New records show an officer covertly led a group that came into contact with JFK’s assassination, after the agency denied ...

The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in ...

In The Mission, Tim Weiner argues that the agency’s past 25 years have been defined by scandal, psychodrama and human error ...

The CIA repeatedly denied the existence of an agent named ‘Howard,’ who secretly oversaw a group that had contact with Oswald ...

Dustin Gard-Weiss has been appointed as the executive director of the CIA, bringing 20 years of leadership experience.

The president’s CIA director, John Ratcliffe, released a report on Trump’s Russia scandal, which Ratcliffe probably should’ve ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author and journalist Tim Weiner about his new book, The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century.

During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

Newly unearthed CIA documents undermine the agency’s longstanding claim that it had no knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald’s ties ...