Author and former CIA intelligence officer Christina Hillsberg is sharing her expertise on women in espionage Alla Polyakova Feminism, gender equality and espionage collide in a new book about women ...

In March 1984, customs officials at the port of Swinoujscie, in northwestern Poland, spotted something suspicious about a truck that had "arrived on an overnight ferry from Copenhagen", said Luke ...

Charlie English begins “The CIA Book Club” by describing a 1970s technical manual: a dull cover, as uninviting as anything. A book that practically begs you to put it back on the shelf and move on.

Retired CIA agent Ann Butler is a wife and a mother of five, and for many years her family was unaware of her life as an ...

Just how important is literature? Vital enough to topple an authoritarian regime and bring about a new world order, according to Charlie English in “The CIA Book Club,” his meticulously researched ...

The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in this powerful account of the Central Intelligence Agency actions since the ...

Mr. English is the author of, among other books, “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature.” I traced a copy of George Orwell’s “1984” to the library of the ...