The conversations recorded prior to and during the Oct. 2, 2018 murder of the dissident journalist at the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate were obtained by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) right after the gruesome incident, and were shared with related Turkish authorities carrying out an investigation into the incident, as well as with international officials and...
Category: Assassination
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Zarif Says He’ll Try to Delay Execution of Convicted Mossad Spy
Djalali, the alleged spy and medical doctor and lecturer at the Karolinska Institute in the Swedish capital, was arrested in Iran in April 2016 and later convicted of espionage, having been accused of providing information to Israel to help it assassinate several senior nuclear scientists. Source: Zarif says he’ll try to delay death sentence of...
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FT: Kim Jong Un’s Murdered Half-Brother Was ‘In Contact’ with CIA
The claims came ahead of the publication on Tuesday of The Great Successor, a portrait of Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield, a Washington Post reporter, that says the deceased Kim brother was an informant for the CIA. The Wall Street Journal on Monday also said he had been a CIA source. Source: Kim Jong...
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Israel Pressured NSA for Intelligence on Targeting Killings
In 2006, as Israel and Hezbollah waged a brief but brutal war in south Lebanon, Israeli military officials used private channels to pressure their American counterparts in the National Security Agency for intelligence to help assassinate Hezbollah operatives, according to a pair of top-secret NSA documents, released this week by The Intercept. The documents, part of the...
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JFK Records Suit Tests CIA Secrecy on Assassination
[“JFK Records Suit Tests CIA Secrecy on Assassination” by Jefferson Morley was originally published on April 29, 2019 on the Just Security blog.] On April 29, my attorney Dan Hardway filed a petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to review my case, Morley v. CIA. When I filed this Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...