In the 1970s, the CIA engineered the Insectothopter, a groundbreaking mini UAV designed as a covert listening device. Modeled ...
The company, Crypto AG, was acquired by the CIA at the height of the Cold War. Through a classified partnership with West Germany's spy agency, the CIA designed Crypto AG's encryption devices in a ...
On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a CIA U-2 spy plane and captured its pilot ... for carrier operations by beefing up its landing gear and adding an arresting hook, among other changes.