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Center For American Progress
March 30, 2018
“Beirut” is a 2018 critically acclaimed action thriller set in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. In 1972 Beirut, American diplomat Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm) hosts a cocktail party that ends with a tragic terrorist attack. Ten years later, CIA operatives (Rosamund Pike and Dean Norris) are caught in the crossfire of the civil warÃâà...
UConn Daily Campus
March 27, 2018
During the Bush years, Haspel oversaw a black site in Thailand where CIA operatives regularly waterboarded prisoners. In 2005, she destroyed video recordings of the torture which was performed under her watch. Thanks to an executive order from Barack Obama and a bipartisan ban issued by CongressÃâà...
Daily Journal
March 27, 2018
WASHINGTON — In ordering the largest mass expulsion of Russian diplomats ever, the U.S. and its allies have upped the ante in an East-West spy game that dates to the Cold War and cast light on an unspoken but widespread practice in the cloak-and-dagger world: sending operatives abroad underÃâà...
The Republic
March 27, 2018
WASHINGTON — In ordering the largest mass expulsion of Russian diplomats ever, the U.S. and its allies have upped the ante in an East-West spy game that dates to the Cold War and cast light on an unspoken but widespread practice in the cloak-and-dagger world: sending operatives abroad underÃâà...
Radio New Zealand
March 5, 2018
A man who is critically ill after being exposed to an unknown substance in Wiltshire is a Russian national convicted of spying for Britain, the BBC understands. Sergei Skripal was one of four prisoners released by Moscow in exchange for 10 US spies in 2010, as part of a swap. He was later flown to the UK.
The Sun
February 22, 2018
JEREMY CORBYN was monitored by the CIA over his links with a Marxist trade union, it emerged today. The Labour boss went to a conference in El Salvador hosted by the far-left Fenastras union. Jeremy Corbyn was linked to a radical trade union in the 1980s. UPP:Universal Pictorial Press and Agency. 3.
U.S. News & World Report
February 22, 2018
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, wearing a military uniform, gestures as he delivers a speech during the 67th founding anniversary of the First Scout Ranger regiment in San Miguel town, Bulacan province, north of Manila, Philippines November 24, 2017. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco Reuters. MANILAÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 21, 2018
North Korean soldiers stand at their watchtower in February, 2016 on the banks of the Yalu River in the North Korean town of Sinuiju. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images). For the past several years, humanitarian groups and nongovernmental organizations have combed commercial satellite imagery inÃâà...
NPR
February 11, 2018
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg about his story on the U.S. government's bungled attempt to reclaim stolen cybersecurity weapons from Russian operatives. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A Russian operative, a suitcase full of cash, a secret meeting inÃâà...
The Japan Times
February 9, 2018
WASHINGTON – A Russian promising to turn over stolen hacking tools and compromising information on President Donald Trump fleeced American spies for $100,000 last year, The New York Times reported Friday. In a story worthy of a John le Carre novel that included secret handovers of USB drives inÃâà...
New York Times
February 9, 2018
BERLIN — After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump, according to American andÃâà...
NBCNews.com
January 19, 2018
A man (right, wearing blue tie) identified by local Hong Kong media as former CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee stands in front of a member of security at the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi' painting at the Christie's showroom in Hong Kong on on Oct. 13, 2017.Anthony Wallace / AFP - GettyÃâà...
Infosecurity Magazine
December 31, 1999
Kremlin hackers were responsible for cyber-attacks targeting the Winter Olympics in South Korea earlier this month, according to US intelligence. The unnamed sources told the Washington Post that the operatives most likely work for the Russian military agency GRU's Main Center for Special TechnologyÃâà...
