In 1953, a boy answered a strange call from a voice claiming to be an AI from the future. Decades later, his work in advanced physics would draw the attention of the CIA—and connect to the mystery of ...

In 1968, a Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles vanished beneath the Pacific Ocean. The Soviets searched in vain, unaware that the CIA had already found it. Using a ship disguised as a ...

As a Cal Poly journalism student in the 1980s, Susan Miller couldn’t have predicted she’d someday go deep undercover as a CIA spy in the Soviet Union or brief the president of the United States on ...

After a 35-year quest, the final solution to a famous puzzle called Kryptos has been found. Two writers discovered the fourth answer to the code hidden among the Smithsonian Institution’s archives.

Kryptos, a work of art made of encrypted code, sits on the grounds of the C.I.A. Headquarters in Virginia After a 35-year quest, the final solution to a famous puzzle called Kryptos has been found.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) referred ex-CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department Tuesday for criminal prosecution over false statements he allegedly made to ...

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou claims Osama bin Laden escaped Tora Bora disguised as a woman, aided by a compromised translator. US forces believed they had him cornered in 2001, but he slipped into ...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he authorized the CIA to operate inside Venezuela to clamp down on illegal flows of migrants and drugs from the South American nation, but stopped short of saying ...

Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two fans of the work then discovered the key. By John Schwartz John Schwartz, ...

President Trump has the power to approve a broad range of clandestine operations his administration deems to be in the interest of national security US President Donald Trump has acknowledged that he ...