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Center For American Progress
March 30, 2018
“Beirut” is a 2018 critically acclaimed action thriller set in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. In 1972 Beirut, American diplomat Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm) hosts a cocktail party that ends with a tragic terrorist attack. Ten years later, CIA operatives (Rosamund Pike and Dean Norris) are caught in the crossfire of the civil warÃÂ ...
UConn Daily Campus
March 27, 2018
During the Bush years, Haspel oversaw a black site in Thailand where CIA operatives regularly waterboarded prisoners. In 2005, she destroyed video recordings of the torture which was performed under her watch. Thanks to an executive order from Barack Obama and a bipartisan ban issued by CongressÃÂ ...
Daily Journal
March 27, 2018
WASHINGTON — In ordering the largest mass expulsion of Russian diplomats ever, the U.S. and its allies have upped the ante in an East-West spy game that dates to the Cold War and cast light on an unspoken but widespread practice in the cloak-and-dagger world: sending operatives abroad underÃÂ ...
The Republic
March 27, 2018
WASHINGTON — In ordering the largest mass expulsion of Russian diplomats ever, the U.S. and its allies have upped the ante in an East-West spy game that dates to the Cold War and cast light on an unspoken but widespread practice in the cloak-and-dagger world: sending operatives abroad underÃÂ ...
Radio New Zealand
March 5, 2018
A man who is critically ill after being exposed to an unknown substance in Wiltshire is a Russian national convicted of spying for Britain, the BBC understands. Sergei Skripal was one of four prisoners released by Moscow in exchange for 10 US spies in 2010, as part of a swap. He was later flown to the UK.
The Sun
February 22, 2018
JEREMY CORBYN was monitored by the CIA over his links with a Marxist trade union, it emerged today. The Labour boss went to a conference in El Salvador hosted by the far-left Fenastras union. Jeremy Corbyn was linked to a radical trade union in the 1980s. UPP:Universal Pictorial Press and Agency. 3.
U.S. News & World Report
February 22, 2018
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, wearing a military uniform, gestures as he delivers a speech during the 67th founding anniversary of the First Scout Ranger regiment in San Miguel town, Bulacan province, north of Manila, Philippines November 24, 2017. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco Reuters. MANILAÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 21, 2018
North Korean soldiers stand at their watchtower in February, 2016 on the banks of the Yalu River in the North Korean town of Sinuiju. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images). For the past several years, humanitarian groups and nongovernmental organizations have combed commercial satellite imagery inÃÂ ...
NPR
February 11, 2018
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg about his story on the U.S. government's bungled attempt to reclaim stolen cybersecurity weapons from Russian operatives. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A Russian operative, a suitcase full of cash, a secret meeting inÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
February 9, 2018
WASHINGTON – A Russian promising to turn over stolen hacking tools and compromising information on President Donald Trump fleeced American spies for $100,000 last year, The New York Times reported Friday. In a story worthy of a John le Carre novel that included secret handovers of USB drives inÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 9, 2018
BERLIN — After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump, according to American andÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
January 19, 2018
A man (right, wearing blue tie) identified by local Hong Kong media as former CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee stands in front of a member of security at the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi' painting at the Christie's showroom in Hong Kong on on Oct. 13, 2017.Anthony Wallace / AFP - GettyÃÂ ...
Infosecurity Magazine
December 31, 1999
Kremlin hackers were responsible for cyber-attacks targeting the Winter Olympics in South Korea earlier this month, according to US intelligence. The unnamed sources told the Washington Post that the operatives most likely work for the Russian military agency GRU's Main Center for Special TechnologyÃÂ ...
India Today
January 27, 2018
A CIA assassination manual from 1953 features eerily identical instructions for throwing a man out of a window to his death. A series of CIA operatives mysteriously dropped dead when the inquiry led to them. On the strength of those clues, Eric spends most of his adult life running a one-man investigation.
Boing Boing
January 27, 2018
But US spies, frustrated at the Trump administration's refusal to acknowledge Russian electoral meddling, have leaked parts of the story to the US press, which has infuriated AIVD officials, who are upset that the US has rewarded their help by outing them and their methods. Between these hurt feelings andÃÂ ...
CNN
January 24, 2018
Washington (CNN) CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the US intelligence community still considers North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be a "rational actor" but that assessment does not mean he is only developing nuclear weapons as a means to preserve his regime. "We do believe he wouldÃÂ ...
71 Republic
January 19, 2018
Ex-CIA Officer Arrested, Believed to Have Exposed Identities of U.S. Spies in China ... inspecting photographs of evidence found during these 2012 searches, it was discovered that the address book contained names and phone numbers of covert CIA operatives, and the addresses of some CIA facilities.
NBCNews.com
January 19, 2018
The arrest last week of a former CIA officer suspected of spying for China exposed one of the most significant intelligence breaches in American history. But the damage is even worse than first reported, sources familiar with the matter tell NBC News. A secret FBI–CIA task force investigating the caseÃÂ ...
OPB News
January 19, 2018
A few tiny units, just a couple hundred American troops and CIA operatives, linked up with Afghan rebels and coordinated with U.S. air power to take on the Taliban. At the time, the Taliban controlled more than 90 percent of Afghanistan and hosted Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorist group thatÃÂ ...
Standard-Examiner
January 18, 2018
Veteran U.S. spies were elated to learn of the arrest this week of a suspect in a long-running mole hunt within the CIA's ranks. But their mood was tempered by skepticism that the man will ever face charges for what some believe is his role in the exposure and deaths of several CIA agents in China,ÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
January 18, 2018
A former CIA operative has been arrested after investigators suspected he secretly helped bring down America's network of informants in China. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a 53-year-old US citizen, was intercepted after he arrived at John F. Kennedy airport in New York in the climax of a six-year investigation.
NextShark
January 17, 2018
Jared Kushner received a warning from U.S. counterintelligence officials last year that his friendship with Chinese-American businesswoman Wendi Deng Murdoch could be used by the Chinese government to its advantage. Citing officials privy to the issue, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday thatÃÂ ...
The Film Stage (blog)
January 15, 2018
Starting this week, the 2018 Sundance Film Festival gives us a first glimpse at the year in cinema, but even if you won't be at Park City, we're rounding up an initial glimpse at the premieres. After highlighting our most-anticipated films, bookmark this page for a continually-updated round-up of trailers andÃÂ ...
StepFeed
January 13, 2018
According to Bleecker Street, the company distributing the film, the plot centers around a top U.S. diplomat (Hamm), whose wife was killed in Lebanon in the 1970s. "Ten years later, he gets called back to a war-torn Beirut by CIA operatives (Pike, Dean Norris) with a mission only he can accomplish."ÃÂ ...
The Cipher Brief
January 4, 2018
Wartime has been a force multiplier for espionage ever since the Revolutionary War, when General George Washington was the founding father of the art of intelligence. In World War II, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) advanced the practice, albeit tragically, with its Cassia Ring espionage network.
The Guardian
October 2, 2017
US intelligence operatives in Cuba were among the first and most severely affected victims of a string of baffling sonic attacks which has prompted Washington to pull out more than half of its diplomatic staff from Havana, the Associated Press has learned.
NBCNews.com
August 29, 2017
WASHINGTON — When North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan Monday, the $80 billion American intelligence-gathering apparatus had only hours of warning, U.S. officials told NBC News. It was the latest in a long history of apparent surprises by the rogue regime. Lately, the North KoreansÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
May 21, 2017
China systematically dismantled CIA spying efforts in the country from 2010, killing or jailing more than a dozen covert sources, in a deep setback to US intelligence there, according to a report by The New York Times. The Times, quoting 10 current and former US officials who spoke on condition ofÃÂ ...
Business Insider
May 18, 2017
US spies caught a Russian military-intelligence officer bragging about causing chaos in the upcoming US election six months before the vote, according to a new Time magazine cover story by Massimo Calabresi. Although a declassified intelligence report released in January concluded that RussiaÃÂ ...
Gizmodo
December 31, 1999
US spies are known, for instance, to have intercepted calls between his former national security advisor, Michael Flynn—who has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about those calls—and the former Russian Ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. Trump later accused Susan Rice, a former national security adviser forÃÂ ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
November 21, 2017
As well as alleged crimes by American troops in Afghanistan, Bensouda wants to investigate the activities of CIA operatives in secret detention facilities in ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
November 21, 2017
As well as alleged crimes by American troops in Afghanistan, Bensouda wants to investigate the activities of CIA operatives in secret detention facilities in ...
Chicago Daily Herald
November 21, 2017
As well as alleged crimes by American forces in Afghanistan, Bensouda wants to investigate CIA operatives for their roles in secret detention ...
CBS News
November 21, 2017
As well as alleged crimes by American troops in Afghanistan, Bensouda wants to investigate the activities of CIA operatives in secret detention ...
HollywoodSoapbox.com
November 18, 2017
Doug Laux and Ben Smith, stars of Finding Escobar's Millions on Discovery Channel, go to a billiard hall to meet with a trusted old friend, Joe ...
Denton Record Chronicle
November 18, 2017
The least interesting question about the Donald Trump presidency is why he doesn't trust the judgment of America's spy agencies. Eli Lake.
Capital FM Kenya
November 11, 2017
By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Manila, Philippines, Nov 12 – Donald Trump said Sunday he backed the US intelligence agencies which ...
Monsters and Critics.com
November 10, 2017
Discovery's new series Finding Escobar's Millions features the focused exploits of two former CIA operations officers, Doug Laux and Ben Smith ...
Monsters and Critics.com
November 3, 2017
Finding Escobar's Millions is a new series on Discovery following a search for the huge sums of cash that Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar ...
The New Daily
October 22, 2017
John F Kennedy and his wife Jackie in the limousine as it makes its way through Dallas. Photo: Walt Cisco/Dallas Morning News. The New ...
Zee News
October 19, 2017
NEW YORK: The US Central Intelligence Agency thinks that North Korea`s Kim Jong-un is a rational actor who is focused on staying in power ...
CNBC
October 19, 2017
The United States should make it more expensive for Iran to engage in "adventurism" in the Middle East, CIA Director Mike Pompeo said ...
AutoSpies.com
October 14, 2017
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company had raised more than $150 million after pricing its IPO at $16. By the end of trading Thursday, ...
Edgy Labs (blog)
October 12, 2017
Three powerful countries are now in the midst of a real-life spy game that has shown the world how a popular application meant to protect ...
WIRED
October 5, 2017
Some of the hardest-hit victims were US intelligence operatives, ... been remotely doing something mysterious to US spies' ears and brains.
UPROXX
October 5, 2017
Between breathing new life into North Korea's internet connection and allegedly hacking NATO soldiers' smartphones, Russia's ongoing efforts ...
Chicago Daily Herald
October 2, 2017
HAVANA -- AP sources: US spies working under diplomatic cover in Havana among the first and most severely affected by attacks.
The Guardian
October 2, 2017
US intelligence operatives in Cuba were among the first and most severely ... It was not until US spies, posted to the embassy under diplomatic ...
Press TV
September 17, 2017
The US intelligence community has not yet managed to come up with a clear explanation as to what, or who caused mysterious injuriesÃÂ ...
The Intercept
September 14, 2017
NSA agents successfully targeted “the entire business chain” connecting foreign cafes to the internet, bragged about an “all-out effort” to spy onÃÂ ...
