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• CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot

  May 7, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — The Associated Press has learned the CIA thwarted a plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design around … 23

• Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case

  January 9, 2012 in Nation/World An Iranian court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported today, in a case adding to the accelerating tension … 4

• Social media a growing part of foreign intelligence

  November 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 McLEAN, Va. – In an anonymous industrial park, CIA analysts who jokingly call themselves the “ninja librarians” are mining the mass of information people publish about themselves overseas, tracking everything …

• U.S., Russia conduct swap

  July 9, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 NEW YORK – In the biggest spy swap since the Cold War, 10 confessed Russian agents who infiltrated suburban America were ordered deported Thursday in exchange for four people convicted …

• U.S., Russia spy swap likely

  July 8, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Across a vast global chessboard, the pieces were set in motion Wednesday. In Moscow, Igor Sutyagin, an imprisoned physicist, was transported from a prison camp near the Arctic …

• Children in spy case in limbo

  July 3, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 NEW YORK – Children often ask the question “Who am I?” as they come of age, but that’s nothing like the identity crisis now confronting the sons and daughters of …

• Officials: Keep spy suspects jailed

  July 2, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 NEW YORK – One of 11 people charged with being part of a Russian spy ring told investigators that his loyalty to his handlers exceeded his commitment to his own …

• Alleged spies’ lives distinctly American

  June 30, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 MONTCLAIR, N.J. – Richard and Cynthia Murphy grew lettuce in a backyard garden, walked their daughters to the school bus each morning, and swapped Christmas cards with old neighbors who …

• Officials charge 11 as agents for Russia

  June 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Federal officials on Monday charged 11 people on the East Coast as secret agents of Russia in a multiyear investigation that turned up allegations of a vast undercover …

• CIA chief admits slow war progress

  June 28, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Days after President Barack Obama installed a new commander in Afghanistan, CIA Director Leon Panetta conceded Sunday that progress in the war has been “harder” and “slower …

• CIA base bomber was double agent

  January 5, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The suicide bomber who killed eight people inside a CIA base in Afghanistan was a Jordan-born terrorist double agent who was invited to the base because he claimed …

• Judge dismisses all charges in Blackwater shooting

    December 31, 2009 in Nation/World A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007.

• Bomber strikes CIA base

  December 31, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – A suicide bomber infiltrated a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least eight Americans in what is believed to be the deadliest single attack on …

• Blackwater tied to clandestine CIA missions

  December 11, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – Highly trained personnel employed with the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide sometimes operated side by side with CIA field officers in Iraq and Afghanistan as …

• U.S. agents guilty of kidnapping

  November 5, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 ROME – An Italian judge convicted 23 Americans on Wednesday of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric off the streets of Milan in 2003, a sweeping verdict against one of the CIA’s …

• Cheney condemns investigation of CIA

  August 31, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Dick Cheney lashed out at President Barack Obama on Sunday, saying the Justice Department’s decision to investigate whether CIA operatives broke the law while interrogating …

• Abuse probe to include civilians

  August 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The Justice Department prosecutor appointed this week to examine the CIA’s interrogation program will revisit long-dormant cases of abuse by the agency’s civilian contractors, bringing new attention to …

• President OKs unit to interrogate suspected terrorists

  August 23, 2009 in Nation/World President Obama has approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators to question key suspected terrorists, part of a broader effort to revamp U.S. policy on detention and interrogation, …

• Contract for killings adds to CIA worries

  August 21, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The disclosure Wednesday of the CIA’s decision five years ago to let a private security contractor help manage its sensitive effort to kill senior al-Qaida members drew congressional …

• CIA assassination plans assigned to contractor

  August 20, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The secret CIA program to kill top al-Qaida leaders with assassination teams was outsourced in 2004 to Blackwater USA, the private security contractor whose operations in Iraq prompted …

• CIA fires Spokane psychologists’ firm

  June 16, 2009 in City on Page A12 WASHINGTON – The CIA has fired a firm run by two Spokane psychologists who helped introduce waterboarding and other harsh methods to the agency’s interrogation techniques, according to a news …

• Top detainee says he lied to CIA after being abused

  June 16, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, told U.S. military officials that he lied to the CIA after being abused, according to … 1

• CIA fired Spokane psychologists who aided interrogations

  June 15, 2009 in Nation/World, City WASHINGTON — Weeks after President Obama took office, the CIA extended its contract with a firm run by two Spokane psychologists who helped introduce waterboarding and other harsh methods to … 1

• Panetta urges secrecy

  June 9, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – CIA Director Leon Panetta told a federal judge Monday that releasing documents about the agency’s terror interrogations would gravely damage national security. Panetta sent a 24-page missive to …

• Amy Goodman: Torturers must be prosecuted

  April 23, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 George W. Bush insisted that the United States did not use torture. But the four Bush-era Office of Legal Counsel memos released last week by the Obama administration’s Justice Department … 5

• Narrative shows Rice verbally approved CIA waterboarding

  April 23, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – As national security adviser to former President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice verbally approved the CIA’s request to subject alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in July …

• Ex-official: Search for Iraq, al-Qaida link led to abuse

  April 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al-Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator … 1

• Obama plans no charges in interrogations

  April 20, 2009 in City on Page A3 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama does not intend to prosecute Bush administration officials who devised the policies that led to the harsh interrogation of suspected terrorists, White House chief of …

• Interrogation memos released

  April 17, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Justice Department documents released Thursday offer the fullest account to date of Bush administration interrogation tactics, including previously undisclosed strategies of slamming a prisoner into a wall and …

• Red Cross says CIA tortured captives

  March 16, 2009 in City on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration’s treatment of al-Qaida captives “constituted torture,” a finding that strongly implied that …

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