CIA

It now appears China’s newest proxy soldier is Erik Prince, the former SEAL, the private military company CEO, and once CIA cut-out.

Fru sends—for the hundredth time.

Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter 5-year-old civil war. The […]

Despite the hype and panic in the media, it does appear that the noose is slowly tightening around ISIS. The question remaining is what will Syria look like after ISIS is destroyed?

A former CIA director has said the European Union “in some ways gets in the way” of security services, as the debate continues over whether the UK would be safer in or out of the EU. Retired general Michael Hayden told the BBC the union was “not a natural contributor to national security”. Home Secretary Theresa May […]

Thirteen years ago, the intelligence community concluded in a 93-page classified document used to justify the invasion of Iraq that it lacked “specific information” on “many key aspects” of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs. But that’s not what top Bush administration officials said during their campaign to sell the war to the American public. Those officials, […]

The Mossad and CIA orchestrated the assassination of Imad Mugniyah, Hezbollah’s top terrorism planner, in February of 2008.

Judges considered Thursday whether the Freedom of Information Act requires the CIA and other federal agencies to process requests for release of the full 6,963-page Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA interrogation practices that critics call torture. Two D.C. Circuit appeals court judges, Sri Srinivasan and Harry Edwards, heard oral arguments in the American Civil Liberties Union’s […]

A former German intelligence employee has been sentenced to eight years in jail after it was revealed he was working as a triple agent for German, American and Russian spy agencies. Markus Reichel admitted to attempting to deliver classified documents to the Russian Secret Service and handing over, to the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the names […]

The OSS Society needs your help to honor and recognize the veterans of the Office of Strategic Services with the Congressional Gold Medal.

You can call it by any euphemism you want, but the CIA is stealing secrets, plain and simple. Be thankful we do it.

If you’re searching for some uplifting bedtime reading, you might enjoy this e-book of a 1953 CIA report titled “A Study of Assassination,” made public in 1997 as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. Here are a few choice nuggets: Assassination is a term thought to be derived from “Hashish”, a drug similar […]