Sentences with phrase «covert cia»

According to WikiLeaks, the exploit makes the television «operate as a bug, recording conversations in the room and sending them over the Internet to a covert CIA server.»

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

In his third time in the director's chair, Ben Affleck cements the fact he has made his mark as one of Hollywoods finest directors with Argo, based on a true covert CIA operation.

Apparently, it was through his funding of a covert CIA operation in response to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan that the mujahedeen managed to defend themselves successfully while simultaneously bankrupting the U.S.S.R..

Seal finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA operations in the history of the US, one that spawned the birth of the Medellin cartel and eventually almost brought down the Reagan White House through the Iran Contra scandal.

in which Valerie Plame was exposed as a covert CIA Intelligence operative by a Washington post columnist in 2003 due to leaks from officials of the Dubya administration thus compromising her job and her career.

The latest underwear bomb found through the covert CIA operation is thought to be the work of Ibrahim Hassan al Asiri, who designed the original device.

Under fire for overseeing a covert CIA Thailand prison that waterboarded terror suspects, Gina Haspel offer ed assurances at her Senate confirmation hearing that she's learned lessons from the past.

«You probably don't know this, but the division has covert CIA offices across the United States,» reveals the interview.

As Kessler correctly points out, the diplomatic mission in Benghazi was basically a covert CIA operation — a fact that Congressional investigators have had to dance around as they proceed with their Benghazi witch - hunt.

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The Church Committee exposed much of the program, with a full report from Congress stating: «The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda.

• The CIA must get out of the covert publishing business in the U.S..

• When President Johnson's Katzenbach Commission told federal agencies to halt covert financial relationships with «U.S. educational and private voluntary organizations which operate abroad,» CIA sent out a field circular stressing stringent secrecy to prevent more exposes.

While former CIA Director William Colby was publicly taking the line that the President has constitutional power to conduct covert operations, Colby himself had approved an internal CIA study which found that, prior to the 1974 Foreign Assistance Act, there were no legal or constitutional grounds for covert action without the advance approval of Congress.

• Military activities against Nicaragua have included covert operations carried out through groups such as the National Security Council, the CIA, and other «secret teams» of mercenaries, arms merchants, and drug - runners.

I believe CIA imported cocaine into the US to pay for covert operations in South America, as that is a well known fact.

We can add to these overt cases the many examples of the CIA's covert counterrevolutionary activity, especially in Latin America.

But Haspel's nomination was contentious because of her role in a former CIA program to brutally detain and interrogate terror suspects at covert sites abroad following 9/11.

(CNN)- Former CIA covert operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson, whose identity was revealed during a 2003 scandal regarding intelligence - gathering prior to the Iraq war, took a swipe Wednesday at a group backing GOP Senate candidate Liz Cheney.

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

After an expedited graduation from Sparrow School, Dominika heads abroad to target American CIA agent Nathaniel Nash (Joel Edgerton), while wearing a very»70s - influenced covert spy wardrobe.

Synopsis: Based on real events the dramatic thriller Argo chronicles the life - or - death covert operation to rescue six Americans which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis focusing on the little - known role that the CIA and Hollywood played - information that was not declassified until many years after the event.

The stakes are now even higher for the agent as he coolly maneuvers through the dangerous waters of international espionage - replete with CIA plots, turncoat agents and ever - shifting covert alliances - all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and answers to his own fragmented past.

Mention was made of Senator John Waltzer (D, North Carolina), the chair of the Armed Services Committee hearings, who was against the CIA's shadow organizations (he considered them «irrelevant at best or unconstitutional at worst») and covert intelligence operations.

RECOMMENDED: Full coverage of the Toronto Film Festival Ben Affleck, meanwhile, finds the only happy story to tell about the CIA with Argo, an ultimately breezy spy drama based on the covert, real - life 1980 rescue of six of the Iran hostages.

WHAT: When TV personality Dave Skylark (James Franco) and producer Aaron Rapaport (Seth Rogen) discover that Kim Jong - un (Randall Park) is a fan of their celebrity tabloid show, they land a once - in - a-lifetime interview with the North Korean dictator, prompting the CIA to recruit them for a covert mission to assassinate him.

As a covert officer in the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division, Valerie Plame leads an investigation into the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Overlooked in the workplace, their invisibility makes them perfect for the CIA's most covert missions.

The Losers, which is based on a graphic novel of the same name, was an all out action movie about a special - forces unit consisting of Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Jensen (Chris Evans), Roque (Idris Elba), Pooch (Columbus Short), and Cougar (Oscar Jaenada) who reluctantly join forces with a mysterious woman named Aisha (Zoe Saldana) to stop a rogue CIA agent named Max (Jason Patric) who burned Clay's team during a covert military operation in Bolivia.

Adapted from the book of the same name, this limited series will chart the rise of Osama Bin Laden and Al - Qaeda in the 1990s, as well as the rivalry between the CIA and FBI which plighted America's covert operations.

Naomi Watts plays Plame, a covert agent with the CIA, working in counter-proliferation.

The climax takes place on the grounds of a rundown play - land inspired by the stories of the Brothers Grimm (where the truth of her origin is revealed), and her primary hunter is a CIA agent named Marissa (Cate Blanchett), who serves as both the wicked stepmother (There's little doubt that had things gone her way, Hanna would be working alongside her in covert operations) and the big, bad wolf (She appears, at one key moment, out of the maw of her archetypical inspiration).

His illegal activities attract the attention of CIA bod Monty Schafer (Domhnall Gleeson), who enlists Seal and his flying skills to take covert photos of South American insurgents.

This tense and frequently amusing reenactment of a covert 1979 CIA operation to smuggle assailed American political operatives out of Iran amid revolutionary chaos by disguising them as a film crew takes the material seriously while still having fun with it.

But as one of the covert founders of the CIA, Edward's youthful idealism is slowly eroded by his growing suspicion of the people around him.

Follow American Made Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanMade2017/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ammademovie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanmade/ — In Universal Pictures» American Made, Tom Cruise reunites with his Edge of Tomorrow director, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith), in this international escapade based on the outrageous (and real) exploits of a hustler and pilot unexpectedly recruited by the CIA to run one of the biggest covert operations in U.S. history.

Macer is thrown to the wolves by her boss (Victor Garber) when she is recruited by a covert and vague CIA operation headed by Matt (Josh Brolin with a Kevlar smile and flip - flops) and the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio del Toro), who is some sort of private contractor.

SYNOPSIS: Over the course of one hot, desperate night, a team of covert American military defence contractors must protect a secret CIA compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi from -LSB-...]

Bestselling novelist Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIA's Directorate of Operations.

Barry, a former CIA covert operative, had been appearing on the bestselling lists for years with his nailbiting thrillers.

His covert work as a CIA operative reinforces his own belief that marriage is no good for him.

Surprisingly, he gets some help from his ex-wife, Lisa Hawkes, a brilliant Russian linguist and CIA covert agent.

Suspecting that experiences encountered during his three years in covert service with the CIA might be informing his interest in these matters, I get back a fast answer during our #PorterMeets:

Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIA's Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan International Judo Center along the way.

On a previous mission you and your men were attacked by a covert operations wing of the CIA known as XOF and left for dead only to be found by them again 9 years later in a hospital recovering from your injuries including the loss of your left arm.

Drugs and the cartels, the CIA and covert US involvement in things offer a range of stories to tell.

The Congress for Cultural Freedom also gave the CIA the ideal front to promote its covert interest in Abstract Expressionism.

On the eve of his first survey exhibition, Yoshua Okón talks to Magalí Arriola about Mexico, CIA covert ops, globalization and a derelict statue of

Trevor Paglen reveals covert worlds: CIA agents» passports, patches worn by US military personnel who conduct «black» ops, and military satellites and drones stationed high above the earth.

The proper security protocols for such devices haven't yet been fully developed, which allow them to be easily hacked, as evidenced by the CIA's Weeping Angel hack for smart TVs to be used as covert listening devices.