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 paranoia rendered in steel and poison.

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." ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Former KGB agent Jack Barsky reveals the high-performance routine that kept his cover intact. Discover how mental toughness, isolation, and relentless discipline mirror the mindset of elite athletes – ...