21 May 2021
Former Secretary of State and Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Pompeo earlier this week strongly suggested that the coronavirus sparking a deadly global pandemic escaped from a Chinese lab in Wuhan, where scientists were conducting research on bat coronaviruses.
He said at a Center for Security Policy event Tuesday:
While I can’t prove where it came from, I can tell you the overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence suggests that the Chinese were working on this virus in their laboratory, that the laboratory was unsafe, that the laboratory actors, whether they were doctors or technicians, were conducting a set of activities that made the virus more human-to-human spreadable and likely more lethal as well, and then somehow it likely got out of that laboratory.
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10 May 2021
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recently released its latest recruitment advertisement featuring a young minority woman talking about being one of a handful of women in her position and struggling with work-life balance as a working mother.
In the ad, released Friday, the woman says:
I’m now part of the Director’s Protective Staff, which provides armed security to principals under both CIA and the office of the Director of National Intelligence.
We’ve had several principals that were women, some of whom have asked why there aren’t any more women on the director’s protective staff. I’ve been able to inspire not only women to pursue DPS, but also people who wouldn’t normally consider themselves qualified to be a special agent. The truth is, I haven’t learned how to find a balance between my work and personal life. My husband and I have tested the limits to this balancing act, as full-time working parents to two young boys. DPS agents work 24 hour
Chinese engagement in the Dominican Republic: An update
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Introduction
When President Danilo Medina of the Dominican Republic announced in May 2018 that his government would recognize the People’s Republic of China (PRC), abandoning the Dominican Republic’s longstanding diplomatic commitment to Taiwan, alarm bells sounded in Washington, D.C. Panama had recognized the PRC only one year earlier, while El Salvador’s recognition of the PRC later in 2018 set the stage for a ferocious reaction from the United States. In the end, however thanks to a combination of problems with Chinese projects, a change in government, and the COVID-19 pandemic the Chinese advances in the Dominican Republic that once inspired concern in Washington have gone largely unrealized.
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U.S. Officials Claim That Iraqi Kurds Helped To Kill Qassam Soleimani
Yahoo has prominently posted a long piece about the early 2020 murder of the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the Iraqi resistance leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
This article, based on interviews with 15 current and former U.S. officials, reveals new details about the Soleimani strike and the Trump administration’s long-running deliberations about killing the Iranian general and other top Iranian officials and proxies. It depicts an operation that was more sophisticated, and with a broader list of people potentially targeted for killing, than was previously known. And it describes previously unreported threats to U.S. officials in the aftermath of the strike.
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