In his TK News Substack newsletter, Matt Taibbi compares the relationship between U.S. news organizations and the intelligence community in 2014 and today. Fast forward seven years. Julian Assange is behind bars, and may die there. Snowden is in exile in Russia. Brennan, Clapper, and Hayden have been rehabilitated and are all paid contributors...
Category: Agencies
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A Short Course in the CIA’s Use of Torture
From What does it take to excite America’s moral nerve endings? Bombing kids with cluster bombs or shredding wedding parties with drone attacks doesn’t seem to do it any more. Nor does torture. Oh, sure, there was a collective gasp when lurid photos of American soldiers laughing as they prodded naked Iraqi captives with electrodes...
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MSE: Agência de Controle Social
MSS in Simplified Chinese | MSS in English Há poucas agências de inteligência com uma agenda mais ambiciosa do que a do Ministério de Segurança do Estado da China. O MSE é responsável pelas missões de inteligência externa e contraespionagem do governo, assim como pelos programas de segurança interna. Apesar dos relatos de tumultos internos,...
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Sidney Gottlieb: Mastermind of MKULTRA
“He was creator and destroyer, an outlaw who served power, a gentle hearted torturer… above all he was an instrument of history,” writes Stephen Kinzer of Sidney Gottlieb, chief of the CIA’s mind control program notoriously known as MKULTRA. The revelations of Kinzer’s fascinating and disturbing biography, Poisoner in Chief, are unsettling enough. Kinzer, former...
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भारत की अनुसंधान और विश्लेषण विंग (रॉ)
परिचय अनुसंधान और विश्लेषण विंग (रॉ) खुफिया जानकारी जुटाने, प्रतिवाद, आतंकवाद का मुकाबला करने, परमाणु सुरक्षा और नीति निर्माताओं को सलाह देने के लिए जिम्मेदार है। जब 1968, में स्थापित रॉ ने सज्जन पेशेवरों को तैनात किया जिन्होंने कश्मीर से सिक्किम तक अद्भुत सफलताएं हासिल की, संगठन की असाधारण विफलताएं भी हुई हैं, जिसमें एक...
