ABC News has uncovered the site of one of the CIA’s secret European prisons: inside a fancy-pants horse riding school in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Why is America funding Pakistan’s spies?
The CIA is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into Pakistan’s intelligence service, according to former officials, even though it’s widely suspected the agency is helping Taliban extremists.
Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be “raped with broken bottles” in Uzbekistan
The former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan claims the CIA sent terror suspects to the country as part of its extraordinary rendition program, where they were “raped with broken bottles” and were forced to watch their children tortured in front of them, to gather intelligence.
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The most bizarre CIA programs of all time
The CIA has funded some odd programs throughout its history. Like, luring men with prostitutes and then drugging them to observe the effects of acid and LSD. And implementing cats with microphones to spy on the Russians. Fun!
What Dick Cheney didn’t know about Valerie Plame
Notes from an FBI interview with former US VP Dick Cheney about the 2003 outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame have been released, revealing Cheney claimed “near total amnesia” on the whole scandal. Read the list of the important events and dates he just can’t recall.
shocking CIA kept detainees alive to torture them more
A human rights lawyer claims that under the Bush administration, the CIA tortured some terror suspects so badly during interrogation sessions, it had to keep them alive so they could continue being tortured.
Karzai’s opium baron brother and his dirty dealings with the CIA
The parents of Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karazi may be a little ashamed of their son’s alleged involvement in vote rigging, but that’s nothing compared to their other son. Meet Ahmed Wali Karzai, a suspected opium baron who works for the CIA as a US-Taliban go-between.
‘Chaosistan’? US General spills secret CIA report
The US commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, accidentally let slip about a secret CIA report called “Chaosistan”, which advocates letting Afghanistan become a “Somalia-like haven of chaos that we simply manage from outside.”
shocking A third of people killed in CIA drone strikes are civilians
A shocking new report has found that a third of the victims of CIA’s Taliban-targeting drone strikes in Pakistan are civilians — and those are just the ones the media knows about.
How Cuban spies sent the US on a post-9/11 wild goose chase
In the six months after 9/11, Cuban agents around the world sent US intelligence on a wild goose chase by providing them with false terrorism tip-offs. It’s allegedly all part of a wider Cuban espionage plot to “mislead, misinform and identify” US spies.
US spies buy a stake in social media
America’s spy agencies are pumping money into a software firm that specialises in monitoring blogs and social media services like Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. So what do they want with our tweets and twitpics?
How the CIA’s interrogation tactics damage the brain
Waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation” techniques used on terror suspects by the CIA can badly damage the brain, actually making it harder for victims to recall information and tell the truth, according to a new report.
Sullivan: Dear Bush, only you can prevent torture
As a fellow Christian and conservative, commentator Andrew Sullivan writes an open letter to former US President George W. Bush, asking him to take full responsibility for the torture perpetrated under his regime, so the country can finally move forward.
Doctors accuse CIA of “human experimentation”
A medical ethics watchdog says doctors employed the CIA to monitor its “enhanced interrogation techniques”, such as waterboarding, may be guilty of “unlawful human experimentation”, claiming they actively monitored detainees as human test subjects without their consent.
Read the full CIA torture report
Read the full 2004 inspector general’s report that has revealed shocking allegations of CIA interrogators using techniques such as “mock executions”, and threatening to kill and rape terror suspects’ family members to get them talking.
CIA staged “mock executions” in interrogations
A soon-to-be-released report reveals that the CIA used “mock executions” to interrogate terror suspects, brandishing guns and firing shots in order to convince them they were about to be shot and force the suspects to talk.
CIA hired Blackwater for Al Qaeda hitsquad
The CIA ‘death squad’ plot thickens: the intelligence agency reportedly hired outside security contractor Blackwater — recently marred by allegations of murder, gun-running and child prostitution — to help with its plan to assassinate key members of Al Qaeda.
CIA’s ‘ghost flights’ could go public
Secret details of the CIA program that sent terrorist suspects to countries and prisons where they could be tortured may soon become public, with the British aviation company that allegedly operated the off-the-grid “ghost flights” agreeing to give evidence.
From Washington to waterboarding
The Washington Post reveals that CIA bosses labelled the interrogation team handling terror suspect Abu Zubaida’s case spineless for objecting to waterboarding… until the chiefs viewed the technique for themselves, and immediately pulled the plug.
CIA planned to deploy teams of assassins
More information about the CIA’s secret plans to knock-off Al Qaeda leaders has been revealed, with news they were planning to train and deploy anti-terrorist hit squads.
Cheney, CIA and Congress: a Crikey wrap
Dick Cheney, ex-Vice President of the Bush administration, is in further strife over claims that he ordered that a CIA counterterrorism program to be kept secret from Congress. Amber Jamieson takes a look at what the media is saying.
The final nail in the CIA’s coffin?
The CIA is “finished. It’s done. It’s over.” says former operative Robert Baer, following revelations the agency withheld details of a counterterrorism program from Congress. Others are less extreme, but warn that too much probing by politicians could jeopardise national security.
Cheney’s secret plans revealed
The Wall Street Journal have revealed the details of the secret CIA plans Dick Cheney kept hidden from Congress: a Presidential order to capture or kill Al Qaeda leaders.
What Cheney knew — and why it’s a test for Obama
That longed-for moment when we see either Dick Cheney or, could it be possible, Dubya himself, in the dock, has come a little closer. But would Obama order an inquiry into the secret ops of the Bush years?
Cheney’s big secret
Former Vice President Dick Cheney directly ordered the CIA to withhold information about a secret counterterrorism program from the United States Congress for eight years of the Bush administration, the NYT revealed this weekend. Expect sparks to fly.
