During the Cold War, the CIA Secretly Plucked a Soviet Submarine From the Ocean Floor Using a Giant Claw
The International Spy Museum details the audacious plan that involved a reclusive billionaire, a 618-foot-long ship, and a great deal of stealth
The Incomplete History Told by New York’s K.G.B. Museum
Designed to be apolitical, the attraction offers whiz-bang tech without the agency’s brutal past
The Women Code Breakers Who Unmasked Soviet Spies
At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers
How to Cipher Like a Soviet
See if you can figure out how the American code-breakers unraveled the complexities of the Russian codebook
A Brief History of Surveillance in America
With wiretapping in the headlines and smart speakers in millions of homes, historian Brian Hochman takes us back to the early days of eavesdropping
How to Calculate the Danger of a Toxic Chemical to the Public
The risk of any toxin depends on the dose, how it spreads, and how it enters the body
Revisiting the Myth of Mata Hari, From Sultry Spy to Government Scapegoat
One hundred years after her death, a new exhibit is putting the spotlight on the dancer’s life and legacy
More Than 5,000 Objects of Espionage Are Coming to the Spy Museum
The trove of cool artifacts comes from the world’s largest private collection of spycraft
Courageous WWII Spy Jeannie Rousseau Has Died at 98
Using charm and cunning, she helped uncover Nazi plans to build deadly V-1 and V-2 rockets
The CIA Experimented On Animals in the 1960s Too. Just Ask ‘Acoustic Kitty’
Turns out that cats really don’t take direction well
The Inside Story of How a Nazi Plot to Sabotage the U.S. War Effort Was Foiled
J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI took the credit, but it was really only because of a German defector that the plans were blown
Belle Boyd, Civil War Spy
The so-called “Siren of Shenandoah” stole weapons and carried letters in service to the Confederacy
How a KGB Spy Defected and Became a U.S. Citizen
Jack Barsky wanted to stay in the country, so he let the Soviets think he was dead
Over 12 Million Pages of CIA Documents Are Now Accessible Online
Coups, clairvoyants, invisible ink
The CIA Is Celebrating Its Cartography Division’s 75th Anniversary by Sharing Declassified Maps
Decades of once-secret maps are now freely available online
Alan Turing’s World War II Headquarters Will Once Again House Codebreakers
Bletchley Park is being revived as a cybersecurity training center
How Accurate Is the Movie “Allied”?
The best spies won’t leave behind an evidence trail, but then how will audiences know what’s true and what’s fiction?
The FBI’s Fake Russian Agent Reveals His Secrets
In an exclusive interview, a retired FBI agent who posed as a KGB officer finally spills the beans about his greatest sting operations
The Daring Plan to Steal Nazi Radar Technology
A British parachute regiment set off toward Bruneval on the northern coast of occupied France. Their mission: to steal German radar secrets
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