In the heart of the Cold War, the CIA launched one of the most daring covert missions in history—lifting a Soviet sub from the ocean floor.

In 1953, the CIA launched a covert program to try to harness the power of mind control. Though the majority of the documents ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

A recently declassified CIA document has revealed a UFO piloted by mysterious, bug-eyed extraterrestrials landed in Siberia during the height of the Cold War and made contact with a group of ...

It is one of a trio of new works, alongside Gordon Corera’s “The Spy in the Archive” and Tim Weiner’s “The Mission”, which ...

During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

Author Charlie English joins Morning Joe to discuss the new book 'The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature'.

The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in ...

Cold war condoms: weapon of mass humiliation In the 1950s, the CIA co-funded an operation to drop millions of anti-Communist pamphlets from weather balloons flying over Soviet-controlled Europe.

"War Room" host Steve Bannon comments on reporting from Axios that the CIA now admits they were monitoring Lee Harvey Oswald before the Kennedy assassination: STEVE BANNON: It shouldn't be lost on ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- As the U.S. and Russia reached the brink of nuclear war in 1962, President John F. Kennedy received top-secret intelligence from the CIA that a new warhead launcher was spotted in ...

There's a revolving door of talent between the country's premiere intelligence agency and its entertainment industry, with ...