Tag: CIA

Iran executes Defence Ministry contractor convicted of spying for CIA

Zarvar was identified as a spy by the Defence Ministry’s intelligence unit, ISNA said. 

June 23, 2019

Pak ‘created terror groups to be tool’ against India: Ex-CIA director

Former CIA acting director Michael Morell, in a podcast discussion with Kurt Campbell and Rich Verma on Thursday, alleged that Pakistan is one of the most dangerous countries in the world.

May 3, 2019

Butchery sans frontiers

The subcontinent is today paying the price for the CIA-ISI sponsored religious extremism in the 1980's. Iran is not suitably vocal at the high-table of international diplomacy. India's recent tryst with Pulwama exposed its relative loneliness with the US spouting platitudes and China engaged in realpolitik. This opens the ground for civilisational, cultural and natural allies, such as Iran and India, to join hands and carve out a mutually beneficial bargaining-space in the emerging geopolitics of the region.

March 1, 2019

CIA Director to brief lawmakers on Jamal Khashoggi murder

The meeting will take place at 11 a.m. in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility in the basement of the Capitol Visitors Centre.

December 4, 2018

‘Steadfast partner’: Trump defends Saudi on Khashoggi killing, undermines CIA

The president refuted allegations that by taking such a decision, he was putting his personal and commercial interests ahead of national interests.

November 21, 2018

Saudi Crown Prince ordered journalist Khashoggi’s killing: CIA

Investigators also believed that an operation such as the one that ended in Khashoggi's death would not have happened without Salman's knowledge.

November 17, 2018

VHP warns CIA of campaign over ‘militant organisation’ tag in its factbook

After being branded as a militant outfit by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of United States, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Friday threatened to launch an international movement against the US intelligence agency. VHP has warned the CIA to change its classification of the Hindu group as a religious militant organisation asserting that it …

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June 15, 2018

Donald Trump praises Haspel as she becomes CIA’s first female director

US President Donald Trump praised Gina Haspel, who has taken over as the first-ever woman director at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). At the swearing-in ceremony on Monday at CIA headquarters in Langley, in the state of Virginia, Trump said Haspel is “someone who has served this agency with extraordinary skill and devotion,” adding that …

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May 22, 2018

Ken Burns, Vietnam, and the crossover point

Fifty years ago, the Tet Offensive raged across South Vietnam, obliterating President Lyndon Johnson’s (LBJ) confident claims of victory around the corner and marking a turning point in that deceit-ridden war. The standard American wisdom, which Ken Burns’ new Vietnam TV series echoes, is that Tet for the US was a military victory because the …

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February 11, 2018

Never once heard of Indian state-sponsored terrorism, says former CIA chief

In what appears to be a slap on the face of Pakistan, former CIA director David Petraeus rejected the theory of ‘India-sponsored terrorism’. The former commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was responding to a question directed at soon-to-be foreign secretary S Jaishankar at the Raisina Dialogue at New Delhi. “As director of …

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January 19, 2018

CIA Director defends Trump’s mental abilities

CIA Director Mike Pompeo has come to US President Donald Trump’s rescue, defending his mental abilities in the wake of a controversial book that expressed serious doubts about the President’s ability to govern the nation. “Those statements are just absurd,” CNN quoted Pompeo as saying on Sunday. When he delivers information to Trump almost daily, …

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January 8, 2018

Putin calls Trump to thank CIA for sharing terrorist info

Russian President Vladimir Putin called US President Donald Trump to express gratitude to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s information that helped foil terrorist attack attempts in St Petersburg, the Kremlin said on Sunday. Russia’s Federal Security Service said Friday that it detained seven Islamic State supporters earlier this week for plotting to blow up the …

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December 18, 2017

Iran refutes CIA ‘fake news’ in bin Laden files

Iran on Friday accused the CIA of spreading “fake news” about Tehran’s support for the Al Qaeda, describing the claims as an attempt to “whitewash” the truth about the role US allies had in the September 11, 2001, attacks. “A record low for the reach of petrodollars: CIA & FDD fake news w/ selective Al …

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November 3, 2017

CIA releases files recovered in Osama bin Laden raid

The CIA has released a thousands of files seized during the May 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, including personal photographs of his family and insight into the Al Qaeda’s global leadership, the media reported. The massive amount of new material released on Wednesday containes nearly 470,000 items totalling 321 gigabytes …

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November 2, 2017

Conspiracy that won’t go away

Like so many of his boasts, the JFK files released by Donald Trump did not quite live up to its promise. “I am ordering today that the veil finally be lifted”, he said. In reality, there was not an awful lot of interest behind the veil. But that may be to do with him caving …

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October 29, 2017

Trump delays release of some ‘sensitive’ Kennedy assassination files

The National Archives will release 2,800 records about the assassination of president John F Kennedy, but is delaying the publication of some “sensitive” files, administration officials said. President Donald Trump agreed to delay the release of some documents related to the November 22, 1963 assassination at the request of the CIA, FBI and other agencies, …

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October 27, 2017

Did US intelligence agency try to protect Mahatma: PIL in SC

  Did the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II and a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), try to protect Mahatma Gandhi? This question is one among many raised before the Supreme Court in a petition which has sought the re-opening of investigation into …

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October 1, 2017