A three-mile wide fireball recreated every element the universe had ever seen. It was equivalent to a thousand Hiroshimas. Five thousand miles away Teller watched the birth of his bomb. ibid.
The Soviet H-bomb had arrived several years earlier than the CIA had predicted fuelling suspicions there were still spies at large in America. ibid.
[Lewis] Strauss ordered the FBI to seize all Oppenheimer’s classified files. ibid.
The world’s worst nightmare: a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. But hidden in the desert is an atom bomb factory the West helped build and it belongs to Israel. One man exposes an international conspiracy of silence. He’s up against one of the most feared secret services in the world. And they won’t stop till they’ve got him. Nuclear Secrets IV: Vanunu and the Bomb
He risked a heavy prison sentence to take photos of what he’d seen. ibid.
Mossad would be coming after him. ibid.
‘Israel could have up to 200 atom bombs.’ ibid. UK expert
There was a long list of Western countries who would be very embarrassed if Vanunu’s story ever got out. ibid.
The next day Israel denied the allegations. ibid.
The Sunday Mirror printed pictures of Vanunu and ridiculed his story. ibid.
The Sunday Times finally decided on publish on October 5th. ibid.
Curiously, the world’s press didn’t want to know. ibid.
For eleven years Vanunu was in solitary confinement. ibid.
Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, brilliant scientist, trusted colleague, nuclear spy. Khan’s masterplan: to steal Europe’s nuclear secrets, build an atomic bomb for Pakistan, and set up a smuggling network to sell those secrets on to Middle Eastern states from Libya to Iran. A nuclear network reaching as far as North Korea. Nuclear Secrets V: The Terror Trader
The mastermind behind the biggest global nuclear smuggling ring. ibid.
He got a job at Europe’s largest civilian atomic research consortium. ibid.
Khan flew to Pakistan Christmas 1975. ibid.
With contacts all over Europe Khan’s bomb project rapidly accelerated. ibid.
‘The Chinese provided invaluable assistance to Pakistan’s nuclear efforts.’ ibid.
At a chicken farm in the Iraqi desert they uncovered a treasure trove of documents … The Iraqi secret service received an offer from Khan’s network. ibid.
1998: Pakistan exploded its first bomb in response to Indian nuclear tests of the same month. ibid.
The cheque cleared: Khan had helped Iran on the road to nuclear power. ibid.
Did three children receive a prophecy here in Fatima in 1917 that foretold the date of the apocalypse? Did it warn of a plague and the destruction of the Church? Has the Vatican covered it up for nearly a century? Jamie Theakston, Forbidden History s1e2: The Third Secret of Fatima, UKTV 2013
On six occasions between May and October 1917 it is said that the Virgin Mary appeared to three young Portuguese children. ibid.
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People got a lot of names for someone like me. The way I see it I deal in the lies people tell and the truths they don’t. I deal in secrets. I dig them up and rob everything for ever. City of Tiny Lights 2016 starring Riz Ahmed & Reiss Kershi & James Floyd & Antonio Aakeel & Billie Piper & Cush Jumbo & Roshan Seth & Jake Fairbrother & Vincent Regan & Danny Webb & Alexander Siddig & Liv Hansen et al, director Pete Travis, opening monologue
‘Here’s this Agency and it’s engaged in criminal activities around the world, some of which are quite deadly. Some of which are quite provocative in the sense of laying the groundwork for large-scale military conflict. And it’s happening in a lot of countries.’ Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations: The Company, Christopher Simpson, author The Science of Coercion, 2013
From the beginning the CIA was steeped in elitism. Its top leadership was made up mostly of Wall Street lawyers, while new recruits were sought through the top Ivy League universities. ibid.
The culture of the secret society would find a parallel in the new intelligence agency; internally, it was known as The Company. ibid.
‘Planned and executed so that any US government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that for those uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility.’ ibid. NSC 12/02
Daniel Ellsburg, a high-ranking Pentagon official, leaked a treasure-trove of secret documents to The New York Times. The publication of the Pentagon Papers seemed to affirm a widely held view: no matter how hard you try, you cannot keep secrets in Washington. ibid.
‘The National Security State is an instrument of class warfare, organized and designed to permit an elite, local and multinational, to operate without any constraint from democratic processes. ibid. Edward Herman
‘Compartmentalization is inherent to intelligence organisations.’ ibid. Ross Baker, author The Family of Secrets
Not all NGOs live up to their title. ibid.
The CIA has overthrown countless governments around the world … Its agents have engaged in similar plots against America’s closest allies. ibid.
‘The CIA’s aim in Australia was to get rid of a government they did not like and was not cooperative … It’s a Chile but in a much more sophisticated and subtle form.’ ibid. Victor Marchetti, ex-CIA officer
Though [Harold] Wilson was a moderate, he was the object of a relentless smear campaign in the British press in which he was painted as a Soviet agent. ibid.
The CIA attempted to assassinate several dozen leaders during the Cold War; oftentimes, they succeeded. ibid.
Private contractors have repeatedly robbed the American taxpayer. ibid.
The United States now has 16 separate intelligence agencies. ibid.
Operation Chaos: The CIA spied on leftists during the civil rights era. ibid.
They called it Iran/Contra: for many Americans it provided their first peak behind the curtain of the National Security State. Others were old enough to remember similar scandals. Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations s1e2: The Deep State
Perhaps the most important investigation into America’s secret government was the Church Committee. ibid.
Fearing that the Sandinista model may spread to other countries, former treasury secretary George Shultz called the Sandinistas ‘a cancer right here on our land mass’. Trained in neighbouring Honduras as well as back home in Florida, the Contras would unleash a reign of terror on the people of Nicaragua. They focused heavily on economic targets … The Contras had raped, tortured and killed unarmed civilians including children. ibid.
‘There’s a correlation between CIA activity and drug production.’ ibid. Peter Dale Scott
‘Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.’ Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations s1e3: The Strategy of Tension, Marshall McLuhan
Operation Northwoods: In 1962 the joint chiefs of staff drew up and approved what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the US government. In the name of anti-communism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba. ibid.
The False Flag Operation takes the concept of black propaganda to a murderous extreme. Secret agents carry out an act of terrorism or other outrage which is then blamed on the enemy of choice. ibid.
Sometimes, False Flag Operations fail. Under Operation Susannah in 1954, Israeli military intelligence attempted to carry out a series of False Flag-like bombings in Egypt. The targets were to be American and British businesses to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood … The Operation was cut short before the bloodshed could begin: conspirator Philip Natanson was caught attempting to detonate a bomb in a British-owned theatre. ibid.
Gladio: the stay-behind networks had been set up to repel a Soviet invasion. Yet the invasion never came … The myth of Soviet expansionism remained an important component of Cold War propaganda ... In Europe Gladio would provide the ammunition … With no Soviet army to repel, the Fascists increasingly focused on what they regarded as the enemy within. False Flag terror would be their primary weapon. ibid.
The programme [Gladio] was closely linked to a Masonic league known as P2 or Propaganda Due. It was made up of military and intelligence officers, political leaders, industrialists, Mafioso, bankers and even Vatican contacts. ibid.
Gladio: The Strategy of Tension was a Europe-wide enterprise. ibid.