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

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

There's a revolving door of talent between the country's premiere intelligence agency and its entertainment industry, with ...

She left the CIA in frustration. Now her spy novel is racking up awards. I.S. Berry scored rave reviews and awards for her literary debut, “The Peacock and the Sparrow,” a novel mined from her ...

Former CIA spy Edwin Wilson, 78, spent 22 years in prison before he was freed in 2004 after a judge found that government officials hid evidence and lied in order to convict him of treason.

Joseph Finder, who writes frequently about Russia, is the author of 17 novels including, most recently, “The Oligarch’s ...

Weisberg left the CIA after three and a half years, still feeling positively toward it, he says, though a review of his 2008 novel An Ordinary Spy in the CIA’s house organ, Studies in ...

My opinion: "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," "The Honourable Schoolboy" and "Smiley's People" by le Carre are not just the best spy novels ever written, but some of the best novels, period.

Jennings is also a published author of "The Syndicate Spy." Instagram/formerspy1 "The truth about my CIA affiliation was something I shared only when it was unavoidable," she told Newsweek.

It was reported that when asked about why he decided to look up the sites, Santilli said that he loved spy novels and he wanted to stick"it up to the CIA for spying on fellow democracies." ...

Mick Herron has written 13 novels and novellas in the so-called Slough House series featuring spy Jackson Lamb, a slovenly, acerbic has-been British spy with a keen intellect and useful connections.

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.