NEED EYES ON THIS
HELP
I'm kind of freaked out about this find of 5 minutes ago.
First, listen to the last 30 seconds of this Sidney Powell phone call. She specifically names 4 countries for foreign interference with elections:
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China
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Iran
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Serbia
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Liechtenstein
The last one was a surprise, so I did a quick dig.
Of all places to have turned up with dirt on Liechtenstein, this Washington Post article from Nov. 11 popped up:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/swiss-report-reveals-new-details-on-cia-spying-operation/ar-BB1aSZY3
The CIA was running a (shell) company called "Crypto AG" out of Switzerland
Lawyers in Liechtenstein covered all the tracks
" Based in Zug, Switzerland, Crypto was one of the world’s leading suppliers of encryption machines used by foreign governments to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret. But the company was since the 1970s secretly owned by the CIA and the BND, and had clandestinely collaborated with the National Security Agency, the U.S. code-breaking service, beginning in the 1950s.
The CIA’s ownership of the company was shielded from public view through complex financial transactions orchestrated by a law firm in Liechtenstein. Under NSA and CIA control, Crypto sold rigged systems to more than 100 governments, including Iran, military juntas in Latin America, nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, and even the Vatican.
By exploiting hidden vulnerabilities in the machines’ algorithms, U.S. and German spies read the diplomatic cables and other communications of adversaries as well as some allies. The operation was known internally by code names including “Thesaurus” and “Rubicon.”
A detailed CIA history obtained by The Post depicted the program as a triumph of 20th-century espionage, marveling that “foreign governments were paying good money to the U.S. and [what was then] West Germany for the privilege of having their most secret communications read by at least two (and possibly as many as five or six) foreign countries.”
That line alluded to the sharing of intelligence gleaned from Crypto devices with allies including the United Kingdom.
[As the U.S. spied on the world, the CIA and NSA bickered]
The CIA history indicates that Swiss authorities were generally aware of, but not directly involved in, the operation. The Swiss report confirms aspects of that classified account but goes further in describing alleged Swiss complicity. Citing Swiss intelligence documents, the report indicates that the Swiss intelligence service was aware by 1993 that Crypto “belonged to foreign intelligence services and exported ‘vulnerable’ devices.”
The report goes on to suggest that the Swiss spy agency, the Strategic Intelligence Service, entered a formal arrangement with the CIA that included access to other countries’ communications."
I'm too stunned by the implications of what the CIA itself called "the intelligence coup of the century" to even react yet. On my second read now.
Code names included "Thesaurus" and "Rubicon".
Who was CIA Director when this thing started? Article specifically mentions the 1970s and 1950s. This stinks like something Allen Dulles would have set up.
List of CIA directors: https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-Central-Intelligence-Agency-directors-1787118