The ex-wife of CIA agent Cord Meyer, Jr., Mary Pinchot Meyer, was trying to convert JFK to pacifism and was known to make wisecracks at dinner parties about what the CIA was doing in the world. Tragically, she was murdered 60 years ago while taking an afternoon jog by...
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...
Police investigation should be reopened due to evidence of foul play.
Colby made many enemies inside the Agency by revealing the “Family Jewels.” His “spooky” death 26 years ago today bore similarities to that of CIA veteran John Arthur Paisley, who disappeared on a boat off the Chesapeake Bay 18...
Thomas Merton was the most influential Catholic writer of the 20th century.
He was almost as well-known in the United States as the author Ernest Hemingway or the popular Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
He had been raised in France where his American mother and New Zealander father had met in a...
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...
Famous Black Like Me author John Howard Griffin, who was recruited under CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, appears to have played an important role in the cover-up
For five decades, the circumstances of the sudden death of the famed anti-Vietnam War monk Thomas Merton have remained cloaked in the confusion of assorted...
Series labels bona fide whistleblowers as “out of their mind” and “manipulators” when documented evidence confirms what they are saying
In late February, Netflix began airing a four-part docuseries directed by Zachary Treitz called American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders. It follows journalist Christian Hansen as he investigated the August...
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...
Vince Foster was the highest federal official to die since JFK. His death was ruled a suicide; however, strong evidence suggests that he was murdered.
Shortly after 6 p.m. on July 20, 1993, following two 911 calls, the U.S. Park Police came upon the body of Vincent W. Foster,...
“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...
