He was key for the great wars of our time the in the 1980s to drive Soviets out of Afghanistan that helped bring end to Cold War the largest and most action program in the history of CIA and the war with al- Qa'ida. ..…

In 1989, with the unexpected end of Cold War, Pentagon and CIA lost communism as their big official enemy. ..…

He also combed through what he considered reliable histories of CIA and American activity, diplomatic histories of Cold War, and memoirs of former CIA officials. ..…

This “regime change apparatus” uses CIA methods developed during the Cold War (by “experts” like Gene Sharp and others) such as mobilization, training, subterfuge, agitation, and propaganda. ..…

The Joint Chiefs were also extremely disturbed that Kennedy was working with Krushchev to end the Cold War.   ... The Warren Commission knew the truth as did Lyndon Johnson, but the belief was that the American people could not be told, because it would cause them to lose confidence in the..…

My more recent work on covert operations,  A Question of Torture CIA Interrogation, from Cold War to War on Terror , explores the agency's half-century history of psychological torture. ..…

Frances Stonor Saunders covers this in her 1999 book, The Cultural Cold War CIA And The World Of Arts And Letters, and Joel Whitney followed this up in 2016 with Finks How CIA Tricked World's Best Writers, with particular emphasis on the complicity between CIA and the literary,..…

Nuland further revealed that the U.S. had invested over $5 billion in “democracy promotion” in Ukraine since 1991 through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was carrying on the kind of work previously undertaken by the CIA during the Cold War. . ..…

Ever since the sudden and unexpected end of the Cold War, the Pentagon, CIA, and NSA — the three principal components of the national-security state — did everything they could to make Russia, once again, an official enemy of the United States. ... That’s why the Pentagon,..…

That of course was the mindset of Pentagon, CIA, and NSA throughout Cold War, when, U.S officials maintained, the communists from Russia, China, and elsewhere were coming to get us and take over our nation as part of conspiracy that was based Moscow. ..…

And then, of course, came 11, that staggering act of blowback  — in part from one of the great successes of CIA in Cold War, the decisive defeat of Red Army Afghanistan thanks to the funding and arming of set of Islamist militants, in. ..…

And then, of course, came 11, that staggering act of blowback in part from one of the great successes of CIA in Cold War, the decisive defeat of Red Army Afghanistan thanks to the funding and arming of set of Islamist militants, in. ..…

And then, of course, came 11, that staggering act of blowback — in part from one of the great successes of CIA in Cold War, the decisive defeat of Red Army Afghanistan thanks to the funding and arming of set of Islamist militants, in. ..…

In the specific case of Italy, Aldo Moro had committed the unforgivable crime of contemplating a government that included Italians who belonged to the Italian Communist Party Right from the start of the Cold war, the CIA and MI6 had worked closely with former fascists to oppose..…

Almost no one, however, would be able to identify James Jesus Angleton, despite his key role as leader of the agency's head of counter-intelligence operations during the height of Cold War. anti-Communist, he was obsessed by KGB and its constant attempts to plant agents in CIA. ..…

Through slightly less direct methods, also in the name of fighting Cold War, democracies Iran, Guatemala, Chile, Grenada, Honduras were all overthrown by some combination of CIA and local fascists. ..…

And Beijing is using that economic might to finance a “cold war” against the United States, according to Pompeo’s former colleagues at the CIA, who warn of a “systems conflict” that will shape the next century. . ..…

American intelligence and national security officials have cited such operations as an example of how Beijing is waging “a cold war” against the United States, as a senior CIA official put it last year, often through unconventional means. ..…

Fearing that communism would spread across the hemisphere, U.S government repeatedly interfered in the politics of Latin American nations during Cold War.. In 1954 CIA worked with elements of Guatemalan military to overthrow elected President Jacobo Árbenz. ..…

Fearing that communism would spread across the hemisphere, U.S government repeatedly interfered in the politics of Latin American nations during Cold War.. In 1954 CIA worked with elements of Guatemalan military to overthrow elected President Jacobo Árbenz. ..…

But then, as Kovalik,  it was Reagan who gave the in 1987 to the driver to run over Vietnam Brian Willson at Concord Naval Weapons Station where arms were shipped to Contras Reagan's so-called secret war Nicaragua. Kovalik recounted how the movement has been working hand-in-glove with..…

It was natural for Bush to tap his in CIA for job at DoJ Cold War-era Bush White House, like the War on Terror-era one, was time for the maturation of the intractable, national security-oriented arm of American state, and Barr fit the role perfectly.. ..…

The Fall of Soviet Union — CIA fails to predict this most event of Cold War. ..…

In a , Williamson drew a direct parallel between the group’s collaboration with journalists and surreptitious payments the CIA made to reporters during the Cold War. . “These tactics resemble those deployed by the CIA in Operation Mockingbird that was launched at the..…

McCoy, A Question of Torture CIA Interrogation, from Cold War to War On Terror  . ..…

At least the Senate report does acknowledge in passing that the CIA’s acquaintance with torture long predated its relationship with the two Air Force psychologists. At the height of the Cold War in 1963, the CIA produced a “Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual,”..…

CIA analyst declares China now waging Cold War on U.S. . . Share . Tweet . ..…

In question and session held April 2004, HSDECA of education and training, Stan Supinski, explained that the role of the consortium was to promote programs related to security and to tap into academia to help level the playing field for security and defense the same way it leveled the field during..…

Bush as “the cold-eye former CIA Director”. . Just as in the first Cold War, one of the basic problems is that Americans have great difficulty in believing that Russians mean well. ..…

The resemblance between this argument and CIA anti-communist propaganda of the Cold War period is not coincidental. ... Moreover, Smith—dredging up the Shachtmanite anti-Marxist smears of the Cold War era—portrays opposition to the CIA’s war in..…

The CIA—the former Office of Strategic Services—was created in 1947 mainly to assess and oppose the communist menace. But the Cold War, by all reasonable accounts, ended. So the key question, beyond the CIA peering into Senate files, is whether to maintain the spy..…

But few of these hawks have idea how deterrence worked during Cold War, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul.. ..…

: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders . Granta, 509 pp, £20.00, July 1999, ISBN 1 86207 029 6 . . . ... The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, whereas in fact his dispute is with the book itself. ..…

Another problem is that CIA's abilities to analyze the threats have been stretched thin by the multitude of post- Cold War threats. ..…