Former CIA covert operations officer Mike Baker provides analysis of Ukraine’s latest drone attack against Russia and its impact on the war on ‘Varney & Co.’ ...

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 ...

This pivotal meeting paved the way for Charbatia Air Base’s transformation into a crucial asset for the CIA’s covert operations in Tibet. The legendary pilot from Odisha, Biju Patnaik ...

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 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 ...

It is also intent on digging into and gaining control over the most secretive and volatile of CIA operations: covert action. Unlike clandestine efforts in the military, which operate in secrecy ...

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 deputy director of operations (DDO) is one of the most important positions at the CIA because the person runs the agency’s covert programmes around the world and oversees the recruitment of ...

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 ...