Tag: CIA

• Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Khashoggi syndrome: Crude prices at their lowest since 2017; fears of further market volatility

  

  Crude prices hit their lowest level since 2017 on Tuesday, sliding further into a bear market after President Donald Trump signaled the US would not punish Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, over the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate.

• Saturday, May 12th 2018 - 09:23 UTC

  CIA nominee Gina Haspel praised by ex Vice-president Cheney who supports using torture against terror

  

  Former US Vice President Dick Cheney said the US should restart the harsh detention and interrogation practices used on terror suspects after 9/11, and called on the Senate to confirm CIA nominee Gina Haspel.

• Saturday, May 12th 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Brazilian military presidents authorized execution of “subversives”, claims CIA declassified documents

  

  The president under Brazil's military dictatorship in the 1970s personally authorized executions of “subversives,” according to a declassified CIA document published on Friday in the Brazilian media. President Ernesto Geisel ruled Brazil from 1974 to 1979, toward the end of the country's two decade long military dictatorship.

• Wednesday, March 14th 2018 - 09:32 UTC

  CIA first woman chief an expert in “enhanced interrogation”

  

  Gina Haspel, 61, the newly nominated first-ever female director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is a career intelligence officer with more than 30 years' experience. Controversially, she ran a prison in Thailand where suspected al-Qaeda members were tortured by water-boarding in 2002.

• Saturday, November 23rd 2013 - 06:30 UTC

  Kennedy killed by CIA conspiracy for acting weak with Cuba, claims Maduro

  

  President John F Kennedy was murdered by a CIA conspiracy including groups linked to the anti-Castro and Sicilian mafias because he was 'weak' with Cuba, claimed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro who remembered events of 50 years ago in Dallas.

• Thursday, December 1st 2011 - 16:30 UTC

  Chile requests extradition of former US Army officer allegedly involved in the 1973 killing of two US citizens

  

  Chile’s Supreme Court has requested the extradition of former US army officer, Capt. Raymond E. Davis, over his alleged involvement in the murder of two US citizens in Chile, days after the coup of 11 September, 1973 that ushered in 17 years of brutal military rule.