CIA asks budding spies to spot the difference between two photos to test their tradecraft

Eagle-eyed Twitter users beat the CIA at its own game AGAIN – spotting as many as 16 differences between two images used to test their tradecraft CIA challenged Twitter followers to find 11 differences between photos Tuesday  On Wednesday people said they’d found more with one social media user saying there were 13 differences and … Read more

CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden agrees to forfeit more than $5m from book proceeds to US government

Edward Snowden’s book, Permanent Record, was released last year.  It offers by far the most expansive and personal account of how Snowden turned from obscure NSA worker to whisleblower, a move which set off a national debate about the extent of government surveillance by intelligence agencies desperate to avoid a repeat of the September 11 attacks.  … Read more

Twitter users beat CIA at their own trivia game

CIA posts two photos challenging budding spies to spot ten differences between them – only for eager Twitter users to find TWELVE Eagle-eyed social media users beat the CIA at its own trivia game  The CIA shared two photos of an idyllic downtown scene on Tuesday with the challenge of finding 10 differences between them … Read more

Retired CIA officer, 67, is charged with selling US secrets to China

Retired CIA officer, 67, is charged with spying for China by selling ‘highly classified’ US secrets to Chinese intelligence officers Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, of Honolulu, was arrested last week in FBI operation The retired CIA agent has been accused of selling classified US secrets to China  Authorities said Ma met with Chinese intelligence … Read more

New docuseries claims DEA agent’s death ‘was partially conducted by a CIA agent’

Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena, 37, was working for the US government in Mexico when he was abducted, tortured and killed by cartel members in February 1985. The lead investigator in his death believes a CIA agent was involved in his murder  A new Amazon docuseries claims that a CIA agent was involved in the torture and … Read more

Iran executes an alleged spy for selling information on the country’s missile programme to the CIA

Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for the United States by selling the CIA information on the Islamic republic’s missile programme. Reza Asgari, an Iranian citizen, was executed last week, regime spokesman Gholam Hossein Esmaili was quoted as saying by the judiciary’s official website Mizan Online. He had worked at the defence ministry’s … Read more

Iran says it will execute ‘CIA spy’ who ‘helped US kill General Soleimani’

Iran says it will execute ‘CIA spy’ who helped US target drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani ‘very soon’ Seyed Mahmoud Mousavi Majd accused of being a ‘CIA and Mossad spy’ by Iran  Justice ministry claims Majd gave US forces the location of General Soleimani  Soleimani, Iran’s top military leader, was then killed in … Read more

CIA believes China pressured WHO to publicly downplay the risk of coronavirus in January

The CIA believes that China pressured the World Health Organization into delaying public warnings about coronavirus early in the outbreak, according to a new report. A CIA report says China threatened to stop cooperating with the WHO’s coronavirus investigation if the organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency, according to Newsweek. The alleged delay came … Read more

Claire Danes says Homeland helped her grow as an artist as CIA thriller wraps up after eight seasons

Claire Danes says Homeland helped her grow as an artist as CIA thriller wraps up after eight seasons on Showtime: ‘It’s been great for me as an actress’ By Adam S. Levy For Dailymail.com Published: 00:02 BST, 27 April 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 27 April 2020 Claire Danes says her Homeland character Carrie Mathison … Read more

CIA missed opportunity to kill bin Laden after Clinton signed a bill that forbid intentional killing

Former CIA agents have said they were prevented from killing Osama Bin Laden in the build-up to 9/11 because of a bill signed by President Bill Clinton.  New documentary The Longest War details how the agency could have assassinated the head of Al Qaeda before September 11 when they had him cornered. The terrorist was … Read more