Based on a true story, The Man Standing Next depicts the turbulent 40-day period leading up to the assassination of South Korea’s ex-president Park Chung-hee on October 26, 1979, by his intelligence chief at the height of pro-democracy protests. Lee played the role of intelligence head Kim Kyu-pyeong in the movie. As it is such...
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FSB Blocks ProtonMail After a Wave of Bomb Threats
If you’re not familiar with it, ProtonMail is a free encrypted email service, meaning if third parties intercept your email they can’t read it. Now the FSB, Russia’s equivalent of the FBI, has banned it. The recent bomb scares are big news in Russia. So is the government’s effort to ban a private communication channel...
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Gitmo Testimony Sheds Light on $81 Million CIA Contract for Waterboarding Duo
The continuing testimony of James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, architects of the CIA’s torture program, at a military tribunal in Guantanamo sheds new light on the business side of “enhanced interrogation.” The duo make an appearance in their private jet in The Report, the movie sabout the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation of the CIA torture...
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Mossad Agent Who Befriended a Terrorist & Then Eliminated Him
Assassination is such a cold-blooded business. How cold-blooded? This report comes The Yeshiva World, a legitimate new site for Israeli religious news. The site interviewed a Mossad agents who helped track down the Palestinians who kidnapped and killed 11 Israel athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Agent D: “It could be he’s smart, strong, intelligent –...
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emptywheel: NSA Is Probably Withholding Burisma Details
Marcy Wheeler, aka emptywheel, is among the most knowledgeable of intel watchers. She has this to say about Rep. Adam Schiff’s complaint that the National Security Agency has not been entirely forthcoming with records relevant to President Trump’s impeachment trial. It’s all about Burisma, the Ukrainian firm that hired Hunter Biden to serve on its...