Gina Haspel
 Gina Haspel    (spook) | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Haspel's swearing-in ceremony as CIA/Director | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Gina Cheri Haspel 1956-10-01 Ashland, Kentucky, USA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | USA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Louisville, BA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Jeff Haspel | ||||||||||||||||||
“Godmother of the torture program”
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Gina Haspel is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou termed her the “godmother of the torture program.”[1]
Chemical Gina
After Haspel was nominated to lead the CIA, Quartz magazine quoted a (paywalled) New York Times report that Haspel "played a leading role in running a US torture site abroad and later destroyed the evidence of it."[2][3]
ProPublica reported in 2017 that Haspel personally signed "cables to CIA headquarters that detailed Zubayda’s interrogation."[4]
Lobotomising Assange
In May 2019, as allegations surfaced that Julian Assange was being chemically lobotomised in Belmarsh Prison prior to his extradition to the United States to stand trial on bogus computer hacking charges, Haspel was nicknamed 'Chemical Gina'.[5]
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Assange Must Not Also Die in Jail | blog post | 13 August 2019 | Craig Murray | Many of the same people who are relieved by Jeffrey Epstein’s death would like to see Julian Assange dead too. |
| Document:The CIA/MI6 Skripal Conspiracy Exposed? | Wikispooks Page | 16 November 2024 | Kit Klarenberg | A longstanding Russia hawk who cut her Agency teeth recruiting spies in the Soviet Union in the years before its collapse, Gina Haspel twice served as the CIA’s London station chief - from 2008 to 2011, and 2014 to 2017. Sergei Skripal arrived in Britain in July 2010 via a grand spy swap during her first tenure, which was negotiated by Haspel’s longtime collaborator Daniel Hoffman, then-CIA Moscow station chief. |
References
- ↑ "The ‘Godmother of Torture’ May Soon Be Running the CIA"
- ↑ "Gina Haspel, C.I.A. Deputy Director, Had Role in Torture"
- ↑ "The CIA’s new nominee director Gina Haspel once ran a torture site and destroyed evidence"
- ↑ "Correction: Trump’s Pick to Head CIA Did Not Oversee Waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah"
- ↑ "Julian Assange Tortured with Psychotropic Drug"
