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Inside Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US military campaign that dropped 2 million tons of bombs on Laos over 9 years

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A boy runs past rusted halves of cluster bomb shells and other military hardware in a scrap metal shop along the main street in Phonsavanh, Laos.
A boy runs past rusted halves of cluster bomb shells and other military hardware in a scrap metal shop along the main street in Phonsavanh, Laos.

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Wagner boss Prigozhin was just winging it with his armed revolt and making things up as he went along, CIA director says

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Members of Wagner group prepare to pull out from the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to their base in Rostov-on-Don late on June 24, 2023.
Members of Wagner group prepare to pull out from the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to their base in Rostov-on-Don late on June 24, 2023.

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Russia risks becoming an 'economic colony of China' following its invasion of Ukraine, says CIA director

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a reception at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 21, 2023.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 21, 2023.

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George W. Bush misrepresented our work at CIA to sell the Iraq invasion. It's time to call him what he is: 'A liar.'

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George W. Bush on the phone.
George W. Bush on the day of the 9/11 attacks, which were used to publicly justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But by many accounts, the plan to invade Iraq had already started taking shape months before.

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Putin thinks 'Ukraine matters more to him' than to the West and that he'll eventually win his disastrous war, CIA chief warns

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Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech before a ceremony celebrating Women's Day in Moscow on March 8, 2023.

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Government employees have received gifts worth thousands, but the CIA destroys many of the items it receives

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A man crosses the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seal in the lobby of CIA Headquarters

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Putin's KGB past is key to grasping what he might do next in his failing Ukraine war, ex-spies say

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Russian President Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin in Saint Petersburg on October 9, 2022.

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7 signs you're being lied to, according to a psychotherapist who's trained the FBI and CIA

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2 people having a serious conversation in a restaurant
David Lieberman says a liar will often talk more in the second person with lots of "you" statements, or they'll keep referring to "they" or "that" person.

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CIA chief says Ukraine needs to puncture 'Putin's hubris' in the next 6 months

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Vladimir Putin smiles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014.

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