Tag: CIA
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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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
October 1, 2017 -
‘American Made’: Visually rustic and mildly thrilling
Film: American Made Director: Doug Liman Cast: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Alejandro Edda, Mauricio Mejia, Caleb Landry Jones, Jesse Plemons, Jayma Mays, Lola Kirke, William Mark McCullough, E. Roger Mitchell, Robert Farrior and Cuyle Carvin Rating: *** Director Dough Liman’s “American Made” is a good example of greed and the epic culture of...
September 28, 2017 -
WikiLeaks exposes CIA’s secret missile control system
WikiLeaks has released several documents of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) secret missile control system, the organisation announced. The project differed from the “usual” malware development project of the CIA, with no indication as to why it’s contained within a repository of hacking techniques, it said on Thursday. Almost every week since March, Wikileaks has...
September 8, 2017 -
China resorting to ‘coercive practices’ to achieve goals: CIA
China is increasingly resorting to "coercive, assertive practices" to achieve its goals in the Asia-Pacific region, as seen in the disputed South China Sea, a senior official of the US foreign intelligence service said. The remarks from Michael Collins, Deputy Assistant Director at the Central Intelligence Agency's East Asian Mission Centre, came as the Pentagon said...
July 25, 2017 -
‘Trump still doesn’t accept intelligence conclusion on Russia’
US President Donald Trump remains unconvinced that Russia attempted to influence the 2016 election, the newly-appointed White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci said. "He basically said to me, 'Hey you know, this is, maybe they did it, maybe they didn't do it,'" Scaramucci told CNN on Sunday night of a conversation he had with the President about...
July 24, 2017 -
Punjab cop caught in helping drug racket
Punjab Special Task Force (STF) on Monday arrested Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Inspector Inderjit Singh for being involving in nefarious activities with smugglers of narcotics. Punjab police said during 2013 and 2014, Inderjit had played a big role in providing protection to smugglers of narcotics operating in his jurisdiction. The prima-facie accuse himself was organising...
June 12, 2017 -
Russia interfered in 2016 US elections: Former CIA director
Former CIA director John Brennan told Congress that Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election won by Republican Donald Trump. Brennan, who served as CIA director from 2013 until January 20, told the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that Russia "brazenly interfered" in the elections, Efe news reported. Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in...
May 23, 2017 -
China crippled CIA by killing US sources: Media
At least 20 US spies were killed or imprisoned by the Chinese government between 2010 and 2012, crippling the country's information-gathering, a media report has said. It was not clear whether the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was hacked or whether a mole helped the Chinese to identify the agents, officials told the New York Times. ...
May 21, 2017 -
WikiLeaks a hostile agency helped by Russia: CIA
New CIA Director Mike Pompeo has termed whistle-blower collective WikiLeaks, whose leaking of classified documents have embarrassed the US, a "non-state hostile intelligence" agency which is often helped by Russia. In his first public address as the Central Intelligence Agency chief, Pompeo said "it is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is:...
April 14, 2017