Yesterday, four-star general David Petraeus resigned from his position as director of the CIA, citing a serious indiscretion, “After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.” Now it turns out that the other woman was his biographer, Paula Broadwell, and an FBI investigation had found evidence of the affair. Further, Broadwell may have tried to hack into his email! The Wasnington Post reports, “The affair…

Beware, D.C.: those crafty Iranians may well be spying on you.

Have you ever wanted to make really good invisible ink? Well, the Central Intelligence Agency has a reliable recipe it’s now happy to share. As part of a large declassification of the U.S. government’s six oldest classified documents, the CIA has made publicly available a number of tips sure to amaze your six-year-old nephew, like how to make invisible ink and how to open envelopes without breaking the seal.

The United States and Russia went back to the future this morning, trading ten uncovered Russian deep-cover agents — including three based in Arlington — for four Americans who were being held in Moscow under similar accusations. The whole deal went down in about an hour and a half on a remote tarmac at Vienna’s Schwechat Airport. The Wall Street Journal’s got all you need to know about the complaints lodged against the deported Russians,…