Another former CIA officer is running for Congress. Valerie Plame, a former Central Intelligence Agency operative is running for Congress in New Mexico, and the new campaign ad she released on Monday quickly went viral on Twitter. Entitled “Undercover,” the 56-year-old mother of three drives shows off her CIA skills, impressively drives a Chevy amaro...
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Gina Haspel’s Classmates Set the Record Straight on Lakenheath High
My story about Gina Haspel’s education, “The Girl Who Became Spymaster” has generated a furry of comments from Lakenheath alumni. Several took exception to some or all of my description of Haspel’s experience there as “insulated, demanding and militarized.” So let’s hear what they have to say. Was the school demanding, ie., did it have...
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How Trump Got the Upper Hand on the Secret Agencies
Max Blumenthal is nothing if not provocative. When the independent journalist was scheduled to give a book talk earlier this month at Politics and Prose, Washington’s premier book chain, the prospect of a public discussion of his relentless new book, The Management of Savagery, provoked the Syrian-American Council to protest so vociferously that the event...
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The Girl Who Became Spymaster
When Gina Haspel, director of the CIA, gave her first public speech last fall at the University of Louisville, she mentioned in passing that she had gone to boarding school in England. Where? I wondered. The formative years of spies can illuminate the trajectory of their otherwise shadowy careers. James Angleton, the legendary chief of...
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What Is Gina Haspel Worth?
Financially, she’s well off, but hardly rich. The CIA director’s 2018 financial disclosure statement, posted by the Office of Government Ethics and flagged by Russ Kick, fits the profile of a career civil servant. Haspel sold a house in Virginia in June 2018 and netted somewhere between $250,000 and $500,00 dollars. She kept a lot...