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Scranton Times-Tribune
April 21, 2018
21, 2011, file photo, former U.S. CIA Operations Officer, Valerie Plame Wilson arrives for the UK film premiere of Countdown to Zero in London. Wilson launched an online fundraiser on Aug. 18, 2017, looking to raise enough money to buy Twitter so President Donald Trump can't use it. (AP Photo/JonathanÃâà...
KPAX-TV
April 19, 2018
(CNN) -- Here is a look at some US citizens who have been convicted of spying against the United States. Aldrich Ames:1962 - Aldrich Ames, son of a CIA analyst, joins the agency as a low-level documents analyst. 1967-1968 - Enters the Career Trainee Program at the CIA and becomes an operationsÃâà...
Just Security
April 18, 2018
A confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's pick to lead the CIA, Gina Haspel, is likely to be scheduled soon. Senators John ... The Times reported that after the Thai black site closed, Haspel “returned to the Counterterrorism Center outside Washington as an operations officer.” After that she wasÃâà...
CNBC
April 6, 2018
For 25 years, Zachary Wyatt worked as a CIA operations officer tasked with acquiring foreign sources around the world to gather information essential to U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives. Today, Wyatt, who is now retired from the CIA, works to help the agency find its next generation ofÃâà...
Frederick News Post
April 5, 2018
The CIA's chief learning officer spoke to an auditorium full of eager Mount St. Mary's University students on Wednesday night about the challenges of future criminal justice careers and the qualities ... “We can't hire enough operations officers to make assessments of all of the information out there,” he said.
Washington Examiner
March 29, 2018
Speaking to the Washington Examiner, three former career CIA professionals explained why they energetically endorse President Trump's pick to become the next director of the CIA, Gina Haspel. First up is Mark Kelton, a career CIA operations officer who retired from the agency in 2015. Kelton says he firstÃâà...
NPR
March 26, 2018
The old CIA recruiting cliche is a college professor tapping a promising student on the shoulder — a white, male student — and discreetly guiding him to the agency. That still happens. But now there are YouTube videos, like this one below, which features Frank, a staff operations officer, who says: "I planÃâà...
The Daily Iowan
March 26, 2018
Dan is undercover, and he has worked all over the globe in areas such as the Middle East, Central Asia, and Europe as an operations officer. ... Though operations officers may be what people think of as spies, Zach said the real “CIA agents” are the assets in place who have access to sensitive informationÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
March 24, 2018
Gina Haspel, a veteran CIA clandestine officer picked by U.S. President Donald Trump to head the Central Intelligence Agency, is shown in this handout photograph ... By the end of December 2002, Haspel reportedly returned to the CIA Counterterrorism Center outside Washington as an operations officer.
BuzzFeed News
March 17, 2018
The Central Intelligence Agency has been deploying small teams of commandos to kill selected suspected terrorists, according to two sources familiar with the program. The program, which has not been previously disclosed, is coordinated by units from the CIA's Special Activities Center, which overseesÃâà...
The Week Magazine
March 17, 2018
The CIA's Special Activities Center apparently oversees the program; it also houses the Ground Branch, which is "made up of elite fighters, often taken from the ranks of SEALs, Delta Force, and Marine Special Operations Command," called Paramilitary Operations Officers, BuzzFeed writes. There are aboutÃâà...
AlterNet
March 16, 2018
Now that deputy CIA director Gina Haspel, a leading participant in the torture regime, has been nominated to run the agency, this linguistic evasion is returning with a vengeance. As AlterNet and other .... She is a very experienced and thoughtful operations officer who has held a series of leadership posts.
New York Times
March 15, 2018
On Tuesday, the president fired the secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, and named the C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, to replace him. He tapped a .... The deputy director is the chief operations officer at the F.B.I., a job that requires managing relationships with the White House and Congress. That taskÃâà...
KABC
March 15, 2018
Current Deputy Director Gina Haspel is a 30 year veteran officer of the CIA and she ran the agency's black site prison in Thailand, where she oversaw the waterboarding of detainees. Mike Baker, a former CIA covert operations officer and president of Diligence LLC, a global intelligence and security firm,Ãâà...
BU Today
March 14, 2018
Wippl is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. He spent a 30 year career as an operations officer in the National Clandestine Service (NCS). Wippl has served overseas as an operations officer and operations manager in Bonn, West Germany; Guatemala City; Luxembourg; Madrid, Spain;Ãâà...
World Socialist Web Site
March 7, 2018
Spanberger worked for the CIA as an operations officer, in which capacity, “She traveled and lived abroad collecting intelligence, managing assets, and ... (FBI) on issues of national security and counter-terrorism and was formerly an advisor and community partner with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
March 7, 2018
In addition to 28 years total service in the Navy (4 years active, 24 Reserve), Uehlinger served as an operations officer for the CIA. He faced off against some of our nation's most formidable threats while serving 12 years overseas in the former Soviet Union. Uehlinger, who speaks Russian and Spanish, saidÃâà...
Squamish Chief
March 5, 2018
Squamish's Graham E. Fuller worked for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for more than two decades, and that is not even the most interesting thing about the guy. The American-born author of numerous non-fiction books about the Middle East has also been a professor and was a senior politicalÃâà...
Albuquerque Journal
February 17, 2018
Stephen Slick, director of the University of Texas at Austin's Intelligence Studies Project, and Douglas Wise, retired senior CIA operations officer, will wrestle with the question of whether a profession that requires lying, cheating, stealing, manipulating, exploiting and deceiving should have ethicalÃâà...
Artvoice
December 31, 1999
Former CIA field operations officer Gene Coyle said John O. Brennan was “known as the greatest sycophant in the history of the CIA, and a supporter of Hillary Clinton before the election. I find it hard to put any real credence in anything that the man says.” In Brennan's CIA Director confirmation hearing,Ãâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
Washington (CNN) Susan Pompeo, wife of Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo, has taken on an unusually active role for a CIA spouse in .... deflected the children's questions, and worried in silence alone," Bina Cady Kiyonaga, the wife of an East Asia and Latin America operations officer, wroteÃâà...
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