You know, whenever I plan to destabilize a foreign country I always memorialize my plans in a memo that can be leaked or intercepted. After all, what good is a conspiracy if no one knows about it?
Posted at 2007-11-30 06:44:50 [PermaLink]it comes from Dr. Dawg(pile) -
that's all you need to know about this garbage.
RH
The English-language version of the "CIA memo" will be released as soon as it can be translated from the Spanish original. ;)
Posted at 2007-11-30 07:41:08 [PermaLink]Bruce:
I admit I had to smile when I read this:
"After all, what good is a conspiracy if no one knows about it?"
But you will agree that this is hardly the first time. CIA officials don't communicate by telepathy.
There is a claim circulating at the moment that the original document, in English, will be in the "public sphere" shortly, available for examination. I suggest we wait and see.
Easy solution - give it to Dan Rather and Mary Mapes. I hear they are good at determining fakes from originals.
Posted at 2007-11-30 07:53:51 [PermaLink]dawg-pile
don't you think they'd release the English version along w/ the spanish one, if the "memo" were legitimate.
duh
CIA document 'intercepted'? Yeh right, they just pop their intel into the local mailbox; cheaper than couriers, dont'cha know?
Gimme a break.
So there's never been an intercepted CIA communication? OK, I take it back--they *do* communicate by telepathy. Who knew?
Posted at 2007-11-30 08:24:16 [PermaLink]It's been three hours, Dr. D. Me castellano es mierdo, but even I could have translated it by now.
So too late: any English original that appears from this time on is presumptively fake.
"they *do* communicate by telepathy"
That's very '70s, but they spent millions trying to do just that, also "remote viewing", but I think the goofy stuff mostly ended in the '90s.
Sorry to go off topic, but this one is too good to pass up.
"Zimbabwe officials rocked by mystic's fake finding of diesel fuel reserves"
"Fuel shortages in Zimbabwe have the African country literally looking under rocks for alternate sources of fuel, says the New Zimbabwe newspaper. Photographs of spirit medium Rotina Mavhunga showed her apparently pumping diesel fuel from a hose stuck in the side of a rock located near the country's Chinhoyi Caves."
"Government officials investigating the claims of the so-called "diesel mystic" provided her with $165,000, a car, a piece of land, two head of cattle and three buffalo to encourage her to use spells to produce diesel fuel. By striking the rock with a staff, the mystic said she could produce enough fuel to last the country 100 years. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe says that, while initial reports looked promising, a team of high-ranking cabinet officials exposed the medium's fakery"
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You just can't make this stuff up.
"You just can't make this stuff up."
Well, yes, you can. :)
The late king of Tonga was taken in by a Korean outfit who claimed they could turn seawater into fuel.
Well, at least he didn't fall for the old "cucumbers in Newfoundland" scam...
Posted at 2007-11-30 10:46:05 [PermaLink]"two head of cattle and three buffalo to encourage her to use spells to produce diesel fuel."
Lots of BS; diesel, not so much.
I think it should be important to note that whenever Chavez mentions the CIA, he is engaging in internal politics. Why would he produce an English version? That's not his target demographic.
As far as squeezing petrochemicals from rocks, I don't think we can be sure that the rewards given to that lady weren't the best investment he's ever made in while in office. After all, we now have definitive proof that he has actually purposely caused at least one person in his country to become less hungry.
Someone should get him a knighthood.... oh wait.
The second paragraph refers to Mugabe. My eighth grade English teacher would kill me.
Posted at 2007-11-30 13:11:27 [PermaLink]There are days and threads where I would pay two cattle and three buffalo to someone promising to resurrect your former teacher, Dara ;o)
Posted at 2007-11-30 13:49:13 [PermaLink]"Office of Defense, Attack and Operations (DAO) at the US Embassy in Caracas."
Yep, Dan Rather definitely approves of this effort.
Cheers
"Dan Rather definitely approves of this effort."
Gunga Dan's mistake was to actually produce copies of the purported documents rather that say, "CBS News has seen memos which document that President Bush... The memos were provided by a reliable source who only made them available to us on the condition that we not reveal his identity."
This is, in essence, what Thugo is doing, and the usual suspect are out spreading the message.