CIA

You had military units that rarely left their bases, and CIA support people who didn’t know where their operations officers were deployed.

Recently declassified U.S. government cables suggest Pakistan’s intelligence service paid a U.S.-designated terrorist organization $200,000 to carry out one of the deadliest attacks against the CIA in the spy agency’s history. But a U.S. intelligence official said the information was uncorroborated and inconsistent with what is known about the 2009 suicide bombing at Camp Chapman […]

Soft robots that can grasp delicate objects, computer algorithms designed to spot an “insider threat,” and artificial intelligence that will sift through large data sets — these are just a few of the technologies being pursued by companies with investment from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm, according to a document obtained by The Intercept. Yet among the 38 […]

The Central Intelligence Agency and its regional partners have drawn up plans to supply more-powerful weapons to moderate rebels in Syria fighting the Russia-backed regime in the event the country’s six-week-old truce collapses, according to U.S. and other officials. The preparations for a so-called Plan B center on providing vetted rebel units with weapons systems […]

“I was on my way to play football with my friends when the airstrike hit,” Amin Ali al-Wisabi told VICE News, recounting the day when a CIA drone struck his hometown of Azzan in Yemen. “We had stopped to sit down and plan the match when all of a sudden an explosion hit a passing […]

I met Sam Faddis this week at a cafe near Union Square, where we sat down to talk about intelligence reform and Sam’s run for Congress.

ISIS is on the defensive after a “bad few months,” President Barack Obama claimed Wednesday during a rare trip to CIA headquarters outside Washington.  He said the “depraved” nature of the organization, also known as ISIL, only brings the world together and strengthens opposition to the group. “Their barbarism only stiffens our unity and our […]

Republican White House hopefuls are clashing with the government’s intelligence community over their support for using so-called enhanced interrogation practices against terror suspects. GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday slammed CIA Director John Brennan after Brennan said over the weekend that his agency will not use waterboarding or other harsh techniques, even if the […]

Check out this exclusive book excerpt from: Left of the Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al- Qaeda

Sabrina de Sousa one of various CIA operatives who were undercover in Milan, Italy as accredited diplomats at the time of the 2003 extraordinary rendition operation. She was not included in a 2009 diplomatic immunity deal that was shared by her colleagues. de Sousa was arrested in 2015 when she choose to move to Portugal despite her […]

Documents showing the CIA had a role in producing up to 22 entertainment projects, including History Channel documentary Air America: The CIA’s Secret Airline, Bravo‘s Top Chef: Covert Cuisine, the USA Network series Covert Affairs and the BBC documentary The Secret War on Terror—along with two fictional feature films about the CIA that both came out […]

The Central Intelligence Agency’s venture-capital arm, In-Q-Tel, provided funding for an unlikely company: Skincential Sciences, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. Skincential’s consumer brand, Clearista, makes “skin resurfacing” products designed to make your skin clearer and more “youthful,” according to its website. Image courtesy of huffingtonpost.com Read more at Business Insider