Charlie English begins “The CIA Book Club” by describing a 1970s technical manual: a dull cover, as uninviting as anything. A book that practically begs you to put it back on the shelf and move on.

McGinnis’s book, named for his recon team, Romeo 1-1, is literally a diary he wrote during his deployment. One story in his ...

In March 1984, customs officials at the port of Swinoujscie, in northwestern Poland, spotted something suspicious about a truck that had "arrived on an overnight ferry from Copenhagen", said Luke ...

Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its origins, its horrors, its aftermath and the innate flaws and miscalculations ...

When I first traveled to the Soviet Union in the 1960s, I was given a few books—including Russian translations of the Bible and George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”—and told to leave them on a park ...

Christy Sauro went to his first Twins game a few weeks after graduating from North St. Paul High School in June 1967. He didn’t even make it to the seventh-inning stretch. Sauro was one of 150 young ...

During the Vietnam War era, two or three tours to one man’s name would have been considered unusual. Retired Col. Robert Graham, 90, served four tours, and they are the main focus of his new book, ...

Author and former CIA intelligence officer Christina Hillsberg is sharing her expertise on women in espionage Alla Polyakova Feminism, gender equality and espionage collide in a new book about women ...

Nov. 29, 2005 — -- CIA Director Porter Goss maintained this week that the CIA does not employ methods of torture. In doing so, he opened a new debate over exactly what constitutes torture -- ...

The reporter says that US intelligence is at a crisis point, and warns of the risks of the White House’s operation against ...