or you are cia? >> guest: you are a cia officer, often declared -- the cia station chief in whatever city it is will go to the head of their security service and declare who are the cia officers and often they will be the ones with liaisons, they will travel often, intelligence headquarters -- nonofficial coverage, traveling for xyz trading core and a home office in buffalo, branch office in dubai, and business cards and a backup, that a private company, an intelligence officer under nonofficial cover, they are described as knocks taking the initial -- integrated cover offers people who cover jobs and carefully prepared. let's say somebody as a counselor officer, doing real counselor worked to try to scratch that, you get suspicious and find backup all the way down. these cover issues are interesting. really interesting issues today in the era of digital footprints, every move we make is being recorded by cameras somewhere. anytime we cross national frontier, our biometrics, fingerprints, digital ret

. >> host: are you presumed to be cia or you are cia? >> guest: you are a cia officer. often declared is the term. the cia station chief, and whatever city it is. paris, london, cairo, will go to the head of the security service and declare who the officers are inducted they will be the one to conduct the official liaison of the travel. they will sit down and talk. nonofficial cover is someone traveling for x, y, z and he has a home office in buffalo and branch office and dubai and you have got you know, business cards and the back of the says he works for x, y, z company but he is actually an intelligence officer under nonofficial cover. those people are often described as nocs. >> host: and often people whose cover jobs have been carefully prepared so that -- let's say someone is an officer and it is integrated cover where the person is doing real work and you try to scratch that. if they got suspicious she would find out that there is backup all the way down. these cover issues are interesting that the really interesting issues today, in the era of digital footprints

at the cia, i have tried to live that and have my team live that. we are doers and cia. sidey to stay on the right of decorum, which is to get stuff done. havenk the american people the capacity to see that each and every day, and they can't for good reason. they too would beep out of the men and women who joined the cia as i am. i can to quickly understand that i wasn't going to improve the courage of our officers, the skill set of our officers, although we are working diligently to take it to even the next level. to small businesses and having been a leader of the military, i could see that there was a bureaucracy that was preventing them from being unleashed from doing the very things they were directed, commanded, and american needed them to do. i wanted to be a part of changing that understanding, i want to make sure our officers appreciated the fact that we have are going to have a next dictation nearly every day. that we are going to steal secrets, it is what espionage services do. we ask that they risk their lives to steal secrets to protect america. we will neve

we are doers and cia. -- at the cia. we try to stay on the right side of decorum, which is to get stuff done. i think the american people have the capacity to see that each and every day, and they can't for good reason. they too would be as proud of the men and women who joined the cia as i am. i came to quickly understand that i wasn't going to improve the courage of our officers, the skill set of our officers, although we are working diligently to take it to even the next level. having led to small businesses two small businesses and having been a leader of the military, i could see that there was a bureaucracy that was preventing them from being unleashed from doing the very things they were directed, commanded, and american needed them to do. i wanted to be a part of changing that understanding, i want to make sure our officers appreciated the fact that we were going to have a next dictation nearly every day. that we are going to steal secrets, it is what espionage services do. we ask that they risk their lives to st

we are doers at cia. we just get stuff done. i think if the american people have the capacity to see that, each and every day and they can't forget reason, they too would be as proud of the men and women who have joined the cia as i am. i came to understand that i wasn't going to improve the courage of our officers, the skill set of our officers although we are working diligently to take it to even the next level, but having led to small businesses, having been a leader in the military, i could see that there was a bureaucracy that was preventing them from being unleashed from doing the very things that they were directed, commended and indeed, america today. so, i wanted to be part of ianging that understanding, want to do make sure our obsessive appreciated the fact that we were going to have an expectation nearly every day that we were going to still secrets. that is what espionage services do. we ask our officers to risk toir lives to still secrets protect america. it is our fundamental mission, we will never shy away from i

employees, and cia facilities. fbi agents found the documents when they searched two hotel rooms, li stayed in during a trip to the united states. he was then interviewed five times, but for unknown reasons, he was not arrested and returned to hong kong. li, a naturalized u.s. citizen served in the army before his time at the cia. >> 55,000 here. >> recently worked at christy's auction house in hong kong. on monday, he flew to jfk airport in new york, where he was arrested. >> the way you caught aimes, hanson, catch them in the act of sharing classified information. >> former cia assistant director, michael morel compared the li case to, aldrich aims and robert hanson. >> if the reporting is true with the regard to loss of chinese assets and if reporting is accurate with regard to mr. li's role in that, and if that was intentional on his part this is the equivalent of it. >> li was not charged with espionage but accused of illegally retaining classified information. if convicted of the charges heap maces up to ten

do they work closely with the cia? they compete with the cia, we know the story, after 9/11 if the fbi and cia may be worked together, maybe they would have prevented 9/11. the reason they compete is tribal warfare, they want larger budget and greater power but as one fbi agent said the cia does not have to testify in court. they can operate completely under the radar without any accountability which is extremely dangerous. donald trump has said the cia like the american military will have the ability -- in afghanistan, can you give greater power to the cia, greater latitude to use drones indiscriminately. in february 2002, i happen to cover this case, i was there at the time, daniel pearl's case was the first political kidnapping after 9/11 and he was kidnapped in pakistan, there were 26 people involved in his kidnapping, the same number involved in mind. most were pakistani but it was an al qaeda operation and many people feel it was al qaeda's way of announcing to the world that they existed. what they just did a fe

we're doers at the cia. trying to stay on the right side of decorum, but we just get stuff done and i think the american people had the capacity to see that each and every day and they can't for a good reason. they, too, would be as proud of the men and women who joined the cia as i am. i came to quickly understand, too, i wasn't going to improve the courage of our automotives, the skillset of our officers although we're working diligently to take it to even the next level, but having led two small businesses, having been a leader in the military, i could see that there was a bureaucracy that was preventing them from being unleashed from doing the very things that they were directed, commanded and indeed, america needed them to do. and so, i wanted to-- a part of changing that understanding. i wanted to make sure our officers appreciated the fact that we were going to have an expectation nearly every day that we were going to steal secrets. that's what espionage services do. we ask our officers to risk their

sworn in as director of the cia in january 2017, mr. pompeo said congressman on the intelligent than committee on energy commerce prior to that. he served on the house select benghazi committee, but before that he was in business for himself, headed up his own company in u.s.a. graduate, the number one, served with the iron curtain when we still have an iron curtain, although we are well on our way back and graduated after serving harvard law school bar review. that's very impressive. i matter to have you with us serving in our government and delighted to see it. normally would give you a rundown on what the director was going to say, but i'm usually perhaps in this administration, i have absolutely no idea. you've imposed kind of a discipline on everybody. the direct or will, appear and speak for little while the man is going to save out with aei's own mark jason for a conversation among some questions for the audience. without further ado. mr. director. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. today is exactly one year in a few hours to

he worked for the cia between 1994 and 2007 when he moved to hong kong. 20 cia informant in china were killed oi’ cia informant in china were killed or jailed. cia informant in china were killed orjailed. our security correspondent says the breach was disastrous. this is the worst nightmare for spy agency, to watch agents in another country, nationals of china in this case, providing intelligence to the cia, being rolled up. not just intelligence to the cia, being rolled up. notjust arrested, but in some cases actually executed for spying for the cia. they started in 2010 and went on to two years. it leads to questions about why... there is a possibility it was a communications compromise, perhaps hacking into their systems. but also that fear of being somebody who has betrayed secrets from inside the cia. it looks like that is what the fbi will investigate, these kinds of cases, focused from as early as 2012. myanmar security forces have shot dead seven protesters in the troubled state of ragtime. protesters have been taking part in a historical commemoration banned by the authoriti

edition of i can't believe i'm actually reading this that is the dire warning positive by a former cia counterterrorism analyst aki perrette in the washington post perspectives section parrots muses that given sean hannity's and fox and friends unadulterated influence on trump's twitter feed that if he were a spy a master in the employ of a hostile foreign service he'd devote some significant effort to penetrating one specific private institution fox news channel he goes on to lay out the aisle tactics those evil russian spies might use he writes a truly aggressive intelligence that would not just monitor what's being said on the network it would target the on air talent as well as the folks behind the scenes who make the network's programming possible this might range from opening friendly contacts with these employees to outright recruitment. now i tell you hawk watchers this this this is this is truly truly disturbing news i mean i thought i thought it was my job and our t.v. job to spread the evil russian info. and so across the lands now deep state intelligence community influence

they were very involved with the cia. there were a lot of cia officers who were mormon. >> is probably like when i said the crew, they liked christians from the south, maybe something about being devout, and actually are if you're patriotic and you're devout, you're probably, will certainly the mormons don't drink so you're more likely to spill secrets at the bar so maybe that had something to do with it, but i don't know. >> did you get a chance to determine if the russians were involved. >> i did go to russia, the answer is no. luckily i was ablese to do something else when i was there, one of the widows was supposed to meet with me and one of the admirals was supposed to meet me and they both canceled when i got there. >> had actually taken a train out tour town and she called my translator and canceled only got there. she just that i don't trust americans. i said you could've told me that before i got on the train. she said she'd do it for a thousand dollars. i said no. i was like come on, i came all the way here. you

they work closely with the cia and fight with the cia and compete with the cia. we all know that story, if the fbi and the cia had worked together maybe the information would have prevented 911. that still exists. one reason they continue this, of course it's tribal warfare in washington that they want a larger budget and greater power but one fbi agent said to me the cia does not have to testify in court and they can operate under the radar and without any accountability which i think i'm getting ahead of myself, but it's extremely dangerous that president trump has said now that the cia like the american military will have the ability to take the gloves off to fight in afghanistan were going to give greater power to the cia, greater latitude to use drones. in 2002, february 2002, i happen to cover this case. i was there at the time. daniel pearl's case was the first political kidnapping after 911. he was kidnapped in pakistan. there were about 26 people involved in his kidnapping. most of them were pakistani but it was an al qaeda operation. many people feel th

when a cia operative leaves the cia, the cia does not yet at least have the ability to erase his or her memory, erase the knowledge of the covert assets. that seems to be the case with jerry lee. >> of course, being a covert asset or being an informant in china has got to be really hard, given the degree to which -- we complain in america the government surveils american citizens. >> they have a whole lot more there. >> ned, good to see you. >> thank you. >> ned price. >> we're going to dig into this story a lot deeper. >>> since donald trump became president, the money has been flowing into trump companies frand we're going to break down the conflicts of interest that could have an impact on decisions made inside the white house. >> stay with us. you know what you're watching. this is "velshi & ruhle" live on msnbc. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it on

there a deep state at the cia? >> no, sir. dickerson: has there ever been one? >> i've only been there a little while. i can't believe it's ever been there. these are professional who sacrifice so much to serve america, they're patriots. truest and highest order. >> dickerson: iran, what is the significance of the protest is this a turning point or just a flash point in the regime will continue? >> difficult to know analytically if this is a turning point. it is different. the protests that we saw in 1999 hand 2009 were from elites. this was not that. it was ordinary -- same people who would enlist in irgc their neighbors are now the ones out protesting. they're protesting because they have seen the failed promises of the president that they haven't been able to deliver the check out comes that they said. they said they would get jcpoa the food would be plentiful, jobs would rise, simply hasn't happened. >> dickerson: the so-called iran deal. in that sense is the iran deal forced destabilization in iran there for that good for in terms of the u.s. interests? >>

barely a year after the cold war ended a letter arrived at cia headquarters. it's instigator the up and coming senator kohl wanted the cia to allow its intelligence data and systems to be used for environmental study. he was very specific he wanted us to look at vegetative ndaa see that jiffy soko parameters or should a graphic parameters we were not really that was not really our our focus. and dissolved a senior officer in the cia's science and technology directorate was chosen to study it. i was interested in the earth sciences and i had been working many years the cia and other issues and this was something that. kind of spoke to my heart though still in opposition to the republicans goals decision to involve his national security advisor elevated the issue to the highest levels of u.s. intelligence and the idea was i think there's a lot of information that's available which could answer research questions in the scientific world if it could be made available it was my job to help figure out how this could be brought to pass. senator gore early on had been

was detained again in one nine hundred forty six and fell into the cia's hands. the second document is an operational report declassified in one nine hundred ninety seven. the file was redacted in an attempt to make the document as impersonal as possible but nonetheless it is evident that from nine hundred sixty one persistently tried to establish contact with the u.s. military intelligence offices in panama. city and work on a how my no longer like a big field of course i'm way conjugate going to cut it through never through it with. the nuts and out of that is the part i owned ought to be included in. the desperate as if you like i like a for the buy fuel or the also. the big question is why was a former waffen s.s. man later allowed to enter the united states the answer seems obvious erhard must sex change sides of the wall. and was on a post-war list of people helped by american intelligence agencies. if the intelligence services were indeed involved in the last second tricks the hunt for the panama documents could have followed the best traditions of a holly

stopping attacks and stealing secrets is the cia's mission. the stars on this wall mark those who died carrying it out. the way in which the agency has gone about its work has always reflected the president it serves. and donald trump's cia under mike pompeo will be an agency that won't hold back, wherever that might take it. gordon corera, bbc news, langley, virginia. the deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, is stepping down, even though he was due to retire within weeks. he's been the focus of intense criticism from president trump and his republican allies for what they claim is political bias towards hillary clinton. from fbi headquarters in washington, our north america editorjon sopel explained how much political pressure andrew mccabe has been under. on one level, you can say, what is the big deal? andrew mccabe, he was due to retire in march. he has gone a few weeks early. does it really matter? well, yes, it does. because he has been under sustained pressure and attack from donald trump because the president thought he was parti

barely a year after the cold war ended a letter arrived at cia headquarters. it's instigator the up and coming senator. wanted the cia to allow its intelligence data and systems to be used for environmental study. he was very specific. he wanted us to look at vegetative into see that geophysical parameters oceanographic parameters we were not really that was not really our our focus. dissolved a senior officer in the cia's science and technology directorate was chosen to study it. i was interested in the earth sciences and i had been working many years the cia and other issues and this was something that. kind of spoke to my heart though still in opposition to the republicans goals decision to involve his national security advisor elevated the issue to the highest levels of u.s. intelligence and the idea was i think there's a lot of information that's available which could answer research questions in the scientific world if it could be made available it was my job to help figure out how this could be brought to pass. senator gore early on had been on committe

barely a year after the cold war ended a letter arrived at cia headquarters. it's instigator the up and coming senator kohl wanted the cia to allow its intelligence data and systems to be used for environmental study. he was very specific. he wanted us to look at vegetative into see that g. a physical parameters or should a graphic parameters we were not really that was not really our our focus. dissolve a senior officer in the cia's science and technology directorate was chosen to study it. i was interested in the earth sciences and i had been working many years the cia and other issues and this was something that. kind of spoke to my heart though still in opposition to the republicans goals decision to involve his national security advisor elevated the issue to the highest levels of u.s. intelligence and the idea was i think there's a lot of information that's available which could answer research questions in the scientific world if it could be made available it was my job to help figure out how this could be brought to pass. senator gore early on had been

cia, the valuee of cia's intelligence around the world is going to take a huge hit. i don't know how you come back from that. >> what is the practical effect of that? presidents for decades have appointed their friends to be directors, democratic political operatives, republican operatives, who have been cia director. what in your mind is worse or more egregious or damaging for the cia? >> the people working at the cia today. ale is to the floor. they see what is going on. they have always had great pride in the work they do, and the risks they take. the risks may ask foreigners around the world to take. those are the guys who are going to get jailed, executed, shot. as happens many times. just in the period of the last four years to five years. there are new rows of stars, each one trying to collect the intelligence for policymakers. i am not sure where that actually leads, but it is a very unhealthy place to be cured it is going on at the fbi. i had a friend recently interviewing for the book, fbi officer, senior officer, and he said, you know, when trump said the

amy: james risen describes meeting with top officials at the cia and the white house. his refusal to name a source would take them to the supreme court. he almost wound up in jail until the obama administration blanked. --blinked. the hour.es risen for all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the trump administration has proposed allowing offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all of the united states' coastal waters. the reversal of the obama-era restrictions would open more than one billion acres of water along the eastern seaboard and in the arctic, and allow oil companies to drill off the coast of california for the first time in decades. the proposal faces opposition from environmental groups and the governors of new jersey, delaware, maryland, virginia, north and south carolina, california oregon, washington, , and florida. the trump administration's proposal to expand offshore oil and gas drilling comes as scientists say climate change may be related to the devastatingly freezing weath

help the scientific community i few months later the don'ts of the cia. thank you very much twenty six weeks ago today the president announced his intention to nominate me for director of central intelligence. in the end of all the entire soviet empire has collapsed. when robert gates became an equal powerful director of central intelligence enough m. but much ninety one the stage was sent for google's remarkable request to become a reality one of my primary responsibilities was going to be out to move this gigantic american intelligence apparatus from a singular focus on the soviet union in the cold war to a range of new challenges so i had a pretty good idea of the kind of resources we had. the way they had been applied against the soviet target and that we had this huge archive of material and just the notion that uniquely in the world we had been taking photographs of the same places in the arctic for decades. the reaction of the broader community to us doing this was a shock and awe. we might not get out of it what we're putting into it. at that we m

europe and things like that back in the day late in projects not in bird was the actual documented cia tactic during the cold war and once what you see and that's when you get to like realistically the cia is the more to influence us culture and influence your solid six through by using a journalist which was the entire idea of our broderick mark mark on board which was in one nine hundred forty eight the cia's prince wiseman who was appointed to the director of the office of special projects that was the later renamed the office of policy coordination. while sitting in a shop clerk or name policy that many question why isn't it a created what was called which we found out later during like the investigations after watergate after watergate and like the rockefeller like the church investigations the secret of what was called project operation mockingbird which was designed to basically influence the domestic american press and push the cia's agenda which was an anti-communist anti russian and anything that was remotely socialist or made america look bad you never want to make america l

but wolf believes that even if the cia is behind. the intelligence agency was acting in the government's best interests. as our plan i'm thinking was one doesn't see it all as a father plan no one clicking. the defrag if we do with our eyes because it in cliquey oh my good for fuck off but i'm like i'm support this mr clicks with the views of about just about but today we can only refer to what experts call the hybrid. hybrid warfare is something that takes regular military strategy and it blends it with cyber war other ways of fighting war you know we came up with a term back in nineteen ninety nine called new millennium warfare so basically you use everything that you can to fight the war against your enemy. the panama papers authors were highly selective with the documents julian assange one of the world's best known whistleblowers could see them from the start. that sharing access to that material. not joy in the sunshine grey with sure. a lot more information what happened with that story was it was politicized very early it big

the us arrests a former cia officer suspected of exposing its spy network in china. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: powerful stories of abuse at the sentencing of a usa former gymnastics team doctor. and sharing a stitch in time: france is set to loan britain the world—famous bayeux tapestry. live from our studios in singapore and london. it's newsday. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and five in the afternoon in vancouver, where foreign ministers from 20 countries have concluded their talks to try to exert more pressure on north korea to give up its nuclear ambitions. the meeting though has been overshadowed by apparent thaw in relations between north and south korea. the two koreas have agreed to march under the same flag at next month's winter olympics in seoul and field a joint ice hockey team. my colleague lauara bicker has been following the latest developments from vancouver. a slight break but what happens now. that is the question i put to the south korean foreign minister. i started by asking her about her alliance wi

most like was detained again in one nine hundred forty six and fell into the cia's hands. the second document is an operational report declassified in one nine hundred ninety seven. the file was redacted in an attempt to make the. as impersonal as possible but nonetheless it is evident that from nine hundred sixty one persistently tried to establish contact with u.s. military intelligence officers in panama. city awake on a ham i no longer lug a big field of course i'm way conjugate. through it with. the nuts and although that is the part i owned ought to be included in. the desperate as if you like i like it when i buy him a lot of. the big question is why was a former waffen s.s. man later allowed to enter the united states the answer seems obvious erhard must change signs up to the wall. and was on a post-war list of people held by american intelligence agencies. if the intelligence services were indeed involved in the most exxon sec atrix the hunt for the panama documents cotto followed the best traditions of a hollywood action movie. where is the hard drive. easy bori

there a deep state at the cia? >> no, sir. dickerson: has there ever been one? >> i've only been there a little while. i can't believe it's ever been there. these are professional who sacrifice so much to serve america, they're patriots. truest and highest order. >> dickerson: iran, what is the significance of the protest is this a turning point or just a flash point in the regime will continue? >> difficult to know analytically if this is a turning point. it is different. the protests that we saw in 1999 hand 2009 were from elites. this was not that. it was ordinary -- same people who would enlist in irgc their neighbors are now the ones out protesting. they're protesting because they have seen the failed promises of the president that they haven't been able to deliver the check out comes that they said. the food would be plentiful, jobs would rise, simply hasn't happened. >> dickerson: the so-called iran deal. in that sense is the iran deal forced destabilization in iran there for that good for in terms of the u.s. interests? >> from the perspective, what is c

cia director mike mom mayo was there, is back in washington joins us this morning welcome, mr. director. >> thank you. dickerson: the president said he's a stable genius, is he? >> i'm with the president nearly every day. we engage in some of the most weighty matters, i deliver this exquisite product that is developed by my officers. he engages in a way that he understands, yes, he asks hard questions. he delivers policy outcomes based on the information that we provide him. my observation of the president is that we deal in serious matters and that this book is in no way that. >> dickerson: let me get to the serious matters in a minute. give us an example of this. there is this book you refer to, got all the stories, debate about the veracity. one of these penetrating questions, these insights the president has had? >> i'll give you really good example it was from early spring, i've been serving for couple of months at this point. there was this question about syria. was this in fact the assad regime that used chemical weapons, that's an intelligence question, can you demonstr

employees, and cia facilities. fbi agents found the documents when they searched two hotel rooms, li stayed in during a trip to the united states. he was then interviewed five times, but for unknown reasons, he was not arrested and returned to hong kong. li, a naturalized u.s. citizen served in the army before his time at the cia. >> 55,000 here. >> recently worked at christy's auction house in hong kong. on monday, he flew to jfk airport in new york, where he was arrested. >> the way you caught aimes, hanson, catch them in the act of sharing classified information. >> former cia assistant director, michael morel compared the li case to, aldrich aims and robert hanson. >> if the reporting is true with the regard to loss of chinese assets and if reporting is accurate with regard to mr. li's role in that, and if that was intentional on his part this is the equivalent of it. >> li was not charged with espionage but accused of illegally retaining classified >>> those rescued from a house in california are getting medic

a former cia officer is arrested. suspected of spying for china and causing the deaths of secret cia informants. >> several federal officials say lee is suspected of giving the chinese information about cia sources, and that at least ten of them ended up getting killed by the chinese. >>> and house of cards. can republicans force through their deal to keep the government open without protecting the dreamers? >> i feel that it makes no sense for democrats to try and bring us to a shutdown, so i hope cool heads hopefully will prevail on this thing. >> thissi inwill be the last tr leaving the station, president trump needs to get on board. >> we'll talk to senator bernie sanders about that and a lot more coming up on "andrea mitchell reports." >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell back in washington where we are following big stories here. house speaker paul ryan's last ditch effort to keep the government open with republicans alone. steve bannon's interactions with the fbi, all detailed on our nbc news exclusive reporting t

central command following retirement from the armed forces he served as the director of the cia. during which tile agency play central role in a number of important achievement it is, in the global war on terror. and now as -- as you help me to welcome our speakers tonight i ask that you make sure that anything that makes noise like a cell phone, is switched off. and now please join me in welcoming general petraeus. thank you. [applause] well thank you very much. it is wonderful to be back it is particularly wonderful to be on stage with someone for whom i have rpght and admiration and it is a special treat when someone with from whom you have such regard writes about somebody for whom you have such regard that is, of course, edward lance kale someone many of us studied over the years -- a somewhat tragic figure and certain respects -- in that he had great achievements in one arena and provide -- brilliant advice in another that was unfortunately largely disregarded. max is everything what he said about him he's truly a distinguished scholar a bril yajt thinker a forth wright obs

stuff in europe and things like that back to the daily drugs not in bird was the actual documented cia tactic during the cold war and once what you see and that's when you get to like realistically the cia is the more to influence us culture and influence your solid six through by using a journalist which was the entire idea of our broderick mark mark on board which was in one nine hundred forty eight the cia's prince wiseman who was appointed to the director of the office of special projects that was the later renamed the office of policy coordination. while sitting in a shop clerk or name policy that many question why isn't there to created what was called which we found out later during like the investigations after watergate after watergate and like the rockefeller like the church investigations the secret of what was called project operation mockingbird which was designed to basically influence the domestic american press and push the cia's agenda which was an anti-communist anti russian and anything that was remotely socialist or made america look bad you never want to make ameri

three young cia officers arrived in laos. a mountainous country with over 2 million people, mostly rice farmer. their mission stopped the spread of communism and fighting the shadow war against the north vietname vietnamese. the war in laos was secret. the chinese knew and the laotians certainly knew. the only people that did not was the american public and congress. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> though we are never at war with laos, we were fighting with neighboreri neighboring vaietnam. the united states dropping more bombs here than in germany and japan and all of world war ii combined. this is only apart of the largest covert military operation in history. the conflict that's became known as the secret war. there were three intelligence officers, key players in the skee secret war who depends on who they talk to were greatly loved or fears or dispice. >> bill lare, a world war ii vet was a cia officer. vince lawrence was recruited even though he was a history teacher. by the end, they were harming even children. >> what happened here p

free for helping the cia. i think there's a question of the solvent of your father saw snow here it is not the question that one rather more americans in in look at the us our beloved an obvious obvious stuff . that it wasn't that on our focus on intelligence and the military because it was not supposed to provide any assistance to the american cia in looking at being us our beloved and i don't think pakistan would come or whatever country or point of view of the camera listen the reason being is quite simple because. china hasn't rested fifty six billion dollars in this in this one of the prime projects so barbara starr is no longer financially dependent on americans as it used to be done years ago or five years ago you have more longer the very remote american we don't need it i think i believe that part of our overall listen to the americans whether it comes to a dance to take an interest. russia's sports minister is demanding justice for some of the country's top athletes has been excluded from the upcomin

he said he's focused on his job at the cia. he did not give any clue about his future role. >> and he didn't say absolutely not. he didn't say absolutely not. very interesting interview. his wife too. >> yes. >> mrs. pompeo, i thought, added a lot to the interview. >> you always forget a spouse serves alongside someone, whether it's in military or administration. >>> singer/songwriter is up. facing a crowd of fans is not easy for her, she says. >> i work on my anxiety when i'm on stage. it's like you're on a blind date with 10,000 people. >> okay. that's the scariest thing i could ever imagine. >> you're hoping that least one of them loves you, you know. >> out 106,000, one of them will love you. she'll talk about h cbs eye on the community... presented by target. art and history spark connections across cultures, igniting curiosity, conversation, and inspiration. the asian art museum, with the support of target, celebrates the unique achievements of asian art and cultures providing a catalyst for discovery and dialogue. the as

the cia program was launched by them president barack obama in twenty thirteen the cia is reported to have spent up to one billion dollars a year on the theory operations informed opinion in the usa appears to be clearly running ahead. of british mainstream journalists the minority tory government and the blairite neocon majority in the bottom entry labor party it's been widely reported that for years now the cia was providing arms intelligence money and other types of support to these armed militants who were working hand in hand and who are working hand in hand and oftentimes under the command of al-qaeda in syria but have donald trump cancelled cia support for so-called moderate rebels dres a millionaire cabinet of continue to support a coup d'etat in syria that's why u.k. labor leader jeremy corbyn as well as our next guest oppose the bombing of damascus for chris williams and britain's former shadow emergencies minister money is apparently better spent on health services than bombing urban centers in the middle east he joins me now chris thanks for coming back on the show before

>> it won't impact our offices here at cia. we're going to continue crushing our adversary, whether the government is open or closed. we hope it gets opened back up. but for today and tomorrow and the few days ahead of us, we're going to continue to do the things we need to do. >> these government shutdowns sin nall dysfunction in government and some people say that kind of dysfunction is one of the biggest threats to u.s. national security. how hard is it for congress to get this right? >> i served in congress, so i've seen this from another role. i'm not sure i agree that it signals dysfunction. american people have had complicated discussion about their priorities. i think it's entirely appropriate as a democracy. >> as director of the national intelligence agency, mike pompeo faces a world of national security threats. perhaps none is as murky or threatening as north korea's nuclear advances. >> this september king jong-un detonated a sixth nuclear bomb. did we know it was coming? >> yes. here's what we can say. we can alwa

. >> a cia director, you give the president his daily intelligence brief almost every morning. what you see? >> the statements are absurd. your fantasy. eyes with the president yesterday, with the most every day. we talk about some serious matters facing america and the world. the president is engaged. he understands the complexity. he asked difficult questions of our team so he can make an informed policy decisions. i watch and take information that the intelligent link committee delivers and put that into policies for america. these conversations are frankly beneath the conversation. >> these are the conversation. >> only because you made it so. >> chris: while because michael wolf has. fitness to be president. >> completely fit. i pause because it's a ludicrous question. these are from people have not yet accepted the fact that president trump is the united states president. were gonna move on with our mission. were focused on keeping americans safe. things like this book are passing moments in history. we'll get on and america will appreciate the good work that we do. >> ch

the cia program was launched by them president barack obama in twenty thirteen the cia is reported to have spent up to one billion dollars a year on the theory operations informed opinion in the usa appears to be clearly running ahead of british mainstream journalists the minority tory government and the blairite neocon majority in the bottom entry labor party it's been widely reported that for years now the cia was providing arms intelligence money and other types of supply. to these armed militants who were working hand in hand and who are working hand in hand and oftentimes under the command of al qaeda in syria but have donald trump cancelled cia support for so-called moderate rebels driesum a in a cabinet of continue to support a coup d'etat in syria that's why u.k. labor leader jeremy corbyn as well as our next guest oppose the bombing of damascus for chris williams and britain's former shadow emergencies minister money is apparently better spent on health services than bombing urban centers in the middle east he joins me now chris thanks for coming back on the show before we go