Hughes was going to do the unthinkable with it: mine manganese nodules right from the ocean floor. So, when the Glomar sailed ...

Delve into the modern history of the CIA with Tim Weiner's The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century. Learn about covert ...

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President Harry Truman established the CIA in 1947 to prevent future Pearl Harbors and to deal with the developing threats of the Cold War. He did not know this espionage agency would later topple ...

The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in this powerful account of the Central Intelligence Agency actions since the ...

Tim Weiner likens the Central Intelligence Agency to a fortified medieval city, where locked castles contain vast libraries. “If you had the keys,” he writes, “a billion secrets were at your ...

Tim Weiner likens the Central Intelligence Agency to a fortified medieval city, where locked castles contain vast libraries. “If you had the keys,” he writes, “a billion secrets were at your ...

The CIA required a classified written authorization, known as a “finding,” from Bush to conduct the flights and other aspects of the operation, which fell under the spy agency’s covert action powers, ...

The CIA has taken an approach to its technology that is akin to McDonald’s franchises, allowing mission areas to have more autonomy over their IT decisions. When the CIO at the nation’s premier spy ...

Revelations that Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of President Hamid Karzai and purportedly a major figure in Afghanistan's drug trade, is on the CIA payroll could put the intelligence organization at odds ...

The shadowy and sometimes bizarre operations of the CIA are kept top secret for many years, deemed necessary to protect national security. It’s only decades later American citizens learn of alleged ...