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The Biden administration is conducting a government-wide review of suspected incidents of so-called “Havana Syndrome.” The mysterious illness was first identified in Cuba, and CBS News has learned that at least a dozen CIA officers returned home from their stations overseas just this year after suffering symptoms. CBS News intelligence and national security reporter Olivia Gazis joins CBSN with more.
More than a dozen CIA officers serving overseas have returned to the U.S. in 2021 after reporting symptoms consistent with the mysterious illness.
The CIA said the suspect did not breach the compound.
The Senate Intelligence Committee held a public hearing Wednesday to discuss the dangers facing the United States from around the globe. Officials said China and Russia present the most serious risk of undermining the nation. CBS News intelligence and national security reporter Olivia Gazis joins CBSN's "Red & Blue" anchor Elaine Quijano with more on the hearing and what officials said about how the U.S. troop drawdown in Afghanistan will impact terror threats.
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden told CBSN's "Red & Blue" that he believes that the intelligence community will recover under President-elect Joe Biden after it faced repeated attacks from President Trump over the past four years. If Mr. Trump had won the 2020 election, Hayden said, intelligence "would be dead."
The former CIA director said intelligence "would be dead" if Trump won a second term.
Charlotte Charles says she believes Biden's own personal tragedies will give him a "deeper understanding" of her family's pain.
20 years ago, Bob Simon reported on a lawsuit filed by the family of General Rene Schneider, the commander in chief of Chilean Army who was mortally wounded in a kidnapping attempt. Schneider's family was seeking damages against Henry Kissinger, who they claimed oversaw a CIA backed coup plot of which the kidnapping was the first step. Schneider was shot 50 years ago Thursday and died three days later.
Chris Whipple spoke to almost every living CIA director for his new book "The Spymasters." He pulls back the curtain on the importance of their relationship with the president and how it has impacted major crises. Whipple joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss.
Brennan was told he was "not the subject or target" of a criminal investigation, according to his spokesman.
The Department of Homeland Security warned airlines Wednesday to be on heightened alert for passengers hiding explosives in their shoes. Former CIA deputy director Mike Morell says the threat may be linked to al Qaeda in Yemen and a bomb maker named Ibrahim al-Asiri.
The federal government is asking airlines to watch out again for shoe bombers. An intelligence source told CBS News the alert is based on recent terrorist chatter. CBS News senior security contributor Mike Morell, former deputy CIA director, addresses the threat and surmises how it may have originated.
Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA, believes Edward Snowden stole secret documents from the National Security Agency on his own, but wonders whether the former NSA contractor had contact with Russian or Chinese intelligence when he was in Hong Kong. Scott Pelley reports.
The wife of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared seven years ago in Iran, is revealing new details about his work that she hopes will bring him home. Bob Orr reports.
Words like “chow” and “mess hall” don’t do justice to the way soldiers eat these days. David Martin reports on how soldiers are eating at Fort Bragg, where they’ve called in the Culinary Institute of America to create a healthier menu.
Former deputy CIA director Michael Morell, a member of President Obama’s NSA surveillance review panel, explains why he signed onto the group’s dramatic reform proposals.
The latest on NSA surveillance reform and a look back at 2013, with former deputy and acting CIA director Michael Morell, CBS News’ Margaret Brennan, Nancy Cordes, David Martin, and Major Garrett, plus a panel of authors.
Last week, it was reported that Robert Levinson, who was kidnapped in Iran, was working for the CIA. But, Iran's foreign minister denies Levinson is being held by the government. CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.
Secretary of State John Kerry denies the U.S. abandoned Robert Levinson, an American who disappeared in Iran, and claims he has raised the issue to the highest level. Charlie Rose reports.
New details about a missing former CIA contractor who vanished in Iran six-and-a-half years ago, reportedly while on an unsanctioned spy mission. CBS News senior correspondent and former FBI assistant director John Miller provides insight.
The case of two terror suspects who claim they were tortured in a secret CIA prison in Poland has reached Europe's Human Rights Court. The case involves a Saudi national accused in the deadly al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in 2000, and a Palestinian man who has never been charged with a crime. CBS News' Tina Kraus reports.
President Trump is attacking U.S. intelligence officials, questioning their reports that Russia is trying to influence the election as they did in 2016. Robert Draper, a writer-at-large for the New York Times magazine, spoke to CBSN's Tanya Rivero about President Trump and about his new book "To Start A War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq."
Tehran says he gave info to CIA and Israel's spy agency about Qassem Soleimani, who was targeted by a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad in January.
An investigation by The Intercept is shedding light on how a popular artificial-intelligence social media service called Dataminr may have been used by police to help track the whereabouts of Black Lives Matter protesters. The Intercept reporter Sam Biddle joined CBSN to discuss his findings and some of the consequences.
In this episode of "Intelligence Matters DECLASSIFIED," host Michael Morell speaks with a former senior CIA intel officer about the agency's assessments of unrest leading up to the 1989 protests.
