Brett Jones, right of center, poses with CIA GRS troops on a recent deployment. But during one recent deployment to Afghanistan this summer, everything changed.

Jones, the only contractor with the CIA's paramilitary Global Response Staff (GRS) who has come out publicly as gay, said that what had him so terrified was a disturbing pattern of harassment he ...

Breaking News Politics CIA becomes latest intel agency to conclude COVID-19 likely originated from Chinese lab leak By Ryan King Published Jan. 26, 2025, 9:14 a.m. ET ...

The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. But some worry this could be an indication of politicization.

The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar ...