Vox Media reported on Monday that a bi-partisan statement was released by “more than 50 former top national security officials” which challenged the evidence Donald Trump has used to justify the declaration of a national emergency along the country’s southern border. The letter calls on Trump to provide that evidence using “his agencies’ own official...
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India: Pakistan’s Spy Agency Involved in Kashmir Bombing
A senior Indian military commander in Kashmir says Pakistan’s main spy agency was involved in a deadly bomb attack in the disputed region that killed more than 40 Indian troops last week. The car bomb attack, which was claimed by the Pakistan-based militant group the so-called Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), killed the Indian paramilitary troops on the outskirts of...
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How the CIA Overthrew Iran’s Democracy
NPR’s new history podcast Throughline, hosted by Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, covers the 1953 coup against Iran’s elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh as the topic of its first episode: How The CIA Overthrew Iran’s Democracy in 4 Days.
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France: General Board of External Security (DGSE)
(From Top World Intelligence Agencies) The Direction Générale De La Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) has focused its efforts on counterterrorism since a string of terror attacks in Paris in 2015. France has also stationed many intelligence officers in Africa, which became apparent in 2016 when three DGSE agents were killed in a helicopter crash in Libya. The...
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More on ‘Putin’s Chef’ and His Private Army Called Wagner
National Security Correspondent for NPR Greg Myre’s article analyzes the background of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the man dubbed “Putin’s Chef,” and his role in the Russian government. “He epitomizes a real renaissance man in contemporary Russia, which is to say that he runs some very high-end restaurants,” said Angela Stent, the head of Russian Studies at Georgetown...