For over two years we have been told Putin’s Russia has interfered with the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. We now find the U.S. government has decided it can unilaterally invalidate the actual presidential elections in Venezuela and recognize a person of its choosing as president. This is one more...
Billy Waugh Says He Wrote Recommendation to Drop Them on Mu Gia Pass Along Ho Chi Minh Trail on the North Vietnam-Laos Border
He and other Special Forces operatives planned to parachute a nuclear device into area behind enemy lines and then detonate it
Told General Vo Nguyen Giap’s son in...
On September 18th 1947, the main provisions of the National Security Act of 1947 went into effect. One of these was the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency, perhaps the most infamous part of the US national security state. While we pay a lot of attention these days to digital surveillance and the agencies that focus on signals intelligence like the National Security Agency and National Reconnaissance office, the CIA has and continues to play a crucial role in establishing and maintaining global US hegemony via human intelligence as well as through its covert actions, including coups, terrorism and sabotage...
Investigating a possible link between the cold murder cases in the Antelope Valley of Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Aujay
Sprawling poppy fields, aerospace, and secret military bases, California’s Antelope Valley is known for these landmarks. Over the past decades, the Antelope Valley became...
The 2024 Netflix documentary American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders has been nominated for three Emmy Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) nominated the four-part series in the following categories:
Outstanding Lighting Direction
Outstanding Investigative Documentary
Outstanding Documentary
The Emmy Awards for News and Documentaries are scheduled to be held...
William H. Blum
1933 - 2018
William Blum died in Virginia early this morning on December 9, 2018. He was surrounded by friends and family after falling in his Washtington D.C. apartment and sustaining serious wounds 65 days ago. He was 85 years old.
Bill was born March 6, 1933 at Beth Moses...
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...
Armenia is another battleground of the new cold war
In July 2022, CIA Director William Burns made a surprise visit to Yerevan in Armenia. He was there officially to support his Agency’s financing of “non-profit organizations” whose stated purpose is to “spread democratic values.”
The United States Agency for International Development...
Disinformation artists have repeatedly misled the public in order to demonize American enemies and support more war
President Donald Trump on his first day in office revoked the security clearances of all 51 former CIA officers who had signed an open letter in 2020 claiming that the contents of the...
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 --...
