The CIA ran a series of web sites in the 2000s. Most of them were about news, finance, and other relatively boring topics, ...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe wants to rebuild the agency’s diminished ranks of spies and foreign agents. But have espionage’s ...

The CIA reportedly used a fake Star Wars fan site to communicate with its spies around the world. Amateur security researcher ...

Over five years since COVID-19 emerged, debate over its origins continues—lab leak or wildlife trade? A new study points to a ...

Since regaining power in January, the Trump administration has repeatedly claimed with false certainty that the COVID-19 ...

The lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins has become a principle of MAGA governance.

He cited EcoHealth Alliance's pass-through of taxpayer funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a prominent COVID-19 lab-leak candidate, as a strong influence on the to-be-announced policy. That ...

One theory about how the recent pandemic started was that COVID-19 was accidentally leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, after gain-of-function manipulations of a SARS-like virus. "I commend you for ...

Reports like these influence public opinion on the origin of SARS-CoV-2 even without solid new data and reinforce long-standing proponents of the lab leak hypothesis. This hypothesis can be ...

The john had unwittingly become a subject in a CIA experiment focused on how drugs and sex might be used to obtain secrets from foreign adversaries. Part of MKUltra, the agency’s broader and ...