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...
“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 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...
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...
On April 3, 1996, Ron Brown, then-Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration, was killed along with 34 others, all but two of them Americans, when their Air Force CT-43A plane crashed into a mountainside near Dubrovnik, Croatia. An Air Force inquiry blamed the crash on pilot error, failure of...
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...
Hailed by The Nation as "the Senator from the Left" and by Mother Jones as "the first 1960s radical elected to the U.S. Senate," he was killed in a 2002 plane crash just 10 days before a crucial election he was likely to win—a win that would have clinched...
Long Was Poised to Challenge Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 Democratic Party Primary Before He Was Killed “Times have told us that dirty tricks did not end with Brutus.” – Tom Weiss, brother of alleged assassin, Carl A. Weiss. Jessica Lauren Fields was a beauty shop worker living in Baton...
On April 6, 2022, Burkina Faso’s ex-President Blaise Compaoré was tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murder. It took 35 years for justice to catch up with him for murdering his revolutionary socialist predecessor, Thomas Sankara (the “Che Guevara of Africa”), in a 1987 right-wing...
“I think the Jonestown incident was an extension of In Search of the Manchurian Candidate. I think those people were conditioned to act in certain ways and would have probably just moved from Montreal to Guyana, in this case. You look at Jim Jones' background carefully, he had...