On the morning of September 21, 1976, a car bomb took the lives of Orlando Letelier, Minister of Foreign Relations and Ambassador to the U.S. under Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende (1970-1973), and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a 25-year-old fundraiser for the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a left-wing think-tank...
The assassin was in the pay of a police general trained by the CIA who functioned as the hatchet man of another CIA asset. On April 1, 1963, Quinim Pholsena, Laos’s Foreign Minister and head of the “Peace and Neutrality” party, was shot and killed as he walked up...
Evidence from Martinsburg, West Virginia, Police report contradicts claims of popular Netflix series On August 10, 1991, Danny Casolaro, a Fairfax, Virginia-based journalist who was writing a book on a massive CIA corruption scheme that started with the theft of computer software, was found dead lying in a tub...
The Assassination Program Bears Parallels With the Vietnam Phoenix Program and Israeli Mossad Operations Targeting Palestinians On September 9th, The Economist ran a remarkable story entitled “Ukraine’s Assassination Programme: Its Agents Have Become Expert in Dark Revenge.” It spotlighted how the Ukrainian Security Services (SBU)’s Fifth Directorate and Special Operations Forces...
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...
Hunt Was Among Victims of a United Airlines Flight That Crashed in Chicago on December 8, 1972, Soon After Richard Nixon’s Re-Election Dorothy Hunt’s life of adventure and privilege came to a tragic end at the age of 52 on December 8, 1972, when United Airlines Flight 553 crashed into...
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...
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...
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...
The Secret Team was a group of CIA agents run by CIA's “Blond Ghost” Theodore Shackley that was involved in the most scandalous U.S. foreign policy interventions throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including the “October Surprise” and Iran-Contra affair. Now, Shackley’s “secret team” has been found to have had...