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

Growing up, John Smith knew his grandfather as a serious academic — a bespectacled professor at the University of Maryland who wrote books on pre-Civil War presidents. He also knew E.B. Smith ...

A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency ...

History buffs have uncovered revelations about U.S. espionage in the 1960s in thousands of pages of newly released government ...

Papers newly released by President Donald Trump show Lloyd Neck resident and former CIA director Allen Dulles had a pivotal ...

According to the unredacted files, Sir Charles Spry, the director-general of ASIO at the time, wrote to his CIA counterpart, ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The Trump administration’s unveiling Tuesday of more than 2,000 ...

“The CIA had Oswald ... drew criticism from a Kennedy grandson, Jack Schlossberg. In a post on X, Schlossberg said the Trump administration did not notify family members before the records ...

An initial AP review of more than 63,000 pages of records released this week found some new details about covert CIA operations, particularly in Cuba.

An intelligence agent who performed special assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) claimed that the agency was "responsible" for the death of President John F. Kennedy. A memo ...

Unredacted text of a June 1961 memo on the CIA -- sent to Kennedy by aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. -- contained harsh criticism of the spy agency just months after its backing of the ill-fated Bay ...

Kennedy has ... even from close family members. Some families are learning for the first time how parents, grandfathers or spouses participated in American spycraft - as a CIA informant gathering ...