CIA & Intelligence

  • US Wars of Exploitation Cuba

    The American Spark has decided to discuss a few key, well-documented instances in which U.S. officials worked to overthrow foreign governments too left-wing for their personal taste. The next three articles we publish will discuss a very disturbing U.S. plan of action intended to smear socialist Cuba and provide a false pretense for invasion of the island nation. The problem? The plan – called Operation Northwoods – called for a series of terrorist actions to be performed on the American people by their own government. Cuba would be falsely blamed for the attacks, and a U.S. invasion of the island…

  • Review Of FBI Police State Powers

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 18th, 2011A Congressional report published in April offers a steady look into the mind-set of America’s current police state.This police state continually demands more invasive…

  • Us War Training

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 30th, 2011The U.S. trains a host of foreign military personnel but often fails to teach them to respect human rights, states a recent report from…

  • Government Secrecy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 23rd, 2011“Real power begins where secrecy begins.”- Hannah Arendt (The Origin of Totalitarianism, 1951)The United States and some other nations now possess security services that…

  • CIA And Global Warming

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 28nd, 2011In 2009, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) set up a Center on Climate Change and National Security. Top heads at the Agency apparently understood…

  • National Reconnaissance Office

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 31st, 2011The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) creates, launches and operates America’s intelligence satellites. It has been especially active in the past 12 months.”We are nearly…

  • Us Aid UNion Attacks

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 28th, 2011U.S. government aid to Columbia may have been diverted to undermine and attack union activists in the SouthAmerican country, according to press reports and…

  • Rise In Domestic Spying

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 18th, 2011By nearly every measure, federal spying increased on American citizens and residents in 2010, stated a recently-released Justice Department (DoJ) report prepared for Congress.The…

  • Special Ops On Rise

    By Cliff Montgomery – June 14th, 2011American Special Operations Forces (SOF) have rapidly grown across the board since Sept. 11th, 2001, with a new host of missions, swelling ranks and…

  • Us Backed Dictators Middle East

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 23rd, 2011A February Congressional Research Service report entitled, Political Transition in Tunisia, openly described the current revolutionary wave sweeping across the Middle East thus:”The Tunisia…

  • Bin Laden Death

    By Cliff Montgomery – May 2nd, 2011Imagine the following events…For the last several years, a certain nation–any nation, in any part of the world–has become known for such activities as…

  • Surveillance Rules Set To Expire

    By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 7th, 2011Today, The American Spark offers its readers a quick reminder that some of the most sweeping expansionsof federal surveillance power may soon expire.But those…

  • Mubarak Tortured Egyptians For Years

    By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 5th, 2011Human Rights Watch (HRW) just released a damning report regarding the police state of Egypt’s current tyrant, President Hosni Mubarak.Among other crimes, the study–entitled,…

  • Let Assange Speak For Himself

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 19th, 2010There’s currently a lot of wild-eyed screaming from the corporate media about Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Thus we at the American Spark…

  • Experts Admit Wikileaks Mission

    By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 10th, 2010″Executive secrecy is one of the monarchial customs…and [is] certainly fatal to republican government… How can national self-government exist without a knowledge of national…

  • International Code Private Security

    By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 27th, 2010This month in Geneva, Switzerland, over 20 private security contractors (PSCs) are slated to meet with representatives from governmental and non-governmental groups from across…

  • FBI Faulted For Investigations

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 21st, 2010The FBI from 2001 to 2006 conducted probes of non-violent U.S. activists, classifying their actions of civildisobedience as “acts of terrorism,” according to a…

  • Us Secrecy Costs Hit Record High

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 30th, 2010Federal officials in 2009 charged taxpayers a record $9.93 billion to pay for the classification of activitiesperformed by both government and industry, according to…

  • Government Secrecy Risks Lives

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 26th, 2010White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says the documents on Afghanistan released today by WikiLeaks”pose a very real threat” to American forces–even as he…

  • Top Secret America

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 19th, 2010A massive and largely unaccountable spy network created by the U.S. government shortly after 9/11 now is sohuge that it may be impossible to…

  • Us Detainess Medical Experiments

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 13th, 2010Last month, a white paper released by the medical group Physicians for Human Rights discussed a harrowing matter:”Investigation and analysis of US government documents…

  • Us Intelligence Update Failing

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 7th, 2010The intelligence reform law which created a National Intelligence director and was to integrate and modernize America’s spy community has in many ways been…