Cia News

Kabul - One day after President Obama's national security speech, the Taliban targeted a UN compound, which killed one Afghan police officer, a Nepali guard, while another ten were wounded. The attack is part of the Taliban's spring offensive.

Moscow - A CIA agent working in Russia was detained overnight by security services in Moscow, before being handed over to US officials.

Washington - A newly declassified memo indicates the CIA's relationship with Zero Dark Thirty movie was one of complicity. Approved for release on April 22 this year it offers a pithy summary of five conference calls held between Zero Dark Thirty writers and the CIA.

Kabul - President Hamid Karzai at least shows a rare frankness among politicians when he acknowledged today that the CIA has been dropping off money at his office for nearly a decade now.

The CIA and the United States Government have had considerable success in toppling democracies around the world but they may have met their match in Presidente Nicolas Maduro, the legitimately elected leader of Venezuela.

Washington - An agent who once ran a CIA clandestine prison is now head of the National Clandestine Service. The agent played a role in developing the CIA's interrogation and detention program.

A report in the Wall Street Journal has claimed that the CIA has been providing intelligence to members of the Free Syrian Army to help them in their fight against the Syrian regime.

Islamabad - Pakistan is urging the UN to ban the unilateral use of drones (UAVs) on the territory of sovereign countries without the consent of those countries unless the countries involved are at war.

The CIA is gathering information and intelligence that could potentially be utilized should the US have to target with drone strikes Islamist extremists within the ragtag rebel opposition currently trying to uproot the Assad regime in Syria.

Washington - It's a sad day in America when a Tea Party Republican is the most progressive congressional voice defending our civil liberties.