Gina Haspel

Gina Haspel   (spook)
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”  Director of the Central Intelligence Agency In office May 21, 2018 - Present  Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency  In office February 7, 2017 - May 21, 2018  Acting Director of the National Clandestine Service In office February 28, 2013 - May 7, 2013 Succeeded by Frank Archibald

Gina Haspel is the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou termed her the “godmother of the torture program.”

Career timeline

"By late 2002, Haspel was overseeing waterboarding at a black site detention center in Thailand, one of a number of countries exposed in a 2005 Washington Post report as territories being used for torture by the US to dodge judicial oversight."

“The CIA’s timeline on Gina Haspel leaves a little something lacking… namely any details at all.”

Torture allegations

After Gina 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."

ProPublica reported in 2017 that Haspel personally signed "cables to CIA headquarters that detailed Zubayda’s interrogation."

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'.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
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.

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