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 ...

In the early days of the Cold War, the CIA ordered the creation of a secret programme intended to find ways of mind control. They funded an army of psychiatric institutions across the United ...

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 ...

For context, Operation Mockingbird was allegedly a large-scale CIA exercise that began soon after the Cold War kicked off with the mission to manipulate mainstream media for propaganda purposes.

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.