How the CIA Forgot the Art of Spying. ... In 20 years, when CIA officers looked back, serving in the War Zone in the early 2000s would be like having served in Europe in the 1980s.

One of President Vladimir Putin's top allies said on Wednesday that the sabotage of the Nord Stream offshore gas pipelines resembled the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency-backed attacks on oil ...

Burton L. Gerber, CIA officer who boosted Cold War spying, dies at 91. As CIA station chief in Moscow in the 1980s, he oversaw an operation for a trove of secret documents on Soviet military ...

MIKE BENZ: And you have to understand, Reagan inherited in 1980 a CIA whose name was dirt. OK, the entire 1970s was a drag through the muck of the Central Intelligence Agency, starting in the late ...

In the 2007 movie “Charlie Wilson’s War,” which depicts the top-secret U.S. effort in 1980s Afghanistan, Vickers is shown as the CIA’s in-house weapons expert who quickly knows what’s ...

WASHINGTON - After the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in 1989, defeated by an insurgency equipped and guided by the U.S., a two-word cable arrived at CIA headquarters: "WE WON." It was one of ...

He was the CIA whiz kid in ‘Charlie Wilson’s War.’ His new book offers advice for the US in Ukraine by NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press - 07/04/23 10:26 AM ET ...