Mr. Gerber had little interest in the CIA’s often disaster-prone early covert actions, devoting his career instead to honing espionage tradecraft and tactics on the Cold War’s front lines ...

George H.W. Bush loved the CIA. It was “part of my heartbeat,” he once said. He was the only president who ever ran the agency, and the last president who truly believed in its Cold War code ...

Between 1972 and 1981, he provided the CIA with thousands of pages of Soviet intelligence ... From The Eastern West on Colonel Kukliński and espionage during the Cold War. It seemed like a routine ...

And he's part of the reason why, since the end of the Cold War, a Soviet-built plane has ... as well as the extraordinary methods that CIA agents use to exchange information right under the ...

“The decades-long arrangement, among the most closely guarded secrets of the Cold War, is laid bare in a classified, comprehensive CIA history of the operation obtained by The Washington Post ...

So, what is the job of director of the CIA? What role does the director play ... and valuable analysis to the president. During the Cold War, the director of central intelligence had autonomy ...

By deftly manipulating the opportunities afforded Cuba by the Cold War, he managed to turn his island ... of 1979 were the apogee of his power," CIA analyst Brian Latell later observed.

In 1959, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted a covert operation to gain insight into Soviet space technology. The CIA targeted a Soviet exhibit showcasing a Luna 2 model to ...