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Dorothy Gilman, Spy Novelist, Dies at 88

Ms. Gilman was best known for her “Mrs. Polifax” series of books about a widow who goes to work as a secret agent.

Ex-spy accused in leaks had role in torture debate

Few people played a larger role in the public debate over waterboarding than former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who went public in a big way in 2007 with his descriptions of the waterboarding of a top al-Qaida leader in 2002. Much of what he said turned out to be wrong, he has since acknowledged.

Lizzie Widdicombe: Quentin Rowan, a.k.a. Q. R. Markham, plagiarism addict.

Spy novels embrace clichés—the double agent, the bomb-rigged briefcase—and “Assassin of Secrets,” published last fall, made a virtue of this tendency, piling one trope onto another to create a story that rang with wry knowingness. The book is set in the . . . (Subscription required.)

Iran Has America's Super Spy Drone. So What?

Speaker: James R. Clapper Jr. Published January 31, 2012 James R. Clapper, U.S. Director of National Intelligence, gave these remarks to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on January 31, 2012 regarding the annual "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community".

Arizona targeted as test site for private spy drones

TUCSON – Arizona is being targeted as a testing site for private spy drones, with the areas of Benson, Yuma and Flagstaff topping the list for the dangerous testing for the drones which violate human rights around the world.