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On a snowy night in January 1979, Werner Stiller stepped into his office in Berlin, pried open a safe and grabbed the transit papers that would allow him to travel safely from the city’s communist eastern half to freedom in the west. He had already sent his wife a goodbye letter stuffed with 10,000 German […]
Lost in the pandemonium of the last few weeks’ focus on the possible repeal of Obamacare, passage (or not) of a new health care bill, possible Trump campaign ties to the Russian government, and all the other shenanigans swirling about Washington, D.C. these days, was pretty clear evidence that the Trump administration has delegated quite […]
Apple says that the Mac and iOS vulnerabilities mentioned in a Wikileaks data dump on Thursday were fixed several years ago. The data dump, which includes CIA documents dating back to 2012, highlights how agents were able to infect Apple devices if they could gain physical access to them. Agents could allegedly gain access to a […]
In 2015, SOFREP interviewed Polad Talabani, the commander of Kurdistan’s elite Counter-Terrorism Group or CTG. At the time, he spoke about how he wanted his men to get back to conducting real Special Operations missions behind enemy lines, rather than engaging in conventional infantry operations alongside the Peshmerga as they had been in places like […]
I am located on Kandahar Air Field (KAF). KAF is the biggest military base in Afghanistan. Coalition forces include: Romanians, French, Canadians, Dutch/Netherlands, and United States. The majority of soldiers here are U.S. military. I have learned during my experiences from traveling in desolate places that it greatly benefits you to make friends quickly. My […]
The AK-47 is perhaps one of the most iconic firearms on the planet. The hearty design and famed reliability offered by the platform combined with the huge numbers of AK-47s produced by the Soviet Union during the cold war have made it a staple of many nations’ militaries. Some have even gone so far as […]
Dr. Henry Murray began making a name for himself during World War II by working with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to train its spies to withstand the most brutal interrogation tactics they may be faced with at the hands of their Nazi enemies. In the years to come, as the OSS would give […]
The flight from Dubai to Sana’a was a quiet one. Our team was travelling in the dead of night, partly for operational security concerns, partly to get the cheapest fare and save the Pentagon a few dollars. The plane was half empty and those on board were sleeping to the hum of the engines. Below […]
On Tuesday, it was announced by WikiLeaks that they have obtained almost 9,000 documents and files they have code-named “Vault 7.” Part of what they call the “Year Zero” Series, they go on to state that, “it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.” Posted March 7th, the Wikileaks press release stated, […]
Yesterday Wikileaks began yet another dump of highly classified documents and materials stolen from the US government. This batch of data is being called “Vault 7” and includes all of the tools, tactics, and techniques used by the CIA to conduct cyber-warfare, computer hacking, and technical intelligence gathering. Wikileaks is claiming that these files were […]
Today the families of SFC Matthew Lewellen, SSG Kevin McEnroe and SSG James (Jimmy) Moriarty held a press conference to demand accountability from the Jordanian government after one of their soldiers identified as Muarek Abu Tayeh brutally murdered the three 5th Special Forces Group soldiers during a routine checkpoint stop outside a military facility. Part of the […]
On Tuesday, Wikileaks published thousands of documents online that they claim were taken directly from the Central Intelligence Agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence. The documents purport to demonstrate a number of the tools and methodologies employed by intelligence gatherers at the CIA, including the ability to hack into a number of different kinds of “smart” […]
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