The Mark
On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.
Spying
Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished
“Let them say what they want. It’s not about me.”
State of Deception
Why Obama won’t rein in the NSA.
After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back
A profile of Perry Fellwock, a.k.a. Winslow Peck, who exposed the NSA in an 1972 article for Ramparts magazine.
No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A.
Inside the N.S.A.’s mission to spy on just about everyone.
How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe
Countries that the NSA has defined as close friends, or “2nd party,” include the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. These countries, documents indicate, cannot targetted. “3rd Party” nations, like Germany, are offered no such protection and spying all the way up to the office of the Chancellor is suspected.
Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization
Inside the growth of intelligence contracting.
The Prism
“As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. In other words, the case for privacy always comes too late.”
The Secret War
How General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, became the most powerful intelligence officer in U.S. history.
The 'Queen of Cuba'
Ana Montes was a decorated U.S. intelligence analyst. She was also a Cuban spy.
The Real Cuban Missile Crisis
A reassessment of the calm, cool JFK.
Former C.I.A. Officer Is the First to Face Prison for a Classified Leak
How John Kiriakou, a public opponent of US torture policy, became the first CIA officer convicted of leaking classified information to the press.
Hacking the President’s DNA
On the potential existence of personalized bioweapons, which could attack a single individual without leaving a trace, and how they might be stopped.
Requiem for a Russian Spy
A CIA veteran remembers his Soviet nemesis, Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin, who was the chairman of the KGB for a single day during the 1991 coup against Gorbachev, and committed suicide in Moscow in March.
My Father and Me: A Spy Story
The highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of spying passes the tricks of the trade along to his son.
The Paris Review, the Cold War and the CIA
Uncovered letters reveal ties between the literary magazine and the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom.
Jamming Tripoli
Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s secret surveillance network.
Cable: A Caucasus Wedding
The lavish display and heavy drinking concealed the deadly serious North Caucasus politics of land, ethnicity, clan, and alliance.
In a cable brought to light by Wikileaks, the Ambassador to Russia describes a raucous three-day Dagestani wedding attended by Chechnya’s president Ramzan Kadyrov.
The Spy's Kid
The son of Jim Nicholson, a former CIA agent convicted of espionage, follows in his father’s footsteps.
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Part 1: Nathan Nicholson follows his father into the spy game.
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Part 2: The son begins passing notes from his dad to eager Russian operatives.
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Part 3: Nathan jets to exotic locales to collect envelopes stuffed with money.
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Part 4: FBI agents are waiting on Nathan Nicholson’s doorstep.
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Part 5: Nathan must decide whether to betray his spymaster father.
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Part 6: Father and son see each other for the first time in more than a year — inside a courtroom.
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Profile: Twice a turncoat, Jim Nicholson sold U.S. secrets to the Russians, then used his son as a courier.
Q&A: Edward Luttwak
Edward Luttwak is a rare bird whose peripatetic life and work are the envy of academics and spies alike. ...he published his first book, Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, at the age of 26. Over the past 40 years, he has made provocative and often deeply original contributions to multiple academic fields, including military strategy, Roman history, Byzantine history, and economics.
The Informants
On the FBI’s program to infiltrate Muslim communities in America.
The Journalist and the Spies
The death of the journalist who exposed dark secrets about Islamic extremism in Pakistan’s military.
Black Ops and Blood Money
When a CIA operation in Pakistan went bad, leaving three men dead, the episode offered a rare glimpse inside a shadowy world of espionage. It also jeopardized America’s most critical outpost in the war against terrorism.
Why Are Spy Researchers Building a 'Metaphor Program'?
What IARPA's project calls for is the deployment of spy resources against an entire language. Where you or I might parse a sentence, this project wants to parse, say, all the pages in Farsi on the Internet looking for hidden levers into the consciousness of a people.
The Secret Sharer
How Thomas Drake, senior executive at the NSA, came to face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen.
