Posted on 03/07/2017 6:12:05 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.
The first full part of the series, "Year Zero", comprises 8,761 documents and files from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virgina. It follows an introductory disclosure last month of CIA targeting French political parties and candidates in the lead up to the 2012 presidential election.
Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized "zero day" exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive.
"Year Zero" introduces the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of "zero day" weaponized exploits against a wide range of U.S. and European company products, include Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.
Since 2001 the CIA has gained political and budgetary preeminence over the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The CIA found itself building not just its now infamous drone fleet, but a very different type of covert, globe-spanning force — its own substantial fleet of hackers. The agency's...
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RT is informed about leaks from WikiLeaks in advance by Russian Intel.
Interesting question. Frankly, why doesn’t anybody leak intel on them? Is the entire body politic pro-Putin (Russia being Putin)? But why would Putin favor Trump who isn’t bought and paid for like the others?
The letter of credentials was held in Ecuador’s London Embassy among intelligence files marked ‘Assange’
Julian Assange tried to arrange Snowden’s asylum in Ecuador
Snowden originally planned to fly there via Cuba – but never boarded
On April 5th, Snowden sends his only legal email to the NSA
During the month of April 2013, Snowden admittedly stole top-secret NSA documents
Snowden has always maintained he was a ‘whistleblower’ and had no contact with foreign intelligence agencies before leaving the NSA
But the FSB’s head in Cuba flying to Quito, and the location of the letter in Ecuador’s London Embassy with other files on Assange, suggests there was advance collusion and planning between Russia and Ecuador before Snowden stole a raft of top-secret files
https://heatst.com/politics/assange-doc-suggests-russia-knew-in-advance-ed-snowden-would-spy-on-nsa/
The entire predicate for Russian involvement in the hacking was the so-called hacking “fingerprints” left behind. It is only the US Intelligence community that has both the ability and motive for leaving Russian fingerprints on the hacks.
I was done with the FBI when they framed hero Richard Jewell in the Olympic bombing scandal. I couldn’t detest them any more.
U.S. Charges Russian FSB Officers and Their Criminal Conspirators for Hacking Yahoo and Millions of Email Accounts
FSB Officers Protected, Directed, Facilitated and Paid Criminal Hackers
A grand jury in the Northern District of California has indicted four defendants, including two officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), for computer hacking, economic espionage and other criminal offenses in connection with a conspiracy, beginning in January 2014, to access Yahoo’s network and the contents of webmail accounts. The defendants are Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, 33, a Russian national and resident; Igor Anatolyevich Sushchin, 43, a Russian national and resident; Alexsey Alexseyevich Belan, aka “Magg,” 29, a Russian national and resident; and Karim Baratov, aka “Kay,” “Karim Taloverov” and “Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov,” 22, a Canadian and Kazakh national and a resident of Canada.
and here is a case from 2016:
Russian Banker Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To 30 Months In Prison For Conspiring To Work For Russian Intelligence
Evgeny Buryakov, a/k/a “Zhenya,” Who Worked For Russian Intelligence Under “Non-Official Cover” As A Banker In Manhattan, Was Also Ordered To Pay A $10,000 Fine And Ordered Removed From The United States
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that EVGENY BURYAKOV, a/k/a “Zhenya,” who worked for a Russian bank in Manhattan, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for conspiring to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation without providing prior notice to the Attorney General. BURYAKOV pled guilty on March 11, 2016, before U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman, who imposed today’s sentence.
Note that the Attorney was Preet Bharara.
add this
A senior Russian intelligence officer who was arrested on suspicion of treason in December has been charged with passing secrets to the CIA, sources told the Russian news agency Interfax on Tuesday.
Sergei Mikhailov was the deputy head of the information security department of the FSB, Russia’s national security service. He was arrested along with Dmitry Dokuchaev, a cybersecurity expert who worked as a hacker under the alias “Forb” before joining the FSB; and Ruslan Stoyanov, a key cybercrime investigator at the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.
Mikhailov and Dokuchaev have also been linked to a group of hackers known as Shaltai Boltai, or Humpty Dumpty, that has published emails from Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and other Kremlin officials, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Bloomberg cited sources suggesting that Mikhailov and Dokuchaev worked for Shaltai Boltai, selling sensitive information to the highest bidder even as they were still employed by the FSB.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/russian-security-agents-charged-with-passing-secrets-to-the-cia-2017-1
and the case becomes even more interesting.
Back in 2003/4 the Democrats were coming completely unhinged over the thought of Rumsfeld’s “Office of Special Plans.”
The Lyndon LaRouche crowd of former “intelligence professionals” that was feeding Ted Kennedy information was deeply involved in the Dem war on the DoD and encouraging, along with decrepit old Dan Ellsberg’s organization, government empoylees to leak everything with wild abandon... and promising legal protection.
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