Epstein Secrets

nguage closely related to that spoken in neighboring Finland. The latter group was declared a foreign agent in part because of a $10,000 grant from the United Nations.'2 The undesirables Once it was the CIA that dictatorships reflexively blamed when under pressure. More recently, the tar- get of attack is a group

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ecause Switzerland does not allow any intelligence officers to operate in its country. Offi- cially, he was attached to the permanent U.S. mission to the United Nations, which employed hundreds of U.S. government functionar- ies in Switzerland. It was a thin cover; the Swiss government was aware that the CIA maintain

r in his initial e-mail that he was well acquainted with her career as an anti-surveillance activist. He said that he had read Greenwald’s account in Salon that past April, a blog in which Greenwald detailed the forty times in which Poitras was searched by U.S. authorities. The story also said that Poitr

tic world. ¢ There has been arise in authoritarian inter- nationalism. Authoritarian powers form loose but effective alliances to block criticism at the United Nations and regional organizations like the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Organization of American States, and to defend embat

11, 2015, http:// foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/11/how-azerbaijan-and-its-lobbyists-spin-congress/. 16. Ken Silverstein, “How Bahrain Works Washington,” Salon, December 8, 2011, http://www.salon.com/2011/12/08/how_bahrain works washington/; Akbar Shahid Ahmed, “How Wealthy Arab Gulf States Shape the Washing