In 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu claimed an intelligence coup. Mossad agents, he said had broken into a warehouse in Tehran and stolen a vast archive of Iran’s nuclear program. The purloined documents, Netanyahu said, showed that Iran lied about its intentions to obtain nuclear weapons. Israel shared the documents with U.S. officials arguing...
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How (Not) To Report On Russian Disinformation
From Aric Toler at bellingcat, a short course in how read news stories about Russian disinformation. Case in point: a bad New York Times story that hyped a Swedish blogger all out proportion. To be sure, there is such a thing as Russian disinformation, and it warrants coverage from journalists and researchers. However, the way...
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Did the CIA’s Notorious Mind Control Program Create an Infamous Killer?
One of the best books about the world of secret intelligence in the past year is Stephen Kinzer’s Poisoner in Chief, a biography of Sidney Gottlieb, the countercultural chemist who ran the CIA’s notorious MKULTRA program that experimented on unwitting subjects in search of ways to manipulate human behavior. Kinzer recently spoke to Michael Isikoff...
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U.S. Indicts for Maduro Leading a Fictional ‘Cartel of the Suns’
The U.S. government has a long history of manipulating drug trafficking charges to advance geopolitical agenda. From 1975 to the late 1980s, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was on the CIA payroll. U.S. intelligence knew that Noriega permitted the Colombian cartels to ship cocaine through his country in return for huge cash payments. His drug activities...
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India’s RAW Roped in to Coronavirus Tracing
As India locks down in the face of the global pandemic, the country’s intelligence service, the Research & Analysis Wing, is being recruited into tracing possibly infected people. India’s tracing campaign is far more aggressive than anything mounted in the United States. Out of 1,350 persons known to have attended a religious gather, 1,282 had...