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The Central Intelligence Agency is providing the bulk of the intelligence used to carry out the controversial lethal air strikes by the Trump administration against small, fast-going boats in the Caribbean Sea suspected of carrying drugs from Venezuela, according to three sources familiar with the operations. Experts say the agency's central role means much of the evidence used to select which alleged smugglers to kill on the open sea will almost certainly remain secret.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that the Trump administration has given the CIA the authorization to "carry out lethal operations in Venezuela," including operations to undermine Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and other operations in the Caribbean.

"The general counsels of the CIA and ODNI wield extraordinary influence, and they do so entirely in secret, shaping policies on surveillance, detention, interrogation and other highly consequential national security matters," they wrote in the letter sent Friday and addressed to the top Republican and Democratic leaders on the Senate and House intelligence committees. "Moreover, they are the ones primarily responsible for determining the boundaries of what these agencies may lawfully do."

Calls rang out on Thursday for President Donald Trump to fire his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, after a Wall Street Journal report found she posted the name of an undercover CIA agent working on Russia to social media without informing the CIA. Last week, Gabbard posted a list of 37 names of former and current intelligence officers to X who she stripped of their security clearances and accused of betraying their oath to the Constitution.

"I wanted to be of sound mind and body when it happened, so I could control it in some way," says Sanborn, who is turning 80 around the time the bidding will commence in November.

The conundrum facing intelligence officers is the inability to refute erroneous news reports without potentially exposing classified information they are sworn to protect.

The Central Intelligence Agency faces a crisis of trust amid a dangerous perception that it has become a partisan actor in American politics, threatening national security.

Douglas J. MacEachin expressed a sense of melancholy during a 1988 Senate hearing, stating that the Soviet Union's existence was deeply tied to the global political outlook. He highlighted a critical concern for analysts: "If the Soviet Union disappears, what will become of those who made their careers analyzing it?" Such major geopolitical shifts posed not only a challenge to their worldviews but also to their professional relevance, as he remarked, "There are not many homes for old wizards of Armageddon."

President Trump's CIA Director John Ratcliffe tasked CIA analysts to review the agency's 2016 conclusions about Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election.

CIA classifies their secrets according to different terminology. There's confidential secrets, there are secret level secrets, and then there are top secret secrets. And the way that they define each of these different levels actually has to do with the impact that would occur if the secret became public knowledge.

In the 1950s, the Philippines faced a dual threat marked by supernatural fears of a vampire while battling the CIA's covert operations against communist rebels, reflecting societal anxieties.

The CIA's Subproject 94 aimed to turn animals into lethal operatives in a Cold War strategy to manipulate behavior and assassinate enemies.

Rahman unlawfully retained and transmitted Top Secret National Defense Information, affecting national security and exposing sensitive details about a U.S. ally.

Ingo Swann, in his book 'Penetration', claimed to have seen structures and humanoid aliens on the moon through a process called 'remote viewing'.

Operation Gladio was a crazy one; they trained a secret civilian army in Italy to bomb civilians and then blame it on the communists.

In 2003, CIA mistakenly imprisoned Khaled el-Masri at a black site, reflecting grave errors in extraordinary rendition policies that caused egregious human rights violations.

In a series of new Chinese-language recruitment videos, the CIA targets officials and workers, hoping to exploit their fears and ambitions to turn them into spies.

It was very chaotic, only people in the building could go.

Director Anthony Wonke's film portrays the complex narrative of Blerim Skoro, a Muslim Kosovan refugee who risks everything in the U.S. counterterrorism efforts.

Blankenship testified that when he came to take a copy of the group chat on Director Ratcliffe's phone, the only remnant of the Signalgate chatter was the group name and profile names.