CIA

Netflix’s The Diplomat marks the first time that the British Foreign Office and the US State Department have made a...
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As a private citizen, the options for suing an intelligence agency are few and far between.  The US Central Intelligence Agency, as with other members of the secret club, pour scorn on such efforts.  To a degree, such a dismissive sentiment is understandable: Why sue an agency for its bread-and-butter task, which is surveillance? This […]

Pendant deux décennies, la CIA a mené à Montréal des expériences de manipulation mentale qui ont ensuite influencé les techniques modernes d’« interrogatoire renforcé », telles que celles utilisées à Abou Ghraib. La CIA continue de ne pas les reconnaître. Source : Jacobin, Spencer NafekhTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Depuis sa création en […]

On Monday a New York Judge Loretta Preska ruled that the infamous “Epstein Client List” must be released “in full” in January 2024. The 51-page ruling has caused a stir, but what is it really going to tell us? Is it going to reveal anything of his ties to US and Israeli intelligence? Highly improbable. …

It is hard for those who have not lived through the shattering political assassinations of the 1960s to grasp their significance for today.  Many might assume that that was then and long before their time, so let’s move on to what we must deal with today.  Let some old folks, the obsessive ones, live in […]
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From 1983 until 2021, Carl Gershman served as director of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was established by Congress to take over the CIA’s covert propaganda initiatives. The NED packages itself as a champion of human rights, though it finances groups that primarily publicize the atrocities—both real and imagined—of U.S. government enemies in […]

In early November, the leadership and board of Consortium News, the independent news site, filed a major lawsuit against the federal government and NewsGuard Technologies, Inc. NewGuard at first glance looks like a media watchdog organization, a group that seeks to keep misinformation and disinformation out of the mainstream. That notion is quickly dispelled, however, […]

Hunt Was Among Victims of a United Airlines Flight That Crashed in Chicago on December 8, 1972, Soon After Richard Nixon’s Re-Election Dorothy Hunt’s life of adventure and privilege came to a tragic end at the age of 52 on December 8, 1972, when United Airlines Flight 553 crashed into a suburban home near Chicago’s […]

On December 10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.” Webb’s death was listed as a suicide, but Webb was found […]

Between 2018 and 2022, three major OSS spies have been canonised in film and TV – Julia Child, Moe Berg...
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