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Alan MacLeod

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Sep 18

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3 of the 6 largest VPN companies are owned and operated by an Israeli company, founded and led by "former" Israeli spies?

Is your VPN affected? My investigation reveals all:

mintpressnews.com/exposed-how-is…

Kape Technologies controls much of the online privacy market, including ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, Intego Antivirus, and a host of tech websites that promote its products.

Kape's co-founder and longtime CEO, Koby Menachemi began his tech career as a developer for Unit 8200, the IDF's most elite, and most controversial spying unit.

Menachemi’s successor as Kape CEO, Ido Erlichman, is a veteran of Unit 217, the IDF's Duvdevan Unit, an elite commando group that carries out intelligence operations and assassinations against the local Arab population.

What are the Duvdevan and Unit 8200?

Duvdevan: Described as Israel's top "death squad", Duvdevan members are given special training to disguise themselves as Palestinians in order to infiltrate enemy groups and carry out extrajudicial killings. Both the selection process and the training are exceptionally rigorous, and Duvdevan commandos often spend months or even years undercover before being assigned a mission.

Unit 8200: Unit 8200 is the centerpiece of Israel's hi-tech surveillance state. Unit 8200 uses big data to compile giant dossiers on every single Palestinian, so it can be used for blackmail and extortion.

Information, such as if a person was cheating on their spouse or was homosexual, is also used as bait for blackmail. One former Unit 8200 soldier said that as part of his training, he was assigned to memorize different Arabic words for “gay” so that he could listen out for them in conversations.

Unit 8200 created a gigantic, AI-generated kill list for Gaza, allowing the IDF to bomb targets virtually indiscriminately. It was also the brains behind the 2024 Lebanese pager attack.

Unit 8200 agents have gone on to produce much of the world's top spyware devices, used to hack into the phones of governments and world leaders.

An example of this is Pegasus, the invasive software that was used to spy on more than 50,000 prominent individuals around the world, including politicians such as President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan, and President Barham Salih of Iraq.

Known purchasers of the software include the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, as well as the governments of the UAE, Panama, and Saudi Arabia, who used the software to surveil Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was assassinated by Saudi agents in Türkiye.

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Alan MacLeod

@AlanRMacLeod

Jun 27

Thread🧵: Facebook is controlled by the US national security state.

Let me explain how and why the world's largest social media company has been penetrated by intelligence agencies.

For the full investigation, based on years of research, click below:

mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-ag…

In 2018, Facebook announced a deal with the Atlantic Council, which would give the latter significant influence over the world's news feeds, controlling what billions see -- and what they don't see.

The Atlantic Council is a Pentagon-funded think tank with no fewer than 7 former CIA directors on its board. It was founded as a NATO offshoot project, is staffed by NATO generals, and acts as the military alliance's brain.

In other words, giving the Atlantic Council control over 3 billion people's newsfeeds is a half-step away from state censorship, but on a global level.

about.fb.com/news/2018/05/a…

Even more worryingly, Facebook is absolutely teeming with US spies.
My research has uncovered dozens of former national security state agents working in key positions in politically sensitive departments like Trust and Safety, Content Moderation, and Security.

Here, in this official Meta (Facebook) video, a guy called "Aaron" is identified as the company's face of content regulation.

You'd never guess from this video that Aaron is a CIA agent.

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Alan MacLeod

@AlanRMacLeod

Jun 23

Football legend Diego Maradona showing his Fidel Castro tattoo to Castro himself (2001).

A poor boy from the slums of Buenos Aires, Maradona grew up to become a sporting legend.

Despite his riches, he remained a revolutionary socialist throughout his life; one who described Castro as a "father," and said that he "hated the United States with all my strength".

He also supported liberation struggles around the world. "In my heart I am Palestinian," Maradona said

Maradona with his Che Guevara tattoo.

Maradona with socialist president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, sporting a "Stop Bush" t-shirt.

He considered the US to be the center of capitalism and imperialism. "I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength," he said.

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Alan MacLeod

@AlanRMacLeod

Jun 19

Thread 🧵: I'm seeing a lot of US politicians express outrage at the Iranian strike on an Israeli hospital, so I thought I'd fill you all in on the shocking history of the US purposely bombing hospitals around the world.

For more, see my investigation:

mintpressnews.com/us-bombing-hos…

Yemen 🇾🇪

In March, Trump carried out 14 separate attacks against the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Saada, Yemen, turning it into rubble.

The newly built Al Rasool Al-Azam Hospital was the centerpiece of the region’s healthcare network. Costing over $7.5 million, the center provided crucial treatment to hundreds of cancer patients who previously went without any care at all or faced an eight-and-a-half-hour round trip to the capital, Sanaa, for therapy.

The Anti-Cancer Fund, a local government medical organization, described the events as a clear “war crime.”

“These attacks are not just airstrikes, but systematic executions, intended to eliminate hope and wipe out life amid a suffocating blockade,” it said in a statement.

These images give a taste of what repeated US bombardment did to it.

Syria 🇸🇾

In 2017, on Trump's orders, US forces repeatedly bombed the National Hospital in Raqqa, Syria, carrying out 20 separate attacks against the building, including using white phosphorous munitions.

A highly controversial and widely-banned weapon, white phosphorous instantly ignites upon contact with oxygen, sticks to clothes and skin, and burns at an extremely high temperature. It cannot be extinguished by water, leaving those affected to suffer excruciating – and deadly – injuries.

At least 30 civilians were killed, some likely due to the effects of the white phosphorous, which causes respiratory damage and organ failure.

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Alan MacLeod

@AlanRMacLeod

Jun 19

Thread🧵 In light of Iran's allegations about WhatsApp sharing user location data with Israel, it's important to understand how deep Israeli intelligence penetration of big tech firms goes.

I've been working on this topic for 4 years. Here's what I found.
mintpressnews.com/revealed-forme…

Firstly, Meta (WhatsApp's parent company) is filled with former intelligence agents from the Israeli Defense Force's elite cyberwarfare battalion, Unit 8200.

Chief among these is Emi Palmor, who sits on Meta's Oversight Board - a 21-person panel that ultimately dictates the direction of the company, deciding what content is allowed and what is disallowed.

Palmor is a former Israeli spy and later went on to become General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Justice. In this role, she directly oversaw the stripping away of Palestinian rights and created a so-called “Internet Referral Unit” which would find and aggressively push Facebook to delete Palestinian content on its platform that the Israeli government objected to.

Another important person at Meta is Eyal Klein, head of data science.

Klein spent six years in Unit 8200, rising to the rank of captain.

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Alan MacLeod

@AlanRMacLeod

Jun 14

Cannot stress this enough: big tech is a US regime change tool.

Without the CIA, Google would never have been born. And as late as 2005, the CIA was still a major shareholder in the company.

Moreover, dozens of former CIA agents work in senior, influential roles at Google, as my investigation found:

mintpressnews.com/national-secur…

E10n's many companies would not exist without the CIA, either.

His connections to the CIA are so close that he even named his first child after his CIA handler, Mike Griffin, then-head of a major CIA department.

Read my investigation for more:

mintpressnews.com/elon-musk-not-…

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