In theory, anything can happen in EVE Online, but some things are considered impossible. Well, last month, one of the “impossible” things happened: The destruction of the game’s first-ever Keepstar battlestation, which was kept in a wormhole. Of course, it took 11 months of meticulous planning. By Lee Yancy.

Former President George H.W. Bush claimed to have trouble remembering where he was when John F. Kennedy was shot — in Bush’s own state. Helping refresh Bush 41’s memory leads in some fascinating directions. By Russ Baker.

A brilliant American financier and his exotic wife build a lavish mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a compelling mystery. By Ned Zeman. (May 7, 2013)

In recent years, Iran has projected its power across the Middle East, from Lebanon and Syria to Iraq and Yemen. One of the keys to its success has been a unique strategy of blending militant and state power, built in part on the model of Hezbollah in Lebanon. The acknowledged principal architect of this policy is Major General Qassem Soleimani, the long-serving head of Iran’s Quds (“Jerusalem”) Force. Without question, Soleimani is the most powerful general in the Middle East today; he is also one of Iran’s most popular living people, and has been repeatedly touted as a possible presidential candidate. By Ali Soufan.

When flying in and out of Las Vegas, keep your eyes open for the white 737s with the red stripe. They are ferrying unnamed people to very secret locations, doing very secret things. By Howard Slutsken.

In 1978, I went to Guyana on a fact-finding mission. By the time I returned, more than 900 people died. I was almost one of them. By Jackie Speier.

An undercover federal agent behind a massive sting operation that took down dozens of gun-runners and drug-dealers tells all. By Frank Dalesio, as told to Mike Kessler.

Intelligence agencies, Nikki Haley, sanctions, and public opinion. By Stephen F. Cohen.

Getting to the bottom of the Jamal Khashoggi disappearance is a bit like peeling an onion. By Philip Giraldi.

Andrei Nekrasov [Trailer free, full film paywalled]

The number of informants executed in the debacle is higher than initially thought. By Zach Dorfman.

“They said it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country and yet no justice was ever done for my wounded brother." By Paul Szoldra.

In August 1976, North Korean soldiers hacked two U.S. officers to death with axes in the DMZ. The world teetered on the brink of WWIII as America plotted revenge—by cutting down a poplar tree. The bizarre true story of Operation Paul Bunyan. By Josh Dean.

Ray McGovern

A leading cybersecurity company has just released a report covering the world’s largest multi-billion dollar cybercrime empire, and they’re not what you might expect. By Alex Kimani.

How America and Britain crushed the government of their 'ally,' Australia. By John Pilger. (Oct. 23, 2014)

Make no mistake: Hacking the 2016 election was an act of war. It’s time we responded accordingly. By Mark Hertling, Molly K. McKew.

How Might China Use Stolen OPM Records to Target Trust? By Ian Brown.

On Spy Fiction. The spy novel departs from its social-realist cousins, even the police procedural: crime gathers a large web of social interactions; espionage remains sealed off from the world at large. Cause and effect do not ramify outward, in horizontal networks; they move from big, those cold brains in a small room, to little, in a vertical cascade. The answer is inside, but it is also obvious, a purloined letter too large for any other genre’s frame. By Nicholas Dames.

Far from the top-secret, covert intelligence asset the FBI has depicted him as, Stefan Halper is a long-time, well-known CIA operative with ties to the Bush family and a shady past. By Glenn Greenwald.