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US Senate Confirms Trump Nominee John Ratcliffe As CIA Director

January 23, 2025 admin

Washington: The US Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe with overwhelming bipartisan support as director of the CIA, filling a key post in President Donald Trump’s national security team. The upper house of the US legislature voted 74-25 to approve Ratcliffe, who served as the director of national intelligence from 2020-2021 during Trump’s first term…

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Former CIA Analyst Pleads Guilty To Leaking Secret Israeli Plans

January 17, 2025 admin

Washington: A CIA employee who was accused of leaking classified documents about Israel’s plans to strike Iran pleaded guilty on Friday to criminal charges that he willfully retained and transmitted national defense information, the U.S. Department of Justice said. In pleading guilty, Asif William Rahman, who worked at the U.S. intelligence agency since 2016, acknowledged…

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How CIA, Mossad Used A Computer Virus To Dismantle Iran’s Nuclear Program

September 21, 2024 admin

Stuxnet did not confine itself to Iran. It spread to other countries, including India. New Delhi: It’s June, 2009. The streets of Tehran have erupted in protests over the results of a presidential election. The incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has emerged victorious with an overwhelming majority against Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Protesters alleged a fraudulent victory. Among them…

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Indigenous Women Fight To Search 1950s CIA-Funded Human Experiments Site

August 31, 2024 admin

Between 1831 and 1996, some 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from their homes. Montreal: A group of Indigenous women are hoping to stop the bulldozers at a former Montreal hospital which they believe could hold the truth about children still missing from a grisly half-century-old CIA experiment. They have spent the last two years trying…

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