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Donald Trump's pick for CIA director, Gina Haspel, is sworn in before her confirmation hearing at the Senate Intelligence Committee. IMAGES
Former British spy and Soviet secret agent George Blake has died in Moscow. He was 98. CNN reports a spokesperson for the Russian foreign intelligence agency SVR said Blake was 'highly respected and appreciated.' Blake used his position as an officer in the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, to spy for the Soviet Union. His secret work for the USSR humiliated the country's intelligence establishment when it was discovered at the height of the Cold War. In the UK he is perhaps best known for his daring escape from London's Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966.
Since the 19th century, the infamous Pinkerton spy agency has a history of union-busting and involving itself in businesses. Now, Business Insider reports Amazon has turned to Pinkerton to monitor European workers' labor union organizing efforts. Leaked documents from Amazon's Global Security Operations Center revealed analysts have been tracking workers' union organizing activities. A report from Motherboard also disclosed that Amazon data analysts use social media to monitor social justice and environmental activist groups' activities. It's the latest in a string of evidence that highlights Amazon's robust efforts to monitor and crack down on its workers unionizing. Earlier this year, Amazon listed, but quickly removed, a job opening for an analyst that would monitor employee's efforts to organize.
Former CIA director John Brennan had a fraught relationship with US President Donald Trump, and now he remains one of Trump's sharpest critics. In his new memoir, 'Undaunted, Brennan told Business Insider what he feels is the biggest threat to the November election: President Trump himself. Brennan says the Trump administration and campaign's 'dishonesty' and disinformation is just as dangerous as foreign interference in the election. He added that Trump's refusal to acknowledge Russia's interference in the 2016 election would become one of the defining failures of his presidency. On the other hand, Brennan said Russia has gotten everything it could have hoped for from the Trump presidency.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the reports on a spy for the United States being extracted from Russia are "inaccurate." SOUNDBITE
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