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''Decision made to attack Iran'': Former CIA officer John Kiriakou claims
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks 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, 1 week 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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"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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"The Pakistanis will lose," says ex-CIA officer warning against war with I
Updated : 7 months, 1 week 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, 1 week 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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“Osama bin Laden escaped disguised as a woman, US translator was an Al-Qae
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
In a key revelation, former CIA Officer John Kiriakou has said that Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, who was the most wanted terrorist for the United States after terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, had escaped from Tora Bora hills in the guise of a woman.
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"Musharraf handed over control of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal to US," claim
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
In an exclusive interview with ANI, Kiriakou said that Pakistan was deep buried under corruption that Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto led a lavish life in the Gulf while the common people starved.
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"We believed India and Pakistan would go to war in 2002," says former CIA
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou recounted his counterterrorism work in Pakistan, highlighting India-Pakistan tensions, Pakistan-backed terror groups, U.S. reliance on Islamabad, and Saudi-Pakistan ties. He warned of nuclear risks, praised India's restraint, and noted shifting global powe
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"Pakistan will lose any conventional war with India": Former CIA officer J
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Noting that Pakistan needs to come to a policy conclusion that there's nothing positive for it in fighting with India, former CIA officer John Kiriakou has said that Pakistan will lose any conventional war with India.
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US: Former CIA officer pleads guilty to providing national defence informa
Updated : 2 years ago IST
A former CIA officer targeted in an FBI undercover operation pleaded guilty on Friday to providing national defence information to China, the US Justice Department said.
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