Chuck Spinney: Robert Parry on CIA within CIA Coup Against Jimmy Carler

Below is a very important report (all of it below the line), written by Robert Parry, one of the best investigative journalists in what is left of the news business. As I explained here, the most powerful form of conflict is the M&M strategy waged a the moral level of conflict. The M&M or Motherhood and Mismatch …

Former CIA Spy Jose Rodriguez’s Truly Sociopathic ’60 Minutes’ Interview

Former CIA Spy Jose Rodriguez’s Truly Sociopathic ’60 Minutes’ Interview By: Kevin Gosztola dissenter.firedoglake.com,  Monday April 30, 2012 Former head of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Counterterrorism Center and its former Deputy Director of Operations Jose Rodriguez appeared on CBS’ “60 Minutes” to flaunt his new book Hard Measures, which details how he came to …

Mini-Me: CIA Base Chief Convicted of Rendition in Italy Arrested in Panama — Are CIA’s Days of Impunity Over?

Huh? Ex-CIA Milan chief held in Panama over cleric abduction A former CIA station chief convicted by an Italian court of kidnapping a terror suspect has been detained in Panama, Italian officials say. Robert Seldon Lady was sentenced to nine years in jail for his involvement in the abduction of the man, an Egyptian cleric, …

Marcus Aurelius: Congress Cuts DoD Spies in Half — CIA Continues to Run Amok — + Clandestine/Analytic Meta-RECAP

Congress Smashes Pentagon’s New Den of Spies By Noah Shachtman WIRED Danger Room 05.21.13 7:29 PM If the Pentagon’s not careful, it’s going to find its new network of spies rolled up by Congress. The Defense Clandestine Service was supposed to be the Defense Department’s new squad for conducting “human intelligence” — classic, informant-based spying. …

Berto Jongman: CIA Rendition Flights Over 11,000 in Number, Over 1,600 Landed in UK

‘Conclusive proof’ CIA torture flights landed at Scottish airports Investigators believe they have found “conclusive” new proof that CIA-linked planes landed regularly in Scottish airports as part of the “extraordinary rendition” programme. The three airports which it is claimed were used as part of the “war on terror” are Aberdeen, Inverness and Wick.  A study, …