The movie “Argo” was CIA propaganda vehicle in the guise of an entertaining Hollywood entertainment. It was base on the real life exploits of Tony Mendez, a CIA officer who mastered the art of disguise. Mendez, who died recently, is being lionized in the press. Appropriately for a man whose career seemed drawn from a...
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CIA Puts Historical Review Panel on Hold
The panel of historians that advises the CIA on declassification of intelligence records reports the agency had cancelled a scheduled January meeting without explanation. Prof. Robert Jervis of Columbia University, said “the reasons for this remain unclear to us, and no schedule for resumed meetings has been announced.” The story was first reported by the Federation...
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Putin’s Crickets? A Noisy Bug Can’t Explain CIA Injuries in Cuba
This story only deepens the weird continuing mystery of the medical problems suffered by two dozen U.S. Embassy staffers in Cuba in recent years. Investigators have concluded the 22 (or 24) victims had suffered some kind of “sonic attack” that caused tissue and neurological damage. According to the New Yorker, several undercover CIA officers in...
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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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Haspel’s Pick for Deputy CIA Director Fulfills Brennan’s Plan
The appointment of a new Deputy Director of Analysis at the CIA shows how the vocabulary of the intelligence profession evolves to clarify (or conceal) the agency’s mission. Cynthia Rapp, a career CIA official in charge of preparing the President’s Daily Brief, will head the component of the agency that used to be called the...