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New Research: How the CIA found Soviet missiles in Cuba
While the U-2 spy plane is largely credited for identifying the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba in the early 1960s, setting off a Cold War escalation with nearly-apololyptic results, new research …
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CIA considered potential truth serum for terror suspects
"Shortly after 9/11, the CIA considered using a drug it thought might work like a truth serum and force terror suspects to give up information about potential attacks. After months of research, the …
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Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents
From 2010 to 2012, China was able to dismantle significant portions of the CIA’s network of agents across the country, executing dozens of suspected spies. It now appears that problems in and hacks of …
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How U.S. intelligence agencies find out what Trump tells Putin and others
Sources have displayed confidence that U.S. intelligence agencies specializing in wiretapping communications were able to access enough information on the Trump-Putin meeting that they can know not …
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CIA & FBI: China is waging a ‘quiet kind of cold war’ against US
China’s subversive actions against the U.S. goes well beyond the current trade dispute and includes massive, coordinated economic espionage that is “not just a footnote to what we’re dealing with with …
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Senior shipbuilding executive in China arrested for selling military secrets to the CIA
The most recent espionage case involving China and the US has surfaced, this time in China where a senior executive with the Chinese state-owned China Shipbuilding Industry Corp (CSIC) is accused of …