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.’ ...

As one of the last federal agencies to face major changes in President Trump’s norm-bending second term, the CIA is bracing for significant cuts and a reorganization that seeks to elevate covert ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But the more recent flights were communicated to Congress by the Trump administration using a particular notification reserved for new or updated covert programs that the CIA intends either to ...

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 ...

Kennedy is an early Easter basket full of very interesting accounts of the covert doings of the CIA in the 1960s ... One involved chemical warfare operations against the rice crops in both ...

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 ...