Along with former CIA officer Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, I was interviewed extensively for this two-part show on NHK Prime, a magazine show on Japan’s leading television network. Here’s how NHK presents our findings about the CIA and accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
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NSA Dissented From CIA on Russian Bounty Intelligence
From the unlikely duo of Antiwar.com and the Wall Street Journal comes a dissent from the leaked intelligence reports that Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, offered bounty payments to Taliban commanders who killed U.S. servicemen in Afghanistan. The National Security Agency and the CIA differed on the intelligence, with NSA analysts concluding the evidence...
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Could the Death of the National Security State be the Silver Lining of COVID-19?
[This article was first published in a wise magazine called Counterpunch. Subscribe here.] Could something good come from the catastrophe of COVID-19? Might the epic insecurity of a plague teach us something about national security? Political scientist Micah Zenko calls the current pandemic “the worst intelligence failure in U.S. history.” Former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman...
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CIA’s Haspel All But Confirms Russian Bounty Reports
On Monday, Gina Haspel made a rare public statement. It contained both a small favor and a veiled rebuke to President Trump. It was an intelligence agency kind of statement: opaque in verbiage but clear in meaning if you know the coded language of White House-Langley relations. The CIA director didn’t comment on the multiplying...
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Spies Wanted: CIA Turns to Online Streaming to Recruit New Officers
“Since becoming director, I prioritized how, where, and whom we recruit to be the next generation of CIA officers,” said CIA Director Gina Haspel in a recent news release. “Advertising on streaming services is an important step forward to reach talented Americans with the diversity of experiences we require to continue to be the world’s...