A presidential lawyer and historian combed through the latest document dump so you don’t have to. Here’s what he found.

But the newly unredacted files reveal details about CIA agents and operations that the agency kept secret for decades. Those details previously had been kept secret by national security officials ...

While it’s not a surprise that the CIA had operatives stationed around the world—and that embassies provide a perfect cover—it was previously unknown to the extent that this was the case. Kornbluh ...

The file does not include what the CIA thought of his assessment. After John Smith’s grandfather died in 2013, at 92, Smith bought his grandfather’s old cottage outside of Annapolis.

This recent drop of CIA case documents did not point to the contrary. Dr. Jonathan Earle is dean of the honors college at LSU. “I think most of these documents we’ve seen before they just had ...

a former CIA case officer who conducted operations in Iraq and New York. “You’re absolutely creating a counterintelligence risk,” Carroll said. “Not by letting people go, but the manner in ...

WASHINGTON – One of the world’s foremost JFK assassination experts thinks there’s nothing in the mountains of classified government files that ... make the case that the CIA had Oswald ...

Many of the documents had been released previously but with redactions that hid the names of CIA sources or details ... the archives posted about 2,200 files online this week.

The thousands of documents posted online this week disappointed assassination buffs. But historians are finding many newly revealed secrets. By Jennifer Schuessler and Julian E. Barnes In June ...