Times have changed! I remember the CIA snubbing OSINT as far less reliable compared to classified sources of information- it’s now a crucial tool in its intelligence gathering operations. #OSINT #cia #intelligence #USA #SecurityInsights
intelligenceonline.com/gover…— @Robert4787 Aug 19, 2024
Month: August 2024
“We checked up on it”: former #CIA director #RichardHelms offers up a denial that backfires, spectacularly, on the subject of Agency involvement in the #JFKassassination. Helms had been the covert-operations chief at the time of the assassination, so his professional curiosity about who might have been in Dallas on 11/22/63 is understandable.
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— @timfattig Aug 12, 2024
Fantastic thread on the origins of the #MKULTRA program, the BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE projects that explored the limits (but not the ethics) of mind-control research in the ‘50s and ‘60s. What #CIA director #WalterBedellSmith and his deputy (and eventual successor at CIA) #AllenDulles accomplished through these #ManchurianCandidate programs moved the Agency, over just a few years, from being a necessary evil, to just plain evil.
— @timfattig Aug 5, 2024
Numerous foreigners and Russian political prisoners released as Germany frees hitman Vadim Krasikov as part of exchange