News you may have missed #0260
January 20, 2010 Leave a comment
- Senior Iran military official says foreign correspondents “clearly spying”. Speaking at a gathering of Iranian armed forces personnel, Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri said individuals who have links with some foreign radio and television networks are “clearly spying on Iran in a modern way”. This comment comes after last year’s arrest in Iran of Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari, who was accused by Tehran of being a “media spy”.
- Protest organized near CIA headquarters. Activists led by antiwar campaigner Cindy Sheehan have staged a rally near the CIA’s headquarters and former Vice President Dick Cheney’s home in northern Virginia, protesting the use of unmanned drone aircraft to assassinate al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders in Pakistan.
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News you may have missed #578
August 28, 2011 by Ian Allen Leave a comment
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►►CIA agent who helped kill Che wants payout from Cuba. This is from the “news that isn’t” department: Gustavo Villoldo, a Cuban-born CIA operative, who helped track down and kill Che Guevara in Bolivia, has won $2.8 billion in damages from the Cuban government, for confiscating his family property after the 1959 revolution. But he is unlikely to ever collect the money because Cuba does not recognize US court rulings.
►►Cheney wanted Bush to destroy suspected Syrian nuke site. Former US Vice President Dick Cheney says in a new memoir that he urged President George W. Bush to bomb a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor site in June 2007. But, he wrote, Bush opted for a diplomatic approach expressed misgivings. Eventually Israeli jets bombed the site. Cheney’s account of the discussion appears in his autobiography, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, which is to be published by Simon & Schuster next week.
►►South Korea indicts five for spying for North. Five South Koreans, including a former parliamentary aide, have been indicted for allegedly spying for North Korea, in connection with the Wangjaesan spy ring.
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