Black Ops & Intel

Bureaucracy in The Spy Ranks

The office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), created to facilitate interagency analysis and operations, has become a serious bureaucratic obstacle.

Why Does the IDF Have So Many SOF units?

A while ago I was on the phone with Jack Murphy talking about the history of the IDF, its ops and other bits of information he was interested in when he asked me why is it that Israel has so many SOF or special operations capable units. This is a question I am asked a […]

FOX News Throws OPSEC To The Wind

It’s easy to get riled up in the spin of things and FOX news is no stranger to this. There’s some good people at FOX but, I’m dissapointed that they started dropping unit designations and three letter acronyms like TMZ paparazzi. They threw OPSEC to the wind in favor of politics and I’m calling them on […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Maguindanao Massacre

On November 23rd, 2009 over 100 armed men descended on a convoy belonging to Filipino political candidate Esmael Mangudadatu.  The candidate was not traveling with his entourage, which consisted of dozens of people including family members and journalists. With a bounty put on Mangudadatu’s head, gunmen consisting of private bodyguards, off duty soldiers, policemen, police auxiliaries, a civilian […]

MEK Coming Off Terror Watch List

This means it is full steam ahead for Iran once Syria is out of the way.  The CIA will be propping these clowns up the way they did the Muj in the 80’s and our children will probably be getting killed by MEK sometime around 2030. -Jack WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will remove from the […]

A Story That Can Only be Told as Fiction: The Activity #8

SOFREP readers know that I’m a big fan of the comic book series, The Activity, about the highly secretive Intelligence Support Activity or ISA.  We reviewed the graphic novel that collects the first six issues not that long ago. I want to draw our audience’s attention to issue #8 which just hit the stands this week.  Please […]

Hamas Covert Communication Techniques Exposed

In case you missed this the first time around…. Terrorist and other high value criminals aren’t as dumb as they look! Don’t get me wrong – they aren’t smart either – they fall somewhere between a rock and a goat (which happens to be their best friend on a lonely night). Unfortunately, over time – […]

CIA Para-Military Personnel Injured in Mexico City Attack

A leaked report in Mexico affirms that the US officials attacked by Mexican Federal Police last week were CIA agents, something that has since been confirmed to InSight Crime. Writing for El Universal, Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola claimed on August 28 that he had been privy to a confidential report confirming that the […]

“No Easy Day”, First Hand Account of the Bin Laden Raid

Yesterday many of us were caught off guard when Penguin books announced that they would be releasing a new book called “No Easy Day” on 9/11 that would be authored by a SEAL Team Six operator who was on the objective and participated in the raid. SOFREP will have more on the ‘No Easy Day‘ […]