If you think some former U.S. intelligence officials have been harsh in their criticism of President Trump, well, they’re getting harsher. In the wake of the mail bomb arrest and the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings, James Clapper and Michael Hayden are likening President Trump’s political rhetoric to radicalization tactics used by terrorists. Clapper, former director of...
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CIA Chief Heard Recording of Khashoggi Killing
Gina Haspel is well-qualified for her intelligence gathering mission to Turkey in the Khashoggi affair. Haspel is known to have served as an intelligence officer in Turkey and one top former CIA official told me she speaks Turkish. So Haspel was able to talk, without interpreters, Hakan Fidan, chief of the Turkish intelligence service, the MIT....
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New Gina Haspel Cable Discloses Her Mistake on Torture
The National Security Archive has obtained new details about the torture tactics of CIA director Gina Haspel and her mistaken belief that extreme measures were necessary. The key document comes from November 2002, a little more than a year after 9/11 attacks. Top CIA officials feared another attack was coming. Haspel was running a “black site” in...
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These Women Say the CIA Is a Good Place for Women
Four female CIA officers told a crowd of aspiring intelligence professionals at the Spy Museum that the agency is good place to work.
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David Wise, author and CIA expert who exposed ‘invisible government,’ dies at 88
David Wise was co-author of the 1964 best-seller “The Invisible Government,” the first really good book ever written about the CIA. The book, which the CIA sought to suppress, chronicled the excesses of U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA. Wise laid bare the agency’s role in orchestrated coups in Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s,...