Category Archives: CIA

Evidence That Afghan Leaders Are On CIA Payroll

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 31, 2010
Source: Evidence That Afghan Leaders Are On CIA Payroll By James Cogan There are, however, no reasons to doubt that the claims are true. The CIA’s operations in Afghanistan date back to the late 1970s and 1980s, when it financed and armed Islamist groups that were fighting the Soviet military occupation of the country. Several [...]
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Fidel Castro claims Osama bin Laden ‘is a bought and paid for CIA agent’

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 28, 2010
Source: Mail Online Cuban leader Fidel Castro has claimed Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden is a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent. The country’s former president has said that the world’s most wanted terrorist always popped up when former US President George W Bush needed to scare the world, and argued that recently published documents on the [...]
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CIA Launches New Counterproliferation Center

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 20, 2010
Source: Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta has announced the creation of CIA’s Counterproliferation Center (CPC).  This new unit will combine operational and analytic specialists dedicated to combating the spread of dangerous weapons and technology, allowing for even greater collaboration and information sharing on a top intelligence priority. Building on the success of proven [...]
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CIA Goes 14 Months Without Internal Watchdog

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 8, 2010
Source: FOXNews.com More than a year after the CIA’s inspector general stepped down, frustrated members of Congress are urging the White House to fill the internal watchdog position that was central in uncovering abuses inside the spy agency. Several possible candidates have fallen by the wayside despite assurances from the Obama administration that a nominee [...]
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Industrial Espionage: How the CIA got the world to buy American during the Cold War

By Gideon Swift | Published: May 25, 2010
Source: Slate Magazine After being rejected by a number of large publishers, John Perkins sold his memoirs to a smallish press called Berrett Koehler in 2004. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man—equal parts political exposé and James Bond novel—recounts his role in what he claims is a carefully choreographed effort by the U.S. government to [...]
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CIA moonlights in corporate world

By Gideon Swift | Published: February 5, 2010
In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned. In one case, these active-duty officers [...]
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Intel officer: CIA officers’ deaths will be avenged

By Gideon Swift | Published: January 1, 2010
An American intelligence official vowed Thursday that the United States would avenge a suspected terrorist attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan that resulted in the deaths of seven CIA officers. Two of those killed were contractors with private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater, a former intelligence official told CNN. The CIA considers [...]
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CIA Secret Prison Found Outside Vilnius, Lithuania

By Gideon Swift | Published: November 19, 2009
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week. Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA installed a concrete structure where it could [...]
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CIA Wins Epic Turf Battle With Intelligence Czar

By Gideon Swift | Published: November 13, 2009
The CIA has decisively won a long-running turf fight with the director of national intelligence, the CIA’s ostensible boss, over who will be the top U.S. intelligence representatives in foreign countries, NEWSWEEK has learned. According to a White House ruling, in every country where U.S. intelligence agencies operate, the CIA’s station chief will continue to [...]
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Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

By Gideon Swift | Published: November 5, 2009
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK’s ambassador [...]
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