| 单词 | CIA |
| 例句 | In fact, they had been top secret operations planned by the CIA. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As it turned out, being the Agency's first female officer in Moscow had its advantages: The KGB never caught on to her real position in the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For nine years, Ames delivered to the Soviets a steady stream of secrets, betraying more than one hundred CIA operations against the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In 1962, CIA officials learned that the Soviets might be willing to exchange Powers for a senior KGB agent, Colonel Rudolf Abel, who was then languishing in a US federal prison in Georgia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z During these early months of her Moscow assignment, Marti knew that her fellow CIA agents could not truly accept that the KGB hadn't noticed her. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Agency's spy hunters now had a lead on a possible mole and an explanation for all the losses the CIA had suffered since 1985. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Deep inside the CIA, these questions sowed confusion and mistrust among the Agency's most senior agents and leaders. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At one point, lacking a better plan, the CIA considered signaling to Penkovsky simply to toss the package over the wall of the US embassy as he walked by. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This is what had brought them to the CIA safe house. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Those bozos. Hey, Stone. I heard a new CIA joke. Okay: how can we be sure the CIA wasn’t involved in the Kennedy assassination?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z In this new and unpredictable world, the CIA could only scramble to keep up. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The trick was not to avoid surveillance, the CIA learned, because that would only invite more suspicion. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The trench, the CIA learned, contained special communications cables to carry the latest intelligence about the Soviets' nuclear weapons program. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The CIA men offered Wolf an escape plan if he decided to change his mind and work with the Americans. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At the time he was working piecemeal for the CIA. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The CIA had developed this suicide device at the cost of $3 million. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "I was able to get a look at every blade of grass in the Soviet Union," CIA director Allen Dulles said. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After all, the Stasi was defunct, its infamous archives looted—many of them sold off, he suspected, to the CIA itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Hathaway's job was to keep the CIA from being penetrated by moles from rival spy services—above all, the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His personnel file painted the picture of a CIA agent who was deeply knowledgeable about the KGB but also careless, clumsy, and erratic. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That same year, CIA operatives made contact with a senior official in the Soviet Foreign Ministry who was stationed at the Russian embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The two senior officials had been meeting to explore ways that the CIA and KGB might work together, now that the Soviet Union was crumbling from within. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But this "victory" shook the CIA—the agency that led the fight in that nearly fifty-year war—to its core. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The CIA had broken through the wall of secrecy around the Soviet Union at last. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In fact, CIA officials privately believed that a pilot could never survive a high-altitude ejection from the spy plane. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The plane's high-tech cameras generated a bonanza of intelligence, like nothing the CIA had ever seen. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Only a handful of people in the CIA and MI6 knew about the operation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This claim would spark a belief that still seethes to this day, especially among urban blacks, that the CIA itself was the chief sponsor of the American crack trade. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The case contained a secret compartment, in which Ames had stashed a document describing the CIA's relationship with the spy, along with his photograph; Ames never found it again. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Penkovsky's CIA handlers deemed his material so valuable that they decided to protect his identity—from possible moles or potential leaks—with an extra layer of secrecy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z America's leaders celebrated the Berlin Tunnel as one of the CIA's clearest victories in the Cold War—and evidence of the West's superior technological capabilities and spycraft. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “You were recruited by the CIA and have been out of the country on a secret mission.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z She had been unmasked as a CIA operative, thereby rendering her useless as an undercover agent in the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Hunt, formerly of the CIA, had been assigned to the group by Charles Colson. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "It was a catalogue of virtually every CIA asset within the Soviet Union," Cherkashin said. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was not seen as an unusual request from a senior KGB official like Yurchenko, who regularly toured the city to meet secretly with agents he was running against the CIA and other Western powers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Once his identity was established, the CIA spirited Goleniewski away to a safe house and eventually to Washington, where he handed over hundreds of names of Soviet and Eastern Bloc spies to the Americans. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z What Nixon didn’t know was that the CIA had bugs in President Thieu’s office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The CIA stashed rubles, gold coins, and even jewelry in the emergency kit for pilots to bargain with in case they were captured. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Actually,” said Shadow, “I meant, what agency are you with? CIA? FBI?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z KGB surveillance teams trailed, photographed, and harassed every known or suspected CIA employee in Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This would be a tough posting for any young CIA officer, let alone the first female field agent ever sent to spy against the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z James McCord, a former CIA technician now working with the Plumbers, set up a listening post in a room of the Howard Johnson’s motel across the street from the Watergate. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On June 13, 1985, he simply walked out of CIA headquarters with his precious and dangerous cargo and drove home. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z So the CIA would have to create a piece of equipment capable of sensing electronic signals without penetrating the cable itself and without being detected. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Despite its being unmasked by the Soviets, Operation Gold secured Harvey's reputation inside the CIA as one of its wiliest and smartest operatives. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His outlook infected the entire CIA, making it a place where no one could be trusted, and where potential Soviet recruits were assumed to be double agents sent by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He’s always going on about TokNation like it’s his personal CIA. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z You can hear them sometimes, the American secret police, the CIA, tapping into our calls to listen. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The CIA finally had to learn how to delve into the heart of the Soviet Union itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Edward Lee Howard, in CIA terms, had gone "black." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When he finally returned to CIA headquarters in 1959, Director Allen Dulles awarded Harvey the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, in recognition of his victories in Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I was only trying to be friendly, and he was acting like this was a CIA interrogation under hot lights. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z That way, even inside the CIA, it would appear as if Penkovsky's material were coming from different sources, making it more difficult to trace it back to him. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z From his office in the Soviet-East European Division, Ames pulled secret files on every Soviet agent who had switched sides and was now working with the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The CIA wanted to make sure that no one on the ground could retrieve the plane's sensitive equipment intact. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By 1951, Harvey had managed to scramble all the way to the top of the CIA's hierarchy, becoming the head of counterintelligence in just four years. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At CIA headquarters in Langley, the mood darkened. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z CIA analysts soon identified a single manhole, located on Warsaw Boulevard in Moscow, as the best place for an agent to gain access to the trench. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The CIA had few contacts inside the Iron Curtain and even fewer active agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Hunt went to a CIA doctor for the drugs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Like actors on a stage, new CIA agents posted to the Soviet Union played carefully crafted roles. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For more than a decade following Penkovsky's arrest, Moscow had been a virtual no-go zone for CIA operations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Without warning, the CIA fired Howard, ending his career just as it was getting started. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Marti watched as a CIA technician, toiling away in the cramped embassy office, carefully assembled a dead-drop package designed to look like a beat-up pack of cigarettes. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And if that was true, what about all the thousands of pages of secret intelligence gathered by the CIA through the tapped cables? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Four years later, following Pelton's arrest and confession to the FBI, the CIA understood why. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z To test his theory, Ames prepared a document with the names of two Soviet intelligence officers who had approached the CIA to work as double agents for the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The tape of Nixon and his staff plotting to use the CIA to block the FBI’s investigation of the Watergate break-in proved to be the smoking gun prosecutors were looking for. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The highest-ranking KGB official ever to defect to the CIA had simply walked away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The male agents at the CIA Moscow station handled the first dead drops. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Richard Jacob, a young CIA officer in Moscow, had been arrested and deported from the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z How could a career CIA agent like Ames, a man who had never made more than $60,000 per year, live such a life of luxury? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As the year came to a close, some people inside the CIA began to fear that the problem lay not with the relative strength of the KGB but deep inside the Agency itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For the CIA, unexpected news from Moscow cut short celebrations over the end of the standoff with the USSR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Following HERO'S arrest, they had stopped recruiting Soviet informers under orders from James Jesus Angleton, the secretive and paranoid CIA chief of counterintelligence. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When he met with his CIA contacts, he would excuse himself briefly to lower his pants and retrieve the notes. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The mole "Mr. Robert" had been a CIA trainee several years earlier, along with his wife, Mary, who was also a CIA agent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The same reason the CIA had such shoddy intelligence in nonwhite countries. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z KGB observers bugged CIA agents' phones and cataloged their daily routines. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Ames gambled that as chief of counterintelligence for the Soviet division of the CIA, approaching the KGB couldn't be simpler. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The early reports sent from Yurchenko's interview in Rome indicated that the CIA had a big fish on its hands. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They would get top officials at the CIA to tell the FBI that Watergate had been an intelligence operation, a matter of national security. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was not until a friend suggested that she join the CIA herself that Marti could imagine a path forward. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of the CIA's top officials waited for Yurchenko on the tarmac. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The CIA's Moscow station was a windowless office—a "box," she called it, because the space was so cramped. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, CIA analysts discovered that the trench connected the Soviet Ministry of Defense with a closely guarded installation on the outskirts of the city: the Krasnaya Pakhra Nuclear Weapons Research Institute. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As Walker's betrayal sank in at the CIA, even more unwelcome news arrived from overseas—this time from the very heart of Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Battered, its reputation deeply dented, the CIA looked inward. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Penkovsky also gave the CIA and MI6 a wealth of information about the Soviet leadership, including both rumors and concrete information about political squabbles inside the Kremlin and the Soviet military hierarchy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Saxe was one of a new generation of CIA operatives who pushed hard to get more aggressive in recruiting Soviet informers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Using Penkovsky's data as a guide, CIA officials came to a shocking conclusion: The Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba were close to being fully operational. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But with the real possibility of nuclear conflict with the USSR—and the failure of the CIA to send its own agents behind the Iron Curtain—the time had come to make it happen. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Penkovsky had gotten his hands on a technical manual describing the same R-12 missiles that the CIA had detected in Cuba. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For the second time in her brief CIA career, Marti headed out into the Moscow night. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She was under deep cover, moving quietly toward her first dead drop with the CIA's most important Soviet informant. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The information in the cable hit the CIA like a bombshell. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And an angry Krassilnikov was not ready to let the CIA agent go. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Using these images, engineers at the "Farm," a secret 9,000-acre CIA training facility in Virginia, were able to construct a mock-up of the manhole. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In essence, the OSS was the nation’s spy program—the forerunner of the CIA. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As the interrogation unfolded, however, he was no less astonished that Marti Peterson was a CIA spy than the KGB agents assembled around them. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At TRIGON's request, while he was still in Colombia, the CIA had assembled a second pen, containing a breakable vial of cyanide poison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Powers faded from public view, but what he could not know is that for the next two years, the CIA maneuvered in secret to bring its man home. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In 1960, the CIA was totally unprepared to "run" an informant in the capital city of its mortal enemy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Beatrix Halliday patted her gray hair and said, “The boys in the warehouse think you fund the CIA, and the ladies at the front desk think you’re a descendant of the Queen of England.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But inside the walls of the CIA, the spymasters absorbed hard lessons. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And he had occasionally made large cash deposits into his checking account—far more money than he earned from his salary at the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he rattles off all these names of people I can never keep straight: CIA Deputy Chief, Congo Station Chief. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On November 2, 1962, an encrypted message arrived at the secure communications center deep inside the newly constructed CIA headquarters on an enormous campus in Langley, Virginia, housing thousands of employees. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For years after, debates raged inside the US government about Yurchenko's authenticity and over how the CIA could possibly have let him escape. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z News that Powers had not landed as planned in Norway jolted the CIA, and the president was alerted immediately that the U-2 spy plane had almost certainly gone down. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This informant—whose identity remains unknown to this day—provided the CIA with precious information about who was using which cables and when. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Born in Danville, Indiana, in 1915, Harvey's upbringing was a world away from the elite childhoods of most CIA officials, a fact he was conscious of throughout his career. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When Marti Peterson arrived in Russia, her fellow agents at the CIA's Moscow station were struggling to shake off a long season of hibernation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z My CIA training overrode my wishful thinking," Howard said, "and I also recalled one of James Bond's maxims: 'Once is coincidence. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The CIA's Moscow station was about to come alive again. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Now she snapped photographs with John's camera wherever she went, creating a visual map of the Russian capital for the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And that's when the CIA and Britain's Secret Intelligence Service decided to buddy up and formulate a secret coup to overthrow Mossadegh. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z On one occasion, he was asked to translate Russian reports from a Soviet diplomat being recruited by the CIA in Bogotá, Colombia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Admiral Stansfield Turner, who headed the CIA in the late 1970s, said that the Agency "missed by a mile." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Bill Harvey knew that for all the CIA's efforts, a big question hung over its attempts to look deep inside the Soviet power structure. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Most of the actionable intelligence the National Security Agency and CIA scoop comes from open source information. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Oshiro didn’t know what was in the bags, but the CIA sent the intelligence gathered from all the remote camps to Washington, DC, for Nixon’s bombing campaign in Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The CIA determined that Blake had passed over 4,000 documents to the Soviets, many of them containing highly classified information about British and American spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The idea for a spy plane that could strike deep into Soviet territory had captured the imaginations of CIA planners since the beginning of the Cold War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Kind of ironic that today the United States would really love more democratic countries in the Middle East, and Iran was one, until the CIA got involved. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Inside the CIA, one man in particular fretted about Howard's espionage skills. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Given time, legions of men are drawn into the game, both ebony and ivory: the Congo’s CIA station chief, the National Security Council, even the President of the United States. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And that's because the double agent Cherkashin was running inside the highest ranks of the CIA was far more valuable to him than punishing a single renegade KGB colonel. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His CIA contact would then meet him at the Berlin Hilton, where they would debrief the day's events. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On April 17, 1961, supported by the CIA and by planes flown by American pilots, a force of 1,400 Cuban exiles opposed to Castro landed at the Bay of Pigs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Not since the days of George Blake's double cross had the CIA found itself in such a hall of mirrors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Several days later and thousands of miles away, at CIA headquarters in Washington, DC, experts pored over the letters and debated their authenticity. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That summer the CIA completed a report titled “The Vietnamese Communists’ Will to Persist.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "Jib" was short for "jack-in-the-box," the name given to pop-up dummies developed by the CIA to make it seem as if a passenger were riding in a car. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Unarmed and defenseless against enemy fighters or antiaircraft fire, the U-2 was purpose-built to house powerful cameras designed for the CIA by Edwin Land, the founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Most were top secret cables and reports on Vietnam from the U.S. military, the CIA, and other agencies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The powerful Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called for the CIA to be disbanded. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And then Dulles handed Harvey a plum: control of Division D, putting him in charge of the CIA's covert operations around the world. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z George Kisevalter, a CIA agent who had worked in the Soviet bloc, managed to determine the Russian man's identity from clues in the doctored photograph. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He wanted the CIA to pass him instructions for how to give them a large package, containing information on every known missile or rocket inside the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But Hunt suggested they contact Bernard Barker, a Cuban American living in Miami who had done clandestine work for the CIA in the past. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When she returned later to CIA headquarters, Worthen visited the Office of Security in the Agency's Counterintelligence Center. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the heat of the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kisevalter was told bluntly that the CIA "does not communicate with an enemy intelligence service." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was highly trained, intelligent, and one of their own: the first CIA agent to defect to the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A short time after the trial and conviction, one of Ames's disillusioned CIA colleagues reflected on the larger meaning of his capture and sentencing. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That evening, the CIA's station chief in Moscow opened the door to his office, which was hidden deep inside the US embassy on Novinskiy Boulevard. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Worse, neither Marti nor anyone in the CIA knew TRIGON's fate—or if he would ever resurface. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But it was Blake's detailed knowledge of Operation Gold that threw Bill Harvey's CIA colleagues into disarray. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a curious statement, but Tom Hannah brushed it off and let Yurchenko walk out; though he was under the care of the CIA, the KGB defector was not a prisoner. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But now he could not help Hathaway and the CIA, for the simple reason that he had no clue who the mole might be. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was the end, for a long time, of the CIA's confidence in its ability to infiltrate the main enemy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She holds up a stapled set of papers that look like a formerly classified, now somewhat declassified CIA document. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The Soviets had taken no risks: The trench was designed to keep the CIA away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The KGB watched and followed all US citizens working for the American embassy in Moscow, because, as the Soviets knew, any one of them could be an undercover agent for the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Like all CIA operatives, Marti strapped to her body an SRR-100, a special radio receiver that allowed her to pick up the radio transmissions of KGB surveillance teams that might be tailing her. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z From this modest, cramped perch, Harvey conjured up big plans for the CIA's secret war against the communist enemy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Under instructions from the CIA, Murphy asked a question that only Powers could know the answer to: "What was the name of your high-school football coach?" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They had already been briefed on the Tolkachev case when the CIA learned some unsavory things about Edward Lee Howard's past, including theft and lying on a polygraph test. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was a veritable existential identity crisis, a male stripper with more aliases than a covert CIA agent. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The CIA's counterintelligence chief retired in the late 1980s, but when the Wall fell, he rejoined the Agency to take care of some unfinished business. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The CIA operated covertly in Vietnam, as it did in many countries, and let the Vietnamese generals know the Americans would turn a blind eye to their plans. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z And that work fell to the masters of the intelligence game, the spies of the CIA and KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The spy descended the staircase, swarmed by CIA and FBI agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In short, Edward Lee Howard understood exactly what he was up against, and he had been trained—by the CIA no less—to beat the FBI at its own game. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In exchange, the Agency offered him a new life, even taking him to Montreal to meet with his Russian girlfriend, who had traveled there with the CIA's help. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As a sign of this transformation, his conversation partner was none other than Milton Bearden of the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z From the outset, stories circulated on the street that crack and other drugs were being brought into black neighborhoods by the CIA. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The most oft-cited story was that an American consular official with connections to the CIA had tipped off the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the completion of the course, CIA trainees were tested by top FBI surveillance teams. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Over time, the Meggers-Roosevelt dispute grew bitter and personal; inevitable in a contemporary academic context, it featured charges of colonialism, elitism, and membership in the CIA. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Their staying power,” advised the CIA, “is inherently superior.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "If I need some material fast or an idea fast," Kennedy said, "CIA is the place I have to go." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Wolf assumed that the call would connect to the CIA's Berlin station as well as to CIA headquarters in Langley. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “If I were running a big house like the CIA,” Hoagland said to me once, “I’d breed agents by raising white kids in your standard Asian household. Discipline farms.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a keepsake, the one possession that remained from her previous life with her husband, John, who also worked for the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As TRIGON's value as a spy grew, so did Marti's special status as the only CIA agent who had escaped the notice of KGB watchers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was the head of South Africa’s equivalent of the CIA, and was also involved with military intelligence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything Yurchenko said to the CIA made its way back to the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Working together, the CIA and FBI conducted a painstaking search, cross-referencing everyone who had access to the names of the agents executed by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One agent inside the CIA never gave up on the idea that a mole had burrowed into the heart of the America spy service. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One of the men had identified himself to police as a former CIA agent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Half the time he doesn't know whether he's using his CIA crash course in Spanish or his prep school Latin or his college French. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Fearing more losses of precious assets, the CIA canceled operations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Burton Gerber was reading a classified cable sent directly from Rome. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z William Harvey was an "American James Bond," in the words of Edward Lansdale—himself one of the most storied CIA operatives of the Cold War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But long before the Wall went up, the CIA was already scoping out new battlefields in the secret war with the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Soon, regular U-2 missions provided Eisenhower and the CIA with razor-sharp images of military bases, missile launching pads, and more. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In late November 1954, CIA director Allen Dulles emerged from a meeting with President Eisenhower with orders to develop a top secret aircraft. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z What was the CIA's next big move going to be? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He’s gone from weary businessman to CIA operative. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z According to the CIA, the bombing campaign was costing the United States nine dollars and sixty cents for every one dollar of damage inflicted on North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This new, halting relationship between two old enemies would demand more of the CIA and KGB, as America and Russia asked hard questions about each other's intentions—and motives. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Only a small circle of CIA personnel had access to the message, but the information it carried had terrifying implications for the entire spy agency. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The CIA recruited the Air Force's best pilots to test the U-2. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In forty years of battling against the CIA, the Soviets had never garnered so much intelligence from a single secret agent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Marti Peterson was the only CIA agent in Moscow who could move freely throughout the city. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was, in the words of one CIA agent, "a bonanza." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I really want to go to the CIA. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Harvey fit the bill perfectly, and the CIA scooped him up immediately. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It soon grew, thanks to Harvey's stubborn determination, into the largest and most expensive espionage operation ever launched by the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When I was young, I imagined that my dad was a spy, and worked for the CIA. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Only a few people inside the CIA and the White House had been informed about Powers's top secret mission, Operation Overflight. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It finally seemed as if the CIA could breach the Iron Curtain. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The CIA man who introduced himself as Mr. Hathaway—"thin faced and graying," according to Wolf—announced that he was a personal representative of CIA director William Webster. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Huh. It kind of reminds me of the codes etched into the Kryptos sculpture located on the grounds of the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The CIA simply did not want to believe that one of its own could have betrayed its deepest secrets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Covert CIA teams had previously photographed the site from every angle. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Desperate to learn more, the CIA turned to one of the most expensive pieces of equipment they had ever built. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After the U-2 incident, CIA officials approached Donovan to act as an unofficial broker in a spy trade of Abel for Powers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Bissell and his engineers had taken care to leave no trace of the CIA's involvement in the flight. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He would have made a great CIA agent—I'm serious; I know guys who work for the CIA. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She reassured herself by recalling some advice from a CIA colleague who had worked for many years under the harsh conditions in Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Within the office, a team of CIA operatives gathered at all hours around small desks, surrounded by maps of Moscow and photographs of potential meeting places and drop sites. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The CIA also admitted that, in the midst of the War on Drugs, it blocked law enforcement efforts to investigate illegal drug networks that were helping to fund its covert war in Nicaragua. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The CIA chose a dead-drop site on a railroad bridge over the Moskva River, away from the city center, near a sports stadium. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z By the middle of 1985, the KGB had thrown the CIA on the defensive. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For years, the Green Berets had been working for the CIA doing covert operations. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In the spring of that year, the CIA was thrown back on its heels by the first of several shattering revelations about treachery in its ranks. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Years later, the CIA pieced together what had happened to TRIGON. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the weeks following Howard's disappearance, in August and September of 1985, Yurchenko huddled with the CIA at the safe house, telling Hathaway and Ames everything he knew about the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The end of the spy wars left the CIA with a lot of cleaning up to do and unresolved questions to be reckoned with. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For example, there’s been much outrage expressed at President Trump’s bizarre behavior on a visit to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Through the looking glass: How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump? 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Walder was a sorority member at the University of Southern California when she decided, on a whim at a career fair, to apply to the CIA. Perspective | Should 007 be played by a woman? Why not? Seven books by women in the spy world show us how it’s done. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The young man has no idea he’s being played for a patsy by the CIA’s Islamabad station chief. 'Homeland' recap: Covert operation takes tragic turn 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z That story perhaps shows that while women are invaluable at the CIA, no one should be too surprised that they are every bit as ambitious and hardline as their male colleagues. Valerie Plame welcomes new breed of fictional female spy in Zero Dark Thirty 2012-12-15T16:11:14Z Frontline This new episode documents controversial interrogation methods used by the CIA. Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'Troy: Street Magic 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Politics aside, we hope a screenwriter will dare to consider the ultimate spy-movie twist: making the CIA top dogs heroes instead of fops and sociopaths. Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy? 2012-02-09T16:00:14Z And Naomi Watts did fine work as outed CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson in "Fair Game," but the movie seems to have disappeared without a trace; ditto for Carey Mulligan and "Never Let Me Go." Wake up, movie fans: It's time for this year's Oscar nominations 2011-01-22T00:06:21Z It’s the early 1980s and the KGB is determined to infiltrate a high-level CIA unit that is helping mujahedin rebels battle the Soviets in Afghanistan. 'The Americans' recap: KGB targets troubled CIA agent 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z He went missing in Bolivia, endured interrogation by the CIA, and was photographed playing basketball with the Cuban revolutionary leader – an episode that inspired a track called Hoops With Fidel. Gruff Rhys: my musical take on the communist Forrest Gump 2013-05-01T18:30:02Z They both have backgrounds in defense; him in the Marines and the State Department, her in the CIA. This Democrat thinks his opponent has an advantage because she’s a woman. Is he right? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z According to emails the CIA released under the Freedom of Information Act, Boal had extensive access to senior agency officials as he researched “Zero Dark Thirty.” Movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ stokes debate on CIA torture 2012-12-15T03:44:31Z In recent months, as the Russian hacking scandal hit and Trump’s feud with the CIA gained ever more media attention, that agency has proven another matter. Through the looking glass: How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump? 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z She tried, for a year, a slew of different things from therapy to CIA techniques to her husband talking her down from her anger to getting the kids to do more of the housework. From mansplainers to sexual assaulters, Kate Manne explains how society empowers men to harm women 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z But Ken Taylor - who said he feels slighted by the movie because it makes Canada look like a meek observer to CIA heroics in the rescue of six U.S. Ex-Canada ambassador slighted by Affleck's "Argo" 2013-02-23T17:28:08Z It was being bankrolled at the time by SIS and the CIA. British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith – review 2013-03-07T12:00:01Z The Tuesday torture report — which included descriptions of detainees undergoing extreme sleep deprivation and rectally infused meals — found that 26 of the 119 individuals held by the CIA throughout the program were wrongfully detained. Jon Stewart: Senate Torture Report Is a 'Deluge of Depravity' 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Anything done abroad in America’s name by the CIA, she wants to hear about. Homeland recap: season six, episode one – Fair Game 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Much of the story parallels events dramatized in "Zero Dark Thirty," starring Jessica Chastain as a CIA analyst named Maya who obsessively pursues bin Laden for years. Sundance doc adds new take on hunt for bin Laden 2013-01-22T21:15:11Z For the first time, the CIA teams began to consider that the Kuwaiti was with "the Sheikh" even now. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z "Allegiance," which starred Hope Davis as a former Russian agent with a son in the CIA, was pulled after just five episodes. NBC cancels Katherine Heigl comeback vehicle 'State of Affairs' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z How did you come up with the name of the CIA operations? Bourne Director Tony Gilroy on Why Legacy Is the Ultimate Conspiracy Movie 2012-08-08T12:00:51Z A Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the CIA's detainee program found that such methods produced no useful intelligence. Lawmakers say CIA may have misled filmmakers 2013-01-04T01:23:07Z Zero Dark Thirty's torture scenes create the impression that these interrogations provided early clues as to the identity of Osama bin Laden's courier, who would ultimately lead the CIA to the man himself. Zero Dark Thirty's torture scenes are controversial and historically dubious 2013-01-25T13:42:00Z The season continues her on this journey away from the CIA, which works particularly well in the New York setting. Homeland hits New York City: 'Things are very disrupted here at home' 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z It was a major victory for al-Qaida and a stunning defeat for the CIA. Review: 'The Triple Agent' is a page turner 2011-07-18T10:17:08Z A year later, the young woman returned to Cuba with CIA backing, but confessed the poisoning plot to Castro after telling the prime minister she still loved him. Jennifer Lawrence to play Fidel Castro's lover 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Sometimes stepmoms can be hard to read: is she a mom, a sister or a cyborg programmed by the CIA because your real stepmom has scaled the gates again? From the time Trump's tweets disappeared to David Davis's Brexit diary: satirists take on the news 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z It's the CIA equivalent of the 1940s joke about a meeting of the American Communist Party where everyone turns out to be an undercover FBI agent. Killers: My Husband Is an Assassin (in a Very Bad Movie) 2010-06-05T02:35:00Z Barry Diflorio¸the local CIA station chief, is given the task of monitoring the spread of communism on the island after “that Bay of Pigs flop show”. Gang stories 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Hoffman played maverick CIA agent Gust Avrakotos, who partners with Texas congressman Wilson to arm the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war with Afghanistan. WATCH: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s 7 Greatest Movie Roles 2014-02-02T21:20:19Z Heigl is set to return to television in November in a new NBC series, "State of Affairs," in which she plays a CIA analyst who advises the president of the United States. Katherine Heigl, Duane Reade end lawsuit over actress' photo 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z “He just thought he was using those words that real politicians use. Like maybe when the CIA briefs Trump, it sounds like Japanese to him.” Late night TV roundup: John Oliver jokingly blames Trump on Oprah 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z In July 1960, after Kennedy became the Democratic nominee, Eisenhower directed the CIA to brief JFK on Cuba and other agency activities abroad. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The shop, which started as a basement pop-up in 1957, is the revenue-generating arm of the CIA’s nonprofit Employee Activity Association. Meet the man behind the CIA gift store, the country’s most secretive swag shop 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z On Friday, the movie’s opening day, the Washington Post quoted the now-retired CIA station chief, identified only as Bob, as strongly denying he ever issued such an order or anything like it. Author of 13 Hours stands by account depicted in Benghazi film 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z This type of baseless allegation is exactly why she left the CIA, she tells him. Homeland recap: season six, episode two – The Man in the Basement 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Whether ghost politicos or CIA spooks, all concur on Marley’s real-life good fortune: The Singer survived — a miracle and, in a book rife with secret murders, a stinging irony. ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ cuts a swath across Jamaican history Both the CIA and the Pentagon said at the time that their interactions with the filmmakers, who won an Oscar for the movie The Hurt Locker, were routine and normal. Writer says bin Laden film, trailer not politically motivated 2012-08-08T21:07:43Z Jessica Chastain, the winner at the Golden Globes, has been her main competition as a driven CIA operative searching for Osama bin Laden in "Zero Dark Thirty." `Argo' on a roll with big win at SAG Awards 2013-01-28T12:54:11Z Morell joined the CIA out of college and never stopped being impressed by the organization and its people. 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The CIA accused the officer of breaking his secrecy agreement with the U.S. Book on bin Laden raid coming out Sept. 11 2012-08-22T20:46:04Z But Saul feels obligated to act in America’s best interest, just like he did during his distinguished CIA career. 'Homeland' recap: CIA-ordered airstrike turns into fiasco 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, for example, a number of Soviet defectors told the CIA and MI5 they were overrun by double agents. An intelligence expert's view on The Americans 2013-06-16T18:00:04Z The CIA continued with this program covertly for four or five years, and it didn't work. How Maura Tierney learned to identify with a "monstrous" torturer 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z In 2007, to cite just one example, the CIA released documents that revealed the agency’s collaboration with the Cosa Nostra in a failed 1960 attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro. How 'Suicide Squad' Recalls a Chapter in American History 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z When an Air Force drone pilot and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA and the stakes increase, his nerves and marriage begin to fray. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Not as a ruthless Italian mafioso from New Jersey, but as a ruthless CIA boss who is only referred to as "the director". Zero Dark Thirty: a bluffer's guide 2013-01-21T12:04:50Z But the story of how the CIA used the cover of a trashy sci-fi movie for the extraction of six Americans from Iran in 1980 was based on fact. Baftas: stars dress for show not snow as awards hail director Ben Affleck 2013-02-10T21:57:39Z It’s about an American double agent in post-war Berlin working for the nascent CIA who is actually working for the KGB. All the Presidents’ Spies: Blackwater-founder Erik Prince is the latest Trump cut-out to parlay with Putin’s men 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z I might have looked askance at Rizzo’s rationales for what I still consider profound moral and tactical mistakes on the part of the CIA. Perspective | Only in Washington: The CIA lawyer, the film critic and the obscure 1950s movie that forged their unlikely bond 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Beyoncé was almost certainly following the orders of her president and his advisers – a little like I do in my covert role for the CIA. Was Beyoncé wrong to lip-synch at President Obama's inauguration? 2013-01-26T18:00:01Z He studied Arabic in the Army and was assigned to a desert outpost in Saudi Arabia after he joined the CIA in 1960. 'Good Spy' scrutinizes Middle East CIA officer Robert Ames 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z But what most of those who toiled on the 10th floor could not know was that their suite, the teleprinters, steaks and martinis were paid for by the CIA. Ian McEwan on Sweet Tooth – Guardian book club 2013-07-13T09:29:00Z But in fact, the Hyannis Port meeting was part of Dulles’ campaign to keep his job at the CIA. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z “Part of the animosity was personal, and part of the reason that the CIA and FBI had different institutional missions,” he added. 'They totally underestimated al-Qaida': The Looming Tower and America's pre-9/11 complacency 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The natural assumption at the time would have been that they worked for a Cuban faction or the CIA , García said. Love in the time of surveillance: FBI agents tracked Gabriel García Márquez 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z A week later, a popular conservative columnist revealed that Wilson’s wife was herself a CIA agent, blowing her cover and effectively torpedoing her career. 'Terrifyingly relevant': why Doug Liman had to recut Fair Game 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z This was never made, though the CIA did later produce and distribute an cartoon for propaganda purposes. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z Determining that if they take out the general they'd be sacrificing themselves to save the CIA embarrassing headlines, Barney and his boys turn down the assignment. "Expendables" revels in excess 2010-08-05T01:30:00Z In December the acting director of CIA went public to criticise the film for taking "significant artistic licence, while portraying itself as being historically accurate". Zero Dark Thirty: the view from Pakistan 2013-01-27T19:00:00Z In Mendez's book "Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History," the six Americans' passage through the Tehran airport and onto the plane was uneventful. Underdog 'Argo' continues on charmed Oscar path 2013-01-31T14:14:10Z She also uncovers a CIA operation, supposedly dormant but apparently now in play. New in crime fiction: tales from Wales, Los Angeles and Cairo 2014-03-10T07:02:36Z "Then you're going to have to watch your children being tortured by the Saudis," said the CIA. Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson – digested read 2012-12-16T18:30:01Z Not one, but two female CIA agents are at the center of Katsu’s fast-paced “Red Widow.” Perspective | Should 007 be played by a woman? Why not? Seven books by women in the spy world show us how it’s done. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Key Globe contenders lined up largely as expected, with Steven Spielberg's Civil War saga "Lincoln" leading with seven nominations and two CIA thrillers - Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" and Ben Affleck's "Argo" - also doing well. Oscar snubs leave Globes with also-ran nominees 2013-01-13T17:25:10Z Served in the Office of Strategic Services, then the CIA. No ordinary lives: A tribute to Washington’s WWII veterans Frank Church runs for president in 1976 – he’s most famous for running this hard-hitting congressional investigation of the CIA and the FBI … He found G-men – the heroes of Hollywood – spying on Martin Luther King. “Star Wars” got us ready for Reagan: “You suddenly have permission to think in very juvenile terms about how history works” 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z There are brief chapters on how the CIA, Congress and the Justice Department responded to the committee’s report and how the media represented the program while it was classified. 'The Torture Report: A Graphic Adaptation' illustrates the grim reality of CIA interrogation techniques post 9/11 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z He wrote several other books, including a memoir in which he said nothing about the CIA and a follow-up to “Dangerous Mind,” in which he claimed further clandestine exploits. Chuck Barris, ‘Gong Show’ host, author of ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ dies at 87 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z It's a less blockbusting prospect: set in Belgium, with Eckhart by far the biggest name, as a single dad CIA enforcer now on the run from his former employers. Aaron Eckhart: 'You're giving me a heart attack' 2013-04-11T17:34:07Z This audience was very different: there seemed to be more servicemen, some diplomats, an ex-deputy director of the CIA, as well as Michèle Flournoy, tipped to be the next US secretary of defense. How The Great Game emptied the Pentagon 2011-03-01T21:29:00Z The US Senate Intelligence Committee has demanded more information about contacts between the CIA and the makers of Oscar favourite Zero Dark Thirty. CIA pressed over Bin Laden film 2013-01-04T01:35:23Z All three CIA agents retired from service in 2007 or 2008 and were given clearance to talk to the "Manhunt" filmmakers. "Zero Dark Thirty" entertaining but inaccurate: ex-CIA agents 2013-01-25T22:30:48Z “Stand down”, says the actor playing the CIA station chief in Michael Bay’s new film, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. Author of 13 Hours stands by account depicted in Benghazi film 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z A fired CIA officer, Edward J. Howard, sought revenge by selling agency secrets. Real-life 'Billion Dollar Spy' reads like a Cold War fiction thriller 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Recently, she helped Karen deLacy, a 32-year veteran operations officer who complained to the CIA last year about unfair treatment and gender discrimination. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z While the U.S. government is generously funding cultural activities of the group's members, the menacing shadow of CIA agents with confusing agendas haunts everyone's activities, public and private. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z The canceled drama "The Assets" — about the hunt for a CIA mole — returns to burn off its unaired episodes. TV This Week June 15-21: 'Masterpiece Mystery!,' 'Rectify' and more 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Before overreacting to this one, we should note that Burns is also reported to have said she was from the CIA and had a radio in her head. The disturbing power of the nude 2011-04-07T11:11:40Z Even when his character appears to be in charge, like his CIA agent in "Argo," you're not surprised that the Americans he's supposed to be saving in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are nervous. Ben Affleck gets the manipulated man's every twist and turn right 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Stewart first began working with MacFarlane nine years ago when he was offered the role of deputy director of the CIA on the animated series "'American Dad!" Patrick Stewart's new roles more down to Earth than sci-fi work 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z One of the books that I got into or philosophies that I got into actually came through "The Old Man" when I talked to . . . this former CIA guy. Jeff Bridges on the Dude, making "The Old Man" and the experience of "dancing with my mortality" 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z I met with CIA officers who were generous with offering their time and information and I took a tour of Langley Institute and found this incredibly illuminating. Claire Danes switches gears for "Homeland" TV drama 2011-09-30T12:33:45Z After the events of the first novel, he returned to the CIA and became a legendary agent. Book World: James Grady’s ‘Last Days of the Condor’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z And last year’s “American Spy,” by Lauren Wilkinson, was lauded for its incisive rendering of an American woman’s conflicted loyalties when she is enlisted by the CIA to spy on a revolutionary in Burkino Faso. Review | Kwei Quartey’s ‘The Missing American’ launches a new detective series. It’s a gem of a debut. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Lone survivor … Jessica Chastain as Maya, a CIA agent obsessed with the search for Osama Bin Laden, in Zero Dark Thirty. Zero Dark Thirty: the US election vehicle that came off the rails 2013-01-18T19:31:01Z Simultaneously charismatic and chilling, Rodriguez is one of the stars of “The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs,” an addictive if perplexing documentary that premieres this weekend on Showtime. Oh, the suffering of the CIA: In Showtime’s “The Spymasters,” America’s chief spooks bare their souls on the pain of the terror war 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Wilson tells the Times she's frustrated by portrayals of female CIA agents in popular culture that emphasize their looks rather than their brains. Report: Valerie Plame Wilson to pen suspense books 2011-03-19T08:31:04Z That didn’t keep the president from making Miller’s reporting error a major issue as he raged during his CIA visit: “This is how dishonest the media is.” The traditional way of reporting on a president is dead. And Trump’s press secretary killed it. 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Imitating the world of James Bond, regardless of its practicality, was undoubtedly a good political move for CIA director Dulles in seeking re-appointment by Kennedy. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z “I remember thinking, ‘She was in the CIA?’ ” he says. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z These films, about a brainwashed CIA killing machine who gradually recovers his memory and goes rogue, would appeal most strongly to Trump’s particular combination of short attention span and heightened paranoia. Six surveillance films to make Trump paranoid 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Not many minutes later, she's being pursued by the CIA, which follows her to Morocco, Germany and other scenic destinations. 'Hanna': A feral teen with secret-agent tendencies 2011-04-07T20:47:19Z On the run together, Frost deftly plants doubts in greenhorn Weston's mind about whether the CIA is worthy of the younger man's loyalty. 'Safe House': Denzel is a fun break from walls of familiarity 2012-02-08T20:22:04Z A Pentagon email also claims that Mark Boal was briefed by the CIA "with the full knowledge and full approval/support" of Leon Panetta, the former CIA director and subsequently US secretary of defence. Did Zero Dark Thirty have secret links to CIA? US Senate vows to find out 2013-01-03T12:32:25Z The CIA and some Western countries suspect Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing just over six months ago. AMC Theatres pursues Saudi expansion despite journalist's killing 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z But you didn’t exactly become — I'm sure you are somewhat familiar with the case of Valerie Plame, the former CIA officer who became the center of a political controversy. "I never set out to be a whistleblower": Katharine Gun tells the true story of "Official Secrets" 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z That’s very common, and the CIA by design is a secretive organization. A Former CIA Analyst on the New Osama bin Laden Documentary, Manhunt 2013-05-01T14:45:23Z The CIA office is located at the Ariana hotel, just a few blocks away from the Presidential Palace and the U.S. embassy, and used by the CIA as a Kabul base. American killed in attack at Kabul CIA base 2011-09-26T10:18:00Z In "Argo", which is based on a real account, Affleck also plays the lead role of a CIA agent entrusted with extracting six Americans from revolutionary Iran after the U.S. embassy is stormed. Affleck wins directors' top award as "Argo" hurtles toward Oscars 2013-02-03T08:34:23Z They’ve called on news organizations to reveal the name of the CIA officer who first raised concerns about Trump’s phone call with the president of Ukraine. News organizations resist Trump’s pressure to release whistleblower’s name 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z An air of secrecy that the CIA can only hope to emulate surrounds the wedding. Wedding bells awaken sleepy New York town 2010-07-30T02:51:00Z Four actors have already taken Jack Ryan around the world, each tweaking the character and resetting his age, his enemies and his status in the CIA. Jack Ryan Returns, This Time on Amazon 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Homeland is Showtime’s newly minted Best Drama, and its main character is a bipolar CIA agent played by Claire Danes. And the Top TV Words of the Year Are… 2012-09-25T12:00:34Z In her gripping memoir, Bakos gives readers an inside look at life in the CIA as an intelligence analyst and later, a targeting officer focused on top targets inside al-Qaeda. Perspective | Should 007 be played by a woman? Why not? Seven books by women in the spy world show us how it’s done. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z She plays a CIA officer, heading up the search for Osama Bin Laden, in a film based on first hand accounts. VIDEO: Jessica Chastain on making it big 2013-01-24T10:17:31Z Actually, he is an international spy from the Chinese intelligence services on loan to the CIA, and he has to save Gillian's kids from fiendish Russkie villains. Film review: The Spy Next Door 2010-03-18T23:45:00Z However, it was not just the CIA who started the nascent drug culture simmering in the United States. Timothy Leary’s liberation, and the CIA’s experiments! LSD’s amazing, psychedelic history 2013-12-14T21:00:00Z Jolie plays a CIA operative who is accused of being a Russian spy in her upcoming movie "Salt." Jolie would not be worth her salt as real-life spy 2010-07-13T20:18:00Z Gary is a torpid man who works as a translator for the CIA in the Washington area. Book review: ‘A Map of Betrayal,’ by Ha Jin They died because they vowed to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces, and because they told the generals who wanted to launch a nuclear war over Cuba that they were mad. The coverup continues: The Kennedys in Hollywood 2011-04-01T14:01:00Z There’s so many movies that show the CIA is omniscient and far more efficient than it really is. Valerie Plame: Most female spies in pop culture are gun-wielding eye candy 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Zero Dark Thirty proves problematic in the face of the new report, though how inaccurate it is seems to depend on whether you ask the Senate committee or the CIA. What the Torture Report Reveals About Zero Dark Thirty 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z It stars Jessica Chastain as a CIA officer called "Maya" who uses intelligence gleaned from brutal interrogations, electronic surveillance and old-fashioned spying to track down bin Laden through his use of couriers. Bin Laden movie "Zero Dark Thirty" arrives, mired in controversy 2012-12-17T19:13:29Z Potential clients typically find her in one of two ways: through a friend in the intelligence community or through an old news item about her lawsuit against the CIA. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Be that as it may, The Quiet American had insight into the frailties of the early 1950s CIA and the untenability of US intervention in Vietnam. The top 10 classic spy novels 2013-06-26T10:37:16Z THE AMERICANS: Two hairpieced expert apparatchik moles evade Reagan’s illustrious CIA as nation sleeps. Style Invitational: Tinker with the recipe — slightly change the name of a food 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The first episode of season four was entitled “The Drone Queen”, with Mathison in Kabul, Afghanistan, as the CIA’s youngest ever station chief. Claire Danes on the end of Homeland: 'It was so nice to play such a badass' 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z She joined the CIA in 1989 and served in numerous positions, including acting director, chief of human resources, director of the office of corporate resources and chief of payroll, before retiring. Smithsonian secretary taps former intelligence officer as deputy 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z There's a telling moment in "The Report," the new drama based on former Senate investigator Daniel J. Jones's years-long inquiry into the CIA's post 9/11 "enhanced interrogation techniques." How Maura Tierney learned to identify with a "monstrous" torturer 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z From the award-winning novelist — after his death a young woman finds the diary of her Chinese-born father, a CIA agent convicted many years earlier of spying for China. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Ultimately, they will be stabbed in the back by bitter rivals back at headquarters, weasel-like politicians or somebody they used to work for in the CIA, which is sometimes referred to as "the firm". Joe Queenan's Guide to Movie Cliches: Action 2010-10-19T11:00:00Z Willis, 55, who plays an old-school CIA agent in his latest movie "RED", will front the campaign for at least a year, Trust said in a statement. Bruce Willis to front Russian bank ad campaign 2010-11-23T13:28:00Z The helicopter that the CIA somehow couldn't track. 2012: the best of hate-watch TV 2012-12-29T00:07:21Z For much of the liberal U.S. press here, the former covert operative at the center of the Bush Administration CIA leak scandal is the definition of star quality. Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z CIA STOP-IN OPTICIANS: The White House has limited its stock to rose-colored glasses. Style Invitational Week 1392: Picture This — a cartoon caption contest 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Some former CIA officials insist the agency’s coercive techniques elicited important information that helped locate the courier. Movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ stokes debate on CIA torture 2012-12-15T03:44:31Z Weaknesses Ties to the CIA, incompatible ties to Carrie, polygraph tests. Homeland: your season two primer 2012-10-05T14:00:00Z The new series looks at a young woman’s journey in the CIA, reported Variety. Factbox - Apple's media ambition: Original shows, news subscription 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z At first the CIA tried to communicate with him by stashing special writing pads in a dirty mitten at a "dead drop" near Tolkachev's apartment. Real-life 'Billion Dollar Spy' reads like a Cold War fiction thriller 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Chuck Hogan wrote the script for the film, which is to chronicle the terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound on Sept. 11, 2012 and a nearby CIA compound in Libya the next morning. With Benghazi film '13 Hours,' Michael Bay could enter political fray 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Although the filmmakers strove for authenticity, some elements — such as the CIA’s use of dog collars on detainees — are not true. Movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ stokes debate on CIA torture 2012-12-15T03:44:31Z But in those days, the CIA typically funneled women into desk jobs that involved writing and polishing reports, assessing sources, analyzing critical information and supporting case officers. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “He thinks Anderson Cooper is a CIA agent.” Perspective | I’m dating a conspiracy theorist. But it feels like I’m the one going crazy. 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z “American Made” stars Tom Cruise as a commercial airline pilot who’s recruited by the CIA to fly reconnaissance missions over South America. U.S. Box Office: Tom Cruise's 'American Made' dead even with 'It,' 'Kingsman 2' 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Michael Hayden, a former director of the CIA and the National Security Agency. Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows 2013-06-14T20:54:12Z The Post quoted Robert Richer, a 35-year CIA veteran and former chief of the agency’s Near East division, who said the ban was a “strategic mistake.” Trump’s Muslim travel ban is a win for ISIS: This must-see film about Syrian journalists shows why 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z “Jericho’s Fall,” which I reviewed in 2009, concerned a former CIA director who, although dying and possibly insane, had a number of people trying to kill him. Review: ‘Back Channel,’ by Stephen L. Carter It also found the CIA rarely reprimanded or held personnel accountable for "serious and significant violations" and "inappropriate activities". Jolie: US must lead against torture 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z CIA Director George Tenet told President George W. Bush that Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction was "a slam dunk." 'The Secret History of MI6': A history of Britain's spy agency 2010-10-20T23:38:00Z Taken to a safe house, he is subjected to a brisk waterboarding by the local CIA chief; apparently our authorities still thinks the technique works. Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy? 2012-02-09T16:00:14Z Five years ago, CIA officials founded a system called the Intellipedia on similar principles for use by intelligence services. 'The Smart Swarm': All together now ? members of species acting in concert 2010-09-24T21:56:00Z They were also shown the CIA's replica of Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Kathryn Bigelow given information on unit that killed Osama bin Laden 2012-05-24T00:35:29Z The CIA wanted to test the drug on prisoners to see if it could be used as an interrogation tool. The True Story Behind 'Black Mass' 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z It tells the story of a CIA rescue mission to bring home six stranded US diplomats who managed to escape the embassy compound before its full seizure by young revolutionaries. Iran to sue Hollywood for 'distorting image' of Islamic republic 2013-03-12T17:11:51Z Abigail Spanberger, a former covert operative in the CIA and now the next representative from Virginia’s 7th District, grabbed an office down the hall from Crow. Max Rose came to Congress to do big things. But first, he has to do dumb things. 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z He quickly became convinced that Kennedy had been killed as part of a CIA plot and he accused the government of staging a massive cover-up. Mort Sahl, comedian who satirized politics, dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Mysteriously, possibly through his family’s extensive connections with the spy world, he joined the CIA, but proved untrustworthy and incompetent. How Edward Snowden changed history 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z After the film first began screening Roher says he’s been depicted as CIA in Russian state media. Ukraine war recasts ‘Navalny’ as a prequel to Putin’s aims 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Almost 2 million viewers tuned in to Showtime’s CIA drama, a 9 percent increase from the season-two premiere, according to the . Homeland Premiere Gets Record Ratings Despite Breaking Bad 2013-10-01T13:33:41Z Montel Williams, ubiquitous pitchman for payday loans, compression sleeves and blenders, was on a national news program discussing the CIA’s controversial “enhanced interrogation” program? Why do cable news shows use so many celebrity ‘experts’? 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Once more, I looked over both shoulders with all the subtlety of a six-year-old pretending to be in the CIA. I won big on "Jeopardy!" So why does it still haunt me? 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Bill Paxton, who plays a ruthless, southern CIA operative who pries information from suspects about the missing money through games of Russian roulette, described Washington as "a great comedic actor." Who knew? Denzel Washington reveals comedic flair in '2 Guns' 2013-07-31T18:39:05Z The report, claimed headlines, “painted a picture of an agency out of control,” and “portrays a broken CIA devoted to a failed approach.” After Senate’s report on CIA interrogation tactics, it’s time to see who we really are 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z In time he will find his way to the US, join the army, get recruited into the OSS, the precursor of the CIA, and fight for his adoptive country. Chris Weitz: once upon a time in East LA 2011-07-28T20:55:01Z But as Ames moved from country to country over the next two decades, he helped expand CIA access and understanding amid the constant tumult. 'Good Spy' scrutinizes Middle East CIA officer Robert Ames 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Turns out Jenny is also a murderer, but a true psycho kind, and not of the CIA/spy variety. "The Flight Attendant" recap: Dapper death 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z He even hired a prominent former CIA covert operative to run a secret 8-year operation to spy on and divert an author who wanted to write a Feld family history. Ringling heirs go to trial over bereavement fight 2011-05-05T16:01:09Z Be that as it may, the girl – as she is at times disparagingly known – has no life apart from the CIA and no interest apart from hunting down Bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty: the US election vehicle that came off the rails 2013-01-18T19:31:01Z Documents released under freedom of information laws showed the Pentagon and CIA divulged secret information about the commando unit, known as Seal Team Six, which killed the September 11 mastermind. Kathryn Bigelow given information on unit that killed Osama bin Laden 2012-05-24T00:35:29Z “Trump. I told you. It was all in the cards. The FBI, the CIA.” Perspective | One day with Dick Gregory made me know he was truly one of a kind 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z In a letter to Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, three senators said the film-makers could have been misled by information provided by the CIA. CIA pressed over Bin Laden film 2013-01-04T01:35:23Z The Food Business School held its first intensive course last month at the CIA’s Napa Valley castle of a campus, Greystone. Why a culinary school decided to bridge business and education 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z And, again, they need to also understand that the CIA does not have a crystal ball and that there’s an element of risk in an open society. A Former CIA Analyst on the New Osama bin Laden Documentary, Manhunt 2013-05-01T14:45:23Z Not surprisingly, Ludtke, officially a member of the SS, ended up working for the CIA after the war. Wartime serial killer prowled shadows of Nazi Berlin 2014-02-12T20:13:40Z In 1961 the Americans were so starved for information about China that the CIA bragged about the ambush of a Chinese army truck by the Tibetan rebels. Clash of the titans 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Another Twitter user compared Fetterman to a retired star CIA agent from an action movie. Local campaign officials are becoming election-week celebrities. They’re too busy to notice. 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z First, let me say that despite how Hollywood depicts CIA operatives, it's truly a team effort. "Countdown to Zero": Valerie Plame Wilson's new anti-nuke crusade 2010-07-23T01:02:00Z Michael Morell, deputy director of the CIA, had been personally involved in the finding about Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction, and had felt more certain about that than he felt about this. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z Valerie Plame’s career as a CIA operative was cut short when her cover was blown by George W. Bush’s White House. Exclusive: An Excerpt from Valerie Plame’s Upcoming Spy Thriller 2013-05-28T19:43:55Z According to Chertoff — and also to his current business partner, Michael Hayden, the former CIA director, Bush was an active and thoughtful participant in briefings, knowledgeable about the issues, and responsible for the big decisions. Perspective | George W. Bush’s wars are now over. He retreated a while ago. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z But these same stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims are used politically to justify actions in the real world—U.S. wars, covert operations and drone strikes; CIA detention and torture; racist policing, domestic surveillance and militarized borders. “Homeland” accidentally aired subversive Arabic graffiti saying “Homeland is racist” 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The U.S. government did not confirm the base existed until 2013, when it released CIA archives saying the site was used to test top-secret spy planes. Tiny Nevada town near secretive Area 51 braces for alien hunters 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z CIA agent Stan Smith, Roger the alien and all your favorites are back as "American Dad" makes the leap from broadcast to cable. TV This Week Oct. 19 - 25: 'The Good Witch's Wonder' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z During Dulles’s tenure, the CIA lab created all sorts of poisons, guns, exploding cigars and seashells, contaminated scuba gear, and lethal James Bond-like gadgets designed to liquidate Castro. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z "CIA was very sloppy and the administration was very sloppy in enforcing security procedures when it came to Hollywood," King said in a telephone interview. Report finds security lapses to Hollywood on bin Laden raid 2013-06-05T20:07:18Z As Anna watches Australia burn from the narcotizing screen of her phone, her mother vanishes into hallucinations of one-eyed CIA agents and “animals turning into birds and then into plants.” Review | In ‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams,’ last-ditch medical interventions are their own horror story 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z A black woman amid a throng of white men, she is going nowhere until she is sent by the CIA for an undercover assignment to Burkina Faso. Review | Best audiobooks to get you to winter’s end 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Kermode served as co-editor of Encounter, a British monthly, quitting when he realized the publication was being funded by the CIA. Literary critic Frank Kermode dies in England 2010-08-18T19:23:00Z The novel tells of top CIA operative Jonathan Chase and his battle against "Zero Directorate," which captures and kills agents. APNewsBreak: Publisher pulls debut novel 2011-11-08T19:40:09Z A CIA officer who assists Brody at a critical juncture tells her that the forces arrayed against her seem to have underestimated her. Review | A new thriller takes ‘ripped from the headlines’ to a new level 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z He notes the troubles and delays he experienced with "The Good Shepherd," the 2006 CIA tale that he directed and starred in. 'Limitless'? Not Hollywood, says Robert De Niro 2011-03-10T17:12:14Z Philip and Elizabeth are attracted to Kimberly because her father heads an elite CIA group that helps mujahideen rebels fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. 'The Americans' recap: Teen party girl could be a KGB asset 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Marine who earned a Purple Heart at Iwo Jima, worked for the CIA and was U.S. ambassador to Madagascar, the Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago and Kenya. Son of Brooke Astor, convicted of swindling her as she aged, is dead 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Most of them are in contact with the CIA. Egypt lawyers demand jail for U.S. activists 2012-02-26T11:57:05Z Saul tells the CIA to let Carrie act on her hunch. Home time 2012-12-13T15:29:18Z There is also Covert Affairs, a hugely popular TV show on the USA Network that features a young CIA female trainee whose cover is that she works at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Valerie Plame welcomes new breed of fictional female spy in Zero Dark Thirty 2012-12-15T16:11:14Z But for the Showtime series’ upcoming fifth season, which premieres this fall, Claire Danes’ troubled CIA agent may be packing her bags yet again. 'Homeland' Heads to Europe, Jumps 2 Years Into the Future 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z It could happen to you, warns Charles Goslin, a retired CIA officer and author of “Understanding Personal Security and Risk: A Guide for Business Travelers.” What to do if your vacation is disrupted by a terrorist attack 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z For its first official test, CIA staffers drove Acoustic Kitty to the park and tasked it with capturing the conversation of two men sitting on a bench. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z Investigative reporter James Risen of the New York Times faced the very real possibility of jail time for protecting a confidential source during the leak investigation of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer. Perspective | Could reporters be hunted down if Trump goes after leakers? 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z But unless I missed something, he doesn't tell the CIA anything. Zero Dark Thirty: a bluffer's guide 2013-01-21T12:04:50Z Two weeks before her marriage to a foreign journalist, Sara alleges, the CIA informed her that she’d have to choose: marry or keep her job. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Analyzing the new agency and the “broader convergence trend” between Department of Defense and CIA missions, the Post noted that the “blurring is also evident in the organizations’ upper ranks. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z I can’t read the producers’ minds–or use a CIA computer program–to tell you why. You Are Watching Big Brother: The Disturbing Spy Games of Person of Interest 2011-10-27T15:32:58Z Burns cites the 14-1 Senate Intelligence Committee vote to open the CIA investigation as an example of non-partisanship unfathomable just ten years later. In ‘The Report,’ setting the record on torture straight 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Q: When the story first became public, the CIA asked you to be open to the media. Former spy talks "Argo," and Iran rescue mission 2012-10-12T15:03:31Z A major new film that was researched with high-level CIA access, however, shows torture as yielding a big break and setting in motion the chase that ended in the terrorist’s death in Pakistan last year. Movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ stokes debate on CIA torture 2012-12-15T03:44:31Z “The Good Shepherd,” the CIA origin story he directed? Will Robert De Niro ever make another good movie? 2012-07-11T14:58:00Z Instead, just months after Mandela’s release and before his planned US tour, reports emergedthat the CIA had played a key role in his 1962 capture. The real US policy toward Nelson Mandela 2013-12-12T12:35:00Z But as Matthiessen has told interviewers — most recently at Penn State — the journal also began as part of his CIA cover. Exclusive: The Paris Review, the Cold War and the CIA 2012-05-27T13:00:00Z “But the money came from a slush fund to promote American art, which later morphed into the CIA. So they were forced to add an ending that had at least a glimmer of hope.” Apocalypse bow-wow: the new breed of arthouse animal horror 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The scandal of the CIA using aid workers as cover for operations has helped to inflame deep mistrust in Pakistan's tribal areas towards vaccination programmes. Zero Dark Thirty: the view from Pakistan 2013-01-27T19:00:00Z Martin, a top CIA official who led the search for bin Laden after the Sept. Seen and heard at Sundance 2013-01-23T17:31:05Z In 1983, Hasler had a degree in Russian languages, and the CIA was one of the few employers looking for those qualifications. Spy novels by real spies: Anthony Burgess, John le Carr? and others 2010-08-18T20:33:00Z The CIA has repeatedly denied that one of its highest-ranking officials used the cover name of Maurice Bishop. The man who wanted JFK killed 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z In a career encompassing space pirates, swashbuckling archaeologists and CIA spooks, Ford has rarely strayed over to the side of the murderous, satanic, or plain vicious. Steve Carell’s Foxcatcher: when good guys go bad 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z It is widely accepted within Iraq that the book was authored by Saddam, although the CIA later concluded that it was probably produced by ghost-writers, acting under direct instruction from the Iraqi leader. Sacha Baron Cohen to star in film of Saddam Hussein novel 2011-01-20T16:39:32Z But he arguably saved the CIA as well. Real-life 'Billion Dollar Spy' reads like a Cold War fiction thriller 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z In another surprise, Rachel finds an unexpected ally in Milo Weaver, the CIA agent who was featured in three of Steinhauer’s spy novels. Review | This political thriller imagines the unimaginable: a silent Trump 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA and the National Security Agency. Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows 2013-06-07T21:18:08Z To anyone who has ever said that prize-winning Washington Post columnist and popular spy novelist David Ignatius is too much of an apologist for the CIA, his new book is a dramatic rebuttal. Review | For the inside dope on how the CIA works, ‘The Quantum Spy’ can’t be beat 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Naturally, it begins with the inept burglars — five mysterious Cuban Americans and former CIA men — nabbed at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex, carrying $100 bills, bugging devices and lock-picking tools. John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes. A talking beard turns into a CIA agent. Theatre review | Here, There & Everywhere | Theatro Technis | London 2010-03-20T01:03:00Z Speaking by phone, one of the participants in these brainstorming events, Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and NSA, recalls: “A lot of times it was, ‘OK, what’s happening now?’ Claire Danes on the end of Homeland: 'It was so nice to play such a badass' 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Hijinks ensue, and schemes within schemes — including a rhino-saving project that somehow involves Persephone babysitting a rhino overnight; a sub-rosa jewel-trading venture; and some silly CIA business. Review | Katie Crouch’s ‘Embassy Wife’ is an antic novel about expats in Africa 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z When CIA analyst Jill Bailey receives a call from someone claiming to have her son, her world is turned upside down. Perspective | Should 007 be played by a woman? Why not? Seven books by women in the spy world show us how it’s done. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z But CIA scientists found it too difficult to recreate a homing-beacon device inside a car to track its location as seen in “Goldfinger,” the famous Bond flick. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Gandolfini's simple mass and scary, intimidating manner is enough on their own to tell you that something important is happening and the CIA is getting very close to catching America's public enemy number one. James Gandolfini's film career: much more than just another wiseguy 2013-06-20T17:00:00Z The CIA had given them false departure documents for which, of course, there were no matching arrival forms. The truth behind Affleck's Argo 2013-01-14T00:55:56Z Another man stood quietly holding a sign stating: CIA killed Lennon. John Lennon fans mark anniversary of singer's murder in New York City 2010-12-08T19:49:00Z I have a vision of them, in some spa complex off the M6, sharing the solarium with retired CIA agents. Cannes round-up by Jason Solomon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z The duo are recruited by the CIA to assassinate Kim, but not without a series of comic obstacles filled with crude, male-centric humor. Rogen defends satirizing North Korean leader in 'The Interview' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Burns, with script credits on the Steven Soderbergh films Contagion, Side Effects and The Laundromat, as well as writing and directing CIA torture drama The Report, is reportedly currently at work on the film. Bond 25: more delays as new writer hired to overhaul script 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Men in Black III puts rivals in the shade as 2012's most error-strewn movie Django Unchained wins over black audience despite Spike Lee criticism Did Zero Dark Thirty have secret links to CIA? Close up: New year, new films 2013-01-03T17:12:20Z If so, SIS may be dealing with a mole — a turncoat — either in its own ranks or in the CIA. ‘A Colder War’ by Charles Cumming spins spy intrigue in search for a diabolical mole ‘They want a skull’ Saul tries the old “my hands are tied” line while throwing Miranda Otto under the CIA bus. Homeland season five, episode two – The Tradition of Hospitality 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z The ISI also worked closely with the CIA on organizing the mujahedin against the Soviets. 'The Killing of Osama Bin Laden' by Seymour Hersh details a grave threat to our democracy 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Although the CIA itself confirmed, albeit years later, that this connection did in fact exist, journalists continue to argue about whether aspects of Webb's stories overreached. 'Kill the Messenger' a cautionary tale for crusading reporters 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z His interview with the CIA officials was just one part of his reporting for the book, and that the committee “cherrypicked” a few e-mails to build its case, said Kessler. Senate report says CIA gave reporters inaccurate information on interrogations 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z When I quit the CIA, I knew I wanted to tell a good story. CIA agent turned comics writer Tom King on making art in the era of Trump's "absurdity" 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Hope Davis and Scott Cohen star in "Allegiance," about a CIA analyst who learns his parents are former Russian agents being called back into service. Fox orders TV shows from Lee Daniels, Spielberg 2014-05-07T13:01:52Z Not that what he writes can be trusted anyway: He filled his first, “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography,” in 1984, with tales of his adventures as a CIA assassin. “Gonged at Last”: game show impressario and author Chuck Barris dead at 87 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z David Harewood, who is from Small Heath, played the director of the CIA in the American drama series. Homeland actor's Walk of Fame star 2013-07-26T01:01:20Z It’s not an official secret, but the CIA’s collection of Washington-colorist paintings is a bit mysterious. Review | In the galleries: The Washington colorists and the CIA 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Predictably the tables turn once the attacks start: “You’re not giving orders any more, you’re taking them,” they tell the CIA guy. Fighting dirty: could Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie take down Hillary Clinton? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z When her professor mentioned the CIA, she mailed her résumé to an address she found in a book at the New York Public Library. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z She is to fall in love with a CIA man, played by Joel Edgerton, and must consider whether or not to become a double agent. Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z During his first official visit to the CIA, Trump once again attacked the media, as he did throughout the campaign as he blacklisted news organizations and called reporters “scum.” The traditional way of reporting on a president is dead. And Trump’s press secretary killed it. 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z On Sunday evening, the audience erupted into applause when Jolie's eponymous character, CIA analyst Evelyn Salt, revealed her Russian identity on the big screen. Jolie spurs Russian patriotism at "Salt" Moscow show 2010-07-26T18:35:00Z The contemporary rock equivalent of an Andrew Lloyd Webber production, "Drones" pits man against the Machine, exploring mind control through heavy-handed lyrics about militarism, "men in cloaks," a "CIA babe" and rebellion. Concept album by Muse just drones on 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z We take the word of the CIA director that quantum computing “is a paradigm shift. It’s like Galileo and Newton.” Review | For the inside dope on how the CIA works, ‘The Quantum Spy’ can’t be beat 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The letter calls on Sony Pictures to "consider correcting the impression that the CIA's use of coercive interrogation led to the operation". John McCain criticises Zero Dark Thirty's depiction of torture 2012-12-20T14:05:52Z She becomes a CIA agent who, at age 30, finds a way to visit North Korea and search for the sister she believes may be a prisoner there. Review | A thrilling tale of abduction and escape in North Korea 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Kaley has been talking about wanting to do a second season for awhile, and you did throw a line in the finale about the CIA wanting to talk to Cassie. "Flight Attendant" boss on Cassie and Megan’s parallel journeys and a potential Season 2 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z "I am still hoping that one day one of them might give me something other than all the news the CIA thinks is fit to print. Fat chance." "He did not suffer fools": Honoring Richard Belzer, the stand-up conspiracy theorist 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Through the many presidencies spanning both major political parties, the war’s lone constant has been the CIA’s string-pulling out of sight. 'I just don't see how this ends': a sobering new film on the Afghan war 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But none sparked controversy like Zero Dark Thirty, in which he plays a CIA operative for one scene. Oscars 2013: six memorable cameo performances 2013-02-22T07:00:00Z The CIA recruits the hapless duo to assassinate Kim by asking Skylark to discreetly poison him with ricin administered through a handshake. Sony spoof 'The Interview' makes North Korea butt of the joke 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The CIA’s overthrow of Iran’s Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, which would save Iran’s oil for the British, was also done in the name of the fight against communism. The real US policy toward Nelson Mandela 2013-12-12T12:35:00Z When Saul asked her to come up with a new paradigm for her roaming brief at the CIA, I’m pretty certain he didn’t foresee any of this. Homeland recap: season six, episode one – Fair Game 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z This grim and graphic subject matter is scripted with knowing nuance by King, a former operation officer with the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. Best graphic novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The meeting with CIA officials “was just standard reporting,” he said. Senate report says CIA gave reporters inaccurate information on interrogations 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z And how much do we trust the CIA to tell its own story? Oh, the suffering of the CIA: In Showtime’s “The Spymasters,” America’s chief spooks bare their souls on the pain of the terror war 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Chastain won the Golden Globe best dramatic actress prize last weekend for and is considered the Oscar frontrunner for her role as the CIA operative Maya. Jessica Chastain tops US box office with Mama and Zero Dark Thirty 2013-01-21T17:20:41Z Russia is making a more patriotic version of Chernobyl, implicating the CIA. Feel-bad TV: why are we obsessed with small-screen tragedy? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z The movie is based on the true story of the CIA rescue from Islamic revolutionary Tehran of six U.S. diplomats who pretended to be producing a fake film. Oscars in Hollywood cliffhanger over Best Picture, Director 2013-02-20T13:03:42Z In passing, Morell mentions tension between the CIA and the National Security Agency and between CIA station chiefs abroad and the analysts back at Langley, Va. More on that would have been welcome. 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Ken Taylor said he continues to feel slighted by a movie that he says makes Canada look like a meek observer to CIA heroics in the rescue of six U.S. citizens caught in the crisis. Canada ambassador says he feels slighted by "Argo" 2013-02-23T04:02:08Z “I met with the CIA on this movie and I show the whole situation.” Michael Bay's Benghazi movie 13 Hours is 'inaccurate', according to CIA officer 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The three appear in the same room when Willis, playing a CIA man, pitches the Latin American mission to both Stallone and rival mercenary Schwarzenegger. "The Expendables": Death of the old-school action hero 2010-08-13T11:01:00Z Just as in "Argo" - in which the CIA dreams up a fake sci-fi movie, complete with screenplay, posters and advertisements as cover for a hostage-rescue mission - the production was announced in film industry magazines. 5 convicted of inventing movie to hide tax fraud 2013-03-15T10:10:09Z Rodriguez, author of "Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved Lives," said he sympathized with the author's concern about his safety. CBS hides ID of Navy SEAL who wrote bin Laden book 2012-08-31T00:35:18Z “I am just another middle-aged housewife without a husband,” she says to her CIA minder. Review | A writer reimagines the life of Joseph Stalin’s daughter after she defected to the U.S. 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The only realistic defence capability was the security contractors up the road in the CIA Annex. Fighting dirty: could Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie take down Hillary Clinton? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The series goes to places others haven't, featuring interviews with not just officials from varying presidential administrations and CIA members, but also Taliban commanders, members of the Afghan government, Afghan warlords and Afghan civilians. A 9/11 viewer's guide, from the new Michael Keaton drama to surprising documentaries 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z After the shooting stops, she tells one of the CIA agents “I called for air support, it never came.” The “Bayghazi” bust: Michael Bay’s new movie is a crass exploitation of Benghazi politics 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Zero Dark Thirty is not the only current movie to celebrate the CIA. Zero Dark Thirty: the US election vehicle that came off the rails 2013-01-18T19:31:01Z Mr. Schorr became part of the story again in 1976, when he arranged for the publication of an advance copy of a suppressed House Intelligence Committee report on illegal CIA and FBI findings. Obituary: Journalist Daniel Schorr, 93; CBS' Watergate correspondent; NPR senior analyst 2010-07-24T00:40:00Z United Fruit repeated the trick in Guatemala in 1954, this time working with the CIA. King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z Sources said the informant was believed to be connected to a foreign intelligence agency allied with the CIA. Would-be suicide bomber was planted, or turned informant 2012-05-09T10:45:00Z You may not recall Christopher Marlowe having written about gimp masks, or CIA agents, or Mephistopheles' exotic underwear. Faustus doctored as Marlowe gets a monster-inspired makeover 2013-02-28T12:47:03Z She says that her clients — who work for the State Department and the CIA and with whom she met last fall — experienced systematic neglect from their superiors in Washington both before and after leaving Cuba. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Danes won a Golden Globe in January for her role as a highly strung but brilliant CIA operator in a first season that was packed with plot twists. "Homeland" TV drama to focus on relationships in 2nd season 2012-07-31T02:05:21Z It went against every instinct I had when the CIA first asked me to tell this story, but eventually I lost my inhibition. Former spy talks "Argo," and Iran rescue mission 2012-10-12T15:03:31Z This disquieting fact left CIA director Allen Dulles and others in the agency feeling quite vulnerable. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The movie shifts between locations, including secret CIA centers in foreign countries known as Black sites, the Pakistan city of Islamabad and Camp Chapman, in Khost, Afghanistan. Bin Laden movie "Zero Dark Thirty" arrives, mired in controversy 2012-12-17T19:13:29Z HBO Over the last year, we’ve seen a lot — both on TV and at the movies — about the process by which the CIA located and killed Osama bin Laden. A Former CIA Analyst on the New Osama bin Laden Documentary, Manhunt 2013-05-01T14:45:23Z The CIA brings him home and then drops him like he’s radioactive, suggesting he had gone rogue and was not, in fact, running an assignment at the request of his boss. Review | Hackers, fake news and worldwide panic: The plot of ‘The Paladin’ feels eerily real 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z In 1974, at age 24, James Grady published “Six Days of the Condor,” his memorable tale of a young CIA agent running for his life from rogue elements of the spy agency. Book World: James Grady’s ‘Last Days of the Condor’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z The labyrinthine, poetic and powerful book about a CIA agent and the Vietnam War won the 2007 National Book Award. Award-winning author Denis Johnson dies at age 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Of course, the CIA connection was not the overriding lure for the couple. Spy chic: What made this couple fall in love with a (possible) former safe house? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The film also addresses the effect on society of mass surveillance, with the monitoring of Abel’s communiques leading to his arrest, and the CIA insisting that Donovan aid them by breaking client confidentiality. Steven Spielberg: 'Guantánamo Bay is like when Abraham Lincoln suspended the rights to habeas corpus' 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Jack Devine is 32 year veteran of the CIA, working on the operations side. CIA officer's daughter accused her dad of being an assassin 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z “The Interview” stars Seth Rogen and James Franco as a producer and talk-show host who land an interview with the North Korean dictator and are then asked by the CIA to assassinate him. North Korea’s take on new US movie: “Act of war” 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z It also said that, according to a separate Senate review, the most accurate information about the courier had been provided by a CIA detainee prior to any harsh interrogation. CIA pressed over Bin Laden film 2013-01-04T01:35:23Z Newton walked the same path, but the CIA nabbed him before he could board his spacecraft and return home. "The Man Who Fell to Earth" ambitiously picks up where the sci-fi cult classic's mission ended 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z The history of the CIA since World War II and a housing desegregation fight in Yonkers are two subjects inspiring him now. MacArthur Foundation reveals 2010 'genius grants' 2010-09-28T11:47:00Z Just two years ago “Argo,” a fact-based story in which Hollywood hustlers and the CIA united to free American hostages from Iran, took SAG’s ensemble prize and a nomination for Alan Arkin as supporting actor. SAG Awards 2015: 'Birdman' noms find actors supporting actors 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z It premiered five days before the inauguration of Trump, whose bellicose attacks on the FBI, CIA and so-called “deep state” appalled Danes. Claire Danes on the end of Homeland: 'It was so nice to play such a badass' 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z The CIA soon considered him the crown jewel of their spying networks. Real-life 'Billion Dollar Spy' reads like a Cold War fiction thriller 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z I really became a man through the CIA. “Homeland” made me laugh: Here’s what it’s really like being a CIA agent in the Middle East 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z James was a man who defused, and fused with, machines, Cross is more machine than man, a total creation of his CIA overlords — their quiet-spoken Frankenstein. The Bourne Legacy: Spy vs. Drones — Which Is Which? 2012-08-09T12:00:19Z He hasn't told her that he is a CIA contract killer. Film review: Killers 2010-06-17T22:15:00Z Maya inevitably reminds many of Bigelow but she is based on a CIA agent, well-known to journalists, who has appeared under various names in other accounts of the hunt for Bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty: the US election vehicle that came off the rails 2013-01-18T19:31:01Z While various accounts have suggested a handful of particularly key CIA officers - including a female officer - tracked down bin Laden, "Zero Dark Thirty" focuses on one, named Maya in the movie and played by Chastain. Hunting bin Laden and history in 'Zero Dark 30' 2012-12-11T16:04:13Z There's a game performance from Patrick Wilson as the creepy CIA man Lynch, who gets some nice throwaway black-comic lines. Film review: The A-Team 2010-07-28T12:39:00Z Canadian officials and the CIA launched a secret joint operation to get them out. Argo – Ben Affleck's gripping CIA thriller sends reality into a tailspin 2013-02-22T09:00:02Z And it certainly doesn’t make the CIA’s use of terror and torture in its black sites as part of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” any less horrific or illegal. Through the looking glass: How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump? 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Sunday's episode saw the CIA dealing with the fallout after the car bomb explosion which ended the last series. Homeland UK ratings slightly down 2013-10-07T11:41:50Z In the movie, an evil CIA assassin is killed with a falling air conditioning unit, which Bay said was just a coincidence. Transformers raid Hong Kong in 'Age of Extinction' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z “Senate report on CIA’s torture noted physically disabling results.” Style Invitational contest Week 1106: Resolutions for Jan. 1, 2115 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z If you like "The Americans" but wish one of the kids was a CIA agent, there's the new drama "Allegiance." TV This Week, Feb. 1 - 7: Gabrielle Union in 'Being Mary Jane' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Torture is part of the story of how the CIA operated in the early 2000s. Zero Dark Thirty's torture scenes are controversial and historically dubious 2013-01-25T13:42:00Z In a city teeming with KGB agents, he met 21 times with CIA officers over the next six years without being detected. Real-life 'Billion Dollar Spy' reads like a Cold War fiction thriller 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Sony corporate executives in Japan previously had voiced concerns about how the 2012 film "Zero Dark Thirty," and its depiction of CIA interrogation tactics, would be received internationally, according to people familiar with the studio. Sony Pictures execs debated risk of 'The Interview' before cyberattack 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Ignatius’s likable protagonist is Harris Chang, a rising star at the CIA. Review | For the inside dope on how the CIA works, ‘The Quantum Spy’ can’t be beat 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The CIA staged “false flag” operations in 1953 to bring down the Iranian government. How to pull a friend out of the conspiracy theory rabbit hole 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z He supports Russia’s view that the Ukrainian revolution of 2014 was a CIA plot aimed at driving a wedge between Russia and Ukraine, and rejects the assertion that Russia hacked the US presidential election. Stone/Putin: will their TV debate rival Frost/Nixon? 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Ownership appears a bit of a mess, as the CIA bought the script to use as cover for its hostage rescue, although the rights appear to have reverted. Trailer Trash 2013-02-10T00:04:04Z If you’ve been consuming any sort of media in the wake of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA torture report, you’ve likely been bombarded with stunned and disgusted pundits. Half of Americans are cool with CIA torture techniques 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Over many, many years, the Daily exposed on-campus FBI and CIA informants. Student newspaper sued 2012-07-12T14:32:00Z CIA officials have admitted briefing the film-makers on the project but insist that the finished picture is "a dramatisation" as opposed to a historical record. Did Zero Dark Thirty have secret links to CIA? US Senate vows to find out 2013-01-03T12:32:25Z One of its incidental pleasures is the appearance of the British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays a tough, shrewd CIA agent. Why isn't Salt star Chiwetel Ejiofor up there with Russell Crowe? 2010-08-19T12:13:00Z Instead of connecting us with a single protagonist like "24"'s Jack Bauer or Carrie Mathison's CIA operative on "Homeland," "Accused" offers a new traveler in the gray areas of morality every week. Marlee Matlin and Billy Porter help viewers understand the "Accused" in Fox's new crime series 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Boal, accepting the best film award, referenced the cases of two CIA agents who have either been jailed or are currently facing prison time following revelations of torture. Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal address Zero Dark Thirty torture row 2013-01-08T11:06:45Z But CIA officer Mathison can see something no else does: that Brody has been turned and is now a double agent poised to attack America. Claire Danes on the end of Homeland: 'It was so nice to play such a badass' 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z But the double agent apparently never got close to Asiri, who remains one of the top CIA targets. Double agent brought down underwear plot 2012-05-08T22:52:00Z A lucid, thorough, fascinating biography of Robert Ames, an important CIA operative who died in the Beirut embassy bombing, by a Pulitzer-winning historian. Here Are the 15 Best Books of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z "I think at the end of the day any organization that has so much power like those clandestine organizations - Shin Bet, CIA, FBI, Mossad - has to have the law above it giving guidelines," he said. Ex-Israeli security chiefs speak out in Oscar documentary nominee 2013-02-02T13:00:50Z "It's almost to be expected in today's world when you write a book like he wrote that commands so much interest," said Rodriguez, who was responsible for helping to keep CIA employees' identities safe. CBS hides ID of Navy SEAL who wrote bin Laden book 2012-08-31T00:35:18Z It tells the true story of some imaginative derring-do on the part of a brilliant and unorthodox CIA agent called Tony Mendez. Argo – review 2012-11-08T15:30:01Z The documentary features interviews with all 12 living former CIA directors, including George Tenet, Robert Gates, former president George H.W. TV listings: Weekend of Nov. 28-29, 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The most interesting thing I observed during my time at the CIA was the family life of agents who served abroad with kids and spouses. Spy vs. Spy: A Q&A with The Americans Creator Joe Weisberg 2013-03-12T15:02:25Z Speaking of the real world, do CIA officers have book clubs? Valerie Plame has one regret: “I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more” 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z From the beginning, it would have been easy to center "Homeland" exclusively around Carrie, the bipolar but essentially valiant CIA operative even when she became determined to unmask recently rescued POW Brody as a traitor. 'Homeland' and Carrie still fighting the good fight 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Cleveland relies on her years as a CIA counterterrorism analyst and her experience as a mother in this heart-rending thriller. Perspective | Should 007 be played by a woman? Why not? Seven books by women in the spy world show us how it’s done. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Like the Nazis, the CIA used different populations of helpless individuals such as prisoners, drug addicts, and mental patients in their experiments, often with appalling results. Timothy Leary’s liberation, and the CIA’s experiments! LSD’s amazing, psychedelic history 2013-12-14T21:00:00Z He also won a Pulitzer for the book “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.” Library of Congress National Book Festival: History Stage schedule 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z They buy or build second homes, and use them on the weekend or for a summer vacation—lobbyists, government workers planning to retire in the foothills, CIA operatives. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z He loves the blue-collar side of the CIA, the techs who crack the locks and plant the bugs. Review | Only one sexy couple can stop a Russian spy from taking over the CIA 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z When Obama shuts down the detainee program, CIA officers complain in the film about intelligence drying up. Hunting bin Laden and history in 'Zero Dark 30' 2012-12-11T16:04:13Z These efforts ranged from an unauthorized CIA “black ops” program involving clandestine cargo planes loaded with people to the 18-hour helicopter airlift from the grounds of the U.S. “Last Days in Vietnam”: Is the humiliation of 1975 about to be repeated? 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Season three will explore the cost that being an intelligence officer exacts on people and the institution of the CIA. After Emmys slip, 'Homeland' turns to new season to regain footing 2013-09-23T21:31:02Z It’s that the Defense Department and the CIA have expanded the targets from a “personality strike” — with near-certainty that the subject in the crosshairs is a terrorist — to a “signature strike,” an educated guess. The Venice-Toronto Express: Three Films at Two Festivals 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z The book is filled with many juicy nuggets, so many that Bakos filed a lawsuit against the CIA in 2018 to get her book released. Perspective | Should 007 be played by a woman? Why not? Seven books by women in the spy world show us how it’s done. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z How much resemblance Maya bears to reality – indeed, whether the equivalent real-life character is even a woman – are questions difficult for historians to answer conclusively while CIA secrecy remains in place. Zero Dark Thirty's torture scenes are controversial and historically dubious 2013-01-25T13:42:00Z Adam Kimmel was on a different, all-American gig: the history of Area 51, the legendary Nevada military base legendarily linked to the CIA and to alien invasions. Fashion Review: Comme des Gar?ons and Dries Van Noten Offer a Hint of Victoriana 2012-01-20T18:50:37Z By Neil Smith Entertainment reporter, BBC News, in Cannes Actress Naomi Watts has revealed she suffered physical abuse as part of her preparation for a new film in which she plays a former CIA operative. Getting tough 2010-05-20T14:50:00Z There’s her relationship with Saul, her mentor, who’s left the CIA for a private defense contractor. “Homeland”s antiheroine problem: How mentor-mentee relationships are ruining the show 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Nett reported the behavior to the CIA’s chief of base, also a woman, who said she didn’t think the deputy meant any harm but promised to talk to her. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Eleven of the paintings were eventually bought by the CIA — whose website depicts only two of them — while others were recalled by Melzac’s estate. Review | In the galleries: The Washington colorists and the CIA 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z In his book "The Great War of Our Time," former CIA deputy Director Michael Morell explains the blunder that led to Saddam Hussein being deposed and sent him into hiding in a spider hole. 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Point by point, Morell takes on the critics, particularly in regard to the accusation that the CIA and White House tried to spin the story with false "talking points" for political purposes. 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Trump, she suggested, should have followed the example of President Ronald Reagan, who on his first visit to the CIA told the assembled staff: Through the looking glass: How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump? 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Not as many women as men, but there are more women around than in a field like the CIA. Jessica Chastain: The Oscar-Nominated Star Talks About Playing the “Girl” Who Got bin Laden 2013-01-11T13:00:20Z Fox spent her 20s working for the CIA, eventually becoming an operative, undercover overseas, trying to thwart terrorist networks. New in paperback: 13 September releases worth reading 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The president’s comment, made during a visit to CIA headquarters, seems to be news to the media, which hasn’t declared war back. Trump’s ‘war’ with the media (and the facts) forces journalists to question their role 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Argo, a look at the CIA and the Iranian hostage crisis, is following closely with four best film noms and two directing nods for Ben Affleck. Film awards season 2012-13: All the major nominees and winners 2013-01-08T14:00:00Z A great equal opportunities employer, the CIA promotes young women to positions of high authority, particularly "in the field", owing to the security establishment's general enthusiasm for women serving on the front line. Career out of control: how Hollywood and Broadway portray professions 2012-12-12T22:42:17Z So the comic book writing is more of the straight line — the CIA is the weird part. Holy D.C. connection! A local comic book writer used to work for the CIA! 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z While per capita GDP in Israel is an estimated $36,200, according to the latest data in the CIA handbook, in the surrounding Palestinian Territories it is put at just $2,900. Pope to visit a land of disappearing Christians 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z She has a secret, kept even from her husband: She's a retired CIA agent. Crime fiction: Lupton's 'Afterwards' and Bazell's 'Wild Thing' 2012-04-04T20:35:04Z CIA drone strikes happen within this context, causing further disruption of daily life. The terrible human price of Obama’s drone war 2014-01-28T14:21:00Z There’s lots of smartly observed D.C. local color, too, from CIA hideaways on Glebe Road to Old Town, where the chief mole suspect lives. Review | For the inside dope on how the CIA works, ‘The Quantum Spy’ can’t be beat 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z According to the senate and the CIA then, so-called enhanced interrogation techniques were not crucial in finding Bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty: the US election vehicle that came off the rails 2013-01-18T19:31:01Z I show that Bobby Kennedy became the country's first conspiracy theorist after his brother's assassination, immediately suspecting that the same CIA and Pentagon officials with whom they had bitterly dueled were behind JFK's murder. The coverup continues: The Kennedys in Hollywood 2011-04-01T14:01:00Z We all need a strong leader, even if it's just that little voice in our heads telling us that the CIA is tapping our phone. Will "Survivor" mastermind Russell reign supreme? 2009-12-13T01:30:00Z In the US, the CIA tested the drug as a truth serum. Cary Grant: how 100 acid trips in Tinseltown 'changed my life' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency, working closely with the CIA, used an informant to pose as a would-be suicide bomber. Double agent brought down underwear plot 2012-05-08T22:52:00Z Here, the father is a former CIA agent and the young man’s got to impress him. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Howard slipped past the FBI and became the first CIA officer to defect to Moscow. Real-life 'Billion Dollar Spy' reads like a Cold War fiction thriller 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Nowadays it’s like working for some secret deep state government organization, like being in the CIA.” Unlike “The Last Jedi,” Mark Hamill isn’t allowed to keep “Star Wars: Episode IX” scrip... 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z This former CIA officer in charge of the covert war in Afghanistan wrote 2002's "The Black Tulip," set in the late 1980s during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Spy novels by real spies: Anthony Burgess, John le Carr? and others 2010-08-18T20:33:00Z Taking a leave from the CIA — which is preoccupied with the Soviets and interested in Nazis only insofar as it might recruit them in the anti-communist cause — Wiley follows Schramm to Buenos Aires. Review | In ‘The Accomplice,’ a CIA analyst turns the hunt for a Nazi into a personal quest 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Brookner, who grew up in Syracuse, N.Y., hadn’t even heard of the CIA until a professor urged her to apply to work there halfway through her Russian studies master’s at New York University. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Aayan reluctantly decides to stay put, knowing the viral video he recorded of the airstrike makes him a target of both the CIA and Pakistan’s ruthless Inter-Services Intelligence agency. 'Homeland' recap: Carrie moves fast to win over young asset 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z His costume-heavy shows include a mix of old classics like “Smells Like Nirvana” and newer hits like “Party in the CIA.” Comedy Listings for Sept. 23-29 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Cut off from the embassy, they flee to Rafiq's home, where his family sizes up Alex to decide if he's secretly a CIA operative. Aasif Mandvi bridges East-West gap on 'Daily' basis and now HBO 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z The president himself repeated this position both on Twitter and in front of a crowd of CIA employees at the agency’s Langly, Virginia headquarters later that day. Yep, Obama’s inauguration outdrew Trump’s at home, too 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Chastain won a Golden Globe earlier this month for her role as a feisty CIA agent credited with tracking down Osama bin Laden in thriller "Zero Dark Thirty." Hollywood actors weigh in on Oscar race with SAG Awards 2013-01-27T14:47:03Z Eckhart is forced into Bourne-like behaviour when his CIA bosses erase his identity. This week's new films 2013-04-06T05:00:08Z There were accusations that she and Boal had colluded with the CIA. Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Also, I did a lot more research on what the CIA was doing pre-9/11, the work they were doing at that point, which there was research on. How Maura Tierney learned to identify with a "monstrous" torturer 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z “Victor told my mother and me that it was used as a CIA safe house during the JFK days,” says Jordan, who describes Purse as cocky, abrupt, charming and outrageous. Spy chic: What made this couple fall in love with a (possible) former safe house? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Not that women at the CIA are chosen for the gentle touch. Valerie Plame welcomes new breed of fictional female spy in Zero Dark Thirty 2012-12-15T16:11:14Z “I know what the CIA’s like. People are expendable – even their own people,” Mira said. 'Homeland' recap: Prisoner exchange part of far bigger plot 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Directed by Robert De Niro, it was a cynical look back at the CIA's beginnings. A new era of secrets and spies in Hollywood 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z While heading into a building for an interview, Barker and his CIA companions "were mowed down" by Kidman's guards. Seen and heard at Sundance 2013-01-23T17:31:05Z But Mekhi Phifer – once of ER, now of the CIA – crosses the Atlantic and then the Severn bridge, to fetch her and Jack, take them back with him to America for bigger things. TV review: Torchwood; Single-Handed 2011-07-14T21:05:07Z Chris Pavone, a longtime New York City book editor, never had a thing to do with the CIA until his wife got a job in Luxembourg, at which point he, too, began writing spy novels. Valerie Plame has one regret: “I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more” 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z He created the National Security Agency, the CIA and a peacetime draft. 'The Emergency State:' overreaching presidents, from Roosevelt to Obama 2012-02-23T21:35:38Z Argo is a story of a CIA scheme to recruit Hollywood professionals to assist in a scheme to rescue US diplomats from Iran in 1980. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z The letter adds that the film's narrative conflicts with official statements that the CIA did not first learn about a Bin Laden courier through a CIA detainee who had been subjected to "coercive interrogation techniques". CIA pressed over Bin Laden film 2013-01-04T01:35:23Z If Stonebanks is financing groups like ISIS, then the CIA must be good. REVIEW: Stallone Reassembles the Old, Old Gang for The Expendables 3 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In the new wham-bam thriller Salt, she plays a CIA agent accused of spying, whereas on stage she suggested instead a superstar who could be accused of sleepwalking. From Tron to Angelina Jolie (via peanut butter) 2010-07-23T11:02:00Z Carter confirmed the CIA payments but made a personal plea for Bradlee not to publish the story. The Ben Bradlee we knew: Friend, fierce editor and a truth-seeker above all Yes, you have to understand how the CIA and an American general said, "Well, it's okay if we lose all these black people because we're doing something more important on some higher level." Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The Senate intelligence committee's CIA torture report will be published as a book by independent press Melville House before the end of the year. CIA torture report to be published 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The CIA financed the effort — at first with a modest $10,000 — under the rubric of a new company called Bedford Publishing. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies “It was the CIA’s best safe house: totally isolated in hilly woodland, but only a forty-minute drive from Langley,” wrote the English author, Baltimore-born Edward Wilson. Spy chic: What made this couple fall in love with a (possible) former safe house? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Before becoming a field officer, Brandwin began her career in the CIA as a disguises officer. What’s real and fake in ‘The Americans,’ according to real-life spies 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z "Now I know where we stand in the totem pole," joked former CIA analyst Bakos. Seen and heard at Sundance 2013-01-23T17:31:05Z Condor joins forces with one of his minders, an attractive young woman named Faye, a former CIA operative who is lethal with her Glock or her bare hands. Book World: James Grady’s ‘Last Days of the Condor’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z The collection was streamlined, the sounds of planes and dedicated CIA voices rather disturbing. Fashion Review: Comme des Gar?ons and Dries Van Noten Offer a Hint of Victoriana 2012-01-20T18:50:37Z Each employs thriller tropes, such as conspiracy and espionage: in Messiah, the CIA and Mossad investigate who the rumoured second Jesus really is. Crooked preachers and sexy priests: has TV got a problem with Christianity? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Old friends were shocked to discover she was a CIA agent; new enemies accused them of being traitors; their marriage came close to collapse. Fair Game: Free agents 2011-03-06T22:30:01Z I was more like a trainee spy because I left the CIA before I went on my first assignment out of the country, but I was always very interested in the families who went abroad. Q&A: The CIA Officer Behind the New Spy Drama ‘The Americans’ 2013-01-30T12:59:58Z In his August 2011 request for an investigation by the Pentagon, King also asked the CIA's inspector general to look into the matter. Report finds security lapses to Hollywood on bin Laden raid 2013-06-05T20:07:18Z The vast majority of the CIA torture report is still classified, but a redacted executive summary of the committee's findings was released to the public Tuesday. CIA torture report to be published 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z An accidental job at a radio station gives Vera the technical skills that catch the attention of CIA recruiters. Review | Forget about 007. This heroine has her own brand of spycraft. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z But it was also recognition that Israeli intelligence and even some CIA colleagues thought Ames acted as an advocate for the Arabs, especially for the Palestinians. 'Good Spy' scrutinizes Middle East CIA officer Robert Ames 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The CIA has conducted clandestine intelligence and surveillance missions in Pakistan, too, though its role may, in the future, be less important, thanks to Pentagon mission creep. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z These programs had been inspired by, among other things, documents that the CIA had obtained after World War II describing experiments with mescaline performed by Nazi doctors on the inmates of the Dachau concentration camp. Timothy Leary’s liberation, and the CIA’s experiments! LSD’s amazing, psychedelic history 2013-12-14T21:00:00Z Nevertheless, “there’s a certain amount of schadenfreude, watching rich people lose their toys,” says Alex Finley, a former CIA officer and author of spy novels who goes by her pen name. Yacht justice: A new front in the war drags Russia’s oligarchs into the spotlight 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z The health workers also face reasonable suspicion of being spies: During the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the CIA enlisted a Pakistani doctor to collect DNA through a hepatitis vaccination campaign. Commentary: 3 films you must see to understand Pakistan, its problems 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The CIA typically uses bribes and blackmail to recruit sources. The diplomat and the killer: Death squads, dirty war and the untold story of H. Carl Gettinger 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z It is a question that Robin Wright’s CIA agent puts to him politely and repeatedly. A Most Wanted Man review – Philip Seymour Hoffman’s superb swansong 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z "The Bourne Ultimatum" ended with Bourne evading capture while publicly exposing the CIA programs that trained him. "Bourne" movie franchise hands legacy to Jeremy Renner 2012-08-07T16:32:46Z The Spymasters will not satisfy those looking for a definitive history of the CIA or a candid view into its inner workings; for one thing, it only deals with the post-9/11 era. Spymasters: CIA documentary sheds little light on drones, 9/11 or torture 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Of course, I faithfully and accurately reported to the American people precisely what the CIA concluded. Why Ari Fleischer is against resurrecting the extinct White House press briefings 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z He was, in CIA lingo, "read into" the top issues of the day, putting him inside "the circle of knowledge." 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z That's what the FBI, CIA and State Department, not to mention the military are for. 'South Park' Muhammad Episode Sparks Rage?Again 2010-04-22T18:54:00Z CIA agent Brown cautions him against being naive. Bourne again: "Green Zone" a remarkable movie 2010-03-05T06:26:00Z Why the CIA should be interested in this prolonged absurdity is the abiding mystery of “Madness Is Better Than Defeat.” Review | Can anyone figure out what’s happening in Ned Beauman’s new comic novel? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Publishers Weekly called “Left of Boom,” written with Ralph Pezzullo, “a fascinating and engaging look inside the fast-paced and dangerous daily workings of today’s CIA.” “Homeland” made me laugh: Here’s what it’s really like being a CIA agent in the Middle East 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Artemis’s name was itself a relic of Plame’s time being stationed in Greece as a CIA operative. Valerie Plame, America’s most famous ex-spy, finds her new identity 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z A sex scandal at the CIA has turned the public’s eye away from the larger, everyday horrors over which we argued during those 20 months leading up to the presidential election. Game over, conservative friend 2012-11-17T00:30:00Z Her character appears to be based on a real CIA agent named as Jen in an account of the Bin Laden raid written by former Navy Seal Matt Bissonnette. Zero Dark Thirty: the view from Pakistan 2013-01-27T19:00:00Z Two months later, the Washington Post reported that the CIA had secretly determined that Russia hackers had meddled in the presidential election to benefit Trump. How did Sam Bee’s “Full Frontal” find its brilliant voice? By amplifying the unheard 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z As with both Friday Night Lights and Bloodline, he always played some authority figure—a White House chief, a CIA agent, an FBI agent. Kyle Chandler Isn't Ready to Ditch Coach Taylor Just Yet 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Could that be why he decided to write this strange apology for a white male CIA operative? Blood and Gifts: it's Afghanistan, Jim, but not as we know it 2010-09-20T11:04:00Z As a CIA analyst in Shanghai and Pakistan during America’s “war on terror”, Amaryllis Fox was familiar with drawn-out, intractable conflict. The Business of Drugs: inside the economics of America's longest war 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z "Argo" is based on the true story of a CIA agent who develops a risky plan to rescue U.S. government employees during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Thriller "Taken 2" earns second box office win 2012-10-14T16:06:44Z Scheuer, who once headed the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit, dissects the puritanical religious views that informed bin Laden's thinking. Reading bin Laden and his world 2011-05-06T21:32:04Z Of course, much of the research on hallucinogenic drugs at the time was not just being performed at the behest of the CIA. Timothy Leary’s liberation, and the CIA’s experiments! LSD’s amazing, psychedelic history 2013-12-14T21:00:00Z In April 1961, about 1,500 Cuban exiles trained under CIA guidance in Guatemala and invaded Cuba in a failed bid to overthrow Fidel Castro's communist regime. Source: Juanes postpones concert in Miami 2011-01-31T22:32:09Z Showtime’s “Homeland,” meanwhile, neatly bundled our post-9/11 anxieties with the mental problems of a CIA agent who thought she could save the world. Perspective | The best TV of the decade? It’s a lot to sort out. 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Like almost every awards season, earlier honors have established clear favorites for the top prizes at Sunday's Oscars, where Ben Affleck's CIA thriller "Argo" is expected to take home the best-picture trophy. Does Oscar crown await Affleck's 'Argo?' 2013-02-21T16:23:11Z If you believe in transparency, the CIA is about secrets, and deals in secrets. “Homeland” is back: “The biggest fears, the biggest things that were keeping all these specialists up at night were: Russia and ISIS” 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Neeson called the ex-boyfriend at his office and took on the persona of his "Taken" character, former CIA operative Bryan Mills. Liam Neeson uses his 'Taken' skills to help Maggie Grace 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z In this wily and often very funny story of double- and triple-crosses, a young CIA operative in Shanghai gets entangled with an enigmatic lover and an equally enigmatic businessman, either one or both possible spies. Adam Woog’s 10 best mysteries of 2013 2013-12-04T22:02:39Z He was playing the Russians, the CIA and the Chinese gangs off each other. Utopia: episode three 2013-01-29T23:11:01Z It features two of the CIA's best spies who retired to run a catering business when they got married, then are called back into action. NBC will be new at 10 _ but it won't be Leno 2010-05-17T01:02:00Z In the movie that opens Dec. 25, Franco and Rogen play journalists who land an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, then are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him. Sony limits media access to 'Interview' premiere after hacking 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z FBI, CIA, NSA – All their knowledge was banished away When a narcissist’s repudiation Trumped the honor of his nation. Style Invitational Week 1291: Film flam — movie anagrams 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Once aboard a third bus, I sat beside a mentally unstable man who was shouting into an imaginary phone about a CIA conspiracy. Greyhound: 100 years old and acting younger than ever In an emailed response to Gawker's piece, Boal denied allowing the CIA to influence creative film-making decisions on Zero Dark Thirty. CIA requested Zero Dark Thirty rewrites, memo reveals 2013-05-07T15:47:03Z In writing “Snowfall,” Singleton and his colleagues sought out expert advice from CIA sources, and Singleton has said in interviews that he knows there’s not enough evidence to support “Snowfall’s” version. Perspective | ‘Snowfall’ is compelling and believable — which is why it could use a disclaimer 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Its Capitol is, of course, the land of the 1 percent, a sort of amalgamation of Fashion Week, Versailles and the KGB/CIA. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z The CIA determined that the hidden family was large: three wives, a young man and 10 or more children, several of them teenagers or young adults. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z Aside from a stint as a CIA agent in the short-lived NBC drama “State of Affairs,” Heigl hasn’t had a steady presence on prime-time since her messy exit from ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy.” ‘Doubt’ is the perfect TV show for Katherine Heigl because it’s totally fine but passionless 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Being embedded in Iraq or talking to top-secret CIA honchos is all very well, but sometimes a glance at Wikipedia wouldn't hurt. Trailer Trash 2013-01-20T00:04:06Z And when the CIA refused to award him a star on its memorial wall, she drew one in anyway. Everything You Need to Know Before the 'Homeland' Season 4 Premiere 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z That CIA employees drove back to work after the 9/11 attacks was "stunningly patriotic." 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z She also said that a Pakistani army officer had indeed told the CIA where bin Laden was. The ever-iconoclastic, never-to-be-ignored, muckraking Seymour Hersh 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z "I wanted to show a side of the CIA we don't often see in film and television," Heigl said. Katherine Heigl is in a good 'State' as she returns to TV 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z It seems there was no “mole” in the government, after all, just old-fashioned bureaucracy and politics—CIA CYA. Homeland Watch: Playing It Close to the Vest 2011-12-19T13:28:04Z "Homeland," which premiered in 2011 on CBS-owned cable network Showtime, is about a returning Iraq veteran and a CIA agent at the heart of a political and terrorism conspiracy. Espionage, comedy veterans touted for upcoming TV season 2013-05-16T21:20:31Z Gwen and Jack are being transported to US soil by gormless CIA agent Rex, but their flight isn't without a few dangerous obstacles. TV highlights 21/07/2011: Torchwood: Miracle Day 2011-07-20T22:00:03Z A group of senators charged that the film misled viewers for suggesting that torture provided information that helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden. Passing reference in 'Argo' rankles New Zealand 2013-03-21T14:41:09Z It was only after Ghul offered this information that the CIA decided to press him further. What the Torture Report Reveals About Zero Dark Thirty 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z It was a failure of national security — a breakdown of communication and oversight at the FBI and CIA level. Police arrest artist setting up ‘I Love NY’ work 2012-05-21T20:16:00Z “But she had a wealth of knowledge and experience that I was never going to have. And in dealing with the intelligence community, especially CIA, that made her a formidable adversary to them, and dangerous.” She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The CIA promoted its own candidate, Said Ramadan, an Egyptian agent of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group promoting a radical, politicized version of Islam. 'A Mosque in Munich': Agents of influence turn a German mosque into a center of radical Islam 2010-06-02T22:45:00Z Marine invasion of Panama, craves a more exciting assignment from her CIA bosses than Venezuela. Review | ‘Two Spies in Caracas’ conjures international intrigue in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z I mean … just say it’s about kicking a baroque drug addiction or being compromised as a CIA asset. Taylor Swift v Katy Perry: when even an actual olive branch can't end the froideur 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z In the first chapter, Gentry is in Hong Kong, on assignment for the CIA, and Chinese intelligent agents, itchy for a fight, want to know what he’s doing on their turf. Review | 3 action-packed thrillers that take you around the world 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Rather, James works in everything from organized crime to the CIA, all of it filtered through an understanding of history and an abiding sense of place. Marlon James' powerful mix of influences and cultures lands him the Man Booker Prize 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Since the Bolivian Diary fell into the hands of his captors, the CIA intended to use it as propaganda against Che in particular and Latin American guerrilla movements in general. Reading Che Guevara in his own words 2010-10-12T08:37:00Z At the height of the Cold War, a CIA operative and a KGB agent join forces to stop an international criminal organization. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z In "Stormbreaker," he first learns that his father and uncle were both killed during their work as spies, and reluctantly takes on his own first mission for MI6, the British equivalent of the CIA. 'Scorpia Rising' is a rousing coda to Alex Rider teen-spy series 2011-03-25T21:47:04Z I keep going back to season 1 and 2 with the premise of a mole in the CIA. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 5: Quinn Is Not Your Ideal Babysitter 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z One CIA officer drove a van around Saigon to collect the cooks and dishwashers who had worked for American agencies, and the tailor who had made the agents’ suits. “Last Days in Vietnam”: Is the humiliation of 1975 about to be repeated? 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Finally a segue in which agents party on a rooftop in Islamabad, drinking and shooting off an AK47 in celebration, was also removed upon CIA insistence. CIA requested Zero Dark Thirty rewrites, memo reveals 2013-05-07T15:47:03Z She is portrayed as a lone voice challenging the CIA's bureaucratic inertia after Bin Laden trail goes cold and she is placed at the centre of the action. Zero Dark Thirty: the view from Pakistan 2013-01-27T19:00:00Z A top CIA operative who went rogue a decade ago, Frost has been an embarrassment to the agency higher-ups, who can’t stop or find him. Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy? 2012-02-09T16:00:14Z The raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound was faked because the terrorist leader was a CIA asset. How Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, got Donald Trump’s ear 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Q. You compare your character to getting lost down a CIA rabbit hole. A Minute With: Jessica Chastain on "Zero Dark Thirty" 2012-12-19T15:22:59Z Lurking in their midst are Russian, Chinese and CIA spies and a scientist bent on changing the world through ... convenience food? A new kind of dinner theater takes off in Seattle 2011-11-02T21:04:04Z It tells the story of an American soldier freed from captivity in Iraq and a CIA officer who suspects him of being an al-Qaida turncoat. Mandy Patinkin talks peace in Israel 2012-05-13T21:01:05Z Subtitled “How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda,” the book follows Douglas Laux from his hometown in rural eastern Indiana to the Middle East. “Homeland” made me laugh: Here’s what it’s really like being a CIA agent in the Middle East 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Just because it’s about the CIA, it’s a uniquely different show. Heigl, Woodard talk 'State of Affairs,' 'Homeland' and likability 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The president’s national security chief summons Reacher, representing the military, to work with counterparts from the FBI and CIA, to find answers, under the direction of the security chief’s deputy, Dr. Marian Sinclair. Jack Reacher: Lee Child’s giant hero battles to save America in ‘Night School’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z “It’s a crime that she would even be considered,” said Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who runs a group called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. Gina Haspel sheds the cloak of secrecy and steps into the spotlight — sort of 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z But in assuming command of the troubled CIA station in Islamabad, she finds herself in lockdown with a staff she doesn’t trust on Showtime’s “Homeland.” 'Homeland' recap: Carrie takes control of besieged CIA station 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Of the 2,937 theaters where it played in its first wide-release weekend, did its best business at the Tysons Cross 16 multiplex in McLean, Va., where the CIA is located. Zero Dark Thirty Waterboards the Competition 2013-01-13T22:10:34Z He dropped his party card, supported the Solidarity movement, and, pre-empting his American editors, removed potentially inflammatory passages in Shah of Shahs about the role of the CIA in overthrowing the Mossadegh regime. Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Biography by Artur Domoslawski – review 2012-08-02T07:00:02Z The true story of a legendary CIA agent, coupled with the history of Middle East conflict in the 20th century. Spring brings bounty of new titles for book lovers 2014-04-16T21:15:04Z Gladwell considers the possibilities with historical examples, from Neville Chamberlain’s misguided trust in Adolf Hitler to CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Jesus Angleton, whose distrust of everyone threw the agency into turmoil. Review | The 10 books to read in September 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Barris would claim in “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” that these trips abroad served as cover for him on his CIA assignments. “Gonged at Last”: game show impressario and author Chuck Barris dead at 87 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, I was too late to see Argo, so instead I bought a ticket for Zero Dark Thirty, the Oscar-nominated, fiercely patriotic movie that deals with a top-secret CIA operation in the Middle East and . Seeing double: are Side Effects and Silver Linings Playbook the same film? 2013-03-18T19:30:00Z “American Made” stars Tom Cruise as a commercial airline pilot who’s recruited by the CIA to fly reconnaissance missions over South America. U.S. Box Office: Tom Cruise's 'American Made' dead even with 'It,' 'Kingsman 2' 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z But Chastain took home the Golden Globe for her role as a young female CIA agent who tracks down Osama bin Laden in thriller "Zero Dark Thirty." Jennifer Lawrence seen winning Best Actress Oscar 2013-02-13T12:09:28Z Kenny: I want to say for the record that we're not criticizing the CIA and its current iteration, so don't bug us or anything like that. "Judas and the Black Messiah" filmmakers on exposing how the FBI hunted 1960s Black activiststs 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z It cites several specific instances in which CIA officials misrepresented the achievements of the detention program, in which suspects were shuttled to a network of secret prisons, or “black sites,” and subjected to harsh treatment. Senate report says CIA gave reporters inaccurate information on interrogations 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z This time around, four years after we last saw him, Jack is dodging CIA assassins while trying to stop a game-changing terrorist attack in London. Plenty of new shows to check out this spring and summer 2014-04-25T18:58:31Z He’ll be competing against more new programming than summer usually offers while he does the CIA’s dirty work overseas. Plenty of new shows to check out this spring and summer 2014-04-25T18:58:31Z It’s available by the bottle: $12.99 plus tax, complete with a “Top Secret” label and the official CIA seal. Meet the man behind the CIA gift store, the country’s most secretive swag shop 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z It's within the CIA and, most important, it's within the family of country. Mandy Patinkin thrilled to be part of Emmy winner "Homeland" 2012-09-24T22:29:38Z Joe Wilson, the former ambassador whose wife was the exposed CIA agent, via a statement: As to Trump, he is a vile and despicable individual. ‘So did the world explode?’: An oral history of another insane week in the Trump era. 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z I wanted to develop a strong female CIA character. Valerie Plame: Most female spies in pop culture are gun-wielding eye candy 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z But from an early stage, writer-director Scott Z. Burns was drawn to the Congressional quest to detail and bring to light the CIA’s torturing of detainees in the wake of Sept. 11. In ‘The Report,’ setting the record on torture straight 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z In his second memoir, “The Game Show King: A Confession,” in 1993, he made nary a mention of his CIA fantasy, or even of the first book. “Gonged at Last”: game show impressario and author Chuck Barris dead at 87 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z People tend to assume that he’s in the CIA or FBI, to which he replies: “One look at me and you’d be able to tell that I’m not Jason Bourne.” Date Lab: Mariah Carey. Alligators. Urology. Is this any way to start a romance? 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, is among those attacking the film, which in its opening scenes suggests the interrogation methods produced information that helped the CIA find bin Laden. CIA officials invisible at Washington premiere of bin Laden film 2013-01-09T23:01:17Z As a documentary The Spymasters is facile but certainly successful in giving the CIA a platform to burnish its reputation. Spymasters: CIA documentary sheds little light on drones, 9/11 or torture 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z He says these people who were in the CIA during 9/11 , they missed some stuff. How Maura Tierney learned to identify with a "monstrous" torturer 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z "You see this just shows you – your editor doesn't read his own paper. Alan doesn't read his own paper. However, he is probably too busy worrying about being bugged by MI5 and CIA." Harvey Weinstein's Cannes gala turns tricky for the Guardian 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z That and telephone intercepts produced two discoveries that the agency considered greatly significant, and that persuaded CIA director Leon Panetta he ought to bring the discovery to the president. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z Brookner has pursued her work as a lawyer just as she cultivated her covert career in the CIA: discreetly. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z His peers all offer theories: “I didn’t imagine him being taken as an option”; “He’d been showing up late to guard shifts because he was talking to the locals”; “Is he CIA?” Serial recap – season two episode one: DUSTWUN 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z In season two’s finale, she helps Brody escape even though all evidence points towards him bombing the CIA. TV’s Strongest Female Characters Share One Stupid Flaw 2013-10-10T09:45:31Z He played the duplicitous head of the CIA in Homeland, and is now in Steven Spielberg’s new film, The Post, alongside Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. Tracy Letts: ‘Freedom of speech is under attack’ 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Q: You worked at the CIA through critical periods of transition. Former spy talks "Argo," and Iran rescue mission 2012-10-12T15:03:31Z In the years after 9/11 he served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a CIA officer tasked with disrupting terrorist networks. CIA agent turned comics writer Tom King on making art in the era of Trump's "absurdity" 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z From there her murderous double starts getting too close for comfort, to the point that Cassie wonders if her doppelganger is also working for the CIA. "The Flight Attendant" returns with double the baggage and showcase for Kaley Cuoco 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Ever since the agency's erroneous call, a decade earlier, that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction, the CIA had instituted an almost comically elaborate process for weighing certainty. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z He described himself as a conspiracy theorist, a term he believed was created by the CIA "to discourage people from seeking the truth," as he wrote in his book "Corporate Conspiracies." "He did not suffer fools": Honoring Richard Belzer, the stand-up conspiracy theorist 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Matthews worked 33 years in the CIA’s highly secretive Operations Directorate before retiring a decade ago and following the path of such authors as le Carre and Charles McCarry in fictionalizing their time in intelligence. Jason Matthews, author of ‘Red Sparrow’ thrillers, dies 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z “Even killing people is something Obama has proclaimed the right to do,” he said, referring to Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen and radical Islamic cleric assassinated by a CIA drone strike in Yemen. Perspective | Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, asks: Who will be the next Snowden? 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z CIA jobs in Afghanistan are hardship posts, meaning employees are not allowed to bring their children. 'Homeland' recap: Besieged CIA director tries to shift blame 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z “The Paladin” is the story of 40-year-old Michael Dunne, a ruined CIA agent who, when the novel opens, has just emerged from a year in prison. Review | Hackers, fake news and worldwide panic: The plot of ‘The Paladin’ feels eerily real 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z The House Intelligence Committee was investigating the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, she said, and she was looking for someone with his background to join them. Adam Schiff once wanted to be a screenwriter. Can he give the Trump presidency a Hollywood ending? 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Prior to, during, or after the detainee was subjected to the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques? Lawmakers say CIA may have misled filmmakers 2013-01-04T01:23:07Z “Apart from the Marines, there is no branch of service in the United States government as hostile to women as the clandestine services of the CIA.” She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z He’s the best the CIA’s got, but after an op in Montenegro goes wrong, he leaves the agency to live in Switzerland. The November Man – first look review: an asinine and horribly rote screenplay 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Another movement piece seems to imply torture by the CIA. Neon Neon – review 2013-06-08T23:06:01Z The CIA put considerable effort into dissuading representations of its very existence throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Washington DC’s role behind the scenes in Hollywood goes deeper than you think 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z There are also concerns expressed about working for a big, secretive institution, like the CIA or News Corp, and not agreeing with the institution’s value system. For the director of “Risk,” filming Julian Assange became a spy game 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Reuters said the committee would also assess "whether CIA personnel are responsible for the portrayal of harsh interrogation practices, and in particular the suggestion that they were effective". CIA pressed over Bin Laden film 2013-01-04T01:35:23Z “The Quantum Spy” is a fascinating, beautifully textured thriller in which the CIA comes across as a racist, sexist institution whose biases play right into the hands of hostile foreign powers. Review | For the inside dope on how the CIA works, ‘The Quantum Spy’ can’t be beat 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The statement also added: “Mr Craig remarked about the teamwork that goes into the intelligence cycle and how impressed he was with the commitment and dedication of CIA officers.” Daniel Craig visits CIA in run-up to shooting new James Bond film 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Knight and Day sees Cruise as a mysterious action man who crash-lands in Diaz's life, claiming to be a rogue CIA agent. They think it's all over for Tom Cruise. Is it? 2010-06-23T11:25:00Z The CIA still largely relied on oil men for intelligence in the region. 'Good Spy' scrutinizes Middle East CIA officer Robert Ames 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Long before he became CIA director in the 1980s, Casey worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime spy agency that was a precursor to the CIA. Joseph E. Persico, historian who wrote of spies and FDR’s love life, dies at 84 He's not the director of the CIA, director of the NSA, so this idea that he meddled and manipulated intelligence, I don't think he did that. Has Dick Cheney seen "Vice"? His biographer talks to Salon about Adam McKay's biopic and more 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Speaking at the CIA on his first full day in office, the new president said of the coverage: “It’s a lie,” adding, “We caught them. ... We caught them in a beauty.” Masters of their medium: JFK on TV, Trump on Twitter 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Hurd, a former undercover CIA operative and the only black Republican in the House, was once described by Politico as “the future of the GOP.” Can this PAC find more LGBTQ and minority candidates to run as Republicans? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z She told me how her parents worked as CIA spies and fooled the enemy by creating a portrait of domestic bliss in the German mountainside. I spy the Columbia Inn at Peralynna On the U.S. government’s end, congressional and internal CIA investigations also failed to find evidence of connections between the agency and the crack epidemic as galling or direct as the story presented in “Snowfall.” Perspective | ‘Snowfall’ is compelling and believable — which is why it could use a disclaimer 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Daniel Craig has visited CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, as part of the CIA’s attempt to engage with the public and increase understanding of how intelligence work operates in the real world. Daniel Craig visits CIA in run-up to shooting new James Bond film 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z I’d heard rumors that the CIA wanted to get their hands on the Sheik. "I know where Saddam Hussein is hiding": What I saw in Iraq right after the 2003 U.S. invasion 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z That same year, in a classified National Intelligence Estimate, the CIA warned that Islamic extremists were intent on striking targets inside the United States. How publishing a 35,000-word manifesto led to the Unabomber 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Recipient of a CIA Medal of Merit among other honors, he was reluctant to say too much about where he worked, and what he did. Jason Matthews, author of ‘Red Sparrow’ thrillers, dies 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Only this time, the producers hint that the CIA program’s nefarious skunkworks project wasn’t solely an American undertaking. USA’s Bourne spinoff “Treadstone” feels retro and exactly what’s needed today 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “What do they call information in the CIA?” Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z Meanwhile Zero Dark Thirty depicts gruesome scenes of CIA waterboarding as contributing to the hunt for Bin Laden. Should 'true story' films such as Zero Dark Thirty and Argo be rated L for lie? 2013-01-17T18:29:01Z In the graphic adaptation, they are pictured in suits shaking hands after the CIA contracted their company for $81 million. 'The Torture Report: A Graphic Adaptation' illustrates the grim reality of CIA interrogation techniques post 9/11 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Soon after, Plame's CIA cover was leaked to the news media. Watts stars as CIA operative Plame in Cannes film 2010-05-20T13:13:00Z They gained access to some authorities who had never before gone on record, such as the recently retired CIA officer Lisa Maddox, who provides a sobering inside take on the subject. 'I just don't see how this ends': a sobering new film on the Afghan war 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “I had some family that did some things for the CIA,” he once said. How Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, got Donald Trump’s ear 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, some people insist that Morrison was killed by the CIA — or that he faked his own death. 11 surprising facts about Jim Morrison 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Is there any chance that Evgheniya is working for Directorate S and is honey potting the CIA guy? ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The CIA cooked up a plan to spirit the six out of the country on a scheduled flight from Tehran's Mehrabad airport, masquerading as Canadians working on a non-existent science-fiction film. The truth behind Affleck's Argo 2013-01-14T00:55:56Z Areas of concern She was a dangerous CIA agent: brilliant and reckless and utterly fixed on her idea of the truth, despite substantial evidence to the contrary. Homeland: your season two primer 2012-10-05T14:00:00Z He described himself as a conspiracy theorist, a term he believed was created by the CIA "to discourage people from seeking the truth." "He did not suffer fools": Honoring Richard Belzer, the stand-up conspiracy theorist 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Prosecutors want Risen to reveal his sources as part of the prosecution of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA analyst. Attorney general, top journalists discuss prosecutors’ latitude in leak investigations Chastain won a Golden Globe this month for her role as a feisty CIA agent credited with tracking down Osama bin Laden in thriller "Zero Dark Thirty." Anne Hathaway, Tommy Lee Jones win Screen Actors Guild awards 2013-01-28T02:08:35Z “Please feel free to say CIA declined to comment,” agency spokesman Jonathan Liu suggested in a recent email response to queries from The Washington Post. Spy chic: What made this couple fall in love with a (possible) former safe house? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z He also agreed to go along with the CIA's film production cover story to get the Americans out of Iran. Ex-Canada ambassador slighted by Affleck's "Argo" 2013-02-23T17:28:08Z Then when 9/11 happened, I literally went on the CIA website, just trying to figure out what I could do to help. Holy D.C. connection! A local comic book writer used to work for the CIA! 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z And you know, when I was born in McLean, Va., which is a suburb of the CIA, my daddy was away on business. Q&A with Stewart Copeland: Drumming with the Police, setting Sting free and investigating his dad’s time in the CIA 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z During World War II, Dr. Schorske worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, and his duties included compiling a psychological portrait of Nazism that would explain its appeal. Carl E. Schorske, historian who won the Pulitzer Prize, dies at 100 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Sony’s official message is that there are no plans to release the film, which stars Rogen and Franco as a journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate Kim, the North Korean leader. Sony canceled the release of ‘The Interview.’ Here's how it could come out. 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Kariakou, you may remember, was jailed for discussing the CIA’s torture program with a journalist. Through the looking glass: How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump? 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z In the first Bond movie, 007 travelled to Jamaica and enlisted the help of a black fisherman and CIA contact named Quarrel. Not licensed to offend: a new Bond museum will cut the sexism and casual racism 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z He’s divorced, a felon and has been cut loose by the CIA. Review | Hackers, fake news and worldwide panic: The plot of ‘The Paladin’ feels eerily real 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z I knew it would be off-putting to just see a guy with a lazy eye flailing his arms around like E.T. fleeing the CIA. How I friended Oprah Winfrey and Stephen Colbert: Zach Anner on comedy and cerebral palsy (“The sexiest of the palsies”) 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z "CIA censors attack this book because it exposes the CIA as a place to get rich, with billions of taxpayer dollars wasted or stolen in espionage programs that produce nothing," Jones said. CIA sues former employee for publishing book 2010-10-19T16:42:00Z Q: You have an Audible Original podcast series, "My Dad the Spy," about your father, Miles Axe Copeland ll, who was in the CIA. Q&A with Stewart Copeland: Drumming with the Police, setting Sting free and investigating his dad’s time in the CIA 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Another thing you’ve both mentioned was that you were surprised to learn how many women were involved in the CIA. Zero Dark Thirty‘s Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal on Strong Women and Strong Helicopters 2012-12-14T13:00:17Z Eisenberg headlines as a dope-loving convenience store clerk who is unaware he is a sleeper agent for a sinister CIA program. Straight Outta Compton atop US box office as American Ultra fails to score 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z But according to former CIA analyst Frank Snepp, the glue holding that treaty together was North Vietnam's belief that President Richard Nixon was a complete madman, ready to bring U.S. troops back in a heartbeat. 'Last Days in Vietnam' a thrilling recount of the fall of Saigon 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z There is a man like that in “The Chemist”: Kevin, Daniel’s twin brother, a CIA special ops dude. Without 'Twilight's' supernatural chill, can Stephenie Meyer still thrill readers? 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Lloyd Owen, as a CIA operative on whom past derelictions in Iran weigh heavily, is both forceful and wary, using his wonderful rumble voice to suggest an edge of unearned authority. The Human Comedy; Blood and Gifts; Accomplice 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z But in dealing with Germany's intelligence services and the CIA, he also sees how paranoia and arrogance can render pinpoint operations scattered and innocent people guilty. No one wears a white hat in the uncomfortably real 'A Most Wanted Man' 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z What many commentators found far more bizarre and disturbing, however, was that Trump gave his performance in front of a memorial wall commemorating CIA agents who had died on the job. Through the looking glass: How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump? 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Action sequel "Taken 2" stars Neeson as a former CIA agent who is captured while on vacation in Istanbul. Thriller 'Taken 2' earns second box office win 2012-10-15T22:14:12Z The lawmakers said the CIA detainee who provided significant information about bin Laden did so before any harsh interrogation. Senators write Sony, criticize 'Zero Dark Thirty' 2012-12-19T23:57:12Z The book is about a Russian double agent secretly working for the CIA, and includes Vladimir Putin as a character. Spy novels get shout-out during Jeff Sessions' testimony on the Russia probe 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z As acting general counsel at the CIA, a role he occupied for six years, Rizzo had legitimized those techniques — which included waterboarding and sleep deprivation — both legally and morally. Perspective | Only in Washington: The CIA lawyer, the film critic and the obscure 1950s movie that forged their unlikely bond 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z McRaven conveyed the report immediately to Panetta, and it began to spread waves of excitement through the CIA and White House. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z Stan portrays Nick, a CIA agent with ties to Chastain's character who may not be all that he appears to be. Beyond the Winter Soldier: Sebastian Stan has always played roles that exist outside the binaries 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z She says that to Nate, the CIA operative played by Mr. Edgerton and the object of her first assignment, in Hungary. ‘Red Sparrow’ Review: Flightless Bird 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z As technicians, the filmmakers prefer the icy-veined efficiency of Black Forest stormtroopers to the bumbling of CIA desk jockeys trying to be killer studs. A B-Plus for The A-Team 2010-06-12T19:55:00Z So when Yousef offered to take him out into the desert to go wolf-shooting, he eagerly accepted after making a bad joke about being in the CIA. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers – digested read 2013-02-10T13:00:01Z A former speechwriter, journalist and CIA operative, he drew upon his inside knowledge of power and espionage for narratives that were praised as eloquent and informed accounts of foreign policy and Washington intrigue. Charles McCarry, prescient spy novelist, dead at 89 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The report stops short of saying that the CIA lied to reporters about the program. Senate report says CIA gave reporters inaccurate information on interrogations 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z One man said he was the director of the CIA's Libyan section. Free at last... and they all owe?their lives to Amnesty 2011-04-02T23:11:34Z The real fake Argo, as it were, was based on Hindu-Buddhist mythology – not quite Middle Eastern or a glorification of Islam, but the CIA seemed to think it was close enough. Argo – Ben Affleck's gripping CIA thriller sends reality into a tailspin 2013-02-22T09:00:02Z Some people believe that's on purpose — that the CIA invented the term to downplay and discredit people who believed in the numerous stories circulating after JFK's assassination. 17 facts about conspiracy theories 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Early this year WikiLeaks released CIA and State Department documents from the 1970s, including secret cables from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The Fifth Estate: A Hollywood Cartoon of Julian Assange 2013-10-16T17:42:52Z In the war of movies about heroic CIA operatives fighting Islamic bad guys in Western Asia, the nicer one took the big prizes at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 70th Golden Globe Awards. The Golden Globe Awards: Big Wins for Argo and Les Misérables 2013-01-14T09:59:52Z The involvement of the CIA complemented efforts of the Canadian embassy to free the six held in Tehran. Ben Affleck's Argo: Can a Fake Movie Save Real Lives? 2012-10-11T12:00:13Z "Argo" ticks along breathlessly, moving us smoothly through labyrinthine CIA offices and bustling Tehran streets, always giving the impression of vast crowds and busyness. 'Argo' rides the waves of suspense to a dramatic Hollywood ending 2012-10-11T20:06:03Z Tony Gilroy, a writer on the first three "Bourne" films and writer-director of this latest installment, spent countless hours immersed in military and intelligence research to tell the story of CIA assassin Jason Bourne. `Bourne' writer-director Gilroy taps real science 2012-08-09T16:36:07Z The Kremlin’s friend in Matthews’s version is only bidding to run the CIA, not the White House. Review | Only one sexy couple can stop a Russian spy from taking over the CIA 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Trump was eager to preserve his relationship with an ally, despite the CIA’s conclusion that the crown prince had ordered the assassination. Perspective | Trump is leaving press freedom in tatters. Biden can take these bold steps to repair the damage. 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Two spies — one from the CIA, one from England’s Secret Intelligence Service — share a vigil at a window in a small town in Turkey, near the Iranian border. ‘A Colder War’ by Charles Cumming spins spy intrigue in search for a diabolical mole Christian Slater, who voices a CIA operative in some seasons, wrote the forward. The art of “Archer”: “The arc of the character of Archer is really interesting” 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The Philip Noyce-directed "Salt," in which Jolie plays a CIA spook accused of foreign espionage who must go on the run, looks prepared to push that total upward when it opens next Friday. Angelina Jolie jolts a man's world: action films 2010-07-15T06:12:00Z When I was showing the film at the Palm Springs film festival, a woman accused me of spying for the FBI or CIA and faking news. Feras Fayyad: 'I never thought as a film-maker that I would feel endangered' 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z In this lacklustre movie, plays the brilliant CIA operative Evelyn Salt, who goes on the run after being denounced by a Russian defector as a long-time mole planted in the US as a child. Salt 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z The filmmakers were shown a classified facility, whose name was redacted in the released documents, and toured CIA vaults. Kathryn Bigelow given information on unit that killed Osama bin Laden 2012-05-24T00:35:29Z Philip Seymour Hoffman steals the movie as a foulmouthed CIA agent. Like 'The Social Network'? Scarecrow Video suggests other movies based on true stories 2010-09-30T20:39:00Z Exposing Operation Blackbriar wasn’t enough But why is Bourne bothered about stealing CIA data when everyone already knows about the naughty Blackbriar/Treadstone programmes thanks to his last big screen outing? Five things we learned from the debut trailer for Jason Bourne 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Zero Dark Thirty is a thriller about the killing of Osama Bin Laden, focusing on the role of a female CIA operative in the hunt for the al-Qaeda leader. VIDEO: Zero Dark Thirty's Oscar buzz 2012-12-11T01:09:49Z As the president’s most dedicated servant, Herb is charged with placating Putin by secretly negotiating with Oleg Pishinsky, a Russian oligarch who dispatches his enemies with a nerve agent the CIA calls “Oil of Oleg.” Review | Christopher Buckley’s ‘Make Russia Great Again’ is the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Remembering that she had an interest in joining the CIA or FBI, I tried to show her the parallels between Googling boys and saving the world. When the school is the bully 2012-05-18T16:15:00Z The most obvious center of mistrust is between the CIA and Brody, as Carrie and company realize that they have entered into an arrangement based largely on faith that Brody has not yet validated. Homeland Watch: Trust No One 2012-11-05T13:00:04Z Ames counted both men as friends and, to the annoyance of some CIA colleagues, refused to recruit them as agents. Necessary 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z It would be one thing if this were a scandal that could have compromised the CIA or American intelligence, if this were some honey trap set by foreign entities. David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z "Homeland" won for best TV drama in its first year, and Claire Danes, who plays a CIA agent in the series, was named best actress in a TV drama. Grammer turns the page with TV award 2012-01-16T02:55:09Z The fighting took place at two locations: the US consulate and a covert CIA facility known as “the Annex”, about half a mile away. Fighting dirty: could Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie take down Hillary Clinton? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Saul thought his CIA days were over, describing his current status as “two torpedoes in my side, taking on water.” 'Homeland' recap: Carrie's at a crossroads as Season 4 wraps 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Hoffman interviewed key players and gained access to more than 900 pages of long-secret CIA files and operational cables to fill in a crucial gap in the Cold War espionage canon. Real-life 'Billion Dollar Spy' reads like a Cold War fiction thriller 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The sequel sees Neeson as a retired CIA agent who gets kidnapped on holiday in Istanbul. Taken 2 scores $50m US opening 2012-10-08T11:24:35Z Or a quick check with someone in, say, the CIA. Perspective | Five ways President Trump can become media literate 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, in the atmosphere of general paranoia that pervaded the postwar era, the CIA maintained an important role in manipulating the developing drug culture. Timothy Leary’s liberation, and the CIA’s experiments! LSD’s amazing, psychedelic history 2013-12-14T21:00:00Z CIA Director Allen Dulles lost his job in the aftermath. Masters of their medium: JFK on TV, Trump on Twitter 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z It’s the “best bad idea” the CIA has, and it’s Ben Affleck’s responsibility to get them out of the country and back home. Today's Movie Trailer: Ben Affleck's Argo 2012-05-09T15:03:51Z The writer stumbles across clues linking his employer with the CIA, and faces a life-and-death struggle to find the truth. 2010-02-11T23:35:00Z Miller also worked for former New York and Los Angeles police commissioner Bill Bratton when Bratton ran those departments, and at the CIA, FBI and National Security Administration. CBS' Miller rises above the fray in Boston case 2013-04-29T11:35:10Z He recounts a change of allegiance that turned him into a CIA informant, and explains how he abetted the drone attack that killed the preacher in 2011. There and back again 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Since you were with Marvel and DC before joining the CIA, did these types of stories form in your mind while working for the agency? Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z By only interviewing the CIA directors, the filmmakers allow a certain groupthink to infiltrate the process. Spymasters: CIA documentary sheds little light on drones, 9/11 or torture 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z “The FBI and the CIA were called in, and that’s when they opened up the crate and got me out.” Man seeks pals he once persuaded to ship him around the world in a crate 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z See if any of this sounds familiar: In a high-tech, video-screen-clogged control room, the CIA is tracking a runaway rogue superagent whose spy skills are off the charts. 'Safe House': Denzel is a fun break from walls of familiarity 2012-02-08T20:22:04Z A CIA email indicates that Bigelow and Boal were granted access to "the vault," which is described as the CIA building where some of the tactical planning for the raid took place, Judicial Watch said.. Rep. King: CIA, Pentagon, too close to filmmakers 2012-05-23T17:33:09Z Zero Dark Thirty sticks solemnly and submissively to the CIA's official version of events, as received by screenwriter Mark Boal from his anonymous sources. Zero Dark Thirty – review 2013-01-24T21:01:01Z Danes breathes life and realism into a character who, for once, goes against the clichés of what a female CIA officer is supposed to do and look like. Introducing the TIME 100, TV Edition 2012-04-18T11:32:33Z That film centers on an attorney sent by the CIA to negotiate the return of an American pilot at the height of the Cold War. Steven Spielberg frenzy: Two films coming in 10-month span 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z And he said, "Well, a lot of military and guys in the CIA, they were into stoicism and Marcus Aurelius," who was one of the founders of that philosophy. Jeff Bridges on the Dude, making "The Old Man" and the experience of "dancing with my mortality" 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Jack, an undercover agent for the CIA, hopes to keep Komarov alive and spirit him out of the country. A Good Day to Die Hard: Yippee-Ki-Yay, Mother Russia 2013-02-14T04:30:45Z "She was going to be lying to her friends, lying to her husband, lying to the people she meets in the field, who can't know that she's a CIA officer." Watts returns to Cannes, where her star was born 2010-05-21T15:31:00Z In "All the Old Knives," Henry Pelham is the bitter party of one, a CIA operative in the agency's Vienna outpost. Olen Steinhauer's new novel reunites spies with a shared history 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The new one is based on extensive research including, apparently, direct access to key personnel in the CIA. Zero Dark Thirty – review 2013-01-27T00:06:09Z The picture makes the most of its premise, in which valuable CIA operatives must return to action after having settled, or not, into various stages of retirement. Bruce Willis spies a good time in "Red" 2010-09-30T00:48:00Z Over the next few months, Ames and a CIA colleague repeatedly shared U.S. intelligence with supposedly moderate members of the new revolutionary government, hoping to open a line of communication. 'Good Spy' scrutinizes Middle East CIA officer Robert Ames 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Many senior CIA officials fervently believe that important intelligence was gleaned from coercive interrogations. Movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ stokes debate on CIA torture 2012-12-15T03:44:31Z “If the FBI/CIA actually ever gets a recording of what’s going into my Echo, they’ll probably just think I’m a weirdo.” In today’s homes, consumers are willing to sacrifice privacy for convenience 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The CIA recently calculated that 20,000 to 31,500 Islamic State fighters are in Syria and Iraq and that 2,000 Westerners have joined its ranks in Syria alone. Islamic State's soft weapon of choice: social media 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Right away he’ll head to South Africa for a guest role on the new season of Showtime’s CIA drama “Homeland.” Corey Stoll enjoys ‘The Strain’ of series stardom 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z This sounds great and all, but I’ve been waiting for a TV show about a CIA agent who’s dating Jennifer Lopez and is best friends with an amnesic assassin who’s freaky good at math. Affleck-Damon Comedy Headed To CBS 2013-10-11T14:41:38Z Russia Today, the state-funded multimedia outlet, claimed that the firing was Radio Free Europe’s attempt to protect Navalny, whom the Russian government alleges is working for the CIA, at the expense of its own journalists. Radio Free Europe fires a prominent Russian journalist — and the Kremlin smirks 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Six U.S. diplomats, disguised as a fake sci-fi film crew, are about to fly to freedom with their CIA escorts. In fact-based films, how much fiction is OK? 2013-02-19T20:53:09Z Participation by the Pentagon and the CIA in making a film about the raid "is bound to increase such leaks, and undermine these organizations' hard-won reputations as `quiet professionals,'" King said. Probing what Hollywood told about bin Laden raid 2012-01-05T18:58:12Z The film makes great play of Plame's coolness under pressure – the quality that got her into the CIA. Fair Game: Free agents 2011-03-06T22:30:01Z This year WikiLeaks released CIA and State Department documents from the 1970s, including secret cables from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Julian Assange and The Fifth Estate: Wiki Wacky Who? 2013-09-08T20:27:10Z CIA supervisors in Washington repeatedly refused one request from CKSPHERE, as they called their new agent. Real-life 'Billion Dollar Spy' reads like a Cold War fiction thriller 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The president of the United States asks Weber to take over the “ghost hotel” that is the CIA, and, “flushed by the challenge” of attempting the impossible, Weber agrees. ‘The Director,’ by David Ignatius The critics were almost evenly split between Zero Dark Thirty and Argo, two movies that provide glowing, more-or-less-true-life portraits of heroic CIA officers. Film Critics Awards: Early Clues to the Oscars 2013-01-09T16:32:50Z Twenty-one years later, after the invasion of Iraq, she left the CIA. Spy novels by real spies: Anthony Burgess, John le Carr? and others 2010-08-18T20:33:00Z But there’s also been a bit of sympathy for the CIA in some odd places. Through the looking glass: How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump? 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z In “State of Affairs,” strolling through the cemetery after a one-year anniversary memorial of the attack that killed her fiance, Charlie assures President Payton that the CIA will find Fatah. NBC’s ‘State of Affairs’ and the women on Washington’s last nerve Historically, the torture scenes are broadly accurate insofar as the CIA did use techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation and forcing detainees into tiny, coffin-like boxes. Zero Dark Thirty's torture scenes are controversial and historically dubious 2013-01-25T13:42:00Z “I really spent the last decade of my CIA career managing large and complex issues, with a special focus on taking care of people,” Park, 53, said. Smithsonian secretary taps former intelligence officer as deputy 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The CIA has yet to comment on the senate investigation. Did Zero Dark Thirty have secret links to CIA? US Senate vows to find out 2013-01-03T12:32:25Z On the day one of the dead was buried, the CIA killed al-Yazid in a drone strike. Review: 'The Triple Agent' is a page turner 2011-07-18T10:17:08Z He also found success playing his hard-bitten screen image for laughs, in such comedic roles as an insecure mob boss in “Analyze This” and a retired CIA operative in “Meet the Fockers.” De Niro takes shot at Trump as he accepts SAG lifetime award 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z The team claimed that the bureau's sudden decision was motivated by the fact that Rackstraw may have had possible ties to the CIA. The 6 most surprising "D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!" revelations from Netflix's docuseries 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z “The Interview,” set to premiere in the United States this October, is about two celebrity journalists who land an interview with Kim, which prompts the CIA to recruit the two as assassins. North Korea: Rogen, Franco film shows ‘desperation’ of American society 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Feinstein wrote to the CIA , suggesting it had intentionally misled the “Zero Dark Thirty” filmmakers. In ‘The Report,’ setting the record on torture straight 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z His "removal" was authorised by the director of the CIA on 19 August 1960. Lumumba fights its corner as a corrective to imperialism 2012-06-14T13:25:47Z The movie even suggests that the CIA helped set Seal up with his very own airport in the small town of Mena, Ark. The True Story Behind the Movie 'American Made' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z No doubt the 1979 "Canadian caper" – whereby six American diplomats fled Iran using Canadian passports in a scheme devised by the CIA, film industry professionals and the Canadian government – helped to shape the regime's suspicions. Ben Affleck's Argo takes Iran's revolutionary themes as its own 2012-11-07T15:09:52Z Numb with grief and guilt but smart and resilient, Sophie travels to Cairo and connects with the CIA agent she once bedded. New in crime fiction: tales from Wales, Los Angeles and Cairo 2014-03-10T07:02:36Z Chopra, 34, made her transition from Bollywood to Hollywood as the lead of "Quantico," in which she plays an FBI recruit turned CIA agent. Priyanka Chopra recovering after mishap on 'Quantico' set 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In the Amazon series, he starts as a CIA economist examining the terrorists’ money trail. Jack Ryan Returns, This Time on Amazon 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Mughniyeh, who was assassinated in Damascus in 2008, possibly by Mossad in conjunction with the CIA, became a leading force in Hizbullah. Necessary 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z A lengthy, solemn film about the early days of the CIA in the 1960s, directed by Robert De Niro and featuring lots of men in hats and raincoats. Every Angelina Jolie film performance – ranked! 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Set more recently, Zero Dark Thirty is an account of the CIA's successful pursuit of Bin Laden. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z “Oh, I’m retired now but once did I work In secret for this country’s CIA. A dog can go where he wants and just lurk. And overhear whatever bad guys say.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Time for another round of jokes retold as poems 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z As long as the action bounces around from Kuala Lumpur to Amman to Cairo to Baghdad to CIA headquarters, with occasional stopovers in the Wilson-Plame household in suburban Washington, Liman is in his element. Cannes: Naomi Watts on Valerie Plame 2010-05-20T17:30:00Z The movie begins by outlining the CIA's involvement in deposing the leftist Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh and installing the Shah. Argo – review 2012-11-08T15:30:01Z With a nod towards Encounter magazine's CIA funding, in McEwan's tale, money is available to fund the sort of writers, including novelists, who will provide a more traditional account of British society. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan – review 2013-06-02T09:00:01Z She ping pongs between them, encouraged by Trish, with both men using their CIA resources to spy on her. Who is the Victor in This Means War? Not the Viewer 2012-02-16T15:07:30Z His peace is short-lived when an old friend from the CIA turns up asking for help. No Time to Die: 25th James Bond film gets a title 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z When a CIA inspector reviewed his death, he found that there were no guidelines for the use of the interrogation techniques where Rahman was held and that interrogators had little or no training. 'The Torture Report: A Graphic Adaptation' illustrates the grim reality of CIA interrogation techniques post 9/11 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z How much do we really understand about the CIA, even after all the attention paid by novelists and screenwriters and journalists to its myths and legends? Oh, the suffering of the CIA: In Showtime’s “The Spymasters,” America’s chief spooks bare their souls on the pain of the terror war 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z In 1981, a TV movie called Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper told the story minus the CIA's involvement. The truth behind Affleck's Argo 2013-01-14T00:55:56Z More insightful books on the CIA have been and will be written. 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The head of the CIA should be smarter than to be boning crazy ladies, right? David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z Critics say Chastain pulls it off seamlessly as "Maya," based on a real-life CIA agent who played a major role in tracking down bin Laden at his hideout in Pakistan. A Minute With: Jessica Chastain on "Zero Dark Thirty" 2012-12-19T15:22:59Z Iran's state TV called the movie "an advertisement for the CIA." Iran scoffs at Oscar-winning 'Argo' 2013-02-25T11:46:03Z It’s a perilous undertaking, however, because CIA security officers also track Ted’s movements to determine if he acts suspiciously. 'The Americans' recap: KGB targets troubled CIA agent 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z After his capture, Nashiri was held in a secret CIA “black site” for four years, and waterboarded — a form of mock execution by inducing near suffocation long considered torture under US and international law. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z With terror threats and CIA attention escalating, Jack finds solace at the U.S. TV highlights: ‘The Bachelorette’ Season 10 begins Funny stories about white people, black people, southern sheriffs and the CIA, whose agents he described as “spooks.” Perspective | One day with Dick Gregory made me know he was truly one of a kind 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z On Sunday, a CIA drone aircraft fired a missile that killed Quso as he stepped out of his car in Yemen, U.S. officials said. Double agent brought down underwear plot 2012-05-08T22:52:00Z After sifting through 6 million pages of CIA documents, the Senate committee released a nearly 7,000-page report describing the torture and treatment of prisoners captured during the George W. Bush administration. 'The Torture Report: A Graphic Adaptation' illustrates the grim reality of CIA interrogation techniques post 9/11 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Air Force psychologists contracted by the CIA to design and implement the agency’s interrogation program, who settled the suit in August, before a court trial was set to begin. 'The Torture Report: A Graphic Adaptation' illustrates the grim reality of CIA interrogation techniques post 9/11 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z The trove helped Bird pull back layers of secrecy in Ames' life and reveal a startling series of covert CIA operations and spycraft. 'Good Spy' scrutinizes Middle East CIA officer Robert Ames 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z It tells the story of an American soldier released from captivity in Iraq and a CIA officer who suspects him of being an al-Qaida turncoat. Hit TV series 'Homeland' coming home to Israel 2012-03-13T16:36:07Z In a New Yorker article headlined “Trump’s Vainglorious Affront to the CIA,” former Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Robin Wright chided the new president for his lack of respect for the agency’s martyrs. Through the looking glass: How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump? 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The pigeon camera Photograph: Copyright Cameron Davidson/CIA A mirror that, when looked at from a certain angle, reveals a top secret code. The CIA's antique spy kit 2011-02-27T20:00:02Z The Losers are an elite Special Forces unit, running covert ops for the CIA. 'The Losers': Cast chemistry saves comic-book caper 2010-04-22T21:13:00Z Zero Dark Thirty has already run into a heap of trouble over its depiction of the CIA's use of torture. Zero Dark Thirty's torture scenes are controversial and historically dubious 2013-01-25T13:42:00Z Information Agency, and his novel features an African American CIA agent who uses his agency training to foment a black guerrilla movement in the United States. Review | The novel ‘American Spy’ breaks down barriers. It’s also a terrific read. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z "The Interview," starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, follows two hapless journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. U.S. theater chains delay Sony's 'The Interview' after threats 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Draper believed this was the “CIA crisis line,” that is, the CIA ’s hotline to the White House, and he claims that he was able to eavesdrop on it using his blue box. From “phreaks” to Apple: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s “eureka!” moment 2013-02-16T14:00:00Z The wealth of stories in Lee Server’s biography, “Handsome Johnny: The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli, Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA Assassin,” is undoubtedly worth the price of admission. Review | The incredible life of ‘Handsome Johnny,’ a gangster worthy of the movies 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z It starts with the fictional bombing by Israel of Iranian nuclear sites and the geo-political tensions that ensue, with Patinkin's character out from behind his CIA headquarters desk and back in the field. Mandy Patinkin thrilled to be part of Emmy winner "Homeland" 2012-09-24T22:29:38Z It even quotes Bush CIA director Michael Hayden praising the president but urging a little more transparency in his process. Our cannibalism obsession 2012-06-06T03:59:00Z "Anybody who's anybody in the CIA wants to be stationed there because it's such a fascinating place to work, not to mention dangerous." 'Homeland' gets a 'major reset' for Season 4 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z The world has never looked so dangerous, so it’s a welcome return for Homeland and those fearless guardians of national security at the CIA. Homeland recap: season six, episode one – Fair Game 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Another CIA official hints in the correspondence that tickets for the premiere of Zero Dark Thirty would be warmly received. Film about Bin Laden killing helped by Obama administration, says watchdog 2012-08-29T11:21:35Z Feisty yet practical, Igor curries favor with the mistrusted CIA operative who turns up unexpectedly, while reminding Nicky it's just what they have to do. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z When Arthur Schlesinger Jr. — the esteemed historian and a Kennedy White House adviser — told me "we didn't control the CIA or the Pentagon," that made me shiver. "Murder Most Foul": Unpacking Bob Dylan's new epic, from Dallas 1963 to the pandemic of 2020 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z About a year later, she landed at the Farm, the CIA’s secretive ops training program. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The story involves the investigation of a CIA mole eight years after a hijacking incident claimed the lives of more than 100 innocent people. Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton heat up Amazon's sleepy thriller "All the Old Knives" 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Jessica Chastain, the winner at the Golden Globes, has been her main competition as a driven CIA operative searching for Osama bin Laden in “Zero Dark Thirty.” ‘Argo’ on a Roll with Big Win at SAG Awards 2013-01-28T11:03:01Z Hambali was arrested near Bangkok, Thailand, by Thai authorities and later turned over to the CIA. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z His comedy also had a nasty streak, especially concerning women. ‘s dogged CIA agent, played by Jessica Chastain, was a tribute to “Every woman’s innate inability to never ever let anything go.” American Dud: Seth MacFarlane’s Awkward Oscars 2013-02-25T08:05:16Z The CIA, believing this absurdity, sends in a lovely female agent to shadow Hanks. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Cars 2" 2011-06-23T13:07:17Z The patriarch is a former CIA operative who, despite his prickly exterior, is a decent enough fella— just don’t mention his son-in-law. Hello, Neighbor: Ranking Our 10 Favorite Movie Families 2013-09-19T17:03:15Z He speaks cryptically about his family, fostering an aura of mystique when he says that his father’s patients included CIA officials who were so important that they had to be guarded while under anesthesia. How Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, got Donald Trump’s ear 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The R-rated comedy stars James Franco and Rogen as a vapid celebrity talk show host and producer who are recruited by the CIA to try to kill Kim, a scheme that goes terribly awry. Before Sony hacking, 'Interview' co-directors knew of N. Korea risk 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z And James Risen, then a New York Times reporter, struggled for years to avoid testifying about his confidential source during the leak investigation of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer. Perspective | Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was drawn by Obama. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Political thriller Patriot follows a CIA officer trying to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Amazon's Fall Pilots Feature Projects From Louis C.K. and Shaq 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Back home, the CIA's headquarters in Langley had been devastated by a car bomb, with more than 200 dead. Homeland's Howard Gordon: 'The Brody-Carrie story has to evolve' 2013-04-07T17:18:01Z You spoke with the former CIA director Michael Hayden about the film. Behind the Story: TIME’s Jessica Winter on Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark Thirty 2013-01-25T12:45:35Z As one scare tactic, he proposed the CIA fly a huge cross across the Cuban night sky as sort of a Second Coming, a fake divine warning to Catholics about their atheist leader. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Some in Britain, however, have criticized "Argo's" reference to that country, and some in Canada are upset the CIA gets credit at the expense of the Canadians, a claim backed by former U.S. Passing reference in 'Argo' rankles New Zealand 2013-03-21T06:46:08Z The al-Qaeda leader has a hiding place the CIA would recognize — a “black site” — and he, too, keeps a machine that kills boys. Rumsfeld, Rice and Gonzales make cameos in a dark, comedic novel 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z CIA employees are "the finest public servants" he knows. 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z I’m proud of my work in the CIA, and I’m never sure that my decision to leave was the right decision. Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z This simple round can reveal more secrets than a detainee at a CIA black site. Frankly . . . Pizza! tosses pies that reach for perfection (and come close) 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z In 1975, former CIA agent Philip Agee published a book detailing agency operations and disclosing the names of a number of CIA agents working undercover overseas, Rosenthal said. Free speech, religion clash over anti-Muslim film 2012-09-18T11:16:04Z We read that this tape recording existed and it was used as evidence to clear their names when Shin and Choi were debriefed by the CIA. The incredible true story of “The Lovers and the Despot”: “Until North Korea collapses and we get access to the files, we’ll never know for sure” 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Q: How did you prepare to portray a bipolar CIA agent? Claire Danes switches gears for "Homeland" TV drama 2011-09-30T12:33:45Z How did you go from CIA counterterrorism to writing comic books? Holy D.C. connection! A local comic book writer used to work for the CIA! 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z He joined the army and the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, and then joined the CIA and becomes the head of this base. The Nazi hunters who wouldn’t give up: “Many war criminals… simply went back and resumed their lives” 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Her second Oscar nomination was for Zero Dark Thirty, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, in which she played Maya, the CIA operative who tracks down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Jessica Chastain: ‘It’s a myth that women don’t get along’ 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Robert De Niro is back as his formidable father-in-law Jack Byrnes, the former CIA tough guy who takes a dim view of unsuitable young men marrying his daughters. Meet the Parents: Little?Fockers ? review 2010-12-23T22:24:00Z It will be based on the true story of James Donovan, a US lawyer recruited by the CIA to negotiate the release of a pilot shot down over Russia in 1960. Spielberg joins forces with Coens 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Still, her latest film, Fair Game, where she plays the outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, with Sean Penn as her husband, made too little impression on all of us who like her. David Thomson on Naomi Watts 2011-02-24T22:40:01Z I liked many of the CIA agents even the less likeable ones. Vortex by Julie Cross - review 2013-03-12T12:00:00Z By the time they allow one bubble of truth to break the surface of their reverie – he admits he's a criminal, she tells him she's CIA – they're too far gone. How "The Company You Keep" maps the anatomy of a dangerous, network-friendly sexual thrill 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z He started off joking that best-picture front-runner "Argo," about a real-life clandestine CIA operation to rescue American hostages from Iran, was "so top secret that the film's director is unknown to the Academy." Rookie Oscar host Seth MacFarlane lives up to provocative image 2013-02-25T04:22:01Z Ben Affleck’s , a hit at the Toronto Film Festival, finds heroism and actual Intelligence in a CIA officer. End of Watch: City of Angels in Blue 2012-09-21T15:31:53Z Things don’t come to a head until Aug. 5, 1974, when it becomes clear that Nixon directed the CIA to stop the FBI’s investigation of the Watergate burglary. Book review: ‘Washington Journal,’ reporting Watergate, by Elizabeth Drew He and Rudin may also be working together on Agent Storm, which chronicles the life of Morten Storm, a militant Islamist who became a double agent for the CIA. Greengrass to direct Orwell's 1984 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z They were also handy stopover sites for suspects who were being transported, kidnapped really, under the extraordinary rendition programme coordinated by the CIA. Zero Dark Thirty: a bluffer's guide 2013-01-21T12:04:50Z But with the Cannes Film Festival entry "Fair Game," Watts is playing a woman as steady as they come in Valerie Plame, whose secret CIA identity was leaked by the George W. Bush administration. Watts stars as CIA operative Plame in Cannes film 2010-05-20T13:13:00Z Gareth Saxe is appropriately boorish as Chip Bohlen, the American CIA agent who intrudes upon the Russians' gathering with clumsy bonhomie, his not-so-subtle threats putting a face to the general feeling of U.S. government dominance. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z Though the folks at the CIA Say the hit order came from the crown, Mr. Trump says that that’s okay If they keep oil prices down. Style Invitational Week 1310: The Year in Redo, Part 2 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Indeed, Jolie said the crew grew uncomfortable on the set of "Salt" when she dressed in men's clothes for her role as a gung-ho CIA officer wrongly accused of being a Russian spy. Angelina Jolie defends daughter Shiloh's style 2010-07-11T18:54:00Z He doesn't probe the thinking of the senior CIA officials who approved the fiasco, nor does he discuss why no one was held accountable. Review: 'The Triple Agent' is a page turner 2011-07-18T10:17:08Z Leon Panetta, former White House chief of staff and head of the CIA, says there’s another reason for Mueller’s silence: He doesn’t want to give President Trump any ammunition that could compromise the case. Robert Mueller is the most unknowable man in Washington 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The second season storyline resumes six months after Danes' CIA agent seeks electro-shock therapy for her mental disorder after being convinced that her suspicions about the enigmatic POW were ill-founded. "Homeland" TV drama to focus on relationships in 2nd season 2012-07-31T02:05:21Z Poundstone dynamics -- the "dinosaur" CIA veteran and the intelligence agent bringing Neo-Con ideology to the Middle East with little thought for the actual needs of a postwar nation -- represent a dramatic standoff. Bourne again: "Green Zone" a remarkable movie 2010-03-05T06:26:00Z Maya never stops to make a monologue about the glass ceiling she’s facing in the CIA because that deviates from her job. Jessica Chastain: The Oscar-Nominated Star Talks About Playing the “Girl” Who Got bin Laden 2013-01-11T13:00:20Z "Of course, some dinosaurs still roam the halls at CIA headquarters," she says. Valerie Plame welcomes new breed of fictional female spy in Zero Dark Thirty 2012-12-15T16:11:14Z Wouldn't the fact that Wilson's wife was a CIA agent actually enhance Wilson's credibility? Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z “They thought I was Mossad or CIA or something,” he says. ‘We come as friends’: The world’s most consequential lie 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Midway through the movie, the CIA takes over command of the missions, ordering a series of killings that are debatable on moral and strategic grounds. 'Good Kill,' with Ethan Hawke, targets human costs of drone warfare 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z CIA supervisors in Washington were so fearful of a KGB trap that they said no — repeatedly. Real-life 'Billion Dollar Spy' reads like a Cold War fiction thriller 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the expertise of the cartel’s counter-intelligence systems baffled the CIA and the Drug Enforcement Agency. Narcos season three and the lies we tell about the drugs war 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z She has created a series of ironic “CIA Failed Assassination Attempt on Castro” scenarios, whose blueprint-like style quietly mocks the technocratic mindset. In the galleries: Anything but simplicity in these drawings 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Months after Brody's death, Carrie is now the CIA station chief in Kabul and the most perfect ice princess this side of "Frozen." 'Homeland' and Carrie still fighting the good fight 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Moss packed his novel with episodes of bureaucratic squabbling among the CIA, the Department of Defense and various fiefs within the State Department. A thriller writer’s challenge: Make U.S. policy in Africa into a page turner Then he did a whole attack of the CIA and the intelligence community. ‘The moment when it really started to feel insane’: An oral history of the Scaramucci era 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Then he eludes CIA security personnel by shooting one of them in the leg. 'Homeland' recap: Plot twist propels drama toward season finale 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Records activists expect the CIA to petition for just such a decision. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z Chastain is a best actress Oscar nominee for her role as a dogged CIA agent in "Zero Dark Thirty," the weekend's second-place film about the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden. Chastain horror film "Mama" takes big box office win 2013-01-22T18:16:37Z But when it became clear that the CIA and the Bolivian army already knew everything – including who many of the guerrillas were – he changed tack. Che Guevara's 'betrayer' tells his side of the story after 40 years 2013-07-03T13:53:10Z He was being jointly run by Jordanian intelligence and the CIA when al-Qaida flipped him. Review: 'The Triple Agent' is a page turner 2011-07-18T10:17:08Z Affleck, who also directed "Argo," plays a CIA specialist who concocts a wild plan to rescue six Americans hiding in Tehran after the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy there. Box-office activity slows for 'Paranormal,' Perry 2012-10-21T18:14:12Z She bugged him so much that he told her: "If you get permission from the CIA or the Pentagon, you are invited to Cuba, and I will show you what is really going on." Photographer Ren? Burri's best shot 2010-03-24T23:00:00Z After a year in the CIA’s internal remedy process, the agency “took appropriate action in response to my complaints” and deLacy retired with her reputation intact — and a Career Intelligence Medal. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z After last week's action, the finale is left to answer this: will Brody survive the CIA? TV highlights 23/12/12 2012-12-21T10:04:15Z It seems Fallen Empire has figured out that Dunne is a CIA agent, not a fellow hacker, and blown his cover. Review | Hackers, fake news and worldwide panic: The plot of ‘The Paladin’ feels eerily real 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z It's fascinating to observe her at work in this alternative existence of chilling, hi-tech surveillance, and perhaps the key exchange comes when she's eventually brought into a top policy meeting at CIA headquarters. Zero Dark Thirty – review 2013-01-27T00:06:09Z But in terms of the CIA, we’re fed a steady diet of James Bond for decades. Valerie Plame: Most female spies in pop culture are gun-wielding eye candy 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Tom King, 37, is a freelance comic book writer with Marvel and DC Comics and a former CIA officer. Holy D.C. connection! A local comic book writer used to work for the CIA! 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z His songs laser in on the perpetuation of female stereotypes, the mistreatment of Native Americans, the abuse of the ecology and CIA brainwashing. Lupe Fiasco a voice of reason amid the violence 2012-12-27T22:15:00Z Panetta, the former CIA director, told the Senate Wednesday that there is a Defense Department office that works with movie producers. Panetta says no unauthorized info to filmmakers 2012-06-13T16:44:26Z It focuses on "The Sisterhood" - a team of female CIA analysts leading the search - and "Alec Station," the code name for the larger group involved in the hunt. "Zero Dark Thirty" entertaining but inaccurate: ex-CIA agents 2013-01-25T22:30:48Z In the afternoon, Juan Williams was attacked on “The Five” for daring to note that a CIA spokesperson declared the film’s depiction of the stand-down order to be a gross “distortion.” Fox News goes all out to save Michael Bay’s Benghazi flop “13 Hours” from its own lies and awfulness 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z At the CIA we used to say innovation is born out of necessity, sometimes out of desperation. Former spy talks "Argo," and Iran rescue mission 2012-10-12T15:03:31Z However, it does look like she's going to spend season three simultaneously running the CIA and trying to get her boyfriend off the hook for quite a bad crime. Homeland: season two, final episode 2012-12-23T22:30:00Z They just change their tactics and the movie stays toughly, undemonstratively onside with the CIA good guys. Zero Dark Thirty – review 2013-01-24T21:01:01Z Indeed, Morell insists, only one CIA judgment, made within 24 hours of the incident, has proved wrong: the conclusion that the attack was a protest that went violent, not a planned assault. 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Both the CIA director and the commander have said they were denied additional U.S. forces to seal off the area and prevent Bin Laden's escape. Books: Donald Rumsfeld on being the smartest guy in the room 2011-02-08T08:01:00Z In August King wrote the inspectors general of the Pentagon and CIA noting a New York Times column saying that Sony and Bigelow had been given "top-level access to the most classified mission in history." Probing what Hollywood told about bin Laden raid 2012-01-05T18:58:12Z Yet while the book's claustrophobic first-person narration is filled with ambiguities – is Changez an inspiring lecturer or terrorist, is he talking to a CIA agent or a hapless tourist? – the film is more straightforward. Mohsin Hamid 2013-03-26T19:07:18Z Hmong farmers came to Minnesota in droves in the '70s and '80s after the CIA recruited the minority group to assist the US in the Vietnam War. The Hmong farmers who feed the Twin Cities’ farmers markets 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z He had a visceral dislike of former Marxists who supposedly saw the light and became cold-war pawns, subsidised by the CIA via the Congress for Cultural Freedom – the magazine Encounter was a particular bete noire. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z King, R-N.Y., also released a November letter from the CIA saying that its office of public affairs was developing a "single point of reference that will govern future interactions with the entertainment industry." Probing what Hollywood told about bin Laden raid 2012-01-05T18:58:12Z That same date in 1973, Pinochet, ably aided and abetted by the CIA, put paid to the democratically elected government in Chile. Readers recommend: songs about hands – results 2013-01-03T15:38:47Z But the Pakistanis and Saudis coordinated on initiatives parallel to, and without the knowledge of, the CIA, empowering the most fanatical elements in the region. 'The Killing of Osama Bin Laden' by Seymour Hersh details a grave threat to our democracy 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Throughout the ’50s and early ’60s, he traveled to cultural conferences around the world as the literary editor of Encounter magazine, which was later found to be secretly funded by the CIA. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Feinstein is the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has been investigating the interrogation programme adopted by the CIA during the Bush administration. John McCain criticises Zero Dark Thirty's depiction of torture 2012-12-20T14:05:52Z You knew the film had struck a nerve when Washington held hearings about the veracity of tactics attributed to the CIA in the picture. A new era of secrets and spies in Hollywood 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The CIA may have kicked her out, but the superhero recruitment agencies know a solid all-rounder when they see one. Homeland series two: the poster decoded 2012-08-08T19:00:09Z She plays Maya, a CIA operative—based on a real-life person—dedicated to following the lead that eventually would guide agents to Osama bin Laden. Jessica Chastain: The Oscar-Nominated Star Talks About Playing the “Girl” Who Got bin Laden 2013-01-11T13:00:20Z Some questioned its portrayal of the events, given that Boal was granted access to tell the “real story” by the CIA. Serial season two: is it just a trailer for the Bowe Bergdahl movie? 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Kutcher's CIA boss refuses to let him retire, and before long, The Buff One is hunted down by an army of hit men and women. 'Killers': Well, at least the scenery is on target in this Kutcher, Heigl rom-com 2010-06-07T19:44:00Z A terrorist is about to be released from prison for humanitarian reasons, and the CIA plans to use blackmail by revealing this secret if the British government doesn't intervene. Review: Betrayals abound in `The King's Deception' 2013-06-10T14:57:10Z Ultimately, the search for the right poison to kill Castro was placed in the hands of the agency’s top expert, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, a man known as the “Borgia of the CIA.” JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Needless to say this causes tension on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides of the issue, while revealing all manner of MI5/CIA political intrigue. TV Picks: 'Outlander,' 'Legends,' 'Dick Cavett's Watergate' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z If Ellsberg had had access to the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, a summary of which was released in 2014, “I would have put that out,” he said. Perspective | Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, asks: Who will be the next Snowden? 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z But the crime lords never participated in anything this epic without their overlords -- the CIA, their longtime partners in crime. The coverup continues: The Kennedys in Hollywood 2011-04-01T14:01:00Z The prisoner was posing as the co-owner of a bar in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, but he’s really Agent Kasper, who has worked with Italy’s national military police and the CIA. ‘Supernotes’: The CIA asked for his help — but then threw him away 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z As CIA analyst Charleston "Charlie" Tucker, she certainly gets more than one note to play — indeed, playing every note ever written seems to be the plan. 'State of Affairs' an uneven comeback vehicle for Katherine Heigl 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z When the CIA balked, Sara says, she resigned, assuming that she’d be able to use her active security clearance to work as a contractor. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z We are left with a supercharged soap opera, a view of CIA work that is distant and incurious, and a portrait of a marriage that itself is insultingly shallow, cliched and unconvincing. Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z The Emmy and Golden Globe winner returns to television on Sunday, October 2, as a flawed and fragile CIA agent in Showtime's post-9/11 conspiracy drama, "Homeland." Claire Danes switches gears for "Homeland" TV drama 2011-09-30T12:33:45Z But back to Ryan, an analyst whom we meet in his fourth year at the CIA where he works in the terror finance and arms division following suspicious money trails. Jack Ryan: John Krasinski’s eyebrows out act John Krasinski 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps the strongest sign of fans' love for the CIA thriller was when the group was polled for its choice for best picture before any actors hit the red carpet. SHOW BITS: With work done, time to go play 2013-02-25T03:26:09Z Spawn tells the story of a murdered CIA agent who becomes a demon and is hunted by angels. Author Neil Gaiman wins suit over Spawn characters 2010-08-02T16:07:00Z This was not so outlandish – the CIA long ago experimented with an Insectothopter. Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren, edited by Richard Mabey 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z They would not have been able to turn them on anyway, because in advance of the assault CIA operatives had cut off electricity to the entire neighbourhood. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z New films in cinemas this weekend include Taken 2, a sequel to 2008's Taken that sees Liam Neeson reprise his role as a former CIA agent at odds with a gang of Eastern European kidnappers. UK audiences go loopy for Looper 2012-10-03T08:44:45Z “The untried feat was simply impossible to achieve, just like it is today,” Sibrel wrote, adding that he had a secret recording of an American astronaut discussing whether to have him assassinated by the CIA. Moon-landing conspiracy theorists aren’t all the same. Meet some from the Pacific Northwest. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z The CIA used him as a double agent. When good TV goes bad: how Homeland became a right Carrie on 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z CIA intelligence later indicated his assassination was ordered by Saudi Arabia crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. "Kingdom of Silence": A wrenching look at how Jamal Khashoggi's life is a story as big as his death 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Sony said it stood by the film makers of "The Interview," a comedy about two hapless journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korea' Kim Jong Un, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco. Sony pulls release of 'Interview' as U.S determines North Korea behind attack 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z "This Means War": McG's new action film features Chris Pine and Tom Hardy as CIA operatives in a romantic triangle with Reese Witherspoon. Weekend Preview: Asian Night Market, Ellensburg cowboys 2012-02-15T20:29:05Z Willis plays Frank Moses, an old-school CIA agent who finds himself fighting for his life against new CIA technology and agents. Bruce Willis likes it when he sees "RED" 2010-10-13T22:28:00Z Like he took the intelligence that they believe George Tenet had provided under aspects of the CIA and other defense agencies and presented that to the president. Has Dick Cheney seen "Vice"? His biographer talks to Salon about Adam McKay's biopic and more 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Ben affleck in Argo: 'At the Golden Globes, there were gongs for a heroically bearded CIA spook saving hostages and American face in Iran.' And the winner is … Islamophobia 2013-01-15T08:30:03Z Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" is a dark story of this last dark decade as the CIA builds leads that result in the Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Underdog 'Argo' continues on charmed Oscar path 2013-01-31T14:14:10Z For example, in 2005, Dana Priest of The Washington Post brought to light the CIA’s “black sites,” where terrorism suspects were secretly imprisoned and tortured; her investigation won a Pulitzer Prize. Perspective | The government wants Julian Assange in jail. That could hurt the rest of us. 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Cranston’s more serious choice was “new media,” which he said helped bring down governments this year as well as former CIA Director David Petraeus this past week. Who Should Be TIME’s 2012 Person of the Year? Our Panel Sounds Off 2012-11-13T21:36:16Z He talked eagerly about shooting at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., but admitted to some worry that the geo-political theme would make the film "challenging" to market. ArtsBeat: Toronto Film Festival: Partying With Ben Affleck and Reactions to 'The Master,' 'Cloud Atlas' and More 2012-09-10T17:56:04Z Her background is medical research, and she’s applying that in the CIA world. Connie Britton on American Ultra and Moving Beyond Her Friday Night Lights Role 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z As firecracker CIA agent Gust Avrakotos, Philip Seymour Hoffman was at the top of his game: Mike Nichols’ best scenes: From the “Graduate” seduction to the monologues of “Angels in America” 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Needless to say this causes tension on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides of the issue, as well as revealing all manner of MI5/CIA political intrigue. TV Picks: The Honorable Woman, The Killing, Masters of Sex 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Using data from the CIA Factbook, we’ve created the graphics below to show you the median age of every country in the world. These maps show where the oldest and youngest people live across the world 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Carrie is regarded as a liability by the majority of the CIA; Brody is an alienated shell of a man who has more in common with his Iraqi captors than his family. When good TV goes bad: how Homeland became a right Carrie on 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z “The film’s performance provides the studio with a number of options and directions in which to continue the franchise,” emailed Universal’s Paul Pflug, possibly while emitting the knowing cackle of a CIA overlord. Bourne Beats Batman, Ferrell Outpolls Streep 2012-08-12T20:58:00Z Matthews, a career spy, completes his Red Sparrow trilogy — which inspired that saucy Jennifer Lawrence film — with this guide to CIA decorum in Washington and around the world. Review | Which D.C. novel best captures the city? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z In this efficient spy chase film, the star plays a CIA rogue who messes with Ryan Reynolds' pretty mind Just about every government in the world wants Tobin Frost dead. Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy? 2012-02-09T16:00:14Z I had always assumed that these large and powerful American agencies — the NSA, the CIA, the FBI — were born in some kind of rational way. Dig into those archives! The story of a lost code breaking woman of World War II 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z They put the Shah on the throne, backed by his vicious secret police force, Savak, which the CIA helped create. Argo – review 2012-11-11T00:05:47Z He successfully tears back the curtain on the how the CIA conducted the operation, with graceful writing and an eye for detail. Review: 'The Triple Agent' is a page turner 2011-07-18T10:17:08Z The Times broke the news that the administration was preparing an order permitting the CIA to reopen secret “black site” prisons in which terrorist suspects were once tortured. The Trump administration has sprung a leak. Many of them, in fact. 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z The award-winning investigative reporter for local and network television is now researching Alvictus as a 20th-century stash-and-crash pad for defecting Soviet spies — despite the CIA’s refusal to confirm or deny the rumors. Spy chic: What made this couple fall in love with a (possible) former safe house? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Lowell, a part-time local, sets her new mystery partly in the San Juan Islands, where a former CIA agent is tracking down a lethal maritime cargo targeted for "a major American city." Local-interest books of week include thriller, poetry, picture book 2010-06-14T22:50:00Z Plame said Wednesday the Emmy Award-winning TV series is a compelling drama and that star Claire Danes is "fabulous" as a CIA operations officer. Valerie Plame has insider's take on 'Homeland' 2014-01-23T14:10:07Z Dulles liked the heroic impression of the CIA fostered by the Bond novels. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Nowadays a substantial portion of the population views CIA and FBI intelligence as untrustworthy if it doesn’t match President Trump’s view of reality. USA’s Bourne spinoff “Treadstone” feels retro and exactly what’s needed today 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Plame's husband Wilson, a former diplomat and Africa expert, is sent by the CIA to Niger to find out whether it had a deal to ship uranium to Iraq for possible nuclear weapons manufacture. New film explores outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame 2010-05-20T11:14:00Z A kind reminder, because this is a dangerous time, when you question and you have a president who is discrediting our intelligence agencies, the CIA, the FBI, everybody who speaks out against him is wrong. "The Comey Rule" will likely trigger Trump, and series star Michael Kelly couldn't be happier 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Naturally, Stewart decided to delve deeper into some new CIA revelations. Jon Stewart digs into to new CIA revelations — “informant” sounds a lot like Jerry Seinfeld 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z When her partner falls off the grid and another top agent is compromised, a deskbound CIA analyst is sent into the field to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z You certainly have lived an interesting life, from working as a CIA officer in Iraq and Afghanistan to becoming a successful comic book writer. CIA agent turned comics writer Tom King on making art in the era of Trump's "absurdity" 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z It has postured as extending democratic ideals but rather has extended control across the globe by any means necessary, including covert CIA support for death squads, drone attacks and calamitous invasions. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z Still, it is doubtful "The Great War" will silence those who question the CIA, Presidents Bush and Obama, and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Their CIA chief, by contrast, is a surly desk-jockey who dismisses them as “hired help” and tells them to stay out of the way of his snobby Harvard-type agents. Fighting dirty: could Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie take down Hillary Clinton? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Marty Martin, a CIA case officer who led the hunt for bin Laden after the Sept. Sundance doc adds new take on hunt for bin Laden 2013-01-22T21:15:11Z The military's assessment is more optimistic than a review of the conflict by the CIA and 15 other agencies, the US National Intelligence Estimates, which was released this week. Barack Obama: Afghanistan war is on track 2010-12-16T21:31:39Z The CIA even joined in, funding Abstract Expressionist artists as a cultural counterweight to Soviet Realism during the Cold War. Why do conservatives want the government to defund the arts? 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z They may not be accurate in terms of their context in this film – particularly the fact that no one from the FBI or CIA is shown disputing their use – or the results they show. Zero Dark Thirty's torture scenes are controversial and historically dubious 2013-01-25T13:42:00Z Then in 1985, because of an appalling blunder by a jealous CIA, Gordievsky was exposed and recalled to Moscow to face almost certain death. Review | In ‘The Spy and the Traitor,’ a tale of Cold War espionage that’s both thrilling and true 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Packages of fudge, pecans and a handful of CIA challenge coins — brass medallions commemorating various events and units — line the mahogany shelves. Meet the man behind the CIA gift store, the country’s most secretive swag shop 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z She then served a stint at the CIA as an economic analyst. Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z In 2012, a general finally realized the PR team was understaffed and brought in a Delta Force team and roped in the CIA. Serial recap – season two, episode five: Meanwhile, in Tampa 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z This would be a foundation that would be doing many things that the CIA would not approve of, certainly in terms of exposing material. “Homeland” is back: “The biggest fears, the biggest things that were keeping all these specialists up at night were: Russia and ISIS” 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z "CIA officers are duty-bound to observe the terms of their secrecy agreement with the Agency," Director Leon E. Panetta said Tuesday in a statement. CIA sues former employee for publishing book 2010-10-19T16:42:00Z In David Guggenheim’s script, Matt chafes at his menial CIA job as the safe-house landlord, and express his frustration by frequently hurting furniture. Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy? 2012-02-09T16:00:14Z The narrator is a CIA agent named Zonulet who’s struggling to exonerate himself for unspecified crimes in Honduras. Review | Can anyone figure out what’s happening in Ned Beauman’s new comic novel? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The comedy, which is due to be released in the United States and Canada on Dec. 25, is about a CIA plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Sony Pictures struggles to recover eight days after cyber attack 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z "Zero Dark Thirty" is not unkind to the CIA: it shows the extraordinary lengths operatives and analysts went to to find the al Qaeda chief, with several dying during the manhunt. CIA officials invisible at Washington premiere of bin Laden film 2013-01-09T23:01:17Z Even before being brought to Guantánamo, many were held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, or were interrogated and tortured in offsite CIA detention facilities. My heartbreaking journey to Gitmo: A widow, a military prison & the enigma of human compassion 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The latter title became the second Jack Ryan novel to be filmed, this time with Harrison Ford as the CIA analyst who, in Clancy's later works, was eventually elevated to President of the United States. Obituary: Tom Clancy 2013-10-02T17:15:27Z They asked him to provide what information was acquired from CIA detainees and when. Lawmakers say CIA may have misled filmmakers 2013-01-04T01:23:07Z The Pentagon and CIA have conducted internal investigations into the matter. Hunting bin Laden and history in 'Zero Dark 30' 2012-12-11T16:04:13Z But Carrie fervently wants to head the CIA station there and kill as many insurgents as possible. 'Homeland' recap: Besieged CIA director tries to shift blame 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Action comedy My Spy stars retired wrestler Dave Bautista as a “hardened CIA operative” who finds himself looking after a precocious nine-year-old after he is sent to spy on her family. Big man, small kid: why the bodybuilding babysitter is a recipe for movie success 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z It is the job of the folks at the CIA and the FBI, working together with foreign authorities. Police arrest artist setting up ‘I Love NY’ work 2012-05-21T20:16:00Z Simmons’ CIA undersecretary and his minion are dissecting, essentially, the plot of the movie, which is beyond ridiculous. Second (and third) time’s a charm 2012-12-11T16:04:00Z Chefs at the CIA in Napa, Calif., worked to develop recipes that substituted mushrooms for ground beef. The meat-mushroom blend makes sense After less than two years in the post, it became clear that it was in fact funded by the CIA, and Kermode resigned amid some acrimony. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z Both films help to rehabilitate the tarnished reputation of the CIA and are invitations to take pride in national achievement. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z Panetta’s personality as a scrappy, profane, devout, Italian-American mensch comes through in this memoir of his years as CIA director and defense secretary.— 50 notable works of nonfiction The Washington Post, the Times and the Associated Press have reported that the whistleblower is a male CIA officer, but none has identified the individual. News organizations resist Trump’s pressure to release whistleblower’s name 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The CIA has a new director Which is a big part of this whole mess to start. Everything You Need to Know Before the 'Homeland' Season 4 Premiere 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z He bears little resemblance to the dozen CIA directors interviewed in the film, all the way back to Adm. Oh, the suffering of the CIA: In Showtime’s “The Spymasters,” America’s chief spooks bare their souls on the pain of the terror war 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z He also told Davidson the CIA was watching him, she said. NY prosecutor says musician scammed for $20M 2011-12-06T21:18:10Z During a stint in Chongqing, where he worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, he scooped up documents for his American spymasters and cultural pieces for the Library of Congress. To have and to hold 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Last year, Thompson ran in the special election to replace Mike Pompeo, who had taken a job as Trump’s director of the CIA. Can a Bronx socialist help a campaign in Kansas? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will find out soon. 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Many people from the CIA and the DNI, about cyberterrorism and warfare — all different aspects of security in the world now. “Homeland” is back: “The biggest fears, the biggest things that were keeping all these specialists up at night were: Russia and ISIS” 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The CIA document mentioned above says that: "The Agency's detention and interrogation of terrorists has provided intelligence that has enabled the identification and apprehension of other terrorists." Zero Dark Thirty's torture scenes are controversial and historically dubious 2013-01-25T13:42:00Z That he was indoctrinated at a young age by remorseless CIA officials? The Bourne Masculinity: Matt Damon’s hyper-aggressive, emotionally fragile “good guy with a gun” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Actor Carter Hudson, who portrays a CIA undercover operative, says it was “really weird” to be there without Singleton. ‘Snowfall’ cast remembers late producer at Season 3 premiere 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z While the movie is controversial in the US over the suggestion that the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" techniques were instrumental in nabbing Bin Laden, in Pakistan the film is an unwelcome reminder of a past humiliation. Zero Dark Thirty: the view from Pakistan 2013-01-27T19:00:00Z In May of that year, CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had been shot down deep inside Soviet territory and confessed to spying. Kennedy-Nixon 1960 election clash: The last time Russians intervened in a U.S. election 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z An “independent” CIA is bad enough, but the CIA’s vulnerability to political pressure from the White House is another reason we should be cautious about using agency pronouncements as an instrument against Trump. Through the looking glass: How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump? 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The complex seems pretty wide open to the casual observer, but one guesses the CIA likes to have its people nearby during all illegal covert operations. "The Losers" an action film for ADD sufferers 2010-04-22T11:43:00Z In his Date Lab application, Rick described his dream date as “a CIA agent who speaks multiple languages and is a great cook.” Date Lab: She had many fun stories to share. He kept asking about work. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The assignment in Jamaica — which made her the CIA’s first female station chief in Latin America — was especially challenging. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z But it’s a particularly delicate issue when you are a spymaster for the CIA. Dear kids: Daddy’s a spy 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z "Argo," in 2012, was rooted in one CIA agent's brash plan to rescue American hostages in Iran and played like a spy thriller. Biopics find new life at the Oscars and beyond 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Bromell died in March so his widow accepted his award on his behalf; she later elaborated on how his childhood with a father in the CIA contributed to his work on the show. Homeland Season 3 Countdown: What You Need to Know 2013-09-24T16:09:17Z “That makes you complicit. It’s called treason. There are laws against it and they apply to everyone – even the director of the CIA.” 'Homeland' recap: Besieged CIA director tries to shift blame 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Last week, former CIA agent Michael Scheuer, who ran a unit hunting for bin Laden, revealed that he had deliberately selected a strongly female staff. Valerie Plame welcomes new breed of fictional female spy in Zero Dark Thirty 2012-12-15T16:11:14Z I’m saying there’s a reason why all these people agreed to talk to them, and a reason why they were allowed to film inside the legendary CIA headquarters building in Langley, Virginia. Oh, the suffering of the CIA: In Showtime’s “The Spymasters,” America’s chief spooks bare their souls on the pain of the terror war 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Historically, the CIA, and especially the DO, had been a boys’ club. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The early episodes of “Snowfall” tread lightly over the subject, following a CIA operative who’s painted as more of a freelancer than the tip of some larger spear. With FX’s ‘Snowfall,’ John Singleton returns to 1980s South Central L.A. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Multiple episodes were devoted to the decline of Brody, now exiled in Caracas, framed for setting off the bomb that wiped out most of the CIA. When good TV goes bad: how Homeland became a right Carrie on 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Like Bakos, Carlson engaged in a legal battle with the CIA to find language to tell her story while also protecting national security. Perspective | Should 007 be played by a woman? Why not? Seven books by women in the spy world show us how it’s done. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z “It became as if I was untrustworthy. In Hollywood, I became labeled a ‘conspiracy theorist’ which I think is a term from a 1952 CIA document — an attempt to discredit people. Oliver Stone revisits JFK assassination in new documentary 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z The sequel starring Liam Neeson as a former CIA agent who gets captured in Istanbul pushed last weekend's winner, family flick "Hotel Transylvania," to second place. Liam Neeson thriller "Taken 2" captures box office crown 2012-10-07T16:13:14Z It also became even more unbelievable, with traitors at the highest levels of the CIA and globetrotting escapades that, while engaging, strained credulity. Good news for Clinton: new season of Homeland features a female president 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s both a CIA memoir set in the Middle East and the story of a confused young man in his 20s. “Homeland” made me laugh: Here’s what it’s really like being a CIA agent in the Middle East 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Over the last decade, the very notion of war zones has become remarkably muddled, mirroring the blurring of the missions and activities of the CIA and Pentagon. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z King, a former CIA agent, scripts the title character, an escape-artist superhero, with wrenching depth — a depressed god racked by trauma that he cannot elude. The best graphic novels, memoirs and story collections of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The fact is that the CIA caved in to pressure from top administration officials for the intel they so desperately wanted for the invasion they already knew they were going to launch in Iraq. Through the looking glass: How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump? 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z “A Really Good Day” is a chronicle of her one-month search for emotional balance by taking small doses of a drug most people associate with Timothy Leary or CIA experiments. ‘A Really Good Day’: One harried mom’s LSD experiment 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord, played with mettle by Téa Leoni, refuses to negotiate with terrorists for the release of a captured CIA agent. What’s on TV Sunday: Joe Biden and the MTV Europe Awards 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z That’s what I miss from my CIA days; saving the world is always kind of nice. Holy D.C. connection! A local comic book writer used to work for the CIA! 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Then again, perhaps I'm being naive and the CIA really are stealing ideas from the pages of 2000 AD in their ongoing battle against terrorism. The Bourne Legacy trailer: will it bring you running? 2012-06-01T15:51:25Z In the early 1950s, the CIA liked to meddle in the American film industry. A white buddy for Miles Davis: Don Cheadle’s struggle to get “Miles Ahead” financed is absurd — and not surprising 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Has your sweat ever nearly triggered an alarm at CIA HQ? Clip joint: sweat 2010-06-23T16:21:00Z The CIA was involved, tapping all the phones and arranging spy satellites to penetrate the interiors of school children’s desks. Our last Thanksgiving 2012-11-23T01:00:00Z In Sicario, she plays a young FBI agent that joins a secret CIA operation to take down a cartel. 22 Movies Featuring Women We're Excited to See in 2015 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control” describes how, unbeknown to Wasson, the spy agency was funding his travel. When the C.I.A. Was Into Mind Control 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Simon is saying that the head of the CIA is as dumb as plant. David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z When 9/11 happened, King joined the CIA, where he became a counterintelligence officer. One of comics’ best writers is former CIA agent 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z The scandal over the CIA funding of the magazine he co-edited, Encounter, was his most public humiliation. Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals, 1939-1995, edited by Lara Feigel and John Sutherland, with Natasha Spender – review 2012-08-03T21:55:00Z And because CIA Director Lockhart endorsed this illegal activity, he could go to prison. 'Homeland' recap: Carrie takes control of besieged CIA station 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z "You don't have a better bad idea than this?" barks a CIA boss in Ben Affleck's terrific new thriller "Argo." 'Argo' rides the waves of suspense to a dramatic Hollywood ending 2012-10-11T20:06:03Z In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative's memories and skills are implanted into the mind of an unpredictable death-row inmate so he can complete the mission. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z And more recently, the 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee torture report revealed CIA use of "sound disorientation techniques" on detainees, using songs like the Blues Brothers recording of "Rawhide" as part of interrogation practices. Florida city blasts "Baby Shark" to drive homeless people away from sleeping in public 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z She saw only one way out: She sued the CIA for sexual discrimination. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z In 1953, the film's preface tells us, the CIA and the British secret service organised a coup d'état that toppled the legitimate Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh, who'd nationalised the oil industry. Argo – review 2012-11-11T00:05:47Z “JFK Revisited” delves deeply into inconsistencies in Kennedy’s autopsy, the handling of key pieces of evidence and Lee Harvey Oswald’s alleged ties to the CIA. Oliver Stone revisits JFK assassination in new documentary 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z It's not even that he is also a secret international terrorist who has been caught plotting to attack his own country – and Carrie's the CIA agent who caught him. Rewind TV: Last Tango in Halifax; Homeland; The Aristocrats: Blenheim Palace; Gadget Man; Supersized Earth – review 2012-11-25T00:05:39Z Damon played a CIA assassin with memory loss who tried to discover his true identity while evading the CIA's attempts to kill him. Revamped "Bourne" captures movie box office crown 2012-08-12T18:52:34Z Whitlam called it a coup and alleged that those who opposed him were funded by the CIA. Forget-me-not 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z "Kill the Messenger," which opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, is based on the true story of the late American journalist Gary Webb who wrote about links between drug traffickers, Nicaraguan rebels and the CIA. For Jeremy Renner, 'Kill the Messenger' is a story that had to be told 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Those of us in the CIA who did overseas work, work in the field. CIA agent Tony Mendez: 'If you were tracking Iran, you had Harris tweed' 2013-04-09T15:37:44Z |
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