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A CIA secret kept for 35 years found in the Smithsonian's archives

Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency's headquarters. Two fans of the work then discovered the key

Gabbard to slash intelligence office staff, cut budget by over $700 mn

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence will dramatically reduce its workforce and cut its budget by more than $700 million annually, the Trump administration announced Wednesday. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in a statement, Over the last 20 years, ODNI has become bloated and inefficient, and the intelligence community is rife with abuse of power, unauthorised leaks of classified intelligence, and politicised weaponisation of intelligence. She said the intelligence community must make serious changes to fulfil its responsibility to the American people and the US Constitution by focusing on our core mission: find the truth and provide objective, unbiased, timely intelligence to the President and policymakers. The reorganisation is part of a broader administration effort to rethink its evaluation of foreign threats to American elections, a topic that has become politically loaded given President Donald Trump's long-running resistance to the ...

Trump's rejection of intel assessments shows deep distrust of spy agencies

President Donald Trump's fights with the intelligence community were a running theme of his first term, as he raged against an investigation into his campaign's alleged links to Russia. Now, a sequel is playing out as Trump battles to shape the public's understanding of his foreign policy gamble in Iran. An early US intelligence assessment said Iran's nuclear program has been set back only a few months after American strikes on three sites last weekend. Trump has rejected the report and pronounced the program completely and fully obliterated. The dispute is unlikely to fade anytime soon. Top administration officials are pressing Trump's case, with a news conference set for Thursday at the Pentagon. Briefings also are scheduled for lawmakers on Capitol Hill, though the White House plans to limit the sharing of classified information after the initial intelligence assessment leaked this week. Intelligence people strive to live in a world as it is, describe the world as it is, where

After Trump's 2nd rebuke, Tulsi Gabbard says Iran could build bomb soon

After a second public rebuke from Donald Trump, US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard has clarified her Iran remarks, saying Tehran could build a nuclear weapon within weeks to months if it chooses

China condemns CIA recruitment videos as 'provocation', vows retaliation

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian, speaking at a briefing on Tuesday, called the CIA's campaign "a serious infringement on China's national interest and pure political provocation"

MLK, RFK assassination records will soon be public, says Tulsi Gabbard

Documents related to the 1968 assassinations of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr and Sen Robert F Kennedy will soon be made public as more than 100 people have been working around the clock to scan them, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said during a Cabinet meeting. The documents had been in boxes in storage for decades, Gabbard said Thursday. "I've had over 100 people working around the clock to scan the paper around Sen Robert F Kennedy's assassination, as well as Martin Luther King Jr's assassination... They have never been scanned or seen before, she said. We'll have those ready to release here within the next few days. When Kennedy's son, Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, who also was at the meeting, was asked by President Donald Trump about the impending release of the documents, he said, I'm very grateful to you Mr President. Trump asked Gabbard if the health secretary had any concerns about releasing the documents. His response is, Put it out

6 intelligence leaks that shook the US: Latest Yemen breach joins the list

From war plans to surveillance secrets, America's biggest intelligence leaks have exposed military strategies, covert operations, and government cover-ups

Tulsi Gabbard admits adding journalist to Signal chat was a mistake

Gabbard also told a House of Representatives hearing on Worldwide Threats, which was scheduled before the news of the chat

There was no classified information: Gabbard on Yemen strikes chat leaks

During a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard firmly denied that the messages contained classified info

US Senate to question intelligence officials after war plans leak

The Trump administration's top intelligence officials face Congress this week to offer their first testimony in office about the threats facing the United States and tackle urgent questions about the security breach that unfolded when war plans were mistakenly leaked to a journalist. FBI Director Kash Patel, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard are among the witnesses who will appear Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee and Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee in back-to-back hearings. Tuesday's hearing will take place one day after news broke that several top national security officials in the Republican administration, including Ratcliffe and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, texted war plans for military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging app that included the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic. The text chain contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in ...

Top global intelligence czars to meet in India for crucial talks on Mar 16

The US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Canadian spy chief Daniel Rogers and Britain's MI6 boss Richard Moore will be among top global intelligence czars converging in India this weekend to attend a security conclave, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is set to chair the India-hosted conclave on March 16 which is expected to deliberate on ways to enhance intelligence-sharing to combat terrorism and various transnational crimes. Intelligence chiefs of Australia, Germany, New Zealand and several other friendly countries of India are also expected to join the deliberations to be held in New Delhi. Gabbard is visiting India as part of a multi-nation tour of Japan, Thailand and France. It will be the first high-level visit to India by a top official of the Donald Trump administration. Besides attending the intelligence chiefs' conclave, Gabbard is likely to address the Raisina Dialogue and hold a one-on-one mee

CIA lays off some new hires as Trump shakes up intelligence community

The Central Intelligence Agency will fire an unreleased number of junior officers as President Donald Trump's efforts to downsize and reshape the federal government reverberate through America's intelligence community. The agency will review personnel hired within the past two years, an agency spokesperson said Thursday, and those officers with behavioral issues or who are deemed a poor fit for intelligence work will be laid off. The spokesperson said not everyone proves to be able to handle the pressures of the job. The cuts are part of sweeping staffing reductions at agencies across the federal government made by Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. Some agencies, like the U.S. Agency for International Development, have been largely dismantled. While intelligence agencies have been spared the deepest cuts, they haven't been immune. In February the CIA offered buyouts to some employees. The typically secretive agency has not said how many employees accepted the offer. Trump's recently

France provides military intelligence to Ukraine as US freezes vital info

France is providing military intelligence to Ukraine after Washington announced it was freezing the sharing of information with Kyiv, French defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said Thursday. The US said Wednesday it had paused its intelligence sharing with Ukraine, cutting off the flow of vital information that has helped the war-torn nation target Russian invaders, but Trump administration officials have said that positive talks between Washington and Kyiv mean it may only be a short suspension. American intelligence is vital for Ukraine to track Russian troop movements and select targets. Speaking to France Inter radio on Thursday, Lecornu said France is continuing its intelligence sharing. Our intelligence is sovereign, Lecornu said. We have intelligence that we allow Ukraine to benefit from. Lecornu added that following the US decision to suspend all military aid to Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron asked him to accelerate the various French aid packages to make up for

US intelligence agencies warn about potential Israel strike on Iran

Iran and Israel have been engaged in a long-standing conflict that intensified following the war in Gaza. Israeli leaders believe that Iran is more vulnerable now, US intelligence findings revealed

US senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard as Trump's 'director of intelligence'

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence after Republicans who had initially questioned her experience and judgment fell in line behind her nomination. Gabbard was an unconventional pick to oversee and coordinate the country's 18 different intelligence agencies, given her past comments sympathetic to Russia, a meeting she held with now-deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad and her previous support for government leaker Edward Snowden. Gabbard, a military veteran and former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, was confirmed by a 52-48 vote, with Democrats opposed in the sharply divided Senate where Republicans hold a slim majority. The only "no' vote from a Republican came from Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. She will take over the top intelligence post as Trump works to reshape vast portions of the federal government. Intelligence agencies including the CIA have issued voluntary resignation offers to staffers, .

Trump's intelligence pick Gabbard to face grilling at confirmation hearing

Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's pick to be director of national intelligence, is expected to face tough questions from lawmakers Thursday over past comments about Russia and a 2017 visit with Syria's now-deposed leader. The back-and-forth during Gabbard's confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee could reveal whether she has successfully assuaged concerns from lawmakers of both parties or whether worries about her experience and background will sink her nomination to oversee 18 US intelligence agencies. Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, is a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard who deployed twice to the Middle East and ran for president in 2020. She has no formal intelligence experience, however, and has never run a government agency or department. It's Gabbard's comments, however, that have posed the biggest challenge to her confirmation. Gabbard has repeatedly echoed Russian propaganda used to justify the Kremlin's invasion of

Senate confirms Ratcliffe to lead CIA, giving Trump second Cabinet member

The Senate has confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Donald Trump the second member of his new Cabinet. Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump's first term and is the first person to have held that position and the top post at the CIA, the nation's premier spy agency. The Texas Republican is a former federal prosecutor who emerged as a fierce Trump defender while serving as a congressman during Trump's first impeachment. The vote was 74-25. At his Senate hearing last week, Ratcliffe said the CIA must do better when it comes to using technology such as artificial intelligence to confront adversaries including Russia and China. He said the United States needed to improve its intelligence capabilities while also ensuring the protection of Americans' civil rights. Ratcliffe said that if confirmed, he would push the CIA to do more to harness technologies such as AI and quantum computing while expanding use of human intelligence collection. "W

Trump's intel pick Tulsi Gabbard faces a tricky climb for Senate backing

Gabbard's priorities as director of national intelligence, she has told senators, would include China's cyber threat and fentanyl trafficking at the border

Former US Telecom staffer gets 15-yr jail for leaking crucial info to China

Ping Li, 59, from Florida, admitted to acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government under a plea agreement

Republicans slam claims that Trump's intelligence pick Gabbard compromised

Republican senators pushed back on Sunday against criticism from Democrats that Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump's pick to lead US intelligence services, is compromised by her comments supportive of Russia and secret meetings, as a congresswoman, with Syria's president, a close ally of the Kremlin and Iran. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, a veteran of combat missions in Iraq, said she had concerns about Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's choice to be director of national intelligence. I think she's compromised," Duckworth said on CNN's State of the Union," citing Gabbard's 2017 trip to Syria, where she held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad. Gabbard was a Democratic House member from Hawaii at the time. The US intelligence community has identified her as having troubling relationships with America's foes. And so my worry is that she couldn't pass a background check, Duckworth said. Gabbard, who said last month she is joining the Republican party, has served in the Army National Guard for m