Over the years the CIA has functioned as a guardian of freedom, a protective shield of U.S. national security (and indirectly the West), while routinely remaining in the background and still catching a lot of flak from the left and the right. In the not-so-distant past, the FBI and the CIA were largely nonpartisan agencies. […]
Part V of Dr. Faria’s book discusses espionage by the KGB and CIA during the Cold War. Dr. Faria starts by listing four seminal books essential for students of Cold War espionage. He proceeds to summarize the most important spies with examples, such as Soviet espionage student Kaarlo Tuomi dialoguing with his instructor Aleksei
In a hearing supposedly addressing global threats, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon demanded to know why the Intelligence Community wasn’t hiring more potheads. It went downhill from there. The head honcho, Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence, declared the Intelligence Community was open to potheads, as long as, presumably, they weren’t smoking on the
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Editor’s Note: Given the hullabaloo about the giant Chinese spy—or rather, weather—balloon, cruising leisurely over the United States, I thought it would be appropriate to republish this book review about other more mundane and less salient methods of Chinese espionage. But before doing so, here is a synopsis of the balloon incident as reported by
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You are hearing a lot about a “Republican Church Committee” that will uncover “the weaponization of government” against conservatives. We are being promised the “unveiling” of FBI, CIA, and other federal agency abuses. But some of the new popular conservative commentators do not understand the damage done by the Church Committee, and who its chairman,
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Is America a staunch friend and ally — or a nation that forgets friends when they are no longer useful? On a graduate student International Studies website, I recently came across a lengthy debate over that same question, as well as which nation, Russia or the United States, made better friends? Perhaps not surprisingly, it
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