CIA | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/cia/RSS feed for CIAenTue, 19 Aug 2025 18:35:54 +0000Nobody Has Been Able to Solve the CIA's Famous 'Kryptos' Sculpture. Soon, the Solution Will Be Sold to the Highest Bidderhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nobody-has-been-able-to-solve-the-cias-famous-kryptos-sculpture-soon-the-solution-will-be-sold-to-the-highest-bidder-180987200/Three of the four messages carved into the sculpture have been deciphered, but the final puzzle has left amateur sleuths stumped. In November, the solution could fetch up to $500,000 at auctionTue, 19 Aug 2025 18:35:54 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nobody-has-been-able-to-solve-the-cias-famous-kryptos-sculpture-soon-the-solution-will-be-sold-to-the-highest-bidder-180987200/A Century Ago, a Mob Brutally Attacked an American Diplomat in Persia. His Death Shaped U.S.-Iran Relations for Decadeshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-century-ago-a-mob-brutally-attacked-an-american-diplomat-in-persia-his-death-shaped-us-iran-relations-for-decades-180985016/The July 1924 killing of Robert Imbrie fueled the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and set the stage for both a CIA-backed 1953 coup and the 1979 Iran hostage crisisThu, 05 Sep 2024 10:15:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-century-ago-a-mob-brutally-attacked-an-american-diplomat-in-persia-his-death-shaped-us-iran-relations-for-decades-180985016/Learn the Secret Histories of These Fascinating CIA Artifacts, From Pigeon Cameras to Cufflink Compasseshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/learn-the-secret-histories-of-these-fascinating-cia-artifacts-from-pigeon-cameras-to-cufflink-compasses-180986155/With the launch of its new website, the CIA Museum is bringing its sprawling collection of spy artifacts out of the shadows and into the public eyeThu, 20 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/learn-the-secret-histories-of-these-fascinating-cia-artifacts-from-pigeon-cameras-to-cufflink-compasses-180986155/A Massive Crane Helping With the Baltimore Bridge Cleanup Was Built to Recover a Sunken Soviet Submarinehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-story-behind-the-chesapeake-1000-one-of-the-cranes-helping-with-baltimores-key-bridge-clean-up-180984085/The Chesapeake 1000 was used to construct a ship for a top-secret CIA mission in the 1970sTue, 09 Apr 2024 17:42:22 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-story-behind-the-chesapeake-1000-one-of-the-cranes-helping-with-baltimores-key-bridge-clean-up-180984085/The Baseball Player-Turned-Spy Who Went Undercover to Assassinate the Nazis' Top Nuclear Scientisthttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-baseball-player-turned-spy-who-went-undercover-to-assassinate-the-nazis-top-nuclear-scientist-180982813/During World War II, the OSS sent Moe Berg to Europe, where he gathered intel on Germany's efforts to build an atomic bombThu, 31 Aug 2023 12:25:05 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-baseball-player-turned-spy-who-went-undercover-to-assassinate-the-nazis-top-nuclear-scientist-180982813/The American Spy Who Surrendered to the Nazis to Save Civilianshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-american-spy-who-surrendered-to-the-nazis-to-save-civilians-180982003/In 1944, Pierre Julien Ortiz parachuted into occupied France, where the Gestapo offered a reward of half a million francs for his captureWed, 19 Apr 2023 14:00:33 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-american-spy-who-surrendered-to-the-nazis-to-save-civilians-180982003/National Archives Releases Thousands of Kennedy Assassination Fileshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thousands-of-secret-jfk-assassination-documents-made-public-180981324/Over 97 percent of documents related to the event are now publicly availableFri, 16 Dec 2022 22:28:22 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thousands-of-secret-jfk-assassination-documents-made-public-180981324/See Inside the Rarely Seen and Newly Reimagined CIA Museumhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cia-museum-artifacts-online-catalog-180981091/Off-limits to all but a few in-person visitors, the museum is starting to welcome the public, online at leastThu, 10 Nov 2022 13:06:01 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cia-museum-artifacts-online-catalog-180981091/The Florida Resort That Played an Unlikely Role in the Bay of Pigs Fiascohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/florida-resort-unlikely-role-bay-pigs-fiasco-180977518/Sixty years ago, the CIA-backed invasion of Cuba failed disastrously. It all began, here, on Useppa IslandFri, 16 Apr 2021 13:26:29 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/florida-resort-unlikely-role-bay-pigs-fiasco-180977518/The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody: The Woman Who Helped Avert a Nuclear Warhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/juanita-moody-woman-helped-avert-nuclear-war-180976993/America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be toldTue, 23 Feb 2021 13:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/juanita-moody-woman-helped-avert-nuclear-war-180976993/