In 1971, a classified film capsule from the KH-9 Hexagon spy satellite sank 16,400 feet into the Pacific Ocean, triggering an unprecedented underwater recovery operation that tested the limits of Cold ...

Mr. Deighton wrote some 20 spy novels, including "The Ipcress File," and more than a dozen works of nonfiction as well as ...

His Cold War thrillers “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin” brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre.

In the hours after the first US and Israeli attacks on Iran, with the world’s attention focused on the conflict, a group of ...

British writer Len Deighton, who has died at 97, created the sardonic working-class spy played by Michael Caine in the 1965 Cold War film "The Ipcress File".

The late spy novelist had a knack for Cold War satire and believable detail, with fans from Anthony Burgess to Quentin ...

Historian Tim Weiner on how ideology is the enemy of intelligence, not just for Trump in Iran but for every American president.

Gary Oldman appeared in this thriller long before leading Apple TV's Slow Horses, and it shows how well‑suited he already was ...

SafeHouse has earned its place as a Milwaukee institution through consistency and quality. The fact that it’s remained ...

The CIA tried to train cat spies. It didn't go well. Here’s the scene: A man wearing a trench coat and a fedora sits on a ...

In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, during, and after the Cold War reconnaissance ...

The two Captain Jim Nicholson thrillers written by Robert Barr are the classic BBC Radio 4 espionage serials from the late 1960s and early 1970s, produced during the height of the Cold War.