When Gina Haspel, director of the CIA, gave her first public speech last fall at the University of Louisville, she mentioned in passing that she had gone to boarding school in England. Where? I wondered. The formative years of spies can illuminate the trajectory of their otherwise shadowy careers. James Angleton, the legendary chief of...
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Tag: Gina Haspel
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...
Behind Bolsonaro’s Meeting With CIA Director Gina Haspel
Not every head of state who visits Washington gets to meet with the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, but Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right president of Brazil, did. From a wire report: Bolsonaro also met with CIA director Gina Haspel at the spy agency’s headquarters in Virginia to convey the importance he places on “fighting...
Coats and Haspel: Trump Is ‘Engaged and Knowledgable’
You know those days at the office when you have to coddle your boss’s ego just because you’d like to keep your job? Gina Haspel and Dan Coats had that kind of day. They know the boss is cranky. Last month Trump rubbished Haspel’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee as “lame.” He griped about...
Why Trump Is Going After Dan Coats, Not Gina Haspel
Dan Coats, Director of the Office National Intelligence, is a low-key man in hot water, says The Washington Post. Coats got his start in Washington politics as a congressman from Indiana. In the 1980s he was sometimes confused with Dan Quayle, his fellow Hoosier in the House. Quayle was better looking than Coats but a much...