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• O, FR, ZZ, AHR, BXC, CIA Have Been Added To Naked Short List Today.

  - 2008-04-02

  M2 PRESSWIRE-2 April 2008-BUYINS.NET: O, FR, ZZ, AHR, BXC, CIA Have Been Added To Naked Short List TodayC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02042008 BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today that these select companies have been added to the NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE naked short ...

  Tags: CIA, FINANCE, Insurance, Investment, NYSE Euronext, REIT, SEC, stock, U.S.

• Former Intel Exec to Head CIA's VC Fund (Electronic News)

  - 2006-09-04

  Arlington, Va.-based In-Q-Tel, the independent strategic venture capital fund of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA announced today that former Intel Corp. VP Christopher A.R. Darby is to serve as its new president and CEO, assuming his role on September 18. In-Q-Tel is a private,...

  Tags: CIA, FINANCE, Government, Intel Corp., Investment, U.S.

• US to brief EU officials in CIA flights row

  - 2006-05-04

  VIENNA, May 4, 2006 AFP — EU officials will travel to the United States "shortly" to be briefed in response to charges the CIA secretly flew thousands of prisoners through Europe, said US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. He was speaking in Vienna as the United States hit back at...

  Tags: CIA, Europe, FINANCE, Investment, NETWORKING, torture, U.S., Vienna

• Periscope

  - 2005-03-14

  CHINA Raising the Stakes? Gambling has been illegal in China since the communists took power in 1949, but authorities usually look the other way. Lately, however, high-profile cases of officials blowing government funds at the tables have stung the leadership in Beijing,...

  Tags: Beijing, casino, China, CIA, crackdown, FINANCE, Government, Investment, U.S.

• Periscope.

  - 2005-03-14

  Byline: Jonathan Ansfield, Wang Zhenru and Alexandra A. Seno, Peter Hudson, Karen Lowry Miller, Piotr Zaremba and Andrew Nagorski, Mark Hosenball, Mark Russell, Vibhuti Patel, Jenny Barchfield, Nicki Gostin CHINA Raising the Stakes? Gambling has been...

  Tags: Beijing, China, CIA, FINANCE, Government, Investment, SOFTWARE, Tibet, U.S.

• U.S. intelligence flayed: Senators repudiate prewar assessments on

  - 2004-07-10

  WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee issued a scathing repudiation Friday of the U.S. intelligence community's prewar assessment that Iraq had outlawed weapons programs, saying the finding was hyped, lacked evidence and driven by "group think." The Senate Intelligence Committee report cited numerous examples in which the CIA and...

  Tags: analyst, CIA, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Iraq, Leadership, U.S.

• Cheney's Long Path to War

  - 2003-11-17

  Every Thursday, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have lunch together in a small dining room off the Oval Office. They eat alone; no aides are present. They have no fixed agenda, but it's a safe assumption that they often talk about intelligence--about what the United States...

  Tags: aide, CIA, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Iraq, president, U.S., Washington

• White House says evidence supports uranium comment

  - 2003-07-14

  WASHINGTON -- Administration officials insisted Sunday that President Bush's disputed statement about Iraqi uranium shopping in Africa was accurate, even while conceding anew it should have been deleted from his State of the Union address. Both Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national security adviser,...

  Tags: Africa, CIA, FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, president, Quality, TVs, U.S., uranium, White House

• Spooky kind of love for new ideas.

  - 2002-01-27

  Jan 28, 2002 The Canberra Times ABIX via COMTEX -- The Central Intelligence Agency CIA in the US has entered into the world of venture capital to keep up-to-date with new technologies. The CIA's not-for-profit venture capital arm is called In-Q-Tel and has...

  Tags: CIA, FINANCE, Investment, U.S.

• The Saudi Game

  - 2001-11-19

  The call came at about 10 on the night of Sept. 12, some 36 hours after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. On the telephone was a high-ranking CIA official (probably the director, George Tenet), and his news was all bad: American intelligence believed that possibly as...

  Tags: Arab, Bush, CIA, FINANCE, Government, Investment, president, U.S., Washington