Tag Archives: CIA

The Secret Killers: Covert Assassins Charged With Hunting Down and Killing Afghans

Pratap Chatterjee, Tomdispatch.com “Find, fix, finish, and follow-up” is the way the Pentagon describes the mission of secret military teams in Afghanistan which have been given a mandate to pursue alleged members of the Taliban or al-Qaeda wherever they may be found. Some call these “manhunting” operations and the units assigned to them “capture/kill” teams. [...]
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Inside Top Secret America

Lindsay Beyerstein Global Research/AlterNet In July, the Washington Post published the Top Secret America project — a sweeping portrait of America’s heavily privatized military-corporate-intelligence establishment. Lead reporter Dana Priest calls it the “vast and hidden apparatus of the war on terror.” Priest, who has won two Pulitzer Prizes, described the project as the most challenging [...]
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Shorter Question Everything

Afghanistan | Louisiana Oil Spill • READ: Gunmen kill Afghan election candidate: Unidentified gunmen killed a candidate for Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections in the west of the country Saturday, a government official said, the fourth candidate to be killed ahead of the September 18 poll…Candidate Haji Abdul Manan was killed as he walked from his home [...]
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Veterans’ group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops

Daniel Tencer An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged experiments on US soldiers from the 1950s to 1970s. The Vietnam Veterans of America filed a lawsuit on behalf [...]
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CIA probes British spy murder as it emerges he was sent on frequent missions to Pentagon’s high-security listening post

Charlotte Gill, Emily Andrews and Liz Hull/DailyMail The CIA was called in to help investigate the murder of an MI6 spy last night as it emerged he was sent on frequent secret missions to the United States. American intelligence officers are poring over every detail of Gareth Williams’s work and personal life to see if [...]
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