CIA Director John Ratcliffe wants to rebuild the agency’s diminished ranks of spies and foreign agents. But have espionage’s ...

CIA director John Ratcliffe has chosen an intelligence operative who heads a critical station in a Middle East country to be ...

a six-time CIA station chief who left the agency in October 2023, has accepted Ratcliffe’s offer to be deputy director for operations, responsible for running human espionage and covert action ...

The CIA is facing increasing obstacles in its efforts to recruit overseas informants and, as reported by a news outlet on ...

From 1945 till approximately 1970s, the CIA ran covert operations targeting foreign leaders deemed a threat to the US. Among the targets were Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Congo’s Patrice Lumumba ...

The iconic space-opera franchise is reported to have been the subject of a fan site covertly used by the Central Intelligence ...

The CIA’s deputy director for operations is responsible for overseeing the agency’s covert activity and the gathering of human intelligence — one of the most challenging and vital aspects of ...

Ratcliffe is still expected to make widespread cuts at the CIA that officials said appear tailored to elevate the role of covert operations and human intelligence gathering. Ratcliffe, Ellis and ...

On May 7, 2025, MidPoint explored the history of the CIA’s covert operations, an extraordinary record of what our intelligence services were up to in our name at home and abroad in the 1960’s and ...

The new release includes hundreds of CIA records as well as White House and National Security Council documents relating to covert operations abroad, “particularly in Latin American nations such ...

Some records provide small details about covert operations Documents show that in December 1963, the CIA director’s office was receiving messages from and replying to operatives in Cuba seeking ...