we talk about technology to keep rarity for the cia.to with the overall threat landscape and how your priorities reflect that. specifically russia's war in the ukraine dominate first 18 months. can you talk a little bit about how the cia right now question or. >> i would be glad to dave it's good to be with you. it's good to be with all of you as well. in my first 18 months director of cia pollutants were on ukraine has certainly occupied a lot of our energy, attention, and focus. the truth is a putin and russia have occupied over the last 20 years i served as u.s. ambassador in moscow a little over decade ago as well. if you take a step back to last fall, we in that intelligence committee began to develop a pretty clear picture of a russian planning for a major new invasion of ukraine. and what was striking to us, and to me about that was not just the scale of the planning, but also what is said about putin's increasingly deep fixation with controlling ukraine. i had watched, especially over the last decade is putin tightens his grip o

traces of the cia former us national security officers american political scientists unanimously say that the versions on soviet gas pipelines were made by employees of western intelligence services. they guessed the targets handwriting bombers are now in syria of explosions on the nord stream zelensky are calling for the return of ukraine 's nuclear status. they even name enterprises where a dirty bomb can be created. how real are such plans and what could be the consequences a stain on the reputation of the united states and its allies, environmentalists call sabotage on the nord stream climate disaster. how much gas has already entered the baltic sea and what damage does the cookery cause to the entire planet $ 2 million for more and more new details of the murder of the first head of the dpr zakharchenko from an intercepted conversation between kiyashchenko's used man and his agent. how much did the performer get? and what options for the attack were discussed? sorry for the non- parliamentary expression, but there are already some switching to a pig drive, so the head of the fed

welcome to the cia...ow was this model then used by the agency? this model is used to brief top policymakers, including the president. on display is a scale model of the compound where it was suspected al qaeda leader osama bin laden was hiding in 2011. the level of detail gave president obama the confidence to approve the mission to go after bin laden, who was killed in the raid. so over here we have our newest artefact in the collection. - the most recent exhibit is another model, this time of the compound in kabul, afghanistan, where bin laden's successor, ayman al—zawahiri, was killed thisjuly. some failures, like plots in cuba and iraq's missing weapons of mass destruction do get a mention, although other controversies like over torture are downplayed or absent. the intended audience are primarily cia staff. this museum is notjust a museum for history's sake. this is an operational museum. we are taking cia officers exploring our history, both good and bad. we make sure that our officers understand th

cia is deprivation prisoner sleep for a long time. loud music and bright lights, and sleep deprivation has been proven to lead to severe hormonal imbalances in the body, hallucinations, and mental distress. also included are interrogations used by the technique of simulating the drowning of a person. they put it face up, tie it up, blindfold it, and periodically begin to pour it on the face into water from a bucket. thus, he gets the feeling that he is drowning. regarding the staging of execution by drowning. what do you think, it's torture, of course not. she authorized by the president approved by lawyers. if it was torture, it would be illegal. so, we would not do this, special attention should be paid to the long-term cartel program that was carried out until 1970 as part of this cia operation under the guise of providing financial material support to refugees. she was engaged in the preparation of agents from among them for further transfer to the territory of the ussr. the cia was able to establish control over the leadership of

if your head of the cia glory i was through throughout its history, the cia had multiple failures. it has also been shaken by a large number of scandals and disclosures. surround the operations, it has conducted a significant number of these operations were attempts to topple legitimate governments. heads of states both successful and unsuccessful. once more warriors, or rather long list of the agencies mistakes or cases when it was involved in some of the. busy worlds nastiest practices, nothing to do with america security going back to failures, sticking to nukes. the next thing that comes to mind is how the c, i initially didn't expect soviet warheads at americas doorstep and cuba. we all know how they got that one terribly wrong. staying with the 19 sixties and cuba, the failed bay of pigs invasion should rang a few bells. events that turned out to be a surprise for the agency include the 1973 young key, poor war in the middle east, or the 1979 revolution in iran. the seventy's, the late seventy's, were high point for the soviet union. you, us was in terrible ha, my state, i th

listen, i spent nearly 15 years at the cia, and when you walk into cia headquarters you'll find 139 starsf cia officers who died in the line of duty, protecting and collecting our nation's secrets, the same kinds of secrets. i would like folks like elise stefanik or marco rubio to look those family members to tell them that their sacrifice in vain and to tell them that the threat to national security was a hoax. i know you had my good friend mark on and if anyone walked out of classified information with one piece of information at that level he would have been behind bars so the american people are growing sick and tired of there being a separate set of rules for rich and powerful and also sick and tired of politicians who are more interested in protecting the rich and powerful than they are in protecting us. >> just to be very colleagues, i want to read the whole quote. this is what owe lease stefanik, to your point said last week with trump's mishandling of classified documents. this is as you said russia hoax 2.0 with the media accomplice and the late leak justification that started o

he has worked at the cia for 33 years and has received multiple awards including the cia's highest ranking award, the distinguished intelligence medal. he continues his efforts to keep our nation secure and studies national security at the kennedy school of government, west point center on combat and terrorism and the madison policy forum. he is currently senior counselor and global chairman of the geopolitical global strategy. we are so happy to have you two, michael, thank you for joining us. let's get right to it. the search and seizure of mayor lago has raised questions about what is at stake as many trump supporters have poured doubt on why the search and seizure operation was even necessary. so you've got to help us better understand the questions surrounding the documents. i am going to ask you first. how serious is it that there were many sensitive documents found in an unsecured location at the presidents club? what do you take of the estate here? sen. johnson: i think the answer, the short answer is it is both very serious and unprecedented. a couple of overarching thoughts. one,

working at the cia for 33 years and has received multiple awards including the cia's highest ranking award, the distinguished intelligence mental. he continues his efforts to keep the nation secure and advanced. this duty as a senior fellow at the university's kennedy school of government, west point on combating terrorism made in the madison policy forum. currently the senior counselor and global chairman of the geopolitical risk practice. we are so glad to have you.pr thank you for joining us. let's get right to it. the search and seizure has raised questions about what's at stake as many supporters have poured down on why the search and seizure operation was even necessary you have to help us better understand thene questios surrounding the document. i'm going to ask you first. how serious is it that there were many serious documents found in the unsecured location, what do you think are at stake? >> i think the short answer is it's both serious and unprecedented. a couple of overarching thoughts. a very basic rule of being a criminal defense lawyer is you avoid getting dragged in

the us banana invasion in 1954 is considered to be one of the most brazen and odious cia operations in history, officially the us wanted to save the country from communism; in fact, they defended the interests of their own companies exploiting the country's resources with automatic weapons and missiles. the most striking example is the history of united fruit , the largest american exporter, just the bananas of the presidents of this small one. wanted to return unused but us-purchased lands to the state, us corporation was offered top million dollar compensation us responded either 10 times more, or a war that little guatemala simply didn’t have such money then the country was led by jacob, arbens, he won the presidential election. he tried to weaken american influence and limit the rights of foreign companies. well, then, what is called a sleight of hand against guatemala the great, economic sanctions in order to deal with the objectionable regime in neighbors honduras formed a la. the mercenaries were trained by the so-called liberation army, american instructors and career military

i was from the cia as well as homeland security and also a number of folks from the financial servicesr that have backgrounds in investing and we're, we do early-stage growth. but not the venture and we also have expertise in helping companies looking to expand in the federal space to accelerate organic growth as well. >> appreciate your time this morning. so let's go ahead and kick this off. when it comes to cyber innovation what are you all seeing up their that excites you right now. who wants to go first? i'll jump in. and hope that my colleagues will take a sexier path, block shame or quantum idealist decidedly unsexy route. two areas on focused on, breached and attacked simulation and controls validation and the reason i say that is if you let history be your guide cyber security is historically unsexy i also think those technologies are hopefully going to help those get out of an untenable position i said this a lot on panels that the system is literally the shortest level executive and i think it's because they're being asked unanswerable questions at the board level. i don't kn

morel worked at the cia for 33 years wrote multiple awards include the cia highest ranking award that distinguished intelligent metal. he continues his efforts to keep our nation secure in advance the study of national security is a senior fellow at harvard university's kennedy school of government west point center and madison policy form. still currently counselor global chairman of the geopolitical practice at beacon global strategy. we are so happy to have a pre-thank you so much for joining us. let's get right to it. the search and seizure at mar-a-lago has raised questions about what is at stake. or doubt why the search and seizure operation was even necessary if god help us better understand the questions surrounding the documents. i'm going to ask you first serious is that there are many very sensitive documents found in an unsecured location at the president's home and club? what are they? what do you think are the stakes here? books first, thanks for doing this. the short answer is it is both a very serious and unprecedented. a couple of overarching thoughts. one, very basic

yes, this is indeed a derivative of the cia the cia created al-qaeda in pakistan to fight the sovietnion, and at the last stage of the existence of the soviet union during its military afghanistan, this was really purposefully grown. a group of terrorist character directed, well, first of all against the soviet union, but then after the collapse of the ussr, al-haida began to act against all the infidels, by the way, the author of the very idea of ​​ramming objects that are significant for the united states with aircraft. khalid sheikh mohamed, the uncle of the same ramzi yousef , all of whose connections were well known to the americans khalid sheikh mohammed has long been suspected of complicity and organization of a number of bloody attacks in different parts of the globe, but even so they were not arrested until he became one of the main organizers of the 9/11 attacks for information. it really was, and long before the terrorist attack and just before the terrorist attack, that khalid sheikh mohammed was one of bin laden's closest associates in the past, a great friend of the uni

it's is well, happy birthday cia. the head of nathan military committee has admitted that the alliance began planning to expands near russian board is several years ago. the statement comes off, the nato need is agreed on a significant build up of forces in east ethan territories within the next year. due to the ukraine conflict. we're talking about the biggest overhaul of our military structures. since 1949, the planning for that started several years ago. but now we're implementing it. the blog plans to increase the number of high alert 4th is on a east and borders to more than 300000 in the near future. and nato countries of pledge to increase that offense, spending spine, russia, demanding the block, stop expanding to the east, and can be excluded from the alliance. while ukraine is not a member of nato, the alliance has been a key player in kiev. ongoing conflict with russian micro maloof, a former cd security policy analyst for the us secretary of defense. believe that was washington decision to break the princi

frankwisner, chief of the cia's office of policy coordination, in november 1950.any regions of ukraine and is popular among ukrainians. capable of deploying up to 100,000 fighters in case of war. so you almost looped, so to speak, this story, then, in general, it is behind all this. well, it looks like some kind of conspiracy theory, but i think that for whom the secret of the americans is no longer hidden. what methods do they use to achieve their goal? that's why this week there were two new cases of mockery of refugees at once. uh, built a wall a few hundred long. e kilometers, it seems that no one should have leaked, but according to information that seeps. sorry for e. press repetition. we understand that the refugees are still moving to a territory larger than lithuania. here is the first case on the night of september 13-14, belarusian border guards found six refugees hanging from syria right on the border . naturally, they beat them. look there, people’s noses are broken, a man said that the creative military forces forced them to cross the border, while t

paul andrews, a doctor for the cia's elusive office of medical services. should note that andrews is not his real name. after having served in the intelligence community for more than a decade he's using a s pseudonym for his own protection and speaking out on camera for the first time. >> some of my family said to me why are you doing this? i felt that to help the others and help people understand this may be a significant threat that i needed to do this. >> is it fair to say you were really the first person to raise a red flag and say, look, we need to at least be digging deeper into what's happening here? >> i believe so. having been at the national counter terrorism center, the mantra there was if something was even 1% possible, was a significant threat, you ran at the ground. >> in addition to being a medical doctor andrews spent tick aids at various government agencies investigating potentially deadly and often classified health incidents. training, which no doubt prepared him for the day he noticed concerning dispatches from injured american spies w

the trade blockade did not work, so the cia decided to launch an operation in cuban.hinos bay bay of pigs, recruited already. experienced by cuban americans through bribery, the pentagon was sure taking liberty island would be easier than nicaraguan us forces bombed civilian cities and military bases. however, they expected such support, fidel castro on the island, two mercenaries of americans from among cuban migrants could shoot the commandants, getting close to a distance of 10 m. however, they laid down their arms and joined the militia against the interventionist forces. then the ussr came to the rescue was the famous operation anadyr to deliver nuclear weapons to cuba and the moment when the world was seconds away from nuclear war, all because of washington's unwillingness to give others the right to independence. the next point on the map grenada, an island nation of 110,000 inhabitants, the americans invaded there after the new government came to power, which focused on the ussr and the specter of communism, as we know for washington , an absolute evil, god fo

for the cia.investigation, that even former attorney general bill barr has to sort of concede and acknowledge is a pretty good case? >> two thoughts, and nice to be here with you this afternoon. so first thought, really revolves around those empty folders. ever since we learned that there was a search warrant and learned that there were classified documents, what was in the back of everyone's mind was the fear that these didn't all stay at mar-a-lago, and was there any dissemination. that is the reason why government documents are supposed to stay with the government, classified documents are supposed to stay in a skiff and top secret documents, more than that, are highly restricted in terms of who has access. and that is because of the concern that they get into the wrong hands. and when you see how many folders were empty, that is the thing that causes you to take a deep breath and really be concerned about what happened to them. it is very reason for this investigation and for the department of

so we locked in, as a cia director. my first week i went to meet my counterpart who is the director of mossad, a guy named yosi cohen. and we put the cia and mossad to begin working problem sets against the second pillar, which was iran. i would brief the president and director almost every day, which was unusual. it's usually not the director, but he wanted me there. and he would say something like every time you tell me about a problem in the middle east, it's about iran. you always tell me it's iran. so we were serious about pushing back against the regime in iran. we took them from $96 billion in foreign exchange reserves to $4 billion. it is shameful that president biden and his team have now given iran a green light, they haven't lifted the sanctions but they're not enforcing them. same effect as lifting them. iran's economy will grow more than the american economy this year. that's not good. and it's dangerous. it's dangerous for israel. it's dangerous for us here at home. so tuck in tight with israel push back a

cia where cia agents take people captured in afghanistan on suspicion of having links with islamistst them to torture for a start, of course, the american authorities. all this was denied, but the scandal was loud, because in general the journalists were quite serious. if not evidence, then, but the actual base, and they used, in particular, the services of people who, you know, are amateurs, to gather near the runways. from the airfields of various airports and to observe the landings of aircraft , take pictures of them and, in particular, wrote down the numbers, and it was precisely thanks to these people and the comparison of the numbers of onboard aircraft that it became clear that this was not registered anywhere and incomprehensible flights and planes. these either belong to the us central intelligence agency or the name is rented for some translations. further, what is called more, but there were witnesses and some people who began to say that they were captured in hell without trial or investigation. they were in incomprehensible places, where they were subjected to methods o

the second thing he did he went and cleaned up the cia and restore the cia to what it should be and is today in terms of a very respected institution. it was not that way when he became the director of the cia, he changed it. that is why the cia complex is named for him to this day. i think he was the greatest cia director we had. and a crucial time and context of the institutions of responsibility that helped our government do the job. you can go down the whole list, probably if he would have been elected to 82nd term, enough would have been signed even before it was under bill clinton. that is why the chapter about enough is so important. it did not just focus on foreign policy as a foreign policy expert. he also focused on foreign policy to be enhanced with free-trade. he was a well grounded in principles of inclusion not exclusion. that is though he built our democracy. i truly believe he was the greatest one term president in the history of our country. >> and am going to jump in here. something you pointed to, i started off by pointing to the sense of good fortune that is there t

earlier we spoke with former cia officer ray mcgovern. he noted that no one has been held accountable for the highly controversial c r a program. when people show up in missouri where you get a little upset about this, well, i get upset because illegal because because it's wrong, people don't do that. other people and people, i say that's why they made it illegal. besides that from a practical point of view, as general kim ins pointed out, it doesn't work, it doesn't give good solid information. so why did they do it? that would come out in the complete report, but it's very clear that they had orders to try to squeeze these, these people and, and get them to tell more about weapons of mass destruction in iraq. there weren't any or other things about ties between al qaeda and iraq. again, there weren't any. so people were tortured and some other than confessed to these things just to stop the torture. but there was never good information coming from him. and as an army officer, and of course, as a c, i a employee i was destroyed to find o

meanwhile, there have already been examples in history when the cia was accused of being addicted to organization in involvement. forgive me for organizing an accident on the pipelines of other countries, including sabotage on the territory of the soviet union, and this is not at all about conspiracy theories. washington's confession of guilt is contained in the autobiographical book of former intelligence officer and white house employee thomas reid itself. here cover of a memoir promising an insider story of the cold war from someone who served on the us national security council inside a detailed description of the plan to sabotage the soviet economy, developed in the eighties under president reagan, one of the points, just concerns the disruption of gas supplies to western european countries and , accordingly, foreign exchange earnings in the ussr, an example of such activity is the cia operation that led to an accident on a gas pipeline in siberia. according to a laudatory report by a former american intelligence officer. it was the most the most powerful of non-nuclear explosio

this morning, one of the keynotes was director burns, the cia, he mentioned intelligence sharing, it an instrument of national power and through diplomacy and intelligence sharing and other tools we see that we can help inform, educate, share information with allies. i agree that our public-private partnerships are crucial here as well. we are finding as we observe progress at the defense industrial base, has been making our industry partners, it is beneficial for keeping more transparency, helping them understand how adversaries are acting against us industry. and that all helps. >> let me add one thing, i had a conversation with deputy minister on cyber for ukraine and one of the ways they were able to mitigate russian attacks on the government when the russians launched their invasion was they had migrated a lot of critical data to privately operated clouds so they didn't have all their eggs in one basket and that took that out of the target zone. that is an example of where in many ways the private sector has some advantages as part of a comprehensive security effort. >> i agree

s. senate report outlining the cia torture program will not be published. and the judge's explanation is released would compromise what he calls national security africa is calling for help. the regional african director of the humanitarian aid organization concerns world wide asks the international community to aid the confidence of tackle of famine that has been brought about by the current droughts. the waiting game must up now less cannon upon response, but we need the resources to help old is affected equally if we are to contain the situation. meanwhile, the united states, e. u, and the african union, planned to conduct a global food security summit on june. the in new york city, that's as the you, as children fund announced earlier this month, 730 people have died since january in somalia, as hunger is spreading across the entire african continent. this, as the west puts the blame on russia for global food course is due to the war you grain ortiz, folks to mozambique some buses that russia who says the food security problem has been long, been an iss

agent farewell, there is no official confirmation of the cia participation in sabotage, although thererican intelligence website. the page dedicated to the farewell dossier says that that the wind engineer photographed and handed over about 4,000 secret western intelligence documents relating to the kgb industrial espionage program, among the papers were detailed diagrams of gas transport communications, provided with a description of all weak points. and so william casey, then director of the cia, decided to misinform the kgb by transmitting technological data through the wind, which could at the right time fail and lead to disaster. this failure was embedded in a computer program for the automation of technological processes in 1980 across the ussr rolled out a series of blast waves on gas pipelines, which claimed the lives of dozens of people, one of the most high-profile and glinskaya tragedy in bashkiria in 1989. there was a fuel leak from the western siberia ural volga gas pipeline, as journalists write, literally one spark spark provoked a powerful explosion. the flames turned o

joining me now is mark polymeropoulos -- former officer at the cia.t senior fellow at the atlantic council. also the author of clarity in crisis, leadership lessons from the cia. mark, welcome. how concerned are you having donald trump just ramping up his rhetoric against the law enforcement agencies that are investigating him? what kind of dangerous do you feel his words could pose? >> alex, i think this is incredibly dangerous and irresponsible. they call the fbi vicious monsters. this is certainly not back in the blue. which is been the rallying cry for a lot of people on the right. let's just go over where we are in 2022, right now. of courting to -- we have a non-precedent domestic terrorism threat. the organization that is going to turn and disrupt this is the fbi. it is an indispensable institution. we have a situation where there are unprecedented level as of chinese espionage activity. and of course there is the usual threat of -- overseas. calling the fbi vicious monsters, putting a target on the, back having fbi -- have to watch their six l

former fighters in the anti-colonial campaign were pushed head-on in it, and without the ubiquitous ciagton followed the political events inside the asian country with apprehension. they hinted that the fifth most populous state in the world could become part of the communist camp, that is, the worst scenario for the united states, which means it’s time to act far and support the text, who after you can safely work under the control of the americans, a covert operation was launched. hayt rebels in the united states were armed, provided with equipment and mercenaries. the reason is surprisingly familiar washington cannot allow indonesia to withdraw from the liberal and democratic values ​​indonesia ruled at the time, bitch , one familiar situation. and washington's familiar reaction to the us of balancing sukan was too dubious to leave the political life of indonesia alone with its whims it did not matter to washington that the communist party was going its own peaceful and legal way, nor that there was any crisis or chaos in indonesia the intervention should have been hot decided to rak

and i think he did, he cleaned up the cia and restored to the cia to what it should be and is today, in terms of a very revered and respected institution. it was not that way when he became the director of the cia. he changed it, and that's why the cia complexes named for him, to this day. i think that he was the greatest cia director that we had, at a crucial time in the context of the institutions of responsibility that helps our government do the job. and you can go down the whole list. if he had been elected to a second term, nafta would've been signed even before it was under bill clinton. that's why the chapter about nafta here is so important. he didn't just focus on foreign policy as a foreign policy expert, he also focused on foreign policy that could be enhanced with free trade. he was well grounded in republican principles of inclusion, not exclusion. that's the way he built our democracy. i truly believe he was the greatest one term president in the history of our country. >> andy, i'm going to jump in here. because there is something that you pointed to. i started off by

the cia supplied weapons equipment the invasion began in june 1954. on may 26, an american plane scattered leaflets over the capital of guatemala with promises of liberation from communism . guatemala on june 21 turned to the un with a request to stop the aggression of the united states, but the united states, great britain, france used the right at the un security council. the veto in this way in washington actually received a sanction for an invasion to intimidate the population, the publication of the us embassy in the capital of guatemala was broadcast at full volume the record of the air raid the american ambassador bribed the military elite and the days of the last independent government were numbered. here is what william bloom writes about this american history in his book with the telling title the murder of democracy, who to turn to the poor banana republic, if the army. moving through its territory and its planes are bombing the country from the air, the leaders of guatemala have tried all the means of organizing the american states, other

when we hear the call for shields up and we hope we could invite all industry partners to think of the cias an ally. historically speaking a lot is changing when we think of something historical and notable selecting one from 2019 it was widely reported the country georgia was attacked with notable broad widespread attacks later attributed to military cyberintelligence what is remarkable about that is first of all the widespread nature of multi mode with broadcast stations and websites in government and nongovernment. but it was attributed to the russians. and that and a domain that is notable we have a hard time attributing although the us and our allies never could say with 100 percent certainty that they were willing to come out and declare it was the gr use of that type of attribution without certainty is important because it begins to help the public understand what cybernorm should be. i don't mean documented international that a social contract. here is what norms should be. more recently looked at cryptoheist through north korea through lazarus and the treasury department has firml

us national security council, thomas rita, the political scientist petersweiser, also mentions other cia sabotage, for example, the explosion at the arzamas station of the gorky railway, which thundered on june 18 in 1988, the planted explosives detonated, almost 100 people died that western special services could be involved in man-made disasters. the soviet leadership, then not said the soviet authorities did not disclose the details of the tragedy. the soviet leadership of that time is gorbachev, this is new political thinking, as he said. this is a course of friendship with the united states. it was beneficial for them to hide these facts in order to confirm their position of peaceful coexistence, by the way, the cia was already convicted of involvement in attacks on infrastructure facilities of the soviet union even before the eighties. the americans and the british were actively engaged in sabotage activities. uh tried to influence life in the soviet union in that including with the help of this kind of activity, one can immediately recall the story when the cruiser on which khrush