How the CIA Identified, Approached and Broke Recruits
A 1944 CIA training document, recently declassified, lays out in cold detail exactly how the agency evaluated and manipulated potential assets. More than a manual, it’s a psychological dissection of human vulnerability-who can be recruited, how to spot them, and how...
CIA Minutes Reveal Tensions Over Tech, Funding & Espionage Gear
A declassified document from the CIA’s Research, Development and Production Review Board offers a rare inside look at the technical debates, procurement struggles, and operational pressures inside the Agency’s clandestine R&D wing during the early Cold War. The...
What a 1960s CIA Journal Taught Us About Espionage and Cognitive Error
In a quietly powerful internal volume titled Studies in Intelligence, CIA analysts and case officers in the 1960s turned their gaze inward. This particular issue - declassified decades later - explores not just field operations or global espionage, but something far...
JFK’s Hidden Briefings Reveal CIA Spy Operations on U.S. Soil
In March 2025, a bombshell surfaced from the latest JFK assassination records: the CIA had not only compiled a dossier of its most illegal activities - the infamous "Family Jewels" - but both John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert were fully briefed on at least one...
