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A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clash
Not for nothing have they called Valerie Plame Wilson the Glamorous Spy. And yet for years, she lived a life of secrecy that most of us would have trouble fathoming, unable to tell her best friends what she actually did for a living, or her own hu
A senior Pentagon official broke Defense Department rules and “deliberately misled” senior generals when he set up a network of private contractors to spy in Afghanistan and Pakistan beginning last year, according to the results of an internal govern
The annual cost of US intelligence is public for the first time: just over $80 billion for 2010. Figures released by the government yesterday show $27 billion goes to military intelligence and $53.1 billion covers the CIA and some of the country’s ot
Newly-released documents about Anwar Al-Awlaki, a Muslim-American tied to many terrorist attacks and currently on the CIA’s capture or kill list, are leading some to believe he may in fact be working for the CIA or another government intelligence age
The US announced $2 billion in military aid for Pakistan as the countries sought to dispel doubts about Islamabad's commitment to uprooting Islamist insurgents from safe havens on its soil. "The United States has no stronger partner when it comes to
Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf will return to lead a new political party to tackle corruption, revive the sluggish economy and step up the fight against Islamist militants. Musharraf, who quit office in 2008 to avoid impeachment
An unidentified military helicopter blasted rockets at a house where Somali militants were meeting on Sunday, according to residents and insurgent leaders, in an apparent strike against the Shabab insurgent group.
'They want to kill people with my software that doesn't work,' software exec tells court The CIA used illegally pirated software to direct Predator drone attacks, despite apparently knowing the software was inaccurate, according to documents in an
The CIA has relied on Lilley, part of a constellation of agency bases across Afghanistan, as a hub to train and deploy a well-armed 3,000-member Afghan paramilitary force collectively known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams.
The Obama administration is considering filing the first criminal charges against radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in case the CIA fails to kill him and he's is captured alive in Yemen. Al-Awlaki, a U.S. and Yemeni citizen born in New Mexico,
A closely divided federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit seeking damages from a private company that worked with the CIA as part of its "extraordinary rendition" program ruling the "state secrets" privilege means the case can't go forward.
It was TechExpo Top Secret, a job fair run by a New York-based firm that specializes in helping those with clearances connect with companies doing intelligence work under U.S. government contracts.
For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA analysts see one of al-Qaeda's offshoots - rather than the core group now based in Pakistan - as the most urgent threat to U.S. security, officials said.
The CIA has tapes of 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret overseas prison. Discovered under a desk, the recordings could provide an unparalleled look at how foreign governments aided the U.S. in holding and questioning suspect
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was unharmed by an attack with a homemade explosive device on his motorcade during a visit to the western city of Hamadan. Ahmadinejad's convoy was targeted as he was traveling from Hamadan's airport
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.
The Army is leading the Pentagon's inquiry into the source of leaked classified intelligence logs from the Afghanistan war. The criminal probe is aimed at finding the source of secret documents published by WikiLeaks.
Despite an Iranian claim that scientist Shahram Amiri was a double agent who gave Iran an “intelligence victory” over the CIA, US officials continue to maintain the line that Amiri had been a valuable long-term US intelligence asset who had provided
Alex discusses the removal of his video, The Obama Deception, from Google’s YouTube. On Thursday, Alex challenged activists to drive the popular documentary up in search engine ranking. Google trends rankings revealed a few hours later that it was th
Three of the four whom Russia traded for them were professionals -- once successful career officers in the Russian intelligence service. One had been convicted of being a double agent for the United States, and another pleaded guilty to giving KGB
A judge in New York has ordered 10 defendants who admitted acting as Russian spies deported from the United States in a swap that results in four spies being released by Russia.
I was pretty sure it was because we didn't trust each other
Iran's state television aired what it said was footage of a missing nuclear scientist on Tuesday, the third video to emerge in weeks giving conflicting accounts of the fate of a man Tehran says was kidnapped by the CIA.
Under the breezy cover note “Dan, a generic description of the process,” this “Background Paper on CIA's Use of Interrogation Techniques” is one of the most chilling torture documents excavated to date. After the Abu Ghraib photographs surfaced an
Detail by painful detail, the CIA is coming to grips with one of the most devastating episodes in its history, a botched cloak-and-dagger flight into China that stole 2 decades of freedom from a pair of fresh-faced American operatives and cost the li
More than a year after the CIA's inspector general stepped down, frustrated members of Congress are urging the White House to fill the internal watchdog position that was central in uncovering abuses inside the spy agency.
After being rejected by a number of large publishers, John Perkins sold his memoirs to a smallish press called Berrett Koehler in 2004. Confessions of a Economic Hitman - equal parts political expose and James Bond novel - recounts his role in
National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair is resigning under pressure from the White House, ending a tumultuous 16-month tenure marked by intelligence failures and spy agency turf wars. Blair, a retired Navy admiral, is the third director of nat
Top military officials have continued to rely on a secret network of private spies who have produced hundreds of reports from deep inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to American officials and businessmen, despite concerns among some in the mi
