White House says ex-FBI agent may be dead; Iran says he left 'years ago'
The White House said Thursday that a missing former FBI agent may have died in Iran, acknowledging his family's conclusions, but Tehran said he had left the country years ago. The family of Bob Levinson, who disappeared in 2007 on a mysterious trip to Iran, ...
President Donald Trump's administration insisted Thursday that new U.S. intelligence chief Richard Grenell would serve without a partisan agenda as Democrats voiced outrage at placing the voluble Trump defender in the key post. Grenell, the ambassador to Germany, where his blunt approach irritated the close ...
Trump faces firestorm after identifying alleged whistleblower on Twitter
Donald Trump faced calls from his own party to show more restraint on Twitter amid a storm of outrage Sunday over the president revealing the name of a man widely thought to be the whistleblower who triggered his impeachment. Criticism has been growing since Trump ...
U.S. intelligence agencies distrust unpredictable Trump
Donald Trump's relations with his own intelligence services have never been so fraught: The U.S. president doesn't listen to his spy chiefs, doesn't seem to rank his sources and makes snap decisions without giving them any warning. The two sides have clashed repeatedly, including in ...
Ex-CIA officer sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiring to spy for China
A former CIA case officer was sentenced by a U.S. federal judge in Virginia on Friday to serve 19 years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to become a spy for China, federal prosecutors announced. Jerry Chuan Shing Lee, 55, left ...
Trump says North Korea went too far in calling Joe Biden a 'rabid dog'
U.S. President Donald Trump issued a rare — if tepid — defense of election rival Joe Biden on Sunday, saying Pyongyang's depiction of him as "a rabid dog" who should be "beaten to death" went a bit too far. "Joe Biden may be Sleepy and ...
Saudi Arabia's King Salman hosted the Central Intelligence Agency's director Thursday, state media said, after three people were charged in the United States with spying on Twitter users critical of the royal family. The king and Gina Haspel "discussed a number of topics of mutual ...
Ex-CIA spy flees from Italy to U.S. fearing for her safety, Italian paper says
A former U.S. spy, pardoned by Italy in connection with the CIA kidnapping of a terrorism suspect in Milan, has fled from Italy to the United States fearing for her safety, Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera on Sunday quoted her as saying. Sabrina de ...
Ex-CIA chief John Brennan questions U.S. stability under Trump and the 'putty' GOP ranks he controls
Former CIA director John Brennan raised questions Sunday about the stability of the United States under President Donald Trump, accusing him of corrupting the country's laws and institutions. Brennan, who served under former President Barack Obama and has been one of Trump's fiercest critics, warned ...
The CIA's secret Cold War animal spies included cats, dolphins and one smart raven
In early 1974, Do Da was top in espionage class, on the way to becoming a high-flying CIA agent: He handled himself better in the rough, carried heavier loads and could brush off attackers. But on his toughest test, he disappeared, done in by some ...
Russia blasts idea a CIA mole in Kremlin lifted lid on its meddling in U.S. election
Russia on Wednesday condemned as lies and slander suggestions a suspected CIA mole in President Vladimir Putin's administration had handed over information to the United States about alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential elections. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov made the comment after U.S. ...
U.S. citizen once held by North Korea tells of spying for CIA
A former prisoner in North Korea has told German media that he used to spy for the CIA, seeking out nuclear secrets and taking pictures with a concealed wristwatch camera. In a TV report by public broadcaster NDR, South Korean-born U.S. citizen Kim Dong-chul, 67, ...
