A leaked memo about a deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria in April 2018 differs from the official finding of the UN chemical inspections watchdog that the government of Bashar al-Assad was responsible. The sixteen-page document does not refute the official UN finding, published in March, that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe, that the...
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Denuclearization: Role of South Korea’s NIS
(From Top World Intelligence Agencies) The NIS has played an important role in assessing the state of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal and supporting President Moon Jae-in’s campaign to coax North Korea and the United States to reach an agreement to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and end the Korean war. The agency has also been embroiled in...
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What Is Gina Haspel Worth?
Financially, she’s well off, but hardly rich. The CIA director’s 2018 financial disclosure statement, posted by the Office of Government Ethics and flagged by Russ Kick, fits the profile of a career civil servant. Haspel sold a house in Virginia in June 2018 and netted somewhere between $250,000 and $500,00 dollars. She kept a lot...
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Bolton v. Trump: The Warmonger Leads the War-Wary
When National Security Adviser John Bolton recently demanded military plans to oust the government of Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela, Trump demurred, reportedly saying his national security adviser was trying to pull him “into a war.” When Bolton demanded “regime change” in Iran and the Pentagon produced a plan to put 120,000 troops into the region,...
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Mossad and the Rise of the VC-Spy Alliance
The growth of intelligence agencies in the 21st century has been powered by the development of new technologies, created by start-ups, which are powered by intelligence agencies. This unvirtuous circle of money and espionage is a new and daunting challenge for civil liberties and human rights groups. The U.S intelligence community has a venture capital...