32 h. ago The Accidental Spy review – remarkable story of CIA operative abandoned by his handlers

Anthony Wonke’s headlong documentary introduces Blerim Skoro, recruited in post-9/11 New York to become an inside man in the ‘war on terror’, then left in the fieldIn the movies, the classic hazard for the undercover operative is psychological meltdown after getting lost in their new identity. In real life, the dangers seem more prosaic: being treated as an expendable asset and dumped. That was the situation for Muslim Kosovan refugee Blerim Skoro who, despite years spent protecting US national security as a prison informant and al-Qaida mole, was threatened with deportation. His paymasters, the CIA and FBI, don’t emerge creditably from director Anthony Wonke’s headlong, if narrowly focused, account.Skoro seems to have a gift for being in the right or wrong place at the wrong or right time; it’s not obvious which. After deserting from the army during the 1990s Yugoslav war, he wound up as an asylum seeker in New York with a young family. But a new hustle, running drugs for the Alban...

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3 d. ago FSU shooting: Victim named after suspected shooter is identified as a ‘white supremacist’

Phoenix Ikner was removed from a school political club over ‘far-right rhetoric’ he shared, his classmates claim

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3 d. ago FSU shooting victims named as Aramark executive Tiru Chabba and dining hall manager Joseph Morales

Aramark Collegiate Hospitality regional vice president Tiru Chabba and FSU dining coordinator Robert Morales were gunned down at the Tallahassee campus on Thursday.

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3 d. ago Food service worker and a football coach: What we know about the victims killed at Florida State University

All of the victims were being treated at Florida’s Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, having been rushed there in serious conditions as the attack unfolded

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3 d. ago FSU shooting victims include a school employee whose dad was a Cuban exile turned CIA operative

Two people were killed and six others were injured when a gunman opened fire at Florida State University, sending students fleeing from the student union and putting the Tallahassee, Florida campus under lockdown

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3 d. ago FSU shooting latest: Victim named after suspected shooter is identified as a ‘white supremacist’

Phoenix Ikner was removed from a school political club over ‘far-right rhetoric’ he shared, his classmates claim

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4 d. ago From ‘tumultuous childhood’ to alleged shooter: Who is Phoenix Ikner the suspected Florida State campus gunman?

Political science major, 20, the son of a local sheriff’s deputy, arrested after attack on Tallahassee campus that left two people dead and six more injured

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4 d. ago Who is Phoenix Ikner? Sheriff’s deputy’s son suspected of killing two people in Florida State University shooting

Political science major, 20, the son of a local sheriff’s deputy, arrested after attack on Tallahassee campus that left two people dead and six more injured

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4 d. ago What we know about suspected Florida State University shooter Phoenix Ikner

One member of a club said the suspect shared far-right views and promoted white supremacy, which made other members uncomfortable

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5 d. ago Suspect in custody at Florida State University: What we know about the alleged shooter

Police in Tallahassee announced a suspect was in custody after six people treated for injuries

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1 week ago The Determined Spy: Frank Wisner, the CIA and a covert career cut short

New biography tells story of operative who directed coups in Iran and Guatemala and grappled with mental illnessFrank Wisner was a leading light of the early CIA, a director of clandestine operations who came of age in the second world war then fought the cold war by fair means or foul, from funding American cultural outreach to orchestrating coups in Iran and Guatemala.Before becoming a biographer, Douglas Waller reported for Newsweek and Time. His new book, The Determined Spy, is about Wisner, a man who lived an extraordinary life but came to be buried at Arlington national cemetery, under a simple headstone, identified merely as a commander in the US naval reserve. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago CIA psychic laughed out of the room after 'seeing' Russian sub... then satellites confirmed the truth

With limited intelligence operations, the CIA recruited a 'psychic' spy to locate the top secret submarine.

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