07/02/2024 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Opinion - What Kind of a Person Reads SpyTalk?
Former CIA ops officer now novelist Ilana Berry is a fan. How about you?.
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25/10/2023 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Spies of Hamas
Old-fashioned intelligence gathering keyed its success.THERE WAS A TIME many years ago that I’d drive past a soccer stadium in South Vietnam looking for a chalk scratch on the wall. Horizontal meant that my net of spies had reports for me. Posing as farmers, rice peddlers and the like, my spies eyeballed and engaged communist soldiers and units and reported back the essentials: names, numbers, weapons, uniforms, morale and so forth.
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27/08/2023 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
UPDATED: Prigozhin Demise, Spy Ops and Sabotage
History rhymes with covert ops in widening Ukraine conflict.
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25/06/2023 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Opinion - Russia Coup: Pop Goes the Weasel
Did US intelligence see Yevgeny Prigozhin's revolt coming? A tale of pizza boxes tells the story.
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31/01/2023 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Opinion - How Sick is the Spying Game?
Legendary former CIA officer Jim Lawler says the tricks of the trade turned him into a sociopath—of sorts.
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27/10/2022 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Opinion - Russian Army’s Quiet Fatal Flaw: No Sergeants
Issues of corruption, poor logistics and inept leadership overshadow a critical hole in the Russian lines: Few NCOs to keep the troops fighting.
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20/09/2020 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
¨A Cold Blooded Assessment¨
Chile coup documents resonate in different ways today, with the U.S. facing foreign interference.
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21/06/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
FBI Agent: The CIA Could Have Stopped 9/11
Mark Rossini, a former FBI special agent at the center of an enduring mystery related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, says he is “appalled” by the newly declassified statements by former CIA Director George Tenet defending the spy agency’s efforts to detect and stop the plot.
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10/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - Obama’s Numbers to Win Afghanistan Don’t Add Up
I have a theory: The Obama administration has no plans to win in Afghanistan. That’s all a cover story.The real objective, if everything goes right: Decapitate the remnants of al Qaeda’s senior leadership — preferably with Osama bin Laden’s head on the proverbial pike — declare victory, and depart the field.
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10/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - Obama’s Numbers to Win Afghanistan Don’t Add Up
I have a theory: The Obama administration has no plans to win in Afghanistan. That’s all a cover story.The real objective, if everything goes right: Decapitate the remnants of al Qaeda’s senior leadership — preferably with Osama bin Laden’s head on the proverbial pike — declare victory, and depart the field.
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07/12/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Send Dollar Bill to the CIA
Anyone connected to post-Sept. 11 “enhanced interrogation measures,” no matter at arm’s length, is apparently disqualified to run Barack Obama ’s spy agency. Hence the immolation of former National Counterterrorism Center chief John Brennan, the president-elect’s closest intelligence adviser, as the lead candidate to run the spy agency.
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07/12/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Send Dollar Bill to the CIA
Anyone connected to post-Sept. 11 “enhanced interrogation measures,” no matter at arm’s length, is apparently disqualified to run Barack Obama ’s spy agency. Hence the immolation of former National Counterterrorism Center chief John Brennan, the president-elect’s closest intelligence adviser, as the lead candidate to run the spy agency.
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27/04/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A CIA Man Speaks His Mind on Secret Abductions
Could saying “I’m sorry” save the CIA from a public perdition in the war on terror?
It was an idea that flitted through a revealing and sometimes even bizarre hearing last week on the Bush administration’s “extraordinary renditions” program, which uses “extra-judicial” means to sweep al Qaeda suspects off the street.
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27/04/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A CIA Man Speaks His Mind on Secret Abductions
Could saying “I’m sorry” save the CIA from a public perdition in the war on terror?
It was an idea that flitted through a revealing and sometimes even bizarre hearing last week on the Bush administration’s “extraordinary renditions” program, which uses “extra-judicial” means to sweep al Qaeda suspects off the street.
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11/10/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Military Spies in the U.S.: An Idea Whose Time Comes Again
Stripped to its basics, here's an example of how spying works: A CIA officer is handed the mission of finding out what's going on in Iran's nuclear program. Passing himself off as a Canadian businessman, he goes to a European conference of metallurgists, hangs out at the bar, and strikes up a conversation with the chief salesman of a German company that is suspected of selling uranium-enrichment centrifuges to Iran.
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