APA Scrubs Pages Linking It to CIA Torture Workshops
Jeff Kaye | TheSeminal.com Like a modern-day Ministry of Truth, the American Psychological Association (APA) has scrubbed the webpage describing “deception scenarios” workshops that were part of a conference it conducted with the CIA and Rand Corporation on July 17-18, 2003. In addition, the APA erased the link to the page, and even all mention [...]
Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?
Paul Craig Roberts | InformationClearingHouse.com What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far removed from al-Qaida’s expertise in pulling off 9/11. If we are to believe the [...]
VF exclusive: Blackwater’s Erik Prince to step down, reveals CIA role
RawStory.com Power struggle’ inside Blackwater over Prince’s successor Blackwater’s Erik Prince was recruited as a CIA agent in the years after the 9/11 attacks, says an exclusive report at Vanity Fair that also reveals the billionaire ex-Navy SEAL plans to step down from Blackwater to teach high school. For the past six years, Prince “appears to have [...]
EXCLUSIVE: CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy
Matthew Cole and Brian Ross | ABCNews.com The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week. Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA [...]
Newly-Declassified CIA Histories Show Its Involvement in Every Aspect of the Indochina War
John Prados | GWU.edu The Central Intelligence Agency participated in every aspect of the wars in Indochina, political and military, according to newly declassified CIA histories. The six volumes of formerly secret histories (the Agency’s belated response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados) document CIA [...]
Ex-ISI Chief Says Purpose of New Afghan Intelligence Agency RAMA Is ‘to destabilize Pakistan’
Then Maj. Gen. Hamid Gul, Director General of the ISI (far left), with William Webster, Director of Central Intelligence, Clair George, Deputy Director for Operations, and Milt Bearden, CIA station chief, at a training camp for the mujahedeen in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province in 1987 (RAWA.org) Jeremy R Hammond | ForeignPolicyJournal.com In an exclusive [...]
CIA Director terminated secret program
AP | YahooNews.com CIA Director Leon Panetta has terminated a “very serious” covert program the spy agency kept secret from Congress for eight years, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a House Intelligence subcommittee chairwoman, said Friday. Schakowsky said she is pressing for an immediate committee investigation of the classified program, which has not been described publicly. Rep. [...]
CIA Director Admits Lying to Congress since at least 2001
DemocracyNow.org Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta has admitted the CIA has misled Congress on intelligence matters since at least 2001. On Wednesday, a group of seven Democratic lawmakers released a letter describing Panetta’s comments. House intelligence committee chair Silvestre Reyes said CIA officials “affirmatively lied” in a recent briefing on an unspecified matter.
Mousavi, Celebrated in Iranian Protests, Was the Butcher of Beirut
Jeff Stein | CQPolitics.com He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on the United States that included bloody attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut. Mousavi, prime minister for most of the 1980s, personally [...]
Flashback: Iran busts another CIA network
01/19/09 Mehr News Agency | Payvand.com Iran has broken up a CIA-backed network that sought to carry out a “soft revolution” in Iran through people-to-people contacts. The “soft revolution” plan is based in Dubai and is similar to a U.S. plan that targeted the Soviet Union in 1959, the director of the counterespionage department of [...]
CIA seeks laid-off bankers in N.Y. recruitment drive
Frederick H. Katayama | Reueters.com Laid off from Wall Street? The CIA wants you — as long as you can pass a lie detector test and show that you are motivated by service to your country rather than your wallet. The Central Intelligence Agency has been advertising for recruits and will be holding interviews on June [...]
Are the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated “Color Revolution?
Paul Craig Roberts | InfoWars.com A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of Terhan. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events. The claim is made that Ahmadinejad stole the election, because the outcome was [...]
US drone attacks cloaked in secrecy
With almost 700 civilians killed by their drone program in Pakistan, the CIA’s method for identifying their targets comes to light. Gareth Porter | AsiaTimes The United States Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA’s) refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks by remote-controlled unmanned Predator drones in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region, combined with recent revelations [...]
CIA head says Cheney almost wishing US be attacked
AP | YahooNews.com WASHINGTON – CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism almost suggests “he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.” Panetta told The New Yorker for an article in its June 22 issue that Cheney [...]
Obama Betrays The Liberals
Sherwood Ross | GlobalResearch.ca American liberals stand betrayed. Their new president, the one they sweated to elect—-a brilliant, charismatic leader with a professional background in constitutional law—has transmogrified himself from the champion who denounced in his campaign the illegalities of the Bush White House into a president bent on their perpetuation. Liberals are stunned [...]
Pelosi and CIA Clash Over Contents of Key Briefing
NAFTALI BENDAVID and SIOBHAN GORMAN | WSJ.com Speaker Claims Intelligence Officials Failed to Reveal Waterboarding Was Used; Spy Agency Denies Misleading Congress The top congressional Democrat on Thursday accused the Central Intelligence Agency of deceiving her about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists. The accusation pits House Speaker Nancy Pelosi against the [...]
Prisoner Who Tied Iraq to Al-Qaeda Found Dead in Libyan Jail
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, whose false tortured confession was used as basis for Bush’s war, has reportedly committed suicide… Brad Friedman | BradBlog.com British journalist and historian Andy Worthington, an expert and author on Guantanamo, reports that the man who had supplied a key false tie between Iraq and al-Qaeda — after being tortured in Egypt, [...]
I Was Illegally Detained by the U.S. Government and Held in CIA-Run “Black Sites”
Mohamed Farag Bashmilah | Alternet.org From October 2003 until May 2005, I was illegally detained by the U.S. government and held in CIA-run “black sites” with no contact with the outside world. On May 5, 2005, without explanation, my American captors removed me from my cell and cuffed, hooded, and bundled me onto a plane that delivered [...]
Under Obama, same stance on rendition suit
Bob Egelko | SFGate.com President Obama’s Justice Department signaled in a San Francisco courtroom Monday that the change in administrations has not changed the government’s position on secrecy and the rights of foreign prisoners – and that lawsuits by alleged victims of CIA kidnappings and torture must be dismissed on national security grounds. “Judges shouldn’t play [...]
Obama preserves rendition two days after taking office
Jeremy Gantz | RawStory.com Two days after taking the helm of a country ready for change after eight years of George W. Bush, President Obama has allowed one controversial “War on Terror” tactic to remain in place: rendition. Despite frequent condemnation of the practice around the world, rendition — the secret capture, transportation and [...]
