Russia recently unveiled its large nuclear-tipped underwater drone submarine the Pentagon has called Kanyon and Moscow calls Status-6. https://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-reveals-plans-phantom-underwater-drone-war-u-s/
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11-3-18 TOKYO — North Korea has threatened to restart the development of its nuclear weapons program unless the United States lifts sanctions, underscoring one of the major potential stumbling blocks in Washington’s diplomatic outreach with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/north-korea-threatens-to-restart-nuclear-program-unless-us-lifts-sanctions/2018/11/03/1e0b0f90-df63-11e8-aa33-53bad9a881e8_story.html?utm_term=.78813227135d
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9-23-16 Carfentanil, a CII controlled substance, is reportedly 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl, which already is 50 times more potent than heroin. https://www.empr.com/news/dea-drug-10000-times-stronger-than-morphine-linked-to-overdose-deaths/article/524679/
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5-24-17 Synthetic opioids have come into vogue in part because they are so much cheaper than heroin to produce, said Dr. Michael Olinger, medical director of EMS for the Department of Homeland Security. A hit can cost as little as $10. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/25/gray-death-its-10-000-times-more-powerful-than-morphine/344371001/
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Dsuvia is a 3-millimeter tablet of sufentanil made by AcelRx. It's a sublingual tablet intended to provide effective pain relief in patients for whom most oral painkillers aren't effective. The FDA's advisory committee voted 10-3 to recommend approval of the drug, a decision that was accepted by the FDA on Friday. The agency justified its decision by insisting that Dsuvia would be subject to "very tight" restrictions--1,000 times more powerful than morphine, FDA ignores the objections of lawmakers and its own advisory committee in the process. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-03/fda-approves-new-painkiller-thats-1000x-more-powerful-morphine
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1-19-2017 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor George Soros will partner with Mastercard Inc on a venture they said could help (provide money to) migrants, refugees and others struggling within their communities worldwide to improve their economic and social status. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-immigration-soros/george-soros-mastercard-to-partner-to-aid-migrants-refugees-idUSKBN1531H2...................................................................................................
11-2-18 One of the largest intelligence failures of the past decade started in Iran in 2009, when the Obama administration announced the discovery of a secret Iranian underground enrichment facility — part of Iran’s headlong drive for nuclear weapons. Angered about the breach, the Iranians went on a mole hunt, looking for foreign spies, said one former senior intelligence official.
The mole hunt wasn’t hard, in large part, because the communications system the CIA was using to communicate with agents was flawed. Former U.S. officials said the internet-based platform, which was first used in war zones in the Middle East, was not built to withstand the sophisticated counterintelligence efforts of a state actor like China or Iran. “It was never meant to be used long term for people to talk to sources,” said one former official. “The issue was that it was working well for too long, with too many people. But it was an elementary system.” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cias-communications-suffered-catastrophic-compromise-started-iran-090018710.html
11-2-18 By 2011, Iran had infiltrated the CIA spy network and in May it announced that they had broken up a 30-strong ring of American spies.
Some informants were executed and others imprisoned as a result, the sources claimed. This was corroborated by a report on ABC news at the time, which referred to a compromised communications system after a tip off from the CIA.
Meanwhile in China 30 agents working for the US were executed by the government after compromising the spy network using a similar means. Beijing had managed to break into a second temporary communications system, splintered from the initial platform and were able to see every single agent the CIA had placed in the country, the sources told Yahoo.
The sources said that it the general consensus was that that Iran and China had traded technical information with each other to form a two-pronged attack.
A CIA agent in Russia who was warned about the attacks were able to change communication channels before anyone was uncovered.
The government had already been warned about the hackability of the system by a defence contractor named John Reidy, whose job it was to hire human sources for the CIA in Iran. He alerted authorities in 2008. His official statement claimed that 70 percent of operations at the time may have been compromised already and that any agents using versions of the system were in danger. “The design and maintenance of the system is flawed,” he said. Mr Reidy was later fired for “conflicts of interests”. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dozens-us-spies-killed-iran-021003000.html
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7-13-17 In one notable case, that of
In frustration Reidy last month sent a 90-page letter and documentation about his case to the chairman of the Senate’s powerful Judiciary Committee, lambasting its lack of resolution....Reidy formed his own company in 2006, Form III Defense Solutions, and worked as a subcontractor, piggybacking on contracts won by bigger companies for intelligence collection, tactical targeting guidance and other matters, usually with the CIA.....
Two different issues led Reidy in 2010 to submit a complaint to the CIA’s internal watchdog, the Inspector General’s Office. One issue involved what Reidy alleged was fraud between elements within the CIA and contractors. Another issue involved what he called a “massive” and “catastrophic” intelligence failure due to a bungled foreign operation, according to his 2014 appeal to an office under the director of national intelligence.
Reidy said he sent the Inspector General’s Office 80 emails and 56 documents to back up his complaints. “They just delay, delay, and delay and hope the problem goes away,” Reidy said in a June 5 letter to Sen. Charles Grassley, the Judiciary panel’s chairman.
Reidy said his own example bodes poorly for those who want to report fraud or abuse. “If you are contemplating whistleblowing … you’re going to sit there and say, ‘If I go through that system, it will not end well for me. I’m going to lose my career and I’m going to be financially devastated,’” Reidy said. https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article161202533.html
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7-23-15 “There is no doubt that what I have reported has been critical and embarrassing to (the) CIA,” Reidy wrote in his appeal. “I would have been able to provide more evidence to back up my appeal but (the) CIA holds all the cards.”
Reidy asserted his supervisors and the CIA ignored the problems and punished him by removing him from his contract. “They did not want to admit the obvious because it was their funding, their platforms, their officers and their unwillingness to change course that (led) to future compromises,” he wrote....
“In the matter relating to Mr. Reidy and the CIA, Mr. Reidy provided us with sufficient documentation required of him so that we could decide on his request for appeal,” said Andrea Williams, a spokeswoman for I. Charles McCullough III, the intelligence community inspector general. She added that her office did not receive that same documentation from the CIA, prompting McCullough to refer the case back to the agency.
The CIA inspector general’s office has not responded, even though the case was referred late last year, said McClanahan, Reidy’s attorney. McClanahan said he has gotten the runaround from both the intelligence community inspector general and the CIA on whether he is cleared for access to discuss the case in detail with his client. https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article28348576.html
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