Promises of millions, a new face and detailed instructions on a double-agent conspiracy in Moscow. Bearing the hallmarks of a Cold War spy thriller, Russia’s counterintelligence agency says it caught a CIA officer trying to flip a Russian operative.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) Public Relations Center announced that detained individual was Ryan Christopher Fogle Read More

Top Afghan officials have been on the CIA’s payroll for over a decade, often paid in cash in US dollars. The clandestine financial support was provided to key Afghan officials and even insurgent warlords in return for opposing the Taliban. Read More

There is a quite an unexpected turn in the case of Boston bombings and kinship of Tsarnaev brothers. Details surrounding this family have now a bit been clarified. An American portal, Mad Cow Morning News, reported very interesting and sensitive information, which, however, gives rise to a number of questions in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. Read More

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The CIA Factbook is a searchable database that provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world countries and nations.

Wouldn’t be really cool if the CIA had something like this except it was database for Individuals instead of the countries? Read More

Two FBI agents have allegedly interviewed former CIA director David Petraeus at his home, as part of an ongoing investigation into the extramarital affair he had with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.

FBI agents on Friday showed up at Petraeus’ house in Arlington, Virginia, to conduct an interview to further determine whether or not he had given his biographer classified information Read More

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As US Army veteran Eric Harroun awaits trial in Virginia for allegedly fighting alongside al-Qaeda supporters, the man’s father claims he was working for the CIA and was reporting back to the agency from Syria.

Harroun, a 30-year-old American from Phoenix, Arizona, has been charged by the US government for conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction (namely a rocket propelled grenade launcher) to conduct an attack against the Syrian government. Read More

By Fredrick Kunkle

Fairfax County officials want Uncle Sam to know they have the perfect site in Springfield to replace the FBI’s 39-year-old Washington headquarters.

It’s a short run from the FBI Academy and laboratory in Quantico and other FBI operations that are in Northern Virginia or planned for there. Read More

Some Syrian rebel groups get training and intelligence straight from CIA officers, US officials told media. The helping hand is meant to bolster the secular opposition against both governmental troops and Islamist forces.

The CIA’s increased involvement in Syria is part America’s greater engagement in the war-torn country, according to The Wall Street Journal. Read More

Haaretz

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been aiding the opposition in Syria by providing it with information that could be used against President Bashar Assad’s forces, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The actionable intelligence is being supplied to small, well-vetted rebel units, current and former U.S. officials told the WSJ. Read More

RT.com

The US Southern Command (Southcom) has requested $49 million to build a new prison building at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba “for special detainees” as well as carry out other “necessary” renovations, US media reveal.

The proposed facility is an apparent replacement for Camp 7, which was constructed to hold 14 “high-value” detainees – including the self-described 9/11 attack architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed – who had been in CIA custody, but were handed over to the military in 2006. Read More

Jon Rappoport
Infowars.com

In 2002, author Martin Lee wrote an article for Common Dreams: “Truth Serum and Torture.” It could have been written yesterday, because now a Colorado judge has stated that, if James Holmes pleads not guilty by reason of insanity to the Aurora murders.

State psychiatrists can subject him to drugs that will “help him remember his state of mind” at the time of the shootings. The drugging will reveal whether he really was insane that night last summer at the Aurora theater. Read More

Madison Ruppert
Activist Post

There has been a great deal of buzz surrounding the swearing-in ceremony of John Brennan as director of the CIA during which he took his oath of office with his hand on the original draft of the US Constitution which, most notably, did not include the Bill of Rights.

Some see this as quite symbolic given the extreme rejection of the most essential rights by the current administration Read More

A United Nations investigator has demanded that the US publish classified documents regarding the CIA’s human rights violations under former President George W. Bush, with hopes that the documents will lead to the prosecution of public officials.

Documents about the CIA’s program of rendition and secret detention of suspected terrorists have remained classified, even though President Obama’s administration has publicly condemned the use of these “enhanced interrogation techniques”. The US has not prosecuted any of its agents for human rights violations. Read More