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“Real truth lies, if anywhere, not in facts, but in nuance.” – John le Carré (“The Pigeon Tunnel”)

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Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA www.amazon.com/dp/0806543493/

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Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Lad...

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A previously anonymous star on CIA’s Memorial Wall has been declassified: Keith Allen Butler - 2014. www.cia.gov/legacy/honor...

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“The appointment of Nicholas Kass as the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council is the latest sign that Gabbard is seeking to assert greater control over the influential intelligence assessment group…” www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Another anonymous star on CIA’s Memorial Wall has been declassified: Robert W. Brown - 1968. www.cia.gov/legacy/honor...

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“A Spy Walked Into a Bar” by Rob Dannenberg www.amazon.com/dp/B0FF3VBY5F/

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The latest unclassified issue of CIA’s Studies in Intelligence (Volume 69, No. 2, June 2025) is now available for download at www.cia.gov/resources/cs...

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“For pervasive unreason has its own logical processes.” – Joseph Conrad (“The Secret Agent”)

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Another anonymous star on CIA’s Memorial Wall has been declassified: Bob Hubbard - 1968. www.cia.gov/legacy/honor...

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“Military leaders were worried that the programs might get exposed if locals somehow glimpsed a test flight of, say, the F-117 stealth fighter, an aircraft that truly did look out of this world. Better that they believe it came from Andromeda.” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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“These days, secrecy is often beside the point.” www.wsj.com/world/why-co...

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Tulsi must be a glutton for humiliation. No intelligence service in the world will ever take her seriously again. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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“The CIA’s intelligence collection with the Kurds has mainly involved human intelligence (HUMINT). Nevertheless, these political and intelligence-focused interactions created uncertainty when the agency’s relationships with the Kurds were transferred to the State Department.” doi.org/10.1080/0885...

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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” - Edward R. Murrow

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