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 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...
A full investigation is needed into his and other deaths that paved the way for right-wing ascendancy and devastation of America’s working class
On May 9, 1970, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Walter Reuther was killed, along with his wife May and five other people, after the private jet they...
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 January 31, New York City councilman Robert Holden wrote a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg calling for reopening of the investigation into the death of Dorothy Kilgallen.
Described by Ernest Hemingway as “one of the greatest women writers in the world,” Kilgallen was a regular on the...
Pink Floyd Star Declared “Enemy of Ukraine”
I have written about the Ukrainian hit list known as Mirotvorets, or “Peacekeeper,” twice before. The first time was in an article about internet censorship, and the second time was when a 13-year-old Ukrainian girl, Faina Savenkova, was added to the list for publicly speaking out against Kyiv’s...
Will reopening what now appears to be the deliberately covered-up murder of Secretary James Forrestal implicate the CIA?
“He was brought before his timeTo Arlington to reside.Now, at last, the truth is known:It wasn’t from suicide.”David Martin, “Forrestal’s Resting Place in History.”
On May 22, 1949, just before 2:00 a.m., America’s...
Powerful new evidence of a government-abetted conspiracy has prompted King family members to demand a reopening of the investigation into his murder.
Everyone knows that James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King, Jr., right? The U.S. government says so. All the school textbooks say so. And it is enshrined...
Serious investigations into Palme’s murder point to complicity of right-wing Swedish government officials and possibly the CIA
February 28, 2026, marks 40 years since Prime Minister Olof Palme of Sweden left his home to see the film The Brothers Mozart and never came back.
As Palme walked home with his wife...
“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...
