FRIDAY DATA DUMP: Ghosts, Spooks & Aliens
They've got a secret
After decades of secrecy, the 'Ghost Army' is honored for saving U.S. lives in WWII
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/21/1239871379/ghost-army-congressional-gold-medal-world-war-2
From the shadows: Exploring the CIA’s secret “jazz diplomacy” scheme
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/cia-secret-jazz-diplomacy-scheme/
CIA Secrecy on JFK Points to Criminal Culpability
https://www.fff.org/2024/03/21/cia-secrecy-on-jfk-points-to-criminal-culpability/
My Spy Novel Helped Me Make Peace with the CIA
https://www.spytalk.co/p/my-spy-novel-helped-me-make-peace
Inside the CIA’s recruitment process
https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2024/03/15/inside-the-cia-s-recruitment-process
Giuliani Creditors Draft Ex-CIA, FBI Officials to Probe Finances
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/giuliani-creditors-draft-ex-cia-fbi-officials-to-probe-finances
CIA blocked feds from interviewing Hunter Biden’s ‘sugar brother’ Kevin Morris during five-year tax probe
https://nypost.com/2024/03/21/us-news/cia-blocked-feds-from-interviewing-hunter-bidens-sugar-bro-kevin-morris-during-tax-probe/
Trump authorized the CIA to smear the Chinese government with fake social-media accounts: Reuters
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-authorized-cia-influence-campaign-chinese-government-2024-3
To combat bullying and extremism, Air Force Academy turns to social media sleuthing
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/03/22/air-force-academy-social-media-monitoring-tool/73035142007/
US Department of Defense claims to have flushed out 50,000 vulnerabilities with bug bounty program
https://www.techradar.com/pro/us-department-of-defense-claims-to-have-flushed-out-50000-vulnerabilities-with-bug-bounty-program
‘We know they’re on the network,’ CISA official says of nation-state actors infiltrating U.S. critical infrastructure
https://statescoop.com/nation-state-actors-us-critical-infrastructure-cisa-2024/
'CARCOSA': Pentagon Gives Cyber Program Same Name as True Detective Pedophile Temple
https://gizmodo.com/carcosa-pentagon-gives-cyber-program-same-name-as-true-1851349055
Pentagon Kills A Key Tech Program, Dealing A Blow To Silicon Valley’s Defense Ambitions
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/03/19/pentagon-ends-silicon-valley-defense-tech-program-shift/?sh=24428f2355a8
Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-is-building-spy-satellite-network-us-intelligence-agency-sources-2024-03-16/
Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24107959/replicator-drones-china-taiwan-ukraine-pentagon
US testing Stryker-mounted lasers in Iraq amid Middle East drone boom
https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/directed-energy/2024/03/22/us-testing-stryker-mounted-lasers-in-iraq-amid-middle-east-drone-boom/
Reagan’s “Star Wars” Dream: Shooting Down Nukes with Lasers (Kind Of)
https://sofrep.com/news/reagan-star-wars-initiative-1983/
DARPA's Lunar Railroad is the Latest Saga in the DoD's Mysterious Obsession with the Moon
https://thedebrief.org/darpas-lunar-railroad-is-the-latest-saga-in-the-dods-mysterious-obsession-with-the-moon/
He quit heading the Pentagon’s UFO office. Now a report of his has shaken up ufology
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/22/ufologists-sean-kirkpatrick-pentagon-report-uaps
'Ufologists' break into home of Pentagon official over UFO comments
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/ufo-pentagon-stories-aliens-hidden-32419551
The Pentagon’s new historical review of UFOs picks and chooses its history
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4532513-the-pentagons-new-historical-review-of-ufos-picks-and-chooses-its-history/