Just like their Snowden-exposed colleagues at the NSA, the CIA is storing data in bulk that includes personal and financial information about American citizens. According to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the CIA has built a giant database of international money transfers handled by companies like Western Union, including transactions to and from the United States.

As part of a voluntary contract, the CIA pays AT&T more than $10 million per year for access to the company's giant database of international phone records, which includes information on Americans, according to a report in the New York Times.

Edward Snowden, last seen grocery shopping in Russia, received a derogatory report in 2009 when he worked at the CIA, where his supervisor suspected him of attempting to access classified files to which he did not have security clearance.

Three months after President Obama authorized the order, Syrian rebels have received their first shipment of weapons from the CIA. According to the Washington Post, the deliveries of light, “trackable” weapons began two weeks ago, along with vehicles, communications equipment and other non-lethal aid from the State Department.

A new leak from former security contractor Edward Snowden, published in the Washington Post, reveals the "black budget"—the money spent on the U.S. government's intelligence-gathering operations—for 2013. And it's colossal: A total of $52.6 billion, covering the CIA, the NSA and lesser-known agencies like the National Reconnaissance Office.

The CIA is reportedly going to unprecedented measures to halt its operatives from speaking to the press or Congress about its role in Benghazi, Libya. According to a CNN report, the agency is holding monthly polygraph tests and using intimidation with its operatives involved in Benghazi at the time of last year's September 11 attacks. Though little is known about what the agency was doing, the CIA is intent on silencing any information about its role. One source said:

It's Christmas-time in conspiracy-land as it's been revealed that the CIA will be funding a $630,000 study into whether the government could control the weather and stop global climate change.

A federal appeals court has ruled that New York Times reporter James Risen must testify in the case of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer currently on trial for allegedly leaking classified information. Risen has vowed to go to jail, if necessary, to protect his sources.

Four years after being convicted in absentia of the abduction of Egyptian-born cleric and accused terrorist Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, Robert Seldon Lady, formerly the CIA's Milan station chief, was arrested in Panama.

A first-time adjunct professor teaching a full course load at the City University of New York can expect to pull in around $25,000 per year. If you recently resigned as C.I.A. director over a long-time affair with your biographer, however, you can expect to be paid eight times as much for a fraction of the work.

A newly released 2011 report from the CIA's inspector general reveals that the CIA embedded four officers inside the NYPD's intelligence division after 9/11. The CIA, of course, is not allowed to spy on Americans. And they didn't, according to the CIA!

The surest sign yet, if you needed one, that President Obama's nominee for the CIA's number-two position is a middle-of-the-road D.C. establishment choice: She used to run an erotica reading night at a bookstore.

CIA deputy director Michael Morell has resigned. He will be replaced by President Obama’s deputy counsel and agency outsider Avril D. Haines.

Edward Snowden, a former CIA technical assistant and current employee of the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, which assigned him to work for the NSA, has revealed himself as the leaker behind the documents this week that showed the extent of spying that the NSA does on American citizens.

According to NBC News, the CIA didn't always know who it was targeting with its drone strikes in Pakistan. Roughly 25 percent of those killed over a 14-month period were listed as “other militants,” meaning the CIA wasn't sure how the person killed was affiliated with terrorist organizations, if they were at all.

New evidence shows that the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda may have been murdered by a CIA double agent, according to the Associated Press. The American agent was working for the CIA in Chile when he was recruited by DINA, Augusto Pinochet's secret police.

Two health-care workers were shot yesterday, one fatally, in Peshawar, Pakistan, leading the World Health Organization to suspend polio vaccinations there. Though no one has reportedly taken credit for the attack, it fits with an ongoing anti-vaccination terror campaign by the Pakistani Taliban, which believes health workers are agents of a western conspiracy. This belief is unfortunately not untrue.

Russia's Federal Security Service has detained an American citizen who is being accused of trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer to work for the CIA.

The day after it was announced that the interim head of the CIA's National Clandestine Service had been passed over for the full time position because of her connections to the agency's controversial interrogation program, her successor was reportedly outed on Twitter by former Washington Post assistant editor John Dinges and then confirmed by veteran intelligence reporter Jeff Stein. According to Dinges, the new head of the program will be Francis “Frank” Archibald, a former station chief in Latin America.

Today in True Historical Misadventures of the CIA: the time they tried to turn a cat into a spy.