Trump ends covert CIA program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria
The shuttering of the program an acknowledgment of Washington’s limited leverage & desire to remove Assad from power
Yuri Drozdov, Soviet superspy who planted “illegals” in other countries, dies at 91
In 1962, he played a key role in a famous exchange of captive spies between the Soviet Union and the United States
Israeli intel agency Mossad to fund new spy techniques
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