24 Nov 2024
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CIA shifts to focus more on Russia and Iran, director says

The Wall Street Journal | Warren P. Strobel: The Central Intelligence Agency in the past year has shifted resources to better understand nation-state adversaries such as Russia and Iran, the agencys director said on Thursday, suggesting those targets had suffered from neglect in the post-2001 focus on terrorism.

Our Russia and Iran investment has been strengthened after years of falling behind our justifiably heavy emphasis on counter-terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA Director Gina Haspel said in a speech here, without providing...

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