updated Fri. October 4, 2024
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The Independent
March 9, 2018
The news of President Trump agreeing to meet the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un takes me straight back to a cold February evening in 1985 in Washington. I was saying goodbye in the Tabard Inn at Dupont Circle to my friend, Christopher Hitchens, who was about to fly to Seoul along with USÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 9, 2018
Yet the list of Russian men and women targeted for assassination after falling afoul of the Kremlin includes quite a few felled by poison. The tactic sends a clear message to those thinking of defection or dissent, says Steve Hall, who up until his retirement in 2015 ran Russia operations for the CIA: “We'll findÃâà...
Spectator.co.uk
March 8, 2018
Cliff Gaddy, who deserted from a US Army Security Agency base in 1970, and may or may not have been a CIA plant all along, left Sweden just after the assassination of Palme, and joined the Washington think-tank the Brookings Institute. He later co-wrote an influential book about Vladimir Putin with theÃâà...
The Guardian
March 7, 2018
Many Russians are patriotic and have bought into the Kremlin's aggressive new foreign policy, but it is unlikely that the assassination of a former spy of whom few had heard would ... Every year Russia's top security officials speak of active attempts by the CIA and other western agencies to recruit Russians.
New York Times
March 7, 2018
One of the very first things I was taught when I joined the C.I.A. was that we do not conduct assassinations. ... with targeted killing and the dilemmas we may face in the future are beautifully illuminated by the longer story of Israel's experiences with assassination in its own endless war against terrorism.
Charlotte Observer
March 3, 2018
Those in a froth over the Russians messing with social media to influence the U.S. election seem to forget the CIA adventures abroad involving coups and assassinations. There's no harm in assembling a bid to host the Republican National Convention. Say what you will about the GOP, but they're notÃâà...
The Hindu
March 3, 2018
The 757-page book opens with the assassination of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the legendary commander of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, two days prior to the 9/11 attacks, and then takes the reader into the complex world of war, intelligence battles, political infighting, insurgency and counter-insurgencyÃâà...
Inverse
March 3, 2018
In Palace of Treason, Dominika struggles to adjust to her new job as she deals with Putin's inside men. Causing extra tension is that Dominika continues to work for the CIA, and with Nate Nash, who is still her lover. While Dominika risks being outed as a CIA insider, she also survives an assassination byÃâà...
EW.com
March 2, 2018
Playwright Tom Dugan constructed the play from a combination of interviews with Jackie's friends, innumerable biographies, CIA records, and more. But, ultimately, when setting ... Dugan wisely leaves her recollections of Dallas and the assassination for this half of the action. While some of Jackie's jumpsÃâà...
RT
March 2, 2018
Leave aside well-documented assassinations by the CIA and FBI persecution of civil-rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. Recall instead only the quality of CIA information that led President John F. Kennedy to the Bay of Pigs disaster; President Lyndon B. Johnson and Congress ever deeper intoÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
February 24, 2018
Spies, sex, Mafia hit men and James Bond-like killing devices. They sound like the stuff of an Ian Fleming novel or a movie thriller. But these are true-life details from America's first foray into the assassination business—a rather messy affair, as 007 might say. They can be found, many for the first time,Ãâà...
McClatchy Washington Bureau
February 16, 2018
The CIA again came under fire for misleading the House Select Committee on Assassinations. These missteps by the CIA, ostensibly aimed ... had actually been a CIA asset since 1956. His brother Charles was a top CIA official forced by Kennedy to resign less than a year before the assassination on Nov.
The National Interest Online (blog)
February 15, 2018
Indeed, Pyongyang's security services have demonstrated their ability to strike far from home as was shown during the assassination of Kim Jong-Nam—elder half-brother to the North Korean despot—in Malaysia. The Kim regime's intelligence apparatus is ruthless and effective and could be used to goodÃâà...
Newsweek
February 2, 2018
And former CIA operations officer Jason Matthew's experience dodging Russian KGB surveillance teams in Moscow deeply informs his Red Sparrow trilogy. Then there is the veteran Israeli espionage journalist Ronen Bergman, who has taken a slightly different angle into the shadow world of spies,Ãâà...
POLITICO Magazine
December 31, 1999
The breadth of this effort, particularly its covert elements, including the assassination of Iranian scientists, and the startling success it achieved, has never ... In support of these efforts, a quadrilateral collaboration between the CIA, the NSA, the Mossad and the Israeli military intelligence agency, AMAN, wasÃâà...
MuckRock
December 31, 1999
... Committees, and the Rockefeller Commission - President Jimmy Carter signed Executive Order 12036 on January 24th, 1978, placing additional restrictions on the Central Intelligence Agency's ability to operate in the United States … and further prohibiting the Agency from committing assassinations …
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