NEVER Let TRUTH get in the way of a good story!

[sky otter]

i barely lasted 24 hours on fb..it's incredible to me that no one seems to care if stuff is true or not
it's like they are all on some reality tv show

guess we missed the casting call......sigh

[burntheships]

guess we missed the casting call......sigh

Thank God! I would be the type to get banned from facebook.

Its an alternate reality, IMO.

[zorgon]

With some photochop plugin techniques to wash out the red, it could make for an exciting moon base.

Oh HELL NO!!! That would fit PERFECTLY on Mars  Oh wow  I have an idea

Wait for it I need to be awake

[zorgon]

i barely lasted 24 hours on fb..it's incredible to me that no one seems to care if stuff is true or not
it's like they are all on some reality tv show
guess we missed the casting call......sigh

We are the Documentary Channel

[sky otter]

We are the Documentary Channel  

with a commercial here and there for studio wrestling..

[burntheships]

We are the Documentary Channel  

with a commercial here and there for studio wrestling..

Too funny!

Twitter is Lost Civilzations.

[The Seeker]

Thank God! I would be the type to get banned from facebook.

Its an alternate reality, IMO.

Bts, You and Myself and about a dozen others I can name are on the future ban list for Facedupe; my kids give me a rough time because I don't use it, and I keep telling them it subtracts iq points...


seeker

[dreb13]

Operation Downstrike

I saw this story referenced as a link in a thread on ATS and after reading the WHOLE story (all 4 pages, phew) I thought of this thread here at Pegasus.

In a nutshell the story goes like this.  A CIA exercise called "Operation Downstrike" uses civilians to rob banks to see if they would be qualified for future clandestine missions.  Can you handle the stress, if not, the agency isn't interested in your services.  If you get caught, no problem,  the CIA will bail you out within 24 hours...and you get to keep some of the money!

In a white-walled interrogation room in a small Virginia police station last June, two detectives were trying to get Herson Torres to crack. Surveillance video tied him to two attempted bank robberies in the area during the past week. The skinny 21-year-old didn't have a criminal record and seemed nervous, but he wasn't talking. The detectives showed him pictures of his brother and father. They told Torres he could be sent to prison for as many as 25 years.

"If I tell you, you're not going to believe me," Torres said. He was crying as he told them an incredible story about being recruited by the Defense Intelligence Agency to participate in a secret operation testing the security of Washington-area banks. He said he'd been assigned to rob a half-dozen banks over four days. And he told them about Theo, the man who hired him and gave all the orders—even though Torres had never met him.

Angry, his interrogators accused him of making up a ridiculous story. Still, Torres persuaded them to look at the text and e-mail messages on his cell phone; he also gave them the password to his Facebook (FB) account and urged them to retrieve a copy of the Defense Intelligence Agency immunity letter from his glove compartment. The police locked up Torres on a charge of attempted robbery and examined the evidence. By the end of the night, they weren't sure what was going on, but they suspected Torres might be telling the truth.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-18/in-virginias-fairfax-county-robbing-banks-for-the-cia#p1

Its an interesting read but when you make it all the way to page 4, the TRUTH comes out.  The mysterious CIA contact behind the Operation who went by the name Theo was finally discovered.

Investigators quickly traced the number to a 26-year-old named Joshua Brady living in Matoaca, Va., a quiet town of 2,400 more than 100 miles south of Washington.

Brady was sleeping on Aug. 17 when federal agents entered the dingy ranch-style home he shared with his mother, grandmother, and 10-year-old brother. Investigators seized computers and found several books about the CIA. Prosecutors charged Brady with impersonating a government official and three counts of attempted bank robbery. Each crime carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

With crooked teeth and an acned face, Brady doesn't look like a confidence man. Yet his voice—mild, almost monotonous, with a hint of Virginia drawl—conveys professionalism, experience, and sincerity. In an October 2012 jailhouse interview, Brady appeared calm, insisting he was an intelligence agent. He claimed he was being penalized for trying to blow the whistle on the CIA for letting Torres take the fall. "This was not the kind of operation I wanted to work on," he said from behind a glass partition in the Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Va.

So in the end, some kid with lots of free time and quite an imagination duped a lot of people.  Then again, maybe there is something more to the story.

In October state prosecutors dropped the case against Torres without explanation. The CIA and federal prosecutors in Virginia declined to comment. Torres agreed to be called as a witness against Brady, though he may not get to testify. On Jan. 29, Brady reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors. Under the agreement, he pled guilty to one count of using a forged federal judge's signature. The government agreed in exchange to drop the bank robbery and impersonation charges....Brady could have faced up to five years in prison for forgery, but the government is recommending he be sentenced instead to three years of supervision in his mother's home. He's agreed to seek mental health treatment, and he's back in Matoaca. He may even get his seized computers and the encrypted Operation Downstrike documents back.

Charges dropped?? getting all materials that were used to pull off this stunt returned??  Sounds fishy 

[dreb13]

Accused CIA Imposter Arrested Again for Impersonating Officer

Joshua Brady is back at it.  This time he works for Homeland Security.

June 29, 2013.  A Virginia man whose charges of posing as a CIA agent and recruiting people to rob banks were dropped by prosecutors last month was accused of impersonating a Homeland Security officer.

Joshua Brady was arrested June 26 after federal agents swarmed his mother's home in Matoaca. He was charged in a criminal complaint in federal court in Richmond with one count of impersonating a federal officer, which carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

Brady allegedly called two hospitals in the Richmond, Virginia, area saying he needed rooms for an undercover operation and identifying himself as a Department of Homeland Security officer Jacob Attlinger, according to an affidavit filed in the case.

The charge comes a month after Brady was sentenced to three years' supervision in a plea deal where federal prosecutors dropped charges in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, accusing the 27-year-old of being behind at least three attempted bank robberies in the Washington area last year while posing as a federal agent who went by the name Theo.

Brady, who pleaded guilty in January to sending a forged judge's signature to Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) in a dispute over an unpaid mobile-phone bill, was ordered by U.S. District Judge John Gibney to stay away from the Internet for one year and receive mental health treatment.

The kid is good!  Another interesting tale.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-06-28/accused-cia-imposter-arrested-again-for-impersonating-officer

[Somamech]

Never let the truth get in the Way:

http://projectcamelotportal.com/zoo-blog/item/losing-gravity-or-walking-on-the-moon

One thing I have learnt here on Pegasus is that we have a wealth of folk who enjoy speed, Alien Worlds and Sheer Madness

Something wrong with that above Blog Post

[Somamech]

I really shoulda dropped that in EH's top gear thread as anyone who follows some form of motor sport would banish that to the demon's ASAP

[Elvis Hendrix]

Did I here you mention my name in jest sir?

[Somamech]

Did I here you mention my name in jest sir?

That would be a negative there fellow lets go fast 

[4thphaseofmalaise]

Hi,

I posted a debunk video on my channel of this photo. See here:





Nice website you have.