Exploring the shadowy depths of the CIA’s Special Activities Center and Global Response Staff, this piece unveils the pivotal yet largely unseen roles these units play in shaping global events and safeguarding American interests through clandestine operations and covert warfare.
When a woman gets shot at the gates of the CIA just hours after a pair of Israeli diplomats are gunned down in D.C., you don’t need a crystal ball to see the country’s nerves are fraying like a pair of cheap bootlaces.
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The CIA just dropped a recruitment ad in Mandarin like it was a Super Bowl commercial—only the audience is pissed-off party officials and the prize is treason with benefits.
In special operations, there’s a hard line between clandestine and covert missions—one’s a ghost story you tell after the blood dries, the other’s a lie you take to your grave.
You don’t just roll up to Langley with a pistol and a death wish unless you’re looking to meet a wall of body armor and questions you won’t be walking away from.
In what may prove to be a serious security oversight, DOGE had the CIA send them a list of recent hires via unclassified email.
The CIA website isn’t all secret missions—discover declassified UFO docs, psychic studies, and even Cold War-era Soviet jokes!
The Trump administration’s CIA buyout initiative is a strategic effort to realign the agency with national security priorities, clearing the way for fresh leadership and a mission-focused workforce.
Trump vows to declassify high-profile assassination files, promising transparency and reigniting decades-old conspiracy debates.
Stuck in the sweltering jungle with a bunch of half-trained ‘elite’ commandos and a colonel who’d rather sit on intelligence than use it, we were babysitters at best, warriors in waiting—waiting for something to finally break loose.
In the cutthroat world of corporate competition, where former spies trade briefcases for business suits, the lines between ethical intelligence gathering and outright espionage often blur, as the Uber case so vividly illustrates.
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