Becoming a CIA operative, known as a "clandestine," requires meeting high standards. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, at least 18 years old, and willing to relocate to the Washington, D.C. area.

Once, during a clandestine meeting with another CIA officer, he carelessly chucked his ornate Koran onto a nearby bed, telling the other operative he didn’t “give a crap about that fiction ...

Newly unearthed secret JFK assassination documents may include files on a CIA spy chief with a murky role in the affair, it has emerged. The CIA man based in Miami funded a group of Cuban exiles ...

Gaurav Srivastava dreamed of being a player in the murky world of clandestine operations. His goal was to build a private military and intelligence operation, funded by natural resources ...

What makes a successful CIA agent? Being a crack shot with the driving skills of a Formula 1 driver sure helps, but as retired field operative Ric Prado explains, those are abilities that only ...

A foreign recruit may not speak English, in which case the CIA operative must be able to communicate in a foreign language. The Agency, Prado explains, “will never send an officer into the field ...

Another first for the agency came on the same podcast episode – a previously unnamed CIA operative who took ... They weren’t trained to be clandestine, elusive.” ...

an enigmatic woman who uses her particular set of skills as a former CIA operative to help those with nowhere else to turn. Robyn’s clandestine work and her personal life collided when her ...