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Cold War files show secret war between CIA and KGB in Canada
A set of declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s and 1960s offer a glimpse into the secret war fought in Canada between American and Soviet spy agencies at the height of the Cold War.
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Key testimony from Rosenberg spy case released after 64 years
The final piece of sealed testimony in one of the most important espionage cases of the Cold War has been released, 64 years after it was given.
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Memos confirm secret NSA deal with leading cryptography vendor
In 2007 I wrote in my “National Security Agency: The Historiography of Concealment” that America’s leading signals intelligence agency had made a secret deal with Crypto AG, a Swiss-based manufacturer...
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Maltese far-right party had links to CIA, British documents suggest
A Maltese ultra-nationalist group believed to be behind a string of bombings in the 1980s was believed by British intelligence to have links to the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),...
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Declassified files shed light on 1956 disappearance of MI6 agent
A set of newly released files from the archives of the British Cabinet Office shed light on the mysterious case of a highly decorated combat swimmer, who vanished while carrying out a secret operation...
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Were Pakistani spies behind 2009 attack that killed seven CIA employees?
Two recently declassified United States government documents suggest that Pakistani intelligence officers may have been behind a suicide attack that killed seven employees of the Central Intelligence...
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Revealed: Iran’s Khomeini had secret dealings with US in 1979
Newly declassified files show that Ayatollah Khomeini, who led Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, had a secret channel of communication with the United States, and even sent a personal letter to...
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US, UK, had secret plan to bomb Middle East oil facilities if Soviets invaded
Recently uncovered documents shed further light on an ultra-secret plan, devised by the British and American governments, to destroy oil facilities in the Middle East in the event the region was...
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CIA agent was among Watergate burglars, documents reveal
One of the men caught burglarizing the offices of the United States Democratic Party in 1972, a ploy that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, was an agent of the Central Intelligence...
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British judge denies request to name alleged new member of Cambridge spy ring
A document that allegedly contains the name of a man who could be connected to one of the most sensational spy rings of the Cold War is to remain secret after a judge rejected a request to have it...
View ArticleCold War files show CIA support for guerrilla warfare inside USSR (Part I)
Recently declassified documents from the archive of the Central Intelligence Agency detail financial and material support given by the United States to groups of armed guerrillas in Soviet Latvia in...
View ArticleCold War files show CIA support for guerrilla warfare inside USSR (Part II)
The role of the CIA in funding and helping to organize anti-Soviet guerrilla groups inside the USSR has been known for decades. But a batch of recently released documents sheds light into the CIA’s...
View ArticleResearcher seeks access to classified US document about Gandhi killing
A researcher is seeking access to a potentially revealing classified telegram sent by a United States diplomat who witnessed the assassination of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.
View ArticleMI6 chiefs used secret slush fund to finance operations, document shows
Successive directors of the Secret Intelligence Service used a secret slush fund to finance spy operations without British government oversight after World War II, according to a top-secret document...
View ArticleCIA believed Yugoslavia was on the brink of going nuclear in 1975
The United States Central Intelligence Agency believed that Yugoslavia was on the brink of becoming a nuclear-armed state in 1975, due partly to assistance from Washington, according to newly...
View ArticleMI5 releases new information about Soviet ‘Portland Spy Ring’
Files released on Monday by the British government reveal new evidence about one of the most prolific Soviet spy rings that operated in the West after World War II, which became known as the Portland...
View ArticleReport reveals deeper CIA role in 1963 Vietnam coup and Diem’s assassination
A newly declassified report by the Inspector General of the United States Central Intelligence Agency reveals that the South Vietnamese generals who overthrew President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 used CIA...
View ArticleRevealed: British prime minister was not told about fourth Cambridge spy ring...
The Prime Minister of Britain, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, was kept in the dark by his own home secretary about the discovery of a fourth member of the infamous Cambridge Spy Ring in 1964, according to...
View ArticleCrowdfunding campaign seeks release of CIA’s mind control program files
An online fundraising campaign is seeking to secure the release of over 4,000 pages of documents relating to a controversial mind control program developed by the United States Central Intelligence...
View ArticleJapan releases files on 1942 Tokyo spy ring that helped USSR win World War II
Japan has released secret documents from 1942 relating to the Tokyo spy ring led by Richard Sorge, a German who spied for the USSR and is often credited with helping Moscow win World War II.
View ArticleNew clues may help locate lost intelligence files from 1938...
Nearly 2,000 missing British intelligence files relating to the so-called Munich Agreement, a failed attempt by Britain, France and Italy to appease Adolf Hitler in 1938, may not have been destroyed,...
View ArticleLaw advocacy center sues CIA for access to Jamal Khashoggi files
An international law center based in New York is suing the United States Central Intelligence Agency for access to classified files relating to the death of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
View ArticleIsrael extends intelligence document classification period to 90 years
The government of Israel has increased to 90 years the period during which documents belonging to intelligence and security agencies can remain secret, extending it by 20 years.
View ArticleExtracts from Kim Philby’s espionage confession published today for the first...
Extensive extracts from the confession of Kim Philby, one of the Cold War’s most prolific double spies, are scheduled to be released today for the first time by Britain’s National Archives.
View ArticleNSA director claims Bolton’s book would cause ‘irreparable damage’ to US secrets
The director of America’s largest spy agency claims in a signed affidavit that a forthcoming book by John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, would critically compromise...
View ArticleDeclassified documents show extent of Libyan support for Provisional IRA
DOCUMENTS RELEASED LAST WEEK by the National Archives of Ireland show the extraordinary support given by the government of Libya to Irish republican separatists in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s.
View ArticleAmerica’s most senior intelligence officer says its classification system is...
THE MOST SENIOR INTELLIGENCE officer in the United States has said in a letter that the nation’s system of classification is flawed and undermines its national security.
View ArticleUS strategy of revealing raw intelligence on Russia seen as ‘unusual’,...
THE DECISION BY UNITED States officials to release what appears to be raw intelligence about Russia’s intentions on Ukraine is being described by observers as “highly unusual” and even “unprecedented”.
View ArticleBritish military warns 50% of Russia’s entire ground force has now encircled...
IN A VIDEO MESSAGE described by observers as “extraordinary”, the British Ministry of Defence has warned that at least half of the Russian military’s ground combat units have now encircled much of...
View ArticleIn rare move, Israel identifies special operations officer killed in Gaza...
IN A RARE MOVE, Israel released the identity last weekend of a special operations officer who was killed by Islamic Hamas during a 2018 covert mission in the Gaza Strip.
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