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

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

The most influential aircraft in modern aviation did not debut at an air show or in a glossy brochure. It arrived in total ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. These days a floating crane called the ...

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

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

Harnden tells the story of the first American military team in Afghanistan. If you’ve finished our "GMA" Book Club pick this month and are craving something else to read, look no further than our new ...

The Central Intelligence Agency set out in the Cold War to solve a lethal equation: how to see deep inside hostile territory ...

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

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