Tag: CIA

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.

In the name of whatever you people hold as holy, stop throwing around the word MANPADS. The word has left its technical description, and has simply become a finger-point against America. It’s a lazy acronym. Meanwhile, in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria; the bulk of weapon systems deployed are based on Russian design platforms.   The guided […]

Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter sees a variety of missions for the Pentagon’s new, secretive space center — and that includes fighting the Islamic State. The Pentagon chief said Thursday that the new Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center established by the Defense Department last fall has a role not only in preparing for potential […]

The CIA’s internal watchdog claims it accidentally deleted its only copy of the controversial “torture report” outlining the agency’s use of enhanced interrogations techniques, the latest wrinkle in the saga over the report’s publication. The Senate Intelligence Committee’s 6,700-page report has not yet been made public by the Obama administration and has been at the […]

A tip from a CIA spy to authorities in apartheid-era South Africa led to Nelson Mandela’s 1962 arrest, beginning the leader’s 27 years behind bars, an article in the Sunday Times reported. The newspaper cited comments reportedly made by Donald Rickard, a former US vice-consul in Durban and CIA operative, to British film director John […]

Harry Truman had been vice president for only 82 days when Franklin Roosevelt died, so there was quite a lot he needed to learn when he became president in 1945. “He didn’t even know the atomic bomb existed,” historian David Priess said. “He didn’t know about the Manhattan Project.” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper […]

An appeals court ruled on Friday that more than 6,000 pages of the so-called Senate torture report cannot be made public because they consist of congressional records that are not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, which only covers federal agencies. The unanimous ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]

The dispute between Twitter and the U.S. intelligence industry that broke into public view this week actually began as long ago as last fall, sources familiar with the matter tell CNBC. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Twitter has cut off U.S. intelligence agencies from a service that sifts through the entire output […]

Another deal with the devil . . . After splitting with Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra is being presented to the West as a moderate force. It’s nothing of the sort. The jihadist force’s reputation is being cleaned up, to suggest it is deserving of CIA support. So ol‘ Doc Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s chief executive successor, has […]