Jon Bateman, assistant to Gen. Joseph Dunford, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the US intelligence must...
HAPPENING NOW:
How the Insurrectionists Breached the Capitol
In the Face of the Fascist Threat, an Epic US Intelligence Failure
Behind the IRGC-Hezbollah Alliance, Soleimani Bonded With Mugniyeh’s Family
Former U.S. Defense Secretaries Warn Against a Military Coup
Россия: Главное разведывательное управление (ГРУ)
Among the Most Popular Stories of 2020: JFK Records Suit Tests CIA Secrecy
‘Eyes in the Sky’: The Scary Realities of Wide Area Surveillance
中国:国家安全部(MSS)
Inside The Five Eyes: ‘Like a Moon Base’
Will U.S. See a Rural Insurgency?
Bellingcat: FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning
Россия: Федеральная Служба Безопасности (ФСБ)
RIP: Jerrold Post, CIA Profiler Who Said Trump Was a ‘Malignant Narcissist’
Iran’s Intelligence Service (in Farsi ایران: وزارت اطلاعات و امنیت ( واجا) و سپاہ پاسداران انقلاب جمھوری ایران (سپاہ)
The Five Eyes See ‘Every Corner of the Globe’
美国:国家安全局(NSA)
The FBI, the Law, and the Growing Threat of Trump Terrorism
Pakistan’s ‘Deep State’: پاکستان: انٹر- سروسز انٹلی جینس (آئی ایس آئی)
Paradigm Shift by Pandemic
2020 Election
Time for Rethinking: U.S. National Security in an Age of Insurrection

How the Insurrectionists Breached the Capitol
Former U.S. Defense Secretaries Warn Against a Military Coup
The statement, published in the Washington Post, is a symptom of America’s imperiled democracy. Ten former Secretaries of Defense, including...
Will U.S. See a Rural Insurgency?
In a smart piece for Just Security, Vasabjit Banerjee looks at how rural insurgencies have emerged in countries around the...
The FBI, the Law, and the Growing Threat of Trump Terrorism
Jeff Stein at SpyTalk on the release of two Trumpster terror suspects in Washington DC. Had their names been Ahmed...
MuckRock on Transparency and the Transition Away from Trump
MuckRock is a collaborative news site that gives you the tools to hold the government accountable. From our friends at...
All About Avril Haines, Biden’s Pick for the Top U.S. Intelligence Job
Avril Haines is President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to run the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). if confirmed,...
Who Will Biden Pick to Run the CIA?
President-Elect Joe Biden is looking for a CIA director. In CounterPunch.org, former CIA officer Mel Goodman runs down where past...
How One Small U.S. Agency Is Hobbling the President-Elect Biden’s Pandemic Team
Update: as November 12, the Washington Post reports, that ” Emily Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, still hasn’t...
As Trump Cabal Plots a Coup, Rubio Defends Haspel at CIA
CIA director Gina Haspel (Credit: Politico) This subtext of this POLITICO story is: how does Senator Marco Rubio stand up...
Misinformation 2020 Was Made-in-USA; Russia’s Role Was Tiny
Just how polluted is the news environment during the 2020 presidential election ? A new study, reporting in DefenseOne,...
Trump’s ‘Incendiary’ Words Light No Fires–So Far
After a summer in which Attorney General Bill Barr dispatched unidentified federal agents to confront racial justiice protesters in Portland...
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美国:中央情报局 (CIA)
From Top World Intelligence Agencies In the News Translation: In English: CIA 作为世界上最大的情报机构,中央情报局通过每日简报和国家安全委员会向总统提供建议,并在美国境外开展秘密行动。这些活动包括:间谍活动、反间谍活动、网络攻击、准军事行动及通过无人机战争进行有针对性的刺杀。 中央情报局成立于1947年,成立至今的70余年里,一直着手干预他国事务。一位学者的研究发现,1946年至2000年间,在81个国家存在的选举干预事件中,中央情报局大多扮演着主导角色。 中央情报局最臭名昭著的行动包括推翻危地马拉和伊朗政府,二十世纪五十年代及六十年代针对外国领导人的暗杀阴谋,麦库特拉(MKULTRA)精神控制实验,以及与联邦调查局合作实施的,针对国内外自由主义者、左翼分子及民权领袖的反情报计划(COINTELPRO)。 该机构领导了美国所谓的“反恐战争”。中央情报局官员曾于事件发生五周前警告乔治·W·布什(George W. Bush)总统,奥萨马·本·拉登(Osama Bin Laden)“决定在2001年9月11日之前在美国境内进行袭击”。袭击后,中央情报局准军事部队领导了美国入侵阿富汗。...