Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them

Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade, and why most of Europe – including the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – dismissed them

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.America’s greatest untold story of espionage history: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials—including newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials—Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures.Dulles’s decade as the director of the CIA—which he used to further his public and private agendas—were dark times in American politics. Calling himself “the secretary of state of unfriendly countries,” Dulles saw himself as above the elected law, manipulating and subverting American presidents in the pursuit of his personal interests and those of the wealthy elite he counted as his friends and clients—colluding with Nazi-controlled cartels, German war criminals, and Mafiosi in the process. Targeting foreign leaders for assassination and overthrowing nationalist governments not in line with his political aims, Dulles employed those same tactics to further his goals at home, Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the JFK assassination.An exposé of American power and the abuse of power that is as disturbing as it is timely, The Devil’s Chessboard is a provocative and gripping story of the rise of the national security state—and the battle for America’s soul.This meticulously researched exposé reveals:Secret Government Operations: How Allen Dulles built the CIA into a formidable secret government, operating beyond the reach of presidents and the law.Covert Wars and Assassinations: The chilling details of Dulles’s covert wars, from overthrowing governments not in line with his political aims to targeting foreign leaders for assassination.Unholy Alliances: The details of Dulles’s shocking collusion with Nazi-controlled cartels, German war criminals, and Mafiosi to further his personal and political agendas.The Rise of the National Security State: A provocative, timely warning about the unchecked growth of secret power and the ongoing battle for America’s soul.

The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far (Published 2018)

For two years, Americans have tried to absorb the details of the 2016 attack: spies, leaked emails, social media fraud — and President Trump’s claims that it’s all a hoax. The Times explores what we know and what it means.

Cambridge Analytica, the shady data firm that might be a key Trump-Russia link, explained

Why House investigators think this company might have gamed Facebook and helped Russia spread fake news.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe met Russian intel counterparts on secretive visit to Moscow, Kremlin says

The Kremlin spokesman says CIA Director John Ratcliffe met Russian counterparts during a secretive visit to Moscow, but it's unclear what came of the talks.

The CIA Sent Him Deep Undercover to Spy on Islamic Radicals. It Cost Him Everything

How one man infiltrated Al Qaeda and the broader jihadist world — and how his double life likely led to PTSD, depression, and ultimately his death.

‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower

Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorate

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."

The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory on Biden and Ukraine

How a conservative dark-money group that targeted Hillary Clinton in 2016 spread the discredited story that may lead to Donald Trump’s impeachment.

The Ex-Google Hacker Taking on the World's Spy Agencies

Morgan Marquis-Boire is the director of security for First Look Media, the most prolific publisher of Edward Snowden's remaining secrets. His daunting task is to safeguard those documents, as well as the communications of reporters with perhaps the press's most adversarial relationships with Western intelligence agencies.

He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I Was Willing to Listen.

Redirecting internet traffic from entire countries was one of the "ridiculously cool" projects undertaken by an NSA hacker who spoke with The Intercept.

Europe’s spies are learning to trust each other — thanks to Trump

Doubts over transatlantic intelligence-sharing is bringing European intelligence agencies closer together.

How Russia uses EU companies for propaganda – Qurium Media Foundation

In September 2022 Qurium in collaboration with EU DisinfoLab exposed for the first time a Russia-based influence operation network that had been operating in Europe since at least May 2022, that later became known as “Doppelganger“.

Julian Assange, a Man Without a Country

From his tiny sanctum in London, the founder of WikiLeaks has interfered with the world’s most powerful institutions.