Suicide bomber al-Balawi convinced Americans he was the 'golden goose.' Jan. 5, 2010 — -- As the CIA mourns its dead from a devastating suicide bombing in Afghanistan, the questions grow about ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Jason Matthews retired after more than three decades as a CIA operative, writing fiction proved a form of therapy. Living in Los Angeles, cut off from the agency and its secrets ...

CIA Paramilitary Operations Officers (PMOO) are elite personnel that serve in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations, previously known as the National Clandestine Service. They ...

They were young firefighters-turned-CIA operatives working thousands of miles from home in a remote corner of Southeast Asia. David W. Bevan, Darrell A. Eubanks and John S. Lewis, all in their mid-20s ...

WASHINGTON – In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, CIA operatives were allowed to shackle, strip and waterboard terror suspects. Now, President Barack Obama has ...

Update (5:31 p.m.): In response to a Fox News story claiming CIA operatives in Benghazi were prevented from aiding U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens during his time of need, the CIA says it never ...

President Harry Truman established the CIA in 1947 to prevent future Pearl Harbors and to deal with the developing threats of the Cold War. He did not know this espionage agency would later topple ...

In May 1958, the CIA’s Far East Division hatched a plan: recruit an attractive white woman to extract information from the president of Indonesia by engaging in an “intimate relationship” with him.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. WASHINGTON • The CIA has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and make ...