The Trump administration's use of a popular app to discuss sensitive military plans — with a journalist on the text chain — is raising questions about security and the importance of safeguarding the nation's secrets.

History buffs have uncovered revelations about U.S. espionage in the 1960s in thousands of pages of newly released government records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Elon Musk met with the leader of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command this week, suggesting America's spy agencies won't escape the billionaire's efforts to reshape the federal government.

The FBI says it's discovered 2,400 records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to release thousands of classified files.

Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are demanding answers after they say President Donald Trump gave Elon Musk's staff access to sensitive and classified government information.

CIA employees have gotten letters offering them buyouts if they voluntarily resign.

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

A former CIA officer-trainee has been acquitted of charges that he attacked a female colleague in a stairwell at CIA headquarters.

The CIA is offering advice to people in North Korea, Iran and China who want to share information with intelligence officials — without getting caught.

A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

Venezuela’s government has announced the arrest of a fourth U.S. citizen in connection with an alleged plot to kill President Nicolás Maduro.

The heads of the British and American foreign intelligence agencies say Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia is a significant achievement that could change the narrative of the grinding war.

The suspects in the foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna earlier this month sought to kill “tens of thousands” of fans before the CIA discovered intelligence that disrupted the planning and led to arrests.

A Defense Department disagreement over how to bring to justice the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four others has thrown the cases into disarray.

The U.S. Justice Department says a former CIA employee and senior official at the National Security Council has been charged with serving as a secret agent for South Korea’s intelligence service.

Another U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone has gone down in Yemen as the country's Houthi rebels continued attacks on shipping around the Red Sea over the Israel-Hamas war.

A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI accused of spying for China for at least a decade has pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom in Honolulu.

A floating crane that’s been hauling away shattered steel from a collapsed Baltimore bridge played a much different role during the Cold War.

President Joe Biden has spoken with his Egyptian and Qatari counterparts ahead of a trip by his CIA director meant to press toward a deal to secure the release of more hostages held by Hamas in exchange for a pause to fighting in Gaza.

The anti-communist sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro has died in Miami at age 90.

A former CIA officer accused of drugging and sexually assaulting at least two dozen women has pleaded guilty to federal sex abuse charges.

A military judge at Guantanamo Bay has ruled one of the 9/11 defendants too mentally ill to stand trial.

A military medical panel has concluded that one of the five 9/11 defendants held at Guantanamo Bay has been rendered delusional and psychotic by the torture he underwent years ago while in CIA custody.

President Joe Biden has refused to approve conditions that lawyers for the defendants in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks had sought in a possible plea bargain in the case.

China's national security authority says it has detained a worker from a military industrial group on suspicion of spying for the CIA.

The CIA director says U.S. intelligence shows that China’s President Xi Jinping has instructed his country’s military to “be ready by 2027” to invade Taiwan.

CIA Director William Burns visited Kyiv last week to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Many current and former intelligence officials are increasingly warning that the $90 billion U.S. spy apparatus is falling behind because it has not embraced collecting open-source intelligence.

A team of CIA experts that studied lessons learned from the 2020 election had to unexpectedly withdraw its study after getting pushback from rank-and-file intelligence officers.

U.S. intelligence agencies are shifting more money and resources to China.

U.S. officials have said taking out a terrorist threat in Afghanistan with no American troops on the ground would be difficult but not impossible.

A former CIA software engineer accused of the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history has been convicted at a New York City retrial.

The State Department is preparing to compensate victims of mysterious brain injuries colloquially known as “Havana Syndrome" with six-figure payments, according to officials and congressional aides.

White nationalists and supremacists are building thriving, macho communities across social media platforms like Instagram, Telegram and TikTok.

The CIA says Russians disaffected by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine may be trying to get in touch with U.S. intelligence.

The Supreme Court has sided with the U.S. government and dismissed a case involving a Guantanamo Bay detainee seeking what the government said is secret information.

U_S_ officials say the CIA believes it's unlikely that Russia or another foreign adversary is using microwaves or other forms of directed energy to attack hundreds of American diplomats and intelligence officers who attribute their brain injuries and other symptoms to what's come to be known as “Havana syndrome.”.

The National Archives has made public nearly 1,500 documents related to the U.S. government’s investigation into the 1963 assassination of President John F.

The Biden administration says it will allow a Guantanamo Bay detainee to provide information to Polish officials about his torture in CIA custody following the 9/11 attacks.

Three former U.S. intelligence and military operatives have admitted providing sophisticated hacking technology to the United Arab Emirates and agreed to pay nearly $1.7 million to resolve criminal charges.

An international effort is underway to evacuate members of Afghanistan's girls national soccer team and their families over fears of reprisal by the Taliban.

Three men held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were formally charged Tuesday in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and other plots in Southeast Asia 18 years after they were taken into U.S. custody.

Three prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center have had their first day in court after being held for 18 years without charge in connection with the deadly 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and other plots in Southeast Asia.

One of the at least 90 people killed in the Surfside condominium collapse was among hundreds of Cuban exiles who in the 1960s signed up for a covert, CIA-funded operation to overthrow Fidel Castro’s Soviet-backed dictatorship.

A former CIA operative known for his exploits everywhere from Miami to Nicaragua to Afghanistan has a book deal.

The Biden administration faces increasing pressure to respond to a sharply growing number of reported injuries suffered by diplomats, intelligence officers and military personnel that some suspect are caused by devices that emit waves of energy that disrupt brain function.

Jason Matthews, an award-winning spy novelist who drew upon his long career in espionage and his admiration for John le Carre among others in crafting his popular “Red Sparrow” thrillers, has died.

The Supreme Court will decide whether a Palestinian man captured in the wake of 9/11 and detained at the prison on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay can get access to information the government classifies as state secrets.

A senior Afghan politician and a well-placed public figure say CIA Director William Burns made a recent unannounced visit to the Afghan capital of Kabul.

At its start, America’s war in Afghanistan was about retribution for 9/11.

At its start, America’s war in Afghanistan was about retribution for 9/11.

A judge says Schulte, a former CIA employee, cannot get espionage charges against him dismissed on the grounds that there weren't enough Hispanic or Black individuals on the grand jury that indicted him. Schulte faces an October trial on charges that he leaked a massive trove of CIA hacking tools to WikiLeaks. AdCrotty, though, said the reliance on a White Plains grand jury rather than one seated in Manhattan was necessitated by an “external force,” the pandemic, rather than an effort to exclude certain segments of the population from being empaneled. He called the decision by prosecutors to seek indictment in White Plains “entirely proper." A jury last year deadlocked on espionage charges, though it convicted Schulte of less serious charges of contempt of court and making false statements.

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. “Yo no soy juez ni fiscal, y no debo meterme en este tema”, dijo Maduro, pero luego acusó a la CIA de infiltrarse en Citgo. “¿Hay espacio para el diálogo?”, manifestó Maduro en respuesta a una pregunta de The Associated Press sobre si ha entablado conversaciones con el gobierno del presidente estadounidense Joe Biden. “Siempre hay espacio para el diálogo”, añadió. (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press.

Ron DeSantis was in Miami on Monday to launch the expansion of Florida’s COVID-19 vaccination program for homebound seniors to veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Last week, DeSantis visited Aventura as the state began vaccinating homebound Holocaust survivors. These are veterans that we really appreciate.”AdOther veterans and their spouses will receive their shots in the comfort of their own homes, DeSantis said. Ron DeSantis speaks from Miami Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference Monday morning at the Bay of Pigs Museum and Library in Miami.

A former FBI lawyer was sentenced to probation for altering a document the Justice Department relied on during its surveillance of a Donald Trump aide during the Russia investigation. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)WASHINGTON – A former FBI lawyer was sentenced to probation on Friday for altering an email the Justice Department relied on in its surveillance of an aide to President Donald Trump during the Russia investigation. The Russia investigation resulted in criminal charges against six Trump associates, but did not find sufficient evidence that Trump campaign associates had illegally coordinated with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Even so, that aspect of the Russia investigation was a small piece of the much broader probe. Prosecutors contend that explanation made no sense and, in any event, was not a justification for altering the email.

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen veteran diplomat William Burns to be his CIA director. If confirmed, he would succeed Gina Haspel, the first female CIA director, who guided the agency under President Donald Trump. “I developed enormous respect for my colleagues in the CIA,” Burns said in an online video statement Monday with Biden. The director of national intelligence, not the CIA director, was in the Cabinet. Trump elevated the CIA director post back up to a Cabinet-level position, and both Haspel and National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe sit in his Cabinet.

Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. “Si el diálogo se frustra que sea por ellos, por mí no será nunca”, dijo a The Associated Press el artista plástico Julio Llopiz-Casal. “Lo que han hecho es desestabilizar el proyecto (de encuentro) haciendo las acusaciones infundadas de siempre, de que estamos penetrados por la CIA (Central de Inteligencia de Estados Unidos) de que somos personas que no pensamos por nosotros mismos”. Los creadores demandaban más espacio para el arte independiente, no ser hostilizados por no trabajar con las instituciones oficiales y la liberación de un rapero, Denis Solís, que había sido condenado luego de insultar a un policía. (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press.

Tensions remain high between the U.S. and Iran amid President Donald Trump's maximalist pressure campaign over Tehran's nuclear program. In a ruling dated Thursday, the U.S. District Court in Washington found Iran owed Levinson's family $1.35 billion in punitive damages and $107 million in compensatory damages for his kidnapping. The court cited the case of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died in 2017 shortly after being freed from captivity in North Korea, in deciding to award the massive amount of punitive damages to Levinson's family. In a statement, Levinson's family called the court's award “the first step in the pursuit of justice.”“Until now, Iran has faced no consequences for its actions,” the family said. In December 2013, the AP revealed Levinson in fact had been on a mission for CIA analysts who had no authority to run spy operations.

But former intelligence officials say presidents are routinely informed about intelligence even when its not definitively confirmed. Some questions and answers about how presidents are briefed on intelligence, what sort of information they receive and how this applies to the situation with Russia:HOW DO PRESIDENTS RECEIVE NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION? The PDB, as it is known, is a compilation of intelligence and national security assessments from government analysts. Theres no mathematical formula for deciding what gets briefed to the president, said David Priess, a former CIA intelligence briefer and author of The Presidents Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to Americas Presidents." After news broke about the intelligence, Trump was briefed, the White House said.

But former intelligence officials say presidents are routinely informed about intelligence even when its not definitively confirmed. Some questions and answers about how presidents are briefed on intelligence, what sort of information they receive and how this applies to the situation with Russia:HOW DO PRESIDENTS RECEIVE NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION? The PDB, as it is known, is a compilation of intelligence and national security assessments from government analysts. Theres no mathematical formula for deciding what gets briefed to the president, said David Priess, a former CIA intelligence briefer and author of The Presidents Book." After news broke about the intelligence, Trump was briefed, the White House said.

Congressional candidate and former CIA operative Valerie Plame of Santa Fe, N.M., seeks support from local party delegates at the Democratic Party preprimary convention in Pojoaque, N.M., Saturday, March 7, 2020. Incendiary new political attack ads against the former CIA operative and candidate for a northern New Mexico congressional seat portray Plame as a disgraced racist millionaire and can be traced to the Alliance for Combating Extremism Fund. Plame said in a statement that the new attack ads are disgusting and have hardened her resolve for campaign finance reforms that would restrict so-called dark money political spending that cannot be traced. The group's attack ads hound Plame for allegedly being embraced by white supremacists and use an image of the candidate with swastikas imposed over her eyes. Another prominent candidate, Teresa Leger Fernandez, called the attack ads extremely offensive and sexist, and said her campaign has no connection to the group behind it.

Instead, the Senate text is largely aimed at shaping how the interrogation program will be regarded by history. The reaction to the report, however, only reinforced how polarizing the CIA program remains more than five years after it was ordered dismantled by Obama. INTERACTIVE TIMELINE | Understanding CIA's use of harsh interrogationThe Senate report suggests top CIA officials at headquarters had little sympathy. In reality, the number was 119, according to the report, including 39 who had been subjected to harsh interrogation methods. But the Senate report says the plot was disrupted by a series of arrests and interrogations that had nothing to do with the CIA program.