Tells about a young agent living among nomads whose reports got no further than his immediate superiors, and about Jesse Leaf, chief CIA analyst for Iran until 1973, whose material on the precariousness of the Shah's position was handled routinely.
Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, reported Wednesday that a tape exists of the deadly suicide attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA officers, including the chief CIA officer of that base.
The latest and most convincing accusation leveled at George W. Bush for allowing the 9/11 attacks comes from the lips, on camera, of ex-CIA Chief George Tenet and ex-chief of CIA counterterrorism, Cofer Black.
On July 10 , 2001 two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
"If Prigozhin is doing it, that means Putin supports it," said John Sipher, an ex-CIA officer who served in Moscow before rising to become deputy chief of the CIA's Russia Group, the clandestine services' global Russia program, told VICE News earlier this week.
"If Prigozhin is doing it, that means Putin supports it," said John Sipher, an ex-CIA officer who served in Moscow before rising to become deputy chief of the CIA's Russia Group, the clandestine services' global Russia program.
It's a testament to Lewis's persuasive skills as an actor that we wonder whether he's an uptight national hero or cunning jihadist spy without for a moment considering his real identity as an old-Etonian British thespian (the show also features the equally British David Harewood as an equally American CIA chief).
Former CIA Chief William Colby once called Pao "the biggest hero of the Vietnam war," for the 15 years he spent heading a CIA-sponsored guerrilla army fighting against a communist takeover of the south-east Asian peninsula.
I was out on a boat one day with my CIA Chief on an outlying island.
As ex-CIA chief George Tenet would say, it's a slam dunk and yours for half a million bucks.
Ex-CIA chief William Colby once described Kalugin as: "Smooth as silk, the smoothest guy I've seen in years … With his own agenda, of course".
