Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is Alleged to Have Coordinated CIA Drug Trafficking Network in Southeast Asia that Financed Black Operations
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The New York Times and other obituaries predictably left this out
Richard Armitage, the number two official at the State Department from 2001 to 2005, died on April 13.
The New York Times and other obituaries emphasized that Armitage was a Naval Academy graduate and Bronze Star recipient...
Part I in a two-part series
In December, the rapid fall of the Syrian government to Western-backed jihadists stunned the world and sparked a wide range of reactions amid the fallout. Unsurprisingly, the collective West was quick to celebrate the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, a long-time U.S. foreign policy objective...
October Surprise: CIA Director William Casey Committed Treason to Help Ronald Reagan Win the 1980 Election
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Ronald Reagan is heralded by conservatives today as a heroic figure who rejuvenated American society after the malaise of the 1970s.
Reagan’s worshippers, however, fail to acknowledge the rise of massive inequality in the 1980s, Reagan’s support for death squad operations in Central America, and the fact that Reagan only...
Tom Cotton As New Head of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Is Frank Church’s Worst Nightmare
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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...
Relaunching CovertAction Magazine: Interview with Lou Wolf of CovertAction Magazine, CovertAction Quarterly & CovertAction Information Bulletin
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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...
Head of CIA Cold War Propaganda Offensive Was An Ideological Zealot Who Got Countless People Killed in Futile Covert Operations
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Frank Wisner was a CIA legend from the early Cold War era who earned the nickname “the Mighty Wurlitzer” for his ability to supposedly orchestrate covert operations with the precision and intricacy of a symphony maestro.
Wisner, however, got countless of his own agents killed running infiltration missions behind the...
The CIA’s Goal is to Create a “Depleted Population of Compliant Zombies” So a Narrow Capitalist Elite Can Rob and Exploit, According to former Carter White House Official and...
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Richard C. Cook is a retired U.S. federal analyst who served with the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury and as an aide to U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH).
He has just published a thoughtful book, Our Country Then and Now, which provides a sweeping economic history of...
In August 2025, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) ruled that the perennial lawsuit filed by the families of 9/11 victims against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) can finally proceed to trial.
The landmark decision renewed interest into the widely suspected Saudi role in...
Just over a year ago we reported on Chanda Creasy, a courageous yoga coach, who had previously managed to work with militants in Africa, making her way up to the position of special assistant to CIA director on global operations. Recently, we found new details of Chanda’s trip to...









