But only a couple of decades ago, Hekmatyar was the largest recipient of CIA-supplied arms and money channeled through Pakistan's intelligence services.
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The CIA-prepared memo, provided to CNN by Republican sources, lists 40 briefings for members of Congress from September 2002 to March 2009.
They also declared that they wanted to send a CIA-led team of international intelligence experts to help with the reform of Palestinian security bodies.
The firm was founded in 2006 by Stewart Alsop, an early investor in TiVo and Netcentives, and Gilman Louie, who previously ran a CIA-affiliated venture fund.
Joseph Romano was one of 23 Americans tried and sentenced by Italian courts for kidnap over the CIA-led operation to abduct a cleric known as Abu Omar.
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At a stroke, the Saudis - and the CIA - lost the chance to interrogate the man believed to be the mastermind behind one of al-Qaeda's websites.
The shift to a CIA-lead in Iraq has been gradual, in part because some in the military were reluctant to halt the work, according to current and former officials.
To be sure, there are those within the U.S. government - notably, in the Department of State and CIA - who have profound policy disagreements with key Defense Department decision-makers.
Given the history of American-Iranian relations, (which include a CIA-sponsored coup in 1953), it would not be productive to be seen to be meddling in an Iranian election, he said.
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There is one case that I was able to find, in which a gentleman who was suing -Jeffrey Sterling was suing the CIA - saying that he was the victim of employment discrimination.
That helps to explain the pushback from the State Department, which was publicly taking the heat -- and didn't want the CIA-driven talking points to add to the idea that they had failed to protect their own.
The point of departure for such an inquiry should be representations made by the Department of Defense, and by Mr. Halperin himself, to the effect that the nominee crossed paths with the CIA-turncoat on only one occasion.
Yet as the Christmas Day attempt illustrates, and as we were reminded this week by the sacrifices of more brave Americans in Afghanistan-including those seven dedicated men and women of the CIA-the hard work of protecting our nation is never done.
Opinions in America's intelligence community are divided, but a recent CIA-sponsored national intelligence assessment again predicted (over State Department dissent, it was said) that before 2015, Iran, along with North Korea and possibly Iraq, could have missiles capable of hitting the United States.
Are you withholding judgment on whether you should have known sooner that there was a potential -- that there was an investigation into whether your CIA Director -- potentially there was a national security breach with your CIA Director -- do you believe you should have known sooner?
Tenet has largely been the invisible man during his tenure at the CIA -- overshadowed by his vainglorious former boss, Director John Deutch, and made largely irrelevant by the responsibility Deutch reposed in his controversial and autocratic Executive Director, Nora Slatkin, to perform virtually all day-to-day management functions.
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While the Pentagon has backed Mr Chalabi, and air-lifted him into southern Iraq, both the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have severe doubts about the exile (who left Iraq in 1958 at the age of 13), even though he helped lead an aborted CIA-sponsored plot to overthrow Saddam in the mid-1990s.
Based on actual events that occurred in 1979 in Tehran, the movie brilliantly blends a gripping espionage thriller with humor that comes from the Hollywood shenanigans that Affleck (playing real-life CIA agent Tony Mendez) had to go through with John Goodman (playing real-life Hollywood effects guru and CIA make-up man John Chambers) and Oscar-nominated Alan Arkin (playing movie producer Lester Siegel).
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To do the sleuth work for the various lawsuits, Koch has assigned private investigators (who he described as ex-CIA and ex-FBI agents) tasks ranging from tracking down printers of counterfeit wine labels, to carbon-dating bottles and listening in on a phone call with Greenberg.
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The three prominent Cabinet positions with second-term openings -- secretary of defense, secretary of the treasury, and CIA director -- were previously held by white men.
Since the draft speech drew on available intelligence, his office - represented by a staffer, Fred Fleitz , who is himself a career CIA analyst - sought Intelligence Community clearance.
Senators Graham, McCain and Ayotte put out a release that said in their meetings -- as you said, the Acting CIA Director accompanied her -- and they asked the Acting CIA Director who changed the unclassified talking points to remove a reference to al Qaeda.
The Warner Bros. film, about a group of ex-CIA operatives out for revenge, stars up-and-comers like Zoe Saldana and Chris Evans, but that doesn't look like it will be enough to make the film a winner at the box office.
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In the three earlier films, Matt Damon plays Jason Bourne, star of a top-secret CIA program that trains super-soldiers to carry out assassinations.
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Drumheller said that, when then-CIA Director George Tenet told President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other high-ranking officials that Sabri was providing information, his comments were met with excitement that proved short-lived.
Durbin wrote CIA Director George Tenet Tuesday, as well as Senate Intelligence Chairman Bob Graham, D-Florida, and ranking Republican Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, asking that a the CIA put together a so-called "National Intelligence Estimate, " an authoritative written judgment on national security regarding Iraq.
The next day, FBI agents searched the home and office of a high-ranking CIA official with ties to an alleged Cunningham co-conspirator.
The CIA took al-Hadi into custody last year, a U.S. intelligence official said.
The ex-CIA officer also notes that the action required approval from the CIA's deputy director of operations.
The government has strongly urged against this move, saying it would disrupt a joint Justice Department-CIA investigation into the tapes.
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