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The Courier-Journal
April 26, 2018
As a CIA agent, Haspel was involved in brutal interrogations of al Qaeda operatives as well as the destroying interrogation tapes of Osama Bin Laden's officers, Abu Zubaydah, according to Politico. She was later cleared by the CIA of any wrongdoing. Haspel — born in Ashland and a University of LouisvilleÃâà...
CNET
April 25, 2018
Spies are just like the rest of us: Robots are gunning for their jobs too. According to a CNN report, today's CIA agents are more likely to be tracked electronically than tailed by real people. Worse, this surveillance is constant, since machines can work around the clock. And the threat of cyberspies is far fromÃâà...
CNET
April 25, 2018
Robots are gunning for human spy jobs too. A report Monday by The Next Web asserts that the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) has been exploring AI (artificial intelligence) for decades. Apparently the agency flagged the potential usefulness of automated, electronic spy-craft carried out by computersÃâà...
TNW
April 24, 2018
Dawn Meyerriecks, the Agency's deputy director for technology development, recently told an audience at an intelligence conference in Florida the CIA was adapting to a new landscape where its primary adversary is a machine, not a foreign agent. Meyerriecks, speaking to CNN after the conference, saidÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 24, 2018
CIA science & technology deputy director Dawn Meyerriecks says the agency faces a number of problems related to closed-circuit cameras, social media, smartphones and other wireless technology which have made it possible for its agents to get tracked by adversaries from behind a computer screen.
Gizmodo
April 22, 2018
A British teenager who gained notoriety for hacking a number of high profile United States government employees including former CIA director John Brennan and former director of intelligence ... The group also published the contact information of more than 2,000 federal and local law enforcement agents.
The Bakersfield Californian
April 22, 2018
I was then a covert CIA ops officer. Joe and I were subjected to years of character assassination. Libby was the only administration aide indicted in connection with the leak of my identity, but the special prosecutor on the case, Patrick Fitzgerald, noted "a cloud over the office of the vice president" at the trial'sÃâà...
WGN Radio
April 21, 2018
Decorated ex-CIA agent Bob Baer outlines a terrifying relationship between Russia and Syria ... Former CIA agent stationed in Syria and the inspiration for the film Syriana, Bob Baer joins Roe Conn and Anna Davlantes to analyze the future of hostilities in Syria and the scary tactics Russia uses to imposeÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 21, 2018
“It's completely unacceptable for the CIA to declassify only material that's favourable to Gina Haspel, while at the same time stonewalling our efforts to declassify all documents related to her involvement in the torture programme,” Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said. “Senators and the public need toÃâà...
KCRA Sacramento
April 13, 2018
President Donald Trump issued a pardon Friday to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former top aide to ex-Vice President Dick Cheney who was convicted in the leak of a CIA operative's identity. Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, was convicted of lying to investigators and obstruction of justice following the 2003Ãâà...
PolitiFact
April 12, 2018
An online hoax claiming a CIA agent admitted committing a series of assassinations including Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe has resurfaced. "Dying 78 year old CIA agent admits to killing Marilyn Monroe" read the headline on Science Vibe, a website that claims to share stories from scientificÃâà...
CNBC
April 6, 2018
Want to be a CIA agent? Here's how to become a spy. 8:11 AM ET Fri, 6 April 2018. CNBC's Kate Roger visits CIA headquarters to see what it takes to work for the storied spy agency. Watch CNBC Live TVÃâà...
The Durango Herald
April 5, 2018
President Donald Trump's steadfast reluctance to say anything negative about Russia is so striking that a former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, once observed that Vladimir Putin manages Trump as if he were a Russian intelligence “asset.” He may be. But if I were a Russian citizen, I'd beÃâà...
New York Times
April 4, 2018
President Trump's steadfast reluctance to say anything negative about Russia is so striking that a former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, once observed that Vladimir Putin manages Trump as if he we were a Russian intelligence “asset.” He may be. But if I were a Russian citizen, I'd beÃâà...
ThePrint
March 30, 2018
In my role as a television anchor, my team cautioned me not to say anything about Malala on air, because of the belief that she was a CIA agent. I met Malala Yousafzai for the first time in November 2015. The family had invited me over for dinner. My daughters, who never accompany me to any of my officialÃâà...
Orlando Sentinel
March 25, 2018
The “Southern belle” from Mount Dora was in an undisclosed Middle Eastern city working undercover as a CIA agent when a man stopped in front of her car and exposed himself. “That morphed into a really dangerous situation as the local men were trying to figure out what was eliciting this outburst,” saidÃâà...
RealClearPolitics
March 15, 2018
'The Jimmy Dore Show' discusses this article from the International Committee of the Fourth International's World Socialist Website reporting that out of 102 competitive Democratic Congressional primaries in 2018, "44 involve candidates with a military-intelligence or State Department background, with 11Ãâà...
Popular Mechanics
March 13, 2018
The CIA report (PDF), dated April 29, 1953 was originally discovered by Kalashnikov Media and picked up by The Firearm Blog. The report was made by a CIA agent who had unusually good access to the previously unknown weapon, particularly given the level of secrecy around it. The agent's identity andÃâà...
CNBC
March 13, 2018
From 2003 to 2005, Haspel was chief of staff to the CIA director of clandestine operations, Jose Rodriguez. In his 2013 memoir, "Hard Measures," Rodriguez described how Haspel directed agents to use an industrial strength shredder in 2005 to destroy videotapes of CIA interrogations conducted at blackÃâà...
Salon
March 12, 2018
The cauldron that is the Russia scandal and its related tendrils -- including possible money laundering and likely obstruction of justice -- has boiled over. In recent weeks it has been revealed that Robert Mueller is investigating a secret meeting between Trump ally Erik Prince and a Russian contact in theÃâà...
KVUE
March 11, 2018
Between that problem and the reality that he can't share his secret identity with a potential love interest, the 30-something tech-wizard is about ready to hang up his CIA agent towel and do something else with his life by the climax. Though by the end of the episode, the audience finds out Joe Turner'sÃâà...
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...
NBCNews.com
March 11, 2018
CIA agents in the movies soon became heroes working for a highly moral organization desperately needed in the world. The 1990s saw the birth of the Tom Clancy film franchise, with Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck portraying intrepid CIA agent Jack Ryan. Since 9/11, the CIA has workedÃâà...
Newsweek
March 3, 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...
The Guardian
March 2, 2018
Jeff Daniels' FBI special agent John O'Neill is pitted against his counterpart at the CIA, analyst Martin Schmidt, played by a terrific Peter Sarsgaard, who uses the same brittle nerves of his put-upon editor Charles Lane in 2003's journalism drama Shattered Glass. Both send agents around the globe, fightingÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
March 2, 2018
Part of the story's appeal, no doubt, is that its heroine, Dominika, is a "Sparrow," a Russian agent trained in seducing civilians and foreign agents to elicit information (a real program that the USSR operated in the '60s and '70s). Another draw is that its author was once a CIA clandestine services officerÃâà...
Elite Daily
February 20, 2018
And how on earth, in the history of the entire everything, does a white American CIA agent wind up being the character doing good for a people in Africa, when ... While Ross' introducing in Civil War promotes him in the CIA from the State Department, gives him pilot training, and a generally more impressiveÃâà...
NBCNews.com
February 19, 2018
Despite his defeat, the former CIA agent is still pushing hard for change in the country. He is one of the founders of Stand Up Republic, a community that is aimed to protect democratic values, norms and institutions in America. NBC News BETTER sat down with McMullin at the Forbes 30 Under 30 SummitÃâà...
teleSUR English
February 18, 2018
"We had money bags and sent them to select politicians to cover their expenses," former CIA agent F. Mark Wyatt admitted in a 1996 interview. "I assume they're doing a lot of the old stuff, because, you know, it never changes,” said William J. Daugherty, who worked for the C.I.A. from 1979 to 1996 and atÃâà...
NOLA.com
February 15, 2018
It's a question many are asking in the wake of the Valentine's Day school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead on Wednesday: When is enough going to be enough? For Phillip Mudd, a former CIA agent and FBI deputy director who now serves as a CNN counterterrorism analyst, that timeÃâà...
South China Morning Post
February 11, 2018
In a story worthy of a John le Carre novel that included secret USB-drive handovers in a small Berlin bar and coded messages delivered over the National Security Agency's Twitter account, CIA agents spent much of last year trying to buy back from the Russians hacking programs stolen from the NSA, theÃâà...
Glamour
December 31, 1999
Step two: dropping the bomb that she used to be in the CIA, before news broke. “I had concerns my girls would be at school and kids would say, 'Oh, your mom was the “spy,'” she says. It is a point of interest on the trail: “Women—men too, but especially women—hear my background and say, 'That's badassÃâà...
RT
December 31, 1999
The notion that some people might not identify as Russophobic is apparently so perplexing to former CIA agent John Sipher, that he felt the need to put the question to Twitter. Then he felt the need for some backtracking. “How can one not be a Russophobe?” the former spy, who once worked as the CIA'sÃâà...
Task & Purpose
December 31, 1999
But while military textbooks attribute the campaign's success to careful planning and coordination, an ability to improvise, superior personnel, air supremacy, and the deployment of overwhelming force, less commonly acknowledged is the role of a minuscule advance team made up of CIA special activitiesÃâà...
NPR
December 31, 1999
In the new film Red Sparrow, a CIA officer walks alone in Moscow's Gorky Park. There's a hand-off — a brush pass in the darkness with a Russian agent. Then all goes wrong: Police lights flash, gunshots ring. The CIA officer runs for his life straight to the gates of the American Embassy. Jennifer LawrenceÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
But now, foreign spies often don't need to bother because technology can do it for them, said Dawn Meyerriecks, deputy director of the CIA's science and technology division. Digital surveillance, including closed-circuit television and wireless infrastructure, in about 30 countries is so good that physicalÃâà...
MSNBC
December 31, 1999
Description: MSNBC Anchor Richard Lui is joined by former intelligence officers and legal analysts to debate whether the former FBI director's memos align with public statements and if it bolsters Comey's credibility. David Priess, a former CIA agent, believes that the most important takeaway from theseÃâà...
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