As a Russian referred to as Merlin arrived in Vienna, his whole body trembled. For months, he had been telling his handlers that someone was trying to get into his emails, and he was worried for his ...

Jeffrey Sterling, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, was convicted Monday for leaking classified information about a secret operation to foil Iran’s nuclear program to a New York Times ...

Operation Merlin was a secret CIA plan to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program by feeding it flawed weapons designs. Instead, the ...

The leak trial of CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling never got near a smoking gun, but the entire circumstantial case was a smokescreen. Prosecutors were hell-bent on torching the defendant to vindicate ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — In early 2000, the U.S. government pinned its hopes for disrupting Iran”s nuclear ambitions on a Russian emigre working for the CIA who was tooling around Vienna looking to ...

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Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to a three and half years in prison on Monday for leaking the details of a secret mission to impede Iran’s nuclear program. Sterling leaked the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — In early 2000, the U.S. government pinned its hopes for disrupting Iran’s nuclear ambitions on a Russian emigre working for the CIA who was tooling around Vienna looking to ...