CIA

A former CIA officer convicted in Italy of playing a role in a kidnapping under the agency’s “extraordinary rendition” program said Wednesday that she will be extradited to Italy and sent to prison. Sabrina de Sousa was convicted in absentia by an Italian court — along with 25 other Americans — of the kidnapping of […]

The Legion of Merit was formally presented at Rader’s funeral.
“Stephanie chose the life of a warrior,” said U.S. Army Capt. Azande Sasa, the presiding chaplain at the ceremony. “She has earned her place among those honored here.”

This is SOFWERX — a stylized name that roughly translates to Special Operations Forces Works — a Special Operations Command (SOCOM)-funded technology incubator that opened its doors at the end of 2015.

In late 2002, the CIA asked the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to send a training team to a CIA black site in Northern Kabul, Afghanistan, code-named COBALT. While there, the BOP team instructed guards on the proper use of a restraining technique against detainees called “short chaining,” also referred to as short shackling. Not […]

The CIA considered him a senior al-Queda member, but the Senate report said that was unfounded.

British people are not demanding more transparency from the intelligence services as loudly as Americans, the former director of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA has said. Michael Hayden played a pivotal, leading role in American intelligence until he was replaced as director of the CIA shortly into the presidency of Barack Obama. […]

The CIA is planning to offer details about four previously undisclosed covert actions conducted during the Cold War, a federal advisory committee declared in a report. It is unclear which actions will be detailed, however they will be from the Ronald Reagan administration or earlier. The disclosures will be published in upcoming volumes of an […]

Virgil Flaviu Georgescu, 43, was convicted Wednesday in federal court of conspiracy to murder American government employees and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. He could face up to life in prison when he is sentenced in September. Georgescu was caught in 2014 brokering a deal that involved selling $17 million worth of military-grade weapons […]

Two Romanian businessmen and an Italian politician got caught trying to sell rocket launchers and AK-47s to Colombian terrorists. But one now claims he was really just helping the CIA. A wacky tale is playing out in a federal courtroom in New York City, where a Romanian security consultant is on trial for an illegal […]

The CIA on Monday added four names to the secretive memorial it keeps at its Langley headquarters for spies killed on agency missions. Director John Brennan oversaw a ceremony at the Memorial Wall to add the names of the four men, all of whom died in operations in the 1950s and 1960s. “For anyone who […]

“The State Department failed us. They did. That’s not a political statement. That’s just a fact,”

Lundin says Teti threatened to impale him with a spear.