The company, Crypto AG, which sold encryption machines to countries around the world market, was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BN).. The two spy agencies rigged the company’s devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages. The...
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Ex-Officer: Haspel’s ‘Hero Worship’ of Trump Betrays the Agency Mission
A former CIA officer sounds off in the Just Security blog about Gina Haspel’s applause for President Trump during the State of the Union. Douglas London, a retired operations officer who now teaches at Georgetown University, wrote: Those of us who have worked with Haspel over the years had little expectation that she would push...
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Was Gina Haspel Sent to Presssure Palestinian Leader?
That’s the question raised by a report from the pro-Israel, pro-annexation Brooklyn-based The Jewish Press. The story might be an indicator that the Israelis want to replace the current Palestinian leadership with Palestinians more compliant with Israel’s expansionist ambitions. Some aspects of the story are confirmable. It is true that Haspel paid a visit to...
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Sen. Mark Warner Wants to Fund Huawei Competitors
Huawei or the highway? As that question divides the U.S. and U.K. intelligence communities, Sen. Mark Warner, ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has a solution to wean the United States from reliance on the Chinese telecom giant. The issue is whether Western governments can use Huawei’s technology to build their 5G networks, which...
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Haspel and Brennan Disagree on Assassinating Soleimani
Two CIA directors have two very different views about the legality of the U.S. assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani last month. In a detailed look at how U.S. policymakers have handled the question of assassinating enemies, the The New Yorker reports the views of current CIA director Gina Haspel. Intelligence officials told Trump that...