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Is cloud computing secure enough for spies? CIA bets on Amazon
Intelligence agencies do more than just spy on you in the cloud. Some, like the CIA, use the cloud for their own purposes.
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A court case so secret, US Govt says it can't go on
Imagine that someone has wronged you, and you sue them. Then the Government magically appears in court and asks that your suit be dismissed because, for reasons it won't tell you, state secrets might be dredged up in the course of the litigation. You have no idea what they're talking about. But after secret discussions with the judge from which both you and the defendant are excluded, the court dismisses your suit.
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CIA's Jeffrey Sterling Sentenced to 42 Months for Leaking to New York Times Journalist
Alexandria, VA — Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent convicted of sharing classified information with a New York Times reporter, was sentenced today to three and a half years in prison, a significantly shorter term than had been expected. Sterling’s lawyers had asked the judge not to abide by sentencing guidelines calling for 19 to 24 years behind bars.
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The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google. Now they won’t tell us why
"We can neither confirm nor deny..." By Yasha Levine.
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John Kiriakou, CIA officer turned whistleblower, shares his story
Now out of prison, Kiriakou is trying to return to a normal life.
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How the CIA Really Won Hearts and Minds
In ‘Patriotic Betrayal,’ author Karen M. Paget meticulously documents the agency’s long infiltration of student groups around the world. But she avoids the most important question: Why?
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China feared CIA worked with Sheldon Adelson's Macau casinos to snare officials
China feared that casinos in Macau owned by the billionaire gambling magnate and Republican party funder Sheldon Adelson were used by US intelligence agents to entrap and blackmail Chinese officials, according to a “highly confidential” report for the gambling industry. The report, by a private investigator in 2010, said that Beijing believed US-owned establishments in the former Portuguese colony were working in league with the CIA.
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Postcards From the Edge of Consciousness
Sensory deprivation goes from CIA torture manuals to a yoga studio near you.
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What Makes a Man Betray His Country?
How a troubled past turned a Soviet military engineer into one of the CIA’s most valuable spies. By David E. Hoffman.
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How to explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents in the field?
As the Cold War drew to a close with the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, those at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, finally hoped to resolve many long-standing puzzles. The most important of which was how officers in the field under diplomatic and deep cover stationed across the globe were readily identified by the KGB. As a consequence, covert operations had to be aborted as local agents were pinpointed...
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The CIA paid Vietnam War spies by ordering them stuff from Sears
In Sep. 1966, Jon Wiant, an American CIA operative, arrived in Hue, Vietnam, to head a bilateral operation with South Vietnamese intelligence. The plan involved running assets in and out of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese “secret zones” along the border with Laos. These assets—a mix of mountain agrarians and indigenous Montagnard (or Degar) people—were the CIA’s “eyes and ears on the ground,” Wiant wrote in an article for a 1994 edition of...
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CIA Debunks Gowdy’s Allegation That Clinton Email Contained Classified CIA Source
Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy to correct the public record after the CIA debunked Chairman Gowdy’s accusation that Secretary Clinton sent an email containing "some of the most protected information in our intelligence community, the release of which could jeopardize not only national security but human lives.”
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CIA boss John Brennan's personal email 'hacked'
US authorities are investigating reports that CIA Director John Brennan's personal email account has been hacked by a high-school student. The alleged hacker told the New York Post that he had found work-related files such as Mr Brennan's application for a top security clearance.
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The CIA’s Torture Defenders
An all-star cast teams up to spin their enhanced interrogation regime. By Philip Giraldi.
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Homeland, Snowden and fictional defences of the CIA
The battle for public opinion over whether Edward Snowden was right might just be won out, not in the press or the US Congress, but in fiction.
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Secret CIA documents show the 9 best ways to annoy your boss
Your annoying colleagues might actually be CIA spies, according to recently-released documents from the US agency. A previously secret document titled “Simple Sabotage Field Manual: Strategic Services” details the various ways that spies should work to bring down companies that they are placed in. But the sabotage techniques sound very similar to those encountered in many offices today.
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The Indonesian Massacre: What Did the US Know?
A cache of intelligence documents declassified by the CIA this fall offers a new opportunity to revisit the 1965 mass killings in Indonesia, and what the US knew about them. By Margaret Scott.
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A New Biography Traces the Pathology of Allen Dulles and His Appalling Cabal
Unless you believe we’re governed by shape-shifting space lizards, your darkest suspicions about how the world works may be an underestimate. By Jon Schwarz.
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One Year After the Senate Torture Report, No One’s Read It and It Might Be Destroyed
The 6,700-word study still has not been made publicly available, and in fact, appears to be prohibited among officials in the executive branch. By Murtaza Hussain.
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Why Does the CIA Keep Its Art Collection Secret?
Twenty-nine abstract Washington Color School paintings hang in the halls of the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. But unless you’re one of the CIA’s undisclosed number of employees, your chances of ever seeing these paintings, or even digital images of them, are pretty slim.
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