CIA personnel land in Lebanon, ramp up intel gathering to support Israel’s war
Photo credit: US Embassy Beirut
The Cradle | October 14, 2024
The CIA has sent additional agents to Lebanon and has increased its communications with Lebanese military, security, and political officials in an effort to obtain information about Hezbollah, and may have played a role in Israel’s recent attempt to assassinate a Hezbollah political leader, Al-Akhbar reported on 14 October.
Three senior officials in the official security services acknowledged that Western parties, primarily the US, have initiated intensive daily communication with all Lebanese military and security forces since the outbreak of the open war between Lebanon and Israel, Al-Akhbar editor Ibrahim al-Amin wrote.
The officials told Amin that the content of the communications had nothing to do with obtaining information about threats to western interests. Instead, they wish to obtain information about changes in Hezbollah’s political and military leadership structure after the recent assassination of the party’s secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah.
US intelligence officials were very interested in whether Hezbollah leaders are “still communicating with the military, security and executive forces in Lebanon after the war, with questions about the form and content of the communication,” one official told Amin.
The same official revealed that a security team of 15 CIA officers arrived at Beirut airport last Thursday, 10 October, and moved in a convoy of armored cars without license plates to the headquarters of the American embassy in Awkar.
He explained that the team “joined the work cell based in one of the embassy wings in Beirut, to help manage the Beirut station, which includes 12 main officers, in addition to others with different specialties, including recruiting and managing agents, collecting information through technical means, and analyzing data.”
Another official told Amin that a new director for the CIA’s Beirut station, Sherry Baker, had been appointed and that Baker had previously participated in meetings with Lebanese security officials during visits to Washington.
The official said he knew of “five working visits by Lebanese officers of various levels to the United States, who held meetings with American intelligence officials at their headquarters in Langley.”
In this context, Amin reports that these contacts between the CIA and Lebanese security officials may have played a role in Israel’s recent attempt to assassinate a Hezbollah political leader, Wafiq Safa.
On 10 October, Israeli airstrikes leveled a residential building in central Beirut, killing 22 people. Israel stated that Safa was the target of the attack. However, they were unsuccessful in killing him.
One of the three officials revealed to Amin that just prior to the assassination attempt, the leadership of Hezbollah had asked Safa, in his capacity as head of the resistance movement’s Liaison and Coordination Committee, to communicate with a number of Lebanese security officials on matters related to the ongoing war.
The official explained that “the contacts took place despite the fact that the resistance knew that the mere occurrence of the phone call would constitute a security threat to Safa.”
These fears were confirmed when Israel carried out the bombing in Beirut and leaked news that the target was Safa.
The same official said that Hezbollah “estimates that American intelligence had a direct role in the attempt to assassinate Safa” and that “the operation was carried out based on information provided by the Americans.”
The official stated that the US wanted to kill Safa, who has no military role in Hezbollah, as part of a campaign launched by the US Ambassador to Beirut, Lisa Johnson, who recently “called on Lebanese political and non-political forces to begin working to establish the stage of “post-Hezbollah Lebanon.”
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Revisionist History Books Banned by Amazon
By Michael Hoffman • Unz Review • August 25, 2018
On August 13, 2018 Amazon banned Judaism’s Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded, which was published in 2011 and sold by Amazon for the past seven years. Along with the much larger study, Judaism Discovered, (sold by Amazon since 2008), it has had an international impact both as a softcover volume as well as a digital book circulating on the Amazon Kindle.
Sales to India, Japan and the Middle East were rapidly growing. The digital Kindle format is particularly important for the free circulation of books because it bypasses borders and customs and hurdles over the prohibitive cost of shipping which the US Postal Service imposed on mail to overseas destinations several years ago (eliminating economical surface mail).
Amazon has also banned The Great Holocaust Trial: The Landmark Battle for the Right to Doubt the West’s Most Sacred Relic (sold by Amazon since 2010).
These volumes maintain a high standard of scholarly excellence, had a majority of favorable reviews by Amazon customers, are free of hatred and bigotry and have sold thousands of copies on Amazon. Out of the blue we were told that suddenly “Amazon KDP” discovered that the books are in violation of Amazon’s “content guidelines.” Asking for documentation of the charge results in no response. It is enough that the accusation has been tendered. The accused are guilty until proved innocent, although how proof of innocence is presented is anyone’s guess. There is no appeals process. This is what is known as “Tech Tyranny.”
There is a nationwide purge underway that amounts to a new McCarthyism — blacklisting and banning politically incorrect speech and history books under the rubric of “hate speech” accusations, initiated in part by two Zionist thought police organizations, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). It’s a flimsy pretext for censoring controversial scholarly books that can’t be refuted.
In addition to our books being hate-free, we note that there are hundreds of hate-filled Zionist and rabbinic books brimming with ferocious bigotry for Palestinians, Germans and goyim in general, which are sold by Amazon. … continue
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The USA “is” the enemy.
Ukraine, Israel, and the ‘terrorist’ (ISIS, Al Qaeda, Red Brigade, Contras et al.) organisations are mere proxies, cat’s-paws, for the the US banking elite (Blackrock and friends) with the CIA as the ‘management team’.
“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterising my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
Page 405 of Rockefeller’s autobiography, “Memoirs”,
“The supra-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” —
David Rockefeller.
“…somebody has to take governments’ place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.” –
David Rockefeller – Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999.
And behind the scenes, the American Elite is owned by the real British aristocracy.
“Have you heard of the Georgia Guidestones? An enormous monument loaded with Masonic symbolism costing millions of dollars, it has been erected [and since removed] by unknown, powerful elites (multimillionaires with the clout to erect monuments wherever they please, obviously) around 30 years ago. It gives an “alternative ten commandments”, of which the first is the extermination of six and a half billion people from the face of the Earth. Half a billion will remain. This is the number of people the planet can sustain indefinitely, so that the descendants of the Rothschilds and Rockefellers can live in peace and affluence indefinitely. Slaves are needed to produce that luxury, but 500 million will do just fine. But how does one go about killing off most of the world? “Vaccinating” the planet with a bioweapon with near-100% mortality would do the trick. Baxter would provide both the bioweapon as well as the vaccine against it to “civilised” Western peoples. Result: We can plunder Africa, we have no more competition from SE Asia, the oil is for our taking and only Western and perhaps Chinese sheeple remain.
Rockefeller said this in 1994 at a U.N. dinner: “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order.” PNAC said something similar right before 9/11.
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‘the US banking elite (Blackrock and friends) with the CIA as the ‘management team’
Blackrock and friends are Jewish Zionist entities.
So you are in effect admitting that the CIA-NATO ‘western’ political-economic-military-intelligence apparatus is operating on behalf of international Judaic ‘Zionist’ finance.
What percentage of the gentile population produces Rockefeller/Gates psychopaths versus what does .2 (point two) percent of the world population (two-three percent US) produce in this same psychopathic vein?
Gates, incidentally, is Epsteined, even if willingly so…
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I am not ‘admitting” it, I am stating that the CIA is the executive front for the world ‘elite’.
I am also stating that although evil in their own right, Judaic Zionists are catspaws for the real powers. They are the group that can/will be sacrificed to the mob (of gentiles) to distract them from the actual rulers.
“What will the social order of the future be like? Comrade, I will tell you. There will be a class of overlords, after them the rank and file of the party members in hierarchical order, and then the great mass of anonymous followers, servants and workers in perpetuity, and beneath them again all the conquered foreign races, the modern slaves. And over and above all these will reign a new and exalted nobility of whom I cannot speak. But of all these plans the militant members will know nothing. The new man is living amongst us now! He is here. Isn’t that enough for you? I will tell you a secret. I have seen the new man. He is intrepid and cruel. I was afraid of him”
Adolf Hitler
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“I am not ‘admitting’ it, I am stating that the CIA is the executive front for the world ‘elite’”
I know what you wrote. I rather easily illustratred why it is factually incorrect and frankly utterly preposterous.
Your conjecture, that is. Not you personally.
Most importantly. this thoroughly wrongheaded attitude is very dangerous to all human beings.
How and why? Let’s continue:
“I am also stating that although evil in their own right, Judaic Zionists are catspaws for the real powers.”
Oh? Who are ‘the real powers?’ The Roma?
You are very willing to admit/argue that ‘Judaic Zionists’ have evil intent.
But you won’t dare admit that they have any real power.
That is extraordinarily illuminating.
‘They are the group that can/will be sacrificed to the mob (of gentiles) to distract them from the actual rulers.’
This is the classic old canard perennially used against non-Jews. There is always a ‘mob of gentiles’ just waiting to destroy every last ounce of Judaic indentity.
‘They are the group that can/will be sacrificed to the mob (of gentiles)’
So the Rothschild clan, all the Jewish media and financial oligarchs and ‘elite’ the world over, Goldman Sachs, Jeffrey Sachs, Robert Sachs, Larry King, Lazar, everyone making up Chabad, all the descendants of Schneerson, all the orthodox Jews in, say, Lakewood NJ – and everywhere else around the country and around the world, and all the secular Jews and all the synagogues…and Skippy Rosenbaum down the block:
They are all going to be sacrificed on the Rockefeller/Gates altar of gentile supremacy?
You are able to say/write that with a straight face?
It is impossible for a rational thinker to even entertain such inanity.
https://archive.ph/dHyvB#selection-1029.0-1033.141
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In a few years (months) we will learn who is correct.
“What will the social order of the future be like? Comrade, I will tell you. There will be a class of overlords, after them the rank and file of the party members in hierarchical order, and then the great mass of anonymous followers, servants and workers in perpetuity, and beneath them again all the conquered foreign races, the modern slaves. And over and above all these will reign a new and exalted nobility of whom I cannot speak. But of all these plans the militant members will know nothing.
The new man is living amongst us now! He is here. Isn’t that enough for you? I will tell you a secret. I have seen the new man. He is intrepid and cruel.
I was afraid of him”
Adolf Hitler
He was not afraid of the Rothschilds or their kind.
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petejohnarnold, this will be my final comment to you.
I am unable to substantiate the one lone quote you provided – devoid of any context whatsoever – from the Hitler bogeyman.
Nevertheless, I will indulge.
Who was Hitler speaking to here? A general audience? Military attaches?
Did the term ‘comrade’ here mean ‘Genosse’ or ‘Kamerad?’
https://archive.ph/Ens6c
‘The new man is living amongst us now! He is here. Isn’t that enough for you? I will tell you a secret. I have seen the new man. <b>He is intrepid and cruel</b>.
We can very safely assume – based on the history we’re presented with – that Hitler was talking about Jewish power here.
In other words, this ‘new man’ – which Hitler is using to describe Jewish power – is undauntingly fearless in ‘his’ cruelty.
Hitler is also telling whoever he is talking to here that this power – Jewish power – is complete and is everywhere: ‘living amongst us now!…isn’t that enough for you?’
‘I was afraid of him.’
Now, does the statment ‘I <b>was</b> afraid of him’ mean that he was afraid in the past, but is no longer? This would be seem to be your assertion.
It may simply mean that he was afraid of this power when he became more and more privy to its inner workings and experienced it ‘face to face.’ And he is now recounting that experience to an inner circle of his own (which no doubt had moles working for this same power he is describing) – or to a more general audience.
I do not know.
But the anwer to these questions is ultimately neither here nor there. Hitler committed suicide with his longtime companion and lover Eva Braun.
And the power he was describing (was duped by? was always a willing participant thereof?) is now operating on a truly global scale.
‘In a few years (months) we will learn who is correct.’
What does this even mean? In a few months something will happen that will reveal…what?
Or in a few years? Can I have your telephone number so we can compare notes then and see who ‘won.’
This is not about being ‘correct.’
https://x.com/KenOKeefe1TJP/status/1846261078855999760
https://x.com/RedPillSayian/status/1836824977351245995
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Dear Dan,
your grasp of english and comprehension is very poor.
“They [the jews] are the group that can/will be sacrificed to the mob (of gentiles) to distract them from the actual rulers.”
‘In a few years (months) we will learn who is correct.’
Israel and Jewish power will be destroyed as has happened in 190+ regions/countries in the past.
Germany of the 1930s was not in the least afraid of Jews or Jewish power.The Jews declared a world-wide war against Germany in 1928 and by 1938 Germany was the most powerful nation in the world.
Any time the Jews want to poo-poo a fact they call it a ‘myth’. There are dozens of secret and not so secret groups around the world who have been in existence for centuries. The Aristocracy (British, Italian, German, American and Chinese) have kept their wealth and power by hiding it. Machiavelli (and Sun Tzu) both advise that rather than engaging directly you say “Why don’t you and him fight.”
The trillions being stolen in government budgets are not going to Israel or even Jewish shareholders, but to the Grosvenors, the Winthrops, the di Daulis and the Astors.
You (and a billion others) fall for the Koolaid.
After the war, they created the myth of the Holocaust and “mythified” the truth of the Vril, Asgartha etc.
I am glad that the last post was your last to me, as it is clear that you are monomaniacal and rather ignorant.
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This piece from 1983 attempts to illustrate global banker control via the self-declared ‘inviolable’ BIS in Switzerland.
https://archive.ph/nR94y#selection-239.1461-263.1359
https://archive.ph/3Q6A
This was written when the Israel project still had to be kept largely in the dark.
Remember, the 1982 Lebanon operation was entirely Israeli. They fooled their man Reagan (who knows what dirt they had on him and his family). The barracks bombing that killed the marines was their false flag. Just like 9/11. And 10/7. And…
https://archive.ph/i6N9q#selection-461.0-461.239
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