Dead Drop: December 15
HIGH COTTON: Conservative pundit Fred Barnes wrote in the Weekly Standard that the rumored nomination of Senator Tom Cotton to become CIA director “is one […] More
Dead Drop: December, 2017
Dead Drop: December 8
REXIT?: A flurry of news reports last week said there was a plan in place for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to leave office – […] More
Dead Drop: December 1
SEMPER CRAZY: Hal Turner is a radio host who makes conspiracy peddler Alex Jones seem normal. Last week Turner posted on his website “reports” that […] More
Dead Drop: November 24
LED BY HACKS, NO DOUBT: The (South) Korean news agency Yonhap reported this week that North Korea is conducting a “rare inspection” of its military’s […] More
Dead Drop: November 17
“CONSIDERING THE SOURCE”: Retired DNI Jim Clapper told an agent for the Dead Drop what it’s like to be called a “political hack” by President […] More
Dead Drop November 10
NOW YOU SEE ‘EM… Hey, remember the big splash made on November 1 when the CIA released an additional 470,000 files captured in the 2011 […] More
Dead Drop: November 3
IN THE PICTURE: The big news this week, of course, was the indictment of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, and the guilty plea of Trump […] More
Dead Drop: October 27
GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS: Intelligence insiders tell us that CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s extremely close relationship with President Donald Trump is a double-edged sword. […] More
Dead Drop: October 20
MISSION POSSIBLE? CIA Director Mike Pompeo told an audience in Texas last week: “At this very moment, there’s a CIA team preparing for a mission […] More
Dead Drop: October 13
DEEP STATE OR DEEP CONCERN? President Trump and his supporters would have you believe that those concerned about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election are […] More
Dead Drop: October 6
REALLY FAKE NEWS: There was a remarkable story in The Weekly Standard late last week about a faux Congressional hearing recently held on Capitol Hill. […] More
Dead Drop: September 29
KARMA IS A BITCH: In the August 25th edition of The Dead Drop, we mentioned that former CIA operative Valerie Plame had started a tongue-in-cheek […] More
Dead Drop: September 22
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SPOOKS: The CIA celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding on Monday. What do you get for an outfit that has played […] More
Dead Drop: September 15
LEAKS AND LIES: A couple parallel stories caught our eye this week. Muckrock News dug up a 1984 CIA document penned under the name of […] More
Dead Drop: September 8
PARDON ME? Rumors floating around that the President may pardon WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange in exchange for information that would attempt to demonstrate that Russia […] More
Dead Drop: September 1
OPERATION DESERT DORM: Various press accounts say that a serving CIA officer has sued his former boss, a base chief at some unrevealed location, claiming […] More
Dead Drop: August 25
THE PRINCE AND THE POTUS: Monday night’s announcement of the President’s Afghan policy came after consultations at Camp David the previous Friday. Politico reported that […] More
Dead Drop: August 18
GOOD NEWS/BAD NEWS: Senior administration officials appearing on the Sunday shows this past weekend let it be known that nuclear war between the U.S. and […] More