CIA director John Ratcliffe has chosen an intelligence operative who heads a critical station in a Middle East country to be deputy director for operations, according to several people familiar with ...

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 ...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe wants to rebuild the agency’s diminished ranks of spies and foreign agents. But have espionage’s ...

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 ...

Created in 1983 under President Ronald Reagan following scandals involving the CIA’s covert funding of foreign interventions, ...

The iconic space-opera franchise is reported to have been the subject of a fan site covertly used by the Central Intelligence ...

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 U.S. Intelligence Community is a vast network of 18 federal organizations tasked with safeguarding national security through intelligence gathering and analysis. This video breaks down each agency ...

Espionage has always been with us, but its rapid growth over the past century raises questions about who we are.

In a world growing increasingly chaotic, the latest revelations by former CIA operative Sarah Adam could not have come at a ...