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The Making of a Cold War Spy
The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s ...
On Aug. 25, 1978, I exposed John Arthur Paisley — a senior CIA manager of analysis who should be considered the CIA’s greatest mole of the Cold War — which set off an internal investigation.
The story of the massive crane tasked with clearing the wreckage of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge began with a secret operation in the midst of the Cold War, a billionaire’s cover story ...
George H.W. Bush loved the CIA. It was “part of my heartbeat,” he once said. He was the only president who ever ran the agency, and the last president who truly believed in its Cold War code ...