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Russia’s FSB reveals identity of CIA Moscow station chief

May 17, 2013

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Russia’s Federal Security Service has publicly revealed the identity of a man it calls the CIA station chief in Moscow, in what experts say is a serious breach of intelligence protocol. A man claimed by FSB to be Ryan Fogle sits in the FSB offices in Moscow Photo: AP By Tom Parfitt, Moscow 3:13PM BST 17 […]

‘Frankly, I’d just as soon not use this’: Emails show the then CIA-chief David Petraeus objected to Obama administration’s version of Benghazi terror attack events

May 15, 2013

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The White House on  Wednesday released 100  pages of emails detailing discussion inside the  administration over last year’s  deadly attacks on a U.S. diplomatic  compound in Benghazi, Libya Among the details, the documents show that  then-CIA Director David  Petraeus objected to the final version that U.N.  Ambassador Susan Rice  used five days after the assault […]

Afghan President Hamid Karzai admits to millions of dollars of US payments to national security

April 29, 2013

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  Monday, 29 April 2013 Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that his national security team has been receiving payments from the US government for the past 10 years. Mr Karzai confirmed the payments when he was asked about a story published in The New York Times, which cited high-level Afghan officials saying the […]

Millions in CIA “ghost money” paid to Afghan president’s office -NYT

April 28, 2013

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Source: Reuters – Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:43 AM Author: Reuters April 29 (Reuters) – Tens of millions of U.S. dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, according to the New York Times, citing […]

US drones target low-level militants who pose no threat

April 10, 2013

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Top secret documents show that half of those killed in a year were ‘unknown extremists’ Terri Judd Wednesday, 10 April 2013 The US government was accused of hiding the truth about its drone programme after leaked intelligence files revealed that it was targeting unidentified militants who posed no immediate threat to the United States. Despite […]

CIA recording every Facebook Msg, Tweet…

March 21, 2013

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    Thursday, 21 March 2013     Just days after the CIA inked a $600-million cloud computing contract with Amazon, chief technology officer Gus Hunt admitted that the agency is trying to amass as much data as it can, hold it indefinitely and use it for analysis in the future.       In […]

U.S. to give security services access to citizens’ financial data

March 13, 2013

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  Mar 14, 2013 05:58 Moscow Time The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has announced plans to allow special services access to financial data of all citizens who have accounts in the U.S.. This applies to both Americans and foreigners. Reportedly, the goal is to deal a blow to financing of terrorist organizations and […]

John Brennan as Counterterror Czar Gave Bogus Intel to Bush White House

March 8, 2013

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EEV: Reposted as per request from 01 OCT 2012 Obama’s Counterterror Czar Gave Bogus Intel to Bush White House As head of the multi-agency Terrorist Threat Integration Center in 2003 and 2004, John Brennan, now counterterrorism adviser to President Obama, disseminated to the Bush White House a stream of CIA intelligence from a bogus source, […]

Cancer: “epidemic” among anti-US Latin American leaders?

March 7, 2013

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EEV: Interesting to see how it is seen from the other side. John Robles Mar 8, 2013 01:26 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Before his death during many public speeches Hugo Chavez called cases of cancer among presidents throughout Latin America an “epidemic” and a strange and alarming phenomenon. Not only was cancer spreading with non-coincidental […]

CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou given more than two years in prison

January 25, 2013

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Judge says former intelligence officer who exposed aspects of use of torture should have been jailed for longer   Former CIA officer John Kiriakou leaves a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP The former CIA officer John Kiriakou was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison, by a federal judge who […]

Family of Cold War bioweapons expert say he was drugged with LSD and pushed from window by CIA operatives as part of top-secret program

November 29, 2012

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By  Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press PUBLISHED: 22:24 EST, 28  November 2012 |  UPDATED: 22:24 EST, 28 November 2012 Murdered? Frank Olson was long through to have jumped to  his death in 1959, but his sons now say he was pushed A new lawsuit has dredged up a 60-year-old  Cold War mystery surrounding the […]

Shifting account of CIA’s Libya talking points fuels Rice controversy: Fourth Different Story from the same people

November 28, 2012

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By Tabassum Zakaria and Mark HosenballPosted 2012/11/28 at 11:37 pm EST WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2012 (Reuters) — When U.S. intelligence officials testified behind closed doors two weeks ago, they were asked point blank whether they had altered the talking points on which U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice based her comments about the Benghazi attacks that have […]

Dianne Feinstein threatens to subpoena former CIA director after he pulls out of appointment to give evidence about Benghazi attack

November 12, 2012

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Top Democrat warns Petraeus could face subpoena to force him to give  evidence about Benghazi to Senate after he cancels testimony following  resignation Dianne  Feinstein threatens to subpoena former CIA director after he pulls out of  appointment to give evidence about Benghazi attack Replacement  will speak instead but Petraeus promises to testify in  future His […]

Eric Holder ‘knew of David Petraeus affair’ for months but kept it secret until the day of the American election?

November 12, 2012

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The crisis over General David Petraeus’s resignation reached President Barack Obama’s cabinet for the first time on Monday as it was alleged that the US attorney general knew about the affair for months but kept it secret until the day of the American election. By Raf Sanchez, Washington 3:49PM GMT 12 Nov 2012 Eric Holder, […]

Did Petraeus mistress reveal new Benghazi details?

November 12, 2012

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Engineering Evil: Initial video used by the FP was removed. We had to find a duplicate: Prisoner detail begins at about 1:17 Posted By Blake Hounshell Sunday, November 11, 2012 – 9:56 PM So here is a bizarre twist in the David Petraeus resignation saga. Paula Broadwell, the biographer revealed as the woman having a secret affair […]

Petraeus ‘flew mistress to Paris for a trip that was funded by the government’ after he was named CIA chief

November 11, 2012

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By Hayley Peterson and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:00:00 EST, 11  November 2012| UPDATED:20:26 EST, 11 November 2012   David Petreaus took his mistress with him on  a government funded trip to Paris after he was named director of the Central  Intelligence Agency, according to news reports. Petraeus made the trip with 40-year-old Paula  Broadwell, who […]

David Petraeus: Did FBI Compromise National Security for Obama Re-election?

November 11, 2012

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Broadwell was embedded with soldiers in Afghanistan for a year By Geetha Pillai: Subscribe to Geetha’s RSS feed November 11, 2012 5:59 AM GMT David Petraeus resigns as CIA director. Image: Twitter The FBI withheld the information that former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) David Petraeus was having an extramarital affair and was […]

Yet more security concerns emerge about Paula Broadwell’s access to Petraeus:” disregarded normal CIA security procedures”

November 11, 2012

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Yet more security concerns emerge about Paula Broadwell’s access to Petraeus By Max Fisher , Updated: November 10, 2012 CIA Director David Petraeus (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Newly reported information about CIA Director David Petraeus’s alleged affair with Paula Broadwell, the military intelligence officer who also co-wrote a biography of the retired general, has […]

Anonymous Hackers may have hacked Former CIA Director David Petraeus

November 11, 2012

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Posted by Mohit Kumar on 11/10/2012 10:55:00 PM | CIA Director was uncovered when a woman described as close to him received harassing emails and complained to authorities. The FBI traced the emails and found that they had been sent by Paula Broadwell, who wrote a highly favorable book on the former Army general’s life […]

FBI probe of Petraeus triggered by e-mail threats from biographer to another woman

November 10, 2012

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By Sari Horwitz and Greg Miller, Updated: Saturday, November 10, 2:05 PM The collapse of the impressive career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him, according to three senior law enforcement officials with knowledge of […]

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