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

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

The 2013 novel "Red Sparrow" has a standard-issue plot: inexperienced CIA officer Nathaniel Nash and beautiful Russian spy Dominika Egorova try desperately to hoodwink and outsmart one another and ...

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

In 1983, Hasler had a degree in Russian languages, and the CIA was one of the few employers looking for those qualifications. Twenty-one years later, after the invasion of Iraq, she left the CIA.

Dulles liked the heroic impression of the CIA fostered by the Bond novels. ... Fleming wasn’t impressed with the CIA’s super-secret U-2 spy plane and other aerial reconnaissance.

Early this summer I asked an idle question of readers: What are the great spy novels written by authors who were actual spies? Another learning experience: When it comes to avid readers, there are ...

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 time at the CIA. May 16, 2024 ...

In his 2007 memoir American Spy: My Secret History in the C.I.A., Watergate, and Beyond, Hunt claimed that the CIA, starting in the late ’50s or early ’60s, had bankrolled Fodor’s guidebook ...

This spy novel breaks barriers. It’s also a smart, riveting read. ‘American Spy’ is a morally nuanced and atmospheric political thriller. March 1, 2019. By Maureen Corrigan.

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 ...