C.I.A Archives - Page 38 of 42

27May

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C.I.A, North Korea, USA

The CIA’s Plan to Assassinate Kim Jong-un, History of CIA Sponsored Assassinations

NOVANEWS By Vladimir Platov New Eastern Outlook The history of the US Central Intelligence Agency is replete with numerous examples of political assassinations, not only in the US, but also of leaders of countries Washington disagrees with. So today, the CIA has actively begun developing various methods for the deliberate elimination of the US’s newest political opponent, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, involving not only special forces in this task, but also the special services of countries that cooperate closely with the CIA. Evidence of this, in particular, can be found in the the country’s defense budget for 2018, officially laid out by the South Korean government; the cost of eliminating North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. These funds will be spent on training and equipping ...

25May

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C.I.A, USA

With Haspel Sworn In as CIA Director, Let's Stop Pretending That Her Atrocities Run Counter to American Values

NOVANEWS By Maha Hilal, Truthout Gina Haspel prepares to speak while flanked by President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, after she was sworn in as CIA director at agency headquarters, May 21, 2018, in Langley, Virginia. (Photo: Mark Wilson / Getty Images) Although Gina Haspel's nomination received the fewest supporting votes of any previous CIA director nominee, on Monday morning she was sworn in to head the agency. Introducing Haspel, Trump stated that "instead of apologizing for our nation, we are standing up for our nation." He spoke these words knowing that Haspel oversaw the CIA's first black site in the "war on terror," where two Muslim prisoners were waterboarded repeatedly. Why? Because torture is American. Prior to her confirmation, there seemed to be three comm...

13May

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C.I.A, USA

The US Senate Must Not Allow a Torturer to Become CIA Boss

NOVANEWS By Jonathan Power The Jordan Times In Charles Dickens’s novel “A Tale of Two Cities”, set during the French revolution of 1789, he draws the character of Madame Defarge. She, along with other members of the Tricoteuse, the knitting women, perch every day next to the guillotine, knitting into hats and socks the names of those to be executed, while watching the upper aristocracy and upper bourgeoisie being dispatched to their death one by one. They were regarded as respected sisters of the revolution. I cannot help being reminded of her when I read the CV of the woman nominated by President Donald Trump to be the new head of the CIA, Gina Haspel. She is a career officer who ran a CIA “black site” in Thailand. She implemented the torture policies of president George W. Bush....

12May

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C.I.A, USA

Haspel Nomination: Torture? Let’s Also Not Forget the CIA’s Core Program of Assassination

NOVANEWS By Jacob G. Hornberger The Future of Freedom Foundation The nomination of CIA operative Gina Haspel to be CIA director has, fortunately, given rise to powerful arguments against the U.S. government’s participation in torture, a practice that is common to tyrannical regimes. The critics of Haspel’s nomination are right: The United States should never be engaged in evil conduct, and the torture of a human being is without any doubt whatsoever evil conduct. That’s why torture is inevitably associated with such regimes as Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and North Korea. It has no place in a country whose very own founding document, the Constitution, expressly prohibits the federal government from inflicting “cruel and unusual punishments” on people. Unfortunately, though, ...

10May

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C.I.A, USA

Torture to Continue with Haspel as CIA Director

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman VISIT MY NEW WEB SITE: stephenlendman.org (Home – Stephen Lendman). Contact at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Torture and related wrongdoing is longstanding CIA policy – ongoing throughout most of the agency’s existence, begun long before Gina Haspel’s involvement, continuing today no matter who heads Langley. Earlier CIA mind control experiments were conducted, McGill University’s Ewen Cameron was involved. Using his psychiatric patients, he kept them asleep in isolation for weeks, administering electroshocks and psychedelic LSD and PCP angel dust cocktails – using them as unwitting guinea pigs, violating core medical ethics and the rule of law. CIA human experiments began in the early 1950s, including sensory-deprivation experiments – developing...

17Apr

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C.I.A, Syria, USA

Syria: False Flag Attack in Douma

NOVANEWS Michael Shrimpton analyzes the latest false flag attacks and asks what has happened to Yulia Skripal? By: Michael Shrimpton It’s just as well that someone appears to have tipped off the Russians about the targets! Thankfully, it’s kept the death toll low. Last night’s US/British/French attacks on Syria were based on a false and unlikely premise. It is wildly improbable that the Syrian regime was responsible for the chemical weapons attack in Douma last Saturday (April 7th). The Allied response was conveniently timed for Theresa May – as I predicted last week someone seems to have kidnapped Yulia Skripal. At any rate she has disappeared (Yulia Skripal that is, not Theresa May). No one has heard from her, other than a dubious and unverifiable statement issued on her behalf...

8Apr

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C.I.A, Syria, USA

CIA Stages Syria Poison Gas Attack, Pretext for Escalation of US-led War. Preparations for Stepped-up Military Operations?

NOVANEWS By Patrick Martin World Socialist Web Site The US media has seized on the latest claims by CIA-backed groups of a poison gas attack on civilians to demand a further escalation of the US-led war for regime-change in Syria and an increased confrontation with Russia. The Syrian government claims that one of its airbases, in Homs province, has already come under missile attack. While the Pentagon is denying that it has launched any strikes on Syria yet, the rhetoric of the Trump administration indicates that preparations are being made for stepped-up military operations. As with previous allegations of chemical weapons’ use, the public is being inundated with unverified footage of suffering victims, while government officials and the corporate media, prior to any investig...

24Mar

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C.I.A, USA

A Torturer at the Top: Why Gina Haspel's CIA Appointment Will Spur Torture at All Levels

NOVANEWS By Robert James Parsons, Truthout | Interview Anti-torture activists protest the Republican National Convention outside the Minnesota State Capitol August 31, 2008, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Gina Haspell, the Trump nominee to head the CIA, has been directly involved in torture. (Photo: Max Whittaker / Getty Images) Trump's decision to nominate Gina Haspel -- a US intelligence officer whose direct involvement in torture has been copiously documented in the Senate torture report and beyond -- to head the CIA has provoked expressions of horror and outrage among human rights workers worldwide. Truthout asked Gerald Staberock, the secretary general of the Geneva-based World Organisation Against Torture (most commonly known by its French acronym OMCT), one of the world's foremost orga...

25Feb

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C.I.A, USA

My First Day as CIA Director

NOVANEWS By Ray McGovern | Consortium News Now that I have been nominated again – this time by author Paul Craig Roberts – to be CIA director, I am preparing to hit the ground running. Ray McGovern Last time my name was offered in nomination for the position – by The Nation publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel – I did not hold my breath waiting for a call from the White House. Her nomination came in the afterglow of my fortuitous, four-minute debate with then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, when I confronted him on his lies about the attack on Iraq, on May 4, 2006 on national TV. Since it was abundantly clear that Rumsfeld and I would not get along, I felt confident I had royally disqualified myself. This time around, on the off-chance I do get the nod, I have taken the time to prepare th...

25Feb

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C.I.A, Russia, USA

Did the CIA Sabotage Russia at the Olympics?

NOVANEWS By Rick Sterling | American Herald Tribune There is something very fishy about the Anti Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) pinned on the Russian curler and Russian bobsledder during the final week of the Peyongchang Winter Olympics. It makes no logical sense that an athlete would do a one-time consumption of a chemical that is of no value in circumstances where it is almost certain to be detected with huge negative consequences. That is precisely the situation. The Russian Mixed Curling bronze medal winner, Alexander Krushelnitsky, had to give up his medal, plus that of his partner wife, because traces of meldonium were found in his urine sample. He had previously tested clean. Meldonium is a medication which helps keep the heart healthy by increasing blood flow. That would be of no...