In the late 1940s, China was in the grip of civil war between the Nationalist government and Maoist insurgents. In 1946, the legendary retired commanding general of the US Fourteenth Air Force Claire Chennault founded an airline company to transport …
The media was in a frenzy about shark attacks at the height of World War II, and the newly formed OSS was called into action to develop a shark repellant. Sharks had attacked at least 20 naval officers since the …
While Area 51 has long been a favorite topic for conspiracy discussions of aliens, the site has a long and storied history in top-secret aviation development pioneered by the CIA, the Air Force, and private industry. The iconic U-2 enabled …
Former high-level CIA official Tyler S. Drumheller died on August 2, 2015 of pancreatic cancer in Virginia. Heller was 63 and renown for his assertions that George W. Bush had knowingly hyped inaccurate evidence of Iraqi biological weapons to justify …
Right before George W. Bush became president in 2000, the CIA published a 70-page report on what the world would be like in 2015, and they were correct about a number of things. Business Insider analyzed how many of these …
A secret conversation between the CIA station chief in Berlin and one of the most powerful intelligence officials in Germany in 2011 just became public. Der Spiegel detailed the contents of this conversation in early July 2015 following a German …
CIA Director John Brennan issued a statement on June 30, 2015 to describe his efforts to improve diversity in the senior leadership of the agency. Brennan pointed out that “excellence in foreign intelligence demands broad perspectives” and that diversity of …
Surprising our adversaries is a major goal of US intelligence efforts, and key technological advances help to assure we continue to be capable of maintaining the element of surprise. The CIA has long been known for its revolutionary technology that …
A number of defense experts view climate change as a “threat multiplier” that can exacerbate such crises as terrorism and infectious disease, and a number of US intelligence agencies collect classified data on factors that affect climate. Such data is …