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John Brennan

Where Trump and the Deep State Agencies Agree

It’s a paradox of impeachment politics. As President Trump faces charges of high crimes and misdemeanors in Congress, he denounces the alleged “deep state” cabal out to get him. His campaign is running a powerful online ad about the supposed conspiracy. It features footage of former CIA director John Brennan and former acting director John...

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Bashar al Assad

Syrian Intelligence Officers Charged for Torture and Executions

From The New York Times: “As Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, closes in on victory over an eight-year revolt, a secret, industrial-scale system of arbitrary arrests and torture prisons has been pivotal to his success. While the Syrian military, backed by Russia and Iran, fought armed rebels for territory, the government waged a ruthless war on...

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Inside SEBIN, Venezuela’s Powerful Intelligence Agency

At the heart of the struggle for power in Venezuela is SEBIN, the country’s premier security service. In late April, the United States hoped the defection of SEBIN director general Manuel Christopher Figuera would set up a popular uprising to oust embattled president Nicholas Maduro. That didn’t happen. SEBIN’s role, for better or worse, remains...

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El Helicoide

Venezuela’s Descent: From Shopping Mall to Torture Prison

El Helicoide, The Helix, is part of the DNA of Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. Dreamed up by three architects in the 1950s, El Helicoide was supposed to be a drive-through shopping mall for the country’s aspiring petro-oligarchy. Built on a hill in the heart of Caracas, the dramatic ocean liner-like edifice “embodied Venezuela’s...

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Ewen Cameron

Scottish Doctor Became the ‘Godfather of Modern Torture’ Working in Secret Wing Funded by CIA

Cameron is one of the godfathers of modern torture, whose work has been utilised in places like Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Northern Ireland, the Philippines and Chile, to name just a few. In the 1950s, Cameron, who was working in the United States and Canada, was funded by the CIA to develop and research sensory deprivation...