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Denton Record Chronicle
April 16, 2018
It includes the early appointments of Russia hawks such as United Nations representative Nikki Haley and Central Intelligence Agency director Pompeo; the ... double agent, the harshest ever sanctions imposed on a Russian billionaire, fresh anti-Russian appointments -- merely continue this line of actions.
Modern Diplomacy
April 16, 2018
Britain has accused Russia of carrying out an attempted assassination of the ex-double-agent Mr Skripal using a nerve agents belonging to the novichok group. Mr Skripal was found unconscious with his 33-year-old daughter on a park bench on 4 March in Salisbury, with medical staff later determining theyÃâà...
Daily Sabah
April 14, 2018
Current CIA director and secretary of state nominee Mike Pompeo faced a barrage of questions from members of the Senate Foreign Relations ... The current director of the Central Intelligence Agency, who will take the place of Rex Tillerson if confirmed, said he intended to achieve U.S. President DonaldÃâà...
TheBlaze.com
April 9, 2018
The CIA could give former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, new identities in the United States, according to a report in the Sunday Times. “The obvious place to resettle them is in America, because they're less likely to be killed there and it's easier to protect them there under aÃâà...
RT
April 8, 2018
Former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia will be offered relocation to the US or one of its allied countries under new aliases, according to Sunday Times, citing intelligence sources. “They will be offered new identities,” a senior government official said, adding that MI6 and the CIA wereÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 8, 2018
Britain's Foreign Office had no comment on the report, the Sunday Times said. Former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, were exposed to a potent nerve toxin and found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury, in southern England, on March 4. Doctors at Salisbury District HospitalÃâà...
SFGate
March 28, 2018
In response to Russia's poisoning of a former double agent in the United Kingdom, the U.S. expelled Russian officers on Monday. The provision of arms to Ukraine, indicated a ... “I think he is afraid of the president of Russia,” former CIA Director John Brennan recently speculated. “The Russians may haveÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
March 28, 2018
The stated pretext for this action is the murky affair involving the poisoning of the former Russian spy and British double agent Sergei Skripal and his adult ... Finally, Russian—and Iranian—support for the government of President Bashar al-Assad has stymied the seven-year-old CIA-backed war forÃâà...
Voice of America
March 28, 2018
“Western expulsions have never crippled Russian intelligence collection,” says John Sipher, who retired in 2014 after a 28-year career in the CIA's ... to this general rule — famously British intelligence secured a job easily at the Observer newspaper for double-agent Kim Philby in the 1950s when his MI6Ãâà...
OZY
March 28, 2018
This week, the United States and dozens of other countries joined the United Kingdom in expelling more than 100 Russian diplomats, in the wake of the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal. To better understand the ramifications of that decision, we turn to former CIA director and OZY seniorÃâà...
Tuscaloosa News
March 27, 2018
Britain has yet to identify the assassin who tried to murder the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England. ... A veteran intelligence agent, he knows that no rival intel agency such as the CIA or MI6 would trade spies with Russia if the Kremlin were to go about killing them afterÃâà...
Macau Business
March 27, 2018
Further, our previous efforts to kick out diplomats has done little to change Kremlin behaviour,” said former CIA officer John Sipher, who served in Moscow and ran the agency's Russia operations. U.S. officials said the scale of the expulsions was based not only on the expansion of Russian espionage in theÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 24, 2018
The CIA drew up intricate plans to take out Patrice Lumumba of the Congo; he was to be killed with a lethal virus, but Lumumba was brutally murdered ... The attack on the Russian spy who had been sent to the United Kingdom in exchange for a British double agent has caused a great furor in the West.
Shortlist
March 23, 2018
Was it a coincidence that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson got fired the day after he said that Russia was 'clearly' to blame for the Soviet Union nerve agent used to poison ex-double agent Sergei Skripal earlier this month? Now, an ex-CIA director has hinted that perhaps Russia could hold something overÃâà...
Press Herald
March 18, 2018
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, right, on Thursday views the area in Salisbury, England, where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and ... CIA Director and Secretary of State-designee Mike Pompeo has called for Snowden's execution – not in Russia, but by bringing him home, giving him aÃâà...
Business Standard
March 17, 2018
What's your idea of a female spy? A smouldering double agent? A ruthless femme fatale as good at seducing men as she is at putting a bullet through them? Or a chilling tactician, a high priestess of spydom, who presides over lesser spooks and stops at nothing to get the job done? Well, popular cultureÃâà...
Daily Telegraph
March 15, 2018
Known by the codename Top Hat, among others, General Dmitri Polyakov revealed a stream of important secrets that gave the CIA some of their biggest ... What wasn't known then was that FBI operative and double agent Robert Hanssen had already alerted the KGB that Polyakov was working for them.
SFGate
March 13, 2018
Russia rejected a British ultimatum to come clean over a suspected chemical weapon attack on its former double agent in the U.K. as it braced for threatened ... in a tweet that Tillerson had been removed from his post, to be replaced by Mike Pompeo, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
New Statesman
March 11, 2018
Take the case of Humam al-Balawi, the Jordanian double agent who set up a meeting with his CIA handlers in December 2009 to brief them on a supposed intelligence breakthrough. Balawi, a doctor, claimed to have been appointed as the personal physician to Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man, theÃâà...
The Sun
March 10, 2018
Skripal shared information with with MI5 and other allies including the CIA, which undermined a key sector of Russian intelligence as Putin was on the rise. He did not expose large numbers of “illegals”, Russian spies working undercover in the West, but did go as far as exposing the identities of hundreds ofÃâà...
Yahoo Sports
March 9, 2018
... says the CIA's former station chief in Moscow. Daniel Hoffman, who served in Russia during the early years of the Obama administration and arranged the 2010 spy swap that freed the victim of the attack, Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, discusses the bizarre case in this week's episode of the YahooÃâà...
Task & Purpose
March 6, 2018
Months before war was declared, a covert team of CIA paramilitaries and Green Berets slipped unnoticed into northern Iraq. They surveyed the battlespace, struck a .... Wise to the plan, the Americans successfully apprehended a half a dozen double-agents or more. “I've lost track of the number,” FaddisÃâà...
Newsweek
March 2, 2018
As Rossini told Newsweek in January 2015, he and another FBI agent discovered that the CIA knew that two of the future hijackers were already in the U.S. But the agency kept that information from the FBI, possibly in hopes of recruiting the terrorists as double agents. Newsweek spoke with Rossini, nowÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
March 1, 2018
When 20th Century Fox optioned Red Sparrow in 2013, it purchased the rights to a story that deliberately avoided spy-movie tropes: Jason Matthews' debut novel features long scenes of spies walking around cities to throw off tails, gaining new sources' trusts and trying to turn agents into double agents inÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
February 24, 2018
The JFK files also reveal that Castro's own spy network of double agents and sympathizers within Florida undermined the CIA's efforts and helped keep the communist leader from harm. ... murder Castro. Like a good double agent, Cain also volunteered with the CIA to spy on Cuban exiles living in Chicago.
The Nation.
December 31, 1999
An anti-Russia smokescreen may prevent the truth of the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal from ever being known. ... Police in protective suits at The Maltings shopping center, where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were found critically ill, as theÃâà...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
British Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday that Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent for the British who was poisoned last week along with his daughter, was likely the victim of a Russian assassination attempt. The Russian government is demanding proof, and the high stakes internationalÃâà...
The Times
December 31, 1999
Agent, double agent, convict, intelligence asset and assassination target. Veteran of the Russian spy service, ... The intelligence gleaned from Forthwith was parcelled up, its origin carefully disguised, and shared with allies, notably the CIA, on a need-to-know basis. Intelligence sources say that althoughÃâà...
euronews
December 31, 1999
On Monday, former Exxon Mobil chief executive Tillerson blamed Moscow for the poisonings in England of a former Russian double agent and his daughter. Earlier, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders refrained from saying Russia was responsible. A senior White House official said Trump askedÃâà...
The Tribune
December 31, 1999
Month on, poisoned Russian former double agent's daughter discharged from hospital. AddThis Sharing ... Over the weekend, it emerged that the UK's intelligence officials are in talks with the CIA over the possible repatriation of the Skripals to the US or another friendly country for their safety. The duo isÃâà...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
Both the U.S. and Russia have also expelled diplomats from each other's countries in recent weeks over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent on British soil, which has been blamed on Russia, a claim the Russian government disputes as a Western plot to defame their country. Pompeo will alsoÃâà...
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