USA Russia likely behind huge hack on US government, say security services Officials say the hackers appeared to want to gather intelligence rather than cause disruption. 06/01/2021
world news US and German intelligence 'used Swiss firm to spy on governments' The Swiss encryption firm Crypto was secretly used for spying by CIA and West Germany for decades, a new German and American media investigation says. 13/02/2020
Good Morning Europe Moscow asks Interpol for location of former Kremlin official Russia has asked the United States via Interpol to confirm the whereabouts of a former Kremlin official who Russian media have said may have been a U.S. spy extracted by the CIA. A Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Moscow learned via the media that Smolenkov and his family were in the U.S. 13/09/2019
Iran Iran says it uncovered CIA spy ring amid heightened tensions with US The Iranian Intelligence Ministry said at a press conference on Monday that it had identified and arrested 17 spies acting on behalf of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 22/07/2019
View Why Watergate prosecutors could prove obstruction. And why Mueller couldn't ǀ View In contrast with Nixon’s White House, Trump’s White House is unlikely to produce a smoking gun tape. But do we need one? 03/04/2019
USA CIA claims direct link between Saudi Crown prince and Khashoggi killing Agency says it is inconceivable Mohammed bin Salman was kept in the dark about Istanbul operation. 17/11/2018
world news Europe briefing: 5 stories to know about today Everything you need to know around Europe on Thursday, August 16. 16/08/2018
USA Trump opts to revoke former CIA director Brennan's security clearance Brennan, a senior NBC and MSNBC analyst, is a frequent critic of Trump's. 15/08/2018
Lithuania European court condemns Lithuania and Romania over secret CIA prisons Both countries hosted secret CIA prisons a decade ago with the authorities fully aware detainees were held there illegally 31/05/2018
USA Gina Haspel confirmed as CIA's first female director The US Senate has voted in favour of appointing the CIA's first female director. The confirmation of Gina Haspel, a veteran of the spy agency, follows a partisan fight among lawmakers over her role in the its post-9/11 interrogation programme. 18/05/2018
United Kingdom Britain apologises for appalling treatment of Libyan dissident & his wife UK intelligence services helped the CIA abduct Abdul Hakim Belhadj and his then-pregnant wife in 2004 from Thailand to return them to Tripoli, where Abdul was tortured. Now Britain has admitted its mistake and paid compensation. 10/05/2018
Republic of North Macedonia FYR Macedonia apologises to German man over CIA rendition Khaled El-Masri, a German of Lebanese origin, was wrongly kidnapped and handed to the CIA in 2004 as part of its rendition and torture programme. 04/04/2018
Russia CIA 'helped foil terrorist attack in Russia' A statement on the Kremlin's website says President Vladimir Putin called U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday to thank him for information provided by the CIA. 17/12/2017
Colombia CIA told Hitler was alive after World War II The documents have re-surfaced in the wake of the JFK release 02/11/2017
world news Bin Laden files: What was released and what was withheld? Documents including Bin Laden's personal journal and practice video reels for public speeches have been made public 02/11/2017
USA Russia 'brazenly' meddled in US election, says ex CIA boss John Brennan testifies he personally warned the head of Russia's FSB security service that such meddling would hurt relations between Moscow and Washington. 23/05/2017
USA Russia defied warnings and 'brazenly' interfered in US election, former CIA head says Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election despite warnings not to do so, John Brennan, former head of the CIA said. 23/05/2017
China China kills US sources, crippling CIA - report China killed or imprisoned up to 20 CIA sources between 2010 and 2012, the New York Times has reported. 21/05/2017
North Korea North Korea accuses CIA of plot to kill leader Kim Jong-Un The Ministry of State Security claimed a terrorist group backed by the CIA and South Korea's intelligence agency had entered the country. 05/05/2017
USA Wikileaks slammed by CIA Wikileaks is a non-state "hostile intelligence service" often abetted by state actors, according to the agency's director. 14/04/2017
USA WikiLeaks: CIA 'devastatingly incompetent', says Assange WikiLeaks' Julian Assange accuses the CIA of 'devastating incompetence' and says it will give details of the agency's hacking tools to tech companies. 09/03/2017
USA WikiLeaks to give details of CIA hacking tools to tech companies US authorities say the security breach leading to WikiLeaks' data release on the CIA was likely carried out by contractors. 09/03/2017
USA US launches criminal probe into CIA leak A federal criminal investigation is being opened into the public release of documents said to detail alleged CIA hacking tools. 09/03/2017
USA Wikileaks publishes data dump of secret CIA files The whistleblower website Wikileaks has published online a trove of what it claims are thousands of secret CIA files. 08/03/2017
Germany Spotlight on Germany in Wikileaks CIA spying revelations Not for the first time, Germany finds itself at the centre of a spying scandal involving the United States. 08/03/2017
USA WikiLeaks publishes Vault 7 CIA files, what do they reveal? WikiLeaks published internal CIA communications about hacking techniques its uses to access iPhones, Android and Microsoft Windows devices 08/03/2017
