the hard jobs come to cia.within the intelligence community, cia is the keeper of the human intelligence mission. technical forms of collection are vital, but a good human source is unique and can deliver decisive -- even intend. cia is also the lead agency for all sorts of intelligence analysis. the assessment drafted by our analysts based on classified and open source information. much of the president's daily brief consists of cia collection and analysis. very often, the president relies on us to act as america's first line of defense. we are first and, collecting intelligence, moving ahead of the military, going where others can't go doing things no one else can. these are the sorts about committees that fall under the heading of covert action. our work requires secrecy and secrecy in turn requires a profound degree of trust from the american people. nothing is more important to those of us at cia and our obligation to earn the trust our fellow citizens. that is why our agency abides by and embraces an over

you had the counterterrorism center at cia. how did some of these interservice rivalries play out and start to cause problems for the mission moving forward? >> it was a problem for me immediately, because i was caught between those two divisions. i was on rotational assignment to the counterterrorism center when i was overseas as chief of station. so, when i returned and 9/11 happened, i got in my car and went to headquarters. cia headquarters, to say, hey, i am here. i want to help. who is going to be running the show here, in terms of response. and they did not know. it was some period of time, days anyway, where this was being debated. the counterterrorism center has the mission of countering terrorism, or there is the northeast division that owns the territory where we would be operating. those decisions were made at a very high level. i wasn't sitting in the meetings when those were made. initially, no one knew who was going to take the lead on the cia response to 9/11. it took a while to play out. ultimately the decision

eisenhower once it run by the cia. his rationale is that it is a military plane with a military pilot over a foreign hostile country, that would be an act of war. but if it is a civilian pilot in a civilian plane over a foreign, hostile country, it would be espionage. a slap on the wrist. so, cia has control of this program. they scour the air force to find fighter pilots that can do these missions. dad is selected. he starts to fly in 1956. to the left of the stage, you're right, we have to easels. on one is the photograph my father took from his first mission over the soviet union. this particular photo is the presidential palace. this was one of the targets of this mission on november 6, 1956. the other images his flight map. it details the route he took on this first mission that penetrated soviet airspace. my father is recruited by the cia in 1955. he is trained at area 51 in the nevada desert. he starts to serve in turkey. there, for the next 4 1/2 years he is flying these flights over the former soviet union and

interview where he blew the whistle was he repeated what he had heard in that cia hallway which turnedout you know by zero nine that it was complete b.s. while more. only got about a minute left but what what do you what do you think what's the stuff people should take to better combat this kind of. i guess deception manipulation and also malfeasance that you guys a book cover to go about thirty seconds. yeah well they should go to our twitter account and they should tweet to the major media to have a stop like you said before people can know about the things in this book watchdogs book watch them that's a great point i do strongly suggest people got to read this book they need to know this information thank you so much for coming out and talking with us today thank you yeah thanks for having us really appreciate it thank you. so who out there is interested in exploring the solar system well my friends according to the good folks at nasa they're going to need to wait a little longer more than. me a little bit longer you're going to need a little more of them our rocket jet fuel and lot

cia documents that just recently have been declassified shows strong ties between u.s. intelligence and ukrainian nationalists since one thousand nine hundred forty six from the cia agency report it is clear that they were not mistaken about the nature of ukrainian nationalists organizations or their leader step on bond dare on himself according to an o.s.'s report of september one thousand nine hundred forty five bunn darragh had earned a fierce reputation for conducting a reign of terror during world war two after the second world war under another ukrainian nazi leaders fled to europe where the cia helped them hide. the cia later inform the immigration and naturalization service that it had concealed steffen bond darragh and other ukrainians from the soviets the operations involving ukrainians continued for many years the nuremberg trials of one thousand nine hundred forty five in one nine hundred forty six brought the political economic and military leaders of fascist germany to justice and revealed to the world the monstrous face of naziism and the crimes they comm

>> cia officers keep their head down.ately all the partisan rank that takes place. i must say i have never seen it this bad in washington. i have been very, very concerned about how the intelligence oversight committees which are supposed to be bipartisan and years ago they were but now it's intelligence law enforcement enforcement is a political football in the hands of many. devin nunes, i think, has really abused his powers and authorities of charnl of the house select committee on intelligence. it's an important institution and it needs to make sure it carries out its job objectively and gets to the truth and does what it needs to do to protect the american people. >> you look back to the way dianne feinstein worked on that committee. let's hope that chairman bur and mark warner do the same, but that's the way it's supposed to operate. >> mike rodgers is very good, worked and the two of them demonstrated the house intel committee can carry out its work. sure there will be differences of view and i had a lot of issues

barely a year after the cold war ended a letter arrived at cia headquarters. instigator the up and coming senator. wanted the cia to allow its intelligence data and systems to be used for environmental study. he was very specific. he wanted us to look at vegetative into c g a physical parameters oceanographic parameters we were not really that was not really our our focus. dissolved a senior officer in the cia science and technology directorate was chosen to study it. i was interested in the earth sciences and i had been working many years the cia on other issues and this was something that. kind of spoke to my heart though still in opposition to the republicans goes decision to involve his national security advisor elevated the issue to the highest levels of u.s. intelligence and the idea was i think there's a lot of information that's available which could answer research questions in the scientific world if it could be made available it was my job to help figure out how this could be brought to pass. senator gore early on had been on committees where he had

interfered told elections around the world will doesn't this give them a point to say if we cut your cia or anybody else for mending decide and draw undermining what does a great point just wait that's a excellent point you know and let's also remember too that democrats republicans undermine our democracy here at home by not allowing third parties by not abide by it just by the way exactly what they complain is the problem in places like russia that there aren't enough opposition parties yet here if you even talk about a third party candidate your a traitor or your if pronounced another way is susan sarandon. and i'm over here was susan going you might want to calm down a little right for example randy barnett lawrence lessig wrote in time magazine that there is a morass of state laws to keep particular americans from threatening the two existing major parties on the meddling these laws prevent rivals from emerging that might replace existing nonresponsive parties there you have a so i mean democrats republicans undermine this country's elections more than any foreign power could ever h

instead reagan launched a covert operation in nicaragua run by the cia.largely secret from the eyes and ears of congress. by early 1982, the cia had set up training camps at military bases around the u.s. >> you are about to begin an intense training program as your country strives to obtain peace. >> we wanted to appear that this was the nicaraguan people that were uprising against the sandinista government. >> these right-wing counter revolutionaries became known as the contras. >> this was the biggest cia paramilitary program in the history of the cia at that point. >> reagan's covert war became national news. >> two american congressmen no doubt america is involved in a war with the government there. >> the contra's tactics were alarming. >> it became quite brutal. in many ways a war against civilian. >> if there were people they thought were involved with the sandinista government she would shoot them. they were essentially terrorists . >> but before the contra's culture of death and intimidation reached the public, many in congress were finding thei

help the scientific community i few months later do most of the cia. thank you all very much twenty six weeks ago today the president announced his intention to nominate me for director of central intelligence. and the end of all the entire soviet empire has collapsed. when robert gates became unequal powerful director of central intelligence enough m. but much ninety one the stage was sent for google's remarkable request to become a reality one of my primary responsibilities was going to be how to. move this gigantic american intelligence apparatus from a singular focus on the soviet union in the cold war to a range of new challenges so i had a pretty good idea of the kind of resources we had. the way they had been applied against the soviet target and that we had this huge archive. of material and just the notion that uniquely in the world we have been taking photographs of the same places in the arctic for decades. guys that the reaction of the broader community to us during this was shock and awe . we might not get out of it what we're putting into

we know the cia.ad media leak strategy all related to destroying donald trump before the election, after the elections. and not only that, with all due respect, i guess have you got to do business with the guy. i don't. but when we look at the messages from steel bruce ohr his wife worked for fusion gps. christopher steel put all the russian lies together paid for by hillary. talking about praying he doesn't get beings posed. also talking about fire walls holdings. strzok and page talk about insurance policy. but then steel tells ohr asking ohr did you get the information we now know are fabricated lies from russia did you get them into the. >> tell you if there is the same relentless pursuit of these people as they have done to president trump, you're going to find very quickly already admitted evidence of serious crimes and a major conspiracy to first stop him from being president where there would be an impeachment. my head hangs in shame gave 16 years of my life to the department of justice as a t

back and people all over the world were eager to work for the united states, work secretly for the cia, work openly in other ways, because it was good for them. they would get business, they would make friends. that was the way the world was going. i think we're now heading into the wind rather than having it at our back, and maybe it is easier for journalists to approach people. i'm just going to say briefly in response to the earlier theme of the way in which being an intelligence officer is like being a journalist, that's just obviously true on one level. we're trying to pull people's stories from them, we're trying to establish rapport, we're trying to get people to say things that they might not otherwise say. but there's one huge difference that you just have to underline right now, which is that journalists, if they're doing their job, don't lie. we're about telling the truth, and we work for our readers. [ applause ] and you know, it's obvious that we're in a moment where that role, that understanding, that that's what we do and that we're not in the business of lying, is being

you have strzok referring to the cia pulling out all the stops saying the cia is scorned and that theyre political and they are leaking like mad. less than a month later the dossier becomes public. is this the kind of politically motivated leaking from our most trusted government officials? is that acceptable, john brennan? i hate to say that chuck schumer is right, but if you go against the intelligence community, they will get you six ways to sunday. why? because the deep state with the power that they have intelligencewise, it's like a house of cards. we are watching the whole scheme come come tumbling down. revealing the level of corruption in your government that should make you sick and concerned, and as it turns out, high-ranking deep state officials, they weren't the only people rocked by the election of donald trump. look at breitbart.com. they obtained official video from inside a 2016 company-wide meeting at the tech giant google. at this was following trump's win. if you thought the good people of google weren't biased and against all things trump, this should make you thin

, that would be john brennan and barack obama's cia.ess than a month after that exchange, "the new york times" published, published a story about rnc hacks on the very same day buzzfeed published a steele dossier filled with russian lies that hillary paid for.sh you have strzok referring to the cia pulling out all the stops saying the cia is scorned and that they are political and they are leaking like mad.he less than a month later, the dossier becomes public. is this the kind of politically motivated leaking from our most trusted government officials? is that acceptable, john brennan? i hate to say that chuck schumer is right, but if you go against the intelligence community, they will get you six ways to sunday. why? because the deep state with tht power that they have intelligencewise, it's like a house of cards. we are watching the whole scheme come tumbling down. revealing the level of corruption in your government that should make you sick and concerned, and as it turns out, high-ranking deep state officials, they weren't the onl

. >>> former cia officer duane evans talked about his book foxtrot in kandahar. the international spy museum hosted this event. it is just over an hour. >> let me introduce you to our guest today. this is an expansion of our podcast service -- podcast series. we tend to do these conversations in private in a studio a couple feet from here, but every quarter we choose one that stands out and do it in public. the community can get a chance to hear the author talk directly to you. we are excited today to have duane evans with us. he is a former cia operations officer with three tours on four continents, including serving as chief of station,

i am almost tempted to tighten the book how the cia made me sleep with people you herman. us connections to the republican movement in northern ireland during this period but that's completely irrelevant when it comes to your defense of wrongly convicted republicans what interested you so much and i don't know i when you were considered it wasn't a good career move a lawyer for terrorists judges would one top judge on his way to the house of lords took a liking to me and he called me into his room and said. you must be careful of the cases you take you'll end up doing bomb cases and this was the attitude of britain's senior judges that that only. larry can lawyers took bomb cases and yet these were the cases that destroyed the image of british justice when so many were found to be wrongful convictions so it was strange to me coming idealistically from a sprayer believing that one of the finest goals for a lawyer was to defend who were demonized and possibly wrongfully charged as the many irish people were to find that this was the wrong attitude you don't find it now it sa

they may be failures of the cia and we should regard intelligence skeptically.n the intelligence has not been recognized or probably analyzed. that is really what i think and i mean, the cia has much greater in the nsa has greater resources than any other intelligence agency in the sense they gather too much and it's a vast of material and it's not clear that the shape is. >> adam, that reminds me of a story when i'm doing my biography of mcgeorge and william bundy, to bundy brothers, william bundy had worked in the cia for a long time in the 1960s and working under a man named william lang langer, who was a harvard professor who been recruited to become head of the office of national intelligence in 1952. when he was recruited he told [inaudible] i can't possibly do the job if you give me more than 25 analysts. [laughter] he wanted it small and lean and recruited william bundy as one of those 25. but today we have -- david, how many? >> oh my gosh. to count all the agencies there's many tens of thousands. it's crazy. were not getting our money's worth. [laughte

one of the better thinks the cia does. so what there was the centralized leadership and the ability to organize counter propaganda operation across the government. that seems ok for quite a while, but on 9/11, americans woke up to the shocking realization that people all over the world were celebrating these attacks on america and they began to wonder why. those of you who were old enough will remember there was a lot of discussion, why do they hate us? that was a question. and the answer that the government came to was that there were a lot of people all around the world who were preaching stories about america that were quite hateful. these needed to be countered in some way. but without the use information agency, how would you do that? the problem is that there are a lot of messaging authorities within the u.s. government, the state department does direct government to government diplomacy and also as public diplomacy functions, which is to say diplomat talking directly to people. the military has a whole lot of differ

the secretary of defense, secretary of state, condoleezza rice, the head of the cia. and bob mueller was called there to report on what the fbi did. at least that is what he thought. he showed up with a report and was exceedingly proud of what the fbi had done, because what the fbi did in just 3 1/2 days is what they do very well, investigate. he came with a report to camp david that saturday morning, after only 3 1/2 days, and in this really is remarkable. those of you involved in things like this would realize it. the fbi had identified all 19 hijackers, their pedigree, their travel pattern, their financing, their associates, where they got in this country, where they rented cars, who gave them what, where they had been staying. in 3 1/2 days. and he presented that with a great deal of pride. mueller is a very proud man. at the end of this presentation, expecting, like i got here, a little bit of praise and thanks, president bush just looked at him and said, i don't care about that, i want to know how you are going to prevent the next one. you can imagine how humili

the cia began to turn away soviet defectors. so, you know, folks have been underestimating the soviet side -- the russian threat for decades. even "the new york times" when i wrote about this in the '90s say the cia acted naively after the soviet union by underestimating this. today, everyone has gotten the reasonable because, you know, they think that the left now wants to use this to attack a legitimately elected president. in the age of trump, you know, the point of reference is no longer "the new york times," it's now facebook. so how is facebook dealing with this? well, it's trying its hardest, i mean, facebook gets many things wrong, but it's doing, i think, trying to do a fairly good job so it doesn't get criticized by congress. the bad actors are getting much better at hiding their connections with russia, which makes the job of facebook and google and everyone else and twitter much harder. facebook, itself, said last month when it announced it had blocked pages, that, quote, it's clear that whoever sets up these account

cia, cia lane more robustly. but like 9/11, it's a bad day to bring up the analogy, and i know it falls apart in destructive power, but after 9/11 president bush, in essence, intervened and said we're going to go do things really differently. now, a lot of those are controversial. we'll probably have that in a plater session, all right? -- later session -- [laughter] >> one was connecting the dots. >> well, we're going to restructure how we do the things, because we just got an attack from an unexpected direction against a previously unappreciated weakness. so we are better off, but we're not as well off as we should be, because i don't think we've gone extraordinary. i want to make a point and tee up something phil and i talk about in the green room. you asked about manipulating the election. i don't think that's the big issue. i think we can defend against that. it's manipulating our heads. all right? and the russians have been magnificent at that, building on inherent american division can. so you've talked ab

because the cia wanted to tarnish russia. all of this was in the context of the russia topic and a in the name of it of course is to say that the poisonings had nothing to do with russia. so you will see the main person who with his own story to be critical of putin in this case. and then to start working with the russia propaganda. the without further ado. [inaudible] >> no. she did not have cancer. they just killed her because she knew too much and she spoke too much >> because she knew too much and she spoke too much. but then i arranged and that's why he got involved. in a nutshell that is the essence of our claim. and for the question in this case from the poisonings and associations with high politics to relations and their response with propaganda with that case russian effort to change public opinion into the basic anti- american mode. >> thank you very much for being here. even in the north american cities. but all this time to get justice for my husband. we took all information in public. it looks absolutely clear w

involved but has subsequently admitted it was involved in that coup and you can go down the line the cia supported a coup in brazil in one nine hundred sixty four the us supported the coup very violent and tragic two against salvador allende in one nine hundred seventy three you can go down the line this is been standing operating procedure of the united states certainly since world war two and even before that in the case of venezuela . recently is many people know the president nicolas maduro barely escaped in assassination attempt by bonds that were. thrown against him by drones in the. reaction of the media worldwide you can check this out was to say he was a victim of an alleged assassination plot they wouldn't even given the credit for being the victim of a sasa nation attempt even though you can watch the videos where it's very clear what happened and it's very clear that those that attempt to which was done by rogue military officers was certainly encouraged by these meetings with president trump. and again the u.s. will deny this but it's very clear the u.s. has been encouraging

operative who was very unhappy with the culture at the cia. he would request or send in requests to approach certain potential assets and he'd have his request sent back to him five times because the commas were in the wrong places. they would string them along and say no and he was constantly paint his sources out of the pocket and take the agencync forever to get the money so more often than not you got agents that are dealing with a big bureaucracy, as well intended, great by the women at the cia and that's one point i always make clear this amazing american there that are doing some of this nation's most dangerous business and people that think there are no problems there and talk to people who think it's so pure craddick and so much red tape and that is part of what i deal with in my thrillers which makes them all the more real. >> host: we read political philosophy of yours in your thrillers? >> guest: you know, ever since i write political thrillers and ever since human beings have gone together there's been politics and ever since we g

that's the palace the cia has. they do want to be bureaucratic to the want to go out and help the nation of protect the nation and gather the intel they have to but i think there are pieces that attach to that that make it difficult. that's what i love writing about a private intelligence agency where you got guys out there as americans we all hope there are scott harvath's out there or no rules he's unshackled and go needs to do what needs to be done. marcus littrell history was still in the lone survivor with mark walberg. first time i ever saw marcus speak that was a marcus ended his talk when his book was after he said one of the greatest things that you can do for us in the special operations community is to just kind of look away, does it mean with no accountability look at this way and let us go into what we're trying to do. trust us to do the right thing. there's an incredible story like the decided three of his teammates were killed because they made the decision they did to let those who carves and afghan

seth: well, there were some indications that the cia wassi providing ance to solidarity, but what was not e own is the individuals involved, some of y smugglers involved, the amount of money, where this was set up, and now declassified documents on debates within the reagan white house on whether to do it, and when they made the decision, what the objectis were. jane: how important was this? this was obviously at a time when the soviet union was in a state of flux. what did it do? seth: people have to remember at in 1981 in december, the soviets got the poles to crack down on solidarity. they considered invading themselves like in meechoslovakia, but instead of doing it, the reracked down. in 1982, 1983, 1984, the primary assistance solidarity was getting was covert assistance from the cia. they were getting it from labor unions and the catholic church, but the cia was the largest funder, we now know, of solidarity. it helped them survive the darkest hours of the soviet-backed regime. jane: could they havsucceeded without this support? seth: it's possible, over time, but i think what

we continue to be joined by former cia director john brennan. that struck me as the most presidential thing. that is plausibly and conceivably what other presidents would say to other commanders complaining about the pace of the fight. except i'm guessing you have a difference with the way trump carried it out? >> yes. i've heard basically those questions with a different tone and thrust uttered by other presidents. these are the types of questions that presidents and national security members need to ask, how long are we going to commit troops, how long are we going to lose lives. what are the national security stakes that we have to protect. how can we, in fact, extricate ourselves from these long and drawn out wars. these are complicated issues. we don't want a withdrawal that will allow our adversaries to use afghanistan once again to launch another 9/11, but can we commit treasure and blood for years upon years and hope that, you know, one day in the future we're going to be able to get out. these are serious questions. again, these are iss

but then there came to light a fantastic web of cia penetration so when the reagan administration came in there was this concept that instead of having the cia which traditionally would go into these different target countries funding. they're media funding n.g.o.s funding different political operations that was essentially farmed out to a new organization called the national endowment for democracy which was created in one thousand nine hundred three and it would do pretty much what the agency used to do it would go into one of these countries and it would support various political groups train activists deal with journalists business groups and try to advance u.s. foreign policy interests sometimes against the interests of the host government the target government and beyond that they received financial and other logistical help from the national endowment for democracy and other u.s. agencies that help them training activists working with journalists to get their side presented more favorably they work on things like how do you get traction how do you get things to go viral how do y

he called bush home in order to be cia director. this is something bush thought was going to kill his political career. i believe the theory that donald rumsfeld, who was chief of staff to gerald ford, at least one of the reasons he thought it was good for bush to take this job is because bush was going to be one of rumsfeld's competitors should he want to run for the white house. having bush be a spy was an added bonus for rumsfeld. brian: i'm old enough to remember back in the late 60's, called then item washington wire in the wall street journal that predicted that george bush and donald rumsfeld would be running for president. when did he first started thinking about being president? bush was suchrge a popular and charismatic person's entire life. -- his entire life. people would often say, you should run for president. i think he began to consider in , the first documented case of him explaining to people he wanted to run for president was when he was in china. some think he was going to come back into in 1976 or 1980. clearly

we believe that to be the cia, jeff sessions, are you paying attention?od rosenstein, where are you? by the way, bob mueller, are you concerned that steele was funneling information into your office? information he did not stand by when he was involved in an interrogatory in a court of law in great britain. he said, i don't know if this is true, is this acceptable behavior from the highest ranking members of our government? gregg jarrett, sara carter will be here and weigh in on the latest. we also have an update on supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. the confirmation vote in the senate has been delayed until next week. and after weeks and weeks of partisan attacks, frankly since the announcement of judge kavanaugh, every dirty political tactic from every democrat in the senate, now at the last minute, the last second, the final hour, dianne feinstein throwing a hail mary pass. a last ditch effort to the confirmation and feinstein released earlier today this cryptic statement "i have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of

post" for his coverage of the fcc and another time for his gulf coast towards an the accounts of the cia's role in afghanistan. he's a staff writer at "the new yorker". i was honored to work under him when he was managing editor of the "washington post." steve has written eight books. these include an account of the breakup of at&t and exploration of exxonmobil's power in the history of the bin laden family. his latest book sub -- "directorate s" is a follow-up that takes us through the aftermath of the u.s. invasion of afghanistan in 2001 and the u.s. experience over the next 17 years which can be described as one reviewer put it as a period of american ignorance, atrocity and error. reviewers have called the book incredible and definitive. they have noticed 500 d interviews being conducted. they praise his literary prowess but the story he tells is a discerning one. "the news york times" wrote that treatment is compelling but the conclusion is persuasive. the reviewer noted america's policymakers are not listening and taking his reporting to heart. just don't expect anything to change he

world war two after the second world war under another ukrainian nazi leaders fled to europe where the cia helped them hide. the cia later inform the immigration and naturalization service that it had concealed steffen bond darragh and other ukrainians from the soviets the operations involving ukraine they advocated for independence of ukraine from the u.s.s.r. and became an incubator for leaders of ukraine in the nazis. in one thousand nine hundred one one of them new book founded svoboda an openly radical nationalist party preaching the good old principles of bondage era. just to. purge ukraine from the jews in russia ukraine for ukrainians and so on his statements got him fifth place in the simon visa center top ten anti-semitic world leader rankings of two thousand and twelve. but also sadly attracted numerous follow. dimitri are founded another extreme right organization treason or trident in one nine hundred ninety four. in april two thousand and thirteen became an assistant to a member of parliament from the opposition party. later that same year he would become the leader of the mo

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