DNI 2024 Annual Threat Assessment
The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Annual Threat Assessment, often referred to as the “ATA”, is a comprehensive report that provides an unclassified summary of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s evaluation…
From Countess to Spy: The Story of Krystyna Skarbek
Maquisards (Resistance fighters) in the vicinity of Savournon, Hautes-Alpes in August 1944. SOE agents are second from right, Krystyna Skarbek, third John Roper, fourth, Robert Purvis. Source: Imperial War Museum.…
The FBI’s National Art Crime Team: Guardians of Cultural Heritage
Govaert Flinck, until recently attributed to Rembrandt: Landscape with an Obelisk (1638). Stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston on March 18,1990. The FBI’s National Art Crime Team is…
Operation Halyard: Daring WWII Rescue Mission
Joint US/Chetnik military ceremony in Pranjani September 6, 1944. Capt. Nick Lalich (OSS Halyard Mission), Gen. Dragoljub Mihailovic (Yugoslav Army in the Homeland), and Col. Robert McDowell (OSS Ranger Mission).…
Havana Syndrome: A Russian Link to the Neurological Mystery?
The U.S. flag flaps in the stiff breeze off the Florida Straits at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. U.S. Department of State photo. “Havana Syndrome” is a term that…
WW2 Ghost Army Receives Congressional Gold Medal
Inflatable dummy Sherman tank of the Ghost Army. U.S. Army photo. On Thursday, March 21, 2024, a long-overdue recognition was bestowed upon a group of World War II veterans known…
The Gateway Experience: CIA’s Exploration of Altered Consciousness
The Gateway Experience is a training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left and right hemispheres so…
The Bond Connection: JFK and James Bond
President John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, had a unique and intriguing relationship with the fictional British spy, James Bond. This relationship was…
Ian Fleming, James Bond and the CIA
Bronze bust of the author Ian Fleming by the British sculptor Anthony Smith. Commissioned by the Fleming family to commemorate the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth in 2008. Photo: Fortheloveofknowledge…
Lucien Conein: From OSS to CIA
Lucien Conein with South Vietnamese general involved in 1963 coup against Diệm, Lucien Emile “Lou” Conein was born on November 29, 1919, in Paris, France. At the age of five,…