CIA

Britain and the United States overthrew the country’s last democratic government. Supporting pro-democracy protesters is an opportunity for redemption.

More than 60 years after the deaths of the U.N. chief and his team, the victims’ families believe the answer may lie in Washington’s and London’s archives.

Intelligence assets who worked for the CIA now face deadly reprisals.

Bill Burns, a veteran diplomat, will helm the spy agency in an era of renewed great-power competition.

Trump has protected Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that he ordered the assassination of a U.S. resident. The new administration should reveal the truth.

Biden’s pick for the agency’s director shows that diplomacy is back.

Left-wing groups want to ensure Biden doesn’t pick Michael Morrell, seen as linked to post-9/11 counterterrorism policies, as CIA director.

Biden’s final picks could ultimately hinge on two runoff Senate races in Georgia, which will determine who controls the upper chamber.

Americans are already less safe because of growing distrust in their intelligence. Dangers will multiply without a change in political leadership.

A new video tries to make spying for the United States attractive for today’s youth—but cuts some corners along the way.

The peace process died of natural causes. Washington’s most extraordinary alliance should too.

The agency’s history of bloody-handed bungling abroad has come back to haunt U.S. politics.

Declassified evidence shows that Iranians, including clerics, played a significant role in the events of Aug. 19, 1953—and that after an earlier failed coup attempt, the CIA was left in the dark.

Chinese propagandists are throwing around wild allegations in Hong Kong—but the leadership may really believe them.

Throughout American history, a lack of presidential empathy has triggered international calamity.

Belief in foreign spies is projection about the Party's own overseas activities.

That’s what the CIA said when it had Osama bin Laden in its sights after 9/11. Instead, America veered off into Iraq, and the result is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who appeared in a new video this week.

With Dan Coats’s job as director of national intelligence on the line, senior CIA officials avoid criticizing the president.

On the podcast: A former CIA analyst on Beijing’s interference in the affairs of other countries.