TEHRAN, May 17 - A Senate committee thinks it’s a viable scenario that Vladimir Putin ordered the manipulation of US elections to install Donald Trump as president. A CIA veteran of 55 years believes it’s more likely the spy agency framed Russia.
TEHRAN, May 13 - The US Justice Department has announced the conviction of a former CIA contractor who pleaded guilty for theft of classified information amid growing cases of government contractors accused of stealing secrets from spy agencies.
TEHRAN, May 10 - Senior US Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein says she will vote against Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the CIA director who is accused of involvement in the agency’s torture program.
TEHRAN, May 10 - US Republican Senator John McCain has advised his colleagues in the Senate against confirming Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director who is accused of involvement in the agency’s torture program.
TEHRAN, May 9 - About 100 former U.S. ambassadors sent a letter to the Senate on Wednesday to voice their opposition to Gina Haspel, President Trump’s pick for CIA director.
TEHRAN, May 7 - US President Donald Trump has decided to defend his CIA nominee Gina Haspel, saying that the country's democratic party are not supporting with her candidacy because "she is too tough on terror".
TEHRAN, May 7 - Trump’s nominee to lead the CIA, Gina Haspel, sought to withdraw over concerns about her role in the agency’s torture program, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday.
TEHRAN, May 6 - White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has been slammed for claiming Democrats who support women’s empowerment should also support Gina Haspel’s nomination to the CIA, despite her record in torture.
TEHRAN, April 21 - The Central Intelligence Agency has declassified an internal memo clearing US President Donald Trump’s choice to head the spy agency of wrongdoing for the destruction of videotapes depicting the waterboarding of terrorism suspects in 2005.
TEHRAN, April 18 - US President Donald Trump has confirmed that CIA director Mike Pompeo recently traveled to Pyongyang for a secret meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
TEHRAN, April 18 - CIA Director Mike Pompeo recently traveled to North Korea to meet with leader Kim Jong Un, a highly unusual, secret visit undertaken as the enemy nations prepared for a meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim within the next few months.
TEHRAN, March 22 - The former director of the CIA said Wednesday he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin might have some kind of leverage over President Donald Trump that leaves the U.S. leader scared when the two interact.
TEHRAN, December 26 - A former officer of CIA Clandestine Service denounced the Zionist regime of Israel as a crime against humanity, saying the city of al-Quds (Jerusalem) must exclude all forms of Zionists.
TEHRAN, December 4 - CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Saudi Arabia is working directly with Israel on confronting "challenges" in the Middle East, suggesting that the two sides could go as far as setting up "a joint military headquarters."
TEHRAN, December 1 - Turkish authorities issued an arrest warrant for a former officer of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over suspected links to last year's failed coup, the Hurriyet daily said on Friday, in a further blow to troubled U.S.-Turkey ties.
TEHRAN, November 9 -WikiLeaks says it has published the source code for the CIA hacking tool ‘Hive,’ which indicates that the agency-operated malware could mask itself under fake certificates and impersonate public companies, namely Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.
TEHRAN, November 4 -Six-and-a-half years after the US military killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the CIA has released files seized in the raid. Some of the documents purport to show a link between Iran and al-Qaeda, although not everybody is convinced.
TEHRAN, July 25, YJC - US President Donald Trump seemingly backed a decision to halt support for foreign-backed militants in Syria, inadvertently confirming the existence of a covert CIA program to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
TEHRAN, July 25, YJC -The Venezuelan president says Mexico and Colombia are working hand in glove with the US spy agency CIA in an American “plot” to overthrow the legitimate government in Caracas.