A New Perspective of the Day: Kim Dotcom Releases Footage of Police Raid
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has released an edited montage of video recordings from the January 2012 police raid against his mansion in Australia, which shows anti-terrorism units armed with assault rifles, attack dogs and helicopters descending on his New Zealand home.
I think I’ve found my new favorite song
If only Google could uncover the NSA spying program.
Uri Geller: real psychic spy or fraudulent psy-op? I’ve often wondered if psychic spying is a real operation or complete bunk used by spy agencies to frighten each other into wasting money and resources—or some mixture of the two. Anyway, according to Uri Geller it’s all real and he’s been in the game the whole time and he will bend a spoon if you don’t believe it. (via Never mind the NSA: Uri Geller is the real spy story | Vikram Jayanti | Media | guardian.co.uk)
The original partial solution to Jim Sanborn’s enigmatic sculpture Cryptos has been released to the public. Though the last remaining quadrant has never successfully been decrypted, the original solver of the puzzle was CIA analyst David Stein. The Agency did not make this news public, however a year later, computer scientist Jim Gillogly came up with the same solution. Now the National Security Archive has released Stein’s declassified 1999 account of how he solved it, Moby Dick references and all. (via Threat Level)
Not quite sure the Russian account of this alleged spy is true but the wig matches one supposedly in the FSB museum from a 1986 bust of a CIA agent in the USSR. So either the CIA has been using the same wig supplier for decades (likely) or the FSB is making good use of their wig museum (equally likely). I’m still wowed by the letter that the alleged spy had on hand—basically an offer-letter for potential Russian turncoats. Is this real life? (via 27-year-old CIA wig resurfaces in Moscow spy case)
The new head of the CIA’s clandestine service may signal that the agency will focus less on capturing and torturing high-value targets. But it definitely doesn’t signal a new era of openness: the new chief of the National Clandestine Service is a serving undercover officer himself.
President Obama on an encrypted Raytheon IST-2 phone in the Oval Office ordering a pizza. (via The Red Phone)
Hackers coordinated with a whale (a large=scale gambler), feeding him information on the house’s hand using hacked casino security cameras to defraud an Australian casino of millions. Though the gambler was apprehended, the winnings were apparently not recovered.
A federal case against Blackwater including 15 felonies against company executives went down like a house of cards in March. The government just couldn’t prosecute one of their own. Blackwater founder Erik Prince seemed to be arguing that the company was an extension of the CIA and that he himself may have been a CIA asset.
D.I.Y Cannons Being Used to Fire Drugs over the U.S. Border
Drug smugglers are using makeshift cannons (shown above) to shoot packages of marijuana across the border fence into the United States, according to the police in Baja, CA. The large improvised gun, which is made of PVC pipe and powered by an air compressor hooked up to a car engine, can apparently blast packages weighing up to 13 kilograms. Not surprisingly, similar techniques in moving drugs have been observed before in Arizona, one involving a catapult-like device in January 2011 and another involving a canister cannon in December later that year.
How long until the cartels start using drones of their own
The CIA has no files on anarchist MIT linguist Noam Chomsky. Is it a case of incompetence? Did they spy on him during the Johnson administration and then fail to document it or more sinisterly destroy the files? Or did they never spy on him at all? (via The CIA has nothing on Noam Chomsky (no, really))
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