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“Most of what he does is so classified that regular homicide (detectives) will come up with a blank page and then a question about why you are asking,” said Fred Platt, the vice president of the local chapter of intelligence agents. “He’s here because of homeland security. The port and the airport. He knows everybody on the command staff of every agency.”

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“I can’t fathom any reason why he would be running from the police because he is the police,” Platt said. “This doesn’t make any sense. I can’t understand him running or why they opened up on him. This doesn’t smell right.”

Carnaby was fluent in many languages, family and friends say, including Arabic and French, and could have been useful in the Mideast, especially in the waning days of the Cold War.

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On the other hand, he was friends with local federal agents and they often came to the couple’s Spring home for dinner, Burch said. The couple had private dinners with the head of the Houston Port Authority, she said, and Carnaby also was close friends with former Harris County Sheriff Johnny Klevenhagen, who she said was best man at their wedding in 1986. Klevenhagen died in 1999.

The Port Authority connection could make sense for a strictly commercial reason. Carnaby’s family, which used the different spelling of Karnabe, was involved in the shipping industry, which was the apparent source of his considerable but undetermined income. He paid cash for his cars.

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He was the son of a wealthy Lebanese family that owns a shipping business, she said. She said he told her that he was born and raised in New York City.

His father, Vincent Said Carnaby, was a Lebanese ambassador to several countries, she said, and son Roland worked for the family business and often traveled for business.

Investigators and FBI and CIA officials have said they could not trace Carnaby’s connection to either agency, but family members said Carnaby had awards, pictures and books signed with several officials, including former CIA Director George Tenet and former Secretary of State James Baker. But Clark says he thought Carnaby was too talkative for an intelligence agent.

Weird Post on Closed Down Blog

The following was recovered from Google cache. It had previously appeared on a blog called, Covert Operations & Pornography at http://papparazzipress.blogspot.com.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Premel’s Intel Chief Retires

Following the first series of interviews Alan Premel gave with Channel 1 in Moscow, the first series was posted online last week and i have already seen two other additional stories which tie in with Premel and his dealings with the private firm in Houston. This is one and let me find the other.

One of the CIA’s former counter-terrorism chiefs and pioneers in covert operations, Roland Carnaby retires.
In the past few months, Mr. Carnaby, who has led a private intelligence firm in Houston, Texas has been delegating more and moredaily responsibilities to his lietenants and is completing his succession planning, say people familiar with the matter. A decision about his departure could come within weeks, though the situation remains fluid, say these people.
Alan Premel, 32 years old, whom CIA recruited in 1997 and whom Carnaby personally recruited in 2002 to work with the private intelligence firm in Houston has emerged as the leading candidate to succeed him, added these people. A spokesperson familiar with the retirement plans stated that Premel and his current worries with the US Senate over allegations and ties to the CIA’s Rendition program and his recent resignation from CIA amid a slew of disclosure cases pulls him out of the race for President and chief of such a power position within the intelligence community.
The departure of Mr. Carnaby, 52, would mean the loss of CIA’s most experienced, talented and high profile clandestine officers in management. Few executives who helped pioneer the commercialization of private intelligence and private security firms have remained on top for as long, except for some who can also claim founder titles, such as Patriot Oil, and Pan-American Shipping and Consulting Group.
Mr. Carnaby’s retirement would come at a critical point for CIA. Any efforts to reveerse the slow-down at his private firm could involve drastic changes that may be more palatable under a new CEO like Premel. Mr. Premel, at CIA, was very instrumental in many changes at CIA as a successful supervisor in the Balkans. His management experience at CIA is 25 years behind Carnaby’s but with the firm already warning investors in recent months that it will be raising fees in the absence of Mr. Carnaby.
Mr. Premel wrestled with how to reverse the declining momentum before having to exit left stage last summer from the firm after his public disclosure. The firm’s third quarter numbers, a key barometer of the firm’s health fell 63% without Premel. Before leaving he implemented some changes that were never fully set into motion causing the down-turn after his sudden departure.
The timing of Mr. Carnaby’s retirement is of his own choosing, say people familiar with the situation, unlike Premel’s pre-mature departure which came 20-years too soon say experts. Not long after he jonied CIA, Roland Carnaby declared that no one person should stay in the same cover in covert operations more than two years. A standard practice used by the firm. This philosophy has accredited the firm with a lot of success claims Mr. Premel in his interview with CNN’s David Ensor late of last year.
Under James Pavitt and Roland Carnaby, the firm has become the intelligence community’s most successful private consulting business on counter-terrorism, security consulting and intelligence gathering where they pioneered a way for private officers to carry out day to day functions in the field, relay them back to CIA, DoD, DIA or other foreign agencies. In 2004, Mr. Premel streamlined a way for collecting, compliling and disseminating vast amounts of data and breaking it down by himself. The process which is only done by one person, Mr. Premel himself is the work of what 7-9 officers would typically do.
When Carnaby and Premel shared the reigns from 2004-2007, they have delivered more than 10 consecutive quarters of sequential revenue growth. Profit increase every year and the company now has 248 licensed contract officers working for the firm globally, and $297 million in classified contracts over 5 continents. Those figures are up from the firms $18 million in 1997.
To maintain momentum, Mr. Premel, using $40 million from a settlement with CIA, purchased a private lending company in Houston as well as acquiring a private shipping business and a private internet ticketing business.
There were missteps: Last year, the firm took a $80.4 million write-down for its purchase of a private airline business in DC, Houston and Vegas. And threats loomed when recruitment of some of the firm’s top and most talented officer’s. To keep top talent, Mr. Carnaby and Mr. Premel kicked in an extra $2.4 million for salaries and bonuses to keep the firm afloat.
Mr. Carnaby has long planned for his eventual exit, say people familiar with the matter. He often rotated top officer’s into different operational roles as a way to groom potential successors and to give the board a slate of candidates from which to choose.

In his departing emails to friends, firm and CIA colleagues, Mr. Carnaby wrote how much he was pleased by the professionalism and careers of each and all of the persons who have served under him and with him during his 32-year tenure in the US Intelligence Community.

Alan Premel - Former CIA, author, artist and entrepreneur shut down by CIA

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Two months ago when the lone story of Alan Premel broke into the news thousands became fanatics about this story. Since his departure from CIA we have seen Premel on a slew of television shows defending his name and defending his former girlfriend Laura Madden, the porn star formerly known as Syvette Wimberly.

His story not only captured national and worldwide attention but it has also attracted alot of interest from Hollywood for book and movie deals. His story, can likely be comparable to that of Forest Gump. Premel's life which is littered with dozens and dozens of accolades and achievements that can only 'be compared to that of Forest Gump.

It is a wild story from traveling the world as a child, completely an art degree before graduating high school, an accomplished former professional track & field athlete on top of going into the US Marine Corps as an Electronic Surveillance Specialist with the 1st Intelligence Battalion and then moving onto 7 exciting years at CIA as a Balkan supervisor of OREA.

Forest Gump who was awarded the medal of honor was of course a fictional character but Premel is more than real life and worked in two offices in Eastern Europe during his service at CIA. Supervisor for OREA and then appointed as a supervisor for the DCI Balkan Task Force. The task force is still virtually unknown and its not really known what the functionality or operational structure and mission of this office is. one can only assume it is to thwart terrorist activities in eastern europe, and collect intel on radicals.

Premel has several claims to fame from professional track athlete, invented a satelite system in college that started the revolution and evolution of DVR where, Premel and another college friend were the original pioneers of DVR and the system was going to be originally called 'Premel', he is known for two comic strips that he put out while at CIA and was known as the covert comic and Godspy, and his crowning moment was being awarded both the 'Intelligence Star' and the CIA's highest honor, 'the Distinguished Intelligence Cross'.

Now, starting over with a new life in Houston Texas, Alan Premel has embarked on a media blitz in the past couple of months and is creating several books and television show ideas for his followers and supporters.

At CIA, Premel was involved in a tumultuous 4 year long lawsuit with CIA and the FBI where Premel sued for a $41 million settlement. In late November 2005, Alan Premel was awarded an undisclosed amount for his wrongful termination suit against CIA.

With all of it behind him he started dating former Porn Star Syvette Wimberly which broke his name in the news when Premel came forward on the record to defend her. Force to leave his office as an analytical role Premel finally stepped away from the Intelligence Community in July 2007.

His public relations blitzkrieg had him on CNN, he sat with National Security Correspondent David Ensor, faced the nation on the O'Reilly Factor and has done over a dozen interviews online and has done internet forums with CIA fans through chat forums.

With mega stardom in his sights Premel is relentless to give up on his goals and dreams. He is speaking with Nickelodeon on a possible cartoon series for his comic 'Patches & Cinders', he has already in advance written 30 childrens books and has his own screenplay ready for a spy love story rumored to be entitled 'Way of the Ghost'.

Aside from dating a former pornstar Premel has enjoyed the lime light and Hollywood A-list life through a number of celebs from dating both Rachel McAdams and Paris Hilton, already has a reality show inked and ready for early 2008 which they are about to start filming will host actor and comedian Jamie Kennedy opposite of Premel and Hilton in a brand new reality show.

The leading candidate to play Premel in his screenplay 'Way of the Ghost' is Leonardo DiCaprio and an unknown actress that Premel only describes as Kelli-D. In addition to the reality show which is slated for early 2008, Premel has also signed a lucrative contract with Barnes and Noble stores to speak on CIA and Spies.

Premel stories are being feverishly pulled and shut down from the internet from both CIA and CNN. Premels story already has the Hollywood and major motion picture companies offering up amounts from $2-7 for his story for a made for tv movie and figures $13-20 million overall for all of the rights to all of his writing and movie ideas.

Premel, during his career at CIA served as an advisor along with Bob Baer on the movie 'Syriana' and recently was an insider on 'Rendition'. With controversy abound and not one officer wanting to come on the record about CIA's activities and covert action concerning Extraordinary Rendition but Premel has not been afraid to speak his mind on it.

As we look to the future we can only wait with anticipation to see what entertainment a former CIA can serve up. He is reported to be a very humorous and hysterical person with a great sense of humor. So coupled with the fact that he is running around the world with Jamie Kennedy and Paris Hilton the show ought to be a hysterical success.
mood: wishful

Alan Premel Speaks to Senate Oversight

I had received an email notifying me that i am able to start up this blog again after it was shut down.

I had done some postings on CIA and the account was locked down. I dont know if it was just CIA in general or in lew of Premel the former CIA in stories about him. I have not written about him due

Sunday, February 3, 2008
Ex Spy Premel used Sabbatical

One morning in the late stages of 2005, Alan Premel awoke in a pitch-black hotel room. The then, executive pay grade private security consultant knew he needed to see home, US soil and his family. Instead he had 3 weeks left on a tour through 3 far flung cities overseas in Europe for the Central Intelligence Agency. Premel, just recently seperated from his wife of 3 years received a phone call from his family that his mother was diagnosed with Breast Cancer.
For several minutes, he didn't know where he was or what awaited him.

"It did not bode well with me and my work," Mr. Premel thought to humself. His mothers cancer news proved a blessing in disguise. With constant travel and 60-hour weeks pushing him close to burnout, the 30 year old civilian contractor for CIA, decided he needed a sabbatical.

Mr. Premel pursued an elaborate self improvement scheme for himself as well as sharpening the will and strength of his mother back home in Texas who was about to undergo chemo therapy for the first time. His professional focus was to be put on hold during what CIA and Premel thought would be an eight-month break, which ended in April 2007. "I'm a better consultant, intelligence officer and analyst today because of it. It enabled me to become more balanced. I got involved with Stratfor.com at home and was able to do contract report writing at home as well as continue to help run a private firm which we ran out of Houston from a laptop. it gave me more perspective on how to run things and to do it on my own." The 32-year old contractor analyst now toils about 20 hours a week with the Intelligence Community after publicly being outed from CIA this past summer in 2007. And works another 20 hours a week with Federal Express Corporation for benefits while juggling two small business's in his own time away from those projects with Intelligence Kids and Intelligence Mogul. Both endeavors are philanthropic outreaches to the community where Mr. Premel is very involved as a leader in several communities.

His private trust fund, the Alan Premel Trust Fund is responsible for providing a mengerie of services, equipment and opportunties to the community from supplies, clothing, financial aid, playgrounds and this past Christmas sponsored 123 familes for Christmas. Now, Mr. Premel with his acquisition of Aspyr Global, a Private Intelligence firm in Houston is wanting to step up and spend more time getting involved with the company where we expressed he would only be a (VC) venture capitalist and investor in the newly formed company.

A sabbatical can enhance your career, especially if you are in the CIA and you acquire the valuable skills, experience and insights. Extended breaks allow for personal goals. During my time talking with Mr. Premel, it allowed him to focus on his mother's cancer treatment, putting together a number of private companies and inventions which he is working on aside from a comic strip which has been out of circulation for several years. He slowed down his travel which was around 95% less but in other sabbatical cases it allows the individual to travel more and to research. As an Intelligence analyst, a sabbatical proved to be very helpful for Alan Premel. A look at Mr. Premel's playbook offers helpful moves to follow and missteps to avoid.

Sabbaticals are attracting greater attention these days from the nation's frazzled and disengaged workforce, according to Dan Clements, who co-wrote "escape 101: Sabbaticals Made Simple." He took five in 15 years. About 16% of U.S. employers offered unpaid sabbaticals and 4% gave paid ones in 2007, The Society for Human Resource Management reports. CIA is a major proponent to using sabbaticals, especially in the Clandestine Service, where Premel formerly was not only a covert operator but a supervisor. High Stress and life threatening situations occur everyday pushing the officer to the edge and most times over. Suicides at CIA are up 500%. And when Premel got hit head on with divorce, depression, a mothers cancer and mid level management stress at CIA, he approached CIA Human Resources with the decision on where to go and what to do.

Premel for example, participated in what was called the Future Leave program, launched a month before he enquired about paid leave. Professionals with three years' service may take up to five-years unpaid leave and return to their positions with benefits and guaranteed re-employment. A successful sabbatical requires thoughtful planning. "You are taking a courageous risk," notes Stephanie Smith, a New York executive coach. "Make sure the return on that risk is worth it."

Mr. Premel spent months preparing to temporarily abandon his stressful job. Working hard was nothing new. He had accumulated more than 25 weeks of unused vacation by late 2007, when Premel bought Aspyr Global Intelligence, a CIA sub contract firm. Premel's own quasi CIA, where he is not only his own director, boss, but he is also master of his own universe. Mr. Premel loved the big-company feel that CIA had but disliked the new Intelligence take-over that was implemented by the creation of the NIC which now oversees CIA. "Now, the number of people i meet with and work with to maintain order and meet numbers is dramtically reduced and its what i felt was needed," he explains.

"At CIA, i served 15 agencies outside of CIA and in conjunction with 27 governments in Eastern Europe multiplied by the number of agencies involved and officers on the ground and at headquarters made for not only a busy schedule but a headache daily. Suddenly, I am busier servicing all 16 agencies in the Intelligence Community and some outside firms and government contractors so i deal with 22 entities now. But the time and needs are down since i am dealing with one person at each one instead of hundreds of people in the field," he adds. Mr. Premel, a former USA Track & Field professional athlete reduced his exercise regimen and regained half of the 30 pounds he had recently shed from his divorce and his 5-foot-9-inch frame.

In November 2005, Mr. Premel informed associates and CIA management about his paid sabbatical set to start the following February. He was unsure how long how long he would be gone and even if he would return. "How do i get my passion back?"

He felt ready to relinquish a professional position of 5 years at CIA. Yet he couldn't let go entirely; so he occassionally advised and reported for Stratfor on the Balkans during his break. Mr. Premel drafted a "Sabbatical Framework." It was a one-page blue-print that described four ideal states (calm, comfort, sharing, enjoyment) followed by intended actions and outcomes for his body, mind and soul. Actions ranged from exploring teaching, to getting involved in his two new businesses, and attending movie premieres and getting certified as a movie critic to eventually write a column along with his comic which will be done through the Washington Post Writers Group and Nickelodeon Kids Magazine.

To improve his body, Mr. Premel spent a week a month traveling and at each stop he made sure the resort had a health spa. Then Premel engaged in relaxation, massages, yoga, running on the beach, drawing, jewelry-making and at home while moving back in with his parents to assist his mother with cancer, he learned how to make candles. Later, he he made it a habit to walk every day as well as read and taking his 5 year old black lab Chauncey on daily walks. He lost 10 pounds.

Professionally, he explored teaching part time and spoke at Texas A&M University at the School of Political Affairs with former President George H Bush and at high schools through Texas, Florida and Virginia. He became an avid speaker at Langley high school and wanted to bridge the gap for students whose parents were CIA officers and help them better understand the situations in which many students lived. He also invested $2,125,000 in two young and unprofitable businesses ("I wanted to put myself in an uncomfortable position and try new things," he says), and helped start the Kingwood Junior Olympics program, in the suburb where he lived, and competed again in the US Memoriad (memory olympics), where Mr. Premel represented the state of Texas. He says the memory olympics and junior olympics helped him realize he should focus on what he did best - Dedicating time to children and having it to do with memory or intelligence. So he developed more events and things to do with Intelligence Kids.

He negotiated his re-entry with CIA which accepted his demands. But the day he returned to his job he felt letdown. "My job felt un-important, unstimulating, and was just boring," Premel told CNN's David Ensor in September 2007. Mr. Premel's long time business mentor told him that it would pass and right about that time Alan Premel's name was released into the media where he was publicly defending a girlfriend in a lawsuit. She was a former adult address who made a name for herself in adult flicks and Mr. Premel was a spy. So in the end when he was going to credit the sabbatical for clearing up his mind, along came a spider and sat down beside him.

Also during his interview with CNN, Mr. Premel was asked about losing CIA over a porn star who he is no longer in a relationship with and he said, "the experience allowed me to re-evaluate my position at CIA, gave me a way out, and allowed me to correct any mis-judgments concerning her in the media with her name." Alan Premel went on to explain to me that he supports sabbaticals and believed it allowed him to deal with circumstances in life that were unexpected at the same time as give him the security of knowing he could return some day to that position. Overall, Mr. Premel was not allowed to return directly to his job since his name publicly came out and has since resigned from service at CIA.

Mr. Premel stronly urges to consider a sabbatical leave as an option if you are an executive and you feel it is necessary to do so. It is also important to know that at the same time he requested a sabbatical leave from CIA he was awarded an undisclosed sum in December 2005 from a four-year long lawsuit against CIA. So it afforded him the luxury at 30 years old to take time away.
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Even as far back as October, i can remember the news reporting with the Pakistani elections that Musharraf and Bhutto both running for President.

Musharrar, at the time, asked Bhutto, now deceased, but then the Prime Minister if she would like to share power as a President. She was returning from Exile and he then at the time in late October encouraged her to delay her trip home. Its funny that months later we know that she was killed during an explosion while entering her limosine.

I do not believe the Bullshit about her hitting her head being pushed into the car by a bodyguard. She was assassinated, its sad and we all need to start waking up. Musharraf needs to be removed from office.
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Supposedly the picture posted above by AlienSpaceBat is of him with Jamie Kennedy (at least that is how it's labeled). Obviously bullshit

01:45 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 6, 2008

KHOU.com staff report

HOUSTON -- Family members of Roland Carnaby said they had a private burial service Monday for the man killed by Houston police last week. Almost a week after the Pearland man led Houston police on a high-speed chase that ended is his death, his life of still a mystery.

Carnaby claimed to have been a CIA operative, an assertion that has yet to be positively refuted, but doubted by investigators.

"... Jorj X. McKie, an employee of the Bureau of Sabotage. BuSab is a government agency responsible for conducting dirty tricks "in lieu of red tape" to help slow down and regulate the vast galaxy-spanning bureaucracy of the ConSentiency (under BuSab rules the Secretary of the agency retains his position until he himself is sabotaged).

The writing in the Premel pieces is SO bad (look who's talking, though, eh?) that it not only seems very unlikely as real, professional work, but also seems meant to be 'jokey'.

The idea someone was pranking him 'fits' for me noot just because of the above, but also because he (or someone claiming to be him) went around trying to clean up the mess: get himself removed from blogs, etc.

I'd say the rest of it is probably a customized cut and paste job from other sources too.