Towing the line between diplomat and intelligence agent, Burns's trips to the region are shrouded under a cloak of mystery. CIA Director William J. Burns departs a classified briefing with members ...

The CIA is developing plans to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign pledges to get tough on Mexico’s drug cartels, but ...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe plans to apply counterterrorism methodologies developed over the past two decades to operations ...

William J. Burns, who served as CIA director under Biden, requested that the agency’s analysts take a position on covid’s origins one way or the other — without specifying which scenario ...

The “reassessment” was actually carried out by the agency at the instruction of Biden’s CIA Director William J. Burns, but the results were not made public until Ratcliffe gave the instruction.

The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) announced The Honorable William J. Burns, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Career Ambassador, will receive the organization ...

The possible purge of officers working on recruiting and diversity comes as the agency moves to comply with the spirit of an executive order banning efforts to diversify the federal work force.

Marc Fogel, an American teacher who was deemed wrongfully detained by Russia, has been released in what the White House ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead America’s premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval.

Mr. Ratcliffe, in turn, pledged to build on the efforts of William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director under President Joseph R. Biden Jr., to create a China center and increase the budget for ...