The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Our Man in Iran How the CIA and MI6 installed the Shah Leon Hadar Reason.com | February 16, 2013 The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations, by Ervand Abrahamian, The New Press, 277 pages, $26.95. Both the critics and the admirers of the Central Intelligence Agency have tended to portray …
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Annals of National Security The Gray Zone How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh The New Yorker, 24 May 2004 EXTRACT By fall, according to the former intelligence official, the senior leadership of the C.I.A. had had enough. “They said, ‘No way. We signed up for the core program …
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At Least 20 CIA Prisoners Still Missing by Cora Currier ProPublica, Feb. 13, 2013, 7 a.m. In one of President Barack Obama first acts in the White House, he ordered the closure of the CIA’s so-called “black-site” prisons, where terror suspects had been held and, sometimes, tortured. The CIA says it is “out of the …
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How to Start a Battalion (in Five Easy Lessons) Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from Syria London Review of Books, Vol. 35 No. 4 · 21 February 2013 EXTRACT: ‘We reached a point in the fighting, in spring 2012, when we needed proper support. We needed heavy machine guns, real weapons. Money was never an issue: how …
Italy’s ex-spy chief convicted over 2003 CIA rendition Italy’s former intelligence chief Nicolo Pollari has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the rendition of a terror suspect. The court in Milan also sentenced his former deputy Marco Mancini to nine years in jail over the 2003 kidnapping. Italy’s courts have …
MILNET passing this around. Brennan-led secret raids may have led to Benghazi retaliation, book claims EXTRACT “Brennan waged his own unilateral operations in North Africa outside of the traditional command structure,” the book says, calling it an “off the books” operation not coordinated with Petraeus and the CIA. The authors then claim that these raids …
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This offers a brilliant analysis, a “connecting of the dots,” of why Petreaus was set up to leave CIA. But that’s not the main story. The general’s affair was cover used by Obama for getting rid of Petraeus to install Brennan for a special purpose: “If Brennan were to succeed Petraeus at the C.I.A., the …
