Christina Hillsberg joined the CIA as an eager 21-year-old in 2006. She spent more than a decade there: traveling undercover to CIA stations across the globe, meeting with clandestine sources in cafes ...

We speak with Liz Mundy, the author of ''The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA'' We speak with Liz Mundy, the author of the new book ''The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Hugh Wilford on his book, The CIA: An Imperial History. Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison President George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency Director George ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Critics of Donald Trump say that he is burning everything to ground with no regard for institutions or even the Constitution, but ironically ...

Author's note -- pt. 1. In the beginning, we knew nothing : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953 -- 1. Intelligence must be global and totalitarian -- 2. The logic of force -- 3. Fight fire with fire -- 4.

There has long been a "dichotomy" in histories of the CIA, said Toby Harnden in The Spectator. While some have depicted America's foreign spying agency (founded by President Truman in 1947) as an "all ...

In May 1958, the CIA’s Far East Division hatched a plan: recruit an attractive white woman to extract information from the president of Indonesia by engaging in an “intimate relationship” with him.

Several foreign embassies housed more Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents posing as genuine State Department officials between 1950 to 1960, according to a document found in the more than 63,000 ...

Prologue : The loose tooth -- Part I : Subject -- The boy from Onalua -- Promising docility -- The most impossible job on earth -- To Brussels and back -- Not a slave -- Awakenings -- The year of ...