CIA whistle-blower dies in Cuba
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A former CIA operative who became an outspoken critic of the agency has died in Cuba aged 72.
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A man formerly held in the U.S. facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was killed Wednesday in a shootout with security agents in a restive North Caucasus republic, Russia's top security agency said.
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Philip Agee, a former CIA agent who became an outspoken critic of Washington's Cuba policy, has died in a Havana hospital following ulcer surgery, state media reported Wednesday. He was 72.
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A former CIA official at the center of the controversy over destroyed interrogation videotapes has been blocked by Justice Department officials from gaining access to government records about the incident, according to sources familiar with the case.
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CAIRO, Egypt -- Abu Laith al-Libi, a top al-Qaida commander in Afghanistan who was blamed for bombing a base while Vice President Cheney was visiting last year, has been killed, according to a militant Web site.
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The CIA worked with two of the country's most-wanted criminals in a botched attempt to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro in a "gangster-type action" in the early 1960s, according to documents released by the CIA on Tuesday.
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A Cuban exile who helped lead a group that tried for decades to overthrow Cuban President Fidel Castro has died. He was 88.
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Tata Guines, Cuba's most famous percussionist, dies of a kidney infection in Havana, aged 77.
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John McLaughlin, who took temporary command of the CIA for three months this year during a wave of criticism of the spy agency, is retiring amid internal conflicts.
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On his last day in CIA custody, Marwan Jabour, an  accused al-Qaeda paymaster, was stripped naked, seated in a chair and videotaped by agency officers. Afterward, he was shackled and blindfolded, headphones were put over his ears, and he was given an injection that made him groggy. Jabour, 30, was...
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Cuba held a day of mourning Tuesday for Vilma Espin Guillois, the guerrilla who became the most powerful woman in the revolution that propelled her brother-in-law Fidel Castro to power.
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The two top officials running the CIA's clandestine service resigned this morning, following a series of clashes with director Porter J. Goss's chief of staff.
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The Mexican founder of an ultra-conservative Catholic movement who was accused of child abuse and sanctioned by the Vatican has died aged 87, his Legionaries of Christ group said on Thursday.
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A KGB master agent who ran some of  Moscow's most damaging Cold War spies in the West -- Klaus  Fuchs and the Rosenbergs -- died on Friday after a lifetime of  espionage that helped the Soviet Union acquire the nuclear  bomb.
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Philip Agee, a former CIA agent who exposed its undercover operations in Latin America in a 1975 book, died in Havana, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma said on Wednesday.
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Rosa Elena Simeon, Cuba's minister of science, technology and environment, has died, state television reported. She was 61.
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A man suspected of involvement in the abduction of three U.N. workers in Afghanistan died in custody last week and authorities are investigating whether he was tortured to death, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.