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Reuben Efron (1911–1993) was a Lithuanian-American who served in the US Army and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Efron was born in Lithuania on 12 April 1911 as 'Ruvelis Effronas'. He attended a Jewish high school, and following this Vytautas Magnus University where he studied law. He then practiced law for five years in Kaunas. [1]
Between 1984 and 1985, after congressional committees began questioning training techniques being used by the CIA in Latin America, the 1983 manual went through substantial revision. In 1985 a page advising against using coercive techniques was inserted at the front of Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual. Handwritten changes were also ...
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /), known informally as the Agency, [6] metonymously as Langley [7] and historically as the Company, [8] is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human ...
Some agents of this type may be able to help in the pre-recruitment stages of assessment and development, or may only be involved in finding possible assets. Indeed, an access agent may arrange introductions without being completely witting that the purpose of meeting the target is to find people who will participate in espionage.
Yahoo News reported in January on the CIA’s secret U.S.-based training initiative for Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel. That program, which began in 2015 ...
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has released a slickly produced Russian-language video to try to persuade Russian intelligence employees to switch sides and work as double agents for Washington.
A double agent is, from the start, a trained intelligence asset. They may be a low level agent with only the most basic amount of training, not a full case officer, but their original agency places some degree of trust in them. Double agent cases, like all intelligence operations, are run to serve the interests of national security.
Harold James “Jim” Nicholson, a 16-year veteran of the CIA, was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison in 1997 for espionage – but he kept up the treason from behind bars, enlisting his ...