A bizarre Foreign Ministry report circulating in the Kremlin today states that this Friday past (11 May) Russian Envoy Vladimir Vinokurov, the Consulate General of San Francisco, was approached near his hotel room during a visit to Los Angeles by an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation identifying himself as Stephen Ivens who warned that he and a former FBI agent named Donald Sachtleben had uncovered evidence of an impending terror attack on US soil stating that those behind the attack were “all insane.”

eutimes.net

A former supervisory FBI agent has been arrested and jailed on child pornography charges. Donald Sachtleben was taken into custody and charged Monday …

CNN

The wife of a missing FBI agent appealed for the public’s help in tracking him down Tuesday, saying in a letter that 35-year-old Stephen Ivens is “more than just a missing person.”

Los Angeles Times

A key witness to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy has retracted her official statements in the case and now claims that convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan did not act alone. Nina Rhodes-Hughes, 78, tells CNN that the FBI “twisted” her original statements to authorities. “What has to come out is that there was another shooter to my right,” Rhodes told CNN. “The truth has got to be told. No more cover-ups.
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Which Obama Cabinet Secretary Did Russian SVR Agent Seduce? Did a Juliet agent in the Anna Chapman spy ring come close to seducing an Obama  cabinet secretary in 2010? That possibility was among startling revelations made by a senior official of the U.S. FBI to the UK’s official state media, the BBC, ABC reports. Frank Figliuzzi, Assistant Director of Counter-Intelligence for the FBI, said the decision to break-up the Russian espionage operation came when it did because, “we were becoming very concerned they were getting close enough to a sitting U.S. cabinet member that we thought we could no longer allow this to continue.”
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Which Obama Cabinet Secretary Did Russian SVR Agent Seduce?

Did a Juliet agent in the Anna Chapman spy ring come close to seducing an Obama  cabinet secretary in 2010? That possibility was among startling revelations made by a senior official of the U.S. FBI to the UK’s official state media, the BBC, ABC reports.

Frank Figliuzzi, Assistant Director of Counter-Intelligence for the FBI, said the decision to break-up the Russian espionage operation came when it did because, “we were becoming very concerned they were getting close enough to a sitting U.S. cabinet member that we thought we could no longer allow this to continue.”

Could Mali’s coup be beneficial for economic development in the north African state? It’s too soon to tell the political proclivities of the new junta, however, with the putsch executed with what was apparently minimal violence the government has one ideological direction in which it could move to shore-up investments in the nation. We revisit a post we made in 2011 -  As rumbling of an impending military coup in Greece continues to grow, we visit a 2004 paper by Dr. Catherine Duggan of Harvard Business School in which she asks the question “How do coups affect private investment?” While conventional wisdom indicates a military intervention into civil government tends to depress investments in the country in question, Dr. Duggan finds that - depending on the coup type - a net benefit can often be realized. Duggan’s research indicates a bloodless coup by a right-oriented junta tracks an average 7.7% increase in aggregate private investments as a percent of GDP.
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Could Mali’s coup be beneficial for economic development in the north African state? It’s too soon to tell the political proclivities of the new junta, however, with the putsch executed with what was apparently minimal violence the government has one ideological direction in which it could move to shore-up investments in the nation. We revisit a post we made in 2011 - 

As rumbling of an impending military coup in Greece continues to grow, we visit a 2004 paper by Dr. Catherine Duggan of Harvard Business School in which she asks the question “How do coups affect private investment?” While conventional wisdom indicates a military intervention into civil government tends to depress investments in the country in question, Dr. Duggan finds that - depending on the coup type - a net benefit can often be realized. Duggan’s research indicates a bloodless coup by a right-oriented junta tracks an average 7.7% increase in aggregate private investments as a percent of GDP.

Is the Nation of Australia Merely the South Pacific Branch of the CIA? Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has accused the ruling government of Prime Minister Julia Gillard of being agents of influence of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency which - he claimed - were working through the Rockefeller Foundation.  Australian officials denounced Palmer’s claims, however, the accusation comes one month after it was revealed the U.S. State Department had been briefed of Gillard’s plans to unseat incumbent Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2010 during a leadership dispute, weeks before then chief-of-government Rudd found himself ignominiously displaced.  While media have dismissed Palmer’s accusation that the Rockefeller Foundation is a front group for U.S. covert action, the billionaire’s assertions are not without some basis in historical fact. In the early 1980s it was revealed that Harvard University Middle East expert Nadav Safran had accepted more than $100,000 from the CIA for the agency’s right-of-review of a book he had written about Saudi Arabia, and that these funds were supplemented by additional monies paid by the RAND Corporation and the Rockefeller Foundation, purportedly at the agency’s direction. Safran ultimately resigned from Harvard in disgrace. 
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Is the Nation of Australia Merely the South Pacific Branch of the CIA?

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has accused the ruling government of Prime Minister Julia Gillard of being agents of influence of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency which - he claimed - were working through the Rockefeller Foundation. 

Australian officials denounced Palmer’s claims, however, the accusation comes one month after it was revealed the U.S. State Department had been briefed of Gillard’s plans to unseat incumbent Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2010 during a leadership dispute, weeks before then chief-of-government Rudd found himself ignominiously displaced. 

While media have dismissed Palmer’s accusation that the Rockefeller Foundation is a front group for U.S. covert action, the billionaire’s assertions are not without some basis in historical fact. In the early 1980s it was revealed that Harvard University Middle East expert Nadav Safran had accepted more than $100,000 from the CIA for the agency’s right-of-review of a book he had written about Saudi Arabia, and that these funds were supplemented by additional monies paid by the RAND Corporation and the Rockefeller Foundation, purportedly at the agency’s direction. Safran ultimately resigned from Harvard in disgrace. 

The orders surprised the Cuban intelligence officer. ‘The leadership wants you to stop your CIA work, all your CIA work,’ his boss said. Instead, the officer was told he had a new target: Texas, ‘any little detail … from Texas.’ And about three hours later, shortly after mid-day on Nov. 22, 1963, the shocked intelligence officer had something to report that was much more than a small detail: the assassination in Dallas of President John F. Kennedy. ‘Castro knew,’ the intelligence officer would tell a CIA debriefer years later, after defecting to the United States. ‘They knew Kennedy would be killed.’

Miami Herald

(a new book by CIA analyst Brian Latell purports to offer evidence that Cuba’s Dirección de Inteligencia knew in advance of the Kennedy assassination)