Espionage

Sun Tzu

North Korea Developing Drones…Based On US Drones Purchase In Middle East

Defense News reports that North Korea is developing drones based on Raytheon’s MQM-107D,  the so called Streaker target drones.  These are used by the US Army in training.  According to news reports, they got the drones by purchasing them from Syria. The Streaker flies at 40,000 feet at a maximum speed of 575 mph.  It is [...]
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John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.),

Unreasonable Risk and Ill-Conceived Combat Missions Define Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy

As a consequence of that misplaced ethical concern for an inappropriately identified non-combatant population, they have unnecessarily endangered our forces and reduced their combat effectiveness by forcing them to consider the lives of these 'non-combatants' as superior to their own. This is the very definition of 'unreasonable risk'.
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Former CIA Agent Accused of Giving Classified Info to Journalists

From the National Journal: The Justice Department indicted a high-profile former CIA agent, John Kiriakou, on charges that he knowingly provided classified information to journalists and tried to mislead the CIA while trying to get permission to publish a book about his time with the intelligence agency. The indictment comes after a years-long FBI investigation into Kiriakou, [...]
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Kerry Patton

Sources Claim Iran Killing Its Own Scientists, Not CIA or Mossad

Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, recently visited Lebanon to probe recent Hezbollah claims that dozens of CIA assets were compromised in Lebanon. According to GeoStrategy Direct.com, “officials said Hezbollah exploited CIA mistakes to track and identify U.S. operatives in Lebanon. They said that paid Lebanese informants, [...]
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Peter Schweizer

Covert War In Iran: But Who Is Waging It?

“If you are shooting,  don’t complain about being shot.”–Arabic proverb The New York Times front page lays out what appears to be a fairly aggressive covert war going on in Iran.  It was demonstrated most clearly with the assassination just recently of yet another Iranian nuclear scientist, at least the fifth to be killed since 2007. [...]
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Sun Tzu

Former Marine Sentenced To Death In Iran

From the Associated Press: TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday, in a case adding to the accelerating tension between the United States and Iran. Iran charges that as a former Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati received special training and [...]
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John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.),

The United States Government’s Willful Ignorance Is Costing Soldiers’ Lives

Herschel Smith and I have had some lengthy conversations about this current war, the disposition of the enemy, their relationship with the civilian populations amongst whom they operate, and the substance of the religion they all claim to adhere to. Fundamentally, we agree. We have had some minor disagreements about strategy selections from time to time [...]
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Sun Tzu

Iran Seeks Death for American Accused of Spying

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An American man accused by Iran of working for the CIA could face the death penalty, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Tuesday. In a closed court hearing, the prosecution applied for capital punishment, the report said, because the suspect, identified as Amir [...]
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Spyridon Mitsotakis

Secrets of ‘Kim Jong-Il’: Everything About Him, Including His Name, Was a Lie

As we look back on the  life of the brutal North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il, there are many myths and much propaganda to sort through before we find the truth about him. For starters, he wasn’t actually “Kim Jong-Il;” his real name was Yuri Irsenovich Kim. A scratched childhood picture of Yuri Irsenovich Kim, better [...]
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Avi Jorisch

Enforcing Existing Sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran

In recent years, the United States has imposed a punishing sanctions regime on Iran’s banking sector. To further increase Tehran’s level of financial pain, a great number of Congressional and advocacy groups have repeatedly called on the White House to blacklist the Central Bank of Iran (CBI). Doing so, the thinking goes, would seriously hamper [...]
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