CIA and the Indian Nuclear Test Recommendations For Intelligence/Operational Analysis

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Omahkohkiaaiipooyii
CIA and the Indian Nuclear Test And recommendations for intelligence/operational analysis
by Ralph McGehee

CIA Missed Signs Of India’s Nuclear Test. CIA to Investigate.

A U.S. spy satellite clearly depicted activity last week at India’s remote desert nuclear test site, but U.S. intelligence officials scrutinizing the images failed to discern that India was preparing to conduct the three nuclear blasts it set off on Monday [May 11, 1998].

Even when “clear-cut” evidence of the nuclear test preparations was recorded by a satellite at midnight on Sunday, six hours before the tests, no CIA warning was issued because the U.S. analysts responsible for tracking the Indian nuclear program had not expected the tests. They were asleep at their homes and did not see the pictures until they arrived at work in the morning. As a result, the U.S. did not learn of the preparations until after the blasts had occurred, when news services carried accounts of a public acknowledgment by India’s Prime Minister. When the White House asked the CIA for details, the agency’s top officials had none.

CIA to “investigate” what went wrong. Washington Post 5/13/98 A1.

We can predict the outcome of this investigation — this sort of thing has happened many times before. The intelligence community will investigate itself and find this individual or that technique was to blame not the CIA itself. And then we can all go back to claiming that we have the “best intelligence service in the world,” as stated recently (and endlessly over the years) in a session of the House Intelligence Oversight Committee.

In the past there have been literally scores if not hundreds of intelligence failures — all excused, ignored or buried by officialdom.
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American Exceptionalism and Torture

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Omahkohkiaaiipooyii
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Thoughts on Teaching Economics After the Crash

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Omahkohkiaaiipooyii

Thoughts on “Teaching Economics After the Crash”

https://medium.com/@WhelanKarl/thoughts-on-teaching-economics-after-the-crash-50fa61a40629

This is a long post on the state of economics and how it is taught to undergraduates. The world is not crying out for another such discussion, so blame Tony Yates, via whom I ended up listening to Aditya Chakrabortty’s documentary “Teaching Economics After the Crash” for BBC Radio 4.

Like Tony, I viewed the programme as a hopelessly one-sided critique of the economics profession. Still, it was useful in the sense that it packed all the regular criticisms about economics into one short piece. I agree with most of what Tony wrote but I want to take a different approach because I think it’s worth engaging a bit more positively with the criticisms raised.

My sense is that a large number of undergraduate economics students are unhappy with the way that subject is taught and many would echo the criticisms in this programme. For this reason alone, these concerns are worth addressing constructively. Even if some of the criticisms reflect misconceptions that students have about economics, this raises questions about whether we should allow space in the curriculum for these misconceptions to be discussed and addressed.

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What if “North Korea” Did Not Hack Sony?: 4 Alternative Theories

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Omahkohkiaaiipooyii

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What If North Korea Didn’t Hack Sony?: 4 Alternate Theories

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Photo: Michael Thurston/AFP/Getty Images

U.S. officials finally confirmed today that they believe North Korea was behind the Sony Pictures hack that led the studio to pull The Interview from theaters. Blaming the North Koreans is convenient, as it makes sense that they would be outraged by a film about the assassination of dictator Kim Jong-un, and Sony can argue that it stood little chance against a foreign government’s team of hackers. However, many don’t buy that a country with limited technological capabilities would be capable of such an attack and wonder why North Korea has repeatedly denied any connection to it (after all, it’s a country that’s fond of threatening to turn enemy nations into a “sea of flames”).

“There’s no evidence pointing to North Korea, not even the barest of hints,” Robert Graham, CEO of Errata Security, told Tom’s Guide. “Some bit of code was compiled in Korea — but that’s South Korean (which is banned in North Korea). Sure, they used threats to cancel The Interview — but after the FBI said they might.
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The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno 1965-67: Subcontracting “Wet Work”

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Omahkohkiaaiipooyii

CIA Compiled Indonesian Death Lists in 1965
State Department Documents from Indonesia
Ford Country: Building an Elite for Indonesia

This article is from Pacific Affairs, 58, Summer 1985, pages 239-264. Peter Dale Scott is a professor of English at the University of California in Berkeley, and a member of the advisory board at Public Information Research.http://www.namebase.org/scott.html

The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-1967

Peter Dale Scott
In this short paper on a huge and vexed subject, I discuss the U.S. involvement in the bloody overthrow of Indonesia’s President Sukarno, 1965-67. The whole story of that ill-understood period would transcend even the fullest possible written analysis. Much of what happened can never be documented; and of the documentation that survives, much is both controversial and unverifiable. The slaughter of Sukarno’s left-wing allies was a product of widespread paranoia as well as of conspiratorial policy, and represents a tragedy beyond the intentions of any single group or coalition. Nor is it suggested that in 1965 the only provocations and violence came from the right-wing Indonesian military, their contacts in the United States, or (also important, but barely touched on here) their mutual contacts in British, German and Japanese intelligence.

And yet, after all this has been said, the complex and ambiguous story of the Indonesian bloodbath is also in essence simpler and easier to believe than the public version inspired by President Suharto and U.S. government sources. Their problematic claim is that in the so-called Gestapu (Gerakan September Tigahpuluh) coup attempt of September 30, 1965 (when six senior army generals were murdered), the left attacked the right, leading to a restoration of power, and punitive purge of the left, by the center.1 This article argues instead that, by inducing, or at a minimum helping to induce, the Gestapu “coup,” the right in the Indonesian Army eliminated its rivals at the army’s center, thus paving the way to a long-planned elimination of the civilian left, and eventually to the establishment of a military dictatorship.2 Gestapu, in other words, was only the first phase of a three-phase right-wing coup — one which had been both publicly encouraged and secretly assisted by U.S. spokesmen and officials.3
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