There is a non-zero chance that a character in the Simpsons canon was directly responsible for arming Afghan Mujahideen fighters — including Osama bin Laden — during the Soviet-Afghan War, and I’m not ...

A 10-year, $600 million contract awarded by the Central Intelligence Agency could provide Amazon.com stock with a big boost, pitting its web services division against more traditional providers like ...

9/11 is one of the most opaque events in American history. Repeated attempts by civilians and journalists to uncover the truth about how the U.S. government and intelligence agencies let it happen, ...

One day well into President George W. Bush’s second term, an ultra-deep-cover Central Intelligence Agency officer flew back to the United States for a break from a yearslong assignment in the Middle ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. The Central ...

“My chosen career is a psychological tightrope walk over a pit of fire,” says a CIA spook, code-named Martian (played with steely intensity by Michael Fassbender) in the solemn spy drama The Agency, ...

WASHINGTON — The CIA announced today that it will now pay the full cost of legal liability insurance for about two-thirds of the agency workforce. The insurance costs about $300 a year. Until now the ...

The CIA has opened direct negotiations with its Pakistani counterpart, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), in an effort to secure the release of one its contractors who is standing ...