The Nevada gambler, al-Qaida, the CIA and the mother of all cons - Guardian, UK

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/23/dennis-montgomery-cia-al-jazeera

The Nevada gambler, al-Qaida, the CIA and the mother of all cons

Chris McGreal in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 23 December 2009 21.47 GMT
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The intelligence reports fitted the suspicions of the time: al-Qaida sleeper agents were scattered across the US awaiting orders that were broadcast in secret codes over the al-Jazeera television network.

Flights from Britain and France were cancelled. Officials warned of a looming "spectacular attack" to rival 9/11. In 2003 President Bush's homeland security tsar, Tom Ridge, spoke of a "credible source" whose information had US military bracing for a new terrorist onslaught.

Then suddenly no more was said.

Six years later, Playboy magazine has revealed that the CIA fell victim to an elaborate con by a compulsive gambler who claimed to have developed software that discovered al-Jazeera broadcasts were being used to transmit messages to terrorists buried deep in America.

Dennis Montgomery, 56, the co-owner of a software gaming company in Nevada, who has since been arrested for bouncing $1m worth of cheques, claims his program read messages hidden in barcodes listing international flights to the US, their positions and airports to be targeted.

The CIA took the information seriously, working with Montgomery at his offices and paying him an undisclosed amount of money. The "intelligence" Montgomery claimed to have found was passed on to the White House and homeland security where it kickstarted an alert that bordered on panic.

According to Playboy, Montgomery's claims caused the cancellation of British Airways and other flights supposedly mentioned in the codes.

Some officials were not at all surprised to hear the allegation that al-Jazeera was involved. The then defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, later vilified the station for "vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable" reporting of the US invasion of Iraq.

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1. Codes are being transmitted via porn.

[comtec]

2. I'm suddenly reminded of They Live!

A movie whose promise was that aliens already are among us but we can't see them.

it had roddy piper and Louis gossit Jr.

Overall it was a B+ movie, but the idea was great, and the subliminal messages on money (This is your god) and billboards still rings true today.