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US treasury hacked by foreign government group
The Guardian - Sun Dec 13, 2020
Hackers backed by a foreign government have been monitoring internal email traffic at the US treasury department and an agency that decides internet and telecommunications policy, according to people familiar with the matter. More»

Chilling role of 'the Preacher' confirmed at CIA waterboarding hearing in Guantánamo
The Guardian - Sun Jan 26, 2020
There were three men authorised by the CIA to carry out waterboarding on detainees in America's "war on terror". More»

The Secret History Of Fort Detrick, The CIA’s Base For Mind Control Experiments
Politico - Sun Sep 15, 2019
In 1954, a prison doctor in Kentucky isolated seven black inmates and fed them “double, triple and quadruple” doses of LSD for 77 days straight. More»

'I hated myself after abuse at Abu Ghraib'
BBC - Tue May 15, 2018
Gina Haspel has paved the way for her confirmation as new CIA director, after repudiating torture tactics used in the past. More»

Rex Tillerson: a rocky road with Trump that ended with a surprise firing
The Guardian - Mon Mar 12, 2018
Rex Tillerson's last significant act as secretary of state was characteristically out of tune with the White House. More»

CIA rendition flights from rustic North Carolina called to account by citizens
The Guardian - Wed Jan 17, 2018
A year after he was released from captivity in Guantánamo, Binyam Mohamed received a letter from Christina Cowger, an agricultural researcher from North Carolina. More»

Trump Administration Is Mulling A Pitch For A Private Spy Network
BuzzFeed - Thu Nov 30, 2017
WASHINGTON - The White House and CIA have been considering a package of secret proposals to allow former US intelligence officers to run privatized covert actions, intelligence gathering, and propaganda missions, according to three sources who've been briefed on or have direct knowledge of the proposals. More»

Background to "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections": The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution
CIA - Thu Jan 5, 2017
"Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections" is a declassified version of a highly classified assessment that has been provided to the President and to recipients approved by the President. More»

FBI Now Agrees With The CIA: Russia Intervened To Help Trump Win The Election
Raw Story - Thu Dec 15, 2016
Another shoe just dropped in the 2016 presidential election Russian hacking scandal: It seems the FBI and the CIA now agree that Russia's goal with the hacks of the DNC and Clinton campaign official John Podesta was to help Donald Trump win. More»

Ex-CIA officer: Trump's 'horrifying" incompetence poses worst threat to US since the Civil War
Raw Story - Tue Dec 13, 2016
Veteran CIA officer Glenn Carle said in an interview with Radio Boston that the widening rift between the intelligence agency and President-elect Donald Trump is a historic crisis. More»

Trump Taps Anti-Muslim, Pro-Torture Tea Partier Mike Pompeo To Run The CIA
Huffington Post - Thu Nov 17, 2016
Representative Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas) announced Friday that he will accept a nomination from President-elect Donald Trump to lead the CIA. More»

Yahoo 'secretly scanned the incoming emails of hundreds of millions of customers for the FBI and NSA'
Daily Mail - Mon Oct 3, 2016
Yahoo secretly scanned the emails of hundred of millions of customers, it has been revealed. More»

Fox News analyst who falsely claimed to be a CIA agent pleads guilty to fraud charges
Dead State - Fri Apr 29, 2016
Former Fox News analyst and self-described expert on terrorism Wayne Simmons pled guilty to charges of fraud for claiming he was a CIA special officer for nearly 30 years. More»

Victims Of CIA Torture Notch Historic Victory In Legal Battle
Think Progress - Sat Apr 23, 2016
A lawsuit against two psychologists behind the CIA's torture program moved forward on Friday, when a judge decided he could not throw out the case. More»

Trump says 'torture works,' backs waterboarding and 'much worse'
Washington Post - Mon Feb 1, 2016
BLUFFTON, South Carolina - Donald Trump went even further in his support of waterboarding and other barred interrogation techniques Wednesday, saying that as president he would use torture in the fight against terrorism. More»

US psychology group colluded with govt torture program
AFP - Fri Jul 10, 2015
Washington - The US's top psychology association colluded with the Pentagon and the CIA to devise ethical guidelines to support post-9/11 interrogation techniques that have since been labeled as torture, a report said Friday. More»

CIA Engaged in Human Experimentation in Its Torture Programs
The Guardian - Tue Jun 16, 2015
The Central Intelligence Agency had explicit guidelines for "human experimentation" before, during and after its post-9/11 torture of terrorism detainees, the Guardian has learned, which raise new questions about the limits on internal oversight over the agency's in-house and contracted medical research. More»

CIA sex abuse and torture went beyond Senate report disclosures, detainee says
The Guardian - Tue Jun 16, 2015
The US Central Intelligence Agency used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantánamo Bay detainee turned government cooperating witness. More»

American Psychological Association Collaborated with C.I.A. Torture Program, Report Says
New York Times - Wed Apr 29, 2015
WASHINGTON - The American Psychological Association secretly collaborated with the administration of President George W. More»

Cheney Calls Torture Report A Crock, Says He'd 'Do It Again In A Minute'
Think Progress - Sat Dec 13, 2014
Before the Senate Intelligence Committee's extensive report on the forms of torture used on Guantanamo Bay detainees was released this week, former Vice President Dick Cheney was already defending the CIA's actions. More»

Kings of torture who made $81m inflicting pain
Daily Mail - Fri Dec 12, 2014
Their names appear again and again in the US Senate's shocking report on CIA torture - two clinical psychologists who dreamt up ever more brutal ways to inflict humiliation and pain on uncharged prisoners kept in secret prisons. More»

Torture report reveals how Poland objected to CIA's secret jail on its soil - but became 'flexible' after being bought off with large cash payment
Daily Mail - Fri Dec 12, 2014
The US Senate Committee's torture report has claimed Poland initially objected to the CIA's secret prison on its soil but became 'flexible' after being bought off with a large sum of money. More»

The Psychology Profession Has Disowned the CIA's Two Torture Psychologists
Motherboard - Thu Dec 11, 2014
The largest group representing US psychologists calls the torture performed by the Central Intelligence Agency on terrorist suspects "sickening and morally reprehensible," formally distancing itself from the two members of the profession who consulted on the program. More»

Millions in CIA "ghost money" paid to Afghanistan president's office
Reuters - Mon Apr 29, 2013
Tens of millions of US 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, the New York Times says, citing current and former advisers to the Afghan leader. More»

CIA agent speaks out on 65th anniversary of Roswell 'UFO' landings
The Daily Mail - Mon Jul 9, 2012
A long-serving CIA agent has spoken out on the 65th anniversary of the Roswell Incident to reveal a hidden CIA file on the 'UFO' that was supposedly found at the site - and says, 'It really happened. More»

Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list"
Reuters - Wed Oct 5, 2011
WASHINGTON - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. More»

Council of Europe demands truth on CIA black sites
CNN - Mon Sep 5, 2011
Paris - The human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe urged countries that have hosted secret CIA prisons to come clean Monday, as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches. More»

How US firms profited from torture flights
The Guardian, UK - Wed Aug 31, 2011
The scale of the CIA's rendition programme has been laid bare in court documents that illustrate in minute detail how the US contracted out the secret transportation of suspects to a network of private American companies. More»

Revealed: Assange 'rape' accuser linked to notorious CIA operative
Raw Story - Mon Dec 6, 2010
One of the women that is accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). More»

Secret Papers Detail U.S. Aid for Ex-Nazis
New York Times - Fri Nov 12, 2010
WASHINGTON - A secret history of the United States government's Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a "safe haven" in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad. More»

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