Read more intelligence agencies stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/28219/intelligence-agencies.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:27:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70547/us-spies-are-voice-of-caution-in-iran-debate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe global intelligence community is at odds over whether Iran is developing nuclear warheads, with US spies insisting it isn’t, and European and Israeli spies begging to differ. In what the New York Times calls a “mirror image” of the Iraq debate, the US say documents found by hacking Iranian...http://www.newser.com/story/70547/us-spies-are-voice-of-caution-in-iran-debate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 11:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68406/taliban-blast-kills-afghan-spy-chief-22-others.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Taliban suicide bomber at a mosque near Kabul killed 23 people today, including Afghanistan's deputy chief of intelligence. The explosion ripped through a crowd in Laghman province just as officials were leaving the mosque. Two top provincial officials from Laghman were also among the dead, and the blast destroyed...http://www.newser.com/story/68406/taliban-blast-kills-afghan-spy-chief-22-others.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 6:03:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68233/us-still-lacks-translators-in-vital-languages.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNearly eight years have passed since 9/11, but national security agencies remain disturbingly low on translators for crucial dialects, the Washington Times reports. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives email and text-message each other freely in languages the CIA largely ignored before 2001. "I can't explain it," says...http://www.newser.com/story/68233/us-still-lacks-translators-in-vital-languages.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 31 Aug 2009 14:03:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64700/feds-plan-to-build-team-of-terror-interrogation-pros.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration is working on plans to create a team of interrogation experts drawn from different agencies, insiders tell the Wall Street Journal . The unit would take the job of debriefing "high-value" terror suspects away from the CIA, the sources say, and would be tasked with creating new, noncoercive...http://www.newser.com/story/64700/feds-plan-to-build-team-of-terror-interrogation-pros.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 18 Jul 2009 9:16:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64363/hamas-israel-targets-gaza-youth-with-aphrodisiac-gum.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHamas says Israel is corrupting Palestinian youth with aphrodisiac chewing gum. “We have discovered two types of stimulants that were introduced into the Gaza Strip from Israeli border crossings,” a spokesman tells AFP. “The first type is presented in the form of chewing gum and the second in the form...http://www.newser.com/story/64363/hamas-israel-targets-gaza-youth-with-aphrodisiac-gum.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 14 Jul 2009 13:07:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62372/spying-101-us-wants-colleges-to-train-007s.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt's like a cloak-and-dagger version of ROTC. The government wants universities to help train the next generation of spies, the Washington Post reports. The proposed program would recruit first- and second-generation students from diverse ethnic backgrounds, the Mideast and Asia in particular, and run them through a specialized set of...http://www.newser.com/story/62372/spying-101-us-wants-colleges-to-train-007s.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 20 Jun 2009 9:28:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58632/al-qaeda-sets-sights-on-pakistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAl-Qaeda has set its sights on the increasingly unstable Pakistan, American and Pakistani intelligence officials tell the New York Times. “They smell blood, and they are intoxicated by the idea of a jihadist takeover in Pakistan,” said a former CIA analyst. The group no longer operates in Afghanistan, Gen. David...http://www.newser.com/story/58632/al-qaeda-sets-sights-on-pakistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 11 May 2009 7:39:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55677/spooks-use-wiki-to-share-intel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe CIA has grown wise to the power of open-source collaboration, and Intellipedia—a classified version of Wikipedia—is humming with activity 3 years after its debut, Time reports. The site boasts 900,000 pages of content written by 100,000 identified intelligence professionals. Advocates cite the rapid treatment of...http://www.newser.com/story/55677/spooks-use-wiki-to-share-intel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 08 Apr 2009 15:48:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55050/report-slams-spy-agencies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmerica's 16 spy agencies have failed to stop infighting and fix weaknesses identified after 9/11, according to an internal report released yesterday. The report sharply criticizes the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for failing to streamline intelligence analysis and spur cooperation and information-sharing among agencies, as it was...http://www.newser.com/story/55050/report-slams-spy-agencies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 02 Apr 2009 5:46:09 CDT