The CIA Special Activities Center, formerly called the Special Activities Division, is arguably the most secret special operations force that the United States has. Within it, there are two main ...

Author ofSurprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins Annie Jacobsen shares more about her book. About the Book: When diplomacy fails, and war is ...

On Friday, the CIA acknowledged that it was time to move into the 21st century, saying it was creating a special division to conduct cyberespionage. Skip to main content Arrow-right ...

CIA officials have opposed the idea, arguing that the CIA’s special activities division is more nimble than the military’s Special Forces and is designed for covert missions in which the ...

Paramilitary agents for the CIA’s super-secret Special Activities Division, or SAD, perform raids, ambushes, abductions and other difficult chores overseas, including infiltrating countries to “light ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – A former deputy chief in the CIA’s Special Activities Division demands $3 million from the agency, claiming that after he suffered lead poisoning from instructing weapons classes at ...

Confirmation of the death of CIA operative Johnny “Mike” Spann in the Mazar-e-Sharif prison uprising raises the profile of the agency’s Special Activities Division. IE 11 is not supported.

CIA paramilitary officers with the Special Activities Division began secretly training Ukrainian forces in sniping, anti-tank warfare and surveillance evasion shortly after the 2014 incursion.

Instead, Prado found himself in the CIA’s Special Activities Division; SAD is responsible for paramilitary operations worldwide, and trains for direct action missions, training missions ...

Author Annie Jacobsen explores that question in her new book, “Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins.” ...

Special Operations Forces along with CIA operatives are spearheading the advance of U.S. forces in northern Iraq. Ret. Gen. Wayne Downing reports on the key role to be played by the elite forces.