Central Intelligence Agency

• 6 Takeaways on the Unwinding U.S.-Ukraine Alliance - A Times investigation reveals the inside story of the Trump administration’s chaotic push for a peace deal and its erratic role in the war.
• The C.I.A. Strike on Venezuela: What to Know - The drone attack, said to be on a dock where drugs were being prepared for loading on boats, represented a further escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against Nicolás Maduro.
• C.I.A. Strikes Inside Venezuela, and U.S. Tells U.N. Agencies to ‘Adapt, Shrink or Die’ - Plus, the mountain climbing brothers trying to rewrite the world’s maps.
• C.I.A. Conducted Drone Strike on Port in Venezuela - The attack last week, on a dock purportedly used for shipping narcotics, did not kill anyone, people briefed on the operation said. But it was the first known U.S. operation inside Venezuela.
• The Crucial Lesson of a Forgotten Nixon-Era Episode - After my father-in-law died, we found something interesting in his files.
• Eugene Hasenfus, Gunrunner Who Exposed Iran-Contra Plot, Dies at 84 - He emerged out of obscurity when his cargo plane was shot down while illegally ferrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels, setting off a scandal that tarnished the Reagan and Bush White Houses.