October | 2025 | Intel Today
7 posts published by L during October 2025| Intel Today
“A harlot? Yes, but a traitor, never!” Mata Hari (during the trial) October 15 2025 — Margaretha Geertruida “Margreet” MacLeod (Born Zelle; August 7 1876 – October 15 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch … Continue reading →| Intel Today
“There have been only two kinds of CIA secret operations: the ones that are widely known to have failed—usually because of almost unbelievably crude errors—and the ones that are not yet widely known to have failed.” Edward Luttwak August 18 … Continue reading →| Intel Today
“Sarkozy has to give back the money he accepted from Libya to finance his electoral campaign. We financed his campaign and we have the proof… The first thing we’re demanding is that this clown gives back the money to the … Continue reading →| Intel Today
“Many could argue – and did – that Mike Deuel and the others who died in Laos died for naught, that their efforts failed to sway events. But tough the mission ultimately failed, their grit is still quietly celebrated at … Continue reading →| Intel Today
“Good morning, I just spoke with VP/ NSA and he would strongly prefer the report not be disseminated. Thanks for understanding.” DNI Email (SECRET) PDB Briefer (Feb. 10, 2016) October 8, 2025 — A recently declassified CIA report from Biden’s … Continue reading →| Intel Today
“Our confidential source ascertained (…) that the bombing of the Cubana Airlines DC-8 was planned, in part, in Caracas, Venezuela, at two meetings attended by Morales Navarrete, Luis Posada Carriles and Frank Castro. (…) A confidential source all but admitted that … Continue reading →| Intel Today
“All but one of the DNA components which make up that profile are present in [RARDE Forensic Expert] Allen Feraday’s DNA profile. (…) This component is unsuitable for interpretation purposes since a large number of individuals from any population might … Continue reading →| Intel Today
“What came to be known as the Space Race between the United States and the USSR began in 1957 when the Soviets launched the first satellite, Sputnik.” President John F. Kennedy Special Message to Congress on Urgent National Needs (May … Continue reading →| Intel Today
“If the facts are confirmed and if the effects are indeed caused by a physical device, I find the microwave explanation far more likely than a sonic attack.” US Spies & the Havana Syndrome INTEL TODAY (October 3 2017) October … Continue reading →| Intel Today
“There is a wonderful book that you might read… And the title of it is from a quote from Winston Churchill: ‘In time of war, the truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard…| Intel Today
“All but one of the DNA components which make up that profile are present in [RARDE Forensic Expert] Allen Feraday’s DNA profile. (…) This component is unsuitable for interpretation purposes …| Intel Today
“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.”John F. KennedySpeech at Amherst College Convocationin honor of poet Robert Frost(Octob…| Intel Today
“His responsibilities in El Salvador involved keeping tabs on U.S. AID money to the Salvadoran government.” The Life and Death of an Intelligence Man March 26 2025 — Richard D. Krobock was ki…| Intel Today
“Billy Jack Johnson was a talented instructor, and he became known throughout the Agency for his skill and expertise in unique specialties, such as sabotage, escape and evasion, fingerprint analysi…| Intel Today
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“You should be proud to know that in order to be memorialized in this fashion, the circumstances of an individual’s death must be of inspirational or heroic nature.” CIA letter to…| Intel Today
“Jane Burrell was never a candidate for a star on the CIA’s Memorial Wall because the Wall commemorates Agency employees who died in specific circumstances, and deaths from commercial plane crashes…| Intel Today
“During a routine A-12 training flight on 5 January 1967, a fuel gauge failed to function properly, and the aircraft ran out of fuel only minutes before landing. The pilot, Walter Ray, ejected but …| Intel Today
“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands. (…) Under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, ra…| Intel Today
“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.”John F. KennedySpeech at Amherst College Convocation in honor of poet Rober…| Intel Today
“As of 15 August 1968, McNulty was in charge of an Air America helicopter on a mission to a forward area in Laos. His mission was to contact and brief a battalion engaged in a major offensive…| Intel Today
“I voiced to him [U.S. Secretary of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, an…| Intel Today
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 – Dec. 5, 2013) July 18, 2025 &…| Intel Today
“Also being twice in that great building, I was drawn to the Memorial Wall both times. On Friday, I realized that the last two stars were Tyrone and Glen. I would like to end the film with a …| Intel Today
“There is a wonderful book that you might read… And the title of it is from a quote from Winston Churchill: ‘In time of war, the truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard…| Intel Today
“The first fatality directly related to flying the U2 occurred on 15 May 1956, when test pilot Wilburn S. Rose, flying Article 345A, had trouble dropping his pogos.”THREE FATAL CRASHES …| Intel Today
“This particularly adventuresome and resourceful CIA officer should have been remembered from his death in 1950 as a hero and inspiration to generations of CIA operations officers. Instead, h…| Intel Today
“Several lieutenants assigned to my flight were talented pilots, but my assistant flight commander, 1st Lt Buster E. Edens (called ‘Snede,’ Edens spelled backwards), was a superb …| Intel Today
“Alerted by doctrine and success against another local CIA operation, Shanghai’s security apparatus moved cautiously against Redmond’s network, obtaining evidence that made the guilty verdict of 19…| Intel Today
“We stand before these 140 stars not only with gratitude but with reverence for our fallen heroes. We’ll never forget their sacrifice. We’ll never forget their devotion.”CIA…| Intel Today
“In 2016, the CIA memorial wall had 111 stars, each representing an agent’s death. By the end of Trump’s term, there were 135 stars on the wall, a huge 22% increase. 24 dead agent…| Intel Today
