During the height of the Cold War, the CIA engineered a weapon so terrifying it sounded like science fiction — a gun that ...

Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two ...

Sculptor Jim Sanborn opened his email account one day last month expecting the usual messages from people claiming to have ...

In 1968, a Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles vanished beneath the Pacific Ocean. The Soviets searched in vain, ...

In the late 1950s, the CIA was obsessed with mind control—what it was, how to weaponize it, and how to keep it out of Soviet hands. But instead of toiling in the lab to find the answers, the agency ...

This episode, Mary Louise Kelly sits down with ex-CIA analyst-turned novelist David McCloskey to discuss tradecraft and the ...