1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American diplomat and lawyer who became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence, and its longest-serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état, Operation...
A major investigation was launched in 1975 by theU.S. SenateSelect Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, commonly referred to as the “Church Committee,” for its chairman, SenatorFrank ChurchofIdaho. However, millions of pages of documents remain unreleas...
Mitrokhin, Vasili Nikitich –[8 Pages, 0.5MB] – Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (Russian: Васи́лийНики́тичМитро́хин; March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004) was a major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union’s foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Direc...
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Two days after Comey's firing, McCabe appeared at a congressional hearing on worldwide intelligence threats and contradicted a White House assertion that Comey had lost the support of the FBI's rank-and-file. He declared, "I can tell you that the majority, the vast majority of FBI employees...
The FBI warned Americans on Tuesday of potential violence perpetuated by lone actors over the holidays, as tensions continue to rise amid the Israel-Hamas war. The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Counterterrorism Center issued
The insider threat is a cost of doing business. Of course, it depends on the business. The national security & intelligence business, which I’m in, sees a lot of paranoid whining about this threat, but they keep harping on the same handful of names: Ames, Hanssen, the Walkers, Pollard...
“protecting US communications”. They are not in the business of gathering “US Court admissible evidence” which the FBI is, with a small side order of “Intelligence gathering” that might be part of an investigation, but not the prosecution as much Intelligence is “hearsay” or “...