In 2001, President Clinton signed a Presidential Directive calling for a more predictive and proactive counterintelligence system. This directive was satisfied a year later with the creation of the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA). CIFA was created under a Department of Defense (DoD) directive. The DoD directive also outlined various goals and responsibilities, such as: • [...]

Post 9-11 America is a different place to the one just a decade ago. While terrorism was always a threat, and indeed a reality for citizens of the US, the Middle-East crisis brought it right to their doorstep in a form never seen before; a sustained threat that would shape politics and policing for years [...]

Ruby Ridge was a disastrous hostage rescue operation in Ruby Ridge, Idaho undertaken by FBI special agents in 1992, that would become infamous because of the death of a US Marshall, a mother and her child. In the wake of the three deaths (two innocent parties killed by federal agents) the FBI was harshly, and [...]

Steve Allen was a talented American entertainer whose skills crossed nearly all mediums. Most famous for being a television personality and talk show host; Allen was also a musician, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start during the Golden Age of radio, Allen is best-known for his television career. He was the first [...]

One week after the 9/11 attacks, America appeared to be under another attack. However, this attack was something America had never faced before. Beginning September 18, 2001, letters began to show up to various media outlets and two U.S. senators. These letters contained anthrax spores and ultimately infected 17 people and killed five others. What [...]

Many times the FBI receives calls from local law enforcement agencies for help on various cases. It is widely known that the FBI receives a lot more funding and possesses much more resources than our hometown police force. However, no matter how much funding they have or how many resources are at their fingertips, there [...]

From past articles, we know that the FBI has a long history of investigating writers, artists, and musicians of American mainstream pop culture. It seems as though that any attempt made by any entertainer to go against the societal norms of the times brought the FBI to their doorstep. It did not matter if their [...]

The Challenger shuttle completed nine missions for NASA. However, the mission is remembered mainly for the space shuttle Challenger disaster that took place on January 28, 1986. This date was when Challenger was launched for its tenth mission. However, shuttle was never able to complete its mission. Seventy-three seconds after its launch, the Challenger shuttle [...]

John Steinbeck (1902 ? 1968) was an American writer best known for his Pulitzer prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, and other works such as Of Mice and Men. He later won the Nobel Prize for Literature. However, what is not so widely known about Steinbeck is the fact that he was also investigated by [...]

In a surreal twist and an example of the current “entertainment” state of the world today, a series of Anna Chapman photos have quickly become one of the hottest topics online. Who is Anna Chapman? If you haven’t been following along, in June 2010, the FBI arrested 10 Russian spies in a dramatic event which [...]