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 ...

After reading the report, one CIA agent branded the alien attack a "horrific picture of revenge on the part of extraterrestrial creatures — a picture that makes one’s blood freeze." ...

The CIA learned their true causes of death when Stashinsky eventually defected to the West in 1961. The CIA's heart attack gun wasn't just shocking because it was a clandestine weapon of targeted ...

In May 1958, the CIA’s Far East Division hatched a plan: recruit an attractive white woman to extract information from the president of Indonesia by engaging in an “intimate relationship ...

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts Scott Anderson. Doubleday, $30 (576p) ISBN 978-0-38554-045-2 ...

Book Review The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War With Forbidden Literature By Charlie English Random House: 384 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may ...

Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...