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...It’s Iran’s equivalent of the CIA or MI6. Assadi is running a network of agents across Europe, meeting them in cafes in small medieval towns handing over secret instructions or bundles of cash....
...The CPNI asks for caution when connecting with unknown profiles touting tempting business opportunities....
...“In Russia, they would accuse you of being an agent for Mossad, or the CIA,” she says. “This was different — it was pure ancestral, biological hatred.”...
...“When [Leon] Panetta came in as head of the CIA, he heard from the rank-and-file there were too many leaks, and he took that to the White House,” said Mr Riedel, who advised the administration in its first...
...“If we hit al-Qaeda hard enough and often enough there will come a time when they simply can no longer replenish their ranks with the skilled leaders they need to sustain their operations.”...
...How this will play out is unknown but there are straws blowing....
...His faux pas exacerbated doubts in Conservative ranks about his judgment....
...www.davidmellordesign.com Eric Booth Jim Thompson Eric Booth will never inherit the company his father helped build from a small-time Thai silk weavers in the early 1960s to one employing more than 3,000...
...Tree of Smoke By Denis Johnson Picador £16.99, 614 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 Winner of the 2007 National Book Award for fiction, Johnson’s gargantuan novel serves up a grisly feast of rogue CIA agents...
...Nominally about a part-time CIA agent, it is more in the Graham Greene genre of the spy as a cynical but not-quite-helpless pawn who is manipulated by unknown forces and makes more mistakes than he uncovers...
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