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Part of the equipment, including wigs and spying gadgets, Russia says Ryan Fogle was carrying.

Russia expels 'American CIA agent'

Steve Gutterman Russia has expelled a US diplomat after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, special equipment and wads of cash as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence agent to work for the CIA.

Russia arrests 'CIA agent' after amateurish act of espionage

Ryan Fogle

David Herszenhorn and Ellen Barry Russia detains an American citizen, claiming he is CIA agent.

CIA pays high price for buying foreign favour

Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrives for a joint press conference with German President Christian Wulff, not seen, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. Wulff is in Afghanistan on an announced visit. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Elias Groll On Monday, The New York Times revealed that the CIA has been funnelling tens of millions of dollars to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

CIA head nominee Brennan advances to vote

CIA director nomimee John Brennan

The US Senate intelligence committee advanced John Brennan's nomination as CIA director to the full Senate, bringing President Barack Obama close to completing the leadership of his second-term...

CIA officer is jailed for leaking details on torture

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2012 file photo, former CIA officer John Kiriakou leaves U.S. District Courthouse in Alexandria, Va. Kiriakou was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison by a federal judge who rejected arguments that he was acting as a whistleblower when he leaked a covert officer's name to a reporter. A plea deal required the judge to impose a sentence of 2? years. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said she would have given Kiriakou much more time if she could. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

A FORMER CIA officer has been sentenced on Friday to 30 months' jail for disclosing classified information to journalists in a case that underscored the Obama administration's harsh crackdown on...

CIA courts gay employees

Advocates will shift their focus to legalising same-sex marriage at the state-level after federal MPs voted down a bill that would have allowed gay couples to marry.

Miami: It wasn't long ago that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women couldn't get security clearance from the CIA. Now the US national spy agency is actively recruiting them.

CIA chief quits over affair

General David Petraeus.

CIA Director David Petraeus, the retired four-star general who oversaw US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has resigned from his position due to an extramarital affair.

Lover's emails led to exposure of CIA chief

David Petraeus

Phil Mattingly and John Walcott Washington THE FBI investigation that uncovered the extramarital affair leading to the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus began after a woman complained to law enforcement officials about harassing...

Account of attack that killed ambassador 'based on CIA information'

Susan Rice.

David Lerman and Laura Litvan Washington: A UN ambassador's account of a deadly attack on the US consulate in Libya reflected the CIA's best information at the time, two Democrats on the House intelligence committee have said.

FBI trod warily over exposing CIA chief's extramarital affair with his biographer

General Davis Petraeus, left, shaking hands with Paula Broadwell

Scott Shane WASHINGTON: The US Senate intelligence committee will investigate why the FBI failed to notify the White House and Congress when it discovered that the ex-CIA director David Petraeus was involved in...

CIA to check if Petraeus used trappings of office for affair

FILE - In this June 29, 2012 file photo, Gen. David Petraeus testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Petraeus, the retired four-star general who led the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Eric Schmitt WASHINGTON: The inspector-general of the Central Intelligence Agency has started an investigation into the general conduct of David Petraeus, who resigned last week as the CIA's director after...

Bin Laden's CIA doctor denigrated

Pakistani officials say Dr Shakeel Afridi was lured by easy money in assisting the US to find bin Laden.

Ben Doherty Dr Shakeel Afridi was corrupt and lured by easy money say Pakistani government officials.

CIA ordered to halt drone operations by Pakistan

Pakistanis protest against the air strikes that killed 25 soldiers.

Salman Masood and Eric Schmitt, Islamabad The Pakistani government has responded to NATO air strikes that killed at least 25 soldiers by ordering the CIA to vacate the drone operations it runs in northern Pakistan.

Rogue embassy employee attacks CIA office in Kabul

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Ben Doherty THE CIA's compound in Kabul has been attacked by a lone gunman. An Afghan employee of the US embassy killed an American citizen on Sunday evening and wounded another before being shot dead at the...

American killed in Kabul CIA base attack

Afghan police.

Ben Doherty, South Asia Correspondent A lone gunman attacks the CIA's secret compound in Kabul, with an Afghan employee of the US embassy killing an American citizen and wounding another before being shot dead himself.

CIA action may backfire in Yemen

Anwar.

Dylan Welch A DECADE after the epochal attacks of September 11, and three months after the killing of Osama bin Laden, America's shadow war against terrorism appears to be slowly revealing a new front.

Commander seeks apology for alleged CIA abduction

EDS.: RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT NAME ** Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who was voted commander of the Tripoli Military Council by other brigades, inside the Mitiga air base in Tripoli, Libya, Sept. 1, 2011. As the United States and other Western powers embrace and help finance the new post-Gadhafi government taking shape in Libya, they could face a particularly awkward relationship with Islamists like Belhaj, once considered enemies in the war on terror. (Moises Saman/The New York Times)

Martin Chulov TRIPOLI: One of Libya's senior rebel commanders has demanded an apology from the British and US governments following the discovery of secret documents that show MI6 and the CIA were involved in a...

CIA transforms to take out targets

Firemen work around the World Trade Center after both towers collapsed in New York, in this file picture taken September 11, 2001. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed May 1, 2011, in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan and his body was recovered, President Barack Obama said on May 1, 2011.

Greg Miller, Julie Tate WASHINGTON: Behind a nondescript door at CIA headquarters, the agency has assembled a new counterterrorism unit whose job is to find al-Qaeda targets in Yemen.

US firms profited from CIA flights

Guantanamo

Ian Cobain, Ben Quinn THE scale of the CIA's rendition program has been laid bare in court documents that illustrate in minute detail how the US contracted out the secret transportation of suspects to a network of private...

CIA chartered secret flights for terror suspects

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was trasported using private US contractors.

Ian Cobain and Ben Quinn The scale of the CIA's outsourced rendition program revealed in court documents.

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