CIA tried to get Mafia to kill Castro: documents
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The CIA worked with three American mobsters in a botched "gangster-type" attempt to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s, according to documents released by the CIA on Tuesday.
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Top Florida officials say they treated the politically charged custody fight over a young Cuban girl like any other case, but documents obtained by The Associated Press show they took extraordinary steps to stop the youngster's father from taking her back to the communist island.
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A judge has ordered Spain's state  intelligence agency to declassify any documents it has about  secret CIA flights shuttling terrorism suspects, court  officials said on Wednesday.
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The former C.I.A. official who authorized destruction of videotapes of harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects had apparently been directed to save them.
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American and Italian authorities arrested dozens of people Thursday&#13;&#10;in a takedown of what they called a trans-Atlantic drug trafficking&#13;&#10;operation run by the Mafia
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A Milan judge on Friday ordered 26 Americans, most of them thought to be CIA agents, to stand trial with Italian spies for the 2003 kidnapping of a Muslim cleric, who says he was flown to Egypt and tortured there.
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FBI agents working in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, tried repeatedly over the past two years to distance themselves from aggressive military interrogation tactics that they feared could damage future terrorism prosecutions, newly released documents show.
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Convalescing Cuban President Fidel Castro charged on Sunday the release of classified CIA documents detailing past abuses was a smoke screen behind which the Bush administration hoped to hide even worse methods.
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"People in the CIA felt these things were not consonant with the sort of intelligence work they normally do"  Dissident U.S. intelligence officers angry at former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped a European probe uncover details of secret CIA prisons in Europe, the top investigator said on Tuesday. via KCOY-TV Santa Maria
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The CIA ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005 to interrogate al-Qaida suspects, a European investigator said Friday, detailing harsh treatment that included months of solitary confinement, shackling and sleep deprivation. A CIA spokesman called the report "biased and distorted."
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A Milan judge on Friday ordered 26 Americans, most of them thought to be CIA agents, to stand trial with Italian spies for the kidnapping in 2003 of a terrorism suspect, who was flown to Egypt where he says he was tortured.
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Spain agreed on Friday to hand a judge  intelligence documents about secret CIA flights that  transported terrorism suspects to third countries where  investigators say they may have faced torture or abuse.
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Convalescing Cuban President Fidel Castro said on Sunday the man the United States and Mafia contracted to poison him in the early 1960s would not have been able to get close enough to him to be successful.
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The CIA is to make public hundreds of documents about some of its worst abuses from the 1950s to 1970s.
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Little-known documents now being made public detail illegal and scandalous activities by the CIA more than 30 years ago: wiretappings of journalists, kidnappings, warrantless searches and more.
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Shortly after dissidents launched a new magazine, the Cuban government retaliated by confiscating various books and written documents, a political activist said Thursday.
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The confirmation came from a spokesman for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who described the killing as &quot;an act of barbarity&quot;.