Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on September 13, 2024 that the State Department was revealing declassified U.S. intelligence findings showing RT (Russia Today) has evolved into a full-scale Russian intelligence operation. The key revelation was that in Spring 2023, the Russian government …
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The Department of Justice charged 11 individuals on June 27, 2010, for acting as unregistered agents of the Russian Federation. Ten pleaded guilty on July 8, 2010, and were exchanged in a U.S.–Russia spy swap. The case, known as “Operation Ghost Stories,” involved covert communications …
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The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan creates strategic opportunity for BCCI to become primary financial conduit for CIA covert operations. BCCI’s existing relationships with Pakistan’s ISI, General Zia ul-Haq, and presence in regional banking markets position it perfectly to handle the …
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In early 1953, Roy Cohn begins developing a systematic blackmail infrastructure during the McCarthy Senate hearings, leveraging anti-communist hysteria and homophobic tactics to gather compromising information on political and cultural figures. As 24-year-old chief counsel to Senator Joseph …
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