The history of spying shows that many agencies have experimented with using animals for undercover work to gather information ...

Ukraine has captured at least one North Korean soldier sent by Pyongyang to aid Russia’s war efforts, South Korea’s spy ...

A CIA agent on the Directors’ Protective Staff recounts her path from a security admin role to becoming a Supervisory Special Agent. Balancing global, high-stakes responsibilities and family life, she ...

Project Stargate was a secret project of the US government during the Cold War, which aimed at researching psychic phenomena, such as remote viewing and telepathy.

particularly within the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency. The origins of SARS-CoV-2 are still hotly contested almost ...

The State Department’s foreign disinformation center, accused by conservatives of censoring American citizens, shut its doors due to lack of funding this week.

Instead of top-down regulation, we need bottom-up scrutiny of mis- and disinformation based on critical media literacy.

As he assembles his team for a second term, President-elect Donald Trump is entitled to some latitude, even for his more unconventional picks. Yet not all executive-branch positions are created equal.

Social media posts have tied the term "conspiracy theory" to the late-1960s release of a CIA memo related to John F.

A covert project dating back to the 1980s saw a secret US army unit conduct experiments to see if psychic phenomena could be ...

The collection includes over 1,200 documents detailing experiments with drugs, hypnosis and other mind control techniques.

SPECIAL REPORT – In the last days of 2024, The Cipher Brief turned to our network of experts – who spend much of their time ...