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The head of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center told Congress that after 9/11 the "gloves came off". The BBC's Security Correspondent probes the tactics adopted by the CIA in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks, and asks whether they've made the U.S. any safer. | |
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On September 12, 2001, CIA Director George Tenet held a staff briefing in the agency's auditorium. With everyone still reeling from the terrorist attacks of the previous day, he announced the CIA's new mission: to defeat al-Qaeda. The BBC's Gordon Corera examines the Agency's post-9/11 mandate. |
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The BBC's Security Correspondent travels to Italy to investigate the kidnapping of an Islamic cleric in Milan by 22 CIA officers. In this documentary produced for the BBC World Service, Gordon Corera looks at the ties between European nations and the CIA. He also examines allegations of extraordinary rendition, and claims of torture and assassination leveled at the CIA. |
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| THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world. |
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