CIA taps 34-year agency veteran as first woman to lead its clandestine arm  CNN

The CIA has tapped Beth Kimber to lead its Directorate of Operations, making her the first woman to lead the agency’s clandestine arm in its 70-year history.

It may look like mind control, but Maxime Michaud is making music with his brainwaves  CBC.ca

The Montreal artist takes you into his residency in Seia, Portugal, where he’s using his own body and thoughts to create an emotive soundscape.

NSA Surveillance Transcript, Text-Message Compilation  National Review

A text conversation between two unnamed individuals touches on recent events. Beware the spell check.

Mind Control in China Has a Very Long History  The New York Times

Repression by the Communist Party stems from an old Chinese belief that it’s the state’s role to set citizens straight.

Mother of jailed NSA contractor rips Manafort, Flynn and Cohen: Those ‘responsible for threatening our election continue to get off easy’  AlterNet

Not since Richard Nixon in the 1970s has a U.S. president been surrounded by as many scandals as Donald J. Trump. And in a new article for the Intercept, …

NSA deletion of call records raising questions  PBS NewsHour

The National Security Agency is deleting more than 685 million call records the government obtained since 2015 from telecommunication companies in …

They Say Government Mind Control Is Real—and That They’re Part of It  The Daily Beast

Over the past 30 years, thousands of people who identify as “targeted individuals” claim the government is engaging in covert war on their minds.

The CIA explored using a ‘truth-serum’ on terrorism detainees after 9/11, newly released report shows  The Washington Post

The CIA explored finding a “truth serum” to use on terrorism detainees in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a declassified report that was …

NSA ‘Systematically Moving’ All Its Data to The Cloud  Nextgov

The National Security Agency has moved most of the mission data it collects, analyzes and stores into a classified cloud computing environment known as the …

NSA Finalizes $6.7 Billion in Classified Tech Contracts  Nextgov

After two years, the NSA finished rebidding its “Groundbreaker” program and is beginning work on a secretive new set of communications contracts.