Once again the Iranian intelligence services have demonstrated the ability to penetrate U.S. intelligence. A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia has indicted Monica Witt, a former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence officer, for espionage on behalf of the Government of Iran. Four Iranians were also charged with acting on behalf of the Iranian...
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How the CIA Overthrew Iran’s Democracy
NPR’s new history podcast Throughline, hosted by Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, covers the 1953 coup against Iran’s elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh as the topic of its first episode: How The CIA Overthrew Iran’s Democracy in 4 Days.
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MuckRock’s Nine Years of Uncovering Secrets
The full-service investigative site MuckRock is nine years old, an apt moment to celebrate its remarkable journalistic achievement. Founder Michael Morisy had the ingenious idea of automating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process, so that anybody could take advantage of open government laws at the federal or state level. These laws are quite strong...
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‘Paint the X:’ Fallen Cryptological Technician Targeted ISIS
Shannon Kent was one of four Americans killed in a suicide bombing in Syria last month. The New York Times profiles her work as cryptological technician who worked linked the National Security Agency to the Syrian battlefront. She was an intelligence officer. Cryptology is code breaking; sigint is signals intelligence, like intercepting and interpreting phone calls and...
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The Only Intelligence Chief Who Didn’t Contradict Trump Has Retired
Robert Cardillo has retired as the chief of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGA is the most obscure $5 billion a year organization that you never heard and the departing Cardillo has a knack for avoiding the news. Cardillo, almost alone among the U.S. intelligence chiefs who testified on Capitol HIll this week, did not contradict...