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SOURCE: The Conversation
9/27/19
Spies in the White House Have a History of Running Wild Without Congressional Oversight
A former congressional staffer says withholding damning evidence from Congress and using civilians to carry out presidential or intelligence agency agendas links the Ukraine crisis to other scandals.
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SOURCE: Muck Rock
8/21/19
CIA instructed its historians to omit “embarrassing” details from the record
In a formerly SECRET “Dos and Don’ts” regulation for historical officers, Agency suggested “unflattering statements” be avoided.
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SOURCE: Chris Riback's Conversations
Accessed 8/9/19
2 New Podcast Episodes Discuss How the Republican Party became the Party of Trump and CIA "Black Sites"
Chris Riback in conversation with Tim Alberta and Philip Mudd.
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SOURCE: China Rising Radio Sinoland
7/2/19
Podcast Discusses History of the CIA
An examination of Douglas Valetine's The CIA As Organized Crime.
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6/16/19
The Cold War Spy and CIA Master of Disguise Writing the History of CIA Tactics in the Cold War
by Aleisha Smith
An interview with Jonna Mendez. A former Chief of Disguise with 27 years in the CIA, she discusses her latest book (co-authored with her husband Tony Mendez), her experience in the CIA, and her role at the Spy Museum.
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SOURCE: The American Historical Review
6/4/19
Frantz Fanon and the CIA Man
by Thomas Meaney
Based on an encounter with Fanon’s CIA handler, C. Oliver Iselin, Meaney presents the firsthand experience of a mid-level figure in the U.S. security state who participated in the national liberation movements in Africa.
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4/7/19
The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
by James Thornton Harris
The Ghost, a new biography of Angleton by Jefferson Morley, a Washington journalist, provides an intriguing look at this powerful, enigmatic Cold Warrior.
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SOURCE: History.com
3/12/19
Video of the Week: Julia Child from WW2 Agent to Legendary Chef
Before she became a world-famous chef, Julia Child worked for a top-secret U.S. intelligence agency, where she helped devise a recipe for shark repellent.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
12/17/2018
Communist Parades Gave the CIA What They Needed
Some of the best opportunities for Western intelligence to get a picture – literally – of Soviet capabilities were presented by the USSR itself at public military parades.
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SOURCE: Politico
11-28-18
The Forgotten Story of the Julian Assange of the 1970s
Decades before WikiLeaks, Philip Agee’s magazine blew the cover of more than 2,000 CIA officers.
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SOURCE: The Nation
8-22-18
NYU's Stephen F. Cohen continues to dismiss theories of Russian collusion
He says former CIA Director John Brennan's statements about Trump echo Jospeh McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover
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SOURCE: National Security Archives
8/10/18
Gina Haspel CIA Torture Cables Declassified
The CIA director described extended sessions of physical violence and waterboarding.
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8/19/18
What a New Study of British Spies Reveals About the CIA
by Rory Cormac
For one thing, it shows that during the Cold War the CIA often thought that MI6 adopted hare-brained schemes.
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SOURCE: Politico
5-22-18
When the CIA Infiltrated a Presidential Campaign
Trump’s allegations about FBI surveillance may be baseless. But it actually happened to Barry Goldwater.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
5-15-18
CIA Reveals Name of Former Spy in JFK Files—And He's Still Alive
Richard Gibson, an African American expat, was friends with Richard Wright.
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5/13/18
The Misleading Rationales for Gina Haspel's Nomination as CIA Director
by John Prados
They include her promise not to torture people.
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SOURCE: NYT
5/10/18
Gina Haspel Says C.I.A. ‘Historically’ Has Not Interrogated Subjects. History Shows Otherwise.
Fact check.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
4/26/18
Gina Haspel’s CIA Torture File
The Trump administration’s nominee to be CIA director, Gina Haspel, personally supervised the torture of a CIA detainee in 2002 leading to at least three waterboard sessions.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
4/6/18
CIA Debriefed Soviet H-Bomb Eye-Witness in 1957
Secret CIA interviews with defectors, former German POWs, and previously detained German scientists and technicians in the mid-1950s yielded invaluable insights into Soviet nuclear capabilities.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3-13-18
A woman atop the CIA was once unthinkable. But female spies have always been remarkable.
The CIA from its earliest days has acknowledged the gender inequities and has attempted to remedy them.
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