outside the cia, j. edgar hoover knew as early as 1961. hoover said nothing to the commission. saddest of all, robert kennedy knew. kennedy was aware. he was then told in a memorandum from j edgar hoover, kennedy was told, again later by cia briefer's, bobby kennedy said nothing to the commission. none of these individuals brought the castro assassination plot to the commission's attention, equally significant, none of them brought the plot to the attention of president lyndon johnson. at the time that johnson appointed the members of the commission. it was a week after kennedy's assassination. there is no convincing evidence that i have seen that johnson, himself, new about the cia's efforts to assassinate castro before johnson made those appointments. let me stop here for just a second before addressing the why question and what may be an obvious caveat. i suggest there is no convincing evidence that johnson knew, it is easy to establish if somebody has been told something, he knows. we looked to evidence, it is next to impossible to establish ignorance. it is next to impossib

the cia finally overthrew kassim in 1963. but people -- this is why the cynical cia agents talk about renting people. because there can be a short-term collusion of interest, but you cannot buy rent. there are just so many interests -- instances of this, where someone who served our interests today either turns against us, or does not serve our interest down the road. apart from that, i have not had time to follow the current revolution. [laughter] about one or two more questions. i see one right here. >> the revolutions from "ramparts" were disastrous for nsa, but you referred to the fact that there were many, many institutions that were being funded by the cia. i wonder what the effect on those institutions was? karen: nsa took the public brunt. most of the other organizations and institutions denied -- kind of tried to tough it out. to this day, some of the archives are classified. so there is a limited amount of research on the labor operation, which was massive and huge. because of the exposure, most organizations and ins

new about the cia. , you can charge them with willful blindness, but i don't. was genuinely felt this y's intelligence service. they speak in terms of doing the lord's work. true believers. i believe -- and believe that it was justified. >> they put a lot of obstacles in your way. thatreclassified documents had been previously declassified. karen: i am not sure that was personal. i was stunned to find many documents from 1949 reclassified in 2001. woman whovely young was as stunned as i was at the national archives. she said i don't understand this. she said let me run it up, and she came back crestfallen. said i am sorry, this has to go through other agencies. when they have to go through other agencies it will take a while. i said right. the cia. she said we are not allowed to give out that information. [laughter] that iere three reports wanted. she said i don't understand. i finally got them. it took nine years. the two that said what we were doing to the bad guys. what the bad guys were doing to us.

not just the cia. fbi --, nga, everybody that has a touch point that provides information to keep our country safe. when we deliver assessments, we must do so with complete candor. as this the truth to serve. we whenever i swear in new officers, i tell them they had the duty to deliver the truth in everything they do. i spent a little bit of time with the president almost every day, sharing the amazing work the intelligence community has been able to serve. whenever i swear in new deliver. a single space and single point in time to inform his decision-making. i'm proud of the fact i get to be that vessel to communicate that information to our president. need offers of majestic intellect. across a wide spreading of discipline. it is tough stuff to do intelligence work. it requires the capacity to absorb large amounts of information. and creativity. we need help from private sector partners as well. can continue to take advantage of the great work that is being done in the private sector to provide aid to

as an old officer of the cia, we failed in some cases. history is a little checkered on our ability to forecast, to give advance warning. to be able to understand the threats before we are in extreme crisis. i've been in extreme crisis at the cia where we failed to give advance warning. how about this world you talked about earlier, the digital world, where we have machine learning, we have big data analytics? how do you feel the agency is -- along with the community is positioned to do a better job of getting ahead of the threat? >> it's tough. i am confident when we look back 25 years from now the history will still be checkered and i'm sure we will miss a few, but i've seen an awful lot of good work done. some tactical, but also seen some really good work that has been done taking done operational and strategic threats as well, identifying them, preparing all of u.s. government to think about how to be prepared when the threat actually crosses of the horizon and is on top of us. it mean wes have to be hard, we have to continue to devote

job but the cia wanted to be the organization that did it themselves and it's because the cia blamed itself for the nine eleven attacks well because they had nobody internally who could do these interrogations they decided to hire mitchell and jessen at a cost of eighty one million dollars to come in and teach the cia how to torture people at the end of the day mitchell and jessen were the ones who flew out to the secret prison site overseas and actually carried out the torture themselves we know from the senate torture report for example that it was mitchell and jessen who were personally torturing these prisoners there was no discussion of ethics there was no discussion of morality and once the memo was signed by the president there was no discussion of legality it was it was as though the the cia was just winging it they were taking it one day at a time they didn't care if they were breaking rules they didn't care if they were violating the laws they didn't care about professional ethics because it was such an unusual situation there really were no rules that were written down ther

i don't know how far the cia offices are from the f.b.i. offices but i bet you could catch those mothers. will go well you know you know maybe maybe when you when you meet up for your weekly game of cards against humanity just have them that will be that of it's a different kind of cards against humanity it's when they exchange business cards so the. next they move on to venezuela at any time you have a country of as large and with the economic capacity of a country like that as well america has a deep interest in making sure that it is stable as democratic as possible and so we're working hard to do that i am always careful when we talk about south and central america and the cia there's a lot of stories. so. ok the first part of that statement was about how the u.s. one stable democratic countries followed by a good joke about how the cia has been involved in countless coups assassinations and op risings in south and central america. remember that time we toppled in assassinated president a u.n. day until like oh and then put in this box

the cia and was thrilled to have him join our team. his first shift overseas was in afghanistan serving and counterterrorism. after only a few weeks it was a predictable routine. they planning to gillis. the execution precise. the objective would be achieved. he was asleep one morning having just vanished a mission the night before when an explosion shook the walls of his room, jolting him awake. together to his equipment and met up with his colleagues. yards away, had exploded. it was at the main entrance of the compound. he climbed in his armored truck and headed to the fight. just as he arrived, a second car bomb detonated. enemy bombs came in from every direction. instead of seeking cover, this cia officer ran through the smoke towards the action. his colleagues said he had no fear. gate, he spoke with afghan soldiers line on the ground. they were wounded and in the open. he carried them away himself. he was hit during that. once in the shoulder, once and the like. despite his wounds he continued to fight. he moved forward and engag

and the president from ns the cia's covert program to arm and train syrian rebel. and civilian deaths in afghanistan spike even higher in the first half of twenty seventeen those stories and more coming up right now. it's thursday june twentieth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm ashley banks and you're watching r.t. america. we begin today in chicago where violence continues to plague the city on wednesday alone at least fifteen people were wounded in shootings within eleven hours including a four year old boy and a six year old girl there were at least two reported instances of extreme road rage and several drive by's artie's natasha suite is alive in the newsroom with more natasha now that's right ashley a city employee takes road rage to an entirely new level and dean and gun fire it forty six year old chicago police dispatcher got into a verbal dispute with an eighteen year old wife an intersection on the south side wednesday with a confrontation became heated and the forty six year old and in the fight by shooting the eighteen year old woman in her chest and

and the cia will perform a central role in pushing back against this threat. and finally, we confronted adversaries, state and nonstate actors that seek to erode democracy and the rule of law around the world. this includes groups like wikileaks, a non-state hostile intelligence service that recruits spies, rewards people who steal legitimate secrets and uses that information to subvert western democracies. and it certainly includes the russian government, which has long been the world's foremost practitioner of active measures. it's been going on for decades. the cyber domain has greatly facilitated and accelerated these activities. instead of having to rely on moles or agents or adversaries can just sit in a room and send ones and zeros across to do us harm. and it's much easier for authoritarian governments to use these tools than it is for democracies. there's much work to do. bottom line is it's hard to sit in the director's chair and not see a world that is a dangerous place. the threat to the civilized world is real. you know, i come from kansas, the hea

i resigned from the cia later to go into the private sector. years after that i got a call from abc news. he said that he had a source who said i tortured abu zabada. i said that absolutely untrue, i was the only person who was ever kind to him, never laid a hand on him or any other prisoner. i said your source is mistaken or he's a liar. he said, well, you're welcome to come on the show and defend yourself. i said i'd think about it. in the meantime, president bush did a news conference in which he looked directly into the camera and said, we do not torture. i said to my wife who at the time was also a senior cia officer, i said, he is a bold-faced lawyer. he's looking the american people in the eye and lying to us. a couple of days later in response to a reporter's question, president bush said, well, if there is torture, it's the result of a rogue cia officer. and this is where the selfishness comes in. i said to my wife, brian ross' source is at the white house. and they're going to try to pin this on me. so i called brian ross, i said, i'l

hoover the cia, j edgar knew as early as 1961. hoover said nothing to the commission. kennedyof all, robert knew. kennedy was aware. marandahen told in a from j edgar hoover, kennedy was told, again later by cia briefer's, bobby kennedy said nothing to the commission. none of these individuals brought the castro assassination plot to the commission's attention, equally significant, none of them brought the plot to the attention of president clinton johnson. at the time that johnson appointed the members of the commission. it was a week after kennedy's assassination. there is no convincing evidence that i have seen that johnson, himself, new about the cia's efforts to assassinate castro before johnson made those appointments. let me stop here for just a second before addressing the why question and what may be an obvious caveat. i suggest there is no convincing evidence that johnson knew, it is easy to establish if somebody has been told something, he knows. we looked to evidence, it is next to impossible to establish ignorance. it is next to impossible because we simply

working for the cia you bet he was and the cia has no problem paying him on the one hand fighting is people on the other and calling it normal. life at the cia wow i want to i want to know what i know a lot about you never really that that's a good i'm going to act well i definitely want to say would definitely check out this book the convenient terrorist this is a fascinating and in-depth insightful book if you really want to know what's going on behind the seams and behind the headlines former cia officer officer john kiriakou former u.s. marine just a figment thank you both for coming on today and for your service to this country thank you so much thank you. on the topic of the cia's unpublicized tactics and activities sean stoma sat down earlier with award winning journalist paul williams who served as an f.b.i. counter terror consultant for many years as well william shares with us his research in the sites he claims are used as radical islamic training camps within the us as well as the cia's involvement with controversial turkish cleric. williams latest book operation gladio c

the cia goes in. they tried to bribe the members of congress so they do not vote for him or confirm him as president. that does not work, so they start talking about a military coup to take control and prevent allende from coming into power, but there is one big obstacle, a man named general rene schneider, the overall commanding general of chile's armed forces. a man of impeccable integrity. sons, and hele of says to u.s. officials is not going to happen. he's a soldier who took an oath to support and defend the constitution of his country, and it provides only for impeachment or election to oust a president for office. it does not provide for a military coup, and of story. the cia position was different. they are here telling schneider militaryest of the establishment, the national security establishment of this country they have a moral duty to save this country. the country is going down with communism, with socialism when he starts adopting all these programs, and it does not matter. don't tell us

there office of the cia were temporary buildings along the reflecting pool on the national wall the cia debated what had gone wrong. berlinrvey the chief of saw he had been exposed for one of his moscow handlers. so did bill hood another senior officers with the man. angleton disagreed he suggested that he is been betrayed from within by what he called a mole, a spy within the ranks of the cia itself. soon partedpicions into a fixed idea which fueled his legendary mole. it all began with peter popoff angletonter that became fixated on the ball. it was not coincidentally two weeks after his arrest that the paper trail connecting angleton to oswald begins. one of his most trusted staff members was a woman named jane roman. she handle all communications with other federal agencies. hurtvember 2, 1959 and a man asked her about a story that appeared in the post did a expiration and with citizenship. the former marine from texas had shown up at the u.s. embassy and muska and announce his intention to become a soviet citizen. we wouldled on top like to know about this marine who recently defec

as an old officer of the cia, we failed in some cases. history is a little checkered on our ability to forecast, to give advance warning to be able to understand the threats before we are in an extreme crisis. i've been in extreme crisis at the cia where we failed to give advance warning. how about this world you talked about earlier, the digital world, where we have machine learning, we have big data analytics? how do you feel that the agency is -- along with the community is positioned to do a better job of getting ahead of the threat? >> it's tough. i'm comfortable when we look back 25 years from now the history will still be checkered and i'm sure we'll mace few but i've seen an awful lot of good work done. some tactical, but also seen some really good worm, taking done operational and strategic threats as well, identifying tell, preparing all of u.s. government to think about how to be prepared when the threat actually arises on the -- actually crosses of the horizon and is on top of us. it mean wes have to be hard, we have to continu

how the cia collects hacking exploits unleashed by other countries to then disguise the agency's own hox it is not clear how many more documents leaked documents weiqi leaks has connected to the cia and its subcontractors but the more leaks that that we can leaks publishes the more the american public and for that matter citizens all around the world have a closer look at what the cia is doing by using malware and abusing malware it has become a very big problem because some argue the cia is leaving this mail war out in the in the in the cyberspace and it is causing viruses and global infections so you know while the cia doesn't say much about these leaks doesn't even say the documents are verified obviously criticism increases each time wiki leaks published these publishes these classified documents. attorney general jeff sessions is brushing off president trump's rebuke during an interview with the new york times this is not the first time the president has had harsh words for his own cabinet appointee and of course the first senator in the senate do endorse him on the campaign tra

he was saying i was working for the cia. the guys who hired me said we're working for the cia. the plane that he had been in -- he was at the lowest level. he was a cargo kicker. he was the low guy in the plane. he is the only who survived. one and he said, look, you know, this plane, it's owned by a company that had been, at one time, owned by the cia. the cia had a tradition of owning airlines that it used to engage in operations. this had once been owned by the cia. you know, there is somebody -- one of the dead bodies in the plane has a business card, business card of a guy name robert owen. who was a very close associate of oliver north. and had been appointed to head what was called the nicaraguan humanitarian assistance organization. the u.s. congress had actually authorized the provision of humanitarian aid to the contras at a time when military aid was forbidden. and this robert owen was actually just a bag man for oliver north, and he ended up being a key witness in the hearings in 1987. and the fact that these people, who supposedly had no connection to the government

they tried to anyway according to the cia director. however, look at what we're doing moving forward from the policy standpoint, you can bet that's going to be one of the big questions moving forward. how tough or not is president trump with vladimir putin in the russians? >> dana: kimberly has mentioned they've given their time and talents to the country, as taxpayers these are also the people we pay for -- we are responsible for them. it's not just of the cia director is met "the new york times" ," i think taxpayers have a right to be angry when one of their assets is in a properly unmasked in iran. ed, is it your birthday? >> it is my birthday. >> dana: happy birthday. thanks so much for joining us for that breaking news we appreciate it. heads, o.j. simpson is going to be a free man soon, he was granted parole after nearly nine years behind bars. highlights from the hearing and reaction next. these days families want to be connected 24/7. that's why at comcast, we're always working to make our services more reliable. with technology

bill casey at the cia was thinking the same. either way, i commend ellen smith, the chairman of the board here at the institute of world politics, the son of bill casey, the son-in-law of bill casey. they were of huge help to me in giving me a couple of critical insights on this book. bill casey, on the morning of may 14, 19 81, the day after the pope was shot, called a meeting of the national foreign intelligence board in washington. he wanted to know what was moscow up to on this day after the pope was shot? moscow's reaction come after suddenly blasting the pope as this perfidious backward to mow lying of his new boss in the white house, suddenly very quiet, all of a sudden. they released a two-sends statement. ii remains in stable condition after undergoing five hours of surgery. the pope was hit by three of the four bullets that the terrorists fired. that's it. he was in him by three. he was hit by two. moscow was a little overly hopeful here. -- on may 15 came the first response. the terrorists, who yesterday tried to kill

then only sixty while expectations of fighters trained by full twenty fifteen was in the thousands the cia plan of arm and train rebels when separately from that of the d.o.d. and the very same washington post revealed that it had twice the pentagon's budget there's a billion dollars a year which made one fifteenth of cia's overall budget and effectively meant that every rabble trained by the cia cost around one hundred thousand dollars and some actually believe it was all worth it as we can leaks founder julian assange pointed out one washington post reporter from. fired shots at also those rebels actually killed or wounded one hundred thousand syrian government troops one may ask when and how did that happen especially considering that there have been cases when the rebels supported by the cia calash with those trained and armed by the pentagon l a times reported that in february last year the deal with. the national weather service in sterling virginia has issued a special memory warning for chesapeake bay from pools island to sandy point maryland chesapeake bay north island maryland ch

backed syrian democratic forces were kicked out from one of the towns near aleppo by cia armed. militia but when has this kind of mishap stop the funding off regime change now that trump has seemingly decided to put an end to this one of the commanders admitted to the financial times that not only his forces the syrian rebel forces shortie received arms from the cia but were also on their regular payroll yeah the salaries to syrian rebels which were essentially footed by the u.s. taxpayers which may explain the real reason why the program was curbed and that statement by top u.s. army general raymond thomas head of special operations command has said affirmatively that it was absolutely not a sop to the russians but in the world of today never let facts and called blood of decisions get in the way of their russia russia russia narrative alexi russia reporting from washington d.c. . for more on this let's go to former u.s. diplomat jim jeffords jim always a pleasure is this a win for russia so to speak and how does this benefit russia as it stands well i think it benefits russia i

and fresh revelations from wiki leaks claim that the cia launched an app that covertly intercepts and reroute your text messages. and then the official twitter of nato sings the praises of a group linked with the nazi army responsible for numerous war crimes forgot that and more coming up on arts in america. it's friday july fourteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm a military man you're watching are to america we began with violence in the middle east to tourists died today in egypt as a result of stab wounds the victims were reportedly ukrainian tourists four others were injured and one man has now been arrested the attack occurred at the red sea resort of her god meanwhile in jerusalem assailant's and israeli soldiers have been killed at the mosque journalist and cohen spoke with us earlier from amman jordan well this morning there was shooting at the all luxor compound in occupied east jerusalem what happened was three. men from almost the city oppose any city inside israel carried out an attack on israeli occupation forces which ultimately killed two israeli soldiers and injured

bat the problem is we have a president now and less look around at the cia in the military and what we call it deep state he could ideally call his cia director and say mike pompei oh nuff of this foolishness i want to find out chapter and verse i don't believe that concocted memo of january sixth you find out what really happened now would pump aoe the head of the cia be able to find out i don't know if he found out would he tell the president i don't know they're afraid of the deep state that's the big problem here. we might never know i suppose is the conclusion we've run out it's time i right could tell you again as for my cia officer right mcgovern thank you. now some of the largest energy companies in europe have slammed american threats to impose new sanctions on russia china dubin ski has that story. well this is about a pipe that's due to be built from russia right the way through to europe ending in germany and supplying a lot of the energy needs to countries and what's happened is that some of the c.e.o.'s of some of the energy companies in europe have slammed th

then only sixty while expectations of fighters trained by full twenty fifteen was in the thousands the cia plan of arm and train rebels when separately from that of the d.o.d. and the very same washington post revealed that it had twice the pentagon's budget there's a billion dollars a year which made one fifteenth of cia's overall budget and effectively meant that every rabble trained by the cia cost around one hundred thousand dollars and some actually believe it was all worth it as we can leaks founder julian assange pointed out one washington post reporter from. fired shots at also those rebels actually killed or wounded one hundred thousand syrian government troops one may ask when and how did that happen especially considering that there have been cases when the rebels supported by the cia calash with those trained and armed by the pentagon l a times reported that in february last year the deal would be backed syrian democratic forces were kicked out from one of the towns near aleppo by cia armed. militia but when has this kind of mishap stop the funding off regime change now that tr

that there have been cases when the rebel supported by the cia collapsed with those trained and armed by the pentagon l a times reported that in february last year the deal would be backed syrian democratic forces were kicked out from one of the towns near aleppo by cia armed. militia but when has this kind of mishap stop the funding off regime change now that trump has seemingly decided to put an end to this one of the commanders admitted to the financial times that not only his forces the syrian rebel forces surely received arms from the cia but were also on their regular payroll yeah the salaries to syrian rebels which were essentially floated by the u.s. taxpayers which may explain the real reason why the program was curbed and that statement by top u.s. army general raymond dahmus head of special operations command has said affirmatively that it was absolutely not a sop to the russians but in the world of today never let facts and called blood of decisions get in the way of the russia russia russia narrative alexi russia reporting from washington d.c. . iranian new iraq signed an