May 23, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
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...
May 20, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
Cryptanalysis - the science of cracking secret codes - has always been an arms race between mathematicians and machine designers. A newly declassified NSA document, titled "Fifty Years of Mathematical Cryptanalysis (1937–1987)", provides a rare and sweeping look at...
May 14, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
A declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) reveals the extent to which U.S. intelligence agencies routinely purchase vast amounts of "commercially available information" (CAI) - including sensitive data on American citizens -...