EXCLUSIVE: The new mandate at Focus Features seems to be commercial fare with meaty roles. Here’s a deal made before this week’s shakeup that fits that bill. Focus acquired screen rights to Circle Of ...

James Woolsey has spent a tumultuous 19 months as CIA director. From his office at agency headquarters in Langley, Va., he talked exclusively with NEWSWEEK'S Douglas Waller last week about the Aldrich ...

Jodie Whittaker (left) plays CIA officer Sandy Grimes, who helped bust spy Aldrich Ames (Paul Rhys, right) in 1985. ABC ABC is offering an antidote for “Scandal” fans missing their weekly rush during ...

The CIA mole-catcher's memoir that inspired ABC's The Assets, the espionage miniseries debuting on January 2, has just one brief mention of the National Security Agency - and it's not very flattering.

No one misses the Cold War except maybe Vladimir Putin and Hollywood film and TV creators, but it’s easy to see why the second group feels nostalgia. Protracted tension between the U.S. and the Soviet ...

Fact-based story about a 1990s espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in U.S. history. Aldrich Ames (Timothy Hutton) was a middle class C.I.A. Agent, whose problems with ...

Timothy Hutton has long been on a professional losing streak, contributing embarrassingly over-the-top performances to such uninspired recent fare as Money Kings, The General's Daughter, and Playing ...

In April 1985, a veteran CIA agent named Aldrich Ames, who at 44 was in financial straits and disillusioned with the agency’s internal politics, walked into the Soviet embassy in downtown Washington ...

What makes spy novels fun to read is that there usually is a good guy who goes up against the bad guy. Unfortunately for author David Wise, there is no good guy in the true story of CIA turncoat ...

Jeanne Vertefeuille joined the Central Intelligence Agency as a typist in 1954 and then began inching up through the ranks, obtaining postings overseas. By 1986 she had become a midlevel expert on the ...

‘THE ASSETS’ provides an engaging look into the high-stakes world of international espionage. Less obviously, it also serves as a potentially valuable experiment in the high-stakes world of prime-time ...

It has been a long time since the Cold War crumbled to dust, making a small mockery of decades of mutually assured paranoia. Those nuclear arsenals, those drop drills, those bad dreams — what were ...