Under Trump, CIA plots bigger role in drug cartel fight
The CIA is developing plans to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign pledges to get tough on Mexico’s drug cartels, but ...
C.I.A. Plans Largest Mass Firing in Nearly 50 Years
The possible purge of officers working on recruiting and diversity comes as the agency moves to comply with the spirit of an ...
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CIA Set To Take Larger Role In Fight Against Cartels, Including Potential Covert Actions
CIA Director John Ratcliffe plans to apply counterterrorism methodologies developed over the past two decades to operations ...
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NYT reveals stealthy role of CIA director in Gaza hostage, ceasefire deal
Towing the line between diplomat and intelligence agent, Burns's trips to the region are shrouded under a cloak of mystery. CIA Director William J. Burns departs a classified briefing with members ...
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CIA now favors lab-leak theory, as critics of covid response take power
William J. Burns, who served as CIA director under Biden, requested that the agency’s analysts take a position on covid’s origins one way or the other — without specifying which scenario ...
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The CIA believes COVID likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
The finding is not the result of any new intelligence, and the report was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA Director William Burns. It was declassified and ...
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The CIA joins the anti-China bandwagon on COVID origins, despite lack of any evidence
The “reassessment” was actually carried out by the agency at the instruction of Biden’s CIA Director William J. Burns, but the results were not made public until Ratcliffe gave the instruction.
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The Hon. William J. Burns to Receive INSA’s 2025 William Oliver Baker Award
The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) announced The Honorable William J. Burns, former Director of the ... As the eighth director of the CIA (2021–2025), Mr. Burns led the agency ...
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CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak
A U.S. official granted anonymity to share private details about the assessment said former CIA director William Burns had told analysts that they needed to take a position on the origins of the ...
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CIA says COVID-19 more likely to have come from lab than nature
But in the final weeks of the Biden administration, former CIA Director William Burns asked CIA analysts and scientists to make a clear determination, stressing the pandemic's historical ...
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The CIA believes COVID most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
The finding is not the result of any new intelligence, and the report released Saturday was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA Director William Burns. It was ...