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04/12/2021

Part 2 of upcoming Homeland Security off the Record 20th anniversary 911 streaming interviews.

26/08/2021

23/08/2021

Catch Inteliscopx.com's, "HOMELAND SECURITY OFF THE RECORD," hosted by Anthony Kimery every Saturday evening, 8-10 PM EDT, on KGRA Radio [https://lnkd.in/geepRMQK]. It's there you will hear leading authorities and experts take you into in-depth, deep-dive discussions about new and emerging threats to our homeland!

August 21, 2021 debut live audio/visual broadcast: https://lnkd.in/gR7TZvVV

All past audio shows can be heard here: https://lnkd.in/g-SsAG8

21/08/2021

AFGHANISTAN: WHAT NOW? AND WHY IS CHINA SO DAMNED INTERESTED?"

TONIGHT, 8-10 PM EDT, on, "HOMELAND SECURITY OFF THE RECORD," which debuts with it 1st live broadcast in audio and visual, at, https://lnkd.in/gHDdqX7A

Tonight's guests are: Dr. Godfrey Garner [U.S. Army 20th SFG Retired], U.S. Army Lt. Col. (ret) Sargis Sangari, and Don Ulsch ... and, possibly, a surprise guest!

A show you do not want to miss.

China's involvement in Afghanistan

10/07/2021

'The sad reality of cyberspace warfare is that the battlefield covers the Earth, from civilian infrastructure to combat war zones' At the beginning of the 21st Century, warfare in cyberspace was unheard of. Not until information technologists warmed to an impending catastrophe based on the belief that electronics would not be able to compute dates that did not begin with “19.” Dubbed as the Y2K problem, people worldwide worried that banks would fail, the power grids would go dark, planes would fall out of the sky, and just about everything connected to or controlled by a computer would become useless....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/07/cyberspace-warfare-an-overview-of-the-intensifying-threat-it-poses

Warfare in Cyberspace is in its infancy, but as with all aspects of war, these weapons will improve and become more devastating.

26/03/2021

‘In simple terms, it means fire, police, and emergency responders can be there to help when and where they are needed most’ A grant was announced this week by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) which is going toward “working … with partners at the National Regional Planning Council (NRPC) and the Association of Public Safety Communication Officials International (APCO)” to help “regional planning communities (RPC) secure Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensing capabilities and public safety spectrum bandwidth” to allow public safety and first responder agencies to better respond to major incidents or to plan large public events....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/03/st-partnership-enhances-public-safety-spectrum-efficiency-improves-interoperability

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26/03/2021

‘Surrounding and supporting this … scheme were complicit money managers, brokerage firms, banks, and real estate investment firms in the United States and elsewhere, operating as a network of professional money launderers’ Jose Luis De Jongh Atencio (De Jongh), a dual US-Venezuelan citizen and former procurement officer and manager in Citgo’s Special Projects Group, pleaded guilty this week to accepting more than $7 million in bribery payments from businessmen including Jose Manuel Gonzalez Testino, also a dual US-Venezuelan citizen, and Tulio Anibal Farias Perez, a Venezuelan national and Houston resident, and others in exchange for assisting the businessmen and related companies “to corruptly secure and retain energy and logistics contracts … with Citgo and providing them with other business advantages.”...

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/03/deep-dive-former-venezuelan-official-latest-to-plead-guilty-in-multi-year-doj-probe-of-billion-dollar-oil-bribery-money-laundering-schemes

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23/03/2021

‘With DCT apps we recognized that there’s a need for a clear, consistent, and common set of privacy and security test criteria’ The Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington (UW-APL) has been awarded $959,305 by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) under S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) “to bring together a group of experts and trusted entities to develop digital contact tracing (DCT) application (app) testing criteria,” S&T announced....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/03/dhs-developing-covid-19-digital-contact-tracing-app-testing-criteria-with-help-from-university-of-washington

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22/03/2021

Counterterrorism officials, Special Operations Forces want to know whether SEDONA – or something like it - could eventually have a ‘larger field of view’ capability for detecting pathogenic bio-weapons A research and development (R&D) collaboration between the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and its partners at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), led to being recognized as the…...

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/03/chemical-weapons-detection-tech-developed-by-st-lanl-counterterrorism-authorities-say-they-also-need-better-bio-sensors

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19/03/2021

'Through this challenge we worked with graphic designers to create a UI that is useful to DHS-specific applications and is readily accessed and usable by anyone in the verifiable credential community' Dignari, a woman-owned small business based in Alexandria, Virginia, is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Digital Wallets Challenge grand-prize winner. The challenge by (S&T) was for “a design concept for an easy-to-use, trusted user interface (UI) for digital wallets that improves the overall user experience (UX) for the management of digital wallet-based credentials."...

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/03/dhs-digital-wallets-challenge-grand-prize-winner-is-woman-owned-small-business

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18/03/2021

'Products derived from biometric collection can provide critical context—related to persons of interest and their intent—to analysts across all echelons' Biometrics Enabled Intelligence (BEI) is playing a larger and essential role in US Army intelligence, as described in the Army Doctrine Publication (ADP 2-0) for Army intelligence activities. These include recognizing an individual based on measurable anatomical, physiological, and behavioral characteristics; and for intelligence resulting from the combination of biometric information with other intelligence, threat information, or information relating to other aspects....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/03/biometrics-plays-increasingly-significant-role-in-army-intelligence-doctrine

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17/03/2021

Acquiring, fielding, and sustaining SOF intelligence systems which 'contribute directly to USSOCOM's priorities to deter, disrupt, and defeat terrorist threats and sustain and modernize the force in persistent intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance' Information on cyber, biometrics, Electronic Warfare (EW), and other related technologies for threat intelligence by military end-users during continuous and one-off operations has been being acquired that ultimately - it is expected - will provide Special Operations Forces (SOF) the capabilities to continuously authenticate user/threat identity by a person's distinctive characteristics using software-based biometrics or behavioral profiling....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/03/exclusive-sof-of-the-future-will-use-biometrics-for-threat-monitoring-detection-analysis-and-response

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17/03/2021

BioWatch monitors and detects just 6 of 14 (approximately 43 percent) of the biological agents known to be threats because it has not updated its biological agent detection capabilities with the 2017 threat assessment results The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Inspector General (IG) stated in his March 2 redacted “For Official Use Only” audit report, Biological Threat Detection and Response Challenges Remain for BioWatch…...

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/03/deep-dive-is-us-defenseless-to-detect-respond-to-bio-attack-after-millions-spent-on-flawed-17-year-old-bio-sensor-program

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16/03/2021

The guidance undoubtedly will be challenged legally – likely by the State of Texas - given that it is in direct conflict with Judge Tipton’s February 23 final order that “this preliminary injunction shall remain in effect pending a final resolution of the merits of this case or until a further order this Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, or the United States Supreme Court.”...

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/03/exclusive-ice-guidance-for-criminal-aliens-executing-judges-stay-of-biden-order-to-pause-arrests-says-back-to-business-is-it-being-ignored

ICE enforcement guidance for criminal aliens executing Judge’s ban on Biden order to pause arrests may be being ignored. Legal problems loom.

16/03/2021

Watching dangerous illegal immigrants walk around free of deportation 'really sucks' Learning just how the many new immigration policies that have, and continue to be, issued by the Biden administration play out on the front lines is a tough proposition these days. In this climate, not surprisingly, few in the field are enthusiastic about talking about their jobs, which is especially true for the men and women who work for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's…...

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/03/exclusive-ice-ero-officer-says-hes-handcuffed-from-carrying-out-permissible-arrests-removals-of-criminal-illegal-aliens

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11/03/2021

The mission has been described as 'conducting' bio-forensic analysis of evidence from a bio-crime or terrorist attack to obtain a ‘biological fingerprint’ DNA “bio-forensic” data collection and analysis is currently being used by the FBI and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies as part of a classified program to determine whether a person’s DNA can sufficiently be broken down to identify – or at least zero in on – unidentified subjects of interest by analyzing their, or DNA somehow acquired from known family members, against a closely guarded database of known and unknown persons’ DNA....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/03/exclusive-top-secret-biometric-dna-processing-performed-for-fbi-intel-agencies

Mission has been described as 'conducting' DNA bio-forensic analysis of evidence from a bio-crime or terrorist attack to obtain a ‘biological fingerprint’

23/02/2021

‘Despite the threat of the Covid-19 pandemic, smugglers continue to show little or no regard for the safety of our nation by indiscriminately smuggling criminals and convicted felons into the country’ Beginning on February 19 through yesterday, Laredo Sector Border Patrol Agents prevented three separate human smuggling attempts at its checkpoints, apprehending 230 individuals inside tractor-trailers traffickers were using in attempts to smuggle people from Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras through different Laredo Sector checkpoints....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/02/more-than-250-illegals-arrested-in-4-smuggling-attempts-in-2-days-some-crammed-in-tractor-trailers-with-no-covid-masks

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19/02/2021

On "HOMELAND SECURITY OFF THE RECORD," tomorrow, February 20, 2021, 8-10 PM EST, my dear friend, Salvador “Sal” Zamora (https://lnkd.in/gMTb4_d), a distinguished gentleman I know many of you know … and love, joins me for an in-depth discussion.

After a nearly 30-year, illustrious career in the US Border Patrol, most in senior-level positions. Sal recently retired from the USBP at CBP HQ as the Strategic Communications Director, Associate Chief, DHS/CBP/USBP.

Listen live here at show time in your time zone: https://lnkd.in/gBVidBA

Sal was the first BP Agent I was put in touch with in El Paso when I first began travelling across the SW border in early 2006, penning numerous award-winning articles before the problems on the border – even the “border wall” – were household expressions. It is a genuine honor to have Sal on the show. Thank you my friend, and thank you for your exemplary service to the nation for so many years.

18/02/2021

'Both the JIOCC component agencies and their stakeholder partners have expressed optimism that such a long-needed, linear cross-flow intelligence-sharing platform will improve the needs for the specific mission sets that are required of the JIOCCs' The new multi-agency Department of Homeland Security (DHS) coordination center, the Joint Intelligence Operations Coordination Center (JIOCC), has been stood up in Doral, Florida staffed with personnel from multiple DHS components – including Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the US Coast Guard (USCG)....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/02/dhs-stands-up-joint-intel-ops-coordination-center-in-south-florida-as-study-says-stovepipes-still-a-problem

18/02/2021

Counterintelligence and counterterrorism officials say these vessels – and ‘full submersibles’ - could also be used to transport terrorists from Central and South America The crews of the two Alameda, California-based US Coast Guard cutters Munro and Bertholf interdicted three “low profile” vessels specially built for narco-smuggling that were transporting more than 9,000 pounds of co***ne worth an estimated $156 million in the Eastern Pacific Ocean between January 26 and February 1....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/02/uscgs-rising-interdictions-of-low-profile-smuggling-vessels-raises-concerns

17/02/2021

'The general aim of this study is therefore to estimate the rate of disease progression for adults who seek testing and test positive for SARS-CoV-2' An ambitious interventional clinical trial is underway by the Uniformed Services University’s Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program (IDCRP) to determine whether Covid-19 can be prevented in persons who have recently been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes Covid-19, by administering an intramuscular monoclonal antibody to individuals who are within eight days of exposure, but not yet symptomatic....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/02/finding-effective-interventions-to-prevent-covid-after-exposure-subject-of-new-study

10/02/2021

As of February 10 UTC, the Achilleas was last reported in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Jamaica with an estimated time of arrival at the Port of Galveston Offshore Terminal on February 15 Ordered seized by the Trump administration in its final days, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) last week filed a 12-page Verified Complaint for Forfeiture in Rem…...

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/02/us-seeks-forfeiture-of-iranian-oil-said-connected-to-iranian-terror-group-aboard-tanker-now-bound-for-galveston-offshore-terminal

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10/02/2021

' The January 6 protest was 'an attempt to stop democracy as we know it, using domestic terrorism to assault our system of government, thereby qualifying these insurrectionists for the No-Fly List' After the January 6 security breach of the United States Capitol, some members of Congress have advocated restricting the air travel of individuals who may seek to incite or carry out further violence....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/02/calls-by-legislators-others-to-put-capitol-protestors-on-no-fly-list-fraught-with-legal-problems

06/02/2021

'Further development of usable EEG-based recognition systems' will promote 'rapid advancements in EEG instrumentation, on-device processing, and machine learning techniques will lead to the emergence of commercialized person recognition systems in the near future' Rapidly advancing mobile-device technologies and information-sharing platforms like “wearable devices” are hurriedly being developed which can “capture a wide variety of health and lifestyle-related information, including geospatial and biometric data and patient-reported outcomes from individual volunteers” which can “transform our understanding of both normal human biology and disease states,” according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) strategy for data science....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/02/medical-biometrics-rd-proving-to-have-wide-ranging-security-applications-and-risks

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04/02/2021

Suliman sought to support violent jihad by traveling to areas of conflict to provide material support - including himself - and services to terrorist organizations Thirty-three-tear-old Mohamed Fathy Suliman, a US citizen who previously lived in Gainesville, Florida, was taken into custody by the FBI who returned to the US to face charges outlined in the September 11, 2020, criminal complaint…...

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/02/another-us-citizen-arrested-for-attempting-to-provide-material-support-to-isis

02/02/2021

In August, there was slightly over 50,000 – an increase of 10,000 in one month. In September, there was another 57,674, almost another 10,000. During November, there was a total of 67,101 – another 10,000. By December, there were more than 73,000 Border arrivals in December 2020 jumped by 80 percent above December 2019, partly because the cartels and coyotes are telling their customers President-elect Joe Biden will end all the border controls and restrictions that were put in place by the Trump administration, then-Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan stated....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/02/cbp-personnel-infected-in-sw-border-states-rises-as-the-number-of-illegals-spirals-23-now-dead

30/01/2021

‘As cities grow larger and density increases across people, buildings, and infrastructure, a potential increase in the frequency or severity of targeted attacks from foreign and domestic terrorism is a legitimate concern’ The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced it intends to establish a new addition to its existing family of Centers of Excellence (COE), the Engineering Secure Environments from Targeted Attacks (ESE) center....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/01/dhs-has-36-5-million-available-for-new-center-of-excellence-focused-on-securing-areas-from-targeted-attacks

23/01/2021

'This tool will help public safety agencies respond quickly and decisively during emergencies or catastrophic events' More than $1.5 million has been awarded to Corner Alliance, Inc. to develop an Alerts, Warnings, and Notifications (AWN) Guidance Tool in the form of a program planning app which will be available through a portal on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) website....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/01/dhs-awards-1-5-million-for-first-responder-emergency-alert-technology-development-to-small-business

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23/01/2021

‘Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department Officer Daniel Hodges appeared to be loudly crying out in pain’ Patrick Edward McCaughey III from Connecticut has been charged in the US District Court for the District of Columbia with assaulting an officer during the breach of the US Capitol on January 6. He is charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees; civil disorder; entering restricted building or grounds; and violent entry or disorderly conduct....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/01/connecticut-man-charged-with-savage-beating-of-metro-officer-during-capitol-breach

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23/01/2021

The ‘ISIS ideology continues to infect those who would threaten the nation's security from within and without, and we will continue to fight this threat’ US Army Private Cole James Bridges, aka “Cole Gonzales”, 20, of Stowe, Ohio, is the latest US soldier to be charged with trying to provide the Islamic State of Iraq and Al Sham (ISIS) with serious tactical support....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/01/arrest-of-us-army-private-for-alleged-material-support-of-isis-comes-on-heels-of-other-recent-isis-related-arrests

18/01/2021

'The transfer of the computer device to Russia fell through for unknown reasons and Williams still has the computer device or destroyed it. This matter remains under investigation' The FBI has a broadening underway for 22-year-old Riley June Williams from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania who is alleged to have stolen a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the protests January 6 at the US Capitol the FBI says she "intended to send … to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR," the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/01/fbi-searching-for-woman-alleged-to-steal-laptop-from-pelosis-office-she-intended-to-sell-to-russian-intelligence

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15/01/2021

Indicted and arrested as part of a Brazilian takedown of 'significant alien smugglers,' including one of the world's most prolific human smugglers Moktar Hossain, a Bangladeshi national formerly residing in Monterrey, Mexico, was sentenced to 46 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a scheme to smuggle illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/01/bangladeshi-arrested-in-earlier-major-trafficking-bust-sentenced-for-role-bringing-illegal-aliens-to-us

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14/01/2021

'Because this affidavit is submitted for the limited purpose of establishing probable cause to support an application for an arrest warrant, it does not contain every fact known by ... the United States' Former US Air Force Lt. Col. and A-10 pilot Larry Brock of Texas, and Eric Munchel of Tennessee, were charged Sunday in US federal court in the District of Columbia in connection with the protest at the US Capitol on January 6, the FBI announced....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/01/two-men-charged-in-connection-with-protest-at-us-capitol-one-a-former-us-air-force-lt-col-a-10-pilot

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14/01/2021

Al Madioum was among 27 Americans repatriated from Syria and Iraq between September and October 2020, 10 of whom were charged with terrorism-related offenses for their support to ISIS Abdelhamid Al Madioum, 24, a native of Morocco and naturalized US citizen, pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support and resources, namely personnel and services, to ISIS, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/01/minnesota-man-pleads-guilty-to-providing-material-support-to-isis-among-27-earlier-handed-over-to-us-by-syrian-democratic-forces

11/01/2021

The men belonged to an ISIS-affiliated group called ISIS in Sri Lanka which carried out the deadly Easter Day attacks in that country in 2019 Three Sri Lankan citizens were charged with terrorism offenses, including conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization, as members of a group of ISIS supporters that carried out terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Day in 2019, killing 268 people, five of whom were US citizens, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/01/3-foreign-nationals-charged-with-conspiring-to-provide-material-support-to-isis-in-attack-that-killed-5-americans

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09/01/2021

‘POINTER is a groundbreaking new first responder tracking technology that allows first responders to pinpoint their colleagues more precisely in emergency scenarios’ Last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) successfully tested the Precision Outdoor and Indoor Navigation and Training for Emergency Responders (POINTER) technology at the Veteran’s Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/01/dhs-field-tests-demonstrate-precision-of-groundbreaking-tracking-technology-that-has-military-law-enforcement-applications

05/01/2021

Results showed ‘commercial face recognition performance declines in the presence of face masks, but some combinations of acquisition and matching systems continued to work well’ A controlled facial recognition test by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) revealed promising results for facial recognition technologies to accurately identify aircraft travelers wearing face masks, which S&T said today could reduce the need for people to remove masks at airports or Ports of Entry (POEs)....

https://inteliscopx.com/2021/01/airport-face-recognition-of-mask-wearers-shows-96-percent-accuracy-though-performance-can-vary-greatly-between-systems

10/11/2020

In October, the Taliban signaled its ability to project terror when its carried out deadly vicious attacks in 24 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces