Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

War has a funny way of turning wild ideas into serious government projects. In the chaos of World War II and the paranoia of ...

In the shadowy waltz of Cold War espionage, the CIA’s heart attack gun wasn’t just a weapon—it was the grim poetry of ...

Even more Top Secret than the Lockheed SR-71, the D-21 drone was a promising Cold War idea that could have eliminated the need for manned overflights, ...

A recently declassified CIA document has revealed a UFO piloted by mysterious, bug-eyed extraterrestrials landed in Siberia during the height of the Cold War and made contact with a group of ...

During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in ...

Tim Weiner’s in-depth exposé highlights the challenges from AI, cyber attacks — and fresh scrutiny of the agency’s activity ...

Newly declassified MLK assassination files expose FBI surveillance, CIA tracking, and inter-agency collusion, offering fresh ...

Step into a gripping real-life story of Cold War espionage by attending “Letters from a Soviet Prison,” a presentation by Francis Gary Powers Jr. at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum in ...

Cold war condoms: weapon of mass humiliation In the 1950s, the CIA co-funded an operation to drop millions of anti-Communist pamphlets from weather balloons flying over Soviet-controlled Europe.

There's a revolving door of talent between the country's premiere intelligence agency and its entertainment industry, with ...