William Wan

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Ben Brasch |Jonathan Edwards |William Wan

Some families are learning for the first time how parents, grandfathers or spouses participated in American spycraft - as a CIA informant gathering intelligence on Fidel Castro’s supporters, a field agent planting bugs at a Chinese agency, a scholar extracting morsels of intelligence from a Soviet official. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.

1 month ago | estadao.com.br | Ben Brasch |Jonathan Edwards |William Wan

Crescendo, John Smith conhecia seu avô como um acadêmico sério — um professor de óculos na Universidade de Maryland que escrevia livros sobre presidentes anteriores à Guerra Civil. Ele também sabia que E.B. Smith havia viajado pelo mundo em sua juventude. O que ele não sabia até esta semana era que seu avô já tinha sido um agente do governo dos EUA, fornecendo informações da era soviética para a CIA (Agência Central de Inteligência dos Estados Unidos, na sigla em inglês).

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Ben Brasch |Jonathan Edwards |William Wan

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 had traveled the world in his younger years. What he didn’t know until this week is that his grandfather had once been a U.S. government asset, feeding Soviet-era intelligence to the CIA. The Trump administration’s release of more than 77,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination of President John F.

1 month ago | adn.com | William Wan |Aaron Schaffer |Clara Ence Morse |Cat Zakrzewski

After the Social Security numbers of more than 400 former congressional staffers and others were made public in files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the White House acknowledged the breach Thursday and worked to mitigate the harm.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Maeve Reston |William Wan |Aaron Schaffer |Clara Ence Morse |Cat Zakrzewski |Alex Horton | +2 more

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are scheduled to deliver remarks Friday morning from the Oval Office. The White House has not advertised the subject matter. Before the joint appearance, Elon Musk is scheduled to receive a briefing by Defense Department leaders focused on the threat posed by China and the billionaire’s work to slash the U.S. government bureaucracy, people familiar with the matter said.