Janine Brookner, ousted CIA officer who challenged agency in court, dies at 80 Matt Schudel For 20 years, Janine Brookner worked out of U.S. embassies around the world, attending diplomatic gatherings, meeting people and developing friendships. She was barely 5 feet tall, with an unlined face and gentle smile that made her look years younger than her actual age. She was a single mother, accompanied by a young son on her international travels, and had a quiet, soft-spoken manner. She was not the kind of person, people often said, you would expect to be a spy. Yet Ms. Brookner was among the most skilled and admired case officers in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations the clandestine service that infiltrates foreign countries and recruits agents to provide secrets to the United States. She was among the few women to ascend the ranks of the department, until her career was derailed in the 1990s over what turned out to be false accusations of professional
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Mexican officials recently discovered a 650-foot tunnel built by Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman across the street from a National Guard base in Tijuana, Mexico.
The narco tunnel includes ventilation, lighting, carts, and rails. It was found after a package of marijuana was left outside a house where the narco tunnel was hidden, New York Post reported.
Law enforcement officials believed that the narco tunnel was planned to connect Tijuana to the San Diego underpass, which was found in 2019, as part of a network built by the now-jailed El Chapo.
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Alternative Title: Robert Philip Hanssen
Robert Hanssen, in full
Robert Philip Hanssen, (born April 18, 1944, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), agent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who was one of the Soviet Union’s and Russia’s most valuable double agents and the most damaging spy ever to penetrate the FBI.
Hanssen was the son of a police officer. He received a bachelor’s degree from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he majored in chemistry but also studied Russian. At Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, he studied dentistry but then switched to business, earning a Master’s of Business Administration degree in accounting and information systems. In 1972 he joined the Chicago police force, where he became a member of a unit that investigated corrupt police officers. At this time he began to exhibit personal behaviour that he carried the rest of his professional life conservative dress and grooming, dour demeanour, aw
The It Girls of the nineties and noughties were notorious for their antics, flitting from party to party, embarking on scandalous love affairs and wearing skimpy clothing.
However now society bible Tatler has compiled the list of the new generation of socialites who are lighting up the social scene - and asking how they shape up compared to the legends who came before them.
Among those featured are Princess Diana s twin nieces Lady Eliza and Amelia Spencer, 28, who the magazine compared to former model and actress Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, now 41.
Meanwhile supremely popular Evie Henderson is said to be the new iteration of Noughties It Girl Lady Victoria Hervey, and Stella Jones, daughter of the Clash guitarist Mick Jones, is named the new rock chick on the scene after the rebellious socialite Amanda de Cadenet.
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