Trump Administration, Other Pro-Gun Heavyweights Lend Support on Pending Supreme Court Case. NRA/ILA As NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox reported in March, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up a challenge by an NRA state affiliate to a New York City gun control scheme that effectively prohibits lawfully licensed handgun owners from leaving the …
The Real Captain Marvel trained Brie Larson for her role as Capt. Marvel. Learn more about Brig General Leavitt’s role in mashable’s supporting players series. Video below. Breaking barriers through opportunities By Airman 1st Class Kevin Tanenbaum, 99th Air Base With over 3,000 flying hours she has broken more than the sound barrier, graduating from and becoming …
A Classic Case of Deception CIA Goes Hollywood Antonio J. Mendez Background: Exfiltration and the CIA When briefing the CIA’s Directorate of Operations (DO) or other components of the Intelligence Community (IC) about the Office of Technical Services’ (OTS) exfiltration capability, I always made a point to remind them that “readiness” is the key. This …
Few CIA counterterrorist successes have ever been made public. Described here is one of them, a classic case of deception in which CIA technical specialists created a dummy movie-production company in Hollywood and delivered disguises and documents that made possible the escape of six US diplomats from capture in Iran in 1980. The CIA closely …
On the Front Lines: CIA in Afghanistan In 2001, US intelligence officers picked up this al-Qa’ida training manual outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. The officers found the manual while searching the ruins of a suspected chemical processing site. US ordnance that damaged the site caused the handbook’s burn marks. The manual includes instructions for firing Stinger missiles. …
Former CIA Officer Sentenced to Prison for Espionage DOJ Kevin Patrick Mallory, 62, of Leesburg, Virginia, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release after being convicted under the Espionage Act for conspiracy to transmit national defense information to an agent of the People’s Republic of …
Eastern European Cybercrime Network Taken Down VOA Masood Farivar The list of victims runs the gamut. A small-town Texas church. A Washington, D.C., law firm. A nonprofit organization in Illinois that works with disabled children. They are among the tens of thousands of businesses and other organizations in North America and Europe that were targeted …
