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''Decision made to attack Iran'': Former CIA officer John Kiriakou claims
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou claims the US has decided to attack Iran early this week, possibly as a distraction. This coincides with reports of hundreds of US troops being moved from Qatar and Bahrain, as President Trump weighs military options amid a breakdown in nuclear and missile ne
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"I nicknamed AQ Khan the 'Merchant of Death'": Ex-CIA officer says Pakist
Updated : 6 months ago IST
Former CIA officer James Lawler recounted how he exposed AQ Khan's global nuclear network, detailed CIA sabotage operations, and warned of growing proliferation risks. He also reflected on his career, his "Mad Dog" nickname, and the need for stronger US-India cooperation to prevent nuclear c
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"I'm going to kill that son of a b**ch": Ex-CIA officer reveals Musharraf'
Updated : 6 months ago IST
Ex-CIA operations officer James Lawler, who led covert missions that penetrated, sabotaged, and ultimately exposed AQ Khan's global nuclear trafficking network, stated that the turning point came when US intelligence confronted Pakistan's leadership, including President Pervez Musharraf, wit
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"American foreign policy is a big puzzle, US needs stronger ties with Indi
Updated : 6 months ago IST
In an interview with ANI, Lawler said he has never fully understood why India and the United States were "never adversaries but never true friends" despite sharing several common interests and values.
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"Enemy within": Ex-CIA officer says US tipped off Pakistani general before
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Former CIA officer Richard Barlow has revealed that senior officials in the US State Department secretly tipped off the Pakistani government about an undercover American operation to arrest a retired Pakistani general involved in nuclear smuggling during the 1980s.
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"We knew Pakistan's F-16s could carry nukes, without any doubt": Former CI
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
"We knew all about the Pakistani nuclear weapons design, and we knew all about the F-16s, as you could imagine. And we knew that the F-16s were capable of delivering the Pakistani nuclear weapons as they existed at that time, without any doubt," he said.
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My life was destroyed for exposing Pakistan's nuclear secrets: Ex-CIA offi
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
"So a nine-month-long investigation, invading our marriage all over Washington, making everybody think that I was some kind of a spy or had done some horrible security thing. It was all found to be completely fabricated. And I was called in and given my top secret clearance back, but they re
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"Shame that Indira didn't approve it": Ex-CIA officer Barlow on Israel-Ind
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
According to reports and declassified accounts, Israel and India allegedly planned a preemptive airstrike on Pakistan's Kahuta uranium enrichment plant -- the core of its nuclear programme -- to prevent Islamabad from developing and proliferating nuclear weapons, particularly to Iran, whi
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US ignored Pakistan's nuclear weapons development despite repeated warning
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Barlow explained that two key US laws, the Solarz Amendment and the Pressler Amendment, were designed to restrict aid to nations engaged in nuclear weapons development.
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Pakistan's nuclear ambitions were aimed at countering India, but turned in
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
In an interview with ANI, Barlow, a former CIA member who was part of the intelligence agency as a counterproliferation officer during Pakistan's clandestine nuclear activities in the 1980s, detailed how Khan's network provided critical gas centrifuge technology and possibly nuclear weapo
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"The Pakistanis will lose," says ex-CIA officer warning against war with I
Updated : 7 months ago IST
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou warned Pakistan would lose any conventional war with India. In an ANI interview, he urged Islamabad to avoid provocations, highlighted India's strong counterterrorism responses, and recalled missed U.S. action against nuclear scientist AQ Khan, stressing the
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"We paid tens of millions in cash as rewards to the Pakistani intelligence
Updated : 7 months ago IST
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou revealed that the CIA funded Pakistan's ISI, tracked al-Qaeda targets, and linked Lashkar-e-Tayyiba to al-Qaeda. He highlighted mistrust within ISI, US-Pakistan transactional ties, post-9/11 strategies, and his whistleblowing on CIA torture, which led to his
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