In the summer of 2025, a rumor spread that the CIA once ran a "fake" brothel in San Francisco, California, in order to test drugs, including LSD, on its unsuspecting patrons. For example, on July 31, ...

The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guardsmen just blocks from the White House on the day before Thanksgiving served in an elite CIA counterterrorism unit in Afghanistan, according to ...

Conspiracy theories have spread online about Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man identified as the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, and his CIA ties.

EXCLUSIVE: The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House worked with various United States government entities, including the CIA, as a member of a ...

WASHINGTON – The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House last week served with CIA-backed "zero units" in Afghanistan, paramilitary groups that carried ...

The man suspected of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday drove across the country from his home in Washington state with plans to carry out the attack, ...

The Afghan national suspected of shooting two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday had worked with the CIA, the agency’s director said, according to Fox News Digital. The comments ...

Before Rahmanullah Lakanwal settled in a quiet part of Washington state, he was part of a secret unit of Afghans who operated under CIA direction and hunted down Taliban commanders in highly dangerous ...

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Lakanwal began working with the CIA around 2011 and at the time the agency would have conducted vetting through a variety of databases – including the National Counterterrorism Center database – to ...

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The units were backed by the C.I.A. and trained to conduct missions in Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country. By Jonathan Wolfe Elian Peltier Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Fahim Abed The man ...