The covert missions, carried out with MQ-9 Reaper drones, are sizing up the drug gangs and their laboratories over the southern US border as a possible precursor to trying to eliminate them by ...

In his new book The Perfect Kill: 21 Rules for Assassins, former CIA case officer Robert Baer uses Mughniyeh’s career and tactics as a case study of the dos and don’ts of political assassination.

the CIA warned that it had intercepted increasing chatter from Russian forces about the possibility of using smaller-scale ...

The CIA acknowledged mistakes but argued that the tactics produced valuable intelligence. The agency — and the former officials — did not dispute the report's descriptions of the ...

During an event organized by the "Financial Times" in London, CIA Director William Burns admitted that in 2022, "there was a ...