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CIA Launches Campaign to Recruit Russian Spies

The CIA has launched a new effort to capitalize on what US intelligence officials believe is an “unprecedented” opportunity to recruit Russian spies. A recruitment video was posted online to convince Russians disaffected by the war in Ukraine and life...

CIA Director William Burns in Secret Visit to Greece

CIA Director William Burns visited Greece earlier in the week where he met intelligence officers in a visit shrouded in secrecy. Local news media reported that the top American spy was in Athens on Tuesday and left for an unspecified...

A CIA Officer’s Daughter Remembers the 1967 Greek Coup

Just prior to the 1967 Greek coup, fifty-five years ago, I arrived in Athens with my mother and CIA father. He was a young officer and Greece was his first field assignment. I was a toddler when we moved...

CIA Daughter Remembers the Polytechnic Uprising in Greece

On the occasion of the Athens Polytechnic uprising in Greece against the Junta, Leslie Absher, the daughter of a CIA operative stationed in Greece during the military dictatorship, recalls the events that eventually brought down the regime in 1973. Leslie...

CIA Chief Meets Russian Counterpart in Turkey

The CIA chief met his Russian counterpart in Turkey on Monday. The Kremlin verified that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns met face-to-face with Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR RF), in the...

Emirates Flights at Athens Airport Disrupted After CIA Terror Alert

Two Emirates flights from Athens airport were disrupted on Thursday evening after a CIA alert received by Greek authorities. A U.S.-bound Emirates plane made an emergency landing at Athens International Airport "El. Venizelos". Another flight was grounded. The CIA's information referred...

The Greek-American CIA Spy Who Helped the Afghans Defeat the Soviet Invaders

Afghanistan's Taliban owe a lot to a Greek American CIA spy who ran the largest covert operation in the agency's history in arming the Mujahideen in the 1980s

UK Top Court Opens Door for Julian Assange’s Trial in the U.S.

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange maybe eventually tried in the US on espionage charges after the UK High Court on Friday granted the US government’s appeal. In January, a district court denied the US extradition request, citing the vulnerable mental state...

The CIA “Plotted to Kidnap and Assassinate” Julian Assange

A report published on Friday by Yahoo News reveals how the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of Donald Trump's presidency plotted to kidnap and potentially assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The report details the ways in which the CIA conceived of...

My Dad Was a CIA Spy in Greece — But Not a Thug

by Leslie Absher When I was just a baby, my father was sent to Greece for his first field assignment with the CIA. It was the summer of 1966 when we arrived, nine months before the military coup led...