Once, during a clandestine meeting with another CIA officer, he carelessly chucked his ornate Koran onto a nearby bed, telling the other operative he didn’t “give a crap about that fiction ...

Gaurav Srivastava dreamed of being a player in the murky world of clandestine operations. His goal was to build a private military and intelligence operation, funded by natural resources ...

Becoming a CIA operative, known as a "clandestine," requires meeting high standards. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, at least 18 years old, and willing to relocate to the Washington, D.C. area.

Newly unearthed secret JFK assassination documents may include files on a CIA spy chief with a murky role in the affair, it has emerged. The CIA man based in Miami funded a group of Cuban exiles ...

Another first for the agency came on the same podcast episode – a previously unnamed CIA operative who took ... They weren’t trained to be clandestine, elusive.” ...

He joined forces with an oil trader, a former senior CIA agent and veterans of the U.S. and Australian special forces. Gen. Wesley Clark, a former NATO commander, served as a paid adviser.

A foreign recruit may not speak English, in which case the CIA operative must be able to communicate in a foreign language. The Agency, Prado explains, “will never send an officer into the field ...