Outing the CIA’s ‘Undertaker’

Remote even by the standards of Pakistan’s tribal areas, the Shawal Valley is surrounded by steep mountains that descend into thick forests interspersed with boulder-strewn alpine rivers. The valley is one of the final redoubts of Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters who fled Afghanistan after the U.S. invasion. Numerous Pakistani military offensives have so far failed […]

CIA Chief: Current GWOT Tactics, Creating More Terrorists

Unfortunately, despite all our progress against [Daesh] on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capability and global reach. The resources needed for terrorism are very modest, and the group would have to suffer even heavier losses of territory, manpower, and money for its terrorist capacity to decline significantly.

Mom Reveals Her Secret Spy Life to Her Kids

As we turned into the main CIA entrance drive, seeing it through their eyes, I realized the guard house ahead appeared disappointingly unimpressive. I had registered them as official guests earlier that day.

Pentagon: Secretive Space Unit in the Fight Against Daesh [ISIS/ISIL]

Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter sees a variety of missions for the Pentagon’s new, secretive space center — and that includes fighting the Islamic State. The Pentagon chief said Thursday that the new Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center established by the Defense Department last fall has a role not only in preparing for potential […]

CIA Director: ’28 pages’ Contain Inaccurate Information

CIA Director John Brennan said Sunday that releasing the 28 classified pages from the 9/11 Commission report would be a mistake because they contain inaccurate, un-vetted information that could be used to tie Saudi Arabia to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. “This chapter was kept out because of concerns about sensitive methods, investigative actions, […]

Secret Writing: CIA’s Oldest Classified Documents

Do you want to read the oldest classified documents in our collection? Learn how to make invisible ink? See the only classified documents still in existence from the first World War? Then you’re in luck. Five years ago, the CIA declassified the US Government’s six oldest classified documents, dating from 1917 and 1918. These documents, […]

April 17th, 1961 – The Bay of Pigs, 55 Years Later

On April 17, 1961 a Brigade of exiled Cubans landed on a Southern isolated Cuban beachhead to initiate the infamous invasion known as the Bay of Pigs. The CIA orchestrated operation was intended to remain clandestine until the last possible moment. Yet the operation was immediately compromised by a Cuban radio station near the landing site, which […]

Former CIA Operative Loses Extradition Appeal

Sabrina de Sousa one of various CIA operatives who were undercover in Milan, Italy as accredited diplomats at the time of the 2003 extraordinary rendition operation. She was not included in a 2009 diplomatic immunity deal that was shared by her colleagues. de Sousa was arrested in 2015 when she choose to move to Portugal despite her […]

Support the Office of Strategic Services Congressional Gold Medal Act

Urge your United States House of Representative to honor our World War II heroes of the OSS by passing a resolution to all the granting of the Congressional Gold Medal to veterans of the Office of Strategic Services, forerunners of the Central Intelligence Agency. On Nov. 4, 2015 Senators Roy Blunt [R-MO] and Mark Warner […]

13 Hours Author Refutes CIA Stand-down Controversy Claim

The author of the book 13 Hours, Mitchell Zuckoff, has refuted a CIA claim that his story distorted events, particularly in regards to the “stand down” order that is portrayed in the movie the book is based on. A spokesman for the CIA is criticizing the Michael Bay movie “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of […]