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

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.

July 7, 2011
News

Is This The Guy Who Killed Bin Laden?

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.

June 16, 2011
Online

Whoa: Lulz Security Just Took On The CIA

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.

June 3, 2011
Online

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

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.

May 12, 2011
News

Senator Describes Bin Laden Photos, Brain, Underwear

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”!

May 7, 2011
News

CIA Watched Bin Laden For Months From Right Down The Block

In a safehouse in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a small team of CIA spies lived and worked for months. Their mission: collect information on a nearby compound suspected of housing the world’s most notorious terrorist.

May 3, 2011
News

Classified Technologies Helped Track Bin Laden In His Compound

The National Review has sources telling them that the Joint Special Operations Command used forensics training, biometric analysis and NSA/CIA resources to help commandos survey, locate and kill Osama Bin Laden inside his secret Pakistan compound.

April 21, 2011
News

The Spy Secrets Of The Last Unsealed WWI Files

The oldest secret documents in the CIA’s treasure-trove have been cracked open finally. Believed to be the only remaining classified WWI documents, the six files have revealed all manner of espionage tricks – including the recipe for German invisible ink.

March 27, 2011
Geek Out

CIA And KGB Spy Weapons: Rectal Escape Kits, Turd Transmitters And Lipstick Guns

You didn’t think the first set of the historical CIA spykit was all they had, right?Come on! It’s the CIA. Here’s a few images from another set that also includes some KGB weapons. Some of these “tools” are rather interesting.

February 25, 2011
Gadgets

Tools Of Tradecraft: The CIA’s Historic Spy Kit

Whenever James Bond needed a nifty device to snap a surreptitious surveillance picture or escape the gilded clutches of Auric Goldfinger, he could count on the ingenious minds in the Secret Service’s Q Division to devise a solution. Real-world Bonds working for the US Central Intelligence Agency, and its precursor the Office of Strategic Services, could turn to the Office of Research and Development for similar tradecraft tools.

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