The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in ...

The Adam and Eve Story, a book from 1966, was contained in a packet of other documents - including an article from Time magazine - and a "transmittal slip" from the CIA ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

The World at a Glance: This annual feature of The World Almanac provides a quick look at the surprising stats and curious facts that define the changing world.

The CIA World Factbook is arguably the best value for a research almanac, bar none. The Factbook provides detailed information on the geographies, economies, populations, and militaries of more ...

Nicholas Reynolds’s ‘Need to Know’ and Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s ‘A Question of Standing’ delve into the spy agency’s history.

Earthquakes, death by the millions and weather chaos - a book banned by the CIA for nearly 60 years predicted how the world will end for a devastated human race ...

If America is the world’s living myth, then the CIA is America’s myth. –Don DeLillo One of the alternative press’s most significant scoops of the 1960s was Sol Stern’s February 1967 ...

In the middle of CIA headquarters, there sits a sculpture that contains a secret code that has stumped top cryptologists for decades.

A book that was classified by the CIA for more than 50 years contains a shocking theory about how the world will end. It paints a terrifying picture of destruction - but will it actually come to pass?

The report, which former acting CIA directors Michael Morell and John McLaughlin call a “briefing book,” is modeled on the classified oral briefing that the intelligence community provides to ...