Tag: Spying

Creative Associates International (CAI): It’s Not Exactly the CIA, But Close Enough

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND — You have likely not heard of them, but Creative Associates International (CAI) is one of the largest and most powerful non-governmental organizations operating anywhere in the world. A pillar of soft U.S. power, the group has been an architect in privatizing the Iraqi education system, designed messenger apps meant to overthrow the government of Cuba, served as a front group for the infamous Blackwater mercenary force (now rebranded as Academi), and liaised with Contra death squads in Nicaragua. As such, it has functioned as “both as an instrument of foreign policy and as a manifestation of a broader imperial project,” in the words of Professor Kenneth Saltman of the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Creative Associates International (CAI): It’s Not Exactly the CIA, But Close Enough

Where’s the Rage for Israel and NSO’s Pegasus the West Had for China’s Huawei?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Anger has swirled around the globe over revelations that Pegasus spyware created by Israeli software firm NSO Group has been used by governments to wiretap journalists and public figures. However, the fury is mild when compared to claims Beijing compelled Huawei to put a “backdoor” into its phones, which has never been proven.

Where’s the Rage for Israel and NSO’s Pegasus the West Had for China’s Huawei?

[1997] Government lied to public about UFO sightings, CIA admits

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Government lied to public about UFO sightings, CIA admits

“Over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights” over the United States, the CIA study says. “This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraodrinary sensitive national security project.”

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CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90