CIA analyst Carrie Mathison, played exquisitely by Claire Danes on Showtime's Homeland, is exceedingly hard to like. She steals...

After writing her own spy story, Valerie Plame Wilson is turning to fiction. Last week Blue Rider Press announced that Wilson will be...

The ranks of female spy novelists are about to get some competition from a woman with a notorious spy past: former CIA operative Valerie...

“I have long been disappointed in the portrayals in the popular culture of female CIA operatives. They are always such cartoon...

On Sept. 11 I was in the CIA headquarters. I was a senior operations manager. I was working on something called the Iraqi Task Force, and...

THERE was a time when the sort of people who campaigned to rid the world of nuclear weapons wore anoraks and thick jumpers and camped out...

We never loved the bomb, but we did at least learn to stop worrying about it. According to new documentary Countdown to Zero, though, we...

RIDDING the world of nuclear weapons has long been a cause of the pacifist left. But in the past few years mainstream politicians,...

When my beautiful twins were born 11 years ago, I was thrilled, but simultaneously and inexplicably felt myself slipping into a black...

Naomi Watts, Valerie Plame and their partners attended the Wednesday night premiere of ‘Fair Game’ in New York. Watts plays the former...

Many of you know my name but not what I actually did for the CIA; instead you probably only know the story of how I became a national...

The smoke was still drifting off the World Trade Center when the CIA discovered that Osama bin Laden had secretly met just a few days...