The High Side is a national security investigative reporting site from @JackMurphyRGR of @TheTeamHousePod and @SeanDNaylor, author of "Relentless Strike."
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The terrorist bombing that wasn’t: The extraordinary story of the CIA’s false-flag operation to undercut Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s position in Sudan. Staged car bombs, fake documents, real success. Our latest, by @SeanDNaylor and @JackMurphyRGR thehighside.substack.com/p/i…
A coup in Sudan resulted in the loss of a close U.S. ally, most CIA assets in jail and a flood of Libyan gunmen into Khartoum. But the CIA still had a card to play: It flew one of its top non-official cover officers into Khartoum on a Libyan passport...
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Look: you should read this story, which—in addition to being a feat of reporting—adds a new chapter to our shared understanding of the history of CIA. Seriously.
@SeanDNaylor and I uncovered a CIA false flag operation that was run in Sudan.
@TheHighSideNews
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Part 8 is going to detail, at great depth, a previously unrevealed CIA false flag operation that was run in 1985. I think you guys will be pretty surprised by what Sean's been working on.
After a long (unplanned) delay, we plan to publish Part 8 of our series "In The Kill Zone" later this week. While the article (about covert ops in Sudan) can be read as a stand-alone, why not get caught up on the series to prepare? VN heroics? Spying in Africa? It's got it all.
Looking for something in-depth to read this weekend? Try the 7-part (and counting!) "In The Kill Zone" series by me and @JackMurphyRGR about the life and times of SF & CIA legend Willie Merkerson. It's got everything: a DSC that many think should be a MoH; a combat jump that 1/4
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Consider this a story in global affairs.
Early this year, there was an effort afoot to find Secretary Hegseth an iconic globe for his office suite.
Historians could make the move. But his team did not appear to want to wait.
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Great to see our friend @zachsdorfman with the @washingtonpost's lead story today. Even better to read the hat-tip to The High Side (not our first from The Post), a reference to a story he co-authored for us with @JackMurphyRGR and @SeanDNaylor: thehighside.substack.com/p/t….
The Pentagon is thinking expansively about conducting “economic warfare,” particularly against China. Now, it’s mulling a new or expanded deep-cover spying capability as part of that mission.
NEW from me and @wstrobel:
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Deleted my earlier reply because I inadvertently tagged the wrong Jack Murphy.
Yeah, you're not going to get an "official" comment from the Defense Department on a JSOC deployment. But here's @shaneharris's article in the Washington Post that matches and credits
@JackMurphyRGR's story in The High Side:washingtonpost.com/national-…
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See my comment below on The Washington Post reporting by Shane Harris. And here's Jack's original story that ran in The High Side: thehighside.substack.com/p/g…