In “United States of Secrets,” a two-part series airing May 13 & 20, FRONTLINE reveals the dramatic inside story of how the U.S. government came to monitor and collect the communications of ...

Ironically, Lincoln’s authorization of the United States Secret Service would be one of his last official acts—that evening, he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while watching Our ...

Hoover started amassing secret intelligence on "enemies of the United States" — a list that included terrorists, communists, spies — or anyone Hoover or the FBI had deemed subversive. Enlarge ...

Baker was tasked with hunting down Booth, and his memoir was published in 1867 with the title, “History of the United States Secret Service. ...

Service has layers of teams that work in concert to protect POTUS. Pic credit: NGC. For the first time in the agency’s history, the Secret Service has given National Geographic Channel an ...

John Perkins talked about his book, [The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption], published by Dutton. It is a follow-up to his ...

In 1865, the United States Secret Service was founded as a branch of the U.S. Treasury. Originally, the Secret Service's mission was to combat the counterfeiting of U.S. currency.

The United States and the Taliban opened formal negotiations on January 22, 2019. The participants met in downtown Doha, in a cylindrical glass tower that houses Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.