Tag: CIA

According to FBI documents al-Hussayen is apparently a ‘Saudi Interior Ministry employee/official.’

With Thursday’s tragic mass killing by a resclusive, truck-driving Tunisian maniac in Nice having been violently drowned out by the frentic late Friday news of a failed (and perhaps staged) coup in Turkey, the news cycle has once again shifted its attention away from a far greater threat to the global economy than whether Erdogan […]

Russia said Saturday that it had expelled two U.S. diplomats Moscow claimed were working undercover for the CIA in retaliation for Washington’s explusion of two Russians last month. The State Department announced Friday that it had expelled the two Russians on June 17, in response to an attack on an American diplomat outside the U.S. […]

Former CIA Director David Petraeus hid materials in insulation in his attic as the FBI pursued its case about his mishandling of classified information, the bureau’s director, James Comey, said Thursday. Comey made the disclosure to argue the point that the prosecution of Petraeus, who knew he had top secret information and lied to the […]

In the early 1960s the United States Army Special Forces was engaged in a secretive mission in the remote country of Laos in Southeast Asia. During this time we were in the midst of a Cold War with the Soviet Union, Red China, and other communist bloc nations. The perception (and reality) was that slowly […]

The movement of people and goods in this modern, global society is extremely fluid. ISIS has taken advantage of the openness of our western societies as well as the usefulness of the Internet to spread their message and recruit members.

The attack Tuesday night at an international airport in Istanbul reeks of the work of the Islamic State terror group and could happen here in the United States, CIA Director John Brennan said in an interview Wednesday. The agency official told Yahoo! News in fact that the shooting and bombings at Ataturk Airport that left […]

The Kremlin has accused the global film streaming company Netflix of being part of an American plot to subvert Russian society and culture.

Vladimir Medinsky, the minister of culture who is a loyal supporter of President Putin, said that the film streaming service was on the US government payroll along with Silicon Valley giants.

Remote even by the standards of Pakistan’s tribal areas, the Shawal Valley is surrounded by steep mountains that descend into thick forests interspersed with boulder-strewn alpine rivers. The valley is one of the final redoubts of Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters who fled Afghanistan after the U.S. invasion. Numerous Pakistani military offensives have so far failed […]

Casualties sustained during the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, could have been much higher if it was not for the work of a mysterious CIA officer, according to an official report from the House Select Committee on Benghazi. The report, released Tuesday, noted that U.S. military support did not […]

The operational tempo of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC), like that of U.S. special operations forces (SOF), has been intense over the past fifteen years, and significant turnover of leaders and mid-level officers has probably contributed to a feeling of inadequate leadership at times.

Weapons shipped into Jordan for Syrian rebels by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia were stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, the New York Times reported, citing American and Jordanian officials. Some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November that killed two […]