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Military Operations Begin on Venezuela’s Western Border to Fight Drug Trafficking
Venezuela has announced the expansion of military operations along its western border in order to fight drug trafficking and protect a recently discovered reserve of coltan from illegal mining. In what is titled Operation Blue Gold, 15,000 Air Force,...
Mauritius Drug Assets Forfeiture Office to Seize the Assets of At Least 30 Big Drug Traffickers
The commissioner of the Mauritius Drug Assets Forfeiture Office has said that he intends to seize the property of at least 30 big drug traffickers. He said that following amendments in the Finance Bill, his office now has the power to claim from any bank...
Diplomacy And Espionage
There has been a lot of buzz this morning around the story of the newly appointed head of MI6 having his “cover blown” by his wife’s Facebook site. Even CNET News got on the bandwagon (probably because of the Facebook role), although...The Death of Ernest May
The time stamp for the Associated Press announcement on the San Francisco Chronicle Web site is 4 AM this morning. The announcement was of the death of Harvard University history professor and former dean Ernest May. May’s name has come up...
President Obama Makes First Visit to CIA Headquarters
U.S. President Barack Obama has paid his first visit to the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency. The visit was part of an effort to boost agency morale only days after the release of once-secret memos that outlined the legal justification...Bush Administration Endorsed Waterboard Torture
Classified memos have revealed that the Bush administration knowingly endorsed waterboarding and other torture methods for use against terrorist suspects. The memos were issued to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 as classified documents in response to the department’s...Magazine Reports Congress Secretly Approved Major Expansion of Covert Operations in Iran Late Last Year
A published report says the U.S. Congress agreed late last year to a request from President George Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran.Once Secretive National Reconnaissance Office Comes Out in Full View
Industry officials were treated to some candid revelations by a shadowy intelligence agency at a Washington gathering last month. The US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), whose very existence was classified until 1992, is going public about the transformation...
