spying

US troops wade ashore on D-Day. Belfrage is alleged to have passed information to the Soviets about the Allies plans to open a second front in World War II.

New documents reveal this British WWII spy may have been one of the most important agents for the Soviets

Global Politics

Cedric Belfrage was long known as a British intelligence agent in New York in World War Two. Newly declassified documents reveal he was also working for Moscow. One Russian historian describes as one of the most important agents the Soviets ever had.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on December 22, 2014.

Russia’s ‘incompetent’ spies get nabbed in New York, but here’s why it doesn’t matter

Conflict
The fictional film TRUE LIES featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis bears an uncanny resemblance to a real case of some British police officers who stand accused of deceiving and having sexual relationiships with women while working undercov

Here’s what happens when a spy sleeps with his targets

Justice
Nixon Watergate tapes

Nixon thought he’d be the only one to ever hear his secret recordings

Conflict
Nixon Watergate tapes

Nixon thought he’d be the only one to ever hear his secret recordings

Conflict
A polio worker gives polio vaccine drops to a child in Islamabad. Pakistan is also the only polio-endemic country in the world where polio cases rose from 2012 to 2013.

What’s stopping some Pakistani parents from letting their children be vaccinated?

Health & Medicine

The White House has pledged the CIA will stop using vaccination programs as a cover from spying. Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Laurie Garrett’s says the pledge is long overdue and that distrust of health workers is already widespread in many countries. The White House has pledged the CIA will stop using vaccination programs as a cover from spying. Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Laurie Garrett’s says the pledge is long overdue and that distrust of health workers is already widespread in many countries.

The World

The history of invisible ink is finally out in the open

Arts, Culture & Media

Author Kristie Macrakis got interested in invisible ink a few years ago while researching the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police. Now she’s written a history of steganography, or “hidden writing.”

The World

The history of invisible ink is finally out in the open

Arts, Culture & Media

Author Kristie Macrakis got interested in invisible ink a few years ago while researching the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police. Now she’s written a history of steganography, or “hidden writing.”

Activists protest NSA surveillance programs in front of the U.S. embassy in Kiev, November 1, 2013.

The NSA gives an old spy trick a modern spin. And it involves radio waves

Global Politics

Why is the NSA implanting malicious software into an estimated 100,000 computers around the world? David Sanger, the New York Times national security correspondent talks with host Marco Werman.

Edward Snowden is OK with what he’s given up to start a debate on surveillance

Global Politics

Washington Post contributor Barton Gellman sat down with Edward Snowden in Moscow for a 14 hour interview, recently. It was the former NSA contractor’s first major interview since he was granted asylum in Russia. Gellman describes Snowden as something of a shut-in who doesn’t mind living alone in his Moscow residence, now that he’s sparked an international debate on surveillance.