For much of the 1960s, the CIA provided the Tibetan exile movement with $ 1.7 million a year for operations against China, including an annual subsidy of $ 180,000 for the Dalai Lama, according to newly released
U.S. intelligence documents.
Not exact matches
The report, built around detailed chronologies of dozens of CIA detainees,
documents a long - standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use — and later tried to defend — excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant
intelligence, according to
U.S. officials who have reviewed the
document.
Bradley Birkenfeld, who CNBC describes as «the most significant financial whistleblower of all time,» suspects that the
U.S. government's
intelligence service is responsible for leaking the Panama Papers — a collection of more than 11 million confidential
documents with detailed information about offshore companies.
Gen. Michael V. Hayden, former director of the NSA and CIA, says classified
document leaker Edward Snowden has contributed to misunderstanding about
U.S. intelligence operations.
A longtime
intelligence contractor with expertise in
U.S. hacking tools told Reuters the
documents included correct «cover» terms describing active cyber programs.
In 2010,
U.S. military
intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning provided more than 700,000
documents, videos, diplomatic cables and battlefield accounts to Wikileaks.
The military's cyber-operations, including
U.S. Cyber Command, have drawn much of the public's attention, but the IOC undertakes some of the most notable offensive operations, including the recruitment of several new
intelligence sources, the
document said.
The
documents reveal how the National Security Agency leaked
intelligence information, directed covert operations within Nicaragua to influence
U.S. public opinion, and developed other elaborate programs for the diplomacy office to help the Reagan administration persuade Congress to renew contra aid.
The
U.S. Senate
intelligence committee has subpoenaed former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn for
documents related to the panel's investigation into Russia's election meddling.
PREVIOUS, JUNE 2 AM: Oliver Stone and his producing partner Moritz Borman have thrown their hats in the ring and will make a movie about Edward Snowden, the former systems administrator for the CIA and a counterintelligence trainer at the Defense
Intelligence Agency who later worked for the National Security Agency and then made public thousands of classified
documents, an act which has been called the most significant leak in
U.S. history since the release of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg.
The
document also claimed that while the
U.S. was pursuing peace talks, the military and the
intelligence agencies were covertly expanding the war.
But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential
intelligence documents in
U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society — and what are the costs of exposing them?»
In 2013, after having worked as an
intelligence analyst for both the CIA and NSA (National Security Agency), Edward Snowden gave reporters thousands of classified NSA
documents showing the mass surveillance conducted on
U.S. citizens by our government.
Trust in
U.S. negotiators had been further undermined when
documents made public by WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden revealed that the
U.S. had been spying on negotiators from other countries before and during Copenhagen, trying to gain
intelligence on their positions.
While snatching politically sensitive
documents as part of an espionage plot might be part of statecraft and
intelligence efforts (rightly or wrongly), Motherboard's Rid points out that leaking those
documents (and potentially manipulated ones) to a global audience represents an unprecedented and dangerous attempt by a foreign government that is openly hostile to
U.S. policies and interests.
WikiLeaks on Tuesday dumped thousands of classified
documents onto the Internet, exposing hacking programs used by the
U.S. Central
Intelligence...