In 1953, the CIA launched a covert program to try to harness the power of mind control. Though the majority of the documents ...

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.

In the heart of the Cold War, the CIA launched one of the most daring covert missions in history—lifting a Soviet sub from the ocean floor.

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 ...

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

Author Charlie English joins Morning Joe to discuss the new book 'The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature'.

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

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 ...

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

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