The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Afghan and American officials. Mohammed Zia Salehi, the chief of administration for the National Security Council, appears to have been on the payroll for many years, according to officials in Kabul and Washington. It is unclear exactly what Mr. Salehi does in exchange for his money, whether providing information to the spy agency, advancing American views inside the presidential palace, or both.

Exemplified by the furor over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” in New York, and rumors of a new Al-Qaeda “mastermind”, 9/11 “war on terrorism” propaganda has been ramped up to deafening levels by various political factions.

“Ground Zero mosque”: the art of missing the point.

In 1953, the CIA launched Operation Ajax, a coup designed to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected president, Muhammad Mosaddeq. The CIA promptly installed the monarch Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. By the late 1970s, the CIA was actively working to depose the Shah and install a radical Islamic government in Iran. The 1980′s offered us another attempt directed by Zbigniew Brzezinski working with Saddam Hussein. The 90′s led to the Soviets and the US-backed Mujahadeen (who later became the Taliban and initial al-Qaeda members). By 2007, the CIA was engaged in active black operations inside Iran with Bush’s approval.

Is WikiLeaks hanging a Sword of Damocles over elements of the U.S. Government? The file, “insurance.aes256,” is ten times the size of the seven other files combined.

The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. “We can assemble actual real-time dossiers on people” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science. [This is essentially a government version of the web bot project for intelligence purposes, including mapping the vast social networking sites for real time dossiers, known associates, places, etc. This will only aid the creation of an ever-larger surveillance and control grid.]

A draft environmental impact statement said that a project by the National Security Agency will bring 6,500 workers to the Fort Meade area, challenging the area’s infrastructure. The project, called Site M, will include a 1.8 million-square-foot building on land at Fort Meade that is currently used by two golf courses.

How many “free energy” companies have a former Director of the CIA and FBI on their payrolls? By my math, there’s just one: Terawatt Research, LLC. This article explores the backgrounds of the leading personnel at TeraWatt Research, LLC. These men all have operational intelligence and Special Forces backgrounds at very high levels, including Director of the FBI and then the CIA. Ever heard of the “black budget?” Why do you think that the Pentagon needs $800 billion dollars as a yearly budget? How much of that is siphoned off into black projects or “off the books” operations?

THE furore sparked by the escape from Cyprus of a man said to be one of Russia’s most capable spies has intensified with authorities rejecting a request to hand over his personal effects to the FBI. Metsos, who escaped the island in mysterious circumstances less than 48 hours after his arrest last week, is alleged to have financed the spy network shuttling between Moscow and the US.

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has given his strongest indication yet about the next big leak from his whistleblower organisation. He agreed it would be of the “calibre” of publishing information about the way the top secret Echelon system – the US-UK electronic spying network which eavesdrops on worldwide communications traffic – had been used. Daniel Ellsberg, named by Henry Kissinger as “the most dangerous man in America”, told Foreign Correspondent that Mr. Assange was “a good candidate for being the most dangerous man in the world, in the eyes of people like the one who gave me that award”.

Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned. *** Lengthy Editorial by Kevin of Cryptogon.com. Very insightful information.