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Former Canadian Ambassador To Iran Was A CIA Spy
Sitting in a Toronto hotel room Ken Taylor is casual as he chats about the days when he used to funnel information to the CIA in the midst of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979. While the former...
View ArticleMore Deli Meats Recalled
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is expanding last week’s warning about some ready-to-eat meats to include more products and best before dates. The agency and Montreal’s Dats Deli European are...
View ArticleCIA tracked Canada’s satellite program: declassified spy records
The Central Intelligence Agency closely tracked Canadian satellite and imaging research during the Cold War as part of the U.S. spy agency’s efforts to keep apace of global technology advances,...
View Article‘Zero Dark Thirty’ tops weekend box office
Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial film detailing the hunt for Osama bin Laden, topped the weekend box office, bringing in an estimated US$24 million. The movie follows CIA agent Maya as...
View ArticleEx-CIA employee behind NSA leak identified
Edward Snowden, an ex-CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), said he was the man who had leaked details of a top secret U.S. surveillance programme. Holed up...
View ArticleHarper ignores Opposition call to rescind federal torture directives
The official Opposition pointed to a new U.S. report that discredits torture in renewing a call for the Conservative government to rescind its information-sharing policy. The long-anticipated U.S....
View ArticleJoe Biden chooses veteran diplomat William Burns as CIA director
President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday he has chosen veteran diplomat William Burns to be his CIA director. A former ambassador to Russia and Jordan, Burns, 64, had a 33-year career at the State...
View ArticleUS officials: CIA foils a new al-Qaeda underwear bomb plot against an...
WASHINGTON – The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the...
View ArticleUS, Yemeni officials: Would-be al-Qaida bomber was CIA informant
WASHINGTON – U.S. and Yemeni officials say the supposed would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaida airliner plot was actually an informant working for the CIA. The revelation, first reported by The...
View ArticleKen Taylor satisfied with Affleck’s shoutout to Canada during Oscar speech
Former Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor says he was satisfied to hear Ben Affleck thank Canada as the director accepted the best picture Oscar for the political thriller “Argo” on Sunday night. Taylor...
View ArticleCIA mistreated detainees, misrepresented intelligence, Senate probe of...
U.S. Senate investigators delivered a damning indictment of CIA practices Tuesday, accusing the spy agency of inflicting pain and suffering on prisoners beyond legal limits and deceiving the nation...
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