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Crop Circles
I smell ‘willful destruction of property’ AND ‘theft of trade secrets’! [Thank you legal.] Who has jurisdiction in space?I was watching a rerun of a favorite 1990s British television program, Midsomer...
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Dirty Jobs
David Robarge, the CIA’s chief ‘historian’. I don’t envy academic gate-keepers: their job is to cover up really big lies, which is almost always impossible. In fact, in their attempt to mislead the...
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Managed Opposition
Prof. Alfred McCoy during one of many CIA-related media appearances. I woke up last night with the name ‘McCoy’ rolling around in my head. I tried to dismiss my sleeplessness as redux from the previous...
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The People Vs. Bob Guccione
In the final chapter of Prof. Alfred McCoy’s The Politics of Heroin, he gives a brief description of the Nugan Hand Bank Scandal. Nugan Hand was an Cayman Islands bank that was intimately involved in...
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Did William Colby Help the KGB? *UPDATE*
William Colby with this first wife, Barbara, and their children. About a week ago, I wrote a post titled Managed Opposition which described how CIA director William Colby used Alfred McCoy and his...
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Why is Lloyd Shearer a Family Jewel? *UPDATE*
This is the second in a series of (what will be) three posts on William E. Colby’s cooperation with the KGB. This post will assume knowledge of a few things: 1) Colby’s role in discrediting James Jesus...
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The Ambassadress
Safety pins never looked so good. This is the final post of three on CIA head William Egan Colby and his dealings with the KGB. The first post, which deals with Colby’s KGB-connected media ‘leak’ team,...
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Page Six
UPDATE: I’ve thrown a lot of information into this post, so I’ve included a couple of ‘recap’ statements in the ‘Bye, Bye Adrian’ section. I hope this makes things clear. If not, I’m always available...
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Deconfliction
The first time I heard the phrase ‘deconfliction team‘ was when it came out that the NSA was using online gaming forums, like those of the World of Warcraft (WoW), to identify people who hold...
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Security Theater 3000
Greg Hoglund and his wife, Penny Leavy-Hoglund, say business at their HBGary security company has rebounded after the initial negative fallout from the widely publicized hacking episode in February....
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Who Did Benny Johnson Tick Off?
Benny Johnson talks about what job he’d like to have more than Political Editor @ BuzzFeed. A couple of weeks ago Benny Johnson, the pseudo-conservative political pundit, was let go from BuzzFeed for...
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PSA: Tor Vulnerability Reporting Procedure
A few weeks ago a.nolen reader Hubri5 alerted me to the sorry fate of two Tor researchers from Carnegie Mellon who didn’t ask the Department of Defense for permission to talk about their work on...
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A Call for Papers
Last week three prominent members of the US military put their support behind a study from The Palm Center which suggests that the US Military should lift their ban on openly transgendered service...
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Cuneo and General Patton
It seems I’ll never be short of reasons to dislike FDR’s ‘Office of Strategic Services’, the forerunner to our beloved CIA. Today I’m going to tell the sordid tale of how and why OSS/BSC heavy-weight...
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Great Users of People
I started to think about ‘power worship’ a couple of years ago, after having read a few essays by George Orwell on the subject. Orwell thought that an unhealthy subservience to power was infecting...
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Eleanor and ISIS
A lady of exploitable insecurities. A few days ago I read an article in Haaretz about young French girls being brainwashed into 1) joining jihad in Syria or 2) working for IS/ISIS/’Islamic State’....
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David Obst Talks Again
It’s been a fun day at a.nolen HQ: I’ve just found a 1974 article in which David Obst brags about being a literary agent for John Marks, author of The Search for the ‘Manchurian Candidate': The CIA and...
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The CIA and Race Riots
Muzafer Sherif Today I’m going to pick up where John Marks left off in The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. I’m going to talk about a subproject that John Marks didn’t...
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CIA: Profiling Voters For Your Safety
TODAY: More on MK ULTRA subprojects that John Marks didn’t want to talk about! MK ULTRA Subproject 127 was never mentioned by John Marks in his book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and...
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The Banality of Mind Control
Philip Zimbardo, courtesy of his think tank HeroicImagination.org, which studies street gangs, amongst other things. I’ve written about the MK ULTRA programs a lot recently; they’re an easy subject to...
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