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March 2009
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CIA Must Return To Its Roots To Become Effective Once Again Almost seven decades after the birth of this civilian intelligence agency, we need to go back to the beginning -- to a lean, flexible, imaginative organization trained and equipped to confront our nation's enemies. |
AskMen.com
Craig Mazin |
Top 10: Spy Agencies Many countries place great importance on the function of their intelligence/spy agencies. Intelligence failures can lead to terrible consequences, while successes can help countries avert unnecessary tragedies. Read on about the top 10 presently active spy agencies operating in the world today. |
AskMen.com
Michael Hirsch |
How To: Become A Secret Agent What guy hasn't actually wondered what it would be like to be a spy? Cruising around foreign countries, experiencing great adventures, hooking up with hot exotic babes, and, at the same time, helping out your country. |
Mother Jones
Jan/Feb 2002
Ken Silverstein & David Isenberg |
Political Intelligence What happens when U.S. spies get the goods -- and the government won't listen? |
Reason
June 2004
Bryan Alexander |
Out of the Info Loop Two books detail why information networks are crucial to modern warfare. |
Popular Mechanics
March 15, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
Hollywood Fact Check: How Realistic Is Iraq War Film Green Zone? The military conspiracy-thriller Green Zone, a policy debate masquerading as an action movie, has a premise that invites scrutiny. |
CIO
August 4, 2008
Thomas Wailgum |
Inside the CIA's Extreme Technology Makeover, Part 1 Al Tarasiuk, the CIA's CIO, is on a mission to modernize the agency's IT practices and connections to the intelligence community. It's just like any other IT-business alignment project, except that he has to get disparate departments to share data while supporting the White House's war on terror. |
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Officials: CIA program targeted al-Qaida leaders A secret intelligence program canceled by CIA Director Leon Panetta in June was meant to find and then capture or kill al-Qaida leaders at close range. |
Salon.com
October 9, 2002
Robert Scheer |
Bush vs. the CIA As the president plays up the threat Saddam Hussein poses to America, the CIA plays it down. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Stan Crock |
Decades Of Terror Blunders Timothy Naftali's, Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism, offers fascinating detail on why needed reforms were neglected over the decades. |
Wired
October 2009
Stephen Lee |
Secret Ops, Domestic Spying OK -- As Long As Someone's Watching the Watchmen If the U.S. wants a successful intelligence agency, a certain amount of opacity is not only acceptable, it's necessary. |
BusinessWeek
June 28, 2004
Paul Magnusson |
The Smart Way To Fix Intelligence From Pearl Harbor to the terrorist attacks of September 11, the lesson keeps being repeated: A dollar spent on identifying the threat and preventing the attack can be worth far more than the millions spent safeguarding targets or the billions spent cleaning up the aftermath. |
AskMen.com
Bernie Alexander |
Secret Government Drug Testing Retrospect and the declassification unveils convoluted stories of mind control, illegal drugs and secret experiments by governments on citizens, soldier and spies. While only a conspiracy theorist would see them as absolute truth, even skeptics have their curiosity piqued. |
Wired
June 26, 2007
Matthew Cole |
In Italy, CIA Agents Were Undone By Their Cell Phones By pulling the records of cell phone activity in the area at the time, Italian police were able to determine the CIA's involvement in an abduction scheme. |
Military History
Joe Bageant |
War at the Top of the World For more than a decade, CIA training and airdrops helped hard-fighting Tibetan forces resist the Communist Chinese in a little-known 'war at the roof of the world.' |
Military History
Charles W. Sasser |
Invasion Abandoned As the Cuban T-33 jet strafed the insurgents on the beach, a U.S. carrier plane closed to shoot it down. "Don't fire! Don't fire!" cried the carrier's air controller. "Rules of engagement have been changed." |
