Reading and Writing

"The Central Intelligence Agency has a Medical and Psychological Assessment Cell. It employs or consults with doctors, sociologists, po...

"Forget invisible ink or lemon juice – spies can now send messages hidden in genetically engineered bacteria. The new method, dubbed st...

Here's one example of when it may be "too much of a good thing" (on the other hand it's likely a case of not having enough...

"Surely the most eccentric unsung spy was Maxwell Knight, known to his friends as Max or M. Although he did later become well known, it...

"The simple but unworkable solution would be to abolish the Clandestine Service.  (The CIA can’t do its job, but is adept at managing t...

"without reading, there can be no learning; without learning, there can be no sense of a larger world; without the sense of a larger wo...

On the occasion of last month's 50th anniversary of construction of the Berlin Wall the press published pieces on the omnipresence of sp...