Books & the Arts / The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American ...

They passed intelligence, intercepted communications, stole blueprints and mapped targets. But ultimately they drove the deep-seated paranoia and distrust that would forever change the course of ...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is pursuing its cost-cutting goals in ways that should be seen as a ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

The Cold War spy thriller is one of Hollywood's favorite genres. But how much do we know about the rules that real world spies had to follow during the Cold War? You might be surprised. Daytona ...

Thus. last week, was effected the exchange of a pair of convicted cold war spies: American Francis Gary Powers, 32, the U-2 pilot who crashed in Russia in 1960 and was sentenced to ten years ...

The screen’s newest undercover agents give James Bond a run for his money (and there’s not a bikini in sight).

Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War,” and called him “absolutely the last of that generation of the early CIA that was still around.” For decades, Mr. Sichel was tight-lipped about ...