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CIA Finally Admits to Hand in Iraq Detainee’s Death
Navy SEALs were punished for 2003 death of Manadel al-Jamadi while he was under CIA interrogation
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Seth Hettena
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Turncoat Hanssen Was a Very Weird Dude
The late FBI agent-turned traitor left a strange mark in the annals of espionage
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Jeff Stein
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Taiwan is Losing its Spy Wars with China
The communists have long had an espionage advantage over the nationalists, but widespread Taiwan defeatism adds to their leverage.
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Matt Brazil
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Putin Shooting to be Russia's Greatest Czar, Former Top Powell Aide Says
 • Jeff Stein
How the KGB Hooked Trump
 • Jeff Stein
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Exclusive: FBI Agents Accuse CIA of 9/11 Coverup
 • Seth Hettena
High-level Chinese Defection Rumored
 • Matt Brazil and Jeff Stein
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Mossad’s New Boss is a Gadget-Loving Killing Machine
 • Jonathan Broder
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About That Beluga Whale Spy...
Intelligence historian Calder Walton says Moscow Center is just up to its old tricks
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Jeff Stein
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OSS Agents in Repose, After the Guns Fell Silent
A French collector has amassed a treasure trove of snap shots the agents took of themselves and local comrades in the summer of 1945
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Jeff Stein
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Henry Kissinger: Killer Case Officer
The infamous diplomat had the soul of an intelligence boss from SMERSH
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Jeff Stein
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Memorial Day Sale
Half Off for Miltary & Intelligence Veterans
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Jeff Stein
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A New History of the Church Committee
Yawns greeted the panel's formation, writes James Risen in his scintillating new book, because the country was "exhausted by Watergate." But its fiery…
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Jeff Stein
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Nearly 600 Americans Missing in Mexico
Police corruption, bureaucracy complicate hunt for missing Americans as cartels fume over bad publicity from kidnappings
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Jonathan Broder
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"Ghosts of Beirut," a Reflective Counterterrorism Masterpiece
The four-part Showtime thriller traces the CIA's decades-long pursuit and assassination of terrorist Imad Mughniyah, "the father of smoke."
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Jeff Stein
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