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• Webcast Alert: Cia Hering S/A Announces Third Quarter 2008 Results Webcast

  - 2008-10-28

  BLUMENAU, Brazil, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cia Hering S/A (BOVESPA: HGTX3) HERING announces the following webcast: What: Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Results of Cia Hering S/A, which will be released on November...

  Tags: Brazil, CIA, FINANCE, Webcast

• GridPoint Appoints New Advisors, Electric Vehicle Pioneer Kenneth R. Baker and Former CIA Director George J. Tenet

  - 2008-10-22

  WASHINGTON -- GridPoint Inc., a leading clean tech company whose smart grid software platform benefits electric utilities, consumers and the environment, announced the appointment of electric vehicle pioneer Kenneth R. Baker and former Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet to its board of advisors. "With the arrival of...

  Tags: advisor, CIA, director, General Motors Corp., GridPoint, Tenet

• CIA Psychic Spy Program Provides Background for New Thriller Novel, "Mind Games"

  - 2008-10-21

  Author John Truman Wolfe 's new award-winning thriller, " Mind Games " shines a light on one of the most secretive CIA programs in the Agency's history. The new fiction novel , featuring Wolfe's Berkeley-based private detective, Tom McKenna, is set against the historical background...

  Tags: Biotechnology, CIA, fiction, Games, Stryker Corp.

• Spying game; BURN AFTER READING

  - 2008-10-20

  (15, 95 MINS) 7/10 After the agonising tension and brutality of their Oscar-winning opus No Country For Old Men, writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen return to comedic territory with this pithy tale of espionage and infidelity. Burn After Reading is not classic Coen brothers fare, but there are...

  Tags: CIA, game, laugh

• Pitt steals the laughs

  - 2008-10-17

  BURN AFTER READING (15, 95 mins) Comedy/Romance. George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins. Directors: Joel & Ethan Coen. ***** AFTER the agonising tension and brutality of their Oscar-winning opus No Country For Old Men, writerdirectors Joel and Ethan Coen return...

  Tags: CIA, INTERNET, laugh

• BIGresearch Analysis Shows Changing Tides in Race for the White House

  - 2008-10-14

  The crumbling economy appears to be boosting sentiments for change as Obama's Net Promotor Score* NPS increased 5 points since last month, according to BIGresearch's ( http://www.bigresearch.com ) October Consumer Intentions & Actions Survey of 8,117 respondents. While McCain's NPS decreased month over month, Obama made gains among both Democrats...

  Tags: CIA, Democrat, FINANCE, Government, Republican, White House

• Letters to the editor

  - 2008-10-14

  Cut the strings Pat Roberts had been chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee for some time, including 2003 when Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA agent, was outed by the White House, most likely by Vice President Dick Cheney. That act was a felony. It degraded the CIA by...

  Tags: CAREER, CIA, Mr., ROBERT

• Jose Rodriguez, Former Director of the CIA National Clandestine Service, Joins National Interest Security Company

  - 2008-10-07

  FAIRFAX, Va. -- National Interest Security Company, LLC, ("NISC") announced today that Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the CIA National Clandestine Service, has joined NISC as a Senior Vice President. Mr. Rodriguez will immediately bolster NISC's capabilities in helping the company's intelligence community, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland...

  Tags: CIA, director, Mr., SECURITY, Strategy

• "Pain Is Pain": Cephalon's Marketing Comes Under DOJ Control

  BNET - 2008-09-30

  Cephalon agreed yesterday to a $444 million settlement with the Department of Justice that will control its marketing of Actiq, Provigil and Gabitril. (Scroll to the bottom of this page if you want to read the prosecutors' documents describing the scale of wrongdoing at the company.) The...

  Tags: CIA, Cephalon Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Marketing Research, Marketing, Jim Edwards

• Kissinger reportedly covered up PLO assassination of ambassador

  - 2008-09-29

  "Henry Kissinger instructed the CIA to continue diplomatic contacts with Yassir Arafat's PLO representatives before the 1973 Yom Kippur War, even after Arafat ordered the kidnapping and murder of the American ambassador and his deputy in Khartoum, Sudan." So reported the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on September 1, 2008. According...

  Tags: ambassador, CIA, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Leadership

• Top Chefs Across America Selected for New Culinary Program from The Culinary Institute of America and Hormel Foods

  - 2008-09-18

  Innovation-Focused Program Begins in October AUSTIN, Minn. -- Dennis Goettsch, vice president of marketing for the foodservice division of Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), and Dr. Victor Gielisse, associate vice president of The Culinary Institute of America CIA, are pleased to announce the 16 chefs selected for the inaugural...

  Tags: America, CIA, food, innovation, Leadership, Manufacturing, Strategy

• YURI NOSENKO

  - 2008-09-02

  KGB agent whose defection to the United States was one of the Cold War's most dramatic episodes WAS HE a genuine high-value defector - or a KGB plant sent by Moscow to discredit an earlier defector and to lay to rest suspicions that the Kremlin had had...

  Tags: agent, CIA, Moscow, officer

• CIA memos reveal doubts over 'key' Lockerbie witness

  - 2008-08-31

  A Walter Mitty type convinced the Americans he was a Libyan intelligence agent when he worked in the agency's garage A Libyan "double agent" who was central to the CIA's investigation into the Lockerbie bombing exaggerated his importance in Tripoli's intelligence apparatus and gave little information of...

  Tags: Cable, CIA, Mr., NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Ex-Soviet spy who defected dies at 81

  - 2008-08-28

  WASHINGTON -- Yuri Nosenko, a former Soviet agent who was at the center of some of the most dramatic espionage episodes of the Cold War, died on Saturday under an assumed name, somewhere in the southern United States, a senior American intelligence official said on Wednesday. He was 81. ...

  Tags: CIA, Moscow

• John Crisp: Old school guidance about new Cold War

  - 2008-08-27

  RUSSIA'S INVASION OF Georgia coincided with my reading of a couple of books that turned out to be instructive about that event: "When Presidents Lie," by Eric Alterman; and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner's "Legacy of Ashes," a history of the Central Intelligence Agency. These books...

  Tags: CIA, Cuba, Georgia, Leadership, missile, Russia, SECURITY

• Review: The only thrill in 'Traitor' is knowing when this film is

  - 2008-08-27

  What's worse than a thriller with no thrills? A thriller that puts you to sleep. Flat and just plain boring most of the time, "Traitor" wastes some fine actors -- Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels and Said Taghmaoui -- and a topical story, finding no sparks in...

  Tags: agent, CIA, Government, movie, terrorism

• CIA used Swiss to thwart foreign nuclear programs: report

  - 2008-08-24

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US Central Intelligence Agency recruited a family of Swiss engineers to help it thwart the Libyan and Iranian nuclear programs as well as an underground supply network of Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, The New York Times reported on its website late Sunday. The...

  Tags: CIA, INTERNET, Iran, Libya, NETWORKING

• This Duchess knows how to party

  - 2008-08-24

  COMING SOON- FILM Critic Nicholas Barber looks ahead to a season of British costume dramas Looking for experimental, risk-taking cinema this autumn? Well, good luck, but what the next two months are actually about is directors and producers sticking to the kind of films they do best...

  Tags: autumn, CIA, drama, movie

• US declassifies 35,000 pages of WWII spy files

  - 2008-08-14

  WASHINGTON AFP — Formerly classified files on famous US ex-spies such as chef Julia Child, Arab-Israeli peace negotiator Ralph Bunche, and Hollywood actor Sterling Hayden were unveiled to the public Thursday by the National Archives. The 35,000 documents are part of a massive archive, much of which has been...

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• Teen in firearms case had Camp David map

  - 2008-08-07

  ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Police investigating a teenager accused of bombmaking and weapons violations found a map of Camp David with a presidential motorcade route in his home, a Montgomery County prosecutor said. Collin McKenzie-Gude, 18, of Bethesda, also had a document that appears to describe how to kill...

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