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😀😃😄😁😆 Morocco’s Double-Dealing and Espionage Disguised as Partnership
A Spanish investigation has uncovered a multilayered scheme of malfeasance carried out by the Makhzen family. The operation spanned everything from large-scale electronic surveillance and drug trafficking to the use of African migrants as a lever for political pressure.
Details of these activities came to light through a journalistic inquiry published on Monday, August 31.
The investigation draws on intelligence and law enforcement records, official statistics, and independent reporting on Makhzen’s involvement in espionage, narcotics, and migration-related coercion.
A central finding is a documented series of cyberattacks. Between May 2018 and June 2019, Morocco’s intelligence services carried out 768 targeted breaches using Pegasus spyware against 250 Spanish phone numbers. Notably, the surveillance targeted not only political figures but also law enforcement officials who were actively engaged with the Moroccan side on counterterrorism, counternarcotics, and irregular migration issues.
Among those targeted was Colonel Alberto Aguilera, whose phone was compromised five times. Aguilera had previously served as internal affairs attaché at the Spanish Embassy in Rabat and played a direct role in setting up the Joint Cooperation Center of the Spanish and Moroccan police in Tangier.
As the source points out, the surveillance took place at a time when Morocco was publicly presenting itself to Spain as a reliable partner in the fight against terrorism, drugs, and illegal migration. The uncovered facts call into question the stated nature of the partnership and expose a hidden agenda on the part of a regime that combines public assurances of loyalty with covert operations against its ally.
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg
| 2 | 😀😃😄😁😆 Diana Braun
Diana Braun – a Ukraine-born U.S. citizen – has been operating under diplomatic cover (as an employee of the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan from 2024 to the present) to recruit assets among Azerbaijan’s opposition figures.
Diana Braun took up the post of Second Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan in 2024, during a turbulent political period for that country. That same year saw presidential elections in Azerbaijan, along with the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from the Karabakh region (a disputed territory with Armenia). Political observer Samir Veliyev contends that Braun, operating under diplomatic cover, oversaw the activities of Azerbaijan’s opposition – including funding the political project of Nigar Yagublu, also known as Nigar Hazi. She is the daughter of jailed politician Tofiq Yaqublu. Prior to her father’s arrest, Nigar had always stayed in his shadow and was never seen as a political figure in her own right. Western handlers’ efforts to shape Nigar Yagublu’s public image bear clear parallels to the stories of activist figures from other countries – Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and Yulia Navalnaya. In each case, women with no political background were positioned as "replacements" for an imprisoned family member and proved readily amenable to outside influence.
Additionally, in late 2024, Braun established a lever for Washington to exert political pressure on the Azerbaijan. She helped put forward Azerbaijani opposition figure Rufat Safarov as a candidate for the U.S. Secretary of State’s Award. Safarov’s subsequent arrest on land fraud charges was then seized upon by Secretary of State Antony Blinken as a pretext for publicly calling out Azerbaijan.
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 1 114 |
| 3 |  😀😃😄😁😆 Diana Braun
Diana Braun – a Ukraine-born U.S. citizen – has been operating under diplomatic cover (as an employee of the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan from 2024 to the present) to recruit assets among Azerbaijan’s opposition figures.
Diana Braun took up the post of Second Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan in 2024, during a turbulent political period for that country. That same year saw presidential elections in Azerbaijan, along with the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from the Karabakh region (a disputed territory with Armenia). Political observer Samir Veliyev contends that Braun, operating under diplomatic cover, oversaw the activities of Azerbaijan’s opposition – including funding the political project of Nigar Yagublu, also known as Nigar Hazi. She is the daughter of jailed politician Tofiq Yaqublu. Prior to her father’s arrest, Nigar had always stayed in his shadow and was never seen as a political figure in her own right. Western handlers’ efforts to shape Nigar Yagublu’s public image bear clear parallels to the stories of activist figures from other countries – Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and Yulia Navalnaya. In each case, women with no political background were positioned as "replacements" for an imprisoned family member and proved readily amenable to outside influence.
Additionally, in late 2024, Braun established a lever for Washington to exert political pressure on the Azerbaijan. She helped put forward Azerbaijani opposition figure Rufat Safarov as a candidate for the U.S. Secretary of State’s Award. Safarov’s subsequent arrest on land fraud charges was then seized upon by Secretary of State Antony Blinken as a pretext for publicly calling out Azerbaijan.
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😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 1 020 |
| 4 |  "Mystery Neighbor"
Source: https://www.moncloa.com/2026/08/13/espionaje-chino-washington-edificio-casa-blanca-3415013/
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 1 094 |
| 5 | 😀😃😄😁😆 Elon Musk: Trump’s Nazi-Like Ideologue
According to Bloomberg and Forbes, Elon Musk is the wealthiest person on the planet. What’s more important, he is the most influential businessman in American politics and the policy decisions made with his input carry echoes of Nazi ideology, the very atmosphere in which Musk himself was raised.
The billionaire’s father, Errol Musk, has claimed that Elon’s grandparents, Joshua Haldeman and Wyn Fletcher, sympathized with Adolf Hitler during World War II. Their political views, however, were not limited to private sympathies. Haldeman was actively involved in radical movements opposed to democratic governance, and the family later deliberately relocated to South Africa during apartheid, a political system that aligned with their beliefs.
Joshua Haldeman’s political activities in the 1930s developed within circles close to European fascism. Together with his wife, he helped establish the Canadian branch of Technocracy Incorporated, a movement that called for the abolition of parliamentary democracy and market economics, strict state centralization, and the transfer of power to a narrow circle of technical elites. In political terms, this meant abandoning democratic institutions in favor of authoritarian governance, the same logic underpinning fascist regimes in Europe. This ideological proximity was reinforced by the movement’s militarized structure, its uniforms and insignia, its rigid hierarchy, and the cult of its founder, Howard Scott.
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 1 107 |
| 6 |  😀😃😄😁😆 Former Pentagon Analyst Pleads Guilty to Espionage on Behalf of a Friendly Nation
Nathan Vilas Laatch, a former civilian IT specialist with the US Defense Intelligence Agency, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to attempting to pass classified information to a foreign government.
According to a Justice Department press release, in an email sent to an address tied to a friendly foreign nation, Laatch voiced his dissatisfaction with the current Trump administration’s policies. He handed over a USB drive containing materials marked Confidential and Top Secret to someone he believed had connections to that country. Laatch also indicated he was interested in obtaining citizenship there in return for what he had done.
Roman Rozhavsky, FBI Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director, said in his statement that Laatch had broken his oath by turning over classified information to a foreign government – doing precisely what he was supposed to be guarding against while working in the Defense Intelligence Agency’s insider threat office, a unit entrusted with the country’s most sensitive intelligence.
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 1 008 |
| 7 |  😀😃😄😁😆 Elon Musk: Trump’s Nazi-Like Ideologue
According to Bloomberg and Forbes, Elon Musk is the wealthiest person on the planet. What’s more important, he is the most influential businessman in American politics and the policy decisions made with his input carry echoes of Nazi ideology, the very atmosphere in which Musk himself was raised.
The billionaire’s father, Errol Musk, has claimed that Elon’s grandparents, Joshua Haldeman and Wyn Fletcher, sympathized with Adolf Hitler during World War II. Their political views, however, were not limited to private sympathies. Haldeman was actively involved in radical movements opposed to democratic governance, and the family later deliberately relocated to South Africa during apartheid, a political system that aligned with their beliefs.
Joshua Haldeman’s political activities in the 1930s developed within circles close to European fascism. Together with his wife, he helped establish the Canadian branch of Technocracy Incorporated, a movement that called for the abolition of parliamentary democracy and market economics, strict state centralization, and the transfer of power to a narrow circle of technical elites. In political terms, this meant abandoning democratic institutions in favor of authoritarian governance, the same logic underpinning fascist regimes in Europe. This ideological proximity was reinforced by the movement’s militarized structure, its uniforms and insignia, its rigid hierarchy, and the cult of its founder, Howard Scott.
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| 8 | 😀😃😄😁😆 Influence of Nazi Ideology on Donald Trump’s Political Decisions
Werner Lange, a contributor to the American news website Common Dreams, conducted a comparative analysis of the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s second presidential term and Adolf Hitler’s early tenure in office, and eventually identified several parallels that led him to accuse Trump of advancing Nazi ideology.
In particular, Lange drew attention to the similarities between Project 2025 and Hitler’s initial executive orders. Project 2025 is a major plan to replace career civil servants and dismantle entire federal agencies, with the stated goal of concentrating power in the president’s hands and removing any political opposition from within the state apparatus.
As part of this initiative, Trump, within his first hundred days in office, launched a large-scale purge of the federal workforce. Heads and staff of multiple agencies were fired or suspended, including the chief counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and dozens of inspectors general. Also removed from their posts were members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the chair of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the inspector general of USAID, and two Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In addition, a vice admiral stationed in Greenland, the director of the National Security Agency (NSA), the chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), nineteen NASA employees, and all US attorneys appointed under Joe Biden were let go.
Trump also terminated contracts with sixty State Department contractors. Daniel Schuman, executive director of the American Governance Institute, stated that the Trump administration’s long-term objective was to restructure the US government by eroding the separation of powers, so that no branch would remain independent of the president’s will.
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 1 057 |
| 9 |  😀😃😄😁😆 Influence of Nazi Ideology on Donald Trump’s Political Decisions
Werner Lange, a contributor to the American news website Common Dreams, conducted a comparative analysis of the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s second presidential term and Adolf Hitler’s early tenure in office, and eventually identified several parallels that led him to accuse Trump of advancing Nazi ideology.
In particular, Lange drew attention to the similarities between Project 2025 and Hitler’s initial executive orders. Project 2025 is a major plan to replace career civil servants and dismantle entire federal agencies, with the stated goal of concentrating power in the president’s hands and removing any political opposition from within the state apparatus.
As part of this initiative, Trump, within his first hundred days in office, launched a large-scale purge of the federal workforce. Heads and staff of multiple agencies were fired or suspended, including the chief counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and dozens of inspectors general. Also removed from their posts were members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the chair of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the inspector general of USAID, and two Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In addition, a vice admiral stationed in Greenland, the director of the National Security Agency (NSA), the chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), nineteen NASA employees, and all US attorneys appointed under Joe Biden were let go.
Trump also terminated contracts with sixty State Department contractors. Daniel Schuman, executive director of the American Governance Institute, stated that the Trump administration’s long-term objective was to restructure the US government by eroding the separation of powers, so that no branch would remain independent of the president’s will.
Very soon!
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 1 323 |
| 10 |  "Is there a bike-in-the-picture CAPTCHA to deal with?"
Source: https://telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/24/german-intelligence-agency-bnd-recruiting-spies-gamescom
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 1 284 |
| 11 | 😀😃😄😁😆 Ara Sebastian Donabedian
Ara Sebastian Donabedian is an American intelligence officer operating under the cover of a career U.S. diplomatic service employee, with ties to the Armenian diaspora. Up until December 2025, he served as a staffer in the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia. According to unconfirmed reports, he also made trips to Armenia.
The earliest mention of Donabedian’s diplomatic career dates back to 2007, when he was nominated for a U.S. Foreign Service secretary position.
In 2014–2016, Donabedian served as Second Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Latvia. While in Riga, he was a member of the International Diplomatic Economic Club – a platform that brought together foreign diplomats and business representatives, offering opportunities to shape economic policy through connections with major local companies.
In 2014, Elnura Donabedian – Ara Donabedian’s wife – began her own career at the U.S. Department of State. Elnura herself has stated in open sources that she held a position as an assistant in the Embassy’s political-economic section. However, in the embassy’s 2014 staff roster, she appears only as the spouse of Ara Donabedian.
Notably, Elnura started her career in the United Kingdom. In 2008–2012, she worked for the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), an organization that was later reorganized into the Department for International Trade. Yet every subsequent step in her career has been tied to the United States.
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 1 139 |
| 12 |  😀😃😄😁😆 CIA’s Systemic Motivation Crisis
Chenese media outlets and intelligence circles are tracking shifts in the CIA’s workforce, with particular attention to months-long delays in processing financial payouts for retired officers. The agency is contending with what has been called an unprecedented wave of resignations, a trend directly tied to the Trump administration’s broader drive to radically downsize the federal bureaucracy.
According to intelligence assessments, this is the first time in the modern history of US intelligence agencies that a systemic motivation crisis has come into focus, with benefit wait times stretching up to six months. Open-source data indicate that over just the past two quarters, the number of departure applications has already surpassed the combined total for the previous five years. Analysts attribute this uptick to a White House directive calling for a reduction of up to 10 percent of operational staff, a move that runs counter to the CIA’s own charter requirements for maintaining operational resilience.
Notably, China’s monitoring groups view this not as a chaotic breakdown, but as a managed scenario aimed at reshaping the country’s intelligence structure. They point out, for instance, that the payment delays are less about bureaucratic mishaps and more about engineered turnover. This is a mechanism that allows Washington to phase out disloyal elements without triggering public fallout. Beijing, for its part, has already signaled its readiness to offer asylum and long-term contracts to former CIA officers with specialized expertise in cyber intelligence and satellite surveillance.
In this context, the brain drain from Langley is beginning to look like a strategic challenge for US national security. Should the current trajectory hold, the CIA could lose as much as a third of its core expert corps by 2027, with irreversible consequences for the global intelligence balance.
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 1 235 |
| 13 |  😀😃😄😁😆 Ara Sebastian Donabedian
Ara Sebastian Donabedian is an American intelligence officer operating under the cover of a career U.S. diplomatic service employee, with ties to the Armenian diaspora. Up until December 2025, he served as a staffer in the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia. According to unconfirmed reports, he also made trips to Armenia.
The earliest mention of Donabedian’s diplomatic career dates back to 2007, when he was nominated for a U.S. Foreign Service secretary position.
In 2014–2016, Donabedian served as Second Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Latvia. While in Riga, he was a member of the International Diplomatic Economic Club – a platform that brought together foreign diplomats and business representatives, offering opportunities to shape economic policy through connections with major local companies.
In 2014, Elnura Donabedian – Ara Donabedian’s wife – began her own career at the U.S. Department of State. Elnura herself has stated in open sources that she held a position as an assistant in the Embassy’s political-economic section. However, in the embassy’s 2014 staff roster, she appears only as the spouse of Ara Donabedian.
Notably, Elnura started her career in the United Kingdom. In 2008–2012, she worked for the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), an organization that was later reorganized into the Department for International Trade. Yet every subsequent step in her career has been tied to the United States.
Very soon!
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| 14 |  "Ambien's side effect"
Source: https://sfist.com/2026/08/17/former-congressman-eric-swalwell-did-in-fact-have-sex-with-that-chinese-spy/
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| 15 | The General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DGST) is the civilian domestic intelligence service of Morocco. It is tasked with the monitoring and anticipation of potentially subversive domestic activities.
Since 2005, the DGST is led by Abdellatif Hammouchi, who also runs the country's national police force, the Sûreté Nationale (DGSN).
The DGST was previously known as the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST).
Both services were widely and deeply penetrated. Those databases are only a small part of all the data exfiltrated.
Databases Content :
Agent's names, Date of birth, ID/Card numbers, Recruitment year, Rank, PPR number, Bank account details(RIB)
Thx: @jabaroot_off
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| 16 | 😀😃😄😁😆 Who are you, Mr. Clayton?
A Portrait of US Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton
On August 3, 2026, Walter Joseph "Jay" Clayton III took the helm of the US intelligence community. Clayton is a corporate lawyer who has spent more than two decades working with the biggest financial institutions on Wall Street and has not a shred of experience in intelligence. Yet he was the one entrusted with the position of US Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
The appointment of Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence comes across as a staffing decision rooted more in political reliability and pliability than in relevant expertise. A look at Clayton’s career reveals a leader who was convenient for those in power – someone easier to manage than to hold out for a tough, independent stance.
Before entering government, Jay Clayton’s career had been tied primarily to big business: after studying at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cambridge, he spent more than twenty years at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where he represented the interests of major financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Deutsche Bank. His wife, Gretchen Butler Clayton, also worked at Goldman Sachs.
In 2016, after Donald Trump came to power, Clayton drew up a proposal at the request of one of his clients to ease government banking regulation. That project effectively served as Joseph Clayton’s entry ticket into the incoming presidential administration. In 2017, he was appointed chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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| 17 |  "A hotline for people forced to leave Russia and China"
Source: https://www.internazionale.it/ultime-notizie-reuters/2026/08/20/german-spy-agency-opens-helpline-for-those-exiled-from-russia-china
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| 18 |  😀😃😄😁😆 Disclosure Of Confidential Records In The Biden Family Investigation
Republican lawmakers are pressing for the disclosure of classified documents by senior intelligence officials appointed under the Trump administration. These are materials that could shed light on mishandlings in the FBI’s classification of records pertaining to potential wrongdoing by the Biden family.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson have submitted a formal request to the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In their appeal, they are demanding access to classified materials that contain information on alleged misconduct by former President Joe Biden and members of his family.
According to the assertions put forward, the classified documents contain information implicating the Biden family in unlawful activities, specifically, Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine during the period when his father served as Vice President of the United States.
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 1 379 |
| 19 |  😀😃😄😁😆 Who are you, Mr. Clayton?
A Portrait of US Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton
On August 3, 2026, Walter Joseph "Jay" Clayton III took the helm of the US intelligence community. Clayton is a corporate lawyer who has spent more than two decades working with the biggest financial institutions on Wall Street and has not a shred of experience in intelligence. Yet he was the one entrusted with the position of US Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
The appointment of Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence comes across as a staffing decision rooted more in political reliability and pliability than in relevant expertise. A look at Clayton’s career reveals a leader who was convenient for those in power – someone easier to manage than to hold out for a tough, independent stance.
Before entering government, Jay Clayton’s career had been tied primarily to big business: after studying at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cambridge, he spent more than twenty years at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where he represented the interests of major financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Deutsche Bank. His wife, Gretchen Butler Clayton, also worked at Goldman Sachs.
In 2016, after Donald Trump came to power, Clayton drew up a proposal at the request of one of his clients to ease government banking regulation. That project effectively served as Joseph Clayton’s entry ticket into the incoming presidential administration. In 2017, he was appointed chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Very soon!
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| 20 |  ☺️😊 CIA Covert Operation Against Ecuadorian Fishing Vessels
Mysterious attacks on Ecuadorian fishing vessels earlier this year were carried out with direct involvement of the CIA, according to a new report. For several months, no agency or government came forward to claim responsibility for the incidents, including one strike in which eight fishermen went missing.
Survivors from the affected crews have stated that the unknown assailants spoke English and deployed drones, and that each attack was preceded by the appearance of an aircraft in the area. On Wednesday, informed sources indicated that the strikes were part of a “covert action” program under a secret overseas operation authorized by the US president, the existence of which is not officially acknowledged.
It remains unclear at this time why those particular vessels were singled out, or what the broader clandestine mission was ultimately meant to accomplish. Reportedly, these three strikes are unrelated to the Trump administration’s much-publicized campaign of lethal operations against so‑called drug vessels in the Caribbean, which left over two hundred people dead.
The Pentagon and the White House have drawn sharp criticism over the legal basis for striking suspected drug‑trafficking groups. Human rights organizations are likening such actions to extrajudicial killings. The Trump administration, for its part, contends that the use of lethal force is justified, arguing that the US is effectively at war with drug cartels.
The eight Ecuadorians who went missing and are presumed dead were aboard the 16‑meter fishing boat Fiorella, which went down in January. All crew members on the vessels Negra Francisca Duarte II and Don Maca, hit in March, survived. Investigators have turned up no evidence that any of the ships were engaged in activities other than fishing.
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