Tag: CIA

• 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.