CIA Refuses to Release Report From Plane Crash Sixty Years Ago that Claimed Life of Vietnam Counterinsurgency Specialist and Whistleblower
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
James B. Wells is a retired criminal justice professor at Eastern Kentucky University who was nine years old on September 27, 1965, when he received the terrible news that his father Jack had died in a small plane crash in Bao Tri, some ten kilometers southwest of Cu Chi,...
Relaunching CovertAction Magazine: Interview with Lou Wolf of CovertAction Magazine, CovertAction Quarterly & CovertAction Information Bulletin
David Giglio - 0
David Giglio of Our Hidden History interviews Louis Wolf on the relaunch of CovertAction Magazine.
Appointment of Abrams to Public Diplomacy Commission Shows President Biden’s Close Ties to the CIA
In September 1998, Desiree A. Ferdinand gave a sworn deposition, in a case filed with the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, detailing the career of her father, Colonel Albert V. Carone, an army intelligence officer...
With the confirmation of Gina Haspel as CIA director, there’s rightfully great interest in her record regarding torture. Contrary to the rhetoric--and with barely a word about the utility of torture in rigging the case for the Iraq invasion--the actual ends of torture are incredibly worse than the gruesome means.
Of course, there...
Was Liberal Activist Allard Lowenstein—a NYC Congressman Who Headed “Dump Johnson” Movement in 1968 and Investigated Robert Kennedy’s Assassination—a CIA Asset?
Gregg Wager - 0
The name Allard Lowenstein (1929-1980) may not mean too much to political activists today, but in the 1960s and 1970s he was a well-known liberal figure associated with many of the progressive causes of the day.
For this reason, it would come as something of a shock to many of...
David Wise: Best-seller Journalist and Historian—Author of “The Invisible Government”—dead at 88
Louis Wolf and David Giglio - 0
David Wise--the prize-winning journalist and author who in 1964 co-wrote one of the first best-selling history books critical of the CIA--passed away on October 8th, 2018, in Washington, DC. He was 88.
Co-written with fellow journalist Thomas B. Ross, The Invisible Government became a best-seller with its revelations of --...
Class of 2018 CIA/Pentagon Democrats Continue to Advance Hawkish Policies in Congress
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 2
In March 2018, Patrick Martin of the World Socialist Web Site published a political pamphlet entitled “The CIA Democrats.”
In it, he wrote that “an extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National Security Council and State Department” were “seeking nomination as Democratic candidates for...
CIA-Linked Terrorist Released by ICE After Serving Only Four Months—Around the Same Time He Spent in Prison for Coordinating Notorious Car Bombing Attack
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 2
While thousands of people languish in the ICE gulag under abhorrent conditions and are kidnapped off American streets and subject to deportation, a CIA-linked foreign terrorist is being given preferential treatment in a stark reflection of the double standard and corruption of the U.S. criminal justice system.
On July 16,...
Tom Cotton As New Head of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Is Frank Church’s Worst Nightmare
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
The arch neo-conservative wants the CIA to become “bolder and more innovative in covert action”
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was established in the late 1970s as a watchdog designed to ensure greater transparency for CIA operations in the wake of the 1975-76 Church Committee hearings.
The Church Committee...
The CIA likes to fashion itself as a heroic agency that helps to protect national security and uphold democracy around the world.
However, Hugh Wilford’s book, The CIA: An Imperial History (Basic Books, 2024), shows that the CIA draws directly from British and French colonial precedents, and adopts the same...









