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Covert action and 'outreach' for alternate leaders in Iran
Javed Ali, a former senior director for counterterrorism in the National Security Council, tells me that it is safe to assume that covert action is…
 • Sasha Ingber
10:18
Exclusive: U.S. has been testing a device linked to Havana Syndrome, sources say
Four people tell me the U.S. government has this weapon, which has been tested.
 • Sasha Ingber
12:04
The spy who became John le Carré
How much of fiction is taken from real life?
 • Sasha Ingber
CIA’s former Latin America Chief on the foreign powers and fragmented opposition in Venezuela
David Fitzgerald says he has “no doubt” that Russia, China, Cuba, and Iran will try to thwart Washington's efforts in Caracas.
 • Sasha Ingber
Exclusive: Notorious double agent Aldrich Ames is dead
He had been serving a lifetime prison sentence after being convicted of espionage, and he was 84.
 • Sasha Ingber
2:21
CIA’s former Latin America Chief of Operations discusses the hunt for Maduro
A massive counterintelligence investigation, likely by the Cubans, will be underway, says David Fitzgerald.
 • Sasha Ingber
29:37
How US special forces captured Maduro in Venezuela
Months of planning, rehearsing, and gathering intelligence on Nicolas Maduro's patterns of life.
 • Sasha Ingber
13:47
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Human stories at the intersection of intelligence and national security
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