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The CIA spy satellite that dropped 52,000 feet of film into the ocean, and triggered a secret deep-sea recovery mission

Before digital spy satellites, the U.S. photographed the Cold War on physical film, then dropped it back to Earth in capsules caught mid-air by aircraft. This is the story of Corona and HEXAGON, and ...

Inside the CIA's efforts to preserve a Cold War icon outside headquarters

A pioneering Cold War-era spy plane sits at the entrance to CIA headquarters, prompting a painstaking effort to preserve an ...

US spy satellite agency declassifies high-flying Cold War listening post

The name Jumpseat was first revealed in a 1986 book by the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the Soviet Union’s 1983 ...
IJR

CIA Quietly Building Permanent US Footprint In Venezuela

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is quietly laying the groundwork for a sustained U.S. presence and intelligence infrastructure inside Venezuela as part of the Trump administration’s efforts in ...
Wall Street Journal

CIA Director Traveled to Caracas to Meet Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez

WASHINGTON—Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Caracas on Thursday to meet with acting President Delcy Rodríguez, in the first known visit by a senior U.S. official to ...
The Hill

CIA director met with Venezuela’s leader in Caracas as Trump huddled with Machado

CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday in Caracas, the same day President Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at ...
CNN

CIA director traveled to Venezuela to meet with country’s acting president

CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas on Thursday, according to a US official. “During the meeting in Caracas, Director Ratcliffe discussed ...
Houston Chronicle

NASA says it's a comet. So why is the CIA staying quiet?

The response came after John Greenewald Jr., an American researcher and ufologist, requested any CIA "assessments, reports, or communications" referencing the interstellar object, only the third of ...
The Hill

Aldrich Ames, CIA agent who sold secrets to the Soviets, dies in prison

Aldrich Ames, the CIA agent who sold American secrets to the Soviets, has died at the age of 84. The former case officer died in custody on Monday, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate ...
USA Today

Aldrich Ames, CIA officer convicted of spying for Moscow, dies at 84

Aldrich Ames, a former counterintelligence officer for the CIA who gained notoriety as a double agent for the Soviet Union and later Russia, has died. He was 84. Ames, who was serving a life sentence ...
New York Post

Aldrich Ames, CIA traitor who sold secrets to Soviets, dead at 84

Aldrich Ames, a CIA counterintelligence officer who committed one of the most damaging breaches in US history by selling out nearly a dozen Soviet, Russian and other officials working for the West, ...