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Fact is often stranger than fiction. Investigative reporter Michelle Shephard said that old saying has been proven true as she has explored the CIA’s MKUltra program that conducted brainwashing experiments in the 1950s and 60s for her new CBC true-crime podcast “Brainwashed.”

President-elect Joe Biden is nominating New York emergency department commissioner Deanne Criswell to serve as the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen veteran diplomat William Burns to be his CIA director

William Burns served as an ambassador to both Russia and Jordan. The career diplomat worked in the foreign service for 33 years.

The CIA is looking for spies from all backgrounds and walks of life

Over a 26-year career with the CIA, Marc Polymeropoulos recruited spies in the back allies of sketchy neighborhoods, chased terrorists across the Middle East and helped run operations against Russia, NBC News reports. But nothing in his tenure scared him as much as the symptoms that knocked him flat in a hotel room in Moscow in December 2017. “I couldn’t…

A former federal public affairs officer has been sentenced to seven years in prison for pretending to be an undercover CIA operative to persuade companies to give him millions of dollars.

A 15-year veteran of the CIA was charged Monday with selling U.S. secrets to China then unwittingly admitting his spying to the FBI. The method prosecutors said they used to get him to reveal the nature of his espionage was worthy of a spy novel itself. Court documents said 67-year-old Alexander Yuk Ching Ma of Honolulu was charged with...

President Trump claims a Russian plot to kill American soldiers is actually a hoax perpetrated by the media. Meanwhile the director of the CIA appears to be taking it very seriously.

The alleged theft of CIA hacking tools by one of the agency’s own officers — the worst data loss in CIA history — exposed a culture of “woefully lax” security around the agency’s dangerous cyberweapons, according to an internal report made public Tuesday, NBC News reported. The report, first published by the Washington Post, was provided to reporters by Sen….

A bipartisan investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee has validated the January 2017 U.S. intelligence assessment describing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — including Russian efforts to help Donald Trump — describing it as accurate, thorough, and untainted by political bias, NBC News reported. The CIA and other spy agencies produced the assessment during the final weeks of the...

International Criminal Court judges have authorized a far-reaching investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by Afghanistan government forces, the Taliban, American troops and U.S. foreign intelligence operatives.

A juror in the murder and racketeering trial for the notorious Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger says she regrets voting in 2013 to convict him for murder

When intelligence officials briefed President Donald Trump on the most worrisome terrorist threats during the first two years of his tenure, they regularly mentioned the names of the senior terror figures the CIA was working hardest to find and kill, including the leader of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, NBC News reports. Trump would ultimately greenlight successful strikes on ISIS leader…

A prosecutor at the outset of an espionage trial has blamed a former CIA employee for what he called the biggest leak of classified defense information in the agency’s history

Iran says its top court has confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man convicted of spying for the CIA

Months after the intelligence community official who last summer submitted to the Director of National Intelligence an anonymous report alleging possible wrongdoing on the part of President Donald Trump in his dealings with Ukraine, Republican lawmakers are still trying to make that official’s name public.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing U.S. intelligence agencies of withholding documents from Congress on Ukraine that could be significant to President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. They appear to be succumbing to pressure from the administration,” Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Schiff was selected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as the lead...

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Wednesday that President Donald Trump is revoking former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance. Brennan has been a prominent critic of Trump’s policies, words and actions.

Former President George H.W. Bush is celebrating his 94th birthday in Maine.