“Frank Olson is flying and it’s a long way down” - David Clewell, “CIA in Wonderland.” In September 1994, the NBC hit show Unsolved Mysteries aired an episode on Dr. Frank Olson, a CIA biochemist at the Fort Detrick laboratory on germ warfare. Olson had supposedly jumped to his death...
On September 23, 1978, John Arthur Paisley was reported missing after he disappeared from his boat, Brillig, which was equipped with sophisticated communications equipment, in the Chesapeake Bay. Days later, Paisley’s body was identified in the bay, fitted with weighted diver’s belts around the waist....
The man Bill Clinton called “one of the greatest leaders of our time” has admitted that many of his opponents “tend to die.” In the early morning hours of January 18, Rwandan journalist John Williams Ntwali died in a road accident. According to the senior police superintendent in Kigali, Ntwali...
In popular lore, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, was the first lone deranged gunman—preceding Lee Harvey Oswald. A stage actor from a famous theatrical family from Maryland and Confederate sympathizer who was as “handsome as a Greek God,” Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head...
On August 10, 2019, Mark Epstein was eating breakfast at a hotel in Norfolk, Virginia, when he saw a breaking news story on CNN that his older brother, Jeffrey, had supposedly committed suicide while awaiting trial at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan. Mark is a...
Suspicion lingers that he was killed with the assistance of the CIA or other Western intelligence services when he began to question U.S. regional designs in the aftermath of the 1990s Balkan Wars. The right of humanitarian intervention, if it exists as a category in international law, is premised...
The Octopus Murders docuseries about the suspicious death of journalist Danny Casolaro in August 1991 has caused quite the sensation since it was released February 28 on Netflix. Casolaro’s goal to uncover “the Octopus”—a cabal of CIA and Mafia figures who corrupted American government—was so all-consuming that it enveloped his...
“Frank Olson is flying and it’s a long way down” - David Clewell, “CIA in Wonderland.” In September 1994, the NBC hit show Unsolved Mysteries aired an episode on Dr. Frank Olson, a CIA biochemist at the Fort Detrick laboratory on germ warfare. Olson had supposedly jumped to his death...
Loose-lipped pillow talk may have sealed the fate of the sex goddess who had affairs with both Bobby and John. Mafia Godfather Sam Giancana Claims to Have ordered the Hit and Tried to Frame Bobby Kennedy Who Had Been at Marilyn's House The Day of Her Killing Trying to...
A Noted Swedish Historian Interviews the Author of a New Book on Palme In October of 1972, National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger reached a tentative peace agreement with North Vietnamese diplomat Le Duc Tho. No matter that this agreement would become official the following January, President Richard M. Nixon...