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Its agents are often depicted as malevolent puppet masters—or as bumbling idiots. The truth is even less comforting.

Runa Sandvik has made it her life’s work to protect journalists against cyberattacks. Authoritarian regimes are keeping her in business.

The story of Josephine Baker.

This is the previously classified story of a Hail Mary plan, a Dirty Dozen crew of lowlifes, and a woman who wouldn’t bow to authority as she fought to bring three captured CIA agents home from Cuba.

Thousands of soldiers, civilians and contractors operate under false names, on the ground and in cyberspace. A Newsweek investigation of the ever-growing and unregulated world of "signature reduction."

The mission, still a secret to this day, was so dangerous many men bid emotional goodbyes...

The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room.

Cameron Ortis was an RCMP officer privy to the inner workings of Canada's national security—and in a prime position to exploit them

Noor Khan, a pacifist descendant of Indian Royalty became a famed World War II spy for Britain’s Special Operations Executive.

America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be told

How a team of spies in Mexico got their hands on Russia's space secrets—and tried to change the course of the Cold War.

He wanted to learn about the Miami drug world and had been told I could help.

Bellingcat and its partners reported that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) was implicated in the near-fatal nerve-agent poisoning of Alexey Navalny on 20 August 2020. The report identified eight clandestine operatives with medical and chemical/biological warfare expertise working under the guise of the FSB’s Criminalistics Institute who had tailed Alexey Navalny on more than 30 […]

This is the story of a little-known FBI forensics lab and how it changed the war on terror.

The untold story of how digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big cyberattack will be even harder to crack.

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Thirty-two-year-old French economist Gabriel Zucman scours spreadsheets to find secret offshore accounts.

The International Spy Museum details the audacious plan that involved a reclusive billionaire, a 618-foot-long ship, and a great deal of stealth

Last week, as America’s top national security experts convened in Aspen, a strangely inquisitive Uber driver showed up, too.

The hit on Sergei Skripal.

The home phone of FBI special agent Michael Rochford rang in the middle of the night on August 2, 1985. He grabbed it and heard the voice of his FBI supervisor. “There’s a plane coming in, a high-level defector.” The day before, a Soviet man had walked into the US consulate in Rome. He had