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Inside the CIA’s Cold War search for psychic spies

Few Cold War research programs looked less like engineering and more like folklore than the U.S. government’s search for psychic spies. Yet the effort was real, funded, documented, and sustained for ...
ANSWER: Spying goes back to Biblical times. Joshua sent two spies into Jericho before conquering Canaan. Military strategist Sun Tsu wrote about spying in his “The Art of War” treatise way back in 500 ...
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It's always the people we least expect who end up saving one of America's largest institutions. Peacock's latest spy thriller, Ponies, has all the makings of a good old-fashioned espionage watch: the ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
The 1960s were a wild time for the CIA. When they weren’t dosing each other with acid or trying to use exploding cigars to kill Fidel Castro, the Agency’s staff were exploring other novel approaches ...
Director of History & Policy at the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London The collapse of the prosecutions ...
In PONIES, a new series created by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson, all the best parts of 1970s style are front and center, backed up by impressive craftsmanship in front of and behind the camera. In ...
Unfortunately, the KGB was not the only one to underestimate housewife spies. The same anonymity that gave these women an advantage in spycraft also led to their erasure within the CIA. Many were ...
Dyah (pronounced Dee-yah) is a Senior Author at Collider, responsible for both writing and transcription duties. She joined the website in 2022 as a Resource Writer before stepping into her current ...