Central Intelligence Agency

After Trump attack on media, ex-CIA director asks if he ‘wasted’ career

After President Donald Trump accused CNN International of being a “major source of (Fake) news” abroad, an exasperated former CIA and NSA director asked rhetorically if he had wasted much of his life in defense of the U.S. “If this is who we are or who we are becoming, I have wasted 40 years of […]

JP’s Adventures in Spyland: Room service

Note: The following articles in this series may have taken place during real-world events… or it may have just been a training exercise… either way, no methods, sources or secrets were or will be divulged. This is all generic stuff that you can read in any “spy” novel—so take a puff of your inhaler and […]

The CIA is about to drop the hammer on the Taliban

According to a report on October 22nd in the New York Times, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is set to accelerate its operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan, breaking with its approach over the last 15-plus years of primarily directing the bulk of its efforts in targeting al-Qaeda, its leadership, and only the senior-most Taliban […]

A funeral of 2 friends: C.I.A. deaths rise in secret Afghan war

On a sweltering day earlier this summer, operatives with the Central Intelligence Agency gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to bury two of their own. Brian Ray Hoke and Nathaniel Patrick Delemarre, elite gunslingers who worked for the C.I.A.’s paramilitary force, were laid to rest after a firefight with Islamic State militants near Jalalabad in Afghanistan, […]

Op-Ed: The Public’s ‘Need to Know’ Doesn’t Include Names of Covert Operatives

Last month, the New York Times incredibly posted the name of the Central Intelligence Agency’s, (CIA) top operative overseeing the agency’s efforts in Iran. The Times justified its outing of this undercover and career CIA agent and his role within the agency by saying it was necessary since the agent is “leading an important new […]

The New York Times recklessly exposes a CIA operative’s identity

When President Trump declared the media the “enemy of the American people,” I called it an outrage. Well, the New York Times seems to be working overtime to prove me wrong and Trump right. In a front-page story, the Times recently exposed the identity of the covert operative running the CIA’s Iran operations as Michael D’Andrea — noting that he was […]

I was in the CIA for 25 years — here’s how I explained my job to my kids

Ralph W. McGehee is a veteran of two and a half decades with the Central Intelligence Agency. McGehee was recruited in 1952 and stationed in Southeast Asia in the mid-1960s. “Dad, what do you do?” my 13-year-old daughter Peggy asked about six months after we had settled into our home in North Thailand. She had been […]

Wikileaks drops another bomb: Thousands of documents claim CIA hackers have access to your smart phone, and even your TV

On Tuesday, Wikileaks published thousands of documents online that they claim were taken directly from the Central Intelligence Agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence.  The documents purport to demonstrate a number of the tools and methodologies employed by intelligence gatherers at the CIA, including the ability to hack into a number of different kinds of “smart” […]

‘Spy Sites’ are everywhere in the Washington D.C. area

Former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Office of Technical Service (OTS), Robert Wallace, who spent 40 years serving the United States in the intelligence community, has written a new book that documents hundreds of locations in the greater Washington, D.C., area with links to espionage. The book, “Spy Sites of Washington, D.C., A […]

Watch: Sam Faddis talks about the CIA under the Trump administration

Retired CIA officer Sam Faddis recently appeared on Tipping Point to discuss the incoming Trump administration and what that means for the CIA.  Sam comments on what he thinks of Trump’s nominee for the Director of Central Intelligence as well as the State Department.  After, he discusses the long term issues in Iraq and the […]

Polygraph panic: CIA director fretted his vote for communist

So if back in 1980, John Brennan was allowed to say, ‘I voted for the Communist Party with Gus Hall’ … and still got through, rest assured that your rights and your expressions and your freedom of speech as Americans is something that’s not going to be disqualifying of you as you pursue a career in government.