There has been considerable celebration over Ukraine's offensive against Russia. The Ukrainians have liberated large parts of their...

I normally try to avoid much of the political warfare going on in the US nowadays in this blog, but the recent FBI seizure of classified...

I was watching a portion of a podcast on TikTok, hence the watching rather than listening, where the concept of enhanced interrogation,...

I periodically get asked which is the best intelligence agency in the world. There are a number of articles that try to answer that...

Bridge of Spies Recently, I sat had dinner with an author specializing in intelligence matters. Over the course of the evening, we had...

Much has been written in the media about the CIA being risk-averse. Even some former CIA officers have commented on how the CIA avoids...

Stan Smith - Drawn Feet Wiki (miraheze.org) (This is a true story with the names changed to protect the guilty and locations obscured.)...

I get this question a lot, mostly from people interested in joining the CIA, or from people who were not selected and are wondering why....

The CIA does two principal things, collect and analyze intelligence. Within the CIA, the Directorate of Operations (DO) collects human...