The CIA Special Activities Center, formerly called the Special Activities Division, is arguably the most secret special operations force that the United States has. Within it, there are two main ...

On Friday, the CIA acknowledged that it was time to move into the 21st century, saying it was creating a special division to conduct cyberespionage. Skip to main content Arrow-right ...

Author ofSurprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins Annie Jacobsen shares more about her book. About the Book: When diplomacy fails, and war is ...

CIA paramilitary officers with the Special Activities Division began secretly training Ukrainian forces in sniping, anti-tank warfare and surveillance evasion shortly after the 2014 incursion.

CIA officials have opposed the idea, arguing that the CIA’s special activities division is more nimble than the military’s Special Forces and is designed for covert missions in which the ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – A former deputy chief in the CIA’s Special Activities Division demands $3 million from the agency, claiming that after he suffered lead poisoning from instructing weapons classes at ...

Paramilitary agents for the CIA’s super-secret Special Activities Division, or SAD, perform raids, ambushes, abductions and other difficult chores overseas, including infiltrating countries to “light ...

Instead, Prado found himself in the CIA’s Special Activities Division; SAD is responsible for paramilitary operations worldwide, and trains for direct action missions, training missions ...

The official described internal debates over whether the teams should come out of the CIA’s Special Activities Division -- its longtime paramilitary wing -- or whether they should be developed ...

Author Annie Jacobsen explores that question in her new book, “Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins.” ...

Confirmation of the death of CIA operative Johnny “Mike” Spann in the Mazar-e-Sharif prison uprising raises the profile of the agency’s Special Activities Division. IE 11 is not supported.