After 2008's Ghost, the bestselling memoir of his early career as a State Department counterterrorism agent, Fred Burton turned his attention to an unsolved murder.

On a July night in 1973, in the quiet suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, Israeli military attaché Joe Alon parked his Ford Galaxie 500 in...

The Huffington Post's editorial team thought readers might be interested in the pressures of following up a bestselling novel with a sequel.

Initially there was relatively little pressure on me. My book, Once a Spy was hardly To Kill a Mockingbird.

Also, when the publisher, Doubleday, advanced the idea of...

Last year, more than 50,000 users logged onto Intrade, the world's largest prediction market site, to bet on "markets" ranging from elections to the Academy Awards. Currently the most popular market is the prospective fall of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, garnering close to $100,000 in wagers. Markets...

This is a true story. Amidst widespread accounts of Mossad-controlled spy vultures, weaponized sharks and jellyfish, Palestinian media have accused Israel of loosing genetically engineered rodents against Jerusalem's Arab population.

According to Palestinian daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, "efforts to counter this infestation have failed, especially since...

On Saturday, the Austin-based private global intelligence company Stratfor shared reconnaissance satellite imagery of the Egyptian military securing protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo.

Stratfor added DigitalGlobe aerial photographs of other areas of strategic importance in Egypt.

The resulting video (below) includes commentary by Stratfor...

Recently, a diverse group of New York City high school students was assigned to write reports on Martin Luther King, Jr. Searching the Internet, several students learned that the renowned civil rights leader had in fact been a drunken philandering con man. Others concluded that the federal holiday marking King's...

True story: Early this week, a griffon vulture flew across the Israeli border and into Saudi Arabia, where it was captured on suspicion of espionage. Local authorities found a GPS transmitter on the bird as well as a leg bracelet emblazoned with TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY. Despite claims by...

In October 2009 Toronto-based artist Josh Chalom, 51, first entered the Guinness Book of World Records with a 17-by-8.5-foot depiction of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" rendered entirely in three-inch Rubik's Cubes--4,050 Rubik's cubes, to be exact, all "solved." The piece was a mere coaster compared to Chalom's latest...

Things in our house like to break on holidays, when repair services are unavailable, leaving the work to us. When a faucet got into the act recently, I looked to DoItYourself.com and read the following first step: "To repair the leak, first turn off the water."

With a...

A top professional horseplayer once told me that compared to handicapping horse races, elections were a cakewalk. "You're better off listening to a gambler than a pollster," he said, "Polls can be inaccurate. Gamblers are accurate or they lose."

There's considerable evidence that he was on the money. In 2004,...

I recently interviewed FBI agents who had caught a Toledo couple smuggling funds to Hezbollah. The couple's method -- hiding $600,000 in cash within custom-made running boards on a used Chevy Trailblazer intended to be shipped overseas -- astonished me. As smuggling goes, however, it was pedestrian, especially compared to...

Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's book, Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan -- and the Path to Victory, was due to be published by St. Martin's Press on Aug. 31. It's not out yet. In an effort to contain classified information brought to light by...

In 1921, die-hard monarchists in Moscow began joining an underground group called the Trust, devoted to ousting the Bolsheviks from power. In the years that followed, the Trust grew, with agents penetrating the new government as far as Lenin's innermost circle. Victory was just a matter of time, it seemed....

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rattled a new saber this week, his country's first domestically built unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, a.k.a. "drone"), the Karrar (Farsi for "striker"). Ahmadinejad dubbed it the "Ambassador of Death."

Depending on the mission, according to the Iranian Defense Ministry, the 13-foot-long, remotely-piloted aircraft can deliver...

In the world of spy vs. spy, where nothing is as it seems, it's difficult to evaluate anything, especially last week's swap. What if the Keystone Spies act was just an act? Or meant to divert the FBI from a competent and successful operation?

Or say the Russian spies,...

On Thursday, a pair of 60-foot shrimpers tugged a specialized, U-shaped boom through a 10,000-square-foot oil slick -- "pudding," they call the oil -- ten miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig. When ignited, the boom transformed the oil into a roaring mass of flames as high as...

Earlier this week, a Gulf-oil-coated brown pelican was found in Mobile, Alabama, and taken to the nearby Theodore Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, where workers attempted to treat it.

The hour-long cleaning process, using warm water and diluted Dawn dishwashing liquid, is shown in the following two-minute video, courtesy of...

"When I was eighteen and read Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler, the desire to write a private eye novel was firmly planted in my soul," says Thomas Kaufman.

Kaufman went on to USC, studying writing as well as film. After his 1981 graduation, camera work not only sustained him,...

In 1991, Chicago's Comiskey Park became a parking lot (for the new Comiskey Park). Thus Birmingham, Alabama's Rickwood Field, which turns 100 this season, earned the distinction of America's Oldest Professional Baseball Stadium. The home of both Birmingham's Barons and the Black Barons of the Negro Leagues had essentially stood...

Unlike Iran, which last Friday celebrated its annual National Nuclear Day, Israel tends not to rattle a new saber, at least until unsheathing it for use in battle. Take the Scout, essentially the Model T of the current generation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, a.k.a. drones). The system...