American Jews, the PLO, and the CIA
The horrifying death of the CIA’s Beirut station chief at the hands of Hezbollah
My mother was a top Middle East analyst for the CIA. On her deathbed, she begged me not to raise my children Jewish. To find out why, I asked her former colleagues. I’m still reeling from their answers.
A CIA whistleblower pulls back the curtain on COVID’s origins in the shadowy world of U.S. biodefense programs
It wasn’t a reward for the agency’s failures in Kyiv and Kabul
Mohammed Mossadegh was not a democrat or democratically elected, nor was he toppled by nefarious foreigners
The CIA’s case for Palestinian statehood was based on analysis. Then the analysts turned out to be wrong.
In his new memoir, ‘Undaunted,’ former CIA Director John Brennan offers a self-portrait of a blustering desk jockey with severe anger-management issues
And with the help of big names in media they’re turning journalism into an intelligence operation
In an excerpt from Ehud Barak’s ‘My Country, My Life,’ the former defense minister discloses the debate over Israel’s attack plan, and a fateful conversation with President Barack Obama
News of the News: The Russia investigation put the FBI in a bind well before Trump ever landed in the White House
An émigré travels in Chile with his wife and daughters
Did the U.S. choose to ignore the source of 1999 bombings that propelled the security-agency bureaucrat to the top post he has never relinquished?
One report claimed ‘neither side seems bent on starting hostilities’
But the Obama Administration bets $100 billion that Iran is innocent
The state of jihad and counter-jihad, in the middle of a long war
Top Treasury official devised U.S. sanctions against Iran and Russia
Legal and rabbinic scholars have long debated the controversial issue
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