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Central Intelligence Agency

September 9, 2024
Columns

Heads of Top Western Intel Agencies Confront Emerging Threats to Global Order

Editorial Note: This article, originally published in the Financial Times, features insights from Bill Burns, Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, and Richard Moore, Chief of the UK Secret Intelligence Service.

Defence/News

CIA, the Central Information-distorting Agency

If Geppetto were to fashion the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into a modern-day Pinocchio, its elongated nose might rival the expanse of the U.S. border wall. In its 70-odd years of existence, the CIA has been entrenched in deception,

March 16, 2024

Is the CIA and Western Intelligence Losing Ground in Russia?

Diplomacy/Editorials

by Our Defence Affairs Editor It is intriguing to see a man who possesses extensive knowledge of diplomacy and is well-equipped with intelligence resources

A World Transformed and the Role of Intelligence

Defence/Diplomacy

The following essay is based on the 59th Ditchley annual lecture delivered by the author as the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director I must

Heads of Top Western Intel Agencies Confront Emerging Threats to Global Order

September 9, 2024
Columns

Editorial Note: This article, originally published in the Financial Times, features insights from Bill Burns, Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, and Richard Moore, Chief of the UK Secret Intelligence Service.

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CIA, the Central Information-distorting Agency

March 16, 2024
Defence/News

If Geppetto were to fashion the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into a modern-day Pinocchio, its elongated nose might rival the expanse of the U.S. border wall. In its 70-odd years of

More

Is the CIA and Western Intelligence Losing Ground in Russia?

July 2, 2023
Diplomacy/Editorials

by Our Defence Affairs Editor It is intriguing to see a man who possesses extensive knowledge of diplomacy and is well-equipped with intelligence resources take the stage and claims that his spy

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A World Transformed and the Role of Intelligence

July 2, 2023
Defence/Diplomacy

The following essay is based on the 59th Ditchley annual lecture delivered by the author as the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director I must admit that my memory of the conference itself

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Hollywood’s Subversive Strategies: Unmasking the Power of Propaganda

June 1, 2023
Defence

I was watching F9 (of the Fast & Furious franchise) and I was struck by one line. The Fast crew is working for the CIA now (who are somehow the good guys)

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Henry Kissinger: Killer Case Officer

May 28, 2023
Defence/Diplomacy

Many years ago I made a trip to New York to pitch publishers on a book about a murder case in South Vietnam involving the Green Berets and the CIA in Cambodia.  

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Espionage: Jack Teixeira and Me

April 28, 2023
Columns/Defence

Jack Teixeira and I have a couple things in common: Cape Cod and a Top Secret security clearance. Way back in the summer of 1966, holding a draft notice that threatened to

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Bombing Khartoum; CIA’s Latest Attempted Coup in Africa

April 18, 2023
Columns/Diplomacy

As I write the Sudanese Air Force is bombing Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum, an act of desperation really, because the war launched by the CIA backed coup attempt is not going

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The CIA’s Legacy: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones on Key Events that Shaped American Intelligence

April 3, 2023
Defence/Interviews

Reputation of the CIA outside America is a different story. The CIA's overthrow of democratically elected governments in Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s produced an adverse reaction in non-aligned nations

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