Questions tagged [cia]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States.
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Which institutions are known to have been involved in Project MK-Ultra?
Apparently, during the MKUltra project (the CIA's notorious research project into poisons, intoxicating drugs, drug-assisted interrogation and whether mind control was really possible, involving a lot ...
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During Iranian Hostage Crisis, were shredded documents reassembled by children?
The movie Argo(2012) is a historical thriller detailing a CIA rescue mission during the Iran Hostage Crisis. The movie depicts Iranian intelligence attempting to re-assemble shredded documents from ...
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What was the Soviet reaction to the revelations about secret US programs like Projects ARTICHOKE, MKULTRA, MOCKINGBIRD, etc., revealed in the 1970s?
I imagine the perception among the party elites in Moscow would have been that all these programs, projects, experiments and so on were initiated with them in mind, and would have inevitably been ...
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What did the CIA think about the partition of Pakistan in 1971?
According to the defected KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov, the KGB trained the Awami League and the Mukti Bahini and helped them organize a civil war in 1971 to split Pakistan.
He also said that the CIA knew ...
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What were the other steps on the execution checklist during Neptune Spear aka the killing of Bin Laden
According to Wikipedia, capturing Bin Laden was step 7 on the execution checklist - what were the steps before? And were there any afterwards?
The words of the commander on the ground were, "For ...
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Why does the CIA report on the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich refer to it as "Operation Salmon" rather than "Operation Anthropoid"?
SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. Source: National Archives
I have been researching Operation Anthropoid (the assassination of SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich on 27 May 1942 in Prague, ...
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What were the reasons behind Allen W. Dulles resignation?
Can someone please explain why Allen Dulles, former CIA director, was forced to resign? I'm reading one of his books but haven't found any meaningful information on this.
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Did the Iraqis really only use landlines during Desert Storm?
I remember reading somewhere -- I think it was in a CIA or NSA briefing paper -- that during Desert Storm, the Iraqis refused to communicate by radio because they were too scared of the U.S. ...
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Is there evidence to suggest the CIA didn't want Reagan to end the Cold War?
Paul Craig Roberts writes:
The US military/security complex did not want Reagan to end the Cold War, as the Cold War was the foundation of profit and power for the complex. The CIA told Reagan that ...
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How secret was the US and British involvement in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état?
A professor mentioned to me that one of the reason that conspiracy theories are popular in Iran (and Middle East in general) was that actual conspiracies involving Western powers against Muslim ...
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What documented criteria (if any) did the CIA use to determine targets for political assassination during the Cold War?
Did the CIA follow a documented set of criteria when determining targets for political assassination during the Cold War, especially in regards to foreign heads of state or government? There have been ...
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Why and how did the CIA/OSS support non-communist French trade unions after WWII? [closed]
Why and how did the CIA/OSS support non-communist French trade unions after the WWII?
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CIA mole in Indira Gandhi's Cabinet
It is discussed in several books that the CIA had a mole in Indira Gandhi's cabinet around the time of the Liberation war for Bangladesh in 1971. There are conflicting reports about who the mole could ...
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Has anyone ever been punished for Project MK-ULTRA?
So I've been looking into what MK-ULTRA is, and recently a scary question has came to mind. That question being, has anyone been punished for the events of MK-ULTRA? By punished, I don't mean a slap ...
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Why did JFK give approval for the CIA to encourage Diem's deposal?
In 1963, weeks before his own assassination, President Kennedy gave approval for the CIA to encourage a group of South Vietnamese generals to depose President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. The ...
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