This story only deepens the weird continuing mystery of the medical problems suffered by two dozen U.S. Embassy staffers in Cuba in recent years. Investigators have concluded the 22 (or 24) victims had suffered some kind of “sonic attack” that caused tissue and neurological damage. According to the New Yorker, several undercover CIA officers in...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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South Korea’s National Security Act Goes On Trial
Writing in the Nation, Max Kim explains one of the biggest obstacles to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula: the South Korea’s National Intelligence Service and the notorious National Security Act that it enforces. The NIS is the successor to the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, which played a bloody role in the country’s political life....
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Mossad Chief Reportedly Met With Saudi, UAE, and Egypt Intelligence Officials
Israeli press has been reporting for several months that flamboyant Mossad chief Eli Cohen has been cultivating Arab allies for Israel’s confronational stance toward Iran. Cohen has previously been linked to Israeli outreach efforts to Arab states, with Channel 10 news reporting in November that he played the lead role in contacts between Israel and...
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Did Gina Haspel Run a Black Site at Guantanamo?
An attorney for the accused architect of the Sept. 11 attacks told a judge in a secret session last year that CIA Director Gina Haspel ran a secret agency outpost at Guantánamo, an apparent reference to a post-9/11 black site, according to a recently declassified transcript. The report comes from the Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg,...
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EU Blacklists Iranian Intelligence Agency Over Foiled Plots
Paris alleges that Tehran’s Intelligence Ministry’s internal security section was linked to the alleged attempt to bomb a rally of opponents on June 30 outside Paris. The Danes say Iran in October was planning to kill in Denmark a member of the group that Tehran has blamed for a Sept. 22 attack that killed at...