Mr. Prado retired in 2002 after a 25-year CIA career, a career in which he said that he “helped crush the ideology that took everything” from his family.

When you think "CIA," you might picture spies and secret gadgets, but the agency offers a wide range of careers. From analytics to engineering, HR, and even student internships, employees support ...

When Michael G Vickers was 17, he decided he might like a career in the CIA. "I imagined myself doing things that only a James Bond could do," he writes in "By All Means Available - Memoirs of a ...

One agent, a practicing Catholic who ran the agency’s famed Russia House station, says, “I spent my entire CIA career lying, cheating, stealing, manipulating, deceiving.” For guidance, the agent ...

Jeanne Vertefeuille started her CIA career as a typist in 1954. In the 1980s and 1990s, she led a mostly female team of CIA officers who unmasked Aldrich Ames as a mole. (CIA) Review by Denise ...

President Harry Truman established the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947 to prevent future Pearl Harbors and to deal ...