List of CIA articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Things I didn’t know: U.S.-Soviet Cold War shenanigans in Finnish airspace
Two things I learned from one article in the new issue of the Journal of Military History
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Taliban’s New Number 2 Is a ‘Mix of Tony Soprano and Che Guevara’
Sirajuddin Haqqani has killed hundreds of Americans and thousands of Afghans and could ensure that his country’s future is even bloodier than its past.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Top Pentagon Intel Officer: Iraq ‘May Not Come Back as an Intact State’
The DIA director also warned that Washington may have to choose between the Kurds and Turkey.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 I don’t believe a word of what torture advocates say — and neither should you
News sources are reporting that the long-awaited release of the summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s torture program is just days away. Thanks to anonymous sources, we already know some of what this summary will say: “enhanced” interrogation techniques (EITS) yielded little, if any significant intelligence, and the CIA misled the government and the public about both the severity of its methods and this program’s success.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 CIA study of ‘Commanders and Surprise’ says that if you want to avoid being surprised, manage your intel people
I found this article interesting, but mistitled. It really is about how military commanders should manage their intelligence people, and how doing so can avoid being surprised.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Spying’s Hard in Iraq, Even Harder in Syria
The CIA's former number two says the United States must rely on its foreign partners for intelligence on the Islamic State.
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001 Mission Unstoppable: Why Is the CIA Running America’s Foreign Policy?
From drone strikes to prison torture, the CIA has been pulling the strings of U.S. foreign policy since 9/11. And if history is a guide, the agency will be calling the shots in the Middle East for years to come.
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Pakistani media personnel and local residents gather outside the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death by US Special Forces in a ground operation in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011. The bullet-riddled Pakistani villa that hid Osama bin Laden from the world was put under police control, as media sought to glimpse the debris left by the US raid that killed him. Bin Laden's hideout had been kept under tight army control after the dramatic raid by US special forces late May 1, 2011 in the affluent suburbs of Abbottabad, a garrison city 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Islamabad. AFP PHOTO/ AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) What Pakistan Knew About the Bin Laden Raid
As Islamabad’s ambassador to Washington, I had an intimate view of the Pakistani response to the SEAL Team 6 operation. But I still have a few unanswered questions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Would Thomas Jefferson Do…With the CIA?
Since 1805, U.S. intelligence agencies have been taking out Middle Eastern enemies and failing to predict the next crisis. Isn’t it time for an overhaul?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Administration: Hersh Account of Bin Laden Raid ‘Patently False’
Current and former officials flatly deny journalist's assertions of grand U.S.-Pakistani conspiracy.
