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

Newly unearthed CIA documents undermine the agency’s longstanding claim that it had no knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald’s ties ...

New records show an officer covertly led a group that came into contact with JFK’s assassination, after the agency denied ...

Since the Cold War, the CIA has faced a series of challenges from within and without. Author Tim Weiner explores the CIA's ...

The assassination of John F. Kennedy is back in the news again, this time after the Central Intelligence Agency faced ...

Dustin Gard-Weiss has been appointed as the executive director of the CIA, bringing 20 years of leadership experience.

Newly released documents confirm that an agent in Miami oversaw a Cuban student group that interacted with Oswald in the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author and journalist Tim Weiner about his new book, The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century.

The CIA repeatedly denied the existence of an agent named ‘Howard,’ who secretly oversaw a group that had contact with Oswald ...

The president’s CIA director, John Ratcliffe, released a report on Trump’s Russia scandal, which Ratcliffe probably should’ve ...

During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.