The following is the text of a June 10, 2021, press release by the Department of Justice, announcing that the wife of wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, pleaded guilty to a three-count criminal information charging her with: 1) Conspiring to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, one kilogram or more of heroin, 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, and 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana in the U.S., Mexico, and elsewhere, knowing, intending, and having a reasonable cause to believe that such substances would be unlawfully imported into the U.S.; 2) conspiring with…
Author: John Greenewald
Background The following records were received by The Black Vault in FOIA Case 0703-96 with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). They are part of Project Moon Dust, which was a program to retrieve unknown debris from space objects. Although largely believed to be simply fallen satellites from other countries; there were rumored to be other objects recovered as well that did not have an easy explanation. The case below is highlighted here, as it has a fairly unique description where the object recovered had burned for five days after its discovery. Per the documentation, although they drew likeness with other…
According to the Department of Interior Inspector General (the full report is below): At the request of then Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior David Bernhardt and Members of Congress, we reviewed the actions the U.S. Park Police (USPP) took to disperse protesters in and around Lafayette Park in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2020. Our review focused on events that occurred in and around the park from May 29 through June 3 amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. We sought to describe what occurred primarily from an operational perspective, including how and when the USPP, in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDH5yW9jvm8 This U.S. Navy video features a story about USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors experiencing spooky phenomena in the ship’s library. Hosted by Petty Officer 2nd Class Patrick Gearhiser, it was recorded in 2010. I love finding quirky, odd, things such as these within the U.S. military and government archives. Much of these types of things were seen by very few people at the time, then archived never to really be seen again. Enjoy the ghost stories…
On June 7, 2021, DARPA released the following press release, with the video above. In recent tests at Eglin Air Force Base, DARPA’s Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program demonstrated a Counter-Unmanned Air System (C-UAS) multilayer defense architecture to defeat unauthorized drone intrusions over military installations or operations. Development of this low-cost reusable drone interceptor system approach began four years ago with the aim of creating an integrated system for thwarting attacks from self-guided small unmanned aircraft. The goal is to protect high value convoys moving through potentially populated regions where there is a requirement to avoid using explosive defensive weapons…