The veteran investigative reporter writes that George H. Bush, as vice president, ran a covert operations team in the early 1980s that even the CIA didn’t know about. As a former CIA director, Bush had the experience to oversee activities. Hersh says the vice president’s team ran 35 counterterrorism, counternarcotics and assassination operations between 1981...
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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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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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NBA Star Has Reason to Fear Turkey’s Intelligence Service
Enes Kanter, a six foot eleven star basketball player for the New York Knicks, won’t play an NBA game in London later this month because he fears the Turkish government may attempt to kill him. The Turkish native, a critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will not accompany his team to face the Washington Wizards...
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Washington’s Next Spy Museum to Glorify Covert Action
The proposed National Museum of Special Intelligence and Special Operations took a step closer to reality earlier this month with a $10 million contribution from a leading foundation Washington already has one spy museum. Run by former CIA spokesman Peter Earnest, the International Spy Museum presents a glamorized and sanitized portrait of the spy business,...