Category: CIA

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美国:中央情报局 (CIA)

Under CIA Eyes: Venezuela As Seen by Langley

In Counterpunch, activist author TJ Coles looks at what declassified CIA archives tell us about how the U.S. policymakers have understood–and misunderstood–Venezuelan reality. The records are publicly available at the CIA online database known as CREST. They illuminate the historical background of the story that the news media too often slight. Since the 1940s, the...

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Jared Kushner

Trump Can Give Kushner a Security Clearance — And Congress Can Ask Why

President Trump’s decision to give a security clearance to son-in-law Jared Kushner drew objections from the CIA among others. Sen. Mark Warner, ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee called it an “abuse of power.” Kushner has reportedly been denied access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), the most secret government information, according to the Washington...

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Elliott Abrams ‘Cabaled Quietly’ to Spring a CIA-Connected Drug Trafficker

Surely, this is just another “loony left” headline about Elliott Abrams, the administration’s point man on Venezuela, whom some say has been unfairly pilloried on Capitol Hill. If you read this September 1986 National Security Council email, written by NSC staffer Oliver North, you’ll see the headline is not over-stated but factually precise and faithful...

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CIA spymaster Jack Devine

Ex-CIA Operations Chief on Venezuela: ‘Not Over Anytime Soon’

“This is a sustained effort,’ Devine said. “I don’t think its over anytime soon.” The former chief of the CIA’s worldwide operations, Jack Devine, told Bloomberg  says U.S. intervention to oust Nicholas Maduro is a “proxy war with Russia” that will last a long time. By “this” Devine means the Trump administration’s “regime change” policy. See “CIA...