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“She Tortured Just for the Sake of Torture”
CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on Trump’s New CIA Pick Gina Haspel.
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British 15-year-old gained access to intelligence operations by pretending to be head of CIA, court hears
A 15-year-old gained access to plans for intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be the head of the CIA to gain access to his computers, a court has heard.
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70 Years of Disinformation: How the CIA Funded Opinion Magazines in Europe
When an intelligence agency arranges to disseminated fake news it is called “disinformation” and it is a subset of what is referred to as covert action, basically secret operations run in a foreign country to influence opinion or to disrupt the...
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Documents Reveal the Complex Legacy of James Angleton, CIA Counterintelligence Chief and Godfather of Mass Surveillance
James Angleton was a conspiracy theorist with state power who had a profound impact on America’s secret government.
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Destroy terror 'safe havens' or else US will: CIA tells Pakistan
In a stern warning to Pakistan, the CIA chief has said if Islamabad does not eliminate terrorist "safe havens" in its territory, the US will do "everything" it can to destroy them. The statement by CIA Director Mike Pompeo came ahead of US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis's visit to Islamabad where he will persuade Pakistan to support the new US strategy on Afghanistan. The Trump administration is sending mixed signals to its estranged ally, Dawn reported.
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CIA releases Bin Laden diary and videos
Osama Bin Laden's personal diary, video of his son Hamza's wedding and documentaries about himself were among files found on the al-Qaeda leader's computer, the CIA has revealed. Nearly half a million of the files have been released, the fourth such tranche. Bin Laden's computer was taken during the 2011 US raid in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad in which he died.
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Bin Laden's sick plot to kill Prince Harry in Iraq during army stint revealed
Newly declassified CIA files show how Osama bin Laden kept files on Prince Harry's planned Army mission to Iraq. And one expert believes the 9/11 mastermind - shot dead by US Navy SEALS in 2011 - was plotting to murder the royal during his military duties in the Middle East.
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Hitler may have escaped Germany for South America, say CIA memos from the JFK files
It’s regarded as a historical fact that Adolf Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945, when it became increasingly clear that Nazi Germany would fall to Allied forces. But a handful of recently-declassified CIA documents, unveiled with the highly anticipated JFK files last week, show that the Central Intelligence Agency was investigating whether Hitler escaped from Europe and was hiding in Colombia in 1954.
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Judge rebukes handling of JFK records
The federal judge who oversaw the collection of government documents on John F. Kennedy's assassination called it "disappointing" that President Donald Trump is holding back so many of the records while the CIA, FBI and other agencies review them. "I just don't think there is anything in these records that require keeping them secret now," John Tunheim, who from 1992 to 1998 chaired a congressionally established board that reviewed all the files on the assassination...
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JFK Files: CIA Plotted To Kill Castro, Stage Bombings In Miami
The CIA mulled mafia hits on Cuban President Fidel Castro. Someone called the FBI threatening to kill Lee Harvey Oswald a day before Oswald’s murder. And the US examined sabotaging airplane parts heading to Cuba. These assertions are some of many unearthed in newly revealed government documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Bomb-sniffing dog fired from CIA after she loses interest in finding explosives
bomb-sniffing dog has been fired from the CIA after she lost interest in finding explosives. Lulu the labrador started out as a promising recruit in the latest intake of puppies for the US intelligence agency's training programme. Then, according to the agency, a few weeks later she started showing signs she was no longer interested in “detecting explosive odours”. Lulu's handlers tried to work out what was affecting her, as puppies can go through periods where they lose focus in their training.
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Trump plans to release JFK assassination documents despite concerns from federal agencies
President Trump announced Saturday morning that he planned to release the tens of thousands of never-before-seen documents left in the files related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination held by the National Archives and Records Administration. “Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,” Trump tweeted early Saturday.
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CIA ‘working to take down’ WikiLeaks threat, agency chief says
The head of the CIA lumped WikiLeaks with al Qaeda and the Islamic State and said his agency is working toward reducing the “enormous threat” posed by each of them. CIA Director Mike Pompeo placed the antisecrecy website in the same category as terrorist organizations while speaking Thursday at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies’ National Security Summit in D.C.
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C.I.A. Wants Authority to Conduct Drone Strikes in Afghanistan for the First Time
The C.I.A. is pushing for expanded powers to carry out covert drone strikes in Afghanistan and other active war zones, a proposal that the White House appears to favor despite the misgivings of some at the Pentagon, according to current and former intelligence and military officials. If approved by President Trump, it would mark the first time the C.I.A. has had such powers in Afghanistan, expanding beyond its existing authority to carry out covert strikes against Al Qaeda and other terrorist targets across the border in Pakistan.
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Creators of the CIA's 'enhanced interrogation' program to face trial
A civil lawsuit brought by three victims of the CIA’s torture program against the two psychologists who created it will go to court on 5 September in Washington state, after a judge ruled that more than a year of discovery had yielded sufficient evidence to support the plaintiffs’ claims.
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Lessons from the CIA’s classified guide to good writing
The CIA, like all government agencies, produces a huge amount of paperwork. Faced with this quantity of paper, the CIA published a classified collection of essays that was aimed at improving the literary quality of the documents that the Agency was creating.
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EXCLUSIVE: Documents expose how Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA
Tom Secker and Matthew Alford report on their astonishing findings from trawling through thousands of new US military and intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents reveal for the first time the vast scale of US government control in Hollywood, including the ability to manipulate scripts or even prevent films too critical of the Pentagon from being made — not to mention influencing some of the most popular film franchises in recent years.
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Wikileaks Unveils 'Cherry Blossom' — Wireless Hacking System Used by CIA
WikiLeaks has published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, this time detailing a framework – which is being used by the CIA for monitoring the Internet activity of the targeted systems by exploiting vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi devices. Dubbed "Cherry Blossom," the framework was allegedly designed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the help of Stanford Research Institute (SRI International), an American nonprofit research institute, as part of its ‘Cherry Bomb’ project.
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China killed or imprisoned CIA spies from 2010 to 2012: Report
Chinese authorities murdered or imprisoned as many as 20 CIA sources in a massive breach which damaged US intelligence gathering in China.
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Guantánamo prisoner to testify about CIA torture ahead of 9/11 trial
The Guantánamo detainee known as Abu Zubaydah, who was subjected to prolonged torture at CIA black sites, is expected to give testimony for the first time next week at a pre-trial hearing convened under the military commission system. The hearing, originally scheduled for Wednesday but then postponed, is the precursor to a long-delayed military trial at which five Guantánamo prisoners on war crimes charges related to the 9/11 attacks face the death penalty.
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