From accuracy.org, former FBI agent Colleen Rowley on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: “Already on the day of September 11, 2001, some of us insiders knew some agonizing truth, that the horrible terrorist attacks of that day could have been easily prevented if FBIHQ had just read, shared and acted on the memos...
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Afghanistan: A Failure of U.S. Regime Change Policy
Let the buck passing begin. The military people say Aghanistan was an intelligence failure. The intelligence community says it was a policy failure. They are both right. Above all, it was a failure of U.S. “regime change” policy that arrogates to the United States the “right” to replace adversarial governments. “There is an old...
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A Perfectly Timed New Spy Thriller
From SpyTalk For espionage aficionados, Down Range has plenty of battlefield tradecraft and CIA intrigue. But Moore’s story is bigger: It bridges themes of corporate greed and big oil, drug traffickers, compromised businessmen and officials. The protagonist knows failure and regret, but faced with choices of good and evil, he’s looking for the decency that...
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Directors of CIA and Mossad Meet in Israel
So far we have mostly wire service coverage. The situation: The United States is seeking to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran, while Israel seeks to disrupt those talks. Israeli press offers unsubstantiated rumor while Iran reminds the United States it has escalatory powers with a barrage of Hezbollah rockets and Persian Gulf drone attack. Bill...
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How the CIA Plotted the ‘Accidental’ Death of Raul Castro
One of blackest of the black arts of espionage is the assassination operation designed to disguise who was reallly reponsible. Case in point: a CIA plot to kill Raul Castro, commander of the Cuban armed forces, by making it look like he died in a plane crash. Spoiler alert: this story is very well-documented. From...
