In recent weeks and months residents of Washington DC have noticed a definite increase in helicopter traffic overhead. We’re used to the ambulance helicopters going to Washington Hospital Center, and police helicopters covering, big events on the Mall, and the occasional police chase, and so on. But something more has been going on recently. Now...
Category: Covert Action
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As CIA Steps Up Operations, Iran Again Claims to Have Arrested 17 U.S. Spies
The intelligence agencies of Iran and the United States are at war, even if the two countries are not. As the Trump administration applies “maximum pressure” to Iran, Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) responds with a claim that it has arrested 17 CIA spies in the country. At a news conference in Tehran,...
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Rules of ‘Regime Change’: The CIA in Iran
In Truthdig Joel Whitney has an excellent recap of the CIA’s coup in Iran in 1953 and its continuing impact on the world we live in today. How is that possible? Read on: As relations between the U.S. and Iran again take on a hostile tone, it’s worth untangling the intricate braid of CIA claims...
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Barr and Bolton Undermined Congressional Oversight of CIA
The past is prologue to the Trump administration. Thirty years ago, National Security Adviser John Bolton and Attorney General Nominee William Barr were fighting congressional oversight of the CIA. As legal advisers to President Reagan, they insisted that the president did not need to disclose all covert operations to Congress, that Congress’s power of the...
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Iran Regime Change 101: Build Exile Front Groups
With the Trump administration pursuing “regime change” operations in Venezuela and Iran, understanding the nature and history of such operations is essential. One common denominator, from Cuba in the early 1960s to Iraq in 2002, is creating front groups of exiles to create the appearance of legitimacy. In the excellent LobeLog, Muhammad Sahimi, a professor at...