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Deported Russian spy gets Rosneft oil job. Andrei Bezrukov, who lived in the United States under the assumed name Donald Howard Heathfield, and was deported to Russia following his arrest by the FBI last summer, has started a new career. According Russian daily Kommersant, he is now an advisor at state-owned Rosneft, which Russia’s largest oil company.
WikiLeaks defectors to launch OpenLeaks alternative. Hacktivist Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who left whistleblower site WikiLeaks after disagreements with its founder, says he plans to launch OpenLeaks in the coming months as an alternative to the high-profile website.
Former spies see benefits in WikiLeaks disclosures. The Obama administration “is on the wrong side of history” in trying to silence whistleblower site WikiLeaks, according to a group of former analysts, intelligence officers and diplomats, which include retired CIA officer Ray McGovern.

Lithuanian report uncovers two CIA secret prisons. There was not just one, but two CIA secret prisons in Lithuania between 2004 and 2005, according to a Lithuanian parliamentary report that was concluded this week. The Lithuanian government continues to deny involvement.
Break the CIA in two? A veteran CIA analyst suggests breaking the CIA in two parts, because “covert action and analysis do not belong together in the same agency –never have, never will”.