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From 2010 to 2012, the CIA suffered its worst losses in China as the Ministry of State Security went about dismantling spy networks with unerring precision

Nov 14, 2022

Haji Bashir Noorzai fought the Soviets, ran a trucking business, befriended the Taliban, worked for the CIA, and enjoyed a holiday in Manhattan.

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Employed by Pakistan's ISI after his retirement from the army, Lt Col Zahir travelled to Nepal in 2017 and disappeared in events remarkably similar to an operation Zahir executed in 2016.

Nov 24, 2021

3 different spy agencies were keeping tabs on Karen Silkwood when she died, and the Justice Department stepped in to cover-up the radioactive mess.

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Missing plutonium, FBI's stonewalling, and a mysterious journalist with a murky history

Dec 5, 2022

The plutonium plant employee highlighted lax safety protocols and investigated faked quality control data, making a frightening discovery in the…

Nov 28, 2022

My fourth spy novel concludes the nuclear espionage series set during the Cold War in India, Pakistan, and Europe

Oct 26, 2022

Or how to hamstring your enemy before war has even begun

Sep 9, 2022

The year 2009 saw an audacious attempt to track and kill Ayman al-Zawahiri. This is how it ended.

Aug 3, 2022

Are you a young extremist eager to make an outsized impact in the fight against the United States, but don’t know where to start?

Aug 2, 2022

How $6.5 million and a 1,476-foot tunnel netted the CIA and MI6 intelligence from East Berlin for 11 months and 11 days in 1955

Apr 29, 2022

How the CIA cultivated and controlled a political warfare group in West Berlin with a little bit of help from the Ford Foundation

Feb 6, 2022

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