolkachev. ‘Eyewash’: How the CIA deceives its own workforce about operations. Did the CIA Create Mind-Control Slaves? Documenting use of overhead imagery on civilian US targets. A Psychedelic History of the CIA. DNSA - CIA Family Jewels Indexed: Full Record. MK Ultra: CIA Admits Behavioral Engineering On Humans.

Monarch Mind Control - The Conspiracy Wiki. The Secrets of MKULTRA. Gnostic MediaNEW MKULTRA DISCOVERY: Terence McKenna admited that he was a "deep background" and "PR" agent (CIA or FBI). The Secret History of the U-2. OPERATION CONDOR: National Security Archive Presents Trove of Declassified Documentation in Historic Trial in Argentina. DOD draft historical study on US operations in Italy in 1950s.

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