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Spotlight UNITED STATES UKRAINE Issue 726 dated 24/12/2014

CIA, weakened, looks to the East

CIA chief John Brennan is counting on the agency's mission on the Ukrainian front against Russia to help put one of its worst-ever years behind him. After a series of setbacks in areas of key importance to Brennan, the CIA [...]

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