List of CIA articles
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GettyImages-522579114crop The U.S. Wants To Design Safer Anti-Aircraft Missiles for Syria’s Rebels
It’s not going very well.
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GettyImages-84937788crop Pakistani Spies May Have Funded 2009 Suicide Bombing Targeting CIA Outpost
The ISI allegedly funneled $200,000 to the Haqqani Network to strike Forward Operating Base Chapman.
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Syrian opposition fighters from the Syrian Free Army fire a home-made rocket launcher connected to a tractor in the Sheikh Maqsud neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 2, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ISMAIL ABDULRAHMAN / AFP / ISMAIL ABDULRAHMAN (Photo credit should read ISMAIL ABDULRAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: New CIA Plan to Arm Syrian Rebels as Ceasefire Crumbles
Ash Carter in India; new Somalia drone strikes; the age of ISIS body counts; and lots more
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GettyImages-509219408crop U.S. Spy Chiefs Think the World Is Pretty Much Going to Hell
From the Islamic State gaining strength in Libya to Kim Jong Un shopping some of the world’s most dangerous weapons, here are the top takeaways from a grim day with the nation’s top spooks.
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 10: U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) arrives for a Senate Intelligence Committee closed hearing, on Capitol Hill, September 10, 2013 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama will address the nation about Syria on Tuesday evening. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Exclusive: Top Intel Panel Staffer to Join Department of Homeland Security
A top congressional aide at the center of the bruising battle between the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee over the government’s use of torture is expected to take a senior position at the Department of Homeland Security, charged with funneling threat information to law enforcement agencies, state and local governments, and large corporations across the United States.
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FP-01-Final-Flat Could American Spooks Provoke War with Beijing?
U.S. intelligence agencies are turning spy missions into provocations in the South China Sea.
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GettyImages-497505872crop Paris Attacks Reopen Crypto Wars
From Apple to WhatsApp, tech companies are using sophisticated encryption technologies to thwart government spying. After Paris, top officials want to force firms to lower those walls.
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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 16: CIA Director John Brennan answers questions after delivering remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies November 16, 2015 in Washington, DC. Brennan spoke during the 6th annual "Global Security Forum" on the top challenges facing U.S. and global security and addressed questions related to Friday's terror attack in Paris. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Citing Paris Attack, CIA Director Criticizes Surveillance Reform Efforts
CIA Director John Brennan said Monday he suspects the Islamic State is currently working on more terrorist plots against the West following Friday’s attack in Paris that killed at least 129 people and injured hundreds more. He also criticized new privacy protections enacted after Edward Snowden’s disclosures about U.S. government surveillance practices.
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GettyImages-175684448 Former CIA Chief: Carson’s Instincts the Foreign-Policy Class of the GOP Presidential Field
Michael Hayden says Ben Carson is the most impressive GOP candidate when it comes to foreign policy.
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<> on February 19, 2009 in Fairfax, Virginia. Inside the CIA Red Cell
How an experimental unit transformed the intelligence community.
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GettyImages-160894404crop WikiLeaks Releases Snoozefest Documents from CIA Director’s Hacked Email
The documents were purloined by a self-described teenage stoner hacker.