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 No.115

This is what got Michael Hastings whacked by the CIA, when they had his car blow up in San Diego– Rolling Stone was set to publish his article on all of the Swiss accounts funding terrorism in the Middle east on behalf of the US Government, DoD, & CIA. Military brass wanted him dead for his Stanley McChrystal article, (which was apparently never published by Rolling Stone) which brought down the general:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-runaway-general-20100622

MICHAEL HASTINGS TOLD HE WOULD BE HUNTED DOWN AND KILLED OVER MCCHRYSTAL STORY

Friends and family call for independent investigation into journalist’s obvious murder.

Kit Daniels

Infowars.com

June 27, 2013

U.S. Army brass told Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings that he would be hunted down and killed over his story that lead to General McChrystal’s downfall, according to Hasting’s closest friend in the June 26 bombshell interview on the Alex Jones Show.

Hastings died in Los Angeles on June 18 in an explosive single-car crash that left his fuel efficient Mercedes C250 engulfed in flames which towered above the heights of nearby houses.

First responders found the four-cylinder engine 100 feet away from the crash.

As we reported recently, Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly that Hastings was working on his “biggest story yet” involving the CIA. The journalist is known to have made a number of powerful enemies.

Biggs also stated on Fox that it was completely out of character for Hastings to be driving at high speeds that early in the morning. But Biggs made even stronger revelations on the Alex Jones Show as he described how well he knew Hastings.

Biggs and Hastings met in 2008 when the journalist came to Afghanistan to cover the daily combat, an assignment only meant to last one week. That week turned into three months.

“You get to learn a lot about a person in one day of combat, let alone three months of being around them,” Biggs said.

Biggs stayed in touch with the journalist after the assignment, which culminated into a strong friendship.

“I remember when the story broke with General McChrystal and he [Hastings] gave me a call and he’s like ‘man, I’m pretty scared,’” Biggs said. “I told him, ‘You have a reason to be, brother. You basically just got a general of a war fired. I’m pretty sure that doesn’t sit too well with him right now.’”

Hastings’ fear was very well-founded as he received severe death threats over the McChrystal story.

“He had been told, if we don’t like what you write, we will hunt you down and kill you,” Biggs said. “For him to say something like that, those are his own words, that’s pretty intense.”

But Hastings continued on with his journalism career and recently began investigating a CIA story which apparently led to his death.

“So last Monday morning I wake up and I get this e-mail from Mike, and usually the e-mails start off ‘hey brother, how’s it going, how’s your family, how are you adjusting to the civilian life’ because I’m out of the military now,” Biggs said.

But in this particular e-mail, Hastings warned that the FBI would be investigating his colleagues and his friends. He also said that he was on a big story and would need to go “off the radar.”

“It just didn’t seem like something that he normally started his e-mail off with,” Biggs said. “When I read it, I just got this horrible feeling, like something’s not right.”

Biggs asked his friends for their opinions on Hastings’ latest e-mail. They all thought it was scary.

Then once Biggs heard about Hastings’ fatal crash, things just didn’t add up for him.

He knew that Hastings contacted a lawyer recently and questioned why an investigative reporter happened to be filming an empty street at four in the morning when he recorded Hastings driving by.

“All these alarms were going off and my gut feeling from day one, from before it happened, I knew that something wasn’t right,” Biggs said.

Alex asked Biggs if his years of combat honed his gut instinct.

“Yeah, I just… just anybody who knows someone and they act out of… out of reason, out of their normal behavior, that should send a red light off in anybody,” Biggs responded.

Alex also asked Biggs why he wanted to go public regarding the death of his friend. Biggs said he contacted the other recipients of Hastings’ e-mail but received little response.

“Somebody’s got to come out and say something,” Biggs said. “Someone’s got to… I can’t be the only person that thinks this is just weird.”

“Mike would do the same thing for me,” Biggs said. “He’s not going to sit back and roll over.”

“I’m not a journalist, I’m not an investigator, I don’t know what steps to take. All I know is that I lost a friend.”

http://www.infowars.com/friend-michael-hastings-marked-for-death/

Scott Bennett CIA ISIS Swiss Funding Leak.zip 589.0 MB

https://mega.co.nz/#!hFVCTAKK!AoiSgFtvazKasvJJLUe3cIP8S4yxOOriI_JnDSQxEqE

 No.116

FRIEND: MICHAEL HASTINGS WAS WORKING ON “BIGGEST STORY YET” ABOUT CIA

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Sgt. Joe Biggs says journalist would never have driven at high speed

Paul Joseph Watson

Infowars.com

June 25, 2013

A friend of Michael Hastings told Fox News today that the Rolling Stone journalist was working on the “the biggest story yet” about the CIA before his suspicious death and that Hastings drove “like a grandma,” making it extremely out of character for him to be speeding in the early hours of the morning.

Sgt. Joe Biggs told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly that “something didn’t feel right” after Hastings sent a panicked email saying the authorities were on his tail, adding that the story of him driving at high speed in the early hours of the morning was completely out of character.

“His friends and family that know him, everyone says he drives like a grandma, so that right there doesn’t seem like something he’d be doing, there’s no way that he’d be acting erratic like that and driving out of control,” said Biggs, adding that “things don’t add up, there’s a lot of questions that need to be answered.”

Biggs said he had contacted Mercedes asking them if it was normal for their cars to “blow up to that extent” and for the engine to fly out 100 feet from the site of the crash.

Biggs also confirmed that Hastings was working on a story about the CIA and that it was “going to be the biggest story yet.”

As we reported yesterday, questions surrounding the death of Hastings are not only the domain of conspiracy theorists. Former counter-terror czar under two different presidents Richard Clarke told the Huffington Post that the fatal crash of Hastings’ Mercedes C250 Coupe was “consistent with a car cyber attack.”

“So if there were a cyber attack on the car — and I’m not saying there was,” he said, adding “I think whoever did it would probably get away with it,” and that “intelligence agencies for major powers” have such capabilities.

Clarke’s speculation that Hastings’ vehicle could have been remotely hijacked is echoed by Salon.com’s Andrew Leonard, who cites two studies by researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, “Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Vehicle,” and “Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces.”

The studies detail how “it is a relatively trivial exercise to access the computer systems of a modern car and take control away from the driver.”

Questions about the circumstances behind Hastings’ death have persisted because he made a number of enemies in positions of power.

After Wikileaks reported that Hastings had contacted them in the hours before his death complaining about being under investigation by the FBI, the federal agency denied the claim.

According to Hastings’ colleague Cenk Uygur, the writer was, “incredibly tense and very worried, and was concerned that the government was looking in on his material,” and also a “nervous wreck” in response to the surveillance of journalists revealed by the AP phone tapping scandal and the NSA PRISM scandal.

BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith added that Hastings had told friends and family “he was concerned that he was under investigation.”

Another close friend who wishes to remain anonymous said that Hastings was “very paranoid that he was being watched by the FBI.”

It subsequently emerged that Hastings had written a panicked email shortly before his death telling his friends and colleagues that he was going into hiding to escape the attention of the authorities.

“Hey — the feds are interviewing my “close friends and associates,” the message said. “Also: I’m onto a big story, and need to go off the [radar] for a bit.”

http://www.infowars.com/friend-michael-hastings-was-working-on-biggest-story-yet-about-cia/


 No.117

https://cryptome.org/2015/08/michael-hastings-thoughts.htm

Regarding Michael Hastings' "accident," the CIA does appear to have cultivated a talent for orchestrating these. For example, see "CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents" in GWU's National Security Archive[1]. In particular: Document 2: "A Study of Assassination"[2]:

"For secret assassination, either simple or chase, the contrived accident is the most effective technique. When successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated."

"If the subject's personal habits make it feasible, alcohol may be used [very successfully] to prepare him for a contrived accident of any kind."

In light of this it's disappointing that no one in the mainstream press has gone beyond superficial coverage. Back in the 1970s a gang of angry journalists invaded Arizona after the death of Don Bolles:

Dennis Hevesi, "Robert Greene, 78, Dies; Investigative Journalist," New York Times, April 12, 2008.

"The project began after Don Bolles, a reporter for The Arizona Republic who had been investigating ties between organized crime and politicians, was killed by a car bomb on June 13, 1976. Mr. Bolles had been a founding member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a national organization that Mr. Greene had helped start."

Have things really changed that much?

Finally, spies who work in clandestine ops in particular are cold fish and won't hesitate to resort to violence if they perceive it as expedient. This means leaving "in the event of my sudden demise" packages with several trustworthy confederates. Why on earth didn't Hastings plan ahead if he knew he was working on a "big story?"

Hastings may very well have simply pushed his luck one too many times with reckless behavior. In true Hunter S. Thompson fashion. Even then it would still be interesting to know what he was working on. A lesson for acoyltes of the press?

Bill Blunden

San Francisco State University

[1] http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/

[2] http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/docs/doc02.pdf




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