Frank Wisner’s career in espionage began in World War II, but his legacy was the creation of a CIA department that aimed to ...

During World War II Cuneo served as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secret liaison with a covert British spy nest—known only to FDR and a few members of his innermost circle—hiding in the ...

Loved 'The Women' by Kristin Hannah? These 8 powerful reads explore war, resilience, sisterhood, and unsung female heroes in ...

World War II aficionados had been aware that a secretary ... Jessica Baldrian, a granddaughter of Charles Cholmondeley, another spy, said that her family had chatted regularly about him since ...

007 creator Ian Fleming researched the book and the character with the help of Ernest Cuneo, a former NFL player who was America’s first World War II spy. They did a research trip across America ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

The new book “The Invisible Spy” by former Sun-Times reporter Thomas Maier details a trip that former American World War II spy Ernest Cuneo took to Chicago and across the United States with ...

He decided that the best ... book about the double agent, “The Spy and the Traitor,” told the BBC that Gordievsky managed “in a secret way to launch the beginning of the end of the Cold War.” ...

There’s no denying the thrill of getting your hands on a long-awaited novel – less thrilling, though, is paying hardback ...

Dave Abrutat, official historian at GCHQ, is on a mission to preserve the UK’s historic signals intelligence (Sigint) sites ...

The private lives of presidents and princes, romantic affairs, meditations on grief, awkward coming-of-age stories, or an ...

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England.