Sentences with phrase «u.s. intelligence operations»

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.

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The operation, code - named Olympia, was detailed in a presentation to Canada's intelligence allies in the U.K., U.S., New Zealand and Australia (together known as the Five Eyes.)

The latest revelation about U.S. government surveillance comes by way of a June 14 Bloomberg report that says «thousands» of American companies are working with U.S. intelligence agencies in a mutually beneficial arrangement where the latter secretly piggybacks on normal commercial operations.

The order includes 12 intelligence officers from Russia's mission to the United Nations who were using their roles as «covers» to conduct covert operations, U.S. officials said.

The U.S. considers Russian diplomats to be undeclared spies, conducting intelligence operations under the guise of being embassy staff.

So you could have a scenario where the U.S., Russia, China, Iran — big players — are doing intelligence operations on each other, are doing pre-positioning to have deterrence or political leverage, and mess up that operation in a way that looks like an attack that we do not have transparency on for some time.

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.

According to the article, «two U.S. military officers assigned to advise the El Salvadoran military... were «part and parcel» of death - squad operations carried out by an elite intelligence branch of the Salvadoran army.»

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.

Initially, intelligence agencies — CIA and the like — couldn't get local or national telecommunications companies in other countries to cooperate with U.S. surveillance operations against nationals in those countries.

«While the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) does not dispute the CIA's analysis of Russian hacking operations, it has not endorsed their assessment because of a lack of conclusive evidence that Moscow intended to boost Trump over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, The position of the ODNI, which oversees the 17 agency - strong U.S. intelligence community, could press his assertion that no evidence implicates Russia in the cyber attacks..Intelligence (ODNI) does not dispute the CIA's analysis of Russian hacking operations, it has not endorsed their assessment because of a lack of conclusive evidence that Moscow intended to boost Trump over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, The position of the ODNI, which oversees the 17 agency - strong U.S. intelligence community, could press his assertion that no evidence implicates Russia in the cyber attacks..intelligence community, could press his assertion that no evidence implicates Russia in the cyber attacks...» 17!

The operation was apparently part of a U.S. - led intelligence operation aimed at countering terrorism from the likes of ISIS and al - Qaeda, CyberScoop reports.

Suggesting that the scope of foreign intelligence operations on U.S. - based social platforms goes well beyond what we know now isn't meant to be scaremongering.

«The 2018 U.S. midterm elections are a potential target for Russian influence operations,» Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned in written testimony prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee's Tuesday hearing.

• Served as an Arabic linguist and member of an operations team of cultural and intelligence analysts providing linguistic expertise to the U.S. Military in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

He ran a covert intelligence operation in New York City, a year prior to the U.S. entering the war.