Sentences with phrase «become cia»

It's during this time that Barris proposes he was first approached by Jim Byrd (George Clooney), who tells Chuck that he fits a profile and offers him training to become a CIA operative.

Without giving too much away, it seems like much of the drama from Homeland Season 4 will center on the conflicted, apolitical Aayan, as he weighs whether to become a CIA asset or seek vengeance for the death of his entire family and turn to terrorism.

Former White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, who resigned over tariffs earlier this month, reached a tentative agreement with Trump to become his CIA director — but lost out on the role after Trump abruptly changed his mind.

Pompeo passed Senate muster last year to become CIA director.

Kansas Democrats hoping to turn voter discontent into an upset picked civil rights attorney Jim Thompson to run for the U.S. House seat that Mike Pompeo vacated to become CIA director under President Donald Trump.

Jason shares his story of how he became a CIA agent and how he uses the knowledge he gained through operative training to protect his family.

Bourne wants to know why he became a CIA assassin in the first place.

Jon Hamm becomes a CIA negotiator in a new trailer for the thriller Beirut, directed by Brad Anderson and written by Tony Gilroy.

Not exact matches

Hart was on the investigative Senate committee that looked into CIA abuses in the 1970s, and became an outspoken critic of the excesses of the spy establishment — just as Richard Nixon was secretly battling the CIA, the Pentagon, and corporate interests at the time that the Watergate scandal began to undo his presidency.

Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State.

The CIA's deputy director, Gina Haspel, will succeed Pompeo, becoming the first woman to lead the agency pending Senate confirmation for both her and Pompeo.

During his tenure as CIA director, Pompeo became a trusted advisor of President Donald Trump and has played a key role in preparations for Trump's planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

At one point, says Blank, the institutions of the Valley were so totally in the pocket of the Department of Defense that Stanford became essentially a research lab for the CIA.

The CIA's deputy director, Gina Haspel, will succeed Pompeo, becoming the first woman to lead the agency.

Talk of Tillerson's impending exit reached a peak in late November, when the White House's early plans to replace Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo became public.

The book was noticed at the time, but only after 9/11 did the CIA term I adapted for the title — «blowback» — become a household word and my volume a bestseller.

We should eliminate as much secrecy as possible so that neither the CIA, nor any other comparable organization ever again becomes the president's private army.

DL was basically an unknown enti - ty until the Chinese kicked him out of Tibet whereupon he became the anti-China poster boy for the State Department and the CIA (and thereby for the USA taxpayers).

The CIA and U.S. military copied these but added contorted positions and nakedness and humiliation, techniques reportedly copied from Israeli interrogators who used them to blackmail Palestinian prisoners into becoming informers.

No disability forms were granted & no doctors available (even though she had many and visited ailing grandmother for 2 yrs / hospital faithfully)... she had alot of friends who were in mortgages, subprime is assumed & became fbi / cia agents in their 20's (or 1980's).

Among the speakers are Michael J. Wadiak, a CIA - trained chef who helped Blue Apron become a billion dollar company in just two years, and Orlando local Emily Ellyn, a chef and culinary educator who has been featured on «Food Network Star» and «Cupcake Wars.»

The speed and lethality of the Executive Outcomes operations became legendary, striking fear into their opponents and admiration from such interested parties as the CIA, Hamas, the Israeli Mossad and Russian KGB.

Gina Haspel's nomination to be CIA director received a crucial boost Saturday when Sen. Joe Donnelly became the second Democrat to support Trump's choice despite questions about her role in the previous decade's controversial interrogation program.

Gina Haspel, Trump's nominee to become the next CIA director, sought to withdraw her nomination Friday after some White House officials worried that her role in the interrogation of terrorist suspects could prevent her confirmation by the Senate, according to four senior U.S. officials.

Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's nominee to become the next CIA director, sought to withdraw her nomination Friday after some White House officials worried that her role in the interrogation of terrorist suspects could prevent her confirmation by the...

He also cultivated a close relationship with the US: Mukhabarat cells became one of the destinations for terror suspects who had been «renditioned» by the CIA.

HASPEL MAKES HISTORY — Gina Haspel overcame ties to torture to become the first woman to head the CIA.

«Soviet leaders may have become convinced that the US actually has intentions of military aggression in the near future,» warned an ad hoc committee of CIA, State Department, and military intelligence agency representatives.

«Drones are evidently becoming important to CIA covert paramilitary operations,» says John Pike, at the US military think - tank Global Security.

Lets see im 19 years old, studying criminology to become a police officer or FBI or CIA.

The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug - runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be ex.

However, the second act becomes more than a bit protracted because Snowden keeps quitting but eventually going back to government surveillance, whether CIA or private subcontracting.

In the Season 1 Premiere, CIA case officer Carrie Mathison becomes suspicious that war hero Nicholas Brody, a Marine Sergeant rescued after eight years of captivity in Afghanistan, has been turned into a sleeper agent by Al Qaeda.

It that sense, it is a rebuke and condemnation of today's mainstream media, which has become little more than a propaganda arm of the White House, CIA and Pentagon.

She plays Dominika, a Bolshoi ballerina whose career is ended by an injury, leading her uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts)-- deputy director of Russia's CIA equivalent, the SVR — to blackmail her into becoming a government asset.

Eventually, the cold and pitiless «Red Sparrow» is about a young Russian woman who becomes a spy and gets tangled up with a CIA operative running a counter-mission.

Jennifer Lawrence's character becomes involved with the American CIA Agent Nate Nash, played intriguingly by Joel Edgerton.

To juggle the various nuances of his double life, Mitch becomes enmeshed in a web of lies in which he casts himself as everything from an entertainment - industry executive to a CIA agent — and when these prevarications begin to go sour, he makes a sharp and deadly turn into a life of crime.

The Interview received a good amount of unexpected publicity thanks to North Korea's decision to file a complaint with the United Nations over the movie's plot; TV personality Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) become involved in a secret CIA plot to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong - un (Randall Park).

And finally, we discover that Martin Freeman's character, CIA agent Everett Ross, «becomes an invaluable ally to the Black Panther» when the two «find themselves after the same adversary: Ulysses Klaue.»

Caine is really crack CIA assassin Charly Baltimore and she soon becomes involved in a dangerous plot alongside Mitch Henessy, the exasperated private investigator she hired to help discover her old identity.

The biopic from director Oliver Stone tells the story of the former CIA employee Edward Snowen (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) who became a whistleblower when he leaked classified information about the NSA to the media that revealed the agency was spying on unknowing citizens of the United States.

He is, it then becomes apparent, a former CIA black ops type with a terrifying array of combat skills and an icy and clinical detachment to match them.

Mike's idle life soon gets overturned when he becomes a target, in danger of being terminated by a mysterious CIA project.

Dwayne Johnson plays his old high school classmate, Robert Weirdicht, aka Bob Stone, a bullied fat kid who grew up to become a muscular CIA agent but still wears a fanny pack and can't stop talking about «Sixteen Candles.»

When this kid's parents died and his girlfriend was killed in a terrorist attack, he didn't become Batman, he joined up with a CIA black ops team so he could learn how...

Bridget Moynahan plays Ryan's understated love interest who will eventually become his wife, and Liev Schreiber is very effective as a CIA ghost.

The film keeps the repeated knowledge from becoming boring by giving us the feel of an insider's view into the workings of the CIA and the closed doors of key political discussions.

Starring Paul Rudd, Jeff Daniels, Paul Giamatti and Mark Strong — among other actors in an A-list ensemble — The Catcher Was a Spy tells the remarkable, little - known true story of Moe Berg (Rudd), a professional baseball player who became a spy in service of the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, during World War II, sent out to stop German scientist Werner Heisenberg (Strong) from building an atomic bomb for the Nazis.

The X-Men star will also serve as an executive producer on the series about a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer - turned - professor and writer, who becomes involved in a manhunt when New York Police Department officials recruit him to help them find a serial killer.