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The Secret Spy Toys Of The KGB

12:20AM January 4, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

Ever since watching James Bond as a child, we’ve all dreamt about spy toys. Secret cameras, hidden guns, that kind of thing. Well here’s the real deal, straight out of the KGB vaults. More »


Gadgets

7 Tools To Spy Better Than A CIA Agent

10:40AM November 22, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Today was a rough day for the spy community; spy captures in Lebanon only reinforced the fact that are operators aren’t always all that smooth. In fact, you could probably do better! Here are seven spy tools to get you started. More »


Mobile

Hezbollah Captured American Spies With Commercially Available Software

1:35AM November 22, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The latest story seeping out of the Middle East claims Hezbollah has recently tracked down, arrested and outed a significant but undislosed number of American spies working for the CIA. And their techniques for discovering the cloak and daggar operatives? Disconcertingly simple. More »


Geek Out

Letters Written On Hitler’s Stationery

2:30PM November 2, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

The Washington Post has highlighted some of the pieces at a new exhibit in the CIA‘s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The most striking one is this one: a letter written by Lieutenant Richard Helms on Hitler’s stationery. More »


Entertainment

Feature: The CIA Really Wants To Make Hollywood’s Next Blockbuster

7:00AM September 18, 2011 | Mark Riffee - Wired

Are you an aspiring filmmaker who wants to produce a spy thriller? Well, you’re in luck because the CIA has a pile of script ideas lying around. More »


News

How The CIA Became ‘One Hell Of A Killing Machine’

6:45AM September 3, 2011 | Spencer Ackerman - Danger Room

No one views the CIA as anything resembling impotent. The drone strikes it operates are the most important counterterrorism tool the Obama administration uses, battering a Pakistan so intensely, in 2010 they struck an average of once every three days. More »


News

Is This The Guy Who Killed Bin Laden?

5:40PM July 7, 2011 | John Cook

Yesterday the Associated Press profiled “John,” the secretive CIA agent who led the effort to locate and kill Osama. The CIA asked the AP not to report John’s full name or identifying details, and the AP complied. But internet spy-hunter and data anarchist John Young, of Cryptome, thinks he’s found a photo of this master spy. More »


Online

Whoa: Lulz Security Just Took On The CIA

8:17AM June 16, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Lulzsec, that merry band of hackers responsible for raids on Bethesda Softworks, the US Senate, Sony, terrorists, and rival hackers, has bagged maybe its biggest fish yet: the CIA. More »


Online

MI6 Hacked Al Qaeda Website, Swapped Bomb Recipes With Cupcake Recipes

8:20PM June 3, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Just imagine the look of surprise on an al Qaeda member’s face when they thought they were loading a tutorial on how to “make a bomb in the kitchen of your mum” but actually got… a recipe for mojito cupcakes. More »


News

Senator Describes Bin Laden Photos, Brain, Underwear

8:20PM May 12, 2011 | Max Read

You’re not allowed to see the CIA’s postmortem photos of Osama bin Laden. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be described to you! Senator James Inhofe got a chance to see the pictures today, because he is a fancy boy, and the Oklahoma Republican was very excited to tell everyone about it. In, uh, detail. They’re “gruesome”! More »