the cia. these guys these spies are good we can use them. and so in 1990 palavich proposes to paul redman with the time was the deputy director of operations for soviet and eastern europe, but the cia. hey, i go make an outreach to my polish comrades. what do you think? i've read them says great and so there's a debate about where is the outreach going to be done? right? is it going to be done in rome? for example, where a pollos officer by the name of alexander makowski had done a year harvard law school courtesy of american scholarship as a spy studying american constitutional law, or should it be done elsewhere the problem with rome. is that despite this old school ties between redmen who was a harvard man and makovsky that the embassy in rome was on an alley and italian counterintelligence could monitor the cummings and goings and the americans didn't want to involve other a third country in this operation. so they thought about switzerland, but again swiss counterintelligence is famous fo

and several from the cia switch sides. a number of important cases of ca, officers who were turned by the chinese and were working for them most damaging to the cia. was jerry lee's betrayal from 2010. he helped chinese intelligence unmasked, at least 20 cia informants in the country. they were jailed or executed. in one case, the punishment was especially cruel. not only was the sy executed, but also his said pregnant wife was executed as well. this was done on closed circuit television so that the people in the ministry where he worked could witness the then chinese intelligence operations range from extremely brutal to almost silent. a former senior official in the n s. i said that russia is like a hurricane. and china is like climate change. i think that in the 20 twenty's we'll probably see the chinese spying the heck out of us. on the other hand will be spine the heck out of them. ah, ah, ah. in mid 2019 a, chechen man was crossing berlin's 2 garden park. the man was living in germany under a false name. out of nowhe

does the cia so make no mistake? if me, i, agent, when they came to want dental, they, they wanted to bury me alive. the war on terror was beginning to threaten freedom and the rule of law as we ways warranty for overseas. we're also going after the terrorist here at home and a powerful national counter terrorism center was charged with keeping alco eda and many others in it's sites. that theory was that people get infected with some radical idea, and that puts them on a path towards committing a terrorist act. so instead of looking at those 5000 people who are part of al qaeda on 911, we're looking at a 1000000 people. one suspected an individual was always a potential threat. the patriot act has helped save american lives and is protected american liberty. they were looking at everyone, including every american in gathering our information with the idea that somehow they would be able to sift it and find out which of us were going to be a threatened the future rock obama took over the apparatus and continued to exp

the cia had been talking about it for years and years.in my time in the trump administration when i advised the biden campaign on counterterrorism this was set of conditions where god he wasn't talking to anyone, wasn't dispensing in the barges, was in delegating authority, troops are not being paid, the taliban was negotiating in good faith. they were looking for military solution and we losing bases which were fighting our insight into his country. we said days to weeks under such circumstances. they didn't want to hear that. a dismissal of the conditions we spoke about as a possible scenario. not about what the facts were on the ground. it was perspective. >> what i do describing is all the pieces of the puzzle but the bureaucracy and the way information is shared and treated it as such that you can't put those pieces together. in a way that works. sometimes people think a bureaucracy is kind of boring but what you're saying is the very structure with which intelligence however good is treated is as important as the collection of intel

has offered a job by cia. i told my wife that sounds like it would be fun also for couple of years and then i'll go teach. somehow the teaching at least in the classroom never actually happened. >> you did manage to get back into academia. and i'm very grateful.as i know you meant it tongue andou cheap i am guessing you talk about these formative experiences with emphasis, the summit is k-12. it's investing $54 per students on staff. all important or national i think it is not recognized in a national security imperative. up close opportunity to see how important civicss is. you agree that it is really vital the level of public discourse the ugly nature the divisiveness of the country? a reflection and at least some part of the absence of civics education. particularly in middle school and high school kids are old enough to understand some of the intricacies of how government works. teachers required to cover the entirety of american history in a given amount of g time. they do cover the framing of the constit

it's really important to understand what this cia report does and doesn't say the cia is saying that this notion that's out there that hundreds of americans in countries all over the world are being attacked by a foreign power is unlikely. now, they're not saying that they have concluded that havana syndrome is all made up or no one was attacked so what the cia is saying here in this report is that they are narrowing their focus to a few dozen cases where they can't find a good explanation and they think those cases might offer them the best chance of uncovering any involvement by a u.s. adversary if it does exist. we know in the past that the u.s. has suspected a directed energy weapon and potentially some involvement by russia moscow, of course, denies that this report casting doubt on the majority of cases is still really a sharp turn by the government the biden administration has said over and over that they're taking this seriously and that staffers should be able to come forward to report suspected instances without any stigma that's why lawmakers like bob menendez are asking w

oh, well, thank you to the cia. yeah. thanks to the cia for some other things that they've done for, you know showing us how not to do certain things now, i think one of the things before we go any further is to understand that this is not against the us policy. it's not saying, you know, we shouldn't have a foreign policy. we shouldn't have a cia but the question is what do we do? that's actually in our self-interest and what do we do that actually is counterproductive to what we're trying to accomplish and like a lot of you the leadership. sometimes has personal agendas which you know have such a deep influence on what the outcome is because their goal isn't exactly our goal democracy has always had this problem because the the people who set the goals keep changing whereas whereas if you've got a dictatorship, you know, you can maybe keep the goal. somewhat focused for a couple decades so counterproductive you talked about the cia in the book in a very interesting way that a lot of the work. is not too much different t

many predict -- they disagree, is the cia covering something up? complex story and i'm glad you got this covid right now. it's also canadian formats are victims and there's an investigation but ongoing. the cia's initial response to this when it first came out in the first victim started talking about these injuries, their initial response wasn't good, it wasn't proactive or responsive. it's not much better along with other departments, state and feds and others involved. what i'm concerned is i don't understand exactly why the cia felt they needed to come up with unilateral report while they mastication is ongoing and i don't know what degree they coordinated with others. the injuries are very serious, i talked to you may have heard on discovery . kennedy: fantastic show. >> second season full launch in march but we talk about this and covid extensively, i've talked to some of the victims and families, it's a traumatic brain injury we are talking so it's a serious issue. you will not and i have not seen anything including this report from the cia

a cia team searching for a cause is focused on about 200 cases, which do remain unexplained.n september, the u.s. president joe biden signed into law a bill to compensate the victims. ♪ ok, there we are. here we go. whispering in our guest. in auckland, new zealand, we have robert bartholomew, senior lecturer in the debarment of psychological medicine. he's also the co-owner of havana syndrome, mass psychogenic illness and the real story behind the embassy mystery and hysteria. we have natasha lynne start, specialist on u.s. foreign policy. she is a social science's deputy dean at the university of essex and in boston, massachusetts, we have glenn call, a career cia officer and formally a deputy national intelligence officer. welcome to you all. glenn, havana syndrome, what might it be? peter: well, -- glenn: well, the immediate thought of all of my colleagues and the introducing's -- institutions involved in foreign policy is that the russians are the most likely ones to have done this kind of activity whether to attain -- obtain intelligence or to harass or both. there are

mike, you say this interim report from the cia is disinformation. why?nned, coordinated response by the agency. one has to question why the agency, after only a few months of investigating something that actually has been going on for far more than just havana where i represent half a dozen or ten or so folks from down in nevada in 2016. this has been going on. we have reports back in the '90s of people that were impacted in various places around the world. the agency knows it because most of them were their people. so why come out with an interim report basically saying that, well, we haven't been able to find anything that indicates some widespread attack among our people, but there is a bunch of cases -- this is being lost -- a dozen or so cases -- and actually the number is higher, even according to their own info -- that possibly are some sort of foreign attack. so the real story gets lost in this bigger pr campaign that there is nothing there to see. and it's a problem of their own doing, because there was the cia that actually sent out notices to

ah, the cia trained allied agencies in the techniques. so in effect, you know, knowing about, dissemination about is huge. send these techniques to other armies. could you take an ordinary individual like a resty or recruit and make a person become an effective interrogate? and it seems that milligrams experiment was likely part of his project. when i learned of incidents such as the destruction of millions of men, women and children, perpetrated by the nazis in world war 2, how is it possible i asked myself that ordinary people were courteous and decent in everyday life? can i callously in you mainly without any limitations of conscience under what conditions, when a person obey authority, who commanded actions and went against conscience? these are exactly the questions that i wanted to investigate at your university. the mower experiment very simply was assimilated torture. this was one, not all the research we've been describing is the impact of interrogation upon the subject. milgar had another agenda, the impact of interrogation upo

so scarface became the me of our central government or our cia, and they got rid of them. they got rid of them, the one who attacked that dimension at the end. it was completely exaggerated, but the people who killed scarface were indeed people who felt that they had been betrayed by the sky. all this done happy, but they and thank you. thank you. she, you've always been, well, you know, it's been a long oh, thank you and for supporting me in the to the years. ah, well, it's 20th to the day since u. s. president george w bush made his fuss radio addressed to the nation after the $911.00 atrocities in new york in washington, announcing the plan for a comprehensive assault on terrorism. joining me now from falls church virginia, his retired colonel, larry wilkerson former u. s. sex. your state colon pal's chief of staff and the man involved in the decision to invade iraq retired. colonel, thanks so much for coming on. let's just a start with taking you back to the day you saw in witness the attacks on new york. i understand that the 1st reaction of the team there at the stat

. >>> the cia says the mysterious havana syndrome, which has sickened hundreds of u.s.ials around the globe, is unlikely a widespread campaign against u.s. personnel by foreign actors. >> this is a notable development. cnn reporter katie joins us now with more. katie bow, cia says this is not a, quote, sustained worldwide campaign, but they are still looking at some of these incidents, so i suppose, clarify for us what they're saying here, what you have learned and what they're not eliminating here. >> yeah, so, for years, u.s. service members, spies, diplomats overseas have been being struck by this sort of mysterious constellation of symptoms, it's everything from headaches to nausea to head pressure. in some cases, u.s. personnel have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and have been so ill that they have been forced to retire. there's been a thousand of these reports, roughly, that have come in over the last few years from around the globe. now, what we have learned is that the cia task force that has been investigating these incidents and trying to figure ou

the cia has reportedly been creating a lea, ukrainian special operations teams on u. s. territory. that's and made monte tensions with russia. yes, more twists than this sanjay involving tennis superstar novak brokovich. the world number one's visa is revoked once again by australia. meaning he could face a 3 year and 3, but it's still scheduled to play in the it's really an open grunts film event on monday. on to biden's bill on voting rights is effectively blocked by his own party. a day after the american supreme court struck done the president's vaccine mandate with coming live for moscow. this is our t. my name's unit o'neill, and 30 minutes of news news started on the west that went too far. those were the strong words of the russian foreign minister today when talking about international security issues at his annual press conference, sir again, love ralph also slammed the us now and its allies for hypocrisy when it comes to human rights violations. rural. so the west, when to far less be frank in violation of all international obligations and common sense they chose to esca

cia director, it's like they marked out cia and i said well, why are you doing that? the letter cia are everywhere and they said well. if you have the letter cia in your book, then the cia has to review your book and that could add months. to your publication so like yeah. okay, forget i'll just leave it there. but anyway, um, and i'll make this quick because it's it's a much longer answer the fbi is overseas and over 70 offices. we are all based in the us embassies throughout the world. and most people don't know that we're overseas and what the fbi does is if there is a nexus to an investigation here in the united states and it has a nexus to say china, which is one of the places i was stationed then i'm the person who works with the chinese government. to get that information or evidence or whatever they need and get that back to the united states so we can do our investigation and vice versa if the chinese have an investigation i help them with that. so you're the fbi the legal attache. the head of the office that's generally what you're doing. you are it's more o

also coming up, the cia has reportedly been trailing a late you korean special operation themes on u. s. territory, amid wanting tensions with russia. yet more twists in this saga involving tell us superstar novak brokovich the world number one is visa is revoked once again by australia, meaning he could face a 3 year entry, but it's still a schedule to play in the ish really an open on them and jo biden's bill on voting rights is effectively blocked by his own party. a day after the american supreme court struck done the president's vaccine mandate purposes. with 1 in the morning in doris alum income, paula, and here in moscow this saturday, january the 15. welcome to the news hour on arthur. the west went too far. those were the strong words of the russian foreign minister on friday when talking about international security issues. at his annual press conference, sugarloaf also slammed the u. s. sound, its allies for hypocrisy. when it comes to human rights violations, also the west, when to far less be frank in violation of all international obligations and common sense they chose

he was held first at a cia secret black site and then guantanamo.ns unclear if he will actually be freed. over a dozen other guantanamo prisoners have been recommended for release but remain locked up. the united states is spending an estimated $540 million to keep guantanamo open. that's over $13 million per prisoner a year. today we spend the hour with three men who themselves spent time at guantÁnamo. two were held without charge as prisoners, one served as a muslim army chaplain and then was jailed himself after being falsely accused of espionage. we begin today's show with moazaam begg. he is a british citizen born and raised in birmingham. in february 2002, moazzam begg was seized by the cia in islamabad. no reasons were given for his arrest. he was hooded, shackled, handcuffed, and flown to the u.s. detention facility at kandahar, then to bagram airbase where he was held for approximately a year before being transferred to guantanamo bay. the u.s. government labeled him an enemy combatant. he was never charged with a crime. he was released in

but if you saw it look closely at the film, you would see the cia involvement with the people who were trying to kill the diplomat in new york. and those people ended up being the enemy of scarf, of tony montana who abruptly cancel the plan by shooting. he sat and turning the whole thing around. so scarface became the enemy of our central government, or our seo they got rid of him, got rid of him, the one who attacked that the mansion at the end. he was completely exaggerated, but the people who kills car finch were indeed people who felt that they had been betrayed by the sky. all histone happy, but they and thank you and thank you have seen you've always been, well, you know, it's been a long oh, thank you and for supporting me in the, to the years. ah, well, it's 20th to the day since you as president george w bush made his fuss radio addressed to the nation after the $911.00 atrocities in new york in washington announcing the plan for comprehensive assault on terrorism. joining me now from falls church virginia, his retired colonel, larry wilkerson former u. s. sex, your state colo

generation ago the cia was mocked for being pale, male, yale. maybe you believe that nic comprised of white males is the result of a system. maybe you believe that white males have some racial or ethnic or genetic advantage over others. if you do, there's a word for that. i don't believe we believe that. i believe that if we have an insufficiently diverse ic we're failing to tap the elect of women, african-americans and asian americans. director haines, i'm looking at stats here. it's easier to recruit a diverse talent pool than to promote them to most senior levels. i won't go into the numbers. going from gs-9 to gs-15, you see a drop off of minority staff. two questions. i know it's complicated. do your best in three minutes. do we have good data? i read in the report that exit interviews are optional. that would suggest maybe we don't have good data. secondly, inasmuch as we have good data, can you spend a minute or two on elaborating on why you think we lose diversity as people climb the ranks? >> absolutely. thank you very much, representat

the russian foreign minister took your life off once again, outlining russia's red line with the cia has reportedly been training elite ukrainians, special operations teams on u. s. territory. all of this summit, mounting attentions with russia also tennis superstar know about dr. richards visa is revoked. once again by australia, meaning he could face a 3 year entry back. it all comes off that he admits to breaking so cove it isolation rules with live and a 100 countries worldwide. it's auditing international. it's a pleasure to have you with us today. so the west went to fall those with a strong words of the russian foreign minister when talking about international security issues at his annual press conference. he also slammed the us and its allies for so called hypocrisy when it comes to the issue of human rights violations. a role. so the west, when to far less be frank in violation of old international obligations and common sense they chose to escalate this situation. well, you see the west condemns violent actions against civilians. they condemn human rights violations, but w

the cia has reportedly been training a li, ukrainian special operations teams on you authority, a mid melting tension with russia. also on the program, jo biden's bill on voting rights is effectively blocked by his own party. that's the day after the american supreme court struck down the president's vaccine mandate for businesses with committee alive from moscow. you're watching out scenes national. it's just gone 3 for a, i'm sorry, here in the russian capital. my name is peter scott and thank you for joining the west went too far. those were the strong words of the russian foreign minister on friday when talking about international security issues. this is on your press conference, sir gil. i've also slammed the u. s. undecided for hypocrisy when it comes to human rights violations. gerberg's rule. so the west went too far. let's be frank in violation of all international obligations and common sense they chose to escalate this situation. well, you see the west condemns violent actions against civilians. they condemn human rights violations. but when bloody codes are carried out by

the cia has reportedly been training elite, ukrainian special operations teams on american soil. all of this summit, mounting tensions with moscow. although tennis superstar novak doc adventures visa is revoked once again by australia, meaning he could now face a 3 year entry band. it's all coming off. he admits to breaking certain codes in isolation with just turning a 5 pm on friday here in moscow. and as most people are heading home right now, we're ratcheting up the program with multiple life shop standing by, welcome to it. well, the cia is reported to have been training, ukrainian special operations teams, all of this summit tensions with russia program, believe it or not, apparently started 6 years ago. and here in the studio a bit earlier, ortiz don quarter gave me more details and it was being called a batch of revelations. according to a recent yahoo news article, basically the cia is training, ukrainian, special forces units on american soil. and this is to fight in case of an apparent russian invasion of ukraine. again, we said many times in this channel. moscow was s

i blind moscow's red line with the cia has reportedly been training a lead ukrainian special operations teams on u. s. territory that made marketing tensions with russia. and yet, more twists in the sankey involving tennis superstar novak job coverage, the world number one is visa is for a vote. once again, bias trillion, meaning he could face at 3 year and free time, but it's still scheduled to play in the a civilian open run slum event on monday with one minute past 8 and leaving here in moscow this friday, january, the 14th. my name's neil. hello, and welcome to the news our on our player, the west. when to far, those were the strong words of the russian foreign minister today, when talking about international security issues up his annual press conference. sir gil, of raw fall to slam the u. s. and its allies for hypocrisy when it comes to human rights violations. the rural, so the west, when to far less be frank in violation of all international obligations and common sense they chose to escalate this situation. well, you see the west condemns violent actions against civilians. the

the gale of rob, once again outlined moscow's red line with the cia, has reportedly been training a lead ukrainian special operations teams on us territory amendments intentions with russia. yet more swift in the dog involving tennis, super nova jock of it. the world number one is visa is revolts once again by australia, meaning he could face a 3 year end feedback, but he still scheduled to play in the australian open on monday. and jo biden's bill on voting rights is effectively blocked by his own party. that's the day after the supreme court struck down the president's vaccine mandate for businesses. with you're watching all the international monies peter scott taking over the home from you know, neil, welcome to the program. the west went too far. those were the strong words of the russian foreign minister on friday when talking about international security issues. it is on your press conference. so again, for, i've also slammed the u. s. on this allies for a proxy when it comes to human rights violations. jobs are also the west, when to far less be frank in violation of all internati

was so again, law for auth once again, outlining russia's red line with the cia has reportedly been training elite, ukrainian special operation teams on us soil. all of this, amid mounting tensions with russia, lieutenants, superstar novak joker ventures, visa is revoked again by australia, meaning he could soon face a 3 year entry band is all coming after he admits to breaking certain coated isolation with well, it's been a very busy friday afternoon, so far here on the russian capital 7 pm now into friday night we go, well, the west went to fall. those were the words of the russian foreign minister. so great laugh off when talking about international security issues at his annual press conference. he also slammed the u. s. and its allies for hypocrisy when it comes to the issue of human rights violations, gerberg's, or also the west. when to far less be frank in violation of all international obligations and common sense they chose to escalate this situation. well, you see the west condemns violent actions against civilians. they condemn human rights violations, but when bloody cause a car

none of these candidates are members of the cia. them were legitimate or even left-wing candidates. and they are all in prison. how can you explain that? are you saying all of them are cia agents? >> an individual was a terrorist. she bumped buildings and had trucks of armed bandits. the u.s. would put those individuals in jail, or maybe they wouldn't in the case of january 6, but no one is allowed to lead a violent coup against the democratically elected government. host: let me ask you, at his inauguration, president ortega announced nicaragua and china just signed a series of strategic agreements that would officially incorporate nicaragua into beijing's global belt and road initiative as well as other trade programs. how much will that help nicaragua and how much does that concern the united states? >> there are global tensions with china. i think china's increasing expansion in all of latin america is something that is high on the agenda of political policy in the united states. the united states has to be competitive with chin