GenevaLunch » CIA http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Apology for the 1954 Guatemala CIA-sponsored couphttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/21/apology-for-the-1954-guatemala-cia-sponsored-coup/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/21/apology-for-the-1954-guatemala-cia-sponsored-coup/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:45:19 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=62709 GenevaLunch.com GUATEMALA – Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has apologized to the family of former President Jacobo Arbenz who was ousted in a 1954 coup backed by the United States. Colom has acknowledged the state’s responsibility in overthrowing Arbenz. “That day changed Guatemala and we have not recuperated from it yet,” he said. “It was a crime [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/21/apology-for-the-1954-guatemala-cia-sponsored-coup/feed/ 1 Petraeus gets CIA, Panetta to head Pentagonhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/27/petraeus-gets-cia-panetta-to-head-pentagon/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/27/petraeus-gets-cia-panetta-to-head-pentagon/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:06:04 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56987 GenevaLunch.com The expected shakeup in US military leadership appears to be ready, with AP making one of the tersest and shortest news agency reports in some time, with an announcement shortly after noon Swiss time that its sources say Robert Petraeus will become head of the CIA intelligence agency and CIA director Leon Panetta is being [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/27/petraeus-gets-cia-panetta-to-head-pentagon/feed/ 0 Spying out the CIA spies who spied on Geneva’s Russianshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/07/spying-out-the-cia-spies-who-spied-on-genevas-russians/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/07/spying-out-the-cia-spies-who-spied-on-genevas-russians/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:35:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=54990 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Get out your maps, or head for your favourite online mapmaker or turn on the GPS because we are hot on the trail of three spies, genuine CIA types, who are hanging out for hours and hours in Geneva, waiting for that magic chance to get a Russian. It’s the spying [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/07/spying-out-the-cia-spies-who-spied-on-genevas-russians/feed/ 0 Mouse movements give shopping clueshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/04/mouse-movements-give-shopping-clues/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/04/mouse-movements-give-shopping-clues/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:09:32 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=45436 GenevaLunch.com Debate grows over how much web site owners should tell visitors about information gleaned Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – The news that Google and the CIA are teaming up to predict the future based on what we’re already doing online has prompted yet another media debate over privacy and how much information is spilled by our [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/04/mouse-movements-give-shopping-clues/feed/ 0 Double agent killed 7 CIA agents, says UShttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/05/double-agent-killed-7-cia-agents-says-us/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/05/double-agent-killed-7-cia-agents-says-us/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:34:12 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=34689 GenevaLunch.com Two former US officials have confirmed to National Public Radio that the seven CIA agents and one Jordanian agent killed in Afghanistan the last week of December 2009 were the victims of an Al-Qaeda double agent. NBC News had earlier identified him as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a 36-year old doctor from Zarqa, Jordan, arrested [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/05/double-agent-killed-7-cia-agents-says-us/feed/ 0 America’s Cup may be decided on dry landhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/19/americas-cup-may-be-decided-on-dry-land/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/19/americas-cup-may-be-decided-on-dry-land/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:14:02 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30001 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The oldest, most prestigious sailing competition may be decided in a New York courtroom instead of in the Persian Gulf waters off the Arabian peninsula. The defending team Alinghi, representing Geneva’s Société Nautique de Genève (SNG) put their huge catamaran into the water off Ras al-Khaimah (RAK), United Arab Emirates Saturday [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/19/americas-cup-may-be-decided-on-dry-land/feed/ 5 Designer of UN symbol dies in Marylandhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/05/designer-of-un-symbol-dies-in-maryland/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/05/designer-of-un-symbol-dies-in-maryland/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:36:12 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=29246 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Architect Donal McLaughlin, who designed the symbol that was adopted by the United Nations, has died at his home in Maryland, USA, aged 102. He graduated from Yale University where his thesis was on circular graphics. After working for the CIA’s forerunner, the OSS, where he was chief of graphics during [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/05/designer-of-un-symbol-dies-in-maryland/feed/ 0 US raises questions about former VP Cheney hiding CIA activitieshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/13/us-raises-questions-about-former-vp-cheney-hiding-cia-activities/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/13/us-raises-questions-about-former-vp-cheney-hiding-cia-activities/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:31:52 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=21957 GenevaLunch.com The number of questions is growing about former US Vice-President Dick Cheney’s orders to the CIA to hide some of their activities from Congress. By law, congressional subcommittees must be informed of covert activities but CIA Director Leon Panetta testified to the Senate and House intelligence committees that he had been directed by Cheney to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/13/us-raises-questions-about-former-vp-cheney-hiding-cia-activities/feed/ 0 Swiss tell US Senate investigator no talking to Tinner lawyerhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/18/swiss-tell-us-senate-investigator-no-talking-to-tinner-lawyer/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/18/swiss-tell-us-senate-investigator-no-talking-to-tinner-lawyer/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 07:03:44 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=17818 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (NZZ, Ger) – Switzerland has forbidden contact between the chief investigator of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Douglas Frantz and Urs Tinner’s lawyer, reports Zurich newspaper NZZ. Urs Tinner is a member of the Swiss family implicated in the AQ Khan nuclear proliferation network affair that surfaced in 2006 and involves several [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/18/swiss-tell-us-senate-investigator-no-talking-to-tinner-lawyer/feed/ 1 Update: Cheney replies after Obama releases classified documentshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/21/obama-releases-classified-documents/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/21/obama-releases-classified-documents/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:25:03 +0000 Jillian Hudson http://genevalunch.com/?p=15567 GenevaLunch.com US President Barack Obama released classified government information on the use of torture as an interrogation technique on al-Qaeda suspects and Tuesday former Vice-President Dick Cheney replied saying that the CIA should release memos showing waterboarding works. BBC Obama told CIA employees that he released legal memos because the contents had already been publicly acknowledged. [...]

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