CIA
A Century Ago, a Mob Brutally Attacked an American Diplomat in Persia. His Death Shaped U.S.-Iran Relations for Decades
The July 1924 killing of Robert Imbrie fueled the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and set the stage for both a CIA-backed 1953 coup and the 1979 Iran hostage crisis
A Massive Crane Helping With the Baltimore Bridge Cleanup Was Built to Recover a Sunken Soviet Submarine
The Chesapeake 1000 was used to construct a ship for a top-secret CIA mission in the 1970s
The Baseball Player-Turned-Spy Who Went Undercover to Assassinate the Nazis' Top Nuclear Scientist
During World War II, the OSS sent Moe Berg to Europe, where he gathered intel on Germany's efforts to build an atomic bomb
The American Spy Who Surrendered to the Nazis to Save Civilians
In 1944, Pierre Julien Ortiz parachuted into occupied France, where the Gestapo offered a reward of half a million francs for his capture
National Archives Releases Thousands of Kennedy Assassination Files
Over 97 percent of documents related to the event are now publicly available
See Inside the Rarely Seen and Newly Reimagined CIA Museum
Off-limits to all but a few in-person visitors, the museum is starting to welcome the public, online at least
The Florida Resort That Played an Unlikely Role in the Bay of Pigs Fiasco
Sixty years ago, the CIA-backed invasion of Cuba failed disastrously. It all began, here, on Useppa Island
The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody: The Woman Who Helped Avert a Nuclear War
America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be told
You Can Now Explore the CIA's 'Entire' Collection of UFO Documents Online
Thousands of pages of declassified records are available for anyone to peruse
The Unsuccessful WWII Plot to Fight the Japanese With Radioactive Foxes
An outlandish idea codenamed ‘Operation Fantasia’ aimed to demoralize the Axis power by mimicking legendary spirits
New Clue May Be the Key to Cracking CIA Sculpture's Final Puzzling Passage
"Northeast" joins "Berlin" and "clock" as hints for deciphering a 97-character section of Kryptos' code
During the Cold War, the CIA Secretly Plucked a Soviet Submarine From the Ocean Floor Using a Giant Claw
The International Spy Museum details the audacious plan that involved a reclusive billionaire, a 618-foot-long ship, and a great deal of stealth
What We Know About the CIA's Midcentury Mind-Control Project
Project MKUltra began on this day in 1953 and continued for years
Lie Detectors Don’t Work as Advertised and They Never Did
Barred from use in U.S. court, lie detectors are still used today in other parts of the legal system
Over 12 Million Pages of CIA Documents Are Now Accessible Online
Coups, clairvoyants, invisible ink
The CIA Is Celebrating Its Cartography Division’s 75th Anniversary by Sharing Declassified Maps
Decades of once-secret maps are now freely available online
Microdots: The CIA's Tiny Secret-Message Holders
In 1971, the CIA sent coded messages to the Hanoi Hilton's prisoners of war through powdered-drink packages
The CIA Won’t Reveal What’s in its Secret Art Collection
An art installation questions why the CIA is keeping mum about a series of abstract paintings
Thirty Years Later, We Still Don't Truly Know Who Betrayed These Spies
Was there a fourth mole in the U.S. intelligence system that blew these secret agents' covers?
In Vietnam, the C.I.A. Paid Spies With Stuff From Sears
Nothing says "clandestine espionage" like a mail-order catalog
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