CIA tried to get Mafia to kill Castro: documents
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The CIA worked with three American mobsters in a botched "gangster-type" attempt to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s, according to documents released by the CIA on Tuesday.
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Blog: The CIA posts hundreds of pages of internal documents, plus another 11,000 pages of research.
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Cuba's Fidel Castro says CIA admissions of illicit Cold War tactics disguise the fact the US is still using them.
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The CIA official who gave the command to destroy interrogation videotapes apparently acted against the direction of his superiors
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The CIA ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005 to interrogate al-Qaida suspects, a European investigator said Friday, detailing harsh treatment that included months of solitary confinement, shackling and sleep deprivation.
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A Milan judge on Friday ordered 26 Americans, most of them thought to be CIA agents, to stand trial with Italian spies for the kidnapping in 2003 of a terrorism suspect, who was flown to Egypt where he says he was tortured.
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A large anti-Mafia operation  involving arrests in Italy and the United States was under way  on Thursday, judicial sources in Sicily said.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A former literature student and karate instructor aided and financed a deadly al-Qaida splinter group, say newly released documents from Canada's spy agency.
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FBI agents working in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, tried repeatedly over the past two years to distance themselves from aggressive military interrogation tactics that they feared could damage future terrorism prosecutions, newly released documents show.
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The CIA is to make public hundreds of documents about some of its worst abuses from the 1950s to 1970s.
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Jailed Mafia boss Joseph Massino secretly recorded his successor plotting the assassination of a federal prosecutor, becoming the first head of a New York Mafia family known to have turned government informant, sources familiar with the case said Thursday.
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It was certainly a marriage of convenience. After Fidel Castro led a revolution that toppled a friendly government in 1959, the CIA was desperate to eliminate him. So the agency sought out a partner equally worried about Castro -- the Mafia, which had lucrative investments in Cuban casinos.
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Official lists of those who collaborated with the communist-era secret police are published.
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The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency knew dissident military officers were planning a coup in 2002 against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, according to purported U.S. intelligence documents posted on the Internet.
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Agency publishes secret documents detailing plot as 702 pages reveal illegal activities up to 1973.
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In terrorism investigations, the F.B.I. obtained data not only on the person it was targeting but also details on his or her contacts, bureau documents indicate.
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A batch of old documents linked to the slaying of President John F. Kennedy has reportedly been unearthed, including a highly suspect transcript of a conversation between assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald's killer Jack Ruby, the Dallas Morning News said on Sunday.