Central Intelligence Agency

The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee released a mysterious statement Wednesday morning that warned of a “national security threat” facing the United States. And while we’re still not sure of the details, a new report from ABC News includes more information about what everyone might be panicking about.Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their View“Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has made available to all Members of Congress information concerning…

Meet the new hero of hustle culture: James Clarke, CEO of Clearlink, a Utah-based digital marketing company. This champion of capital had his grindset on lock in a video call with employees last week.A Transformer Is Headed to the Moon“I challenge any one of you to outwork me, but you won’t,” he told his staff in a virtual meeting meant to address a forced return-to-office for Clearlink workers living within 50 miles of the company headquarters, as first reported by Vice News. “I’m all in on what we’re doing here at…

On February 26th officials from the SBU, Ukraine’s security service, came to a striking conclusion. Their own agents in Belarus had defied orders and attacked a Russian surveillance plane earlier that day. American spies were listening in. They noted the morsel of intelligence in a highly classified slide on the war in Ukraine circulated by America’s joint staff on March 1st. Within days that report, and 50 others, had been printed off and uploaded to the internet. It appears to be America’s most serious…

The U.S. reopened its embassy in Havana, Cuba in 2015. Then in 2016, officials working overseas at the embassy were the first to report strange symptoms that would eventually become known as ‘Havana syndrome.’ Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images)Yet again, another report based on U.S. intelligence sources has re-re-realleged that the mysterious “Havana syndrome” wasn’t brought on by some foreign adversary wielding strange energy weapons. As to any other possibilities for hundreds of U.S. officials experiencing a…

Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images)The Department of Energy now assesses that the Covid-19 pandemic most likely began as the result of a leak from a government laboratory, the Wall Street Journal reports. That assessment was laid bare in a classified intelligence report recently shared with the White House and with select members of Congress. The report, which appears to have been a brief survey of the U.S. intelligence community on the issue of Covid-19's origins, shows that the DOE has shifted its assessment about…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)The U.S. says it’s punching back in the digital cold war over emerging technologies with a new “Disruptive Technology Strike Force.” “Our goal is simple but essential—to strike back against adversaries trying to siphon off our best technology,” a deputy attorney general said.The strike force, a joint initiative created by the Department of Justice and the Commerce Department reportedly, willfocus on combating “adversaries” attempting to steal crucial U.S. tech secrets and attack supply…

The CIA had multiple directors that oversaw the U.S.’ reportedly disastrous use of fake websites for overseas operations from at least 2004 to 2013, but none could see just how easily identifiable any of these websites really were.Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP (Getty Images)Security researchers from Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto said on Thursday they found fatal flaws in a massive network of 885 fake websites that they have “high confidence” were previously used by the Central Intelligence Agency for covert…

What can an agency famous for keeping secrets even say on a podcast?Photo: Olivier Doulier - Pool (Getty Images)When the CIA announced its new podcast on Thursday and opened with the joke “(tap tap tap) Is this thing on? 🎙️”—the Twitterverse lost it. First off, it’s obvious that the agency that listens to countless people around the world knows when the mic is on. Then came the question: What would a famously secretive agency talk about in a podcast? According to experts, the CIA wants to improve its image and “deny the…

Pentagon officials are looking into the Department of Defense’s own secret use of social media to stoke pro-U.S. sentiments overseas, according to a report from The Washington Post. The alleged review follows news from last month that Twitter and Meta have both uncovered and removed a linked network of dozens of fake, apparently pro-U.S. accounts targeting social media users abroad.Colin Kahl, undersecretary for policy at the DoD, reportedly requested that all military branches conducting online psychological operations…

Signage is seen at CNN center, Thursday, April 21, 2022, in Atlanta. Photo: Mike Stewart (AP)CNN has announced a new hire: John Miller, the former head of the New York Police Department’s intelligence unit.Miller’s best-known work in media was as a television reporter in the 1990s, when he interviewed the likes of John Gotti and Osama bin Laden. More recently, though, he is remembered as the senior police official who bizarrely claimed there’s “no evidence” that NYPD ever spied on Muslim New Yorkers.But the NYPD did spy…