Last month I reported that the planned Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations had received $10 million grant for a showcase building in northern Virginia. Given the CIA”s lengthy record of unsuccessful operations that harmed U.S. interests and values, I questioned whether the museum was a good idea. Now Richmond Times Dispatch is asking the...
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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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NBA Star Has Reason to Fear Turkey’s Intelligence Service
Enes Kanter, a six foot eleven star basketball player for the New York Knicks, won’t play an NBA game in London later this month because he fears the Turkish government may attempt to kill him. The Turkish native, a critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will not accompany his team to face the Washington Wizards...
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Republicans Ask for Update on Justice Department’s FISA Review
For the past nine months, a senior Justice Department official has been reviewing FBI and DOJ compliance with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Now three Republican members of Congress want to know what he has learned. Last March Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed John Huber, U.S. Attorney for Utah, to investigate alleged “irregularities” in...