U.S. President Joe Biden has dispatched one of his most trusted, and potentially influential, officials to the Middle East in the hopes of turning a tenuous truce between Israel and Hamas into something more. A U.S. official confirmed to VOA…
CIA staged ‘‘Color Revolutions’’, hacker attacks around globe – Chinese Cyber-security Centre
A Chinese report has alleged that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) masterminded a great number of hacker attacks and “color revolutions” in the post-Soviet space and other regions of the globe. China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre and…
CIA Chief: China has doubt on ability to invade Taiwan
U.S. intelligence shows that China’s President Xi Jinping has instructed his country’s military to “be ready by 2027″ to invade Taiwan though he may be currently harboring doubts about his ability to do so given Russia’s experience in its war…
CIA chief Burns meets Ukraine’s Zelensky in Kyiv as Washington ups support
CIA Director William Burns visited Kyiv last week to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a US official said Thursday, in the latest example of high-level contacts between the US and Ukraine. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity…
CIA Director Bill Burns meeting with Russian counterpart Monday
CIA Director Bill Burns is meeting with his Russian intelligence counterpart, Sergey Naryshkin, in Ankara Monday as part of an ongoing effort by the US to “communicate with Russia on managing risk” and to discuss the cases of “unjustly detained…
CIA head to brief Congress on Khashoggi (BBC)
The head of the CIA will now brief Congress on Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, US media say. They say Gina Haspel is to talk to Senate leaders on Tuesday. She was absent from last week’s briefing by the secretaries…
CIA ‘blames bin Salman’ for Khashoggi death (BBC)
The CIA believes that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to US media reports. Sources close to the agency said it had assessed the evidence in detail. It is understood there is…