CIA

CIA tweeting details of bin Laden raid on anniversary

To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the CIA is tweeting it as if it were happening today. “To mark the 5th anniversary of the Usama Bin Laden operation in Abbottabad we will tweet the raid as if it were happening today,” the CIA tweeted at about 1 p.m. […]

CIA Director: ’28 pages’ Contain Inaccurate Information

CIA Director John Brennan said Sunday that releasing the 28 classified pages from the 9/11 Commission report would be a mistake because they contain inaccurate, un-vetted information that could be used to tie Saudi Arabia to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. “This chapter was kept out because of concerns about sensitive methods, investigative actions, […]

The laughable “black ops” of fake CIA Officer, Wayne Shelby Simmons

Before pleading guilty to massive fraud, including lying about CIA credentials which he didn’t have, Wayne Simmons’ initial defense after being arrested by the Department of Justice was to claim that he could not be put on trial because of “national security.”  He was trying to tell the courts that all of the black operations […]

Fake CIA officer Wayne Simmons pleads guilty to fraud charges

In one of the most bizarre cases that SOFREP has ever covered, Wayne Simmons, who claimed to have served in “outside para-military” operations for the CIA, has plead guilty to major charges of fraud and lying about his supposed background in the intelligence services.  As a Fox News contributor, Simmons would go on-air to make […]

Egyptian cleric defends CIA agent convicted over his rendition

The radical Egyptian cleric who was kidnapped in Milan by the CIA in 2003 has come to the defence of a former CIA officer convicted for her alleged role in his extraordinary rendition. Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, who is known as Abu Omar, told the Guardian in a telephone interview that he believed Sabrina De Sousa, who […]

Secret Writing: CIA’s Oldest Classified Documents

Do you want to read the oldest classified documents in our collection? Learn how to make invisible ink? See the only classified documents still in existence from the first World War? Then you’re in luck. Five years ago, the CIA declassified the US Government’s six oldest classified documents, dating from 1917 and 1918. These documents, […]

CIA: Learn how to make invisible ink, photos – from 1918

The CIA unearths some pretty interesting materials and this week it was touting the oldest once-classified documents in is collection. The mostly cryptic documents, from 1917 and 1918 describe secret writing techniques are believed to be the only remaining classified documents from the World War I era. Any documents describing secret writing fall under the […]

U.S. Special Ops Kill 40 ISIS Operatives Responsible for Attacks from Paris to Egypt

Delta Force and Navy SEALs have crippled the group’s ability to recruit foreign fighters and put pressure on the network responsible for striking Europe and Africa. As the self-proclaimed Islamic State [Daesh] trumpets its global terrorist campaign, U.S. special operations forces have quietly killed more than three dozen key Daesh operatives blamed for plotting deadly attacks […]

How the CIA failed a spy who went missing in Iran

In a world of seemingly random massacres in Paris, Brussels and San Bernardino, Calif.; Islamic State beheadings; and an erratic potentate in a nuclear-armed North Korea, we like to think that the CIA, the FBI and the other 14 agencies charged with gathering intelligence are doing their damnedest to keep us safe. And, for the […]

How the CIA writes history

Last summer I paid a visit to Georgetown University’s Lauinger Libraryas part of my research on legendary CIA counterspy James Jesus Angleton. I went there to investigate Angleton’s famous mole hunt, one of the least flattering episodes of his eventful career. By the early 1960s, Angleton was convinced the KGB had managed to insert a penetration agent […]