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Monday, April 3, 2023

The FBI Spied on Targets in Mexico: NYT

Mica for BorderlandBeat.com
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Monday, April 3, 2023

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) hired spyware in 2021 that has been used thousands of times to spy on targets in Mexico, but not in the United States, The New York Times reported exclusively.

"The 2021 secret contract used the same U.S. company - designated Cleopatra Holdings - but it is the small government contractor, based in New Jersey, Riva Networks that the FBI used two years earlier to acquire Pegasus (the cell phone spying program used by several governments)," reports the Times.

The new contract was for the Landmark program to detect the location of cell phone calls in real time, manufactured by the Israeli company NSO.

Spyware used in at least one country

"Specifically it allowed the government (of the United States) to test, evaluate and even deploy spyware against selected targets in Mexico," the newspaper reported. Under this contract, according to two people, there have been thousands of uses in at least one country, Mexico.

The NYT reports that, just last week, Joe Biden's government announced a new public policy that prohibits agencies and other federal agencies from using spyware acquired from commercial companies. After the New York Times report was first published on Sunday night, a Biden government official informed the newspaper that the White House was not aware of this contract, and that, if it exists, it would be a violation of the aforementioned executive order.

According to the Times, Cleopatra Holdings continues to make monthly payments for this spyware to date.

In the report, he records a network of front companies, individuals signing contracts with false names and secret official documents that were hidden from public scrutiny.

The NSO was recently bought by a London-based company, Novalpina Capital, after several scandals around its Pegasus product, which was used by several governments to spy on dissidents.

White House spokespersons and the office of the director of National Intelligence declined to make statements, leaving several questions unresolved: which intelligence or public security officials knew about the contract when it was signed? Why did the contract specify Mexico as an objective?

38 comments:

  1. Always happy to see you here, Mica!

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  2. Animo Sicarios !
    All Gente Nueva Special Forces Tier 1 Operators use Mossad Nsa modified 6G capable tactical tablets for secure communications. An ex employee of the Five Eyes program has encrypted all electronics against the Pegasus spyware. Los Patrones have Sidekick devices which are immune to hacking or eavesdropping.
    On a side note los Patrones have indicated that any CDS operative engaging in booty action with los contras and recording it is to be eliminated !

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    1. 😅😅😅😅☠☠☠

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    2. Reminds me of the marine copypasta meme lmao..

      “ What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.”

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    3. No video no evidence for all the CDS cakino lovers

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    4. @6:46 ??????????

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    5. Sicario#006 for President!

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    6. We are the absolute mob of El Señor Sicario006.

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    7. Guerrilla not gorrilla. A gorrila is alarge ape

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    8. @8:00 — it’s a meme that people copy and paste to showboat/talk shit online

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    9. Always happy to see Don 006 comment, you Sir are a funny and witty man!

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  3. Animo sicario006
    All this tech you have can you lend me it i want to watch porn without being spied on 😂

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    1. 5:10:
      Admit it. You want to spy on your 13 year-old neighbor.

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    2. 5:10 are you trying to watch the video sol mentioned of Cds doing a CJNG guy?

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    3. 9:48 well good for you

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    4. Detroit if i was 15 yes i would

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  4. ELMO is the PEGASUS king of Mexico. The FBI will never spy on as many Mexican citizens as ELMO.
    ELMO of course will say that it is sheer coincidence that his critics were spied on and make clear that Mexico doesn't export fentanyl to the U.S. and he is tired of all of this fake news and the media picking on him.
    Of course the official borderlandbeat ELMO Chayotero will pull ELMO's chorizo out of his mouth and have something to say.

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    1. I love Almo (no homo)

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    2. 7:24:
      Kevin VanLuven loves ELMO more than you do.

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    3. Funny you say PEGASUS… same guy who used PEGASUS to murder journalists…

      Hint: Israeli Spyware

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  5. El chapo is going free i'm a lawyer from india and if they spy on chapo guzman the man is going back Home

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    1. The only way chapo is going back home is in a coffin.

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    2. He’s a drug trafficking murdering thug that will only go home when he’s too old to count or in a coffin.

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    3. 6:25
      The USA created a company and registered it in Colombia to spy on Chapo. Sorry.

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    4. 6:25 is that you Raja?
      Why in India, they don't eat cows?
      Why they let them roam around the streets, instead of the farm?
      Chapo will pay you with Rubies.

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  6. Ok so the f.b.i. is spying on mexican people but who and what they get out of it. Any good intelligence.

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    1. Yes they get lots of Intel, FBI has lots of databases.

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  7. A big nothing burger. US spies on targets all the time. That's what the intelligence agencies do.

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    1. The fbi is an investigative federal law inforcement agency and not an intelligence one, but it does have an intelligence wing.

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    2. FBI is Counter inteligence law enforcement. CIA is Intelligence gathering (abroad) civilian agency.

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  8. Biden prohibits alphabet agencies from using spyware acquired from commercial companies...but if acquired from non-commercial sources- fair game? It is all smoke and mirrors.

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