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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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