Category: Europe

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The CIA Used a Swiss Company to Spy on Countries for Decades–Or Was It NSA?

The company, Crypto AG, which sold encryption machines to countries around the world market, was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BN).. The two spy agencies rigged the company’s devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages. The...

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Officials Say Wagner, the Russian Mercenary Force, Is Fighting in Libya

A friend recently told me that the Russian private military company known as Wagner was not involved in Libya’s civil war. Opposed rebel forces, funded by the United Arab Emirates, said in December that 600-800 Wagner troops were fighting in Libya They say the Russian fighters are backing renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar, whose forces...

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Professor Stephen Cohen on Ukraine and the Politics of Impeachment

The national security argument in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump was a big dud. While the House managers made the case that the United States should arm Ukraine, they didn’t follow up the point because it was weak. The president’s defenders noted, accurately, that Trump’s Ukraine policy was more militaristic than President Obama’s....