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...The deputy CIA director for analysis and his two associates are also responsible for approving all analysis disseminated inside the agency....
...“As both an experienced diplomat and senior intelligence official, Burns is uniquely placed to engage in a dialogue that can potentially contribute to the Biden administration’s objective of stabilising...
...Full and frank disclosure to investors and regulators around the world is, in effect, now illegal under Chinese law....
...director of Biden’s National Economic Council....
...Kathy is director of operations. Rebecca is the chief’s deputy, who oversees strategy....
...Dissenting voices in the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, and Russia’s general staff attempted to raise doubts....
...Burns also served as deputy secretary of state from 2011-14....
...My guest this week is Sanam Vakil, deputy director of the Middle East Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs here in London....
...Mr Biden announced his pick for director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, in November. She will oversee the 18 US intelligence agencies and serve as a member of Mr Biden’s cabinet....
...“It is the first time we’ve seen legislative language around the Biden climate proposals — that’s why it’s significant,” said Lindsey Walter, deputy director of climate and energy at centrist think-tank...
...(FT) ‘Nation-state’ cyber attack International intelligence agencies are assessing the extent of a wide-ranging espionage attack on US federal agencies, companies and other groups....
...I do not know Avril Haines, Biden’s proposed director of national intelligence. But I hear very good things about her. These are high-calibre appointments. So why am I complaining?...
...Rohde extols the Church reforms, but then notes they were quickly flouted, with almost no legal consequence, by William Casey, Reagan’s director of central intelligence who orchestrated the illegal covert...
...(FT) Coronavirus digest US agencies warned that China was attempting to steal vital coronavirus research by hacking....
...Will crime fighting and intelligence-sharing continue? UK spy agencies are relatively relaxed about the impact of Brexit....
...The FT reported last year that in 2012, Michael Morell, then CIA deputy director, went on a secret mission to North Korea to try to create a pipeline that would help generate intelligence on Kim Jong Un....
...Hamilton Mourão, Brazil’s deputy president, said his government saw “Huawei with good eyes” while visiting Beijing with a business delegation in late May....
...In August, deputy director of payments Mu Changchun said the PBoC was close to issuing the currency, in what would be a global first for a large central bank....
...One senior US official said the administration had a range of intelligence but that the video in itself was “pretty conclusive” that Iran was responsible. Iran has rejected the allegations....
...She added that Mr Trump was also looking at Michael Hayden, a retired general who ran both the CIA and National Security Agency during the administration of George W Bush....
...director of research at Teneo Intelligence....
...Richard Armitage, a deputy secretary of state in the George W Bush administration, says his “jaw hit the floor” when he heard his own president appear to back Mr Putin....
...He added that Gina Haspel, the CIA’s deputy director, would become the new director of the agency....
...Gina Haspel, the CIA’s deputy director, is set to replace Mr Pompeo, becoming the first woman to head the agency....
...Ms Haspel, who has risen to deputy director of the CIA, faces testy confirmation hearings....
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