Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As the U.S. remembers the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination Friday, there is no shortage of conspiracy theories. Depending on whom you ask, JFK was killed by the CIA, the mafia, Cuban exile groups, the FBI, southern segregationists or the Soviet Union. The way author and attorney Craig Zirbel sees…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gilberto Abascal was a main informant in two-high profile cases in Florida in the past seven years, but now he’s living large in Cuba, the Miami Herald reports. Abascal was the key witness in the trial of militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles two years ago, the Herald wrote. In 2006, he…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The fate of the NSA leaker remains in limbo as Russia and Ecuador send mixed messages about their role in Edward Snowden’s attempt to seek asylum, ABC News reports. A spokesman for Vladimir Putin said Moscow would not help Snowden seek refuge. Snowden is stuck at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport because the U.S….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Russia rejected criticism today that it illegally assisted the former government contractor charged with exposing secret U.S. surveillance program, the Washington Post reports. Edward Snowden, 30, was expected to board a flight from Russia to Cuba but never did. Secretary of State John F. Kerry said the Moscow has an obligation to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Edward J. Snowden was supposed to leave Moscow today for a flight to Havana. He never arrived. U.S. authorities were trying to determine this morning whether the former national security contractor accused of espionage has made alternative travel plans or whether Russian leaders took him into custody, The New York Times reports….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI placed the first woman on its list of most wanted terrorists Thursday, NBC News reports. Joanne Chesimard was a 1970s black radical who is accused of shooting a New Jersey trooper and fleeing prison in a daring daylight escape. The FBI said Chesimard, who was part of the Black Liberation…
By Jim Popkin Washington Post Magazine WASHINGTON — Ana Montes has been locked up for a decade with some of the most frightening women in America. Once a highly decorated U.S. intelligence analyst with a two-bedroom co-op in Cleveland Park, Montes today lives in a two-bunk cell in the highest-security women’s prison in the nation….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Victor Manuel Genera has been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list for nearly 30 years – longer than anyone in history. Who is he? Genera is accused of committing one of the largest cash robberies in U.S. history. In September 1983, Gerena allegedly stole $7 million from a Wells Fargo armored car…
