he was cia." i discovered a british intellectual magazine, also funded by the cia. karen: the estimates of cia funding for all international foreign policy books is very high. 80% of all. lbj appointed a three-person commission and gave them four weeks to report after the ramparts flap. which is the cia both the word for catastrophe. it consisted of the cia director, the undersecretary of state, and john gardner, who was secretary of health, education and welfare. the real work fell to jack rosenthal. he had done the "new york times" foundation. to make a long story short, he was escorted to langley. he's one of the few people who have seen the number of operations that were being run through private, domestic organizations. he said there were hundreds. he was staggered. >> what about foreign operations? don me?part of m >> what about foreign operations? karen: you know, that is outside the scope of the book. i don't think i can answer your kennedy.>> you mentioned robert briefly, and it made me think took tothe trip he south africa, which was at the invitation of t

the cia put it this way in a 2014 report "under macomb and helms is direction, the cia's support for the warren commission was passive, reactive and selective. cia produced information only in response to commission requests and did not volunteer material even if potentially relevant. for example, about agency plots to assassinate castro." helms told the commission in 1978 that if he was not asked for it, he did not give it. dulles, by some accounts, dominated the proceedings. he was fired by kennedy after the bay of pigs debacle. he was only member therefore who do not have a full-time day job is so he had plenty of time to arrange things. dulles forewarned agency officers about the questions that he and his fellow commissioners were likely to ask. there may have been no explicit understanding between macomb and dulles that helped dulles steer the commission away from controversial agency operations, as of the cia found in night -- in 2014. macomb, the agency said, a quote from the own report "macomb may be regarded as a pro-conspiratorial in the jfk cover-up." the conspiracy to kee

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 t

new about the cia. so, 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 u

as a cia with sort of cia in my heart is really well received. it's because we are very selfless, very dedicated group of people. and it's inspiring to hear how well you've taken over the first six months that you've been director. you talked a little bit about the scope and the threats runs all the way from north korea to russia to china to international organized crime, which is a whole new world that's getting more and more vicious. how do you view all this? how do you feel the agency is changing to meet the speed and the velocity of the threats that we're facing? it's really a very different world from one more static cold war that i worked so hard many years ago. >> charlie, i appreciate the question. i was a cold warrior once too. now several decades back i still try to use the phrase russia and avoid soviet union when i talk about it. look, it's an enormous challenge. it's one that with which i'm familiar from my time in business. you have to be fast. your competitors in our case our adversaries are really quick. i was asked one time how i

i went up to the executive floor of the cia. there was a very, very senior cia officer up there from whom i worked in the middle east a decade earlier and i said, they asked if i wanted to be train in this. he said, let's call it what it is, it's a torture program, they can use whatever euphemism they want. you know how these guys are, somebody is going to go overboard and kill a frizz pris. when that happens it's going to be a congressional investigation and justice department investigation and somebody's going to go to prison. do you want to go to prison? i said, no, i don't want to go to frizz. as it turned out, i was the only one who went to prison. i said new york, i don't want to go to prison. i resigned from the cia later to go into the private sector. three 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 h

in charge of the cia. we are very hopeful that there can be a transition in venezuela and we the cia is doing its best to understand the dynamic there it was just down in mexico city and in bogota a week before last talking about this very issue trying to help them understand the things they might do so that they can get a better outcome for their part of the world and are part of the world what i was just down in colombia and mexico scheming to overthrow the democratically elect. leader of venice whale art that's your idea of supporting stability and democracy of democracy you keep using the word i do not think it means what you think of it. look at this. this interview shows how out of touch our deep state emperors are they've still totally lost grasp what matters in this world what people view is criminal and what they view as patriotic that the leaders of these organizations cannot express their goals their objectives without coming off as a war hungry regime change obsessed sweaty bad face new york fe

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

i have cia in my heart. well-received. because we are very selfless, very dedicated group of people, and it is inspiring to hear how well you have taken over in the first six months you have been direct you. you talked about the scope and threats running from north korea to russia to china to proliferation, to international organized crime, whole new world that is getting more and more vicious. how do you view all this? how do you feel the agency is changing to meet the speed and the velocity of the threats we're facing? it's really a very different world for the one, a more static cold war i worked to hard many years ago. >> charlie, appreciate the question. i was a cold warrior once, too. now several decades back i still try to use the phrase "russia" and troy to avoid "soviet union." it's an enormous challenge. you have to be fast.your competitors, our adversaries, are really quick. was asked how ithought the enemy would respond to a particular action that america was contemplating. said they won't have a meeting like t

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 michel 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 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 when vice president dick cheney said that we were going to turn to the dark side they meant it they

to the cia, more to others. we have to make sure we secure america against isis here as well. if we do those thing tryings with elan and aggressively, we'll push back and we'll win. >> the intelligence community is supposed to tell the president about threats and try to avoid surprise. 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 als

the cia put it this way in a 2014 report "under macomb and helms is direction, the cia's support for the warren commission was passive, reactive and selective. cia produced information only in response to commission requests and did not volunteer material even if potentially relevant. -- example, about agencie agency plots to assassinate castro." helms told the commission in 1978 that if he was not asked for it, he did not give it. dulles, by some accounts, dominated the proceedings. he was fired by kennedy after the bay of pigs debacle. he was only member therefore who do not have a full-time day job so he had plenty of time to arrange things. dulles forewarned agency officers about the questions that he and his fellow commissioners were likely to ask. there may have been no explicit understanding between macomb and dulles that helped dulles steer the commission away from controversial agency operations, as of the cia found in night -- in 2014. macomb, the agency said, a quote madethe own report "macomb -- may be regarded as a pro-conspiratorial in the jfk cover-up." the conspiracy

not just cia, but, of course, at the cia. reagan became personally very concerned about the hostages, partly because there were families of those held hostage in beirut who got very well organized and brought this situation of their family members to public attention, to media attention, and, sometimes, they managed to confront reagan personally. and he was affected by this, by all accounts, and decided that he really needed to do something about the hostages, try to get them out, at least, partly because of his genuine concern over their welfare, but also because he remembered what happened to jimmy carter, right? he remembered the political results of the tehran hostage crisis that started in 1979. and the shadow of the tehran crisis was always there hovering in the background. but ironically, ironically, even though there were a lot of people in washington that thought iran was at least connected to, if not behind and pulling the strings behind, hezbollah and other shia groups, at the same time, there were people in washin

browser remote access tool according to the cia experts is thought to be created by a chinese hacking group called emissary panda and it captures keystrokes and writes it to a file and f. log is also credited to a chinese hacking group called some more i panda the malware is reported as a tool which allows an intruder administrative control over a target riggin is categorized as very sophisticated malware with target surveillance and data collection containing up to sixty ages of implementation the authors believe it was created by a nation state how murtaza is detailed as a suspected russian state sponsored malware which leverages twitter accounts meanwhile gain courage is described as a trojan which steals information using simple decryption and injects itself into a different process than the report does not say who is suspected of creating game current now previous un verified vault seven documents published by week in leaks have allegedly revealed. how the cia collects hacking exploits unleashed by other countries to then disguise the agency's own hox it is not clear how many mor

i have cia in my heart. well-received. because we are very selfless, very dedicated group of people, and it is inspiring to hear how well you have taken over in the first six mock months you have been direct you. you talked about the scope and threats running from north korea to russia to china to proliferation, to international organized crime, whole new world that is getting more and more vicious. how do you view all this? how do you feel the agency is changing to meet the speed and the velocity of the threats we're facing? it's really a very different world for the one, a more static cold war i worked to hard many years ago. >> charlie, appreciate the question. i was a cold warrior once, too. now several decades back i still try to use the phrase "russia" and troy to avoid "soviet union." it's an enormous challenge. you have to be fast. your competitors, our adversaries, are really quick. was asked how i thought the enemy would respond to a particular action that america was contemplating. said they won't have a meeting

penetration or a cia use of this incredible capability i would go with cia using this incredible capability right off the 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 a

he established a fiefdom of operations and the cia, a cia within the cia that virtually no one and the elected government knew about and he ran it for 20 years. find chillinge cold war drama and a pivotal moment in the government with the emergence of the american national security stake. the gist of my argument will strike most people as more common sense than original. ae kennedy assassination was decisive moment and the evolution of the american national security stake. i only want to take this time to make that slightly more precise. it is the aftermath of what was , angleton wasart a key figure in that moment. the assassination and dallas was one of great danger for the cia. if any of them had been held responsible for that its power may have been incurred. the clandestine service may have been a polished -- abolished as president truman urged. the event's roles in leading up to that had been shared with the american people the ambitions of the national security state may have been checked. that did not happen. thanks in no small part to james angleton. my story has three strands

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

all right former cia agent jack rice with us tonight jack always a pleasure thanks for your expertise on this documents published by wiki leaks reveal the cia worked with the defense contractor to analyze and develop malware the latest vault seven series shows raytheon told the cia about malware programs run by foreign governments artie's were in a porter has the story tonight. well under documents published by wiki leaks wednesday purport to show how black bird technology reported to the cia about malware are thought to have come from foreign governments like russia and china raytheon is a defense contractor specializing in homeland security and defense technology it is also the company that made the fifty nine tomahawk missiles used in the april air strike against syria now according to wiki leaks raytheon acted as a technology scout for the remote development branch of the cia by analyzing malware attacks and giving recommendations to the spy agency for further investigation and development for america's own malware projects the latest documents published by wiki leaks were alleged

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 u

" for outing an undercover cia officer. let's bring in fox news' ed henry for more on this story. >> good to see you, a dramatic development tonight. this is happening at the aspen security forum, this is an annual event out in colorado where these various security officials get together and talk about the top issues of the day. russian interference in the last presidential election was also a major topic, we'll get into that because rick pompeo got frustrated by a series of questions by reporters and panelists about that. what he was particularly angry about is the fact that "the new york times" back in early june published an account of the new chief of iran operations at the central intelligence agency. they named this official even though he's a clandestine official. his identity is supposed to be secret. the cia director teed off on "the new york times" for publishing his name. >> we had a publication you worked for that published the name of an undercover officer at the central intelligence agency. i find that unconsc

the cia never glommed onto it. can you explain why do cia drag its feet? >> it was the establishment establishmentarians who had suffered years on the soviets. casey, clark, others who had a much more hardline before the soviets. had ansterling, who amazing report on it, she wrote a huge, multithousand page piece for the new york times. before that, a huge piece work peters digest. digets.eader's st. book held up sterling's and said i paid 3095 for this than you told me more people who i paid $50,000 a year. that was a pivotal moment. i was told that by the person who set up the launch. that thinkingrom that we have to look into it. it is interesting if you read sterling's book. she is hard on casey clark and reagan. she says you guys are the hardliners, why are you digging into this? ,he did not know that privately they suspected the soviets were behind it. they didn't have proof. the view of reagan as a verbal they lie, they cheat, they steal, megan used words like this when it served a constructive purpose. he was always careful what he says. if you rea

last week when news of trump attention to stopping cia program of training and arming rebels in syria surfaced in the washington post the oral narrative was quite easy to predict the move sought by moscow it's had line some pundits and commentators went even further from suggesting that trump caved in to putin or that it's all trees and you know the usual putin puppet thing but does this move really benefit russia fair enough putin himself as well as other top officials in moscow have been on record implying that u.s. strategy in syria with arming the rebel forces and then seeing those weapons in the hands of had shopping jihadi this may not have been the best one but here's the thing u.s. failures in syria have been acknowledged on the highest level even in the obama administration as of joy third we are currently treated about sixty five years this number is much smaller than we were at this point in fact d.o.d.'s much anticipated program to train rebel fighters in syria was scrapped by obama and replaced with supplying the existing ones with weapons and why well because the health

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

last week when news of trump attention to stopping cia program of training and arming rebels in syria surfaced in the washington post the overall narrative was quite easy to predict the move sought by moscow it's had line some pundits and commentators went even further from suggesting that trump caved in to putin or that it's all true you know the usual putin puppet thing but does this move really benefit russia fair enough putin himself as well as other top officials in moscow have been on record implying that u.s. strategy in syria with arming the rebel forces and then seeing those weapons in the hands of had shopping jihadi this may not have been the best one but here's the thing u.s. failures in syria have been acknowledged on the highest level even in the obama administration as of july third we are currently treated about sixty five years this number is much smaller than we were at this point in fact d.o.d.'s much anticipated program to train rebel fighters in syria was scrapped by obama and replaced with supplying the existing ones with weapons and why well because the health a

effective this covert adventure turned out to be last week when news of trump attention to stopping cia program of training and arming rebels in syria surfaced in the washington post the overall narrative was quite easy to predict the move sought by moscow said it's had line some pundits and commentators went even further from suggesting that from caved in to putin or that it's old treason you know the usual putin puppet thing but does this move really benefit russia fair enough putin himself as well as other top officials in moscow have been on record implying that u.s. strategy in syria with. arming the rebel forces and then seeing those weapons in the hands of had shopping jihadi s. may not have been the best one but here's the thing u.s. failures in syria have been acknowledged on the highest level even in the obama administration as of joy third currently treated about sixty fighters this number is much smaller than we were at this point fact d.o.d.'s much anticipated program to train rebel fighters in syria was scrapped by obama and replaced with supplying the existing ones with w

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 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 their russia russia russia narrative alexi russia reporting from washington d.c. . happy i'm seeing this come to an what you know what i really want to see come to an end is when we're going to get out of the fairy tale the humanitarian intervention of the we can pick one side or the other and we do it properly no one did no civilians don't get hurt we're always on the side of the good guys when we're going to actually wake up and kind of smell the real world around us and realize that there are no good guys in combat really at the end of the day everybody's you know especially as a jew asian like syria. one of it well we have every opportunity