CIA ex-boss: secretive spooks tolerated in UK more than in US

British people are not demanding more transparency from the intelligence services as loudly as Americans, the former director of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA has said. Michael Hayden played a pivotal, leading role in American intelligence until he was replaced as director of the CIA shortly into the presidency of Barack Obama. […]

CIA to detail secret Cold War actions

The CIA is planning to offer details about four previously undisclosed covert actions conducted during the Cold War, a federal advisory committee declared in a report. It is unclear which actions will be detailed, however they will be from the Ronald Reagan administration or earlier. The disclosures will be published in upcoming volumes of an […]

Jury doesn’t buy CIA story, convicts man for $17 million arms deal with terrorists

Virgil Flaviu Georgescu, 43, was convicted Wednesday in federal court of conspiracy to murder American government employees and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. He could face up to life in prison when he is sentenced in September. Georgescu was caught in 2014 brokering a deal that involved selling $17 million worth of military-grade weapons […]

CIA Adds Names to Memorial Wall

The CIA on Monday added four names to the secretive memorial it keeps at its Langley headquarters for spies killed on agency missions. Director John Brennan oversaw a ceremony at the Memorial Wall to add the names of the four men, all of whom died in operations in the 1950s and 1960s. “For anyone who […]